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With the UK festival market booming like never before, investigative journalist Livvy Haydock meets the people on the dark side of Britain鈥檚 festival season. In this episode, Livvy gains access to a gang getting ready to target the UK festival scene with MDMA and cocaine.

The gang reveals that for a dealer, festival season and the illicit drug market it attracts is like Christmas. The gang buys up to 20 festival tickets in bulk, wraps and distributes drugs to event-ready dealers and plans the logistics for a military-style festival takeover.

Livvy meets the gang, gaining an understanding of each role they take in the business of flooding festivals with drugs. One prepares the drugs for the festivals and distributes them to his most trusted dealers, co-ordinating the gang鈥檚 workers; another stashes knives on the event ground before the festival barriers are set up; and another brings in and sells drugs, evading police and security, and wielding knives to fend off rival gangs.

Super-strength MDMA is on the rise in the UK. In the last two years, there have been 12 confirmed drug-related deaths inside UK festivals. Livvy goes undercover inside festivals and encounters dealers selling openly despite the heavy security presence.

Meanwhile, the gang continues to target festivals, and at the end of the summer Livvy catches up with them to find out if everything went to plan, and whether they feel any guilt for being involved in the drugs industry.