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* DrivenToSuicide: A former member of the Polaris V expedition jumps off a building after making a phone call to Annika. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he told Sarah's daughters the truth about her death and the coverup, as well as giving them her bloody sweater as evidence. In his phone call to Annika he (falsely) claims he left this evidence in the ruins of the Polaris V, so she'll be haunted by the fear that it may be recovered some day.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
** A former member of the Polaris V expedition jumps off a building after making a phone call to Annika. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he told Sarah's daughters the truth about her death and the coverup, as well as giving them her bloody sweater as evidence. In his phone call to Annika he (falsely) claims he left this evidence in the ruins of the Polaris V, so she'll be haunted by the fear that it may be recovered some day.]]
** [[spoiler:Arthur tries to hang himself, but Johan stops him because he wants to see him tried for murder.]]
** A former member of the Polaris V expedition jumps off a building after making a phone call to Annika. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he told Sarah's daughters the truth about her death and the coverup, as well as giving them her bloody sweater as evidence. In his phone call to Annika he (falsely) claims he left this evidence in the ruins of the Polaris V, so she'll be haunted by the fear that it may be recovered some day.]]
** [[spoiler:Arthur tries to hang himself, but Johan stops him because he wants to see him tried for murder.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being this--being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
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** [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
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** [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying setting the base, base on fire, making her death look like an accident]].
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: The premise of the series. Someone from among the winter crew of Polaris VI is picking off the others one by one.
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* SpaceIsolationHorror: Polar T3 Syndrome.
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* DeathbedConfession: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made a phone call saying he's hidden evidence of the murder in the ruins of Polaris V, where it will be preserved in the ice [[ParanoiaFuel so there's always the possibility it will be recovered one day]]. Turns out he gave them the evidence as well.]]
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* DeathbedConfession: DrivenToSuicide: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made former member of the Polaris V expedition jumps off a building after making a phone call saying he's hidden to Annika. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he told Sarah's daughters the truth about her death and the coverup, as well as giving them her bloody sweater as evidence. In his phone call to Annika he (falsely) claims he left this evidence of the murder in the ruins of the Polaris V, where it will so she'll be preserved in haunted by the ice [[ParanoiaFuel so there's always the possibility fear that it will may be recovered one day]]. Turns out he gave them the evidence as well.some day.]]
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* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Maggie's boyfriend Aki comes across her sabotaging a Snowcat during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the people who covered up her mother's murder. He's entirely innocent of this crime, but [[YouKnowTooMuch she stabs him to death]] during a DeadlyHug while sobbing, "I'm sorry!" At the end a hallucination of Aki asks Maggie if she really is sorry. She doesn't answer.]]
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* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Maggie's boyfriend Aki comes across her sabotaging cutting a Snowcat during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against hole in the people who covered up her mother's murder. He's entirely innocent fuel line of this crime, but the Snowcat, so [[YouKnowTooMuch she stabs him to death]] during a DeadlyHug while sobbing, "I'm sorry!" At the end a hallucination of Aki asks Maggie if she really is sorry. She doesn't answer.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore the fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: JerkWithAHeartOfJerk:
** [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore the fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
** [[spoiler:As well as killing those responsible for covering up her mother's murder, Maggie also murders Aki--who had nothing to do with the crime--when he stumbles across her committing VehicularSabotage, and got a place on the expedition by killing her predecessor with a hit-and-run accident.]]
** [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore the fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
** [[spoiler:As well as killing those responsible for covering up her mother's murder, Maggie also murders Aki--who had nothing to do with the crime--when he stumbles across her committing VehicularSabotage, and got a place on the expedition by killing her predecessor with a hit-and-run accident.]]
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* StylisticSuck: In the middle of the murder investigation, there's a moment of levity when someone plays a video left on one of the victim's mobile phones, showing them making a cliched horror movie with [[BadBadActing everyone stumbling over their lines]] and hamming it up intensely.
