Chekhov's Skill: When she was 10 years old Alex taught Evelyn how to free herself from plastic zip ties.
In a later episode we find out that the marlin is hollow and Alex uses it to store his guns. His friends point out that marlins are not native to the area but Alex insists that it is his good luck charm. Chekhov's Gun: Alex goes to a lot of trouble to have a large stuffed marlin hanging in the gift shop.Action Girl: Kai is dedicated to her job as a police officer and definitely able to throw down with anyone who test her.It is then subverted when it is revealed that the building is built solid enough to withstand the area's frequent monsoon storms. It takes Alex quite some time to fix it up enough that it can be opened up as a business again. In the present, the gift shop is in a serious need of repair and the furniture is falling apart. The Alleged House: Alex did see the gift shop before he bought it but it was fifteen years ago.Later, after hearing that Alex was rushed to the hospital after a stroke, Kai, Ernesto and Ike all went there to check up on him - showing just how much of a close friend and ally-slash-asset Walker is to them, whom they cannot afford to lose. Kai herself got busted this way, in the second episode, simply because the person whom she and Alex were trying to intercept immediately identified her as not the person he was supposed to meet, all because she was obviously native to the island. And it also helps that he's a non-Asian since it allows him to better conduct sting operations on their behalf, more convincingly than any Mactan local, when getting up front with foreign criminals. The Ace: Prior to them discovering the presence of Alex in Mactan, and him occasionally lending his aid, it was apparent that the local police department had little luck at countering the island's criminal element in the first episode, he practically awes them (and right in the middle of Kai's presentation, no less) with his in-depth knowledge of how drugs are made in and moved from one country or hemisphere to the next without the presiding authorities being the wiser, along with naming to them the most likely culprit factions orchestrating such stock-in-trade.
From there, Alex does lend a hand to his new friends in the MPD by using his law enforcement experience while trying to ensure that he pays the bills in Paradise (mostly for rent and other utilities that he may encounter in the hotel) and attends to the needs of the hotel's guests. While Alex is content to start all over (and while just leaving his only daughter Evelyn to attend her university studies in America), he ruins a Mactan Police-led undercover op. Once the DEAs most resourceful undercover operative, the combination of his partners betrayal in a joint operation with the Spanish National Police in Barcelona and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has made him decide to leave the agency and live in Cebu as an expat, where he's employed by Paradise, note The actual shooting location is the Shangri-La Hotel Mactan a resort hotel located in Mactan. While the language used is English, there are subtitles for non-English languages, including Tagalog.Īlex Walker (Kane), a former DEA agent who was forced into early retirement.
It's schedule to air 10 episodes on WGN America and it's available via Amazon Prime. Almost Paradise is a 2020 Detective Drama show executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on The Librarians together) and staring another Librarians alum, Christian Kane, as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on Leverage) alongside a bunch of Philippine-based actors/actresses due to the show being co-produced by ABS-CBN and Electric Entertainment.