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Emmerdale - Season 55 Episode 13 - Tuesday 20Th January 2026
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00:00I
00:29have no idea how Ray's body ended up in the back of my van but I know for a
00:34fact that it wasn't me that put him there who do you think did that I don't
00:38know but it has to be someone from around here and someone with a good reason to
00:44want Ray dead
00:46Ray is a true predator
00:54he preyed upon April he's malignant beyond saving and he's never gonna stop
01:01not until someone makes him
01:05on that we're agreed
01:07the last thing we want to do is make things worse worse how could things possibly be worse
01:16she's leaving with them to protect us it should be me protecting her
01:19no love I know but the important thing is getting April back if they're there then
01:25call me and we'll figure out what to do next like what like get some kind of
01:29backup
01:30they're not taking her away from us they're not I won't let them
01:37oh
01:39oh
01:44Sigh.
02:14Rona, it's me.
02:44It really is you.
02:51Graham.
03:00You're alive.
03:03How is this possible?
03:04I can't be alone.
03:10I know April's in trouble.
03:11How do you know?
03:12And I've only got a short window to help.
03:18Here, drink this.
03:20How are you here?
03:24We haven't got time for this.
03:26I'm sorry I went away.
03:27Went away?
03:29You died.
03:31Six years ago.
03:32Billy and Priya found you.
03:35They saw you dead.
03:38Marlowe went to prison for your murder.
03:41I'm sorry.
03:43Rona, please stop.
03:46Trust me.
03:47Trust you?
03:48Yes.
03:49You know me.
03:50No.
03:51I grieved you.
03:54And now here you are, back from the dead.
03:59The last time I saw you, we were on the verge of running away together.
04:05You told me.
04:06You told me.
04:07In this house.
04:08You swore to me that you would make me happy.
04:12You promised you wouldn't let anything bad happen.
04:15And then you were gone.
04:17Dead.
04:18But now here you are.
04:21I'm sorry.
04:22I don't need your apologies.
04:23I just need to understand.
04:28It's the only way I could protect you from Kim.
04:32She would never have let us be happy together.
04:34Kim grieved you as much as anyone.
04:35No, no.
04:36When I left you that day to meet Marlon, I stopped by home farm.
04:42I think I hoped Kim and I could part, if not reasonably, then at least less acrimoniously.
04:50250 grand.
04:51And I want guarantees.
04:5260 grand.
04:53Upfront cash.
04:54Tonight.
04:55I do this.
04:56Now.
04:57And he's out of your life.
04:58It has to be done right.
04:59I'm thinking the quarry.
05:00Or the lake.
05:01No, no, no.
05:02Too risky.
05:03Look.
05:04Graham got bored of playing house with Rona and Holly Bolt disappeared to start his new
05:13life without her.
05:14That's what everyone has to think.
05:17No trace of him anywhere.
05:19Anywhere.
05:20Oh my God.
05:22I knew it.
05:24I knew Kim had tried to have you killed but no one could prove it.
05:29Hearing Kim, it made me realise what I already knew.
05:35She was never gonna let us walk into the sunset and be happy.
05:38It wasn't up to her.
05:39She couldn't have stopped us.
05:40She could and she would.
05:42Kim doesn't like to lose.
05:43Definitely not to me.
05:45I couldn't put you and Leo through all that.
05:48Are you really putting all of this on Kim?
05:49No, not entirely.
05:51She was only one part of my growing, um...
05:54You're growing what?
05:55Guilt, doubt, fear.
05:57About what we were doing.
05:59Ripping Leo away from his home, his dad and his sister.
06:02He would have broken him.
06:03And you.
06:04So.
06:05Better to rip off the plaster.
06:06I've done with me.
06:07Before I made things any worse for you.
06:08So you played dead to avoid facing me?
06:09That wasn't the plan.
06:10Oh, there was a plan?
06:11When I left you, I was all in.
06:13But, um, hearing Kim once I knew she would hunt me down, I reached out to an old friend
06:15from the SAS.
06:16Asked him to help me relocate.
06:17On my own.
06:18Right.
06:19So even if Pierce hadn't have attacked you, you had no intention of coming back for me.
06:24Huh.
06:25It's all I've done, you.
06:26I was all in.
06:27But, um...
06:28Hearing Kim once I knew she'd hunt me down, I reached out to an old friend from the SAS.
06:34Asked him to help me relocate.
06:37On my own.
06:40Right.
06:44So even if Pierce hadn't have attacked you, you had no intention of coming back for me.
06:49Right.
06:57I see.
06:58No, you don't.
06:59No, you're right, I don't.
07:01I still don't get why faking your death was the answer.
07:04I went looking for Marlon to tell him about Pierce being out of prison.
07:09To tell him to make sure you were protected.
07:11To apologise to him for the way I was with him, for ever planning to take away his boy.
07:16And to ask him to apologise for me, to you, for leaving.
07:25Show her the man you are!
07:28Death or a life, I'll do anything to stop her being hurt.
07:38You hero.
07:40Then Pierce came out of nowhere.
07:46I was so close to killing him, but I couldn't.
07:55I spared Pierce because I didn't want you to hate me anymore.
08:01Even going, thinking I was never going to see you again, I couldn't have you hate me.
08:06Not like that.
08:08Not like that.
08:09I was a fool.
08:17Could I let him live?
08:18I knew I'd fallen for the last time.
08:29I was dying.
08:30And I was relieved.
08:31Now I couldn't change my mind and run back to you and Leo.
08:35Rip you from your happy lives.
08:36Put you both in danger.
08:38And now you'd never know that I'd betrayed you.
08:40You could grieve, think well of me and move on.
08:43I was at peace with it.
08:44It'd all be better off.
08:46But something in me refused to die.
08:51Once I came around, I knew my death was the only way for you to move on.
08:57The only way?
08:58Yes.
08:59You selfish coward.
09:05You're talking like you're the hero here, but you're the villain.
09:09You chose to play dead and then run away, rather than talk to me like an equal.
09:14You might have talked me out of it.
09:16I wouldn't be able to resist if you'd chosen to be with me.
09:19That was my choice to make.
09:21But this is far from your biggest crime here.
09:24You let Marlon go to prison for your murder.
09:27That was never my intention.
09:29No, but it happened.
09:29And he suffered.
09:30We all did.
09:31April and Leo, more than anyone.
09:34You say you wanted to protect us, but...
09:36You tortured us.
09:39I didn't know.
09:40No, but you knew Pierce was still out there.
09:41And you knew he would come after me, but you just left.
09:46Without warning me, without warning anyone.
09:48Benay.
09:48No, it's your turn to listen now.
09:52Pierce stalked me.
09:55He was in my house where my son slept.
09:58He kidnapped Vanessa and her little boy.
10:02Johnny was four years old.
10:05He tied them up.
10:06He locked them away for weeks and then he tried again.
10:10To rape me.
10:12Then that is all down to you, Graham.
10:18Because you went after him behind my back.
10:21You beat him close to death.
10:22You provoked a monster.
10:25And then you simply walked away without saying a word.
10:27You left me.
10:29Left us at his mercy.
10:30I didn't mean to.
10:31Get out!
10:32No, let me explain.
10:34You can't.
10:35Okay, I can't listen to any more excuses.
10:37I can't even look at you.
10:38I just want you to get out.
10:40Rona?
10:43Rona?
11:00Hello?
11:01I just need back for something.
11:19Marlon.
11:20I'm not stopping.
11:21No, Marlon, I need to tell you.
11:23Wait, sorry, I've got to go.
11:24No, Marlon, stop.
11:25What?
11:27Have you been to the farm?
11:29Did you see Ray?
11:30No.
11:30Well, what is it?
11:31Why are you being like this?
11:32Like what?
11:32I don't know, just off.
11:34I'm not.
11:35The place was locked up.
11:37No one was there.
11:38And I'm out of options.
11:39So excuse me if I'm being off.
11:41Sorry.
11:42No, I'm just going to keep looking, okay?
11:44Okay.
11:44I'm sorry for biting your head off.
11:47Marlon.
11:49I love you.
11:53You too.
12:06I didn't do it for you.
12:09Marlon's in no fit state to know that he was left to rot in prison by a man who wasn't even dead.
12:14Well, this business with April has already tipped him over the edge.
12:16I told you, I've come to help with that.
12:19I'm not letting you anywhere near my family until I've heard everything.
12:22Ask me anything.
12:23Sit down.
12:23How did you do it exactly?
12:34Fake your death?
12:36You tricked Billy, Priya, everyone who saw you.
12:40The police.
12:41We had a man on the inside.
12:43Woman, actually.
12:45Improvise, adapt, overcome.
12:47It's a mantra drilled into us in the SAS.
12:49After I came to, I called my mate, told him the extraction plan had changed.
12:56Billy jogged along that route every morning.
12:58I knew he'd spot my abandoned 4x4.
13:04Oh, my God.
13:06Billy!
13:09Billy!
13:11I've had to play dead before in Iraq, Serbia.
13:14I know how to stay still perfectly for hours, how to hold my breath.
13:18Thankfully, Billy and Priya didn't check my pulse.
13:21Someone did that to him, didn't they?
13:24It wasn't an accident.
13:26Well, that's what we need to establish.
13:28The detective who claimed I was dead at the scene
13:31bribed everybody who needed bribing to get me out of the mortuary, out of the country.
13:36She stashed me at a safe house till the tickets and passports were sorted.
13:40I knew the police would be all over the village, so there'd be a few days before Pierce could get to you.
13:48I thought I had time to go to the safe house, get myself sorted, and then go back and find Pierce and take him down.
13:55But at the safe house, it hit me.
14:00I'd lost you for good.
14:03I was in bed.
14:07And on the shelf, um...
14:11There was a bottle of whiskey.
14:15I was going to go after Pierce the next day, I swear.
14:21I thought I had time.
14:23You got drunk.
14:24Blackout drunk.
