Published July 5, 2025 7:37 pm
Emmerdale airs Tuesday, Thursday and Friday on ITV1
Joe Tate is kidnapped after blackmail shock
Joe Tate’s paranoia reaches boiling point as an envelope demanding £100,000 appears in Home Farm. Fearing betrayal, Joe turns on his right-hand man Shaun and sacks him, but that only escalates things. Just as Joe prepares to flee for a “business trip”, he’s brutally knocked out by a shovel-wielding Shaun. When he wakes, he’s in a makeshift hospital… and Doctor Crowley is looming. Will Joe come to regret using him for his kidney transplant?
