All language subtitles for Gordon.Ramsay.on.Cocaine.S01E01.720p.HDTV.x264-FTP

I saw cocaine quite a lot
in my career.

I've been served it,
I've been given it.

Had my hand shaken and left with
little wraps of foil.

I've been asked to dust cocaine on
top of souffles,

to put it on as icing sugar.

Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

Coke's everywhere.

It's spiralling out of control.

I knew it would be intense
but not like this.

When you look at the numbers
of what comes into this country...

70 grand each.
Year on year, death after death...

..that's the devastation, I think.

And yet no-one wants
to talk about it.

But they all want to (BLEEP)
snort it.

Cocaine, once an exclusive drug of
millionaires and celebrities,

now Britain's favourite
Class A drug,

commonplace in every town and city
across the UK.

Anyone who thinks that the use of
cocaine is in any way victimless,

is living an absolute lie.

Britain consumes 30 tonnes
of the drug every year,

more than any other country
in Europe.

And the value of this?
This is a kilo.

About 100 grand.

But behind cocaine's glamorous image,

lies the criminality, cruelty
and death toll of the illegal
drugs trade.

We see extraordinary levels of
violence, gang crimes, shootings

and stabbings, all of which are
linked to the cocaine trade.

Over 140,000 drug-related offences
were committed last year,

costing Britain over
ten billion pounds.

People are making a lot of money out
of it.

But to make that money people are
generating a lot of misery.

It's about to kick off in there.
He's (BLEEP) angry.

I'm joining forces with the police
and the military here and abroad

who are battling to stop this drug.

This journey will take me
from testing the bathrooms
of my restaurants...

The staff toilets.
It is everywhere.

..to the British streets where coke
is being bought and sold every day.

And I'm going back to the source,
deep in the jungles of South America.

Don't stop here for (BLEEP) sake.

With soaring cocaine deaths in
Britain and along the supply chain,

I'm determined to understand the
criminal business behind
this deadly drug.

You and your organisation, how many
people do you think you've murdered?

Literally...time to go.

Cocaine-related deaths
are reaching epidemic proportions.

Main course, three chops, one...

Morning. Are we good?

Is that cold enough?

I've never touched a line of
cocaine in my life.

I was anti drugs from
a very early age.

Having to watch my brother (BLEEP)
his life up.

Gone from coke to heroin.

And so I worked my ass off to get out
of the shit mess I grew up with.

I went to a dealer's house once

and I had to take my little brother
into this...shithole of a flat

for a fix to get him
to my father's funeral.

That was (BLEEP) grim.

And that was the big shock for me
to see how far he had gone.

Ask any chef or waiter, cocaine use
has long been the industry's
dirty little secret.

But for me the issue
is very personal.

In 2003, David Dempsey,
one of my best mates and head chef

of my flagship restaurant died

as a direct result of taking cocaine.

I lost a good chef.

An amazing chef.

He had two kids, Megan and Jack.

I never thought in my wildest dreams
that David, my head chef,

was er...on cocaine.

We had dinner the night he died.

He just seemed agitated.

He was constantly restless.

Kept on disappearing to the toilet
every 20 minutes.

I went back home and he went
back to Chelsea.

He went to a dealer's house
that gave him some shit cocaine

and it (BLEEP) him over.

David died after falling 40ft
from a block of flats.

At the inquest, it was described as
an act of 'excited delirium,

fuelled by cocaine'.

I kick myself...for not doing more.

And recognising it earlier.

I'm giving David's son Jack
a shift in the restaurant

his dad helped make famous.

He's determined to be an
award-winning chef just like his
father.

Some more purslane, please.

It's amazing for me
to have you here. I know.

Thank you for giving me
the opportunity.

He ran this place. He ran it.

It's crazy. It is crazy.

He never wore a (BLEEP) hat!
But he ran it.

I'm determined that neither Jack nor
any of my staff fall victim to drugs

as David did.

I want to find out if cocaine is
still being taken under my roof.

Ladies, hello.

