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# Dear love, dear love

# Let me tell you how I feel

# You have given me so much pleasure

# I love you so

# Dear love, dear love

# Let me tell you how I feel

# You have given me so much pleasure

# I love you so. #

SHE SIGHS

We've been
very purposefully manipulated,

very intentionally and purposefully
manipulated for thousands of years.

This isn't something new.

The question is -
who's keeping us down?

Q helped us figure that out
a little bit.

Q said, "Start here
and go wherever it leads you."

What if everything
that we've been taught is wrong?

What we're living right now is
going to be known

for the rest of our history
as the time of awakening.

What have you awakened to?

It's about the great awakening.

INDISTINCT SHOUTING
SIRENS WAIL

We live in a time where,
for some, truth no longer exists.

We are fighting evil!

CROWD SHOUTS IN AGREEMENT

We are fighting cult members!

Conspiracy theories, fake news,
claims of rigged elections,

and unmitigated use of social media

mean no-one has any idea
what to believe any more.

How they persuaded billions around
the world

to believe in their plan.

You were trying to...

In every corner of the world,
people are protesting.

They've attacked US democracy,

they've battled
on the streets of Britain,

they're fighting back -
but what exactly are they fighting?

You're inciting violence.

Good lad, good lad.

I'm about to enter a world

where I, as the mainstream media,
am the enemy

and where the people I meet believe
I'm an agent of dark forces

who run the world
and abuse children.

# You're liars, you're liars
You're liars, you are. #

My mission is to unmask the figures

taking conspiracy to the heart
of our political system

and to meet the digital soldiers

fighting for
a supposed government insider

called Q.

I'm in Elyria, Ohio,

on my way to meet
two of Q's most ardent followers

who plan to take their country back.

Welcome to
the digital soldiers house!

Ha-ha-ha.

Dave Roberts and Amanda Quimper.

You're filming us
for your documentary too?

I'm filming you
because you're mainstream media.

I got to make sure I get you.

I do understand, to a degree.

You know, I think people don't
really trust the media these days.

That's why we're reluctant
to talk to you guys sometimes.

How important is Q to
what you're doing?

I think he laid the groundwork.

He made the exposures.

He opened the eyes of the people.

Whoever Q is believes in God
and trying to fight

so that God does win in the end.

And all these paedophilias
and all these trafficking rings

and all this structure in
the government, all this evilness,

that's something that the cabal
has worked for centuries

to keep us all asleep,

and they've done
a very successful job of it.

What is the cabal?
How would you describe it?

The cabal, in my opinion, is
the organised elitists,

the 1% of the 1%,

which includes the Vatican
and the monarchies.

People today are just now
beginning to wake up.

I mean, they're just now beginning
to realise something's wrong

and Q instigated that.

We would never be anywhere near
where we are today

if it wasn't for Q.

So, some of what I'm about to
tell you may be hard to believe,

but it's changed the course
of politics around the world.

In October 2017,

a figure called Q Clearance Patriot
appeared on the website 4Chan.

They claimed to be
a government insider.

Q started spreading
wild conspiracies -

satanic paedophiles ruled the world,

Trump was the saviour
against the evil cabal -

and people believed it.

With every share,
it became more mainstream.

It soon became
the conspiracy of everything.

Over the next four years, it spread
to millions across the globe.

Followers shared, kidnapped,
killed, shared some more,

and attacked the US Capitol,

all in the name of Q.

But then none of it came true.

The cabal was never exposed,

Trump lost the 2020 election

and Q stopped posting forever
on December 8, 2020.

Millions of manipulated
and radicalised people

around the world were left
without a leader,

so who's filling that void now?

PHONE LINE RINGS OUT

Hello? Hey, is that Pastor Mark?

Who's speaking? It's Benjamin Zand.

Oh, yes, yes. How are you doing?
I'm good, how are you?

Q's followers are still meeting up
at events across the US,

with or without Trump
in the White House.

Mainstream journalists
are usually banned

and even forcibly removed
from these events

but I'd managed to get in.

I'll text you the flights,
17th and the 18th,

and I'll make sure
you get some credentials,

so you've got to come out
for that, OK?

Pastor Mark Burns was
a speaker at an event in California

and he was keen for me to cover
his upcoming political campaign.

Hello.

Right, we've actually made it in
officially.

How are y'all doing?
Good, sir, how are you?

Good. Thank y'all so much.

Hey, sir, how are you?
God bless you.

Blessings to you, man.
Thank you so much.

I love that. Thank you.
God bless y'all. How you doing? Hi.

Hello, how are y'all doing?

We don't.

God bless y'all.

This was a real who's who
in the world of alternate truths,

figures like discredited
anti-vaccine doctor Andrew Wakefield

were in attendance.

