There’s been a multitude of questions asked over the past few months by Emmerdale viewers, and three standalone special episodes set to air this autumn will deliver answers.
One of the episodes will take a reflective look behind the bars of Robert Sugden’s (Ryan Hawley) recent incarceration. What did happen when he got sent down for six years? And has it changed this man forever?
The second will focus on the growing county lines story that has grown in recent months as April Dingle (Amelia Flanagan) remains at the mercy of drug dealers, we hope that her ever present and worried father Marlon (Mark Charnock) can get through to her. A special episode will explore this fragile and possibly broken relationship between a father and his daughter as she slips further from his grasp.
Another storyline surrounded in mystery is that of Bear (Joshua Richards). When living with Paddy became difficult he departed the village for Ireland, only it soon comes out he never made the journey across the Irish Sea – where is Bear?
Whilst Paddy believed his estranged father was safe with friends in Ireland a special episode will explore the hundred missing days of Bear’s life and we’ll learn that he is sadly trapped in an all too common situation for a forgotten generation.

The drama on Emmerdale continues at 7:30 PM on ITV1
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