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Emmerdale - Season 55 - Episode 12: Monday 19Th January 2026
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00:00I have no
00:29idea how Ray's body
00:32ended up in the back of my van, but I know
00:34for a fact that it wasn't
00:36me that put him there. Who do you think did that?
00:38I don't know.
00:41Your guess is as good
00:42as mine.
00:44But it has to be someone from
00:46round here. Get that into your head!
00:48And someone with a good reason
00:50to want Ray dead.
00:53They'll have made a mistake somewhere along the way.
00:57It's only a matter
00:58of time until the truth comes out.
00:59You don't deserve love.
01:14You don't deserve forgiveness.
01:16You deserve
01:17what's coming to you, and it's gonna be brutal.
01:20And it's gonna hurt.
01:23Just like you've hurt so many yourself.
01:26Are you dealing drugs? Are you dealing drugs?
01:50What?
01:51Is Ray getting you to deal drugs?
01:52No.
01:53Mum, I'm not doing anything.
01:55No, no, you can tell me, okay?
01:56Mum, it's me.
01:57It's me. I wouldn't do that.
01:59Mum, it's me.
02:01Yeah, I'm okay. I'm sorry, love.
02:02I'm sorry.
02:06It's just Dylan's...
02:08said that Ray's been making him
02:10and able to deal drugs.
02:11What?
02:11I know, it sounds crazy.
02:15Ray!
02:17I don't...
02:18I don't believe it.
02:24But do you?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah.
02:30Yeah, Dylan was, um...
02:32he was truly worried
02:33about me and about us
02:35and about letting Ray into our lies.
02:39I will never let Ray
02:40in this house again.
02:43Ever.
02:43I promise.
02:46You...
02:46You've got to go to work.
02:47You'll be late.
02:48Go, go, go.
02:49Go.
02:49People like you don't deserve a life.
03:02You have no idea
03:03what I have done for us.
03:05There is no us, okay?
03:06Whatever we had is over.
03:08Get that into your head!
03:11Laurel!
03:12Please, Laurel, don't do this!
03:15Laurel!
03:18Laurel!
03:19Please!
03:26Laurel!
03:28Please, just open the door, please!
03:30Laurel!
03:41Come on, come on, come on, come on.
03:42Come on, come on, come on.
03:43Come on, come on, come on.
03:45Go on!
03:46You're firing the police on me?
03:48No, no, no, no.
03:49No, just as a friend.
03:50It's Nicola, actually.
03:51Oh, sorry.
03:53Can you go?
03:54I will.
03:56I will, just not yet.
03:58I don't want you here.
03:59Oh.
04:03Laurel!
04:03I can't leave it this way.
04:07I can't leave it this way.
04:07You mean too much to me.
04:10Can you just hear me out, please?
04:13Please.
04:17One cup, too?
04:19Yeah?
04:20Yeah.
04:21Yeah, okay.
04:22Um, we'll go to the cafe, yeah?
04:23No, no, no, here's better.
04:24I don't want anyone sticking hand images in.
04:26Okay.
04:27Oh, can I just have my phone, though, Ray, please?
04:30Yes, of course.
04:31After we've talked.
04:33Sit down.
04:36Oh.
04:40Teapot.
04:42Oh, I like how you still use it.
04:44My, um...
04:45My granddad would only have his tea from a pot.
04:52Yeah.
04:54So, uh...
04:56What did Dylan tell you exactly?
05:02That, uh, you...
05:05use him and April to, uh...
05:09that you...
05:10you make them deal drugs.
05:12Please don't lie to me.
05:16Please don't lie to me anymore, please.
05:20I won't.
05:23Uh, yeah.
05:25It's true.
05:28I am a...
05:31a drug dealer.
05:33Oh!
05:37I'm sorry I never told you before, but...
05:39it's not something we advertise, is it?
05:44And would you have even looked at me
05:45if you knew?
05:49Of course not.
05:49I have lived
05:54a dodgy life, Laura.
05:57I've done a...
05:59I've done a lot of
06:01bad things.
