Will covers his worry Harriet’s gone awol. Seeing a police car pull up he panics. A stressed Harriet is with PC Swirling, she’s been at the station ranting about ‘a body’. Will covers she was speaking about the exhumation and Swirling leaves satisfied. Harriet remains insistent to confess to her crimes and asks Will to punish her – to silence her. Is Will capable of doing what she’s asking?
Soon after Will explains to Dawn, Harriet’s gone away on a church retreat but he’s clearly uneasy as we see him hide Harriet’s mobile phone in a drawer and we wonder if he’s harbouring a dark secret…
Will soon convinces Dawn to let him move back in, due to Harriet’s absence. But soon we see him head down to the cellar where Harriet sits in a self-imposed exile, with only her Bible and some food. Harriet believes sequestering herself is the only way to repent her sins….
In the village Will explains she’s “away on a retreat”. When he asks Harriet how long it will last, she says she can’t give him an exact answer as it is a question of faith…
And Will worries how long Harriet will remain in the cellar?
Emmerdale airs these scenes from Monday 15 March on ITV.
