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Emmerdale 9th January 2026
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00:00Robert.
00:20I'm picking up Harry.
00:21Might have took him for a quad bike ride. I thought he'd be back by now.
00:24Oh.
00:25Well, if you've got time for a cuppa.
00:26Yeah.
00:27Put the kettle on.
00:30Eh, how's Cain doing?
00:37Okay.
00:39The doctors want to keep him in for another night.
00:43Eh, it could have been a lot worse.
00:46If the buckshot hit him a few centimetres either side.
00:50Well, you know, he is so lucky that you stopped him going after John.
00:55Thank you so much for that, by the way, and getting him in the ambulance.
00:58And Mac?
01:00Yeah, he's getting there.
01:02I was just saying to Caleb that, I mean, we could have lost them both.
01:07Okay.
01:08Are they going to be okay?
01:09Yeah, in time.
01:11Cain should be resting, avoiding stress.
01:15He was hoping that one day that he'd get justice for a night, but it's never going to happen now, eh?
01:22Eh, sorry.
01:24Well, we all are.
01:25All we can do is pick ourselves back up and carry on somehow.
01:30It's what we do, right?
01:32Yeah.
01:33Well, er, I'd best go check on Harry and Matty, see where they've got to get the lad home.
01:37Oh, well, what about your tea?
01:38Er, Matty can have it.
01:40Moira, listen, erm, if you need anything, just give us a call, right?
01:48Hey, look, I, I appreciate everything.
01:52It means a lot, Robert.
01:55Take care.
02:07I'm going to think about what my dad's been through.
02:11How can a human being do that to another?
02:15To you.
02:16It's been the worst few weeks of our lives.
02:18I've never been so scared.
02:20Yeah.
02:21And now the police know about Callum, and I'm going to prison.
02:24That is not going to happen.
02:25Sweetheart, the police have released you on bail.
02:27For now.
02:28DS Walsh said it's not that I've...
02:30But they know what Ray and Celia put you through.
02:33But they're still out there, Dad.
02:35And when Celia finds out that I've talked, she will go mental.
02:38Ray and his mum aren't our problem, not anymore.
02:40The whole operation's a bit blown apart.
02:42They'll be miles away by now.
02:44They won't be able to hide forever.
02:46They'll find him.
02:47The police will find him.
02:48They'll bring him home.
02:49But...
02:51The person who comes back...
02:53If he comes back...
02:54He will.
02:55You can't give up hope, Paddy.
02:57But what he's had to endure, what he's had to suffer...
03:00He...
03:01He won't...
03:02He can't be the same person.
03:04So I might have lost him anyway.
03:06I might have been in here five minutes...
03:07I'm sick of the hospital food already.
03:08Which is why...
03:09I have brought you a lovingly curated sandwich.
03:13Although Houghton General is a centre of excellence for many fields...
03:15Catering is no one of them.
03:16Wow.
03:17Brilliant.
03:18One word from you, I could be out of here today.
03:21You already know the answer to that.
03:22I'm not used to Moira in here.
03:23All this mess with Celia.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Shocking.
03:26Yeah.
03:27She was in business with the moment.
03:28She's gonna be up against it.
03:29She needs me at home.
03:30The police are gonna be asking her questions.
03:31It would be a bad idea to discharge yourself...
03:33...against medical advice.
03:34Especially when they'll probably send you home tomorrow.
03:35So what's wrong with today?
03:36Okay, your consultant has kept you in for two reasons.
03:38Firstly, to monitor your recovery from a gunshot.
03:40What's wrong with today?
03:41You're not used to be in your hospital.
03:43It's an excuse.
03:44I'm not used to Moira in here.
03:45I'm not used to Moira in here.
03:46All this mess with Celia.
03:47Yeah, shocking.
03:48Yeah.
03:49She was in business with her mum.
03:50She's gonna be up against it.
03:51She's gonna be up against it.
03:52She needs me at home.
03:53The police are gonna be asking her questions.
03:54It would be a bad idea to discharge yourself.
03:56Against medical advice.
03:57Especially when they'll probably send you home tomorrow.
03:58And then it's also to have a chance to investigate whatever this abnormality is.
04:05I'm telling you, it's not cancer.
04:09It can't be.
04:10If you're in here, they can act quickly.
04:14If these results come back and there is a tumour, it's best to be prepared.
04:19You may need to make some big decisions.
04:22Pretty fast.
04:24I know that's tough with everything going on at home, but trust me.
04:30The best place for you right now is here.
04:35Mandy!
04:37Just stay there!
04:39Yeah, but Tina's still on remand.
04:41If you come back from Ireland now, who's gonna look after the kids?
04:45Until me dad turns up, there's nothing you can do.
04:48Dylan's here.
04:49I'd better go.
04:50Yeah, I love you too.