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* StylisticSuck: In the middle of the murder investigation, there's a moment of levity when someone Johan plays a video left on one of the victim's mobile phones, showing them making a cliched horror movie with [[BadBadActing everyone stumbling over their lines]] and hamming it up intensely.
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* SelfSurgery: After the doctor gets hit by a bullet that went through the intended victim, she has to advise the others how to patch her up, using only a local anesthetic as she can't be drugged during the operation.
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* ExternalCombustion: As [[TheRadioDiesFirst the satellite radio has been sabotaged]], the only way to get help is to drive a Snowcat 270 miles in mid-winter to another station. The Snowcat is packed full of fuel cans and someone gets in and presses the ignition button twice with no effect, but the third time the Snowcat bursts into flame burning them to death. Naturally no-one thinks this was an accident.
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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:It's not revealed what Ramon's secret is that enabled Annika to coerce him into silence, but he's implied to have child porn on an encrypted cell phone. She also threatens to expose the affair of Ebba and Erik.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore that fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore that the fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Likely the reason for Ebba's affair with Erik, during the six months they spend isolated from the rest of the world, including their spouses]].
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Likely the reason for Ebba's Reference is made to an "ice wife", a woman to have an affair with Erik, during during the six months they spend isolated from the rest of the world, including their spouses]].spouses. [[spoiler:In this case Ebba's affair with Erik.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Even though she helped cover up Arthur's murder of Sarah, Johan takes comfort in the thought that his wife Annika did a RedemptionEqualsDeath by taking Sarah Jackson's bloody sweater with her in the Snowcat so it would be found--except Maggie actually planted the sweater there without her knowledge. Furthermore that fact that Annika saw Sarah being sexually harassed by Arthur just before the murder, and made no attempt to intervene, implies she brought Sarah on the expedition so she'd take the brunt of Arthur's behaviour.]]
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: In episode two, the investigation team are shown pressing several mobile phones against the fingers of each corpse until they find the right fingerprint to unlock them. The one phone this doesn't work on turns out to have high-level encryption, further adding to the mystery.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Arthur accuses Maggie of being the killer, claiming that she's only faking the amnesia from Polar T3 Syndrome. [[spoiler:When she gets on the helicopter to return home Maggie's hands stop trembling and we get a OnceMoreWithClarity reveal that she's actually the killer, though as she then hallucinates one of her victims it's left ambiguous as to whether she really did go crazy.]]
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* DeathbedConfession: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made a phone call saying he's hidden evidence of the murder in the ruins of Polaris V, where it will be preserved in the ice so there's always the possibility it will be recovered one day.]]
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* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Maggie's boyfriend Aki comes across her sabotaging a Snowcat during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the people who covered up her mother's murder. He's entirely innocent of this crime, but [[YouKnowTooMuch she stabs him to death]] during a DeadlyHug while sobbing, "I'm sorry!" At the end a hallucination of Aki asks Maggie if she really is sorry. She doesn't answer.]]
* DeathbedConfession: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made a phone call saying he's hidden evidence of the murder in the ruins of Polaris V, where it will be preserved in the ice [[ParanoiaFuel so there's always the possibility it will be recovered oneday.day]]. Turns out he gave them the evidence as well.]]
* DeathbedConfession: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made a phone call saying he's hidden evidence of the murder in the ruins of Polaris V, where it will be preserved in the ice [[ParanoiaFuel so there's always the possibility it will be recovered one
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* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]]: [[spoiler: Maggie is ultimately revealed to be Sarah Jackson's daughter, who set out to kill the Polaris crew-members who covered up her mother's murder, and expose Arthur Wilde as her murderer. Played with in that the series ends with no one finding out who she really is or what her motivations were.]]
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* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]]: [[spoiler: Maggie is ultimately revealed to be Sarah Jackson's daughter, who set out to kill the Polaris crew-members who covered up her mother's murder, and expose Arthur Wilde as her murderer. Played with in that the series ends with no one finding out who she really is or what her motivations were.]]
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* HappyFlashback: The montage of the psychological evaluation of the future winterers, given that the audience has seen them all turning on each other in mutual suspicion.
