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Season 15 · Episode 5
Landed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 · 16:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 15, Episode 5 of Death in Paradise aired Friday, 27 February 2026 at 9pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S15E05Episode 5The play's the thing! A touring theatre company are in town for their final performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest on one of Saint Marie's pristine beaches. During a raucous drinking scene, one of the leads keels over dead after drinking from a bottle of red wine. Tests reveal that the liquid contained a lethal quantity of cyanide. But two other actors drank from the same bottle both before and after the victim and emerged unscathed. So how on earth did he, and only he, perish?Meanwhile, Mervin is informed that his half-brother Solomon is set to inherit everything from their deceased mother and promptly sell it off. Mervin is desperate to hold on to at least some sort of memento of her. The trouble is, Solomon will not return any of his calls. With time slipping away, Mervin may need to go unexpected lengths to reach his brother.
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Death in Paradise
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