You are never going to have
another fair election

if we don't expose and fight
what happened in 2020.

Roger Stone.

I knew you had to be close.

I've got to figure out
what I'm going to say.

I'm about to walk around here,
man. All right.

Love you, man. All right, thanks.

You must fight.
The way to fight the information...

Thousands of people had made
the trip to see their heroes

and to uncover the next secret

the mainstream media didn't want
them to know.

How did you find yourself
in the world of Q, selling Q tops?

Well, I got into Q
through my family.

My dad and my brother followed Q,
um, but...

My brother is into a
lot of spirituality stuff,

you know, and so is Q.

There was a real sense
of community here.

Amidst the claims of a cabal,
a planned pandemic

and Trump being the true president,

there was a home for people to be
heard and to be their real selves.

There was also a real feeling
of anger.

APPLAUSE

This is a full-blown world war
that we are in

right at this very moment,
ladies and gentlemen.

This is America,

this is an American thing,
so fight with me.

CHEERING

We're in a time of warfare.

This is no longer
a conspiracy theory,

it's a conspiracy.

CHEERING

One of the biggest names
at these events is this guy

Michael Flynn.

He's a former three-star general

and was a national-security adviser
to Donald Trump.

Q itself regularly defended Flynn

so many followers see him
as a potential leader.

CHANTING: Fight like Flynn!
Fight like Flynn! Fight like Flynn!

We are going to take this
country back.

CHEERING

I'm driving to meet a man
called Dustin Nemos.

Dustin is, like, one of
the earliest adopters of Q.

He's quite a big name
in the Q-verse.

He even literally wrote
the book on Q.

Hello.

Are we thinking here? Um...

I was just looking around. I don't
know what works for you guys.

This is beautiful. Ah, yeah,
that's interesting, isn't it?

Disciples like Dustin
made their money and fame

interpreting the religion of Q.

But Q's disappearance created
a power vacuum,

so what happens now?

Are you still a follower of Q?

You know, half the world is
following it so...

Forbes had it quoted,
and this is an old number,

that over 56%
of the Republican party

had, in some level,
agreement with Q.

Do you believe in the idea

that there is a satanic cabal
raping kids?

I think that there are
powerful people

who openly identify with Satanism.

I don't think that they get together
in the White House every Tuesday

and, like, order, you know, $20,000
worth of pizza to be flown in 2am...

Wait, Obama did that, but, you know,
most of the time they don't do that.

When Dustin mentions pizza here,
he actually means children.

It's a well-known code word

from the debunked
Pizzagate conspiracy of 2016

that alleged top Democrats
were paedophiles.

I believe Obama is a child molester.
You think he abuses kids?

I believe that he does.

I don't believe
those are even his kids.

I mean, his wife is not a woman.

You think his wife's a man?

Anybody got any shots
of Michelle Obama pregnant?

Love to see it.
You also believe that she's a man?

It's not about belief, I do facts.

The reality of the world is
much different

than you've been told on fake news.

You think the reality of the world
is that Michelle Obama has a penis

and Barack Obama is abusing kids
in the White House?

That is more believable than
Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

You find it not odd that we don't
have shots of the first family?

I do believe that,

based on multiple videos...
So why spread it?

But you need, like, evidence

that's kind of substantive
beyond a video.

I believe we can make
a very good case,

including people who
are biological experts

who can weigh the Adam's apple,

measure the shoulders
and all of that,

that Michelle Obama is a man.
A transgender woman?

His wife is better hung than I am.

And I've seen it on YouTube,
multiple videos.

Cos that's definitely
on the wilder side.

I'll ask one final question.

The future of Q is now the
influencers like yourself?

We're gonna take the country back.

We're getting people
elected into office.

The fake news - or,
forgive me, the media - are...

You know, they're already writing
a lot of articles about that,

nervous about the QAnon people
running for office.

Um, many of them
are barely connected.

I can't wait till I run for Congress

cos they're really gonna lombast me.

Are you gonna run?

Probably. Yeah, probably.
When d'you think that'll be?

Er, next couple of months, maybe.

Oh, right, for the
midterms next year?

Yeah, 2022.

Dustin's views about Michelle Obama

are completely ridiculous
and untrue,

but it's a clear example
of how in the world of Q

it's more important to pick a side

than to seek truth.

The question I had, though,

was whether Dustin could really
make it in the world of politics.

Another alleged Q supporter,

Marjorie Taylor Greene,

had done exactly that in 2020.

America's the greatest
country in the world.

She was elected
to Congress in Georgia

and is one of Conservative America's

most prominent figures.

Q is a patriot.

We know that for sure.

But we do not know who Q is.

She's since distanced herself
from the Q movement.

But all this made me think of
someone I'd seen in California

with Pastor Mark.

Saw your parents out there.