14:25When I came to, I was on the ferry.
14:27My mate was there.
14:29He had acted fast, sorting everything out as a...
14:32favour.
14:34I had to go back and finish Pierce.
14:36But he told me I was too late.
14:41Pierce had already been caught and was in custody.
14:44I thought you were safe.
14:47And I carried on drinking.
14:51Lost myself in a drunken stupor for months.
14:55I'd been barred from half the bars in Mexico City when I saw Pierce's face staring out at me from a tabloid some ex-pat had left me out.
15:04But I read all about what Pierce had done to Vanessa.
15:07To you.
15:09I called my mate.
15:12He told me he'd lied to me about Pierce being caught because he didn't want me to go back for him and drunkenly mess it all up.
15:20I'm sorry, Rowan.
15:23It's all my fault, all of it.
15:26I've put you in danger and I'll never forgive myself for it.
15:30But even after you...
15:32you didn't reach out?
15:34For what?
15:34For me.
15:36If ever I needed you, it was then.
15:38Pierce was locked up.
15:40I did what was right.
15:41Right?
15:42I stayed dead.
15:45But I couldn't stay drunk.
15:47Not for good.
15:49So, I got myself to work.
15:51What sort of work?
15:52Fixed problems the police can't.
15:54But it's useless unless I'm sober.
15:58Sorry.
15:58This must all be, um, a lot.
16:08Why don't we have a cover?
16:12No sugar, strong, just a tiny splash of milk.
16:15Hmm?
16:23Make yourself at home, why don't you?
16:25I'm sorry, should I?
16:27It's just odd.
16:29Seeing you fit back in here like you never died.
16:31I'll leave those a moment to stew.
16:39Unless your tastes have changed.
16:42They haven't.
16:43Look at the, uh, proper young man already.
17:00You know, he's growing up so fast.
17:03Still cheekier than ever.
17:04I can see.
17:06Mm-hmm.
17:08Look at the spark, innit?
17:11Stephen, my brother, he had the same glint in his eye at 14.
17:1614?
17:18You remember how old he is?
17:23Um, I'll finish up in here.
17:24We'll go back through.
17:25Okay.
17:34I'm, um, glad you've worked things out with Marlon.
17:41And you've got a little one now, too, Ivy.
17:44You know her name?
17:46I was in the country when I went to court.
17:48I read all about you having to fight for her.
17:50You and your husband, Marlon.
17:53I won't lie.
17:54It stung a little to see you were married.
17:57Seems like you've been happy.
17:58Sometimes.
18:00A lot.
18:02Not lately.
18:03Well, that's what I'm here for.
18:06How did you know April was in trouble?
18:09Come on.
18:10Surely we'll be on secrets now.
18:12There's nothing left that can make me hate you.
18:14Hate me any less.
18:17How did you know to come?
18:18I was hired to dispose of a problem for a powerful man.
18:24But then I found out the true nature of his business, of him.
18:28Trafficking drugs, worse.
18:30Then had a change of heart.
18:33He had links to an operation around here.
18:36April's name came up as someone who was caught in it all.
18:40I tried calling, but there was no answer.
18:44When?
18:44Early today.
18:45I didn't want to show up out of nowhere.
18:47When you didn't answer, I had no choice but to come back.
18:51But did you?
18:55What?
18:56I have no choice.
18:57So why did you have to show yourself to me to save April from Ray and Celia?
19:03Do you trust me to help you now?
19:09Ray Walters and Celia Daniels, they're the ones with their hooks in April.
19:13Do you have a picture?
19:16Er, yeah.
19:18Tell me what you know.
19:19Er...
19:20That's Ray.
19:23He's the one who convinced April, still a child, to deal drugs.
19:31Tricked her.
19:32Trapped her.
19:33Sent her out to sleep with grown men.
19:35And when she fought back desperate, she, er...
19:40She killed a man.
19:44From then on, Ray and his mum, Celia, they owned her.
19:47There was no escape.
19:50Now she's disappeared.
19:51What?
19:52Since when?
19:53It's been a few days now.
19:55Ray and Celia must have her, but I thought that's why you were here.
19:57To help get her out of trouble.
19:59I didn't know she was missing.
20:01Rana, I need to move fast.
20:02I need to reach out to my contacts, see if we can get her home safe.
20:06If?
20:07I will get her home safe.
20:09Graeme.
20:11Ray is a true predator.
20:14He preyed upon April, he's malignant, beyond saving,
20:18and he's never going to stop.
20:20Not until someone makes him.
20:22On that were agreed.
20:24I won't make the mistake of sparing Ray like I spared Pierce.
20:32You need me, you call me, on this number.
20:37I promise.
20:40I will get April home.
20:42Ross?
20:58Ross?
21:02Ross, I'll lock it.
21:03You'll stay in here.
21:04No!
21:04I'll be with Ray, not you.
21:06What?
21:06No, no, no!
21:06Just stay here until you hear from me.
21:09No!
21:10No!
21:11She's my daughter!
21:12No!
21:13No!
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