Death in Paradise: Fans despair over departure of key character

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Death in Paradise viewers had been left in tears after the BBC present aired the shock exit of a sequence common who has been known as the “heart and soul” of the present.

*Warning: spoilers for the newest episode of Death in Paradise comply with*

Officer Marlon Pryce (performed by Tahj Miles), who has been on the present for a number of years, turned a fan-favourite fixture as he went from a reformed petty thief to an achieved officer.

The sequence, which is ready in the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, focuses on British DI Neville Parker and a workforce of police fixing homicide mysteries that proceed to shake the island.

During Sunday’s episode (3 March), Marlon delivered the information that he can be leaving the island to accompany his youthful sister Jocelyn (Miai Leonie Phillip) to Kingston, Jamaica, the place she had received a scholarship.

Fans have been saying that Marlon’s departure got here “too soon”, since he had grow to be instrumental in cracking the weekly homicide mysteries on the island, and was nonetheless in the obvious early phases of his storyline.

“I don’t want Marlon to leave,” wrote one fan on X/Twitter, as one other requested: “How many of you crying at Marlon leaving?”

They added: “Someone convince Marlon to stay!”

Another fan chimed: “I don’t want to say goodbye to Marlon…easily been one of the top characters on the entire show! Shall miss him dearly.”

Marlon made his debut as a teenage delinquent who stole Sergeant JP Hooper’s (Tobi Bakare) police badge earlier than being captured. Instead of locking him up, the commissioner recruited Marlon on the Youth Offenders Police scheme and he later reformed himself and progressed right into a policing function.

At first, he was ineffective in his function however ultimately turned a key half of the mystery-solving police pressure.

Fans stated it was heartwarming to see Marlon go from a lazy schoolboy to an skilled officer who would bounce into motion and apprehend one of the island’s many murderers.

One fan concluded on the finish of the programme: “Can we take a minute to appreciate the great work that @TahjDMiles has done to turn Marlon into the heart and soul of the Saint Marie team.”

Death in Paradise airs at 9pm on BBC One each Sunday.