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* AirVentPassageway: One of the Winterers gets drunk and locks the others outside in the Antarctic winter. Someone has the idea of getting inside via the vent used to remove the exhaust from the emergency generator. The problem is the person concerned has to strip off their bulky winter gear down to their skivvies and, before they freeze to death, squeeze [[TongueOnTheFlagpole painfully through the ice-cold metal vent]]. Fortunately once they're through this gap they land in a service tunnel and can walk the rest of the way.
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* MysteriousAntarctica: In this case a murder-mystery, but the scifi version is lampshaded by the winterers watching ''Film/TheThing1982'' before everything goes to hell, and producing a hammy horror home video.
* TheRadioDiesFirst: The radio operator is the first murder victim, found decapitated out on the ice. When the others go to call for help, they find the satellite radio has been sabotaged and of course the radio operator was the only one with the skill to repair it.
* StylisticSuck: In the middle of the murder investigation, there's a moment of levity when someone plays a video left on one of the victim's mobile phones, showing them making a cliched horror movie with [[BadBadActing everyone stumbling over their lines]] and hamming it up intensely.
* TheRadioDiesFirst: The radio operator is the first murder victim, found decapitated out on the ice. When the others go to call for help, they find the satellite radio has been sabotaged and of course the radio operator was the only one with the skill to repair it.
* StylisticSuck: In the middle of the murder investigation, there's a moment of levity when someone plays a video left on one of the victim's mobile phones, showing them making a cliched horror movie with [[BadBadActing everyone stumbling over their lines]] and hamming it up intensely.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
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* AccidentalMurder: AccidentalMurder:
** [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
** [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
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* DeathbedConfession: A man DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:told Sarah Jackson's children what they did first, then made a phone call saying he's hidden evidence of the murder in the ruins of Polaris V, where it will be preserved in the ice so there's always the possibility it will be recovered one day.]]
* EerieArcticResearchStation: Polaris VI once the killings start, and the previous research station Polaris V, now a burnt-out and icebound wreck.
* EerieArcticResearchStation: Polaris VI once the killings start, and the previous research station Polaris V, now a burnt-out and icebound wreck.
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The series is set in an Antarctic Research station, Polaris VI. As the Antarctic winter begins, with the sun disappearing for six months, most of the staff leave while a small skeleton crew remain for the dark winter months to continue their research, under the leadership of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde. But when the winter ends, the base's summer commander Johan Berg returns to find the entire winter crew dead or missing. Among the missing is his wife Annika. To find Annika, and uncover what happened at Polaris VI and who was responsible for the killings, Johan must reply on Maggie, the traumatized young doctor who is apparently the SoleSurvivor of the crew.
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The series is set in an [[EerieArcticResearchStation Antarctic Research station, Polaris VI.VI]]. As the Antarctic winter begins, with the sun disappearing for six months, most of the staff leave while a small skeleton crew remain for the dark winter months to continue their research, under the leadership of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde. But when the winter ends, the base's summer commander Johan Berg returns to find the entire winter crew dead or missing. Among the missing is his wife Annika. To find Annika, and uncover what happened at Polaris VI and who was responsible for the killings, Johan must reply on Maggie, the traumatized young doctor who is apparently the SoleSurvivor of the crew.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: In the end, Maggie gets away with all the murders she committed at Polaris VI, blaming them on Arthur]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: UnreliableNarrator: Johan is concerned that Maggie might be this, especially when [[spoiler: Arthur Wilde is found alive and claims that Maggie was the killer]]. [[spoiler: In the end, Maggie ''does'' turn out to be this, as she ''is'' the killer. While most of her narration was true, she did lie about details like how she found Sarah Jackson's sweater, or how Aki was killed, to cover her own tracks]].
*WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
*WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: Arthur is ultimately blamed for ''all'' the murders committed on Polaris VI, with Johan and the authorities assuming he did it to cover up his years earlier AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson. In reality, the only person Arthur killed on Polaris VI was Erik, arguably in self-defense - the real murderer was Maggie, who fudged certain details of her testimony to make Arthur look guilty]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]]: [[spoiler: Maggie is ultimately revealed to be Sarah Jackson's daughter, who set out to kill the Polaris crew-members who covered up her mother's murder, and expose Arthur Wilde as her murderer. Played with in that the series ends with no one finding out who she really is or what her motivations were.]]
* [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather]]: [[spoiler: Maggie is ultimately revealed to be Sarah Jackson's daughter, who set out to kill the Polaris crew-members who covered up her mother's murder, and expose Arthur Wilde as her murderer. Played with in that the series ends with no one finding out who she really is or what her motivations were.]]
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** [[spoiler: Heather's death]] during the events on Polaris VI [[spoiler: was also this. She is hit by a random bullet fired wildly by a half-mad Erik]].
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Likely the reason for Ebba's affair with Erik, during the six months they spend isolated from the rest of the world, including their spouses]].
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
* HowWeGotHere: The series begins with Johan and the summer crew arriving at Polaris VI and discovering the killing spree that occurred there. Their interrogation of the SoleSurvivor Maggie leads into flashbacks that reveal how the events at the base unfolded.
* JobTitle: The series is titled ''The Head'', referring to the protagonist Johan's status as the head of the summer crew at Polaris VI.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: The premise of the series. Someone from among the winter crew of Polaris VI is picking off the others one by one.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Maggie is suffering from this when Johan finds her. Her gradual recovery of her memories serves as the FramingDevice for us to learn what happened at Polaris VI through flashbacks.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Likely the reason for Ebba's affair with Erik, during the six months they spend isolated from the rest of the world, including their spouses]].
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: The death of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V nearly a decade ago was due to Arthur Wilde pushing her, causing her to fatally injure her head against a table, when she refused his advances. The crew covered it up by destroying the base, making her death look like an accident]].
* HowWeGotHere: The series begins with Johan and the summer crew arriving at Polaris VI and discovering the killing spree that occurred there. Their interrogation of the SoleSurvivor Maggie leads into flashbacks that reveal how the events at the base unfolded.
* JobTitle: The series is titled ''The Head'', referring to the protagonist Johan's status as the head of the summer crew at Polaris VI.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: The premise of the series. Someone from among the winter crew of Polaris VI is picking off the others one by one.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Maggie is suffering from this when Johan finds her. Her gradual recovery of her memories serves as the FramingDevice for us to learn what happened at Polaris VI through flashbacks.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Annika sees herself as this - being willing to cover up Arthur Wilde's AccidentalMurder of Sarah Jackson at Polaris V and coercing her crew members into supporting her because she believes that their work is vital to saving the world from climate change. Though, as several crew members [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] to her, her real motivation is to protect her scientific career.]]
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''The Head'' is a 2020 English-language PsychologicalThriller MiniSeries produced by the Spanish production company The Mediapro Studio and directed by Jorge Dorado.
The series is set in an Antarctic Research station, Polaris VI. As the Antarctic winter begins, with the sun disappearing for six months, most of the staff leave while a small skeleton crew remain for the dark winter months to continue their research, under the leadership of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde. But when the winter ends, the base's summer commander Johan Berg returns to find the entire winter crew dead or missing. Among the missing is his wife Annika. To find Annika, and uncover what happened at Polaris VI and who was responsible for the killings, Johan must reply on Maggie, the traumatized young doctor who is apparently the SoleSurvivor of the crew.
!!This series provides examples of:
The series is set in an Antarctic Research station, Polaris VI. As the Antarctic winter begins, with the sun disappearing for six months, most of the staff leave while a small skeleton crew remain for the dark winter months to continue their research, under the leadership of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde. But when the winter ends, the base's summer commander Johan Berg returns to find the entire winter crew dead or missing. Among the missing is his wife Annika. To find Annika, and uncover what happened at Polaris VI and who was responsible for the killings, Johan must reply on Maggie, the traumatized young doctor who is apparently the SoleSurvivor of the crew.
!!This series provides examples of:
