This episode deals with the child pornography investigation, Operation Amethyst, which lead to over one hundred arrests in Ireland. When the FBI shut down the pornographic Internet site of Thomas and Janice Reidy in the USA, they acquired a customer list of over 60,000 users, including a number of Irish customers. Much of the downloaded material was of a paedophile nature. This led to one of the Garda Siochana�s biggest investigations, Operation Amethyst, which began in May 2002, and resulted in some 86 searches and a number of investigations into others with membership to the site. Those charged and found guilty included chef Tim Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School, Francis Daams, Kevin Hunt, Robert Lee, and Paul McDaid. Implicated also was Chief Justice Brian Curtin, whose trial collapsed in the Circuit Court due to an invalid warrant which subsequently led to the establishment of an Oireachtas Committee to review the case, and a series of controversial events including the retirement of the Judge with a full pension.