I knew you had to be close.
PASTOR MARK CHUCKLES

That right there is Roger Stone,

one of the most important
political figures in the US

over the last 30 years.

This is a guy who
helped get presidents -

from Richard Nixon
to Donald Trump - in office.

He's often called the kingmaker
of Republican presidents.

Here he is with Donald Trump,

who pardoned him in 2020

after Stone was convicted of
obstructing an investigation

that would have harmed
the President.

And now here he was at a conference

attended by thousands
of Q supporters.

Was this a clear sign of the next
stage of the Q movement -

cementing itself at
the top of global politics?

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am living proof
that God can do anything.

APPLAUSE
WHOOPING

Yes, Ma'am?

We need a leader right now.

It should be Michael Flynn.

Some of you will have an opportunity

to see General Flynn
when he comes to speak.

You should tell him
exactly what Caroline said.

I think he is a man of destiny,

I think he is a man of courage.

So I do think that he is potentially
the leader for this movement.

Pastor Mark. There you go, hello!
How you doing?

VOICEOVER: To try and find out
just what Roger's plan is,

I asked Pastor Mark
to arrange an interview.

PASTOR MARK: Here's THE one...

..and only Roger...Stone. Stone!
CHUCKLING

My brother. Aw, man!

Oh, man. Hey, you're losing weight.

Isn't this the dream team
right here?

Good to see you, Roger.
How are you, my brother?

You're looking good.
Wow, to God be the glory.

We're just gonna go and do
an interview with Roger Stone.

And right next door to us,
where we've parked,

there are two cars
with QAnon memorabilia.

This is the unconditional pardon

given to me by President Trump

when he concluded that
I did not get a fair trial

and I was indicted on politically
motivated charges. Look at this.

Is this The Avengers?

You're trying to fight
crime for America.
THEY LAUGH

You've sorted out...

Come on, Captain America!

We're gonna do an interview
to make sure... Captain America!
THEY LAUGH

This is where I rip open my shirt
and go... Here you go.
THEY LAUGH

I'd like to see your initial
reaction to the question of

what are your feelings on QAnon?

CHUCKLING
I guess what I would say is

I don't know if it's real,
but I sure hope it is.

If that person wakes up and
starts watching alternative media

and isn't getting
all their news from CNN,

if that person gets
registered and votes,

then I think we've
accomplished something.

I'm pretty sure that there's
some truth to some of those things.

Donald Trump should have
won the election. Yes.

I believe without question

there was some form of
tampering that took place.

You could argue that the Q movement

is actually so beneficial to people
like yourself, you know?

It's a movement that says
Donald Trump is the saviour,

it's a movement that...

Michael Flynn is a messiah.
Well, what you correctly say...

Here's what I know.

I love the First Amendment. Yeah.

I love people's right to say
whatever they think is true

and try to defend their position.
Yeah.

We do have a historical record here.

We were told Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction,

but that was a lie.

So let's not pretend that everything

the government tells us is true.

Frankly, we've got a clean house
in the Republican party.

Trump has taken us from being
the party of the country club

to being the party
of working people.

If Trump doesn't run again,

I notice that Michael Flynn
attends a lot of these events.

Do you think he is a potential
candidate for presidency?

I want to make it very clear,
I'm for Donald Trump.

So in the event that
he does not run,

I would certainly
look to General Flynn

as one who might be drafted.

All right, gentlemen,
good to see you all.

Can we just get some verbal
consent from you?

Er, yes, you can
use all that stuff -

even though you're obsessed with Q.

THEY LAUGH

These guys are kind of the
who's who at events like this

that are attended by a huge amount
of QAnon supporters.

Roger Stone is a bit of a hero
in these circles.

They're all very good friends
with Michael Flynn.

The FBI has labelled Q and its
supporters a domestic terror threat,

but here was Roger Stone
seemingly embracing the movement

and using it for political gain.

CHEERING
CAR HORNS BEEP

The more I looked, the more I found

political candidates were
making the assessment

that if they wanted to win a seat,

Q's conspiracy and misinformation
were the way to do it.

I stand with President Trump.

I stand with Q and the team.

Everything that I've heard of Q...

..I hope that this is real.

Reporting suggests almost
50 congressional candidates

have embraced Q
in their bids for election in 2022.

CHEERING
And that doesn't include
those running for Senate.

One thing these candidates
have in common

is that the vast majority
are Republicans,

they're deeply religious
and deeply Conservative.

Most are scared
of the mainstream media,

but I found one who is eager
for me to join her campaign.

My name is Kimberly Lowe.

I'm running for Congress in the
fifth congressional district,

which is right here.

We are at war right now.

We have had a planned pandemic

to destroy this country,

to destroy our businesses,

to pull us out of church...

..to depopulate and to steal
an American election.

Please support me.