I've decided to do a series of spot
checks in the bathrooms

of my restaurants.

Hi, guys. I need to be here for two
minutes. Thank you.

Close up the locker and I'll see you
in a minute. Good man.

How are you? Good, Chef.

Good man. Wash your hands.
Finish the business.

Are you on a break?

No, I'm just using the loo.
Right.

You don't flush it?

(BLEEP)

What was he doing in that toilet,
middle of service?

The busiest time. Let's hope this is
not bad news.

I'm testing the toilets
with a special wipe

which turns blue if cocaine is
present.

And that's blue.

That's inside my own staff toilets.

So...that's not good news.

Roughly 50 staff use those loos.

But what about the customer ones?

That blue speck there is
a positive test.

Cocaine has been used today
in my restaurants.

And this is on a day that...
they shouldn't be doing coke.

It's (BLEEP) Sunday.

Across my London restaurants I've had
five staff and 12 customer loos
tested.

And I'm about to give the results to
my senior management team.

Downstairs in the staff toilets,
positive or negative?

You would hope... Negative.

Staff toilets positive.

Women's - positive.

Positive.

Customer toilets - positive.
Look how blue that one is.

Staff toilets - positive.

Positive.

I mean, it is everywhere. Wow.

Look at the colour of that.
Shocking.

That looks like it's been doused
in cocaine, it's that blue.

It's like a J-cloth, it's that blue.

I knew it was in somewhere...

but I didn't know it was in this big.

I'm... I'm shocked by that,
I have to say.

It's a wake-up call.

Right now, I'm obviously concerned
about the staff.

Why are we turning a blind eye?

Those samples, those swabs,
some of them are bright blue.

And that's in my own business.
That's my responsibility.

But it's not just my business.

I've also tested other top-end
restaurants, bars and pubs.

I'm genuinely shocked by how many
have tested positive.

More alarming still,
it seems that many Brits

are even using coke on our roads.

But with hundreds of serious
accidents every year

linked to drug-driving,

police across the country
are beginning to crack down.

Tonight, I'm heading down
to the south coast, to Bournemouth,

where the police
are launching a campaign to find out

how many drivers are using cocaine.

I want to see how widespread
the problem is. I've asked
if I can join them.

Since the police introduced roadside
drug kits nationwide,

arrests have gone up a massive 800%.

We've had a road death
already this week

where one of the people involved
tested positive for cocaine.

We've got marked, unmarked cars out.

You've been issued with drug wipes.

If someone is suspected of being
under the influence of drink or
drugs,

you have the power to take that
test.

Hello. How are you?
Good to see you. Nice to meet you.

Thank you. There's a car in front of
us, what are you looking for?

Erratic driving? Late braking?

Poor lane control. Late braking.

Any tell-tale signs. Right.

Today, I'm accompanying
PC Dave Cottrell

who is single-handedly responsible
for 25% of drug-driving arrests
in Dorset.

Let's have a look at this car.

And in no time he's spotted a
suspicious vehicle.

What's the speed limit? 20mph?

30 here.

Kid in the back.
Kid in the back, yeah.

He's in a rush. Also he's driving
somewhat agitated.

Are you gonna pull him over? Yeah.

Is it your car?
No. It's my young lady's.

Are you insured?
You look like Gordon Ramsay.

Are you? Yeah.

Are you insured and everything? No.

You're not insured? No.

Have you got a driving licence?
Provisional. Why are you driving?

I had to go and pick up my children.

Do you want to take a seat
in my car? We'll sort things out.

Are you Gordon Ramsay?
Yes.

Hell's Kitchen. Yeah.

Are you guys going to jump in the
house?

You say you've got a provisional
driving licence.

I'm banned as well. You're banned.

Any drugs recently? No.

I don't know if you're aware, but we
can test for cocaine and cannabis at
the roadside.

Maybe a spliff last week. Last week.

All I want you to do is wipe your
tongue around your mouth for me.

One, two, three. One, two, three.

What's made you get involved in this
initiative, then?

Erm...cocaine.

