Road Wars

The One With the Most Boring Shift Ever (6x18)

Uitzenddatum: Nov 25, 2008

There’s been a spate of vamoose burglaries in Reading, and Dan and Daz are on the case. They’ve just been overtaken by a sprightly Ford Focus, and their speed is such that blues and twos go on so that the Guys can follow more safely – and the chase is on. Eventually the driver mucks up a handbrake turn and stalls, before fleeing with Dan in hot pursuit which he has to break off when the guy decides to head onto a main railway line. Unfortunately, in backing up Dan, Daz has been forced to leave the Focus unattended, so the passengers have scarpered as well. Dan it thoroughly disappointed as he was almost within grabbing distance – but the car, at least, has been recovered. While sorting this out, Dan then spots a couple of girls who might well have been in the vehicle – but their drunken bolshiness is such that it’s nearly impossible to deal with them. Dave arrives – presumably with his dog – to assist, and another youth arrives in a car to pick up some girls. Dan attempts to question her to clarify that she wasn’t in the car – but this is made extremely difficult by one of the original girls who is determined to interfere and finally talks herself into a section 5 arrest. Her mouth keeps going even after she’s in the car and the only way to shut up the noise is to shut the car door. On revisiting the stolen vehicle, it turns out that the car is on false plates as it’s got a tax disc with a different number on it; and at least the original owner is left happy at the end of it all! Kev and Waller are alerted by a CCTV operator in Slough to a suspected drug deal that’s just been spotted on a camera. One of the people spotted is well known, so they head in to find him, and catch him alongside a car whose occupants they proceed to search, along with the assistance of Derek. The passenger is spotted dropping something into the footwell, which turns out to be a wrap of something, and is arrested – but he insists that it’s not his, so they tur