By Jove .. I do believe I have the answer! [Or a vivid imagination ]
Are you sure that was a ‘cigarette’ she was smoking?
The torches at night are to check their ‘plants’ and the ‘officials’ were them being sprung; they reckon you dobbed them in so you got flipped!
Mystery solved …. lol … explains their strange behaviour also, they are high
I think you got it!!!!! Tgat makes perfect sense ROFL!
Maybe they're so moody because they're almost out lol... Wow and here I was thinking that earlier, just didn't have the guts to assume it ha-ha