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Beyond Paradise Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Thu, Feb 23, 202358 mins
Former Saint-Marie ('Death in Paradise') sleuth Humphrey literally drops from the air -rescued by the firemen from a tree at his first base-jumping attempt- in to his new position as DI in charge of the police in sleepy Devonshire port Shipton Abbott, the birth town of his fiancee, Martha Lloyd, staying with her mother, whom they still didn't tell they expect getting pregnant by IVF treatment, while Martha looks for premises to open a cafe. After offering an easy way out to incorrigible local petty thief Josh Woods, and taking no active part in the red cars theft wave which alarms the commissioner, but turns out a cheeky grand romantic gesture, his first major crime case is the mystery, dismissed by his DS Esther Williams, of local tourist junk shops mini-chain owner Gwen Tyler, who is is hospital after a bad fall in the beach-house her husband, architect Peter, built, claiming she was pushed by a seventeenth-century witch of local legend who steals children, even though security cameras recorded no one entering or leaving. Humphrey works out possible suspects and motives, including business problems, adultery, blackmail and embezzlement, all locals invited to an annual small businesses wine tasting event, plus how to enter unseen.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Fri, Mar 3, 202358 mins
Humphrey is puzzled by an empty key hook in an unlocked house from which Matthew and Laura Colbert and their two young children have disappeared, leaving an unfinished evening meal, television and lights on, and the car still in the driveway. PC Kelby is looking into a hit-and-run by gluing together his smashed only clue: the broken headlight, allowing to identify the model. Recovering from IVF failure, Martha prepares the grand opening of her tourist cafe/shop, but is denied a bank loan and Humphrey just spent his savings on a boat, yet . Martha is thrown a lifeline by local vineyard owner Archie Hughes, to whom she had been previously engaged. Humphrey misses the opening of the cafe deducing from what's missing key and a link with the hit and run victim what happened, locating the Colberts and saving lives.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Fri, Mar 10, 202358 mins
PC Kelby Hartford is installed over night to guard till the official unveiling the Solo Mare, a famous painting bought back for the manor of Louise Fitzallan by an artistic committee chaired by Humphrey's mother in law Anne Lloyd. Alas, there is a power cut and in the morning the picture is gone. Humphrey vows to prove it's not the fault of Kelby who slipped out a minute to till the power returned, the alternative being an inside job. Kelby also spotted a mystery man in an orange cap lurking before midnight, but that trail runs dark. A local organization regularly protests outside, claiming the sale is invalid as the famous painter who signed it wouldn't be the artists, but his unknown stable maid, an old matter of rivalry between their descendants. Meanwhile, Humphrey hesitantly accepts an invitation to get to know his wife Martha's ex and business partner Archie Hughes over beer, and finds they have little in common, yet get on.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Fri, Mar 24, 202357 mins
A man died of a suspected heart attack in the middle of a newly made crop circle at North Farm with no identification and the last page of the novel Great Expectations hidden in his sock. Investigations find his car 10 miles away at the site of an illegal rave with a map of North Farm. Poor Kelby has to cover even more distance by e-bike, with the battery running out. Near the farm occur many UFO sightings, allowing the owners, brother and sister Andrew and Cassie Parker, to supplement the farm's income from believers. Their estranged father had died recently in prison serving a sentence for gold bullion, never recovered after an armed robbery. Martha is worried by a food critic coming to review the cafe and confides into Humphrey, after lies to avoid their next medical appointment, she 'cannot handle' emotionally continued IVF treatment and Archie tries to rekindle their romance with a kiss. Humphrey works out the clues to the loot and homicide.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Fri, Mar 31, 202358 mins
The team untangle a puzzling arson case. Esther's friendship with the Fire Investigator helps things along.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Fri, Apr 7, 202357 mins
A house is burgled but the prime suspect was locked up in a police cell at the time. The team must solve this impossible crime.