04:51Alright.
04:52Bye.
04:53Bye-bye.
04:54How'd you get on?
04:56Uh, yeah.
04:57Okay.
04:58Dylan's corroborated a lot of what April Windsor has told us.
05:01Actually, if you've got a minute, I'd like a word about your dad.
05:04Yeah?
05:05Have you found him?
05:07Not yet, but we've searched Celia's farm and found evidence that the attic has been occupied.
05:18Um, by who? How many people?
05:21Well, the farm was abandoned when we arrived and we've not found any of the victims yet,
05:25but from what we've seen and what we know, half a dozen or more.
05:30We think they were used as forced labour on the poultry farm
05:33and then bust out to other employers as and when.
05:36But I don't understand.
05:37Why didn't me dad run?
05:38Why didn't he just ask for help?
05:42Fear.
05:43One word out of line and there'd have been reprisals.
05:47It can be a complicated relationship.
05:50Traffickers prey on the vulnerable, condition them so they fear the rest of the world.
05:54My dad was a professional wrestler.
05:58I'm afraid it might be best if you do prepare yourself for the worst.
06:03It's not unusual for traffickers to find ways to prevent their victims from talking to us.
06:09We are doing everything we can.
06:11And I really hope to find your dad safe and well.
06:15Sorry, I do have to take this.
06:17We'll be in touch.
06:19Okay?
06:20Hello?
06:22Here's yours.
06:23Now it's all out there, finally.
06:26Should be relieved.
06:29I just feel numb.
06:33I wish you'd told me.
06:35I hated having to lie to you mum, getting you to move out, but it was the only way we could keep you safe.
06:42I'd much rather have been here with you all.
06:45We've missed your mum so much.
06:48Please come back home.
06:50There's nothing I'd like more.
06:53I'll get that.
06:55Paddy, you know, he's right about Bear when he does turn up.
07:00Ray and Celia didn't think twice about Tom in and us running Dylan down.
07:05And that was in plain sight.
07:06What must they have put him through?
07:07Hi, I'd like another word with April if that's okay.
07:14I'll tell her you're here.
07:16She's already told you everything she knows.
07:18April Poppet, the police want to see you.
07:21You know, it's been a long day.
07:23Anything else, we want our solicitor present.
07:25There'll be no need for that.
07:28April.
07:30Are you here to arrest me?
07:32That's not why I'm here.
07:33Earlier today, you told me that you were led to believe you'd fatally harmed Callum Swift.
07:39Did you find his body?
07:41Well, we made some inquiries and you'll be relieved to know that Mr Swift is alive and well.
07:50So, he's not dead?
07:52He wasn't when I spoke to him half an hour ago.
07:54Oh, thank God.
07:56Once we tracked him down, we asked him to come in to answer a few questions,
07:59after which I arrested him for a number of crimes.
08:02including solicitation.
08:04And we've detained him pending further inquiries.
08:07I didn't kill him.
08:12No.
08:13Ray Walters and Celia Daniels lied to you.
08:16We've seen this pattern before.
08:18It's a tactic.
08:20A way of keeping their victims under control.
08:22That's what you are, April.
08:24That's what you are, a victim, just like all the rest of them.
08:27You've been so brave.
08:29I'm so proud of you.
08:36Oh, Paddy.
08:38Sorry it doesn't even come close.
08:41Have you had any news from the police?
08:43No, nothing.
08:44Still looking for me dad.
08:45And the others.
08:46Ray and Celia still have him.
08:48What do police reckon?
08:50Poisonous little rat, Ray.
08:52Yeah, well trust me, it's no joke when you find out that you're actually...
08:55Are you sleeping with the devil?
08:56Yeah.
08:57Just like me.
08:58Not that I did.
08:59Didn't get close enough.
09:01Sorry mate.
09:02You wouldn't even have asked her out if I pushed you into it.
09:05Well, now I know what she really is.
09:07I wish I'd never bothered.
09:09Hindsight.
09:10It's a wonderful thing.
09:11Yeah.
09:12Did you never notice anything of it?
09:15Odd.
09:16No strange messages or phone calls?
09:18No!
09:19Just like Bob didn't realise that Celia trafficked people.
09:22Paddy.
09:23I don't know what to say, are you?
09:28Same.
09:29I heard about John.
09:30I was hoping to waste another thought on him.
09:32He's gone.
09:33It's over.
09:34I'm sorry.
09:37I know you wanted justice for Nate.
09:41Yeah, well...
09:43Maybe I haven't got it.
09:45Not the way I wanted to, but...
09:47He'll pay for what he did.
09:49In hell.
09:50Listen, if there's anything you need or anything you want,
09:53you just call me, okay?
09:56And the church will be open for quiet contemplation and prayers
09:58for a bit of safe return.
