Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry), Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and their family find themselves in a horrific situation in Emmerdale after discovering exactly how ruthless and dangerous drugs boss Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) is.

Their daughter April (Amelia Flanagan) finally admitted to them that she’d been coerced into dealing drugs for Celia and her son Ray (Joe Absolom). Before they could go to the police or take any other action, Celia paid them a visit.

 

 

She showed them a live stream on her phone of April’s boyfriend Dylan (Fred Kettle) being deliberately run over by Ray, and the family realised they were all in huge danger.

Marlon and Rhona came up with a plan to flee the village with their kids, but this was thwarted by Ray.

In upcoming episodes Marlon and Rhona keep a vigil by Dylan’s bed as he recovers in hospital, trying to keep him safe from Celia and Ray. Their hope is that Dylan will eventually tell the police everything he knows and Ray and Celia will be arrested.

 

 

Meanwhile April is terrified of the repercussions if Dylan talks and she’s secretly begging him not to.

Marlon is terrified that he can’t keep his family safe and the only strategy seems to be to keep their heads down.

While all this has been going on, Rhona’s mum Mary (Louise Jameson) has been away on a retreat. Rhona panics when Mary is due to return, because she knows her mum will pick up on the tense atmosphere.

As she has a background in journalism, she’ll try to dig for the truth of what’s happening and won’t give up.

So Rhona decides the only way is to make sure Mary leaves the village and stays away.

She tries to convince her to leave, and when it becomes clear that all she’s doing is rousing Mary’s suspicions, she resorts to being absolutely vile to her mum, saying things that could wreck their relationship for ever in an attempt to drive her out of the village and away from danger.

It’s all done for the best of reason, but for Mary it’s incredibly hurtful. Louise Jameson told us how Mary is feeling at this point.

’What they’ve very cleverly done is a device that Shakespeare uses, putting the audience in possession of the secret why Mary is booted out of the house – and hopefully out of the village as far as Rhona is concerned – in order to keep her safe.

‘All Mary gets is this rejection on an enormous scale, that she’s no longer valued, needed, wanted. She can offer nothing to the family except grief, so would she please eff off. How hurtful is that?’

‘Celia doesn’t mark Christmas’, star Jaye Griffiths said as she teased what’s ahead for her character over the festive period.

‘And this year she is planning on them leaving the area. As it has all got too complicated, April’s family are an irritant to her and things are also getting complicated business wise as Moira is becoming troublesome by asking too many questions.

‘But more alarmingly Ray has gone and fallen in love. So she’s extricating them to another area. It is clear that this is something they have done before – find another farm in another location and set up their enterprise again.’