Victoria Baker (Death in Paradise)

Victoria Baker (Natasha Little) is a villainess from "Erupting in Murder", the Season 6 premiere of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 5, 2017). She was a geophysicist at the Saint Marie Volcano Observatory, working alongside chief volcanologist Stephen Langham, who was also Victoria's lover of six months.
When Stephen was found dead on the Mount Esmee volcano of an apparent heart attack, Victoria appeared heartbroken along with the rest of Stephen's co-workers. But in actuality, Victoria had conspired with Stephen's two co-workers (Stephen's brother Daniel and Emer Byrne) to kill Stephen. Mayor Joseph Richards had contacted the observatory team, offering them four million dollars in exchange for moving the exclusion zone they'd set up for the volcano so he could build a new beachside hotel. Stephen vehemently refused the deal, leading to the plot to kill Stephen.
Daniel went along with Victoria's plan due to having been put in debt by his drug addiction, while Emer joined to cover up the fact that she had joined the research team by stealing the identity of her college friend. The group went about killing Stephen while he was working in his bedroom, pumping CO2 into the room until he suffocated to death. Afterwards, the evil Victoria and her cohorts transported Stephen's body to Mount Esmee, making it appear that he had died on the mountain and using Mayor Richards' arrival at the observatory to establish false alibis for themselves. Additionally, Daniel disguised himself as Stephen and appeared on the observatory's security cameras to further make it appear that Stephen had went out to the mountain and died of a heart attack.
DI Humphrey Goodman, however, was instantly suspicious of Stephen's death thanks to the group's sole mistake: they didn't put a torch in Stephen's pack when placing his body at Mount Esmee, causing him to believe he hadn't been on the mountain to spend the night observing the group's seismometer. After gathering the observatory staff and Mayor Richards together, Humphrey exposed how all of Stephen's co-workers had a hand in his murder, while revealing that Victoria had a second motive to kill Stephen: she had published his work under her name, and he was on the verge of reporting her plagiarism. After his summation, Victoria was arrested along with her conspirators and Mayor Richards (who was an accessory after the fact).
==Trivia==
*Natasha Little also appeared on New Tricks as greedy villainess Sarah Winslow.
Category:2010s
Category:Ambitious
Category:Blonde
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Glasses
Category:Greedy
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Suffocation
Category:Opportunistic Corruption
Category:Scientist
Category:Thief
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested