Road Wars

Excuse me, is that a Procyon lotor in your 4x4? (7x3)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 03, 2009

Exeter is clearly a ‘happening’ place to be. Darryl is on his way to a punch up in a local drinking establishment – and it’s a Sunday night! It’s reported that someone’s been glassed, and Darryl is likely to be the first to arrive. Murphy won’t be much help in this situation, so Darryl heads in on his own and nearly finds himself going face first into a flying fist. Fortunately, he only needs his glasses to drive, and they’ve been left on the dash in his van. Whatever fisticuffing has been happening seems to be over, bar the shouting of the detainee on the floor who seems eager to advise the camera that he is a trophy-winning athlete, though he doesn’t seem immediately intent of offering Darryl his name. The actual victim of the glassing emerges and advises that the bloke wasn’t involved – but having attempted to punch Darryl he’s in custody for that so the point is moot. Out and about with the RCU, on the hunt for a suspected drugs dealer expected to visit Exeter to do some dealing. Mark, with Becky Jones, is waiting on a junction, while Giles is lurking on a nearby A-road keeping lookout. Jim is running the operation, and Roger’s waiting with Jon nearby. It takes forty minutes before the car comes by, and it’s shifting pretty fast, so everyone gets going. The suspect vehicle speeds until the traffic builds to the point that he can’t anymore, at which point the pack catch up with him and co-ordinate like a well oiled machine to pull off a perfect stop. Mike and Chris are in Plymouth behind a car which is twitching their crim radars. The driver is clearly keen to avoid them, and a stop is therefore pretty inevitable. He has no front numberplate, and was apparently ‘stopped for that’ yesterday. His junior passengers are not properly secured; and Mike, being a top notch traffic cop, is not remotely impressed by this. They are even less impressed to discover that the driver has no license. Neither does his passenger, so he’s go