Thank you, guys.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Kimberly's kids don't go
to mainstream school,

as she's worried
they'll be indoctrinated.

COW MOOS
Come on!

She also questions
whether Covid is real.

And inevitably,

the topic of the coronavirus vaccine
came up between us.

I've had two vaccines.

Oh, right! I'm so sorry.
KIMBERLY LAUGHS

Do things stick to you
like you see on TV?

What, like magnets?
Have you tried that?

Shall we try it?
If it sticks to me...

OK, so it has to go
to your forehead.

Is it sticking?

I don't think so, I think
you're good. It's not sticking.

LAUGHING: I think you're OK!

Is that...? So what...?

Does that change your opinion on...?

No, not at all. Why?

I would never get that vaccine.

It all comes down to trust,
doesn't it?

It comes down to trust
in higher bodies

and I think ultimately the issue is
that you don't trust the government.

Correct.

In her run for Congress,

Kimberly believes she has
a helping hand from Q itself.

GUNSHOT ECHOES

One day I got a phone call

from Q followers
types of individuals

and they told me that

I needed to stay on the path I'm on

and that I was being protected
and I just had to continue on

because I was going to be part
of whatever, you know,

future was to come here in America,

regarding politics, etc.

Trump wanted to stop
this trafficking.

He had an entire
anti-trafficking team

that he put in the White House.

They're pulling people
and children out of tunnels.

I know one woman who was trafficked

who grew up in a tunnel system

somewhere in the Midwest.

She says that there's tunnels.

Has she provided proof?

I haven't asked for it, so
how do I know? Why not?

That's why I'm here. How do I know?

Is there anything that could
disprove that for you?

Probably not.

Believing in these...

What some people call
conspiracies or alternative truths,

you know, it does have
actual consequences.

If you are saying those things
without adequate evidence,

there is a responsibility on you.

What is dangerous
is media dividing a country.

The election was stolen.

I fully believe that. I just can't
roll stuff off my mouth.
I need to learn it...

But just because you believe it,
doesn't make it true.

But it doesn't make me dangerous.

But the truth is, no matter how hard
it was for Kimberly to accept,

the conspiracies of Q

are pushing people
further and further to the edge.

Some far enough
they're willing to kill.

REPORTER: Sheriff's Deputy say
33-year-old Neely Petrie-Blanchard

shot and killed
Christopher Hallett on Sunday.

Q's followers are told

that an elitist cabal
are raping children,

rigging elections
and depopulating the Earth.

And when you believe all that,

just how far are you willing to go
to save the world?

REPORTER: Sheriff's Deputy say
33-year-old Neely Petrie-Blanchard

shot and killed Christopher Hallett
on Sunday.

Since the rise of Q,

around 100 people have
committed crimes in its name,

ranging from kidnapping to
weapon offenses to murder.

WOMAN ON PHONE: Are you in a
pretty nice neighbourhood?

Yeah.

Well, then maybe you're here.

Hi. Hello, is this the right house?

Yes. This is the right house!
Aw, amazing.

Get back, Rosie!
And you're dirty on top of it.

You need a bath.

She's a cute dog you got.
She's a cute dog...

Straight legs!

Hold!

Neely Petrie-Blanchard
was a normal mother from Kentucky,

until she lost custody of
her daughter, McKenzie.

From that moment on,

she fell down the rabbit hole.

Ever since she lost McKenzie,

she's struggled.

She was on the computer

all day long,

looking at this stuff. It was...

Every day she thought
QAnon was...President Trump.

She spent hours a day

trying to figure out
who Q actually was.

Was Q, then, this...

..way to get her kid back?

Mm-hmm. Yes. Was that what it was?
Was that her main focus?

Yeah, that was her main focus.
She somehow fell into this...

They were all involved
in Satanic worshipping... Yeah.

She believed there was a city

under New York city that kept kids.

Through the community of Q,

Neely discovered
Christopher Hallett.

He claimed to be a legal expert
who knew Trump personally

and promised to reunite her
with her child.

For a time, Neely thought Hallett
may even have been Q.

NEELY ON LAPTOP: People have been

persecuted in family courts

all over this nation...

..for a very long time.

"Sleepers everywhere.

"Think coats.

"Wheels in motion. Q."

I mean, does that make sense to you?

Like, it doesn't...

It doesn't make sense to me.

Looks like they haven't posted
on here since December 8th 2020,

so I guess, erm,

I don't know if they've
changed the website

or where they're, you know,
posting their stuff now.

Q has not posted since December 8th.

Really?

He just disappeared?

It's just disappeared, yeah. It.

Wow.

That's a shock to me.

That's kind of...

SAVANNAH EXHALES
I don't know how I feel about that.

Kind of like it was
all for nothing, I guess.

Wow.

