Road Wars

If you go down to the woods today... (7x13)

Uitzenddatum: Mei 12, 2009

We commence proceedings with Steve and Razor in Hemyock chasing after a four wheel drive which made off from local units. While they've found the vehicle, they're missing the driver, so Razor's nose is needed. The engine is warm, and parked alongside a shack-type building which is warm, but empty. Matters are not helped by the fact that the ground is wet, which makes it tough for Razor to find a track. They still don't know why he fled, but suspect that he might have been drinking. Without a track, it's down to the helicopter to do the business, and sure enough the heat seeking camera finds something. Thanks to this, Razor finally gets something, and happily drags Steve off towards a leaf covered individual who appears to have been hiding under a heap of soggy leaf litter. Despite having a barking individual lurking in the four by four, he claims to be scared of dogs – probably because Razor is barking his head off and looking cheerfully threatening. Amidst the noise of a hovering chopper, the guy objects to having cuffs on, and refuses a breath test on the grounds that he wasn't driving. As there's no one else who could have driven the vehicle, this is a pointless exercise and he turned out to be over the limit. There's a surprise. Out and about with Mike and Chris in Exeter - watching Mike failing to blow bubbles with his chewing gum. They're looking for a car being driven by a suspected burglar, which promptly drives right past them. Roger and Giles are already at the scene awaiting their arrival and the four group outside. The first attempt to keep them out is the 'you don't have a warrant' ploy – which they don't need – and the search begins. There are a four people in the house; add the four coppers and there's no room for the cameraman, leaving the microphones to do the talking. Of which there is a lot. Eventually, Giles finds the suspected burglar doing a very bad job of looking innocent – as he's hiding in the loft. Much profanity later, they final