Summary
Overview
This episode chronicles the dramatic downfall of Richard Kemp's LSD empire as Detective Dick Lee's Operation Julie closes in. After months of surveillance and innovative undercover tactics, Dick intercepts coordinates leading to buried acid stashes across Britain. The operation culminates in a coordinated nationwide raid involving 800 officers, resulting in over 120 arrests including Kemp and distributor David Solomon. Despite the bust, millions of doses remain buried across the countryside, their locations lost to history.
Christine's Risky Money Run
Christine Bott nervously travels through Zurich Airport carrying a bag full of cash profits from Richard's acid empire. She's transporting the money to a Swiss safety deposit box to protect it from British police. After a tense encounter with border control where a guard questions her one-way ticket, she's stopped just before reaching the exit, facing the possibility that one wrong word could bring down the entire operation.
- Christine carries large bundles of cash through Zurich Airport, profits from Richard's LSD operation
- A border guard questions her one-way ticket to Amsterdam, raising suspicion
- She's stopped at the exit by a guard calling her name, threatening to expose everything
" Because she knows if she's made to talk, one wrong word is all it will take to bring everything and everyone crashing to the ground. "
Dick Demands Surveillance Powers
Detective Dick Lee meets with Home Secretary Merlyn Rees in a secret Westminster meeting to request unprecedented surveillance capabilities. Despite having evidence from toxicology reports showing LSD-poisoned animals at Plas Clisson, Dick argues against immediate arrest, wanting to track the entire network instead. He boldly requests a wiretap, despite the British government officially not recognizing such devices, refusing to leave until he gets authorization to change policing forever.
- Dick has toxicology proof showing a frog and mole died of LSD poisoning at Kemp's lab
- Dick argues for delaying arrest to track the entire network across Britain and Europe
- He requests a wiretap despite government officially denying their existence
- Dick won't leave until the Home Secretary agrees to authorize the surveillance
" If we arrest him now, the network disappears underground. They'll get another chemist, and we're back to square one. "
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