QUIETLY: Sorry.

She put so much

and dedicated so much of her time

to this for so long.

Would it have been easier if
the whole conspiracy was real

cos then at least Neely would have
done it for something?

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um...

You know, she fully believed that

she was doing it to protect
all these children and...

But there wasn't really
anything that we could do.

How do you help someone
that is so far in it?

I mean, I think
that's our biggest regret,

was feeling like we kind of...

..pushed her away

and did that push her more into Q

and these conspiracies

because she didn't
have anybody else?

BOTH: Double that.

Double, double this. Ooh!

THEY LAUGH
That. OK.

The story ended when
the onslaught of conspiracies

made Neely paranoid.

She stopped trusting
Christopher Hallett.

She became convinced
he was plotting against her,

so she shot him dead.

REPORTER:
33-year-old Neely Petrie-Blanchard

shot and killed
Christopher Hallett on Sunday.

Blanchard is awaiting expedition
back to Marion County.

Neely's now awaiting trial

and can only talk to her family

from Marion County Jail in Florida.

Hey! KIDS: Hi!

Let me turn the volume up.

NEELY: I love you, girls!

Mommy misses you!

Miss you too.

Guess what, Mom!

We fed the bunnies, gave them
a salad and they loved them.

Aw! I love your bunnies.

Yeah, y'all sing that.

KIDS: # We are the fireflies

# We like to fly around. Bling-bling

# With our yellow band and ugly
bling-bling, gone, bye. #

Isn't that so cute?

I love you.

KIDS: Love you! Bye!

Can you do the other half?

Huggies! Hugs.

So how do you feel
after talking to your mama?

Er...

How do you feel? Weird.

Weird? OK.

Why do you feel weird?

Because, like, we're talking
to her on a phone.

Not, like, in person.

What do you know
about why she's there?

Um, because... Yes.

I know. I know why.

Oh, you know why?

She made a bad choice, didn't she?

Mm-hmm.

Can't let our emotions
get out of hand.

Did you ever think
it could get to this point?

That she'd be in prison
off the back of shooting a man?

Never...

..in 1 million years
would we have imagined

that we would be in this situation.
You know?

CHUCKLING: Don't cry.

Yeah, and then it all hits.
Uh-huh. Um...

The girls, you know,

I wonder how it's
gonna affect their lives.

It worries me.

Now they all possibly
could lose their mother forever.

To this day,

Neely still believes Q
and Donald Trump will save her.

Her story makes me wonder

just how much trauma plays a part

in people's descent
down the rabbit hole.

After losing her children
and struggling with her life,

Q and conspiracy
offered Neely comfort.

It gave her a way out.

All right, we're convening
this meeting.

It's July 1st 2021.

I feared for Amanda and Dave,

the two ardent Q followers
I'd met earlier.

They seem like good people.

They were convinced that

they had to defeat
the evil of the world.

Can we get a photo before the storm?

VOICEOVER: But at what cost?

How have your family
reacted to the Q?

My kids don't wanna...

You know, they don't wanna
talk to me, they don't call me.

We're not close because of their
feelings, what their beliefs are...

They don't wanna hear this.

When I started speaking out
about all this stuff, my...

Um...

You know, my family all just
were like, "What the heck?!"

Cos I just was like, I wasn't gonna
hold anything back and...

So...

It just came out of nowhere for them

and I just...

..you know, threw up all over them.

Pretty much. That's normal.
AMANDA LAUGHS

What's it like to not be believed?

It is what it is and, you know,
after God comes to you in a dream

and tells you all this crap is
going on you're kind of like,

"Oh. This crap is going on."

So...

So there's nothing that could kind
of prove it wrong in your mind?

Er, no.

No because I've seen the evil.

And there's a coming, OK?

There's a reckoning.

And, er, this reign
of evil is over with.

And we're moving
into a new era of time.

No-one I had met was willing to
consider they could be wrong.

It was all just too important.

For Amanda, this was
a calling from God.

To show me what made her first
venture down the rabbit hole,

Amanda asked me to meet her
at the place it all began -

her work.

LOW-PITCHED OBOE PLAYS
PLUCKING STRINGS

Can I see the shot real quick?

Of course you can. Hold on.

You seem to be very sensitive
about your appearance.

Probably because society
programs you to believe that...

..you need to be pretty to be loved.

STRINGS BUILD

Where are we and what do you do?

We are at an exotic dance club.

This is not what you want
your kid to grow up and do.

A lot of girls come here
lost and broken

and they need help.

And they're hurting and...

And they're not here any more.

How did you find yourself here?

When I was 18 in high school,

all I wanted to do was
become an actress, so...

..I put myself through
two years of college,

I come home and...

I live in the heart
of the heroin epidemic.

All my friends were on heroin.

My best friend's no longer
with us cos she died.

