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Emmerdale 13th February 2026
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00:31The first words are often the hardest.
00:34People I work with have been abused, exploited, intimidated.
00:39It's natural to disengage.
00:43Others are in denial.
00:45Accepting you've been manipulated can feel like the final thread of control slipping away.
00:50Some believe it's all they're worth, what they deserve, and that there's no way out.
00:53But most are simply still stuck in a moment.
00:57Too petrified to speak.
01:02Whatever you tell me, Bear, is completely confidential.
01:07Your son said you used to be a wrestler.
01:10Is that right?
01:11She doesn't give a toss about wrestling.
01:14She's just trying to get into your head.
01:16Ted is Ray.
01:17He's Ray.
01:18I'm your only friend, remember?
01:20I know it'll never be over.
01:24This secret is something we're all going to have to live with.
01:29We just need to hold our nerve.
01:31What do you think I'm talking about, Ray?
01:34What else are we talking about?
01:36Everything comes back to that man.
01:39Everything.
01:42He's a cancer.
01:44So who do I blame for the rest of it, then?
01:48The rest of what?
01:50My prophetic life.
01:53How come I get away with all of this?
01:56You.
01:57The police.
01:58Hot chocolates.
01:58The sympathy card.
02:00When you've been a victim of exploitation...
02:03April, there's a word for what you've been through.
02:06You can't just shrug it off.
02:10I knew what I was doing.
02:12And you hate yourself for it.
02:13I know you do.
02:14Please don't make out that this is nothing.
02:17Sexual exploitation of a child...
02:20There is nothing lower.
02:24The thought of those men pressuring you...
02:26I know how it feels.
02:28No.
02:29No, don't compare them to Pierce.
02:31They tried to force themselves on you.
02:33And they failed.
02:35Both of them.
02:38Ronna, I wasn't raped.
02:40I didn't have to go through the hell that you did.
02:44With Callum, I went into that room.
02:48I knew what he wanted.
02:50I took that risk and I made that choice.
02:51No.
02:53Ray and Celia made that choice for you.
02:56They were pulling the strings.
02:58Just the same as they were with Bear.
02:59And Dylan.
03:00But with Bear, he was hauled up in an attic,
03:02being forced to work for Scraps.
03:03And Dylan never would have been involved with Ray
03:07if he'd have had the cushy life I've had.
03:08Cushy?
03:09You have had more trauma and grief than anyone I know.
03:13When is everybody going to realise the person that I truly am?
03:16I'm not brave.
03:19I'm a spoiled, selfish little cow.
03:22Have you always done physical work?
03:23Like on the farm?
03:25You think I'm some kind of sap, don't you?
03:28I promise you I don't.
03:29No, I've been taken advantage of.
03:31Why would I think that?
03:32Because that's what my son's told you.
03:34Why'd you even let him call her?
03:36He's clearly painted me as some kind of psycho.
03:39Paddy, he can be overprotective.
03:43Farm work's brutal.
03:44You tell her, Ted.
03:47Young'uns like him, they don't understand graft.
03:50When I was 13, I weren't in some breakfast club before school.
03:54I were mucking out pigs.
03:56That must have been tough.
03:57Patronising!
03:59No, it was just graft.
04:01Plain and simple.
04:02And the farm?
04:03Was that graft?
04:05It were tough.
04:06Aye.
04:07Ray were firm.
04:08But he were a good boss.
04:09Well, as good as...
04:11As good as I could, pretend.
04:12You tell her...
04:13You tell her all the things I've done for you.
04:17I were fed and wattered.
04:19Paid?
04:19I protected you.
04:21I sheltered you.
04:23He did what he could.
04:24But he weren't the organ grinder.
04:27That were her.
04:28Celia?
04:29Sir Ray was...
04:30He was my mate.
04:31He looked out for me.
04:33You tell her, Big Ted.
04:35And I'd still be with him now if I could.
04:42None of this was your fault.
04:44It never is, is it?
04:46But the bad stuff keeps on happening and it always will.
04:49Dylan, the past is the past.
04:50It's over.
04:51It's done.
04:54You don't believe that any more than I do.
04:55Well, I wouldn't say it if I didn't.
04:57Then why does everybody keep looking at me like I'm some puppy that needs putting down?
05:03You're doing it now.
05:05Look, everybody sees the same thing, don't they?
05:09You, Charles, the police, and damaged goods, a charity case.
05:14You don't seriously think I see you like that?
