It’s Nate Robinson’s (Jurell Carter) funeral next week in Emmerdale, though the event is anything but an opportunity to peacefully and calmly reflect on the resident’s life.
Nate was killed by John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) last year, but his body in the lake was only discovered fairly recently. With John doing a good job at covering his tracks, the police are still struggling to work out how Nate died, as well as who was responsible.
With the funeral approaching, John spends the days prior filled with dread and to make things even worse, he can’t even persuade Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) not to attend.
At the surgery, John takes a look at his list and discovers his next appointment is with Owen, the person who spiked Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley).
Owen recognises John, and is then thrown out of the surgery.
A potential threat quashed once more, John turns his focus back to the funeral, as he’s asked by Aaron to try and get Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh) to change her mind about the Dingles attending.
Sadly, she doesn’t budge on her decision.
Later, as the memorial begins in the pub, Cain channels his grief into anger. Just as Caleb Miligan (William Ash) has got his brother to calm down, Nate’s mum walks in and is furious to see Cain looking so jovial.
When the day of Nate’s funeral arrives, the Dingles arrive en-masse behind the hearse. The event quickly descends into chaos and a major argument escalates between multiple characters.
Listening in and struggling is John. Unable to stand it any longer, he makes an emotional appeal for a truce, but ends up getting roped into doing the eulogy instead of Tracy.
With DS Walsh watching, John starts the eulogy but as he feels more and more under pressure, it looks as though he may confess…
