Butterfly Brown (Death in Paradise)

Butterfly Brown (Chizzy Akudolu) is a villainess from "Murder on the Honore Express", the Season 8 premiere of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 10, 2019). She was the driver of an express bus on Saint Marie, as well as a mother of three. The episode opened with Butterfly driving a group of passengers to Honore, being horrified to find passenger Paul Raynor stabbed to death.
While Butterfly was quickly ruled out as a suspect due to her driving the bus for the entire ride, the investigation would reveal a villainous secret of hers: she was a villainous forger of government documents, including (among other things) passports and birth certificates. She operated her illegal business out of a closed down barber's shop, with DI Jack Mooney discovering that Paul had called the shop's number eleven times.
Officer JP Hooper investigated the abandoned shop and found ample evidence to Butterfly's criminal endeavors, and arrested her when she arrived at the shop and attempted to escape after seeing JP. Later on, when interrogated by Mooney alongside JP and DS Florence Cassell, Butterfly briefly attempted to accuse JP of planting evidence before confessing to her forgery business, while admitting that Paul had hired her to make him new identification documents and that they arranged to meet at the shop to take photographs. When asked why she came to the shop despite Paul being murdered, Butterfly stated that he'd arranged for someone to come pay her if he couldn't arrive and wanted her money.
When asked by Florence if her boss Harold Crane knew about her illicit dealings, Butterfly suggested that he did and used it as an excuse to pay her less than he should. Ultimately, it was revealed that Harold had recommended Butterfly to get new documents, and that the two had robbed a casino in 2003 together and hide their ill-gotten gains. However, when Paul was sent to prison, Harold had already spent all the money starting his business and buying a villa, and in the episode's events killed Paul to cover his tracks. As for Butterfly, while her fate is left unrevealed, it can be assumed she faced charges (off-screen) for forging government documents.
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Category:2010s
Category:Braided Hairstyle
Category:Brunette
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Mother
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested