Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'Operation Antelope'?
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Hi everyone, it's Shahan here. Today we're sharing an episode from a podcast on the RQ Network, Cold Tapes. Cold Tapes is an award-winning murder mystery audio drama inspired by true crime. In this first episode, called Operation Antelope, the brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McAllister...
into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew.
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Chapter 2: Who is Andrew Fairfield and what happened to him?
Through police interviews, covert recordings and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her uncover the truth behind the murder. With the murderer still on the base, it's a race against time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice. 16 suspects, one murderer.
Can you solve it? To listen to more, you can click on the link in the description or search for Cold Tapes wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also find more information at rustyquill.com or coldtapes.com. Have fun and enjoy the episode.
DCI McAllister.
Tessa, John here.
Oh, sir.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does DCI Tessa McAllister face in the investigation?
How are things?
Oh, you know, can't complain.
How very noble of you. Everyone else does. All right, then. Won't complain. Something's come in and it's not exactly uncomplicated. Mm-hmm. I'm all ears. 33-year-old male named Andrew Fairfield, found dead a few days ago, 21st of June.
Chapter 4: How is jurisdiction handled in international cases like this?
His body was found at the bottom of a small ravine. Sorry, crevasse, apparently there is a distinction. Right. It's about a 30-minute walk away from the Antarctic base he'd been working at.
Antarctica?
Yeah, the base is called Bowers something, Bowers-Wilson.
Okay. So what's the Met got to do with it? Yeah, I'm just getting to that. Looks like orienteering was never my strongest point, but surely this one goes to the Aussie force, right?
Chapter 5: What evidence suggests Andrew's death was not an accident?
Or, wait a minute, is it the Kiwis?
No, it's a bloody jurisdictional minefield because of what's called the Antarctic Treaty. And also there's the overall politics. It was taught that the case nearly fell to the yanks because a US company operates the base. But for now, this investigation is falling under UK jurisdiction because Fairfield is a UK citizen. It seems like Antarctica itself is a kind of no man's land.
Where is Fairfield from exactly?
London.
Okay, better get my thermals out of storage then.
So this is the issue.
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Chapter 6: Who are the key players involved in the investigation?
Nobody's getting to the base and nobody's leaving that base for months. It's completely inaccessible during the winter months.
Wait a minute, 21st of June, that's their midwinter, right? Correct. Not that I'm angling for a holiday here, but I'm sure they can get a plane to land or something, right?
No planes in or out. Their engines freeze, apparently, as does the fuel.
What is there?
Yeah, this is the hard bit. The base is totally cut off for at least another three or four months.
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Chapter 7: What psychological factors are at play in the isolated community?
So the investigation is going to have to be done remotely.
Look, I'm not saying that's impossible.
Tessa, it's the only possibility, I'm afraid.
Do they have a cause of death?
Yeah, it appears to be blunt force trauma to the head.
How do we even carry out a post-mortem? Look, I'm not trying to kibosh a remote investigation, but I I just want to make sure we're covering our tracks here, John.
I appreciate that. But listen, given that we can't transport the body, any official cause of death can't be 100% confirmed at this stage.
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Chapter 8: How does the investigation proceed when the base is inaccessible?
However, the base medic has carried out a makeshift post-mortem of sorts.
Wait a minute. The base medic? That's going to be tampering with any further evidence, surely?
Under supervision. I listened to the recording just now and everything suggests that we're looking at murder here. I'll get that audio across to you shortly.
So you said he was found at the bottom of the crevasse. I mean, so how do we know he didn't fall or jump?
Well, it seems highly unlikely. His injuries don't line up with a fall. Also, he wasn't wearing all the appropriate clothing for venturing outdoors in those conditions. He had some, but these people take their get-ups seriously. The officer in charge of the base thinks it's suspicious that he was missing these layers.
OK, well, who found him?
said officer in charge, a... ..Johan Garson, along with his deputy, Matteo Lombardi. They work for a company called Keone Industries, who run the whole base. Did you say Keone? Yeah, have you heard of them?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, from my military days. I mean, not for a long time now. God, I had no idea they'd moved into Antarctic exploration.
Yeah, according to Google. Space bases, too, apparently.
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