10:00You're gonna tell us there's a god after all this.
10:02I appreciate these are challenging times, Jimmy.
10:05Challenging?!
10:06My granddaughter's been abused by a drug dealer
10:09along with half the family.
10:10Paddy's dad enslaved.
10:12That's before you even start on John Sugden.
10:15I can't take much more of this.
10:17Right, just try and act normal.
10:19And behave like you.
10:20Like what?
10:21Like I haven't just killed my brother?
10:22Vic.
10:23Robert will be home with Harry now, so come and go, please.
10:29I was gonna nip in and see Eve, is that alright?
10:31Course it is, you never need to ask.
10:37Mission accomplished?
10:38The one who walked in on me, but I reckon I managed to spin things.
10:41Passports?
10:43Shoved on a bookshelf in the middle of the living room.
10:47Ready to be found by whoever you've tipped off.
10:50Good man.
10:52Right, well, now I've done your dirty work, let's talk terms.
10:55Okay, I'll be up as soon as I can.
11:01Kim, I have news.
11:03You and me both.
11:05Robert, I heard about John. How are you all?
11:09Glad to see the back of him.
11:11So glad.
11:12Robert and Victoria have reconsidered their options and they have kindly agreed to sell us their share of Butler's farm.
11:20This coming from the man who swore he'd rather sell his soul than take a penny from us?
11:26I've changed my mind.
11:28Well, I made him an offer that he would be stupid to refuse.
11:31But Moira, she'll come round eventually.
11:35You still think that's an option?
11:36She'll sell.
11:38I have agreed to let Robert have tenancy.
11:42Well, I'd wanted in writing that you won't ever abuse our trust, like Celia, by using the premises to run a criminal operation.
11:51A drug cartel right under our noses. Who'd have thought?
11:54Oh, it's far worse than that.
11:58Celia and Ray have been using that filthy attic as some kind of prison dormitory for trafficked people.
12:06What?
12:07Yeah, it seems like she and her son abused illegal migrants, lost souls, street sleepers, enslaved them as forced labour.
12:16If that wasn't shocking enough, Paddy's father was one of them.
12:36There.
12:39He was enslaved.
12:41Yeah, no, the police have smashed the operation. He's still missing.
12:46Ray and Celia must have taken him with them.
12:49I've made it perfectly clear to that detective on the phone that we had no idea that this has PR disaster written all over it.
12:59So, we're supposed to police our own tenants?
13:01That's what I'll be telling the authorities. I mean, they're searching the place now. Heaven knows what they'll find.
13:09Those poor people. Locked up. Treated worse than animals. It's heartbreaking.
13:16Look, I've, er, I've got to get up there.
13:25Human trafficking.
13:27You'll tell me you didn't know about this?
13:29I'm as shocked as you are.
13:30If Moira gets found with those passports, she could go down for this.
13:34That is, setting her up for paying cash in hand, that's one thing. This, this is massive.
13:39Moira's done nothing wrong.
13:40Okay, well then, if you want to go to Moira and explain to her exactly what you stashed on her shelf, please be my guest.
13:47But do not now pretend to have grown a conscience.
13:50Move on with your life.
13:52I'll be in touch when I have a contract for you to sign.
14:00I just wanted to put April's mind at rest.
14:07And I appreciate that so much.
14:10We'll be in touch.
14:11Listen, I don't, I don't suppose you can tell me what happens from here.
14:14The kind of, the kind of charges April might still face.
14:18It's gonna take a while before we have the full picture. All I can say is, try to take it one day at a time.
14:25Take care of yourselves.
14:27Excuse me.
14:30There's, there's something you need to see.
14:36Ray.
14:37I never could stand him.
14:38Cocky.
14:39Up himself.
14:40Yeah, well, maybe he was just with me to look respectable.
14:45It's Caleb, again.
14:46I need to go and do this job, so.
14:49I'll call you later, okay?
14:50Thanks.
14:52Eve said to ask if she can have fish vickers for a tea.
14:56You two have a nice time?
14:57Yeah.
14:58She needs a little hug, that's all.
15:00Listen, Paddy, the police are on it. They're gonna find your dad soon.
15:06Do you know what the detective told me?
15:08These monsters, when they're on the run, they usually dispose of the victims.
15:14Stop them talking.
15:15Kill them.
15:17They wouldn't.
15:19Would they?
15:20Hey, Paddy, I can't tell you how sorry I am.
15:23Sorry for what?
15:25For going into business with people traffickers, so am I.
15:28You think I had any idea?
15:30How could she? None of us did.
15:32I don't think anyone's suggesting that's the case.
15:34And yet, you knew that she'd forged your signature, you knew that she was dodgy, but you never thought to ask even a few questions about what she was really up to on that farm.
15:43No, I thought she was dishonest, yes, but I never would have thought she was up to anything like this.
