Road Wars

Goodnight, and Good Luck... (7x20)

Uitzenddatum: Jun 30, 2009

Exeter in the dead of the night. Darryl and Murphy are on their way to deal with a couple of youths who are in the process of scaring the hell out of people at a petrol station. By the time the cops arrive, the antagonists have gone, but the damage they've left is pretty clear. A local unit has stopped two likely suspects who are loud, obnoxious and bladdered. One of them finds it highly amusing that Darryl is being filmed, though this dissolves once he discovers that his friend is being arrested under section 5 of the Public Order Act. From the ensuing argument, it's not long before the officers have a matched set, though putting the pair into the back of the van is almost as challenging as having to critique their dancing. The TAG are getting ready for yet another raid, this one in Paignton. They need to act fast, to ensure that any drugs in the property are still there once they're in. Fortunately they don't repeat their epic entry from Episode nine and are swiftly inside. The occupants settled down and cuffed, the search begins. It doesn't take long to find a hydroponics unit, a small stash of heroin and a tasty little wodge of cash. There's no evidence that there's enough to deal, but there won't be any for personal use either now. Back in Exeter, now with Lee. Paramedics have asked for Police assistance at a railway station after they approached a man who pulled a knife on them. Mindful of both his safety and his dog's, Lee keeps Sharp on a tight lead and effectively straddles him to keep him from getting too far ahead. A tentative peek onto the platform leads them round into a shelter where a man is lurking. He stil has the reported knife, which he quickly relinquishes, and states that he only wants to get home. Sharp settles down to one side while Lee searches the man, who is not in the best of emotional health following a pretty rotten day, and cuffs him before sympathetically leading him away to a waiting van. It's a busy night for Lee. He's off t