Road Wars

The One With the Painful Misfire (6x12)

Uitzenddatum: Okt 14, 2008

Tristan is on patrol with Bella – and is called to an incident of criminal damage, in which young man has smashed the window of a young offenders’ rehab centre. Having found the youth concerned, Tristan discovers that the situation is far more serious as the lad has a piece of broken glass in one hand, and knife in the other – and he’s been slicing at himself with the glass. The youth refuses to be placated, and threatens to keep on cutting at himself, before taking exception at the presence of the camera and running at the cameraman. Tristan intervenes immediately, and is forced to use pepper spray – but with the wind blowing in the wrong direction, gets an eyeful himself. As there are weapons being used, he can’t get Bella involved, so she stays in the van while Tristan gives chase on foot. The two meet up again a few streets away, puffed-out cameraman in tow, but the youth is so wound up that he continues to cut himself and demand that the camera be turned off, and Tristan immediately backs off and asks for the filming to stop, so the Cameraman backs off to a safe distance to film at a wide angle out of view as reinforcements arrive and bring matters to a safe conclusion – apart from a bleary-eyed Tristan accidentally attempting to subdue a plain clothes officer in the midst of the ruck. Conrad is on patrol with Dixie in Slough and their antennae are piqued by two youths who are loitering somewhat on a street corner. As they stop the two guys, one of them pops something in his mouth – so they hastily step in to try to prevent whatever has gone in from going any further. Thanks to Conrad’s quick reflexes, two small pieces of wrapped crack are spat out onto the pavement. Further searches reveal huge amounts of paraphernalia, and three more bits of crack in his jacket pocket. The other guy is clean, and allowed on his way, while the drug carrier turns out to be wanted for breaching a drugs order as well. Simon and Conrad are out and about (not