Trevor has been charged for throwing a brick at the window of a
Pakistani man, Mr. Shahnawaz. Trevor's social worker, Harry Parker, takes him to Hooper Street Residential Assessment Centre, where his punishment will be determined. The centre's polite, benevolent deputy superintendent, Peter Clive, admits Trevor, and he is allocated a room with a 19-year-old black adolescent Errol, whom Trevor takes an instant disliking to though is still somewhat civil towards. The next day, Trevor leaves the assessment centre to look for jobs. He meets Errol and they break into a car and drive to the job centre. Trevor buys a tin of glue from a local hardware store and empties the contents into a polythene bag. He and Errol inhale the fumes, then leaving Errol in the car, Trevor walks to the job centre. On entering, he converses with another young job seeker who asks Trevor to read several of the job cards for him as he is illiterate. Trevor takes a number of job cards from the display boards and barges past the queue, demanding a job from the attendant. When told that he must wait his turn and asked to return the cards back to the boards, he storms out before hurling a concrete slab through the window. He and Errol break into another car. Trevor tells Errol to get out of the car and walk back to the assessment centre, then
takes it and drives away. Arriving back at the centre in the stolen car, he is spotted by Peter Clive. At first, Trevor denies stealing the car, but after realising that Peter has seen him sitting in it, opts to dump it. Returning back to the centre Trevor demands lunch, only to be informed that he is too late. Trevor viciously attacks the chef before being stopped by care worker Barry Giller. Trevor is then restrained by the chef and Barry, who along with Peter and another member of staff, lock him in a room. A superintendent arrives and tells Trevor that he is heading to prison. He explains that the assessment centre is Trevor's last chance to change the
cycle of poverty, crime and prison. Eventually, Barry and Peter decide to send him to a
secure children's home. However, while Barry is out making arrangements to send Trevor away, Peter offers to take Trevor
banger racing if he promises to behave. Trevor and Errol leave and steal the centre's
Ford Transit minibus. After reaching Mr. Shahnawaz's neighbourhood they find his house, hurl stones through his windows and scream racial slurs, then get back into the minibus and drive away. Trevor drives to a police station and smashes the minibus into a car. Errol is rendered unconscious by the impact. Trevor runs away, after framing Errol by leaving him with Peter Clive’s keys, to be apprehended by the police. Trevor spends the rest of the early morning making his way back to Harry Parker's home. Harry tells him to go back to the assessment center before it is too late. Trevor informs Harry of his misadventures and tells him that he is turning himself in. Giving up on him as a lost cause, Harry makes the necessary calls to the police. After being taken to the local police station, Trevor is locked in a cell where he keeps his finger on the wall buzzer to alert the duty officer. The officer orders him to keep his hands off the buzzer, so Trevor proceeds to press the buzzer with his head. The officer returns but this time is accompanied by another officer, PC Anson, who enters with a truncheon. Trevor continues to provoke Anson who tells him that he will be taken to court on Monday morning, and this time, he will end up in a detention centre or a
borstal, not an assessment centre. Anson tells Trevor that on release from the detention centre, the police will be waiting for him, that they will bring him back to the station, and will pin on him every unsolved car theft in the area stretching back over many months. The result would be that Trevor would enter the prison system and would likely remain incarcerated for a very long time. Seemingly undeterred Trevor replies with 'Sounds great!'. Anson then brings the truncheon down, hitting Trevor on the kneecap. Anson smiles and says, 'You think you're 'ard, don't you?’ Trevor finally looks defeated. Anson tells Trevor that he is all talk and has no choice but to respect authority and obey the rules like everybody else. The film ends with Trevor recovering from the pain and grinning as the warders shut the door of the cell. ==Cast==