She used to work here.

Sorry to hear that.

AMANDA EXHALES

EERIE CHATTER ECHOES

I've only known you
for a matter of days.

But it feels like, you know,

you genuinely really want

to do some good in the world.

But you're not sure

how best to do that.

I just...

I wanna help the lost and broken.

How do you do that?
AMANDA EXHALES

I've been guided to be in this club.

I had a girl that...

..worked with me here.

I remember crying out to God, like,
"I'm so tired of this, I..."

"I just, I just want out, I'm done,
I'm done, God, I'm done."

But everything inside of me was
like, "You still need to be here."

DISTANT CHEERING ECHOES

It sounds kind of lonely.

Yeah. It can be a very lonely walk.

And no-one understands it.

Cos they're not walking
in your shoes.

Amanda's story just makes me feel

a bit sad, to be honest.

It's clear why Q is so important

and why it's so hard to let go.

It makes her life worthwhile

and I think it also shows why

she's never gonna not
drink the Kool-Aid.

But it's also scary

because when you believe
something so ardently

and you are willing to
literally die for that cause,

what is the end goal?

VIOLIN BOWS RESTLESSLY

CROWD CHANTING:
We love Trump! We love Trump!

We love Trump! We love Trump!

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING
We love Trump! We love Trump

I wonder what I will
be proved right about next.

Perhaps it will be the election.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
VIOLIN CRESCENDOS

WHISTLING
We will never, ever surrender!

All over the world,

an online conspiracy movement
that started in the US

was finding its way
to the top of politics.

CAR HORN BEEPS
Lies of a cabal

and fake claims of rigged elections

were being used
in order to win votes.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
In the weird world of Q,

Donald Trump was the saviour.

But as Q disappeared
from public view

and Trump failed to win re-election,

new leaders had stepped
into the frame.

Defeating these murderers!

Michael Flynn,
along with Mike Lindell,

was at the top of
the conspiracy tree.

We will get through this
and get back to a place

that's stronger and safer than ever.

Flynn is a powerful figure.

He's a close confidante of Trump

and reached the very top
of the US military

as a three-star general.

He made headlines
after he filmed himself

doing a pledge
associated with QAnon.

ALL: I...
THEIR VOICES DROWN EACH OTHER OUT

..Flynn. Do solemnly swear.

ALL: Do solemnly swear.

Where we go one, we go all.
Where we go one, we go all.

God bless America.

Flynn and his family say

this has nothing to do with Q

and that it's simply a family
statement of support to one another.

But he's a superstar
amongst Q supporters.

Where does Michael Flynn
kind of fit into it all?

Michael Flynn, yeah, I think he's
definitely one of the biggest names.

I mean, I think that he has
something to do with it.

I definitely think it's a military
operation - a positive one.

It's just about spreading truth
and exposing the corruption.

When they find out a crime was
committed, i.e. election crime,

you put the winner back in.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

WHISTLING

Mike Lindell is the owner
of a $1 billion pillow brand

called My Pillow.

Mike Lindell of My Pillow,

boy, do you sell those pillows,
it's unbelievable.

He also denies any connection to Q,

but he's become a hero
to Q supporters

for peddling conspiracies
that the US election

was rigged against Trump.

SIRENS BLARE

Michael Flynn's name
had continually popped up

as a potential leader
of this movement,

and even a future President.

But how did he feel about
his alleged associations to Q?

And would he defend
the conspiracies?

Both of the Mikes
hate the mainstream media

and pretty much never do interviews,

but once again, through the help
of Pastor Mark Burns,

I'd made it in.

Today is quite a big day.

I've finally got an interview
with Michael Flynn.

I've been trying
to do this for weeks.

There's been a lot of false starts.

I didn't think it was gonna happen,
to be honest,

and then all of a sudden I was told
that if I come to Los Angeles,

I would be able to have
some time with him.

It's gonna be quite a challenge,

but it's an important day
in the world of Q -

for me, at least.

HORN BLARES

WOMAN GIGGLES
Seriously. All right.

Am I meant to sit here?

I wanna get five minutes with you.
Yes. The general's here now.

I'm looking at him. That's right.
THEY LAUGH

I was finally in the room
with two of the most powerful men

in the world of alternate truth.

It must have been about, I suppose,
around 8th January and then...

Yeah. I was thrown off of Twitter.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
Around about 8th, 9th, yeah.

Are you guys ready to rock and roll?

Yeah. Let's do it.

Do you think realistically
in the next few months

Trump might be reinstated?

There's no more conspiracy theory
about election fraud.

3, November 2020
in a presidential election.

It's no more a theory.
It is a conspiracy.

Would I like to see a reinstatement?

You're damn right, I'd like to see a
reinstatement of President Trump.

