Sylvie Baptiste (Death in Paradise)

Sylvie Baptiste (Angela Wynter) is a villainess from "The Secret of the Flame Tree", episode 6.02 of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 12, 2017). She was a popular author, with her novel The Flame Tree becoming her most well-known and acclaimed. Sylvie was also the guest of honor at the Saint Marie Literary Festival, during which time university student Esther Monroe was found dead in what appeared to be a suicide.
Over the course of the investigation, a revelation nwas made regarding The Flame Tree: Sylvie's sister, Lizzie, was the book's true author, with Sylvie publishing the novel under her own name after Lizzie suffered a mental breakdown and was left with no memory of the novel. When Esther arrived in Saint Marie and began uncovering the truth about The Flame Tree for her thesis, Sylvie attempted to bribe her into silence, only for Esther to refuse her deal.
Sylvie was questioned by DI Humphrey Goodman and Florence Cassell after uncovering how she'd stolen Lizzie's novel, during which time they had the police search her home. Humphrey also revealed that he'd learned how Sylvie's original works had been rejected by numerous publishers, likely explaining her theft. Sylvie eventually confessed to stealing Lizzie's work, claiming that Lizzie wouldn't do anything with The Flame Tree and didn't deserve to, while showing callous disregard for her sister's mental instability. Soon after her confession, it was uncovered that Sylvie had stolen Esther's laptop to prevent her from finishing the thesis exposing her as a deceitful plagiarist, with Sylvie revealing that she'd had her assistant/editor Patricia Lawrence steal it for her.
Humphrey then insinuated that Sylvie had later killed Esther to stop her from exposing her fraud, but Sylvie adamantly proclaimed that, while she was a selfish fraud, she was not a murderer. After Patricia was revealed as Esther's killer (much to Sylvie's shock) and arrested, Sylvie went to Humphrey and Florence and stated she wanted to form a scholarship in Esther's name, only for Florence to reveal that Esther's PhD was reward to her posthumously and that The Flame Tree would now be recognized as Lizzie's novel.
==Quotes==
*"Lizzie would never have done anything with it. She never worked at it. She didn't deserve it! She would write things and forget them, like a child. I was the one who took things seriously. I was the one who gave it to the world!" (Sylvie's callous admission to stealing her sister's novel)
Category:2010s
Category:Ambitious
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Opportunistic Corruption
Category:Sibling
Category:Thief
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Humiliated