Yeah? What, you recovering?
No, no.

Trying to get some?!
No, no.

What, then?
Just lost a dear friend on it.

Ah, sorry, man.
Was that your son in the car?

Both of 'em. I know, mate.

You're under arrest.
Jump out for me.

Sorry to meet you in circumstances
like this. I quite admire you
and the things you do.

OK, right, put yourself back in
there for us.

Swing your legs back in.

Obviously we know he's disqualified.

He's admitted no insurance.

As you see on the drug test he's
starting to test positive for
cocaine.

That's in two minutes.
In two minutes.

So driving whilst disqualified.

His sons in the car.
Two kids in the car.

And tested for cocaine. Yep.
Fucking hell.

We test for cocaine and cannabis
at the roadside.

Testing positive. Yeah? On my
fucking life, I'm telling you -

We're not gonna have it in here,
are we? Fucking wanna bet?

Do you wanna bet, mate?
Listen to me.

You wanna fucking bet, mate?!
Be calm with me.

Otherwise it's going to get messy.
It'll get messy for you too, son.

About to kick off in there.
He's fucking angry.

"I'm going to jail."
I'm going to prison.

"I'm going to prison."
Yeah, sorry.

The most important thing for me,
those boys are safe. Out of that car.

As the man is taken away
to the station,

Dave and I head back out on patrol.

And it's not long before we spot
another erratic driver.

Vehicle check, please. Olga Road.

What do you see?
Driver here, he was at the junction,

looks a bit dishevelled
in his appearance.

Where have you come from today?
From home. Where are you off to?

Going to pick my son up. Are you?

Essentially, your pupils
are quite constricted.

OK? When was the last time you used
any sort of drugs at all?

Erm...a while back.

Be truthful. When was the last time?

Sunday. Sunday.
And what did you use?

Cocaine. Cocaine. Yeah.

You said you used coke on Sunday?
Yeah.

How much? Not a lot?

Half a gram.

Did you drive after that? Nope.

Poke your tongue out for me.

One, two, three.

Why do you use cocaine? Why?

Erm...confidence. Erm...
I've had problems in the past.

Relationship breakdowns.
Stuff like that.

And you know...it just gives me a
buzz really.

I enjoy the buzz.

I'll be truthful with you. You're
already starting to test positive
for cocaine.

All right?

All right if I make
a quick phone call?

Not at the moment.
I need to pick my son up.

How old's your son? Six.

And you're on your way
to pick him up.

Matthew, that means if you'd picked
up your son,

he's in the car... I honestly didn't
know it would still be in my system.

Matthew, at this moment in time
you're under arrest.

Matthew, get help. Please.
Yeah. Cheers.

Ultimately, Matthew didn't have
enough coke in his system
to prosecute.

But in just over three hours in
Bournemouth on a random Thursday
afternoon,

I'd witnessed two men nicked
for drug-driving.

Both of them on the school run.

I'm shocked and nervous,
the fact that it's...

it's that prevalent.
It is everywhere. Broad daylight.

It's the tip of the iceberg.

Because it's clearly going on
a lot more than we know.

In the UK over the past 20 years,

cocaine use has gone up 400%.

And coke-related deaths have
increased four years in a row

to stand at an all-time high.

At the forefront of stopping this
deadly drug getting into the country

and onto Britain's streets,
are the NCA,

the closest thing we have to the FBI.

I'm going to meet one of the senior
officers at the National Crime
Agency, Tony Saggars,

and he's going to give an insight
to what's coming in,

where it's coming from, and what has
he done to slow this down.

How are you? Good. Tony Saggars.
Thanks for your time.

As head of drugs intelligence, Tony
has dedicated his 30-year career

to fighting a war against drugs.

And he's disturbed by the rising use
of cocaine.

The cocaine trade is without doubt

the biggest problem within the
drugs industry.

The demand for cocaine in the UK
I would say is at a high,

if not an all-time high.

Gun crime in the UK is
associated to our drugs trade.

People are making money out of it
but to make that money

people are generating a lot of
misery.

