Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Larrington Walker | ... | Samuel Palmer | |
Osy Ikhile | ... | Cordell Thomas | |
Danny John-Jules | ... | Officer Dwayne Myers | |
Tobi Bakare | ... | Officer J.P. Hooper | |
Joséphine Jobert | ... | DS Florence Cassell | |
Ardal O'Hanlon | ... | DI Jack Mooney | |
Adjoa Andoh | ... | Celeste Jones | |
Rosalind Eleazar | ... | Marie Gayle | |
Ralph Brown | ... | Charlie Blake | |
Ginny Holder | ... | Darlene Curtis | |
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Ram John Holder | ... | Nelson Myers |
Café owner and petty crook Eugene Jones is found dead and JP's old school-mate, bad boy Cordell Thomas, who worked for him confesses that he killed him during a fight. Jack, however, is not convinced, drawing attention to a peanut clutched in the dead man's fist. Valuables stolen from ex-con Charlie Blake are found at Eugene's house whilst Eugene's sister Celeste also had a grievance with him. Despite a confession from one of the suspects the peanut proves to be the clue to solving the murder. Written by don @ minifie-1
A very good episode from the Seventh series of Death in Paradise, I've been critical of some episodes for feeling unoriginal, and for recycling old material, this episode managed to be intriguing, clever and be very original. It felt very fresh, original ideas, a very unusual start, and a totally different, and much welcomed conclusion. For a show which is normally so light and frivolous to discuss a subject like bullying, was I thought a brave and intelligent move, for people to see that even the likes of JP's character can be bullied in his youth and conquer it head on was terrific, deeper content then we usually get on this show. Of course there was the usual fluff, DI Mooney's fish, Dwayne and Darlene's problematic, but delightful relationship. A surprise twist for Dwayne, so it'll be interesting to see what develops for him and his visitor in next week's finale. Overall the penultimate episode of Series 7 was very good indeed.