Emmerdale scenes are about as bleak as they come lately, with Ray and Celia in the village, and from one scummy act to the next, scenes next week go a bit further in hammering home to viewers how low they will go.
Bear’s distraught when Mick and Simo reveal Ray has dumped Anya’s body in the feed shed. Bear confronts Ray over how he treated Anya’s body and blind with rage and grief, Bear’s anger builds to boiling point and he walls Ray up. Ray manages to talk Bear round but is worried after he insists on coming to Anya’s funeral.
When Ray tells Celia about Bear’s insistence on having a funeral for Anya, she formulates a plan. That evening, Celia reveals the makeshift funeral to Bear and Ray in one of Butler’s fields. Initially put-out by the lack of formality, Bear is shocked to realise he and Ray are expected to dig Anya’s grave.
A while later, with Anya now in her makeshift grave, Bear makes a speech. Celia watches on, devoid of emotion. Mick and Simo continue to try and convince brainwashed Bear that Ray’s lying to him. They tell him about their plans to escape.
As he stares at a photo of Anya’s daughter and has thoughts of Paddy, Bear is torn, unsure whether to join the planned escape or stay with Ray.
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