Mike, am I right
in thinking that by August

Trump might be back in office?

Yeah, we're out by a little bit,
it could be September.

It's worth remembering
that there's zero evidence

to support the theory
the election was stolen.

America's Attorney General
threw out 60 cases

and in September 2021,

the audit in Arizona
that they're referencing

confirmed that Joe Biden
won the election.

Why do you think there's
such a disparity, I suppose,

in thinking in
the States at the moment?

Some people would say there hasn't
been evidence of election fraud.

A lot of these cases
were thrown out.

Donald Trump won
80 million to 68 million.

This was massive. Every state,
it happened in.

The evidence is clear.

I mean, there's been
a ton of evidence.

All you gotta do is read it

and hopefully the media
one of these days will...

honest journalists will
figure it out and report it.

It's a crime that happened

against every citizen
of the United States of America.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

One thing that is
kind of hard to escape

is the movement around
the perimeters here, QAnon.

What's your opinion on Q?

What is it?

You know what it is at this point.

A group of people
that don't like paedophilia?

What's your opinion on it?

Is it good, is it bad?

I think that
paedophilia is disgusting.

Is Q a domestic terror threat?

Is that your...

Is that what it is?

I don't know. I don't know.

You've become quite
a central figure of it.

The kind of messiah of that...
Really?

Yeah, yeah, for sure, if you look
outside, some of the T-shirts.

What're you asking me about?
I mean, get to the point.

That is the point. Are you happy
that you're being associated with Q?

If there's somebody against
paedophilia, I'm with them.

Yeah, cos I think... Cos they're
against paedophilia, I mean, right?

So is paedophilia good or bad?

To you? Right?

Now, I know you won't even...
Yeah, I definitely don't think
paedophilia is good.

See, you won't even play that.

Why would I not play that?
Because I know your...

..organisation. See,
but this is the thing...
You're asking a stupid question.

You wouldn't even ask that
if you were doing an interview.

But why is it a stupid question?
You're here to interview us.

This is the big life. It doesn't
matter who stands behind us or
doesn't... Exactly. Yeah.

The evidence, the truth
shall set you free.

This'll once again
be one nation under God.

I've no idea what QAnon is,
I really don't know...

You don't know what QAnon is?
I've no idea... Are you serious?

I don't. But let me tell you what
you need to do. You've both been
asked about it multiple times.

You've the privilege of interviewing
General Flynn and Mike Lindell...
Why's it so offensive?

I'm just asking a question.
I think the interview's over.
Wasted my time.

Why does it need to be offensive?

There's people here
it means a lot to...
Because that's what you all are.

That's such a joke, what you did.
OK. Thank you very much.

Shame on you. It's people like you
that have hurt our country.

I'm not sure that's the truth,
but thanks a lot for your time.

Hey, quick question -
what company are you guys with?

Channel 4. Channel 4. Local?

No, no, it's in the UK.

Oh, UK. OK. Got you.

All right. Do you work
with Michael Flynn?

No. No. All right, OK.

I think Mark's in trouble now.

He's led us into the world of Q

and we asked the questions
we weren't meant to,

and now everyone's
freaking the hell out.

Hey, Mark. Dude, that's bad!
I thought...

I want to put y'all in front of
people, but you can't do that, man.

What, ask about Q?

Brother.

We asked you about Q, though.

Yes, but... You...
HE SIGHS

Really? You can't do that.

We asked you about it, we asked
Roger about it, no-one had an issue.

Courtney! I didn't realise there'd
be such a...

If there's anything that's
controversial, you may want to just

ask us about it and so that... Maybe
it would help to understand why...

Because I can't bring nobody else,
like... We're not...

He's got our microphone.
He's wearing our microphone.

MAN: You guys from Channel 4?

We are the Channel 4 dudes. I'm
going to need you to go out that
way.

OK. Thank you. We just need to
get our microphone back.

Who are you with?
Channel 4.

I'll go find it, give me just a
second. You guys can't go there.
Yeah, please.

Yeah, yeah. God, yeah.

All right, we just got kicked out.

What an ungraceful ending, eh?

This is politics today, not just in
the States, but in the UK, you know?

You ask certain questions,
conversations just get

shut down, and there's no
meeting in the middle.

They're probably surrounded by
so many yes-men that they've

lost all semblance of the truth,
and that's what makes them

so dangerous, because ultimately...

..they're willing to undermine
US democracy,

they're willing to
call on people to fight.

I've been having conversations this
whole time with people who

feel like Q is their life. They're
literally willing to die for it.

They're also willing to
die for the likes of Michael Flynn
and Mike Lindell.

Very sad.

CROWD CHANTS: Freedom! Freedom!
Freedom! Freedom!

WOMAN: Freedom! Freedom!

The Q movement has
spread around the world,

and its digital soldiers can be
found right on our doorstep.

