The Longest Night
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The ReviewBrief: Just as Del and family are out buying
their weekly French stick, Tom the security guard approaches them,
it's obviously due to being a prized customer. Then it all goes
pear-shaped. A burglar; little Lennox, makes a daring raid on the
local supermarket, what's worse - Del sold him a duff watch down
the local market... Transmitted: 14.09.1986 Duration: 30 minutes Viewing Figures: 16.7 million
Del, Rodney, and Albert are mistakenly apprehended as
shoplifters by an overzealous security guard at the Top Buy
Supermarket. And things get worse when they're taken to the
manager's office and realise that they've lost their receipt for
the goods.
Shortly after, Tom the security guard brings a cocky
shoplifter, Lennox Gilbey, into the manager's office, where he
promptly pulls out a gun and demands money from the safe.
Unluckily for Lennox the safe is on a time-lock and due to the
dodgy watch he's wearing, he's 15 minutes later than he planned -
and the safe doesn't open until 8am the next morning.
After being held hostage throughout the night, Del realises
that he sold the dodgy watch to Lennox, and that he also knew him
as a kid. By preying on his guilty conscience, Del persuades Lennox
to reveal that the plan was hatched by Tom and the supermarket
manager to get at the £60,000 stored in the safe.
The three accomplices beg Del not to go to the police, and
instead, he arranges for Lennox to get a job as security guard at
the supermarket after Tom's retirement, and then makes sure he wins
a £1,000 prize as the millionth customer in the store.
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