It's like an epidemic.
It's everywhere.

How much have you stopped
in the last three years?

So in terms of our collaboration
with colleagues in Europe,
Caribbean, Latin America,

we're stopping about 60 tonnes
a year.

Are we stopping the problem?
No, we're not.

Are we locking some bad people up,
taking their revenue? Yes.

And you have to look at it that way.

But the reality is, this country
demands high volumes of coke.

Organised criminals take advantage
of that.

But it's become accepted, Tony.
What that demonstrates, Gordon,

is the public's attitude towards
cocaine as a part of society.

Gangs on streets, brothels.

Young people with guns.

You've just funded that
and that's what annoys me.

So...rather than it actually being
abhorrent within society,

which it should be, people sit in
restaurants

have the conversations you and I
might have at home about a sweatshop
being used by a high-street brand,

exploiting children
and slave workers,

and then go and snort cocaine -
they've just subscribed to
the thing they find abhorrent.

It's great to see how passionate
Tony is but you can feel the
frustration

because there is so much work
to be done.

And his gripe is the fact that,
you know,

"You think it's cool,
it's the opposite to cool.

And the more you take,
the harder my job is.

The harder my job is, the less grip
we've got on this problem."

Tony and his team are in a seemingly
never-ending struggle

to gain control of this issue.

They're up against organised
criminal gangs,

many of them from overseas, who
control a �3.7 billion
UK drugs business.

The NCA are tasked with tracking,
intercepting and seizing

the vast quantities of coke
trafficked into Britain from abroad.

And the huge amounts of money used to
buy and sell the drug.

Tony set me up with
the rapid response unit

who rely on incredible intelligence
to bust big drug deals

and the cash that goes with it.

And it's obvious they don't fuck
around because I've been given
minutes' notice

to get my ass down to the station.

John Nolan is one of the most
experienced officers working with
the NCA.

There's no time to hang about.

John and his team must act
immediately.

They have intelligence of
a drug deal.

IC-4 man wearing a
grey jacket, grey jeans, blue shirt.

We're responding to intelligence of
a handover,

which is going to happen in
northwest London.

A handover of drugs or cash?

We don't know what the commodity is.

Often we don't know what it is
until we stop them.

The drugs and the cash can look
very similar,

packaged in the same way.

They can be cellophane wrapped.
The handovers can be very quick.

John's covert team have seen a
suspicious man leaving an address

they had under surveillance.

All units, move up,
move up, move up.

It's vital they arrest him
before a handover of drugs
or cash takes place.

Here he is here.

See this bloke here?

There's the bag.

Do you guys wanna get out?

What's in the bag, sir?

I'm arresting you on suspicion of
money-laundering. Understand?

Covert officers have detained a man
carrying a suspect-looking bag.

OK. How much money's in there?
I don't know.

Their suspicions have paid off.

The man is Albanian and the bag
contains tens of thousands of pounds

used to buy and sell cocaine.

You're not messing round.
That's big.

Jesus Christ.

If he's an Albanian runner
then he's come into the country.

He may not be here too long,
living in poor conditions.

And he'll be exploited like
everyone through the drug trade.

No sooner has the suspect
been handcuffed

than John and his team hear about a
potentially bigger deal

at an address across town
in one of London's most
exclusive neighbourhoods.

As we arrive at the address, officers
are keeping their eyes peeled

for anything or anyone
who seems suspicious.

Go with him. Go with him.

The officers take a gamble

and follow a taxi seen driving away
from the address
they had identified.

Keep a visual on the Mercedes,
please.

'Westbound, westbound A40.

Into the underpass
underneath the car park.

No deviation, no deviation.'

He's out. He's with a bag.

Strike, strike, strike!

The team quickly arrest
the passenger of the taxi

after he attempts to flee the scene.

I've got him, I've got him.

Have you got anything else on you
you shouldn't have?
I'm gonna search you.

Gonna make sure you haven't got any
weapons.

You can search me. Extraordinary.
Another massive bundle of cash.

That's two within 60 minutes.