This is satanic! CROWD: Yes!

According to our exclusive
polling in partnership with YouGov,

58% of Brits think satanic ritual
abuse of children probably

happens, and 10% of the British
public believe

the UK Government need to be
overthrown by force.

Both of these beliefs have direct
links to the QAnon movement.

The worst case scenario is they're
being sacrificed

to the devil in satanic rituals.

I think Trump's going to be able to
save us all. I think...

Because there's so much corruption
that's going to come across to

this country,
that's come across from America.

Because we're part of it.

This is no conspiracy.

Most of them in there are evil,

and underpinning it all has been
a trade for centuries

that is going on, and it's the trade
of children.

Eight million children go missing
every year.

Where do they go?

In Nazi Germany, it wasn't
overnight!

They change the Mental Health Act,

they passed all the same laws

that are being passed now.

At the Nuremberg trials,
the doctors and nurses stood trial,

and they hung!

This is Kate Shemirani,

the pre-eminent figure in the world
of British conspiracy at the moment.

That was her suggesting NHS doctors
and nurses could be tried

and even hung for their part
in the UK's vaccination programme.

Kate's a former nurse who
was struck off.

She uses the NHS
and her anti-vaccine

beliefs as a rallying cry,
and has given the conspiracies

of satanic abusers and the deep
state a uniquely British edge.

Hi, how are you? Hey, Kate,
how you doing? Nice to meet you.

You too.

It's always good to get
the initial reaction.

That's all right, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

I hear you're a Scouser.
I am, yeah. I'm a Scouser indeed.

I'm just locking you in, fellas,
so you can't leave.

No, no, no...

Come into my... Come into my garage
food store,

my bikes, my gym.

Right now, I'm looking at what the
Government is doing

and I don't want to be governed by
what I see are people that are

completely overstepping the powers
that have been bestowed upon them

by us, the people.

So the right channels need to be
used to cease their power.

In real-life, Kate was friendly and
hospitable,

a world away from the preacher
screaming about Satan in Trafalgar
Square.

But by alluding to NHS workers being
hung,

she had taken British conspiracy
down a dark, terrifying path.

At that rally in July, in Trafalgar
Square, you seemed to make a link

that the NHS workers of today should
be hung for their participation.

It's not for me to decide the law,
it's the Rome Statute, I believe.

I... But you can... Hang on. You can
have an opinion on it...

No, you're not going to make me...
It really got a lot of media
coverage. Excellent.

It was pretty scary, you know?
Even standing there... Excellent.

It seemed to be...
You said at the Nuremberg trials

those doctors and nurses hung.
You don't like me mentioning
Nuremberg.

Why don't you want me to
mention Nuremberg?

Does it make you uncomfortable?
Because it's unbelievably
incendiary. Yes, it does.

Does it make you uncomfortable? It's
extremely incendiary

to say that publicly in
front of tens of thousands of
people... It's incendiary? That's...

It's incendiary? That the workers in
the NHS could potentially meet that
fate.

It's incendiary? It's incendiary.
OK, well, let's talk about it.

It's incendiary.
This was in the last hundred years,

they facilitated the death
of disabled children and adults.

And you're saying that that's
happening today with Covid? And they
believed...

They believe at that time that they
were doing the right thing.

Over the last 18 months,
Kate's been speaking

up and down the country in front
of crowds of thousands of people,

and it appears to be working.

From our research with YouGov, 65%
of Brits believe the people who have

the most influence and power in the
UK are not our elected politicians.

But has this support and
encouragement

led her to
consider a move into politics?

Could you see yourself
running for a political party?

I have considered
and now opened that door.

It's not something that I've thought
about and dismissed.

This is my camerawoman, as well.

She does all my filming
when we're out.

You've encouraged me to
go into politics, haven't you? Yeah.

We were chatting with Kate about
whether she might

run for Prime Minister one day.
Fantastic idea.

Would you vote for her?
I would.

SHE CHUCKLES

It's hard, because everything they
say has, like, a pearl of something

that could be reality, and they
hook you on that point and say,

"See? See?" You know?
"Do you get what I'm saying?"

Because of that tiny bits in this
wider argument I'm making.

It's like, "No, no."
Just because that tiny bit is true,

they just extrapolate everything
and then they manipulate people

and they ask for money
and they make them go out

and vote on the back of these
things that are lies.

The dark forces of conspiracy
have deeply embedded

themselves in our political systems,
and after going behind the veil,

it's clear that none of us are safe
from their lies and misinformation.

Conspiracies like Q give people hope
and purpose,

but the road from obscure conspiracy
to undermining democracy is

one paved with good intentions.

Conspiracy led to the biggest
assault ever on US democracy.

If left unchecked,
where will it lead the rest of us?

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