The Peru Two | Partners in Crime | 1
British Scandal
Wondery
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Michaella and Melissa are just two young women on holiday in Peru. Or that’s what they want you to think. In reality, they’ve been recruited to smuggle £1.5 million worth of cocaine into Europe. And they’re woefully unprepared. In this four-part series, Matt Forde and Alice Levine learn how a chance meeting with a bronzed stranger in Ibiza brought the girls together for a haphazard mission that would see them forever dubbed ‘The Peru Two’.
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| 0:00.0 | 1st. |
| 0:06.0 | Alice, one of the things I love about life is I always think that you could make a new friend and I think it's just happened. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, that's nice. Who? Where? What? |
| 0:16.0 | Just a woman I met in a bar. She just seemed to get me and we've really hit it off so |
| 0:20.0 | she took my number. |
| 0:22.0 | Sure, nice. okay, great. |
| 0:25.0 | And my phone? |
| 0:26.0 | Right, your phone. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, and bank statements and like council tax forms and stuff. |
| 0:33.0 | Sorry, she took all that. |
| 0:35.0 | So maybe I'm being a bit cynical, but I don't know why she needs all that stuff. |
| 0:39.0 | Well, she's a mate. |
| 0:40.0 | What's the name? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm not allowed to tell you. |
| 0:42.0 | You're not allowed to tell me her name? I'm not even sure I got it myself, but the crucial thing is I'm not really supposed to talk about it and I'm definitely not supposed to call the police. |
| 0:51.0 | Why would you call the police? Well,'m not going to need to am I but |
| 0:55.0 | it's been made pretty clear to me that if I do my family are in trouble. |
| 1:07.0 | August the 6th, 2013, Jorge Chavez International Airport. Michaela McCallum strides out of the ladies lose, her stomach gurgling, her palms sweating. |
| 1:17.0 | Her left eyelid will not stop twitching. |
| 1:21.0 | Her travel companion, Melissa, is standing in the check-in queue. |
| 1:26.0 | Michaela fixes her eyes on her and walks dead ahead. |
| 1:30.6 | Her bag should be gliding over the glossy concourse floor, but it feels heavy. |
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