Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Operation Red Circus side mission asks fans to pick three suspects from a lineup of eight. While doing this is not extremely complicated, it does require fans to collect some evidence and use it to solve a quick puzzle in CoD: Black Ops Cold War. For those players that may find themselves stuck as they work through that process, this complete walkthrough of Operation Red Circus is here to provide assistance.
As previously indicated, the first thing that fans that are trying to identify the suspects in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War need to do is collect three pieces of evidence. More specifically, players should be on the lookout for Franz Kraus's Ledger, a Cassette Tape with Activities Report, and a Wristwatch Containing Dead Drop List, and here are details on where they can be found:
- Franz Kraus's Ledger: This evidence is located in Kraus's apartment in the Brick in the Wall mission. It is in the cabinet beside the bed.
- Cassette Tape with Activities Report: Players should look for this evidence in the Echoes of a Cold War mission. It can be found on a table in the room after the zipline.
- Wristwatch Containing Dead Drop List: The final evidence can be found in various rooms in the Desperate Measures mission, with the Records Room being a common location.
With all three pieces of evidence in hand, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players are now ready to identify the suspects for Operation Red Circus, and they should begin by examining the Cassette Tape with Activities Report. This report will reveal codenames for the three suspects, and fans should write those down along with the pronouns that are used with them. This is important because the use of "he" and "she" in the Cassette Tape with Activities Report confirms the gender of each suspect.
Fans should now look at both Kraus's Ledger and the Wristwatch Containing Dead Drop List, paying special attention the cities and dates that are contained within. Players should then add these cities and dates to the details that they have already started recording for the suspects, and when that is done they will know three things about their targets in this CoD: Black Ops Cold War side mission: their gender and the dates that they were in two different cities.
Now all that is left to do is go through each potential suspect and look for those that match up perfectly with the details extracted from the evidence. Ultimately, this should allow players to confirm exactly three suspects, and they should simply mark them before starting Operation Red Circus in this brand new first-person shooter.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.