May The Force Be With You (Only Fools and Horses)
| "May the Force Be with You" | |
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| Only Fools and Horses episode | |
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| Episode no. |
Series 3 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Ray Butt |
| Written by | John Sullivan |
| Produced by | Ray Butt |
| Original air date | 8 December 1983 (10.7 million viewers) |
| Running time | 29:28 (DVD/Digital download) |
"May the Force Be with You" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the fifth episode of series 3, and was first screened on 8 December 1983. The title of the episode comes from the famous quote from Star Wars: May the Force be with you. In the episode, the despised DCI Roy Slater returns to Peckham and arrests the Trotters for stealing a microwave.
DCI Roy Slater, a corrupt, ambitious police officer and much-reviled ex-schoolmate of Del Boy, has returned to Peckham, where he has been tasked with tracking down a stolen microwave. He meets Trigger and Boycie – both horrified by his return – in the Nag's Head, and announces that he has recently been promoted to Detective Inspector. He begins talking to Rodney, who is unaware that Slater is a police officer, and tells him that he is an old "friend" of Del's. Rodney invites Slater back to Nelson Mandela House, without informing Del.
Back at the flat, Del is left dumbfounded when Slater walks in, and quickly makes Rodney aware that Slater is not an old friend, but an unscrupulous policeman, who once arrested his own father for having a defective rear light on his bicycle (which he had borrowed from Slater). After spotting a suspicious microwave in the Trotters' flat, Slater arrests Del, Rodney and Grandad.
At the police station, Slater quizzes the trio about where, and from whom, they acquired the microwave. In an improvised yarn, they state that it belonged to an unidentified deaf man in the market who dropped it. Del, Rodney, and Grandad are interviewed separately, giving vastly differing descriptions of the man in the market, with varying descriptions of the fictional assailant's race, age and height. Del and Slater briefly argue about their time as schoolboy adversaries, with Slater complaining about the refusal to let him into Del's group, their refusal to let him play Bluebeard and always having to walk the plank.
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