Lexi Cunningham (Death in Paradise)

Lexi Cunningham (Michelle Ryan) is the main villainess of "The Wrong Man", episode 2.03 of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 21, 2014). She was a famous action movie actress and an old friend of Thea Holmes, her stand-in for a zombie movie.
== History ==
Lexi's backstory revealed that she and Thea were previously involved in criminal activity, with the girls even becoming involved in a mugging in which a man was killed. Thea was arrested for the crime while Lexi got away, with Lexi attending acting school while Thea struggled after her release from prison after eight years.
== Events ==
When Lexi arrived in Saint Marie to shoot a zombie apocalypse movie, she re-encountered Thea, who demanded she get her a job as her stand-in to make up for her taking the full blame for their past crime. While Lexi agreed to Thea's request, she decided to kill her friend out of a belief that Thea was a danger to her career. The evil Lexi gave Thea a chocolate box that was laced with tetrodotoxin (pufferfish poison), which she bought from the market disguised as the director's assistant, Susie Jenkins. Lexi then placed another chocolate box in the set, claiming that an admirer had given it to her while she was jogging. Lexi hid the poisoned chocolate box when Thea succumbed to the poison, doing this among other things to make it appear that Lexi was the killer's true target and that Thea's death was collateral damage.
When the DCI Humphrey Goodman and his police unit came to believe that Susie had purchased the poison, Lexi decided to kill Susie to make it look like that she committed suicide after failing to kill her. While Susie was in the shower, Lexi poisoned her glass of water with the same poison, with Lexi placing the poison in her bedside table after Susie died of the poison's effects. While Lexi's manipulations initially worked, DCI Goodman and the police were able to determine the truth and gathered the suspects, with Lexi was revealed as the true villainess. At first, Lexi tried to deny everything, until the police confronted her with the incriminating evidence that pins her to both murders - the poisoned chocolate box that was hidden in her room, which were found by Officer Dwayne Meyers. Lexi was eventually handcuffed and arrested by Dwayne for double homicide.
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