Death in Paradise teases character return – with potentially dangerous consequences

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Family dynamics can be complicated, as Death in Paradise‘s Mervin knows all too well.

He initially came to Saint Marie hoping to find his birth mother, Dorna, who had been adopted as a baby. Sadly, he discovered she’d been murdered a few months earlier, and he was the one who ultimately solved the case.

He was unaware he had a half-brother named Solomon, and their first meeting, after a period of uncertainty, wasn’t at all how he’d imagined it would be.

Don Gilet doesn’t believe the saying ‘two peas in a pod’ fits the characters, noting they are actually very different from each other, he shared before the start of season 15 (according to the BBC).

You know, there’s this character Mervin, and then there’s this other guy – he’s from a totally different world. He’s slowly realizing that everything he thought Solomon would be like… well, it might not be true at all. It’s a really interesting dynamic, watching him come to terms with that.

It became clear just how bad things were when Solomon stole everything from Mervin after being denied a loan by the DI. This led to a fight, and Solomon pushed Mervin into a swimming pool.

Although Solomon eventually said he was sorry and gave back Mervin’s things, things didn’t end well between them.

Even though Mervin hoped they could rebuild and create something meaningful, Solomon decided to stay away.

He hopped on a boat to Antigua to take care of some business there – and that, it seemed, was that.

But more fool us for thinking that was the end of Solomon.

In the latest episode, which aired on Friday, February 27th, Mervin learned that his mother had left her entire estate to his brother – a revelation he took in stride. However, he was upset that Solomon immediately decided to sell the house and have all its contents removed and auctioned off.

He told Naomi he wished they’d had a chance to talk things over before everything happened. He felt like it was all happening too quickly and that he deserved one last moment in the house, perhaps to take something small to remember her by.

Naomi suggested Mervin call his brother, and after thinking it over, he did. Unfortunately, it didn’t work – Solomon didn’t answer. Mervin kept feeling responsible for the rift between them.

Yet, it looks like they are about to be reunited – and in dramatic fashion.

When Naomi asked her husband, Mervin, to go to Antigua to look for Solomon, he was hesitant at first. But he ultimately took a day off work to make the trip, showing just how much this meant to him.

He wonders if the other person even wants to meet him, but tries to reassure himself by asking what the worst possible outcome could be. However, the ominous music and sudden cut to black hint that something terrible is about to occur.

Naomi was driving quickly, looking very worried, to share some important news with her coworkers.

“I think something has happened to the inspector,” she says, and she’s not wrong.

There’s this one part where Mervin looks totally out of it, tied to a chair with his hands behind his back. And you have no idea where he even is – it’s a really unsettling shot.

“What the hell’s going on?” he says, before a figure appears before him, off camera.

“You.”

Before leaving Saint Marie, Solomon seemed to accept blame, telling the detective, “I’m trouble, just like you pointed out.” He added, with no offense intended, that having a police officer nearby wasn’t helpful to him.

But is he capable of such a thing? And what is his end game?

Is there another possible explanation – and we truly hope there is – that could clear Solomon’s name and, more importantly, help them repair their relationship?

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Death in Paradise airs on Fridays at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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Abby RobinsonDrama Editor

Abby Robinson is the Drama Editor at TopMob, where she writes about TV dramas and comedies. Before that, she was a TV writer for Digital Spy and a content writer for Mumsnet. She has a degree and a postgraduate diploma in English Studies.

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2026-02-28 01:35