05:17Just look around, Paddy.
05:19I'm the problem.
05:22I'm always going to be used by someone.
05:26Look, anything I touch, I destroy.
05:28And if you can't see that, then you will.
05:31That's why you need me gone.
05:39Everyone thinks that I'm Little Miss Innocent.
05:44Paying half fare on the bus.
05:46Getting ID'd at the cinema.
05:48But what I am,
05:50the things that I have done to protect yourself,
05:53to stay alive.
05:55Addicts will have died because of me.
05:58You don't know that.
06:01People that I shared the squat with.
06:04Sad cases with nothing and no one.
06:07Girls my age who would sleep with guys just to get a hit.
06:12I became part of that.
06:14Not out of choice, love.
06:15Everyone has a choice.
06:17And drug dealers, they are the lowest of law.
06:20You were never a proper dealer.
06:21I sold drugs.
06:22Rona, why can't you just accept who I am?
06:25Because I know who you are.
06:28You're the girl who fed her dad when he couldn't hold a spoon.
06:33You're the girl who was my rock when I was dead on my feet.
06:37Yeah, well, that girl's gone and she's not coming back.
06:40So who's the girl who's teaching Ivy Makaton
06:42so she can talk to her brother, eh?
06:44Or the girl who...
06:45Who what?
06:47Left her baby in a toilet
06:48and then couldn't even go to her funeral.
06:53What kind of person does that?
06:55One who's been to hell and back.
06:58One who has lost her mum.
07:01Nearly lost her dad.
07:03One who was treated worse than dirt when she was on the street.
07:07So much so that she has started to believe it.
07:11He appreciated me.
07:13I had a function, a purpose.
07:16And you don't have a purpose now?
07:18I'm an old man.
07:21Old men aren't worth scrap.
07:23My grandma once said she felt invisible.
07:26I didn't exist.
07:27Not until I found you.
07:31You youngsters have no idea what's ahead.
07:35That day you wake up and you're nothing but a nuisance.
07:38Under folks' feet.
07:40Surplus to requirements.
07:43You just sat there, rotting away, adding nothing to no one.
07:47Have you told Paddy you feel this way?
07:49He said it's all on me yet, but it's not.
07:52Happens to all of us if you lived long enough.
07:55But you didn't feel like that on the farm.
07:57He was my best worker.
07:59I can understand why you'd want to go back there.
08:01We all want to feel needed.
08:04Valued.
08:05Ray were troubled.
08:07Complicated.
08:08He'd had a rough start.
08:10And that's why we had a connection.
08:13Why he took me under his wing.
08:15You sound very fond of him.
08:17Oh, I am.
08:18I...
08:19I were.
08:22You were like a...
08:23Like a son.
08:25Say it, Ted.
08:26Don't be embarrassed.
08:28Relationships can be so complicated.
08:30If only we could draw nice, clear-cut lines.
08:33He weren't this monster.
08:35Not the Ray I knew.
08:37So you were never afraid?
08:39Oh, come on, Ted.
08:39You never saw that side of him?
08:41You can handle yourself.
08:42No, I was never scared.
08:44And what about the others?
08:45Were they scared?
08:47I don't know.
08:48Some of them, maybe.
08:50You said he wasn't a monster.
08:51That must be really hard to reconcile.
08:54What are you getting at?
08:55Someone who's shown such kindness.
08:57Who can then manipulate teenagers into selling drugs.
09:00No, no, that's not the Ray I knew.
09:02So you don't believe he did that?
09:03Or that he procured vulnerable young kids into prostitution?
09:06No, I never saw any of that.
09:07I mean, whatever he did, he did because he had no choice.
09:10But did he give you a choice?
09:14Stop twisting things.
09:16You're messing with me.
09:17I'm sorry.
09:18I don't mean to do that.
09:20Whoever I was, whatever I did, I didn't deserve to die like that.
09:26You think you know it all, but you don't know half of it.
09:30Then tell me.
09:31Go on.
09:32Tell her.
09:33Tell her how you killed me.
09:35How you wrapped your arms around me until I stopped breathing.
09:38I mean, you are the victim in all of this.
09:57Can I get you a drink?
09:59Charles said we can help ourself.
10:02What would you like?
10:06Oh, whatever's going.
10:08Choice.
10:10It can be overwhelming, can't it?
10:12We need to wrap this up, Ted.
10:14I only drank water for six months when I escaped.
10:17It felt like a safety in it.
