Paradise Season 1, Episode 5, Palace of the King of the Crowns fell on Hulu on February 11, 2025. This episode is divided into President Calbradford’s final hours, showing an attempt to uncover the truth before the murder.
It confirms that there is something on the surface that Samantha Redmond desperately tried to hide. Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) also makes his first move with Redmond to change the show’s power struggle.
Paradise Season 1 Episode 5 is almost completely submerged in a shot of the Washington monument, confirming that the above world is still abandoned. The flashback welcomes the final day of Calbradford, starting from an instant from 1997. His father, Kane Bradford, closes his dream of becoming a teacher and drives him into politics. This sets up Cal’s lifelong struggle.
There is a debate between Cal and his son Jeremy now. Jeremy calls him a participant in what led them underground, and he says he wants Cal to die along with the rest of the world. The fight pushes Cal as he begins to dig into the answer. When Kane tweets something about people being “lost in the ocean” and calls Billy a “sniper,” Cal discovers that his father knows.
Kane’s bills still have a high level of security clearance, so Cal uses it to unlock the finest files. What he finds terrorizes him. Scientists returning from the surface were executed for finding a survivor on Samantha Redmond’s orders. Cal recognizes that the outside air is breathable, but Redmond covers it to maintain control.
Paradise Season 1, Episode 5: An Attempt to Warn Jeremy’s Mixtape with Others in Cal


Already drinking a lot, Cal Bradford handles what he has learned. He knows that accessing files is illegal, so he writes down important details in his notebook. He then heads to the public library, puts on his bathrobe and asks him to make a mixtape. He labels it “for Jeremy” and knows that he may not be able to tell his son himself all.
His next move is to meet Dr. Gabriella Travi. He can’t say it loudly and loudly, so he writes on his palm: “Billie is dangerous.” This was used by Gabriella to warn Xavier in Paradise Episode 4. It’s the same method as. Cal tells her that Xavier is the only person he really trusts and urges him to work with her.
Meanwhile, he texts Jeremy and says he’s working on something important. “Is it too late to fight back?” But this never goes well, as viewers already know Redmond’s surveillance is everywhere. That same afternoon, Redmond visits California and confronts him.
He accuses her of murder. She doesn’t even try to deny it. Instead, she smirks and says, “I made it because I had to make a decision.” When Cal threatens to reveal her, she chuckles him: “I want to see what it looks like when you have b*lls, Xavier sees from afar But I don’t listen to their conversation.
Paradise Season 1, Episode 5: Billy Pace is found dead and Xavier begins a counterattack


Xavier begins to realize that something is wrong when Billy stops responding to his text. Meanwhile, at Cal’s funeral, Secret Service Agent Krys Robinson tells Xavier that Cal’s crime scene DNA samples did not reach the lab.
She suspects that Redmond had caused them to destroy them. That’s when Jane casually says she can’t reach Billy. Xavier and Jane go to his place and find him dead. Jane sheds tears right away, but that’s clearly an act.
Later, at the bar, Robinson reveals that Billy died from a fentanyl overdose. Xavier knows it’s not an accident. The Redmond tied the loose edges. Robinson raises a new problem: how do they fight back when Redmond controls everything? That’s when Xavier remembers Cal saying something about a hidden weapon in the past. Robinson grabs ideas – if there are weapons, they need to find them.
Meanwhile, Jeremy owns in sadness and drinks alone. Presley visits him and they almost kiss him, but Kane mistakes Jeremy for California. Kane’s dementia causes him to start seizing him, and at one point he becomes absent. I saw her. “It’s unclear what he means, but it appears he’s seen something important. And this episode shows Presley having a tablet of Cal hidden under her bed.
Paradise Season 1, Episode 5: Xavier’s Message to Paradise and Redmond’s Growing Threat


Xavier knows he can’t sit anymore. He goes to his neighbor Carl, who secretly owns a dog, even if pets are prohibited. Karl works in a tower that controls artificial weather systems in underground cities. Xavier reminds Carl that he has a crush on him. That is, hacking it into the system.
At the same time, Redmond is at her house, keeping an eye on things. She sees Xavier’s security footage standing outside her place and makes her bold, almost bold, moving. However, before she can focus on him, a message appears in the dome. “They are lying to you,” the whole city is watching it. It was a direct attack on Redmond and will not return now.
Paradise Season 1 Episode 5 ends with Chaos Brewing. Xavier is making his move, but Redmond has already proven that he is not hesitant to kill anyone who threatens his powers. Jeremy still doesn’t know about the mixtape, and viewers don’t know what Presley is planning on with Cal’s tablet.
The next episode of Paradise Season 1 Episode 6, “You Sought a Miracle” is scheduled to be released on Hulu on Tuesday, February 18th, 2025.
Edited by Deepali