Draft:Neville Parker (character)

Detective Inspector Neville Parker is a fictional character on the British crime drama television series Death in Paradise, portrayed by Ralf Little.

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DI Neville Parker is from Manchester in the UK and became the new Honore Police inspector after the departure of DI Jack Mooney. He initially hates everything on the island, and has severe allergies, his main allergy being mosquito bites. After he checked through the crime scene of his first murder case, he plans on catching another plane back to the UK, but his flight was cancelled by Commissioner Patterson. Neville moves into the shack, but in the middle of the night, he couldn't stand the mosquitoes, and checks into a hotel. After solving his first case, Neville collapses and is declared unfit to travel for a month. He moves back into the shack as the police budget wouldn't let him remain in the hotel. After solving a murder case in Episode 8, he plans on flying back home, but a talk with a blind actress about her attempt to face the challenges of her condition prompted Parker to change his mind and decide to stay as inspector permanently.

At the start of series 10 he has continued to struggle to adapt to life on the island, but the returning DS Florence Cassell helps him embrace Caribbean life more, and by the end of the series he warms to the island lifestyle and later develops feelings for Florence. He subsequently reveals to Florence how he feels at the start of Series 11, but despite Florence expressing her admiration and care for Neville, tells him she wishes to remain just friends and later leaves the island halfway through the series.

In the 2022 Christmas Special, Neville, having briefly tried online dating, meets Sophie Chambers, an English traveller also from Manchester who is staying on the island for a few weeks. The two bond and eventually begin a relationship by the start of Series 12. However, in Episode 6, Neville is arrested, and later charged, for the murder of David Cartwright, a suspect on a previous case who was found dead in his hotel room after Neville confronted him, due to Neville not having enough evidence to arrest him. Despite being eventually cleared of any wrongdoing, it's revealed that it was Sophie who was behind his framing; Sophie blames Neville for the suicide of her sister in prison, who Neville arrested and charged with murder on a case back in Manchester in 2018, and came to the island, under a fake name, to frame him as an act of revenge. Shaken by this revelation, Neville informs Commissioner Patterson that he intends to leave the island in the Series 12 finale. However, after solving the case and gaining closure after visiting Sophie in prison, he agrees to stay.

In Series 13, Neville, following encouragement from his mother and others, decides not to give up on finding a romantic partner. After briefly reuniting with his ex Zoe, Neville decides to leave Saint Marie to go travelling in order to try and find someone. However, in the series finale, Florence returns to the island after her witness protection is terminated - with her revealing to Neville that during her time away she came to realise she now felt the same way towards Neville, and as such asks to be with him. While Neville initially turns her down, after an intervention by the others, he agrees and the two depart the island together to go travelling - finally becoming a couple.