after leaving the train, gerry and john stop at a tearoom further down the coast. they find out from the television that shirl was arrested for shoplifting, and that they're wanted in a national man-hunt of the "blondini gang". crossing back over the southern alps, the mini is pursued by a determined police officer (marshall napier) down the lake hawea shoreline. he almost catches gerry and john, but ends up driving off the road and down the bank trying to avoid a combine harvester blocking the road. the duo sell more parts off the car at cromwell, but as they are short-changed john takes a full petrol can as extra payment.