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Detective Inspector Poole is slowing adjusting to the island, his staff, in particular, Detective Sergeant Bordey, when his second case is literally put in front of him; a bride falling from a hotel balcony, shot dead with a underwater spear gun. The story is definitely believable, well played out by all the actors, and is a mystery who-done-it, until Poole has his epiphany solving the murder. Details are provided by the deduction of the only person on the lift with the means, motive and opportunity, but these details are the elimination of all suspects. Poole builds his inevitable chart of suspects, including someone not on the lift when the tragic event occurred. Poole points out later in the episode, if it weren't for the second murder of the maid by strangulation, the first crime might never have been solved.

The story focus is on the bride being shot with a spear gun on her wedding day and falling to the ground stories below after she received the fatal blow. We learn late in the story the focus was distracting from the true motive, which the killer had the means and opportunity to strike at the perfect time, although accidently, at first. The Poole epiphany comes when observing the island sun, the elimination of most suspects due to motive and realizing the focus shift after the maid was strangulated.

Watch Poole go through the paces using his superior skills of reasoning, thinking outside the obvious, and plunging after the actual killer, making him give away his traits at the close with an assist from DS Bordey.

The step mom says that she screamed when she saw the body laying there. But earlier when you hear her screaming and look the body is falling. Plus if she fell at that time she was shot and the mother screamed then how did the butler get back so quickly. The timing seems off.

If "Arriving in Paradise" was good, but not impressive for me, then to my surprise the second episode- "Wicked Wedding Night"- was a much better entry than the previous one. It's more mystery focused, which for me is always a plus and has a great cast.

So let's start with good, because I really enjoyed this one .

. The production values are as usual great "Wicked Wedding Night" is well- shot and the music fits the Caribbean setting. The acting is overall strong as well. Frances Barber is enjoyable like most of the cast, unfortunately she doesn't have a huge part in the story. Robert Pugh though steales every scene he's in and is quite captivating as a father, who loses his daughter.

. The mystery is also much stronger this time around with great twists, turns, red herrings and a solution (the motive for the murder is nothing but love), which was very satisfying. The jokes mostly land as well.

But...

. There are moments, where the humor doesn't work and comes off cheezy. The aspect of Ben Miller's character wanting to make Caribbean tea into an English one, wasn't that clever of a joke and felt rather corny in the execution.

Overally though, a very good episode.

8,5/10 HK