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Who uses a hurricane to cover-up a murder?
‘Death in Paradise’: S2.E7. “A Stormy Occurrence”…
A hurricane is fast approaching Saint Marie. The islanders, fearing the worst, batten down the hatches for what could be a very long night. It was only a matter of time before Death in Paradise featured a significant meteorological event of this scale.
David O’Neill’s “A Stormy Occurrence”, from a teleplay penned by James Payne, serves as the second season penultimate instalment. Televised on Tuesday, 19 Feb. 2013, with an estimated seven and a half million viewers, “A Stormy Occurrence” is a Death in Paradise episode that covers all the metaphorical bases.
“A Stormy Occurrence”, further to the series regulars, guest stars Stephen Boxer, Gemma Chan, Jo Woodcock, Mathew Horne, Ben Batt, and Lolita Chakrabarti.
Boxer, Chan, Woodcock, Horne, Batt, and Chakrabarti, bringing exceptional performances to our television screens, respectively portray Professor King, Jennifer Cheung, Amber Collins, Leo Downs, Damon Ryan, and Judy Hearst.
Detective Inspector Richard Poole, knowing very little about weather patterns and other meteorological phenomenon, underestimates the fast approaching hurricane. Poole, far more focused on catching the person responsible for skull-smashing Leo Downs to death, has other issues on his mind. A little bad weather, from his perspective, isn’t going to get in the way of a policeman carrying out his duties.
Downs, a researcher associated with Professor King’s team, had been sent to take measurements from instrument cabins that had been placed in various areas around the island.
Poole soon comes to believe, noting the oncoming hurricane, the murderer had intended his tracks be obliterated by the storm and subsequently leave no evidence of wrongdoing. The police, if the body had not been discovered before the hurricane hit, would have chalked the researcher’s death up to accidental death.
Curiously, as the team digs a little deeper, it is discovered Downs had switched island sections with his roommate Damon Ryan. Downs wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near the place he was found dead. Ryan, still not over girlfriend and colleague Amber Collins dumping him for Downs, was trying to hide his feelings.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, we find Officer Fidel Best frantically preparing for his coming sergeant examination. Best, because of Poole’s influence, continues with his studies.
Jennifer Cheung, the fourth member of the team, wasn’t respected by anyone because it was felt the only reason she got the position was her rich father’s influence.
Downs’ laptop, containing only personal videos to his widowed mother, are seemingly meaningless. Interestingly, noting a certain ability to see beyond the obvious, Poole is inspired and finds the information he needs.