Death in Paradise

In the name of Sivis Lau

I command the Spirit Bondeah speak to me!

There's truth in the bones.

Ki moun ki la?

He's coming!

A scarred man,

and Kisa ou vle?

No! He's a killer. He's killed before!

He will silence me!

Aksion tch kont la lawa!

Assassin!

I am to be murdered! I'm to be murdered.

I understand.

No-one is to touch anything.

I want the room locked until we get there.

Have we got any ice cubes? Sir? To go in front of the fans.

They're just pushing warm air around.

We should go. Yep, good, good.

What's going on? A body's been found.

Where? Notre Dame School.

The school's closed, but I've left a message for the headmaster.

Where is he? I don't know. He must have gone out.

Signs of rictus,

blood around the lips.

She's been poisoned.

I'm to be murdered. I'm... to be murdered.

Dr Hudson, my old school science teacher.

The years have improved him if anything.

So what was she drinking?

Rum. So what's an old lady doing drinking rum in a school classroom?

Who was she drinking with? And where's the bottle?

If Mr Dunham hasn't changed, there might be one here.

Mr Dunham? The school headmaster.

He used to take a quick shot while we were writing.

He thought we didn't see him. Here it is.

You went to this school?

Yes, If you want to commit the perfect murder,

can't do better than a school science lab.

Poisons in that cupboard there and reference

books and equipment here for mixing up recipes.

That's how you spent time at school, is it?

Planning the perfect murder?

Quite right too. So, what happened here?

She was murdered. Well, you can have a point

for stating the blindingly obvious, Dwayne,

but to bring someone to justice, we may need a little more.

She was murdered by a scarred man who's killed before and wanted to silence her.

Voodoo? She said it, chief. I swear.

Last night? After you'd been drinking?

I wasn't the only one there. She said she'd

be murdered and that she saw it in the bones.

Well, that would be a first.

A victim that actually predicted her own murder.

Well, you know, there's more to life than life.

That doesn't even mean anything.

Did she say anything else?

Just what I told you. That she'd be killed by a scarred man?

Would someone tell me what's going on?

I'm Nicholas Dunham, the headmaster here.

Good morning, Fidel.

Good morning, sir.

Angelique Morel. She was... is my mother-in-law. I'm widowed now.

Do we know how she died? Well, we're really just beginning...

She's been poisoned. What?

Is this your rum? It's usually in my desk drawer.

Did you drink any of it with Angelique this morning?

Don't be absurd. Well, it seems she was drinking with someone.

Well, she came to see me earlier, we talked briefly and then I left.

And when I did, that bottle was most definitely still in my desk.

Sir? Yes?

No, sorry, sir, not you, sir, but that sir, sir. Yes?

This glass, I can smell almonds.

Do you keep cyanide in your poisons cupboard?

Yes, but all dangerous chemicals and

poisons are kept under lock and key here,

away from the children.

How many keys are there? Just the one.

Mine.

So as you'll see, all the chemicals are here.

And yes. Here's the cyanide.

Don't touch! Dwayne,

bag this bottle of cyanide, would you? Sir.

There's no way she could have been poisoned with that cyanide.

Well, let's find out, shall we?

After all, this is a school science lab. You're a scientist.

I'm sure you've heard of the Prussian blue test.

Of course.

Then perhaps you could find me the necessary chemicals.

Prussian blue is a colour discovered in the 18th

century, and you only get it when you mix three...

Who else has been in school today? Molly Kerr, my secretary,

Tom Hilton, the, the school handyman, and Father Charles Dean.

We first add iron sulphate...

And who discovered the body? Father Charles.

We'll need to talk to them all.

Of course. Because if there's any cyanide

present, once we add the nitric acid...

the liquid will turn...

Prussian blue. There was cyanide in this glass, headmaster.

Any idea how that might have happened?

Angelique just wanted to borrow some books from me.

Something to do with herbal remedies.

Did you know she practised voodoo?

Yes, well, we, we rarely discussed it, this

is a Roman Catholic school, after all.

How long did you talk to her for? Ten minutes, no longer.

Then I left her to it and went off to run some errands.

You left her alone in your classroom?

Well, I didn't know she was about to be murdered, did I?

And, these errands? What were they?

Well, I went to buy some fruit from the market.

And did you?

Well, I'd just arrived there when I got Molly's message to come back.

Isn't that right, Miss Kerr? Yes.

Molly Kerr. Sorry,

I've been the secretary for 20 years.

Did you see Angelique at all today, Miss Kerr?

Yes, I let her in.

I took her straight to the headmaster's classroom, just as she requested.

Then I went to the office.

Which is where I was 20 minutes later.

When Father Charles came to tell me he'd found her body.

So that's when I rang for an ambulance and called the police.

I hope I did the right thing. No, that's a very thorough account.

Thank you.

So Angelique arrived just after 10.30.

The headmaster said he'd left her by 10.45

and she was found dead by 11.

It has to be the headmaster.

He's got a scar. Don't do this.

But the prophecy... All right, that's enough!

No-one is to mention this prophecy again. We're detectives,

we deal in physical evidence and forensic science,

we do not stick pins into dolls and dance naked around a camp fire.

That I'd like to see. Not going to happen.

But it came true. No, it didn't!

The reason she's dead will contain means, motive and opportunity,

will have a killer who wanted her dead

and it will contain scientific fact and evidence

that will conform to known precedents.

It will not, I repeat not have anything to do with spirits or crystal balls.

Is that perfectly understood? Nobody, and I

mean nobody, is to mention that word again.

Which word? Voodoo.

You can't come here and dismiss a whole religion.

Creole beliefs have been part of the island for hundreds of years.

So were cholera and and the French,

but you managed to get rid of them in the end.

I'm half French. There's no such thing as half French.

I want full statements detailing where everybody

was between 10.30 and 11.30 this morning.

The headmaster said he went to market, find out if anybody saw him.

What about Father Charles?

He found the body? No.

First I want to see what kind of woman predicts her own murder.

That's not strictly correct procedure.

Never had you down as a stickler, Camille.

Definitely the headmaster.

Hell, yes.

The headmaster has a link to the victim,

he has access to the poison cupboard.

It was his room, and he seems to be the only one with the opportunity.

Exactly, it's too easy.

That's what this is about, isn't it?

You don't like things to be easy, do you?

You want them to be difficult so we can all see how brilliant you are.

When even the murder victim gives me a description of the killer

and all the evidence also points at him, I feel like I'm being manipulated.

So you ignore the truth? I don't know what the truth is yet.

Nicholas Dunham is a killer.

You can't possibly know that.

Well, I do. How?

Intuition. Great.

Why don't we just go the whole hog, you know,

I'll take my clothes off, you light the fire!

He's English.

Good grief. Yeah.

Is that a lizard?

Don't get any ideas.

Was that your stomach?

Why would Angelique go to the school for a book on herbal remedies

when she's got her own library?

This must be Angelique's daughter, Delilah.

Nicholas's dead wife.

These are pretty hardcore.

It's so sad.

Camille...

If she hated Nicholas Dunham enough to burn his photograph...

Then why stop by for a chat? Exactly.

Then we need to talk to him again.

No. Now we talk to Father Charles. He found the body, Camille.

It's correct procedure, you'll appreciate that.

I'll come with you. No, you stay here and process the evidence.

And make a start lifting the fingerprints.

I'll go down to the market

and see if anyone remembers seeing the headmaster.

Then I suppose I'd better get after Tom Hilton.

Why do I always have to stay here while you have fun?

Because I'm the only person round here that looks this cool on a bike.

And there's no-one better at processing evidence than you.