06:03Not because I
06:04wanted to,
06:05not for fun,
06:06but because I had to.
06:08Law of the jungle,
06:10get
06:10or be got.
06:11I live my life by it.
06:12I hated it.
06:15I hated myself
06:16for it.
06:17And then...
06:19then I met you.
06:23It sounds barmy, doesn't it?
06:25I think you saw something in me
06:26that I was worthy
06:28of an ordinary life.
06:30One with...
06:31with kids
06:33and a home.
06:35And for the first time
06:36I could see a future.
06:39A future where I could be the real me.
06:41The real you?
06:42Hmm.
06:42You're a monster.
06:47Stop calling me that.
06:49Yeah.
06:50You terrorise
06:51vulnerable children.
06:52Oh.
06:53Children.
06:54Never.
06:55Oh, come on.
06:56April and Dylan,
06:57they are teenagers.
06:59Oh.
07:01I was ten
07:02when I sold my first bag of heroin.
07:04And don't you sit there
07:06judging me.
07:08Because you don't know
07:09what it's like to be alone,
07:10to be properly alone
07:12with no-one to look out for you,
07:14to care for you.
07:15I know what that's like.
07:16I have known since I was eight.
07:22I'm sorry.
07:24Told you about my grandad,
07:25didn't I?
07:26Oh, um...
07:27Yeah, there's problems.
07:29There's depression.
07:30We didn't understand it then.
07:32We didn't know how to deal with it.
07:33But...
07:34I'm mostly happy.
07:38Not been that happy since.
07:41Not till I met you.
07:44And thought I had a...
07:47a second chance.
07:49Laura, your hands are shaking.
08:01Hey.
08:02Hey.
08:04Yeah, I just...
08:05I just...
08:06It's just...
08:06You know...
08:07What?
08:08It's just like...
08:10I know.
08:10I do know, Laura.
08:12I just think you need a chance
08:15to get your head round it.
08:18And then we'll be fine.
08:21Can we just go in the other room
08:22because I'm really cold.
08:23Cool.
08:24Oh.
08:24Hi.
08:26Come on.
08:29You take milk?
08:30Oh, love this teapot.
08:41Oh.
08:42Oh.
08:43Oh.
08:50Me and Grandad,
08:51we didn't have two pennies
08:52to rub together.
08:54He tried his best,
08:56but...
08:57With his depression,
08:58there was some weeks
08:58he just, um...
09:00just couldn't get out of bed.
09:02Weeks?
09:03Well, how'd you get by?
09:04I mean, who looked after you?
09:06Well, I did.
09:08There was no one else.
09:09When the electricity went off,
09:10it stayed off.
09:12When the food ran out,
09:13we went hungry.
09:14Only till Grandad
09:15got back up on his feet,
09:16which he always did.
09:19He didn't ask to be stuck
09:20with a kid.
09:22But he tried his hardest for me.
09:25And then one day...
09:28He got up,
09:29and he was like him...
09:30self again, you know?
09:32Like I hadn't seen in months.
09:34And he went out,
09:35and he got some food,
09:36and he made us
09:37a full English.
09:39And he told me
09:40what a great kid I was,
09:41and how lucky he was
09:42to be my Grandad,
09:43and he told me
09:44to stay put.
09:45Huh.
09:46And I should have done
09:47what I was told,
09:48but I never did
09:48what I was told.
09:50Was that what you...
09:50you...
09:51I followed him out.
09:53Yeah.
09:55He had no idea.
09:56No clue.
09:57I saw him as he...
10:00Well, he...
10:01He stepped in front
10:03of a bus.
10:05You saw it?
10:06He never stood a chance.
10:07I watched him
10:10as he lay
10:10all bloodied
10:11and gone.
10:13Hmm.
10:14And they found
10:14a note in his pocket.
10:16You know what it said?
10:17It said,
10:18please look after Raymond.
10:19He's a good boy, really.
10:24Well,
10:25I'm not so good now,
10:26Grandad.
10:27I was too much,
10:30Remy.
10:31It couldn't even come.
10:33Wasn't your fault?