10:20The routine.
10:21The not thinking.
10:22How do you mean when you escaped?
10:25Sorry, I thought that you...
10:28I've been where you are now.
10:30Sat opposite a counsellor trying to make sense of what happened to me.
10:33What's going on here?
10:34So you're...
10:35Survivor, yeah.
10:36That's why I do this.
10:39Because I understand.
10:44You're not going anywhere.
10:47Yeah, it's better I go now before you start to hate me.
10:49Hate you?
10:50I told you.
10:50You're like a son to me.
10:53All I do is bring you trouble.
10:55No, Ray brought trouble.
10:57All you've brought is kindness and love.
11:00Yeah, until the next disaster.
11:02When I need bailing out.
11:04Putting you in the line of fire.
11:06I ain't doing that.
11:07It's never going to happen.
11:09There's something rotten inside me, Paddy.
11:12Scum like Ray can see it.
11:13And they pounce on it, alright?
11:15And they always will.
11:16Dylan, this is all in your head.
11:17And then...
11:18And then people around me suffer.
11:21Bex.
11:22April.
11:23Your dad.
11:25Look, Ray's not the only cancer.
11:27No, right.
11:28Don't do that.
11:29Don't call yourself that.
11:31Right?
11:32I know you've had a rough time.
11:33But your past does not have to dictate your future.
11:36It does.
11:38Alright?
11:39There's no happy endings for people like me.
11:43The future.
11:44It scares me.
11:45Like whenever something good happens, it's like I'm just waiting for it to...
11:49What?
11:50Go wrong.
11:51People only say that because they're exhausted.
11:54And because they're worn down.
11:55But patterns change.
11:56And people change.
11:58And you've never had anybody fight in your corner.
12:00But anyone can change their lives with the right support.
12:03And you've got that now.
12:06Yeah, nice words.
12:07If it was only words, I wouldn't be stood here now, would I?
12:09Well, this is me, Paddy.
12:12Who I am.
12:14Who I've always been.
12:17I'm a curse.
12:19Alright?
12:21That's why my dad wanted rid of me.
12:23That's why I ended up on drugs.
12:25Sleeping with blokes on the street.
12:29That's why Rachel's me.
12:32So, what happened to you?
12:35I don't think that I should...
12:36No, no, no, please, please, please.
12:37I want to know.
12:39This is pathetic.
12:40You are pathetic.
12:42There was a woman called Louise.
12:46She picked me up when I was at my lowest.
12:47And saved me.
12:50At least I thought she did.
12:52And that's what she wanted me to believe.
12:55I was lost.
12:58Bones of my backside.
13:00And she gave me a job in a nail bar.
13:03Six days a week.
13:05I slept in the back and thought nothing of it.
13:08Open your mouth.
13:09There will be consequences.
13:11It's actually a threat you're bad.
13:12You want to cross that line, do you?
13:14Not always.
13:15She could be kind.
13:17Supportive.
13:20But she could do this.
13:25It's okay.
13:26It doesn't hurt anymore.
13:29She promised me a wage, but...
13:31That never came.
13:34She said I should be grateful I've got somewhere to kip.
13:37I was fed.
13:40Watered.
13:43And you think Ray is like her?
13:48Only you can tell me what Ray was like.
13:52My arm.
13:54It still gives me a chip.
13:56Do you want to tell me what happened?
14:00Well, it was nothing really.
14:02It was an accident.
14:04It was an out compared to her.
14:07Who?
14:08Anya.
14:09This is Anne.
14:11My friend.
14:12She was a pretty little thing like you.
14:15I mean, we looked out for each other.
14:17And where's Anya now?
14:19Are you still?
14:22She died.
14:24It's okay.
14:25She...
14:27She was sick.
14:29We're just waiting for the boss man to come with your medicine.
14:32Did Ray take her to the hospital?
14:33She wouldn't let him.
14:35His mum, he couldn't take her.
14:37So he left her to get worse?
14:39No, no, no.
14:40I tried to get help.
14:42Wake up properly!
14:43I did, I tried.
14:44I'm sure you did.
14:44I asked him to get medicine.
14:46I mean, he promised.
14:48I mean, I asked him.
14:48I asked him again and again.
14:50She was in such pain.
14:52She started dreaming.
14:53A little girl.
14:54Red ribbons.
14:56Running through the fields.
14:57I begged him again and again.
14:59I thought he didn't listen.
15:00No, he did.