We've probably cleaned up
�120,000-�130,000 in the space of
two arrests.

Shit. He's Albanian. He's using
a cab driver. Yes.

Something spooked the person inside
and he was told to drive on.

Yes. And he had no idea
he had the cash.

No idea, no idea.

Sometimes you have to make
your own luck.

Fingers crossed it was the right
vehicle.

We're talking about a million quid
a week just on your watch alone,

if every afternoon is as prolific as
this. Absolutely correct.

Absolutely. He's here to make money.

This arrested man is merely
a foot soldier.

However, the team tell me Albanian
crime gangs currently dominate

the UK cocaine trade because of their
willingness to use extreme violence.

It's hundreds of thousands of pounds
in cash just being delivered

in party bags. Cocaine coming in,
money going out to Albania.

And it's rife.

In 2016 alone, British police
and Border Force

seized a staggering four tonnes of
cocaine.

That's more than at any time
in the last decade.

Despite this increased police
activity,

the UK is still the biggest user
in Europe.

And with the strength of the drug
increasing,

coke deaths in Britain are up 16%
in the last year alone.

So the authorities are working hard
to stop this stuff going
onto our streets.

Last night, 30kg of cocaine was
seized by the police.

And I'm on my way to a lab
at a secret location

where it's going to be tested.

And this will be a great opportunity
to get my head around
the size of this problem.

30 fucking kilos, just last night.

Morning. Good morning, Gordon.
How are you?

I'm here to meet Peter Caine
who has been a drug scientist
for three decades.

When I started, we were a team of
about eight people.

And we're now a team of 70.

This secure lab is where 70% of
the drugs in Britain

are tested after seizure.

Morning.

So this is a case
that's just come in.

30kg from one raid. Yes.

Wow. That's a big seizure, Ryan.

Yeah. When I spoke with the officer
they said

it was seized about midnight
so we've got a bit of time on it.

But it is an urgent and we need
to get the result out
as soon as possible.

30kg just arrives like that.
For me, I'm in shock.

How many cases do you deal with
a week?

Just as an example, last year,
in this laboratory,

we examined 1.25 tonnes.

Can we open one or not?
Yeah, that's fine.

Do you mind just having
a look at one? Sure.

Peter and his team are looking for
hallmarks,

which may give a clue to where
this has been processed.

I mean, it's just wrapped so tight
like a book.

Compressed to a solid mass.

Are we allowed to get inside?

Yeah, I think we can open one up,
yeah.

Please. So you can see coming
through there's a bit of green.

Which is probably some green rubber.

Quite often in the Caribbean they
will drop these into the sea

to be picked up by small boats.

And that's the cocaine there.
Yeah.

My goodness me.
Look how packed that is.

Yeah. We can probably...

just lift it out.

Whoops! Incredible.

These little holes
are from where it's produced

in the laboratories
in South America.

They use presses to get
the excess solvent out.

Incredible.

And the value of this?
This is a kilo.

Wholesale, probably about �35,000.

And when it gets to the street you
can times that by about three.

So about 100 grand.
That's incredible.

I'm amazed at the volume
you've got here.

If this haul were to be sold
to the customer here in Britain,

it would be worth an incredible
�3 million.

What's surprised you over the last
ten years on how they smuggle coke?

It's ingenuity that does change.

Peter wants to give me a taste of
some of the remarkably creative ways

coke is smuggled into the country.

I'll show you these bottles of rum.

One of them is a genuine bottle of
golden rum.

The other one contains
a quarter of a kilogram
of cocaine hydrochloride.

A quarter of a kilogram? Yep.

Cocaine is very soluble.

You can dissolve two grams
in one millilitre of water.

This was a smuggling technique that
is used from time to time.

The easy way to check it is you just
weigh the bottles.

And you'll find one is extremely
heavy compared to the other.

If you were to drink one mouthful of
that you'd die. Really?

A 25ml shot probably contains about
eight grams of cocaine.

How do you get the cocaine back into
powder form from that?

