This was an interesting yet "slightly infuriating" episode The main story was ok. I told my wife right away who was involved with the fires as soon as I saw her. Did not see the daughter angle. Why would the daughter need to break into someones place to get paint when it can be bought anywhere? Also, her painting skills are pretty bad that she has paint all over her hands by just holding a paint brush??
The real story here is the IVF issue. I could never understand why the writers would have Martha and Humphrey in episode 1 wanting to have a child and have Martha opening up a cafe at the same time? There is enough stress with the IVF procedure that to add another stress is a recipe for disaster.
It would have made better sense in episode 1 to just have the story of the IVF and not mention the cafe, then wanting to fulfill her dream of a cafe in episode 2 and finally opening it up in episode 3.
The reaction of Martha and Humphrey at the ends shows how different men and women think with regards to having a family.
No matter how much a man would love to have a child of his own with the woman he truly loves, if he KNOWS that they are unable to have one together he will still love her just the same if not more. He will move forward with his life accordingly. Now if he knows that she does not want to have a child with him, even though she maybe capable of doing so, then he will look at his options.
For Martha, I guess it is all or nothing? I have not seen episode 6 so am not sure where this story line will go.
I really do want to like this show. I found the 1st 3 episodes to be brilliant while episode 4 and 5 to be ok. They either split up, which means the show is ending, hich most likely won't happen. Or they come to a compromise and decide to adopt?
What made "Death in Paradise" so great was the detective and how he came to his conclusions as well as the interplay between him and his fellow staff. I would like to see more of that in season 2.