Iris Shepherd (Death in Paradise)

Iris Shepherd (Charlotte Ritchie) is a villainess of episode 8.02 of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 17, 2019). She was a herpetologist at the Saint Marie Zoo, working there along with her brothers, Xander and Dylan, and Xander's wife, Marina.
When Xander was found murdered at the zoo via a poisoned blow dart, Iris and the rest of her co-workers were considered suspects, with the investigation leading the police to rum and animal smuggler Emil Delacroix. After officers J.P. Hooper and Ruby Patterson discovered a dart gun on Emil's boat along with rare snakes, Emil confessed to his side business of smuggling animals and also revealed where he got the dart gun from: he received it from Iris, who instructed him to get rid of it.
Now suspecting Iris of having killed Xander, DI Jack Mooney and DS Florence Cassell questioned Iris, who eventually confessed to colluding with Emil by selling him snakes. Iris' backstory revealed that she had harbored immense jealousy of Xander being wealthier than her, leading her to max out eight credit cards trying to live up to her brother. As Iris further explained, Emil began lowering the price he was willing to give for snakes, with her borrowing of zoo equipment to breed more snakes resulting in Xander suspecting his sister's misdeeds.
When questioned about the dart gun, Iris vehemently denied killing Xander, revealing that she was planning to use it to tranquilize and sell Emil a monkey from the zoo for $10,000. After Xander was killed with a dart, however, Iris went about giving the gun to Emil to dispose of out of fear that the police would suspect her. Iris was ultimately proven innocent in her brother's murder, though it is left unknown if Iris was arrested for her crimes as a smuggler.
Category:2010s
Category:Brunette
Category:Conspirator
Category:Greedy
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Jealous
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Sibling
Category:Smuggler
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Would Hurt an Animal
Category:Fate: Inconclusive