Put it on something like
a baking sheet

and gently warm it so you're
evaporating off the liquid.

Are you surprised at the prolificness
of the business now

in terms of the billions
it generates globally?

The thing is, it is a business.
And that's it.

And they do use proper business
tactics when they're selling it.

I wanna get all this coke
off my hands now.

Next time I go to an airport
I'm going to shit myself!

To be in there, that up close
and personal to all that coke,

it's scary. For him it's normal.

He sees bags of that
on a weekly basis.

And millions of pounds tested
per year.

But for me...yeah...
I'm lost for words.

It's spiralling out of control.

It's part of the going-out fashion.

It's all over my restaurants.
It's even in the staff toilets.

How is so much coming in?
Er, you gotta look at... In the UK,

we're an island nation.

It's almost a 360 degree target
for international trafficking.

We're that vulnerable.
We are.

You've got production here
in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

So there's a chain of countries
where most of the cocaine is
produced.

You've got this Latin American
coastline,

which enters the Caribbean Sea.

That's really important as a
gateway.

So, people sailing yachts,
trans-Atlantic,

into the UK, smuggling coke.

Countries that get exploited
through this: Panama,
Nicaragua, Honduras.

These are the places where bad
things happen.

Swallower couriers from Latin
America and the Caribbean.

We've a photograph, I'll show you.

It's horrible viewing but necessary
to understand the human
exploitation.

This individual has swallowed
cocaine pellets through the throat.

It's basically filled
the entire human cavity.

So they'd swallow these prior to
jumping on board the plane.

Basically 24 hours or so before the
flight,

these individuals will start
swallowing. Christ Almighty.

That person had about two kilos
inside their body,

that's over 120 pellets.

That will pass through the
intestine, will come out the way
all food comes out

and someone's gonna pick
the layers off that.

Then in your restaurant, someone
else is going to snort it
as a glamorous drug

and there's nothing glamorous about
that picture. My God.

I've interviewed people in Lagos
Airport, literally who can touch
the last pellet,

it's that close to
their throat opening.

That was an incredible insight.

The big shock for me is how
exposed we are as a country.

And the amount of avenues
that these smugglers

and dealers and cartels are using

to bring cocaine into the country.

It's coming in from everywhere.
That's the problem.

With so many smuggling routes
and techniques,

it's no wonder cocaine is flooding
our towns and cities.

80% of the coke that ends up
on Britain's streets comes
from just one country.

And the amount they are producing has
surged dramatically,

rising to levels unseen for 20 years.

So I'm heading to the source -
Colombia,

the biggest producer of cocaine
anywhere in the world.

But what I'm desperate to understand
is...what is Colombia trying to do

to bring a halt to this
multi-billion-pound industry?

After a 15-hour journey,
I'm touching down close to
the border with Ecuador.

I've come here to see the very
beginning of the process

and understand how this seemingly
unstoppable industry

dominates Colombia and feeds
the appetite in Britain
and the rest of the world.

So we are right at one of the most
southern tips of Colombia.

This is on the tip of
the Amazon jungle.

So...we are remote.

First time in South America for me.

We're in the ass-end of nowhere,
Villagarzon.

Colombia has now regained its crown
and status as the No.1 producer
of cocaine anywhere in the world.

Year on year, over the last
two years, it's gone up 40%.

It's now responsible for producing
over 650 tonnes of cocaine.

That's a �40 billion industry
just from this country.

The Colombian Government's battle
to stop cocaine is big news here.

You can't read a newspaper
or switch on the TV

without a drug-gang killing
or a massive cocaine seizure.

To understand the war on drugs
properly,

I have to come to the heartbeat
of where it starts.

And to see how this shit's produced.

I'm beginning by heading deep
into the jungle,

to meet someone who risks
everything to produce cocaine.

Any professional chef worth his salt
goes to the source.

So I want to know what goes into
this drug.

I'm attempting to reach one of the
small-scale farmers who grows,
processes and cooks the coca plant,

which is then turned into coke.

I'm on my way into the jungle
to meet this farmer/chef.

This guy is basically harvesting
the coca plant but in hiding.

And we're going in.

I mean, we are in the depth.
In the middle of nowhere.

It's slightly edgy because...
last night, first thing this morning,

you can hear the local
military police helicopters

scouting the area.

So...this is a high risk for this
farmer.

For me, why would you put yourself at
risk?

Why would you put yourself out there
with your family?

Because getting caught here,
the consequences are massive.

Now this farmer/chef is one
individual of a one million workforce

that are now behind
the cocaine industry in Colombia.

One million people are now producing
or involved in cocaine.

In a country that has
50 million people.

I mean it's just extraordinary.

What is this fucking thing
coming here?

Morning.

I've travelled along this dirt road
for over an hour.

Just reaching the village
is an ordeal.

So this is a river crossing.
The bridge is broke.

I'm just gonna go down and see if we
can get across.

That's fine. That's not too bad.

So the bridge is fucked.

There's no way of going over
that bridge there.

That won't even take my weight,
let alone the car.

Oh, shit.

Shit.

Thank God for that.

I finally reach the farmer's village.
However, to keep things discreet,

I've agreed to meet him at
his plantation,

which is a further hour and a half's
walk deep into the rainforest.

You can see what I mean now about
being off the beaten track.

Also we're now heading straight into
that big deep dense mass of jungle.

I have no idea what
I'm about to face.

But I hope to find the farmer
and the answer to at least
some of my questions.

I've now journeyed for three hours
into the remote Colombian rainforest.

I'm here to meet a farmer who is one
of a million people in the country

who work in the cocaine industry.

He takes huge risks to both grow
the coca plant

and extract the drug from the leaf.

This is seriously hard-going terrain.

But at last I've found what
I'm looking for.

This is it. Fuck me.

I mean, it's somewhat spread out.
But this is it.

Finally.

This is the coca leaf.

This is the start...
of the process of making cocaine.

Now...you can eat these leaves.

Tribes were using this
for altitude sickness.

Who would have thought such a soft,
smooth leaf can turn into
something so powerful?

Hola, Jose.

Buenos dias! Gracias.

Good to see you. Muy bien.

Coca leaves contain
less than 1% cocaine.

So the farmer has to pick around
500kg of the plant

to make just one kilo of the drug.

Jose...are you ever worried that
you're going to get raided?

Do you not worry because you have
such a young family? What would the
family do if you got busted?

Like Jose, I have four children.

I can imagine the responsibility
to provide for them

weighs heavily upon him.

Do you have any idea
outside of this jungle

of the devastation of what
this is causing?

The Government have given up
on the locals.

They've made it more difficult for
them to survive.

You can't harvest fruit. There's
nowhere near enough money
to keep that family alive.

So the guy's got no alternative.

That's not an excuse. He's just
talking from the heart, in a way,
that this is it.

He needs to get this done to get his
kids through school

to get the fuck out of here.

Being caught and what would happen to
the family would be awful.

They'd be kicked out of the house,
the village.

And sadly the whole family
would be ripped apart.

You've got this humble farmer.

He's got no idea of the war,
the violence...the killings.

And then...the power of cocaine.
He's got no idea.

In order to earn his $40 a week,
or roughly �30,

Jose has to produce cocaine paste
which he sells to the drug cartels.

His lab, where it's produced,
is another 45 minutes' walk,

hidden deep in the undergrowth.

If it's busted, he faces
a 20-year jail term.

I mean...there's no wonder these
little labs don't get busted.

Because we are going even deeper
than I could ever have imagined.

This is more remote than
I've ever been.

The lab, finally.

Jesus Christ.

No wonder you can't fucking
find this place.

Now I've reached the lab
I'm about to find out

just what goes into making
this destructive drug.

Bloody hell.

What a fucking journey.

Jose must extract the cocaine from
the plant.

A complicated process which involves
many chemicals.

First, he adds cement to
the chopped-up coca leaves.

He's measuring it out to the cup -
cement powder.

