The WORST episodes of Return to Paradise (2024)

Every episode of Return to Paradise (2024) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Return to Paradise (2024)!

DI Mackenzie Clarke was meant to be back in the UK, living the life she's always wanted. Instead, she's still in Dolphin Cove. Lucky for Mack, her compulsion to solve impossible cases serves as a great distraction.

Last Updated: 3/31/2026Network: ABC TVStatus: Continuing

7.02

66 votes

#1 - Chapter One: Murder

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2025

A crime writer is found stabbed to death in his villa after announcing his controversial comeback book at a literary festival, but all of the suspects were on stage at the time of the murder.

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7.08

72 votes

#2 - Death Trip

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/2025

A CEO is poisoned during a spiritual ceremony at a corporate retreat, but the killer's method defies explanation.

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7.08

106 votes

#3 - Killer Climate

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2024

When a radical eco-activist is murdered, Mackenzie and her team must figure out how the victim was killed when the suspects were chained together, unable to reach the victim.

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7.09

70 votes

#4 - Killer Set

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/2025

A rock star is murdered in a locked theatre, forcing Mack to uncover the truth hidden in the band’s decades-old history.

7.16

113 votes

#5 - Dead Last

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2024

A famous wellness influencer drops dead in the middle of a packed fun run, so DI Mackenzie Clarke finds herself delving into the world of wellness to solve the murder.

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7.19

63 votes

#6 - Til Death Do Us Part

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/2025

"Mack interrupts Glenn and Daisy's wedding when an uninvited guest collapses, poisoned by a seemingly random wedding program. But by halting the wedding, has she finally pushed Glenn too far?

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7.21

131 votes

#7 - R.I.P. Tide

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2024

When Dolphin Cove local royalty Stuart Granger washes ashore with a knife in his back in the middle of a surf carnival, recently returned ex-pat DI Mackenzie Clarke is thrust onto the case.

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7.23

78 votes

#8 - Apex Predator

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2025

A scientist working at a shark research lab is found dead on a runaway boat. Mack suspects the death is a meticulously planned murder.

Directors: Tenika Smith

Writer: Peter Mattessi

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7.33

69 votes

#9 - Checking Out

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/2025

When Colin's friends visit from England, one of them wakes up to find a stranger's corpse in his locked motel room, with no sign of how the killer got out.

7.35

96 votes

#10 - Dead Bowl

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2024

A tense game of lawn bowls turns to chaos when a player is killed on the green in broad daylight by an antique ornamental bushranger's gun. Is the ghost of Bushranger Bill haunting Dolphin Cove?

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7.36

107 votes

#11 - Curl Up and Dye

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/2024

Three hairdressers return from lunch to find their boss, Bianca Bailey, has been killed. The method is strangulation, but the murder weapon remains a mystery that Mackenzie is determined to untangle.

7.46

107 votes

#12 - Oh Mine Papa

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/2024

When crabby Vince Ogden is found dead in his locked bedsit, it’s up to Mackenzie to shine a light on the truth of his murder.