10:35Wasn't it?
10:36I feel like I've been
10:37paying for it ever since.
10:38I was eight years old,
10:40and nobody wanted me.
10:42They put me into care.
10:43I ended up on the streets.
10:45At eight?
10:46I spent the first year
10:47half starved,
10:48half froze.
10:49I was a scrawny little run.
10:50They'd just beat up for fun.
10:54It was hard.
10:55And that's when
10:59Celia found me.
11:01She gave me food.
11:03She gave me a bed.
11:06She gave me
11:07a home.
11:11And I would have done
11:12anything for her.
11:14And I did.
11:16But I guess that was
11:17the point, wasn't it?
11:18Because she knew
11:18I was desperate.
11:22And now I was hers for life.
11:25What chance
11:26did I ever have?
11:28As a child?
11:30No.
11:32Hmm.
11:36Laurel?
11:37I just want to get the loo.
11:39Am I free to go
11:40in my own house, Ray?
11:44I'm not holding you here.
11:46So I'm free to leave, then?
11:50Please don't.
11:52Not until you understand everything.
11:54Oh.
12:12See you then.
12:14See you then.
12:15Bye.
12:16Uh.
12:18I'm sorry.
12:19Bye.
12:21I'm sorry.
12:23Bye.
12:23What are you going to do with it?
12:41What?
12:42A poker.
12:44Do you really think you'd have to use that on me?
12:48I would never hurt you.
12:50I would do anything for you.
12:52If you want to walk out now, I'm not stopping you.
12:56I just...
12:58I thought you'd understand.
13:00I've done those things.
13:03I do.
13:05Celia manipulated me.
13:08She used me.
13:09She preyed on me.
13:11Oh, come on.
13:12You're not the victim here, eh?
13:15I mean, you were when you were a child.
13:17I mean, you haven't been a child for a very long time.
13:19And all the things that Celia did to you, you just turned round and you did to others.
13:25To more children.
13:26To the young and vulnerable, just like you.
13:29I mean, you must have been doing this for decades.
13:33When you're listening, I had no choice.
13:36No, no, no.
13:37You chose Dylan and April.
13:40Once you were old enough to see Celia for who she is, you could have just got away.
13:44But I didn't want to get away.
13:47You know, Celia, she was sly.
13:49She was controlling.
13:50She used me.
13:51She made me use others.
13:52But she was the only person in the world who loved me.
13:58And I love her.
14:01She was my mum.
14:05And I thought you'd understand that now.
14:07And forgive me.
14:09I love you.
14:10You don't deserve love.
14:13You don't deserve forgiveness.
14:15You deserve what's coming to you.
14:17And it's going to be brutal.
14:19And it's going to hurt.
14:20Just like you've hurt so many yourself.
14:23Even still, I love you, Laurel.
14:27And that's why I'm here.
14:28Because I'm leaving today.
14:31And I want you to come with me.
14:33Are you out of your mind?
14:34You just said you can't leave.
14:36Well, it's different now.
14:37Why?
14:38Because of you.
14:39Well, you just think that Celia's going to simply let you leave.
14:45Well, she can't stop us now.
14:46Why, Ray?
14:49Because I have chosen you.
14:52You know, I have a mate with a farm down south where we can live.
14:55It's nothing flashy, Laurel.
14:56But we'd be happy there.
14:58You, me and the kids.
14:59Where is your conscience?
15:00Where's your faith?
15:01Your ability to forgive?
15:03I know you care about me.
15:05I think one day you can love me if you can just forgive me.
15:09Laurel.
15:12I can never be with you.
15:14Not after everything that you've done.
15:17I mean, I mean, I probably don't even know the half of it, do I?
15:20I mean, I could forgive you.
15:21I could.
15:22I could.
15:24If you, if you try to make up for everything.
15:27Okay, I will.
15:29By handing yourself into the police.
15:35We'll go to prison.
15:36Yeah.
15:37You've earned it.
15:38What I have earned, after all these years of being trapped by Celia, is my freedom.
15:44And I am not giving that up.
15:46I won't let you run away from your crimes.
