Jasmine Laymon (Death in Paradise)

Jasmine Laymon (Lashana Lynch) is the villainess of "The Perfect Murder", episode 4.06 of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate February 12, 2015). She was a member of the Isla Jonas beach volleyball team along with Shelly Kennedy, with the girls being trained by Hank Laymon, Jasmine's father. The episode's opening established Jasmine and Shelly as being set to face off with Saint Marie's team in the Inter-Island Championship finals.
Shortly afterwards, however, Shelly was found dead in the back of their team's jeep while the two teams were at a sport village practicing, with Jasmine seemingly being horrified to discover the body. DI Humphrey Goodman and Florence Cassell initially believed Shelly's murder to be linked to Jasmine having her foot injured by Saint Marie team member Alison Turner; an incident Shelly believed was intentional. When questioned, Jasmine revealed how Shelly felt about her injury and how she had attempted to talk her out of reporting Alison to the ABV (Association of Beach Volleyball).
But as revealed in the episode's climax, Shelly had discovered that Hank had been fixing matches for a profit, conspiring with Anton Burrage (Governor-Elect of Isla Jonas) in the illegal business. When Shelly found out, she told Jasmine about it, with Jasmine stating that she would confront her father and have Shelly hide in the back of the jeep to record the conversation. But in actuality, the evil Jasmine set the supposed arrangement up as a means of killing Shelly to silence her, stabbing her to death in the back of the jeep with a knife and subsequently screaming as though she had just discovered Shelly's body. To avoid suspicions, Jasmine previously put a bedsheet in the back of the jeep to make it appear that Shelly had been killed at the house.
While Jasmine's plan initially worked, the discovery of the jeep keys in the forest from where Jasmine disposed of them served as her reveal as Shelly's killer. After revealing how Jasmine had went about killing Shelly, Humphrey had Jasmine handcuffed by Officer Dwayne Myers. When Hank asked Jasmine for an explanation, Jasmine proclaimed that they would've lost everything if Shelly turned him in, while claiming that her father had taught her to "win at any cost" (an assertion Hank was quick to deny). After her confession, Jasmine was taken into custody.
==Quotes==
*"We'd have lost everything! Our money, our reputation. Win at any cost; that's what you taught me." (Jasmine telling her father why'd she killed Shelly)
Category:2010s
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