Malcolm Fairchild acaba de revisar su auto y hacerle la prueba de MOT en el taller de Bernie cuando pierde el control del vehículo y se estrella en un jardín. Afortunadamente, nadie resulta gravemente herido, pero Bernie se mete en serios problemas porque los neumáticos están lisos. A la mañana siguiente, no se encuentra en ninguna parte y David teme lo peor.. El esposo separado de Helen Trent se entera de su aventura con Rob Walker y presenta una queja al Sargento Miller, quien toma el asunto muy en serio.

A car crashes on the road to Aidensfield. The driver Ellen Ferguson is badly injured while her husband and daughter get off with only minor bruises. PC Mason is sure that she was speeding, but her husband Lennie denies that. But there might be more behind it than that because Nurse Cassidy notices at mysterious man who frightens the daughter Trudi. Shortly after another stranger turns up at the hospital asking for Ellen Ferguson. Only he calls her Phillips and not Ferguson. David wins some money and uses them to buy an old Jeep which Bernie will help him restore. But it turns out that it is not any old Jeep when they find Field Marshall Montgomery's beret in it.