15:48I will call the police and hand you and myself.
15:51Then you will be killing me.
15:54If I go to prison.
15:56With all the enemies that I have made.
15:58Laurel, then I'm a dead man.
15:59If you can't love me, then at least let me go.
16:06Was it just, um, like...
16:13Was it all just an act?
16:16Yeah?
16:17Was I just a cover-up?
16:20Was any of it real?
16:21You have been the only real thing in my life since I was eight.
16:29I'm trusting you not to call the police and give me my freedom.
16:37Please.
16:38No, I have to do what's right.
17:05Laurel, what's right, and what's right is for you to find me, to give me a chance, to be free and live a decent life.
17:14One I didn't even know possible until I met you.
17:17Laurel, I just want a chance to turn over a new leaf and go straight.
17:21And I cannot do that if you call the police.
17:25Police.
17:27Go.
17:28Come, come.
17:29Thank you, Paul.
17:30Okay.
17:31When you're safe, away from Celia, you have to find a way to stop her.
17:36Please.
17:36Celia is done hurting anyone.
17:40I swear.
17:42You saved my life.
17:43You saved my life.
18:13Yeah, I need help.
18:22I need help.
18:23I need, um, I need new passport, identity, the lot.
18:28Yeah, I know it'll cost.
18:29It's a good job I've been saving up, isn't it?
18:32Okay, get it done.
18:34Let me know.
18:34Get out.
18:53It's not a good time, Arthur.
18:56Tough.
18:56You let him go?
19:04Yeah, I know how it sounds, okay?
19:06But he wants to redeem himself.
19:07He wants a different life, and I didn't want to take that away from him.
19:11Stop.
19:11Don't.
19:11You're not this stupid, Laurel.
19:13No, no, I believe him.
19:14Why?
19:14Because Celia got her claws into him when he was young, okay?
19:18She groomed him, and he couldn't find a way out, so, you know, he's got one now, hasn't
19:23he?
19:24But he lied to you from day one.
19:26He used you, tricked you.
19:27And me.
19:28I mean, I'll hold my hands up.
19:29I was absolutely charmed by Ray.
19:31But it was all an act.
19:33No, it wasn't all an act, because he loved me.
19:35Oh, Laurel.
19:36No, he wanted the fantasy life, the happy ever after.
19:39He wanted me, the kids, on a farm and everything.
19:41And I know, I know it sounds really, really mad, but it also sounds really good.
19:49Yeah, I'm sure.
19:50The thing is, I love him, and I know that he has done awful things, truly awful, awful
20:01things, but I love him, and I couldn't tell him, because then he wouldn't leave, and none
20:08of us would be free.
20:10But he shouldn't be free.
20:13You're letting love, if that's what this even is, cloud your conscience.
20:20Ray used April.
20:24He's a drug dealer, a menace, a criminal, and you, you let him go.
20:29What if he used your feelings to manipulate you, to escape?
20:32Because it's what he does.
20:33It's what he's been taught to do his entire life, isn't it?
20:36What if he keeps doing what he's been doing?
20:40Forcing kids to deal drugs, and who knows what else?
20:43Can you really live with that?
20:45Okay, what have I done?
20:46What have I done?
20:48Right, look.
20:49Lure him back, and we'll call the police, because he has to pay.
20:54You can't treat my mum like scum.
20:56Make her cry.
20:58You got it all wrong, mate.
20:59You're not good enough for her.
21:01She agrees.
21:03Oh, so she rejected you?
21:04Brilliant.
21:04Don't do this, Arthur.
21:06I care about you.
21:10Don't touch me, mummy's boy.
21:12Pots of kettle black, Arthur.
21:14Your mum raised you to be weak, and weak people get chewed up and spat out by people like me.
21:20It's just the way it is, kid.
21:21I'm sorry.
21:26Oi!
21:26Come on in, Rocky.
21:32Let's see if you've got the ball.
21:33Let's see if you've got the ball.
22:03Let's see if you've got the ball.
22:19Let's see if you've got the ball.
22:28Let's see.
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