I mean this takes squashing grapes
for me to a whole new fucking level.

Almost like finishing a fucking
souffle with fresh icing powder.

Wow.

After Jose finishes mixing in
the cement,

the next delightful ingredient is
added -

sulphuric acid, dissolved in water.

My eyes are burning. Huh?
My eyes are burning.

When you see the bright white of
that finished product,

everyone thinks it looks classy,
sophisticated.

They boast and show off
to their mates.

The arrogance of taking it.
I'd love to bring them here

and show them the shit that goes on.

I'm appalled at what goes into it.

The cement was hard enough, but the
sulphuric acid...

This mixture is put into a barrel
and doused in gasoline.

This is then left to marinate,

to draw the cocaine from the leaf.

It's like something out of
fucking Harry Potter.

Does he know who Harry Potter is?

No. Thank fuck for that.

The fumes and the smell coming off
that is extraordinary.

Fucking hell. He sounds happy.
Is he high?

Jose needs to separate the cocaine
from the gasoline,

using the next shocking addition
to the mixture - battery acid.

Are you OK?

That battery acid has helped separate

the cocaine liquid from the gasoline.

So basically the density is like
oil and water.

On top is the gasoline and
underneath, 10% of that is water,

is the cocaine water.
Pure cocaine water.

Which he's going to siphon out
from the bottom now.

This hose goes to the bottom there.

He's sucking it through.

And then he's going to sieve that
through the final process.

So that's clear, pure cocaine water
at the bottom of this barrel.

Very strong, very...acidic.

Very bitter.

Very er...very, very strong.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

Fuck me.

Next, in goes bicarbonate of soda

which helps to get rid of
the excess gasoline

and battery acid.

It's given it a bit of a white
colour. Look at that now.

Once the mixture is dried,
it starts to resemble cocaine
for the first time.

But there's still more work to do.

We have to walk one hour
back to the village

for the next extraordinary stage of
the process.

And certainly the most risky for him.

He needs to gently cook the mixture
to take out more of the impurities.

All that...picking, gathering and
everything that he's...

worked hard for, down to this
little cupful of liquid.

Cocaine...crazy.

So he's brought it up to the boil.

And now he's skimming the top again
to make it even purer.

So it's almost like a toxic scum
that's come off the powder.

And the actual liquid cocaine looks
so much more clear now.

It's like this syrup. Like a treacle.

Almost like you're tempering it.
Like tempering chocolate.

Jose spreads the liquid onto a tray
and allows it to dry.

Wow. It's this paste that is bought
by the cartels

who control the drug trade.

Ultimately, they'll turn it
into cocaine hydrochloride,

after adding a few other chemicals to
make it consumable.

Wow. From when we started first thing
this morning,

with that huge vat of leaves
to this tiny bag.

That's incredible.

Jose will receive about �30 a week.

This bag of paste will be worth
roughly...�5,000

on the streets of Britain.

I've cooked some serious shit
in my life

and been to some extraordinary places
but nothing quite on this level.

That guy is living on a knife edge.

But the sad news is...if he's caught
with that bag of paste at the end,

that's 20 years banged up.
20 fucking years for that.

The guy earns $150 a month.

The saddest news today was the fact
the Government have given up on them.

They're not repairing bridges or
giving them any funding.

So these guys have no option but...
to work their ass off locally

and produce that cocaine paste
to stay alive.

That's the sad news.

Jose is just one farmer struggling to
make a living for his family.

Most of the industry is controlled by
the cartels.

They are powerful criminal gangs,

causing misery and death and
responsible for bringing this drug
to the UK.

Next time...I'll be on the frontline
with the Colombian military

taking the fight to these
drug lords...

I can't believe the amount
in here. It's everywhere.

Shit. What's going on?

..I come face to face with those
that kill for coke...

How many people do you think
you've murdered?

..and see how our police back home
are dealing with

increasing levels of crime and
violence caused by cocaine.

Extraordinary levels of gang crime,
shootings and stabbings,

all of which are linked to
the cocaine trade.

Shit!

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