Beyond Paradise episode guide · Season 2, Episode 4

Beyond Paradise Series 2, Episode 4

Coastal Clues case description: The priest and the Devil on the Rocks

The disappearance of a priest draws the team into a local story with a forbidding name and several competing interpretations.

  • 12 April 2024
  • Spoiler-safe
Last verified 28 August 2026
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Spoiler-safe: the culprit, solution and final deduction stay hidden.

The case in focus

The case plays rational police work against a story that already has a life in the community. Its pleasure lies in seeing which apparently uncanny details are evidence, which are atmosphere and which assumptions the legend encourages.

Episode-specific notes

  • This is regular episode 4 of Series 2.
  • Looe and the featured filming locations are in Cornwall; on screen they represent Shipton Abbott, a fictional town described as being in Devon.

Beyond Paradise Series 2 Episode 4 cast

Who is in Beyond Paradise Series 2, Episode 4 (also listed as Season 2, Episode 4)? The guest cast is below, followed by the regular Shipton Abbott team.

Table 1: information for Series 2, Episode 4
Guest starRole
David OlaniregunRoddy
Emma FieldingMarion Goddard
Joe BarnesFather Michael
Kat DulferMarie
Liz CrowtherPenny
Malcolm StorryOld Harry
Melina SinadinouZoe Williams
Nicholas WoodesonFather Brian
Peter DavisonRichard Baxter
Continuing cast (6)
Guest cast (9)

Filming-location context

These are relevant production-area guides; they do not claim that every scene used each place.

Episode facts, production credits and sources
Table 2: information for Series 2, Episode 4
SeriesSeries 2
Episode4 of 6
First UK broadcast12 April 2024
Runtime58 minutes
WriterIan Jarvis
DirectorSandy Johnson
ProducerLindsay Hughes

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