History Series / TheHead

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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 setting the base on fire, making her death look like an accident]].
** [[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]].

* 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]].

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: In the end, Maggie gets away with all the murders she committed at Polaris VI, blaming them on Arthur]].

* 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.]]
* 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.]]

The series is set in an [[EerieArcticResearchStation 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.

* SpaceIsolationHorror: Polar T3 Syndrome.

* [[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.]]