15:49I mean...
15:50You can't blame Moira for this.
15:52I mean, that'd be like blaming Aaron for what John did.
15:56When I think about my dad.
15:59Locked up.
16:00Humiliated and forced to work.
16:05Alright, gotta go.
16:06Paddy!
16:11Just makes me sick to think those low lives I'd bear.
16:14Working him like a dog, probably.
16:16It's just horrible.
16:18And then to find out he was this close to home all that time, he must be doing Paddy's head in.
16:21And you know what, if I ever got the chance to get my hands on that Ray or his mum...
16:26You do to them what I did to John?
16:29No.
16:30Vic, you've gotta stop doing this.
16:32How can I?
16:34You know, Harry's just asked me why Uncle Aaron was hurt in a car crash when he's such a good driver.
16:40Fair point.
16:41And he believed what I told him.
16:43Cos he trusts me.
16:45If he'd any idea what I'd done...
16:47He never will.
16:48And before, in the pub, I couldn't stand it.
16:50I'm trying so hard to look normal, but...
16:53I feel like I look different.
16:55Like everyone can tell that I'm a murderer.
16:57Vic.
16:59We've been through this.
17:01You did what you had to do.
17:02It won't look like that with the footage Joe's got.
17:05If he takes it to the police, I could lose everything.
17:08It's not gonna happen.
17:09We've got this.
17:10We've got your back.
17:12I'm so glad I've got you too.
17:14And we're going nowhere.
17:15No way.
17:16You did what you had to do to keep your family safe.
17:18And now, we're gonna do the same for you.
17:22I promise.
17:24We'll all get through this stronger.
17:26It's Ray's.
17:37I'd know it anywhere.
17:39Okay, thanks.
17:41If I could ask you to stay back, whilst we secure the scene.
17:44What's going on?
17:46It's Ray's car.
17:47He must have dumped it.
17:48What's it?
17:49DS Walsh, Emmerdale, Village Hall.
17:52I'm gonna need forensics here ASAP.
17:55Thanks.
17:56Forensics?
17:57Thanks for your help.
17:58We'll take it from here.
18:05Jay's not getting back to me with messages, so...
18:07Sorry mate, we're gonna have to pick up his work.
18:10What, by splitting myself enough?
18:11I'm already too busy as it is.
18:12Look, the Manchester client's going off his head,
18:14because he's not done that job, has he?
18:17Did you tell him there was a massive crash?
18:20Where have you been?
18:22Looking out for Laurel.
18:23You know, all this mess with Ray,
18:25she's struggling.
18:26Yeah, yeah, I know.
18:27Yeah, Charles filled me in.
18:28It's terrible.
18:29But, you know, you can look out for Laurel in your own time.
18:32The client's expecting you.
18:33You need to get over there tonight.
18:35Yeah, and I can't do it.
18:39Well, don't look at me.
18:41I mean, I didn't get home till stupid o'clock this morning.
18:44You know, I was stuck on the moors for hours waiting for them to clear that road.
18:47Yeah, yeah.
18:48Now it is clear.
18:49So, you either get in that van,
18:51drive over to Manchester,
18:52or you find yourself another job.
18:57You might want to check that all the boxes that are already in there,
18:59that they haven't shifted.
19:01Last thing that we need,
19:02complaints that stock's been damaged in transit.
19:05Right, bye.
19:07You know what?
19:08You have it your way.
19:09But I am telling you now,
19:11I am too tired.
19:13So if I have a crash on the way,
19:15we both know who's to blame.
19:19Alright.
19:21Alright.
19:22I suppose a few hours won't make much difference,
19:24but you do it tomorrow,
19:25and you set off first thing.
19:26When's Dad coming home?
19:44Tomorrow.
19:45Do you fancy a story?
19:47I'm too old for stories.
19:49Aw, not to me, you're not.
19:51Come on.
19:55Kim.
19:57Yeah, that's nice.
20:00Right.
20:03A long time ago,
20:06an evil man terrorized a whole village.
20:11The villagers were fearful,
20:14because their protector,
20:16the great king had been wounded in battle.
20:21The king was sad.
20:26He and his queen had been betrayed
20:28by people they thought they could trust.
20:33And throughout the kingdom,
20:35fear and mistrust grew.
20:39Some people called for help from unexpected allies.
20:46And other people had deep secrets.
20:49They were desperate to keep heading,
20:51because they were scared of what would happen
20:53if the truth came out.
20:56What happened next?
20:58Well...
21:01The king and the queen,
21:03they were patient.
21:06They knew all they had to do was wait.
21:09Because no matter how hard you try to hide a secret,
21:15the truth always comes out in the end.
21:19Yes.
21:21THE GE DINGERS
21:22Always comes out in the end.
21:29THE GROUND
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