Poppy Chain

Synopsis

The team hunts one of the world's biggest opium suppliers across a string of missions in Laos.

Episode recap

The team goes hunting one of the world's biggest opium suppliers across a string of missions in Laos — taking the series back, in its third-to-last hour, to the geography where Stringfellow Hawke's story began. "Poppy Chain" is Season 4's drug-war epic, structured as a campaign rather than a single strike: supply lines, middlemen and jungle airstrips rolled up link by link. Laos carries the series' oldest ghosts — the war, the POW camps, the brother who vanished there — and the episode lets the geography do that haunting while the crew dismantles a modern empire built on the old trade routes.

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