In the latest episode of Dᴇᴀᴛʜ in Paradise, the soon-to-be-ex-commissioner’s hopes of keeping his job were firmly extinguished when the petition to save his role, launched by Catherine and Sebastian, failed to changed his boss’s mind.
The campaign had passed the 10,000 mark, and Catherine had even travelled to Jamaica, wearing her mayoral hat, to meet with the chief commissioner and argue in her dear friend’s favour, but his mind was firmly made up.
“I feel like an idiot,” sighed Catherine.
But after initially berating her efforts to save him from being put out to pasture – “How many times do I have to say it? This will be embarrassing for both of us” – he later thanked her for all that she’d done.
“It was a valiant effort, one which I’m grateful for,” he said, before once again asking her to let the situation lie.
“That ship has very much sailed and I need to accept it, as do you,” he added.
Selwyn also apologised to his team for being “narky” after being told his time on the force was drawing to a close, and thanked them for their efforts.
And with Selwyn set to leave office in less than a week, the powers that be have selected his replacement.
“Has Selwyn told you about what’s happening?” says Catherine in the teaser for next week’s episode, before going on to inform Mervin and co that said replacement will be visiting to introduce himself and get the lay of the land.
“Such a cute little place you got going on,” the newcomer says to Selwyn without attempting to hide his disrespect.
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Don Warrington as Selwyn. Red Planet Pictures/Philippe Virapin
“It’s very distressing. His life is being turned upside down, but he has to deal with the reality, it’s beyond his control,” Don Warrington previously said of his character’s predicament in an interview with Radio Times magazine.
When it was put to him that fans of the show simply couldn’t imagine the murder mystery series without Selwyn, who has been there from the very first episode, he said: “Well, who knows? Anything can happen in this life.”
And naturally, he also refused to talk about filming the show’s 15th season to preserve the mystery of the ongoing storyline, which means you’ll have to wait ever so patiently (three episodes, to be precise) to find out his fate.