15:01Note.
15:01Note.
15:02When he brought the meds, it were too late.
15:04He let her die.
15:05She were in agony.
15:06For the love of God, help!
15:10How could he do that?
15:16It were evil.
15:18Evil!
15:22He did.
15:23Let me play devil's advocate here.
15:25Let's just say you are this embodiment of evil.
15:29Hmm?
15:30If that is the case, then what about Dylan?
15:33Because you only got involved with Ray and Celia in the first place to help him?
15:37None of this is Dylan's fault.
15:38I didn't say it was but according to your way of thinking surely Dylan is culpable too
15:44that's different how it just is because everyone saw what happened when he tried to break free
15:51Ray and Celia knew that you were vulnerable that's why they targeted you both of you and Bear
15:57unless he had a choice in all of this too every decision any one of you made was manipulated by
16:04them right from day one and this fake debt that they told you you had to pay back I mean
16:10where
16:10is the choice in that I could have refused to pay it I told you sooner and what happened when
16:18you did
16:18huh we didn't have the answer we had no more of an idea of what to do than you did
16:22but that's how
16:23these people work you know they they they corner you they seal up the exits until you cannot see
16:30your way out I am not some victim okay okay you don't like the word so let's not use it
16:35but you
16:35are not some drug kingpin either April you are not somebody who feeds off other people's misery
16:41then why do I feel like this because you are a good person because you have a conscience I mean
16:46do you think Ray and Celia ever tortured themselves like this now you listen to me
16:55you are a beautiful kind and caring young woman and I am proud I'm so proud to call you my
17:03daughter
17:07when I said you were like a son to me do you think I meant it because I'd do anything
17:13for you anything
17:15but I think you know that and maybe that's what scares you maybe maybe that's what makes you want
17:21to run what fancy yourself as a shrink now you said it yourself when something good happens
17:29you're waiting for it to go wrong so what's a little bit of self-sabotage anyway
17:37if you won't listen to me what a self-help book as if hey this has got me through some
17:47very very dark
17:48nights it's a compilation it's real stories it's people that couldn't see a future for themselves
17:54but they've all managed to turn their lives around I mean if you hate it then you hate it but
17:58the people
17:59in there they proved that they were more than just their pasts and second chances starting new lives
18:07but that's all totally doable and why can't I see it happening because you've been through too much
18:12you need to heal when Marlon persuaded me to drop that gun it's not like the clouds suddenly broke
18:21apart but in time I started to see a future yeah well I just want to believe it's not always
18:30going to be
18:31like this yeah well trust me I believe in you even if you don't you weren't bothered if she lived
18:40or died
18:42but the same with me big ted that's not my name just used it to butter me up
18:51I could have bled to death for all he could I know it's a lot to take him
18:56with me headed it's like it's like a jumble sale what's processing what's truth what's lies
19:03I'm lost aren't I I'll never be raised again I'm I've been that sick there's no hope every step
19:11to wellness starts with precisely that a step which is what you've done today I know but people do get
19:17their lives back I did I can't promise the road to recovery short be cruel to suggest there's ever
19:24a quick fix this is your journey your recovery you're the one driving the car and I'm just in
19:31the passenger seat ready to pull out a map if you get lost you're a good man bear oh why
19:40did you have
19:40to say that because it's important to be kind to yourself kind you don't know what I'm capable of
19:45well anyone even good people can be pushed to their limits good people aren't murderers
19:52I killed him I killed Ray you talk of monsters well I'm one that's what he's made me into
20:06I'm just gonna take things day by day yeah I know I'll try well it's not easy because I've been
20:12there and I've done that how about we go bowling later bowling yeah everything's felt so dark lately
20:22I just oh well I thought it might be nice to do something that we used to do as a
20:25family
20:26or something normal yeah and fun yeah I'd love that
20:33thank you for everything that you've done for me you've always been on my side and
20:39it means more than you'll ever know
20:44it's like me dad when he gets out of that session today it won't be fixed but if she says
20:49one thing
20:50that gets through that'll be a start pads dad
20:59i'm sorry sir hang on why is he in handcuffs mr dingle your father has just admitted to the murder
21:04of ray walters no no no no there's a mistake he's confused he's he's clearly traumatized i'm really
21:10sorry but bear called the police himself dad dad dad i'm not leaving you all right i'll see you down
21:18the station but you're not alone right dad you're not alone
21:27so
21:37so
21:38so
21:38so
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