The One where Lester Bites Back
Rosie and Daz are out in Reading on a joint operation targeting burglars. They’re called in to chase up a car that’s been nicked from outside a house; the driver of which has crashed it into some bollards. They’ve attempted to move it, given up and fled. With immensely limited descriptions, the team don’t hold out much hope of finding them, but hole up in hopes of catching them out. The tactic pays off as they spot a possible suspect, who they leave with a dog handler and chase after another who vanishes into the night; so they do swapsies with the dog handler and process their first find, who turns out to be the car owner’s son!
Lloydy and Jim are in Windsor on the lookout for thieves, but instead encounter a poorly driven car and a motorbike apparently using a car park as a drag strip. Not only that, the car has a Section 59 warning on it – so it’s been driven antisocially in the past. The driver doesn’t seem to have accepted that another one could lead to his car being impounded. Incredibly, while he has a full license, he’s only had it for three months and already managed to get a warning. As he was on private land, they can’t issue another warning, so he’s a lucky lad – he was at risk of six points had he been on a public road, and that would have meant the loss of the car.
Lloydy is in Slough with Roma, patrolling an estate. They’re flagged down by a woman who tells them that kids are firing a BB gun out of an upstairs window of a nearby house, so they head in to investigate. The ‘gun’ looks a bit like a ‘raygun’, but the fun element stops there, as the kids are causing real annoyance to the neighbours. They should be at school, but one of them ‘has got a day off’ and the other ‘didn’t want to go’. It’s not an airgun, so they are allowed to keep it – but a flea is firmly applied to the ears.
Lloydy is now back with Jim again, and they’re chasing after a driver that’s racing down a dual carriageway outside Reading at over a ton. He fled from a stop – having been spotted racing another car. Daz and Rosie are also heading in to assist, using Jim’s commentary so they can intercept. The zippy little beamer heads into the car park of an aviation museum (where Douglas Bader had the crash that took both his legs, apparently), and hurtles over a grassy bank, before crashing into a fence. Jim managed to catch the driver, who has, in crashing, got himself spectacularly covered in blood. It turned out that he’d fled because he was drunk…
In Aylesbury now with Simon and JK, in convoy with Mark and Huey. They attempt to stop a car full of youngsters, but the convoy doesn’t halt until it reaches the driver’s home. He has no license, and no insurance – and, as he didn’t stop, he’s cuffed; which upsets his mouthy family somewhat. As he’s uninsured, the car will be seized. The driver’s sister kicks up a fuss and immediately claims the car is hers, but her attempt to keep the car don’t work as she has admitted to either letting him drive the car uninsured and unlicensed, or that he’s nicked it off her. Nice try, car goodbye…
Simon is back with Chris in Milton Keynes. Their quiet shift is interrupted by a guy driving ridiculously fast for the roads he’s on, so they pull him over. As they’re on a ‘troublesome’ estate, the man is not happy that they’re not out dealing with the ‘real problems’, so Chris makes it perfectly clear that it’s not his fault that the estate is problematic, and he would love to be out dealing with the problems – except he’s got bad drivers taking up his time so he can’t. Tell it like it is, Lester!
