Joe Tate’s (Ned Porteous) meddling has caused a feud to form between Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) and Sam Dingle (James Hooton) in Emmerdale.
Joe was put in charge of Kim Tate’s (Claire King) grand plan a few days ago. As she left for Dubai, Joe decided to focus on getting Butlers Farm from Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb).
He pounced on his prey after learning that Moira had received more bad news from the water company. Due to Moira being in a vulnerable position when Joe put forward the idea of her selling, it meant she was very tempted.
Moira changed her mind on signing the contract when she discovered Joe had paid Noel from the water company to deliberately reject her appeal. She then faced a nightmare when two teens broke into a barn, and immediately thought that Joe was responsible for organising it.
At Home Farm, Joe told Moira that his plans, as ruthless as they are, never involve putting children in danger. Moira didn’t believe him and went to punch Joe, but poor Lydia Dingle (Karen Blick) got in the way.
Moira was arrested and taken to the station in this evening’s episode and while this was happening, Cain was on the warpath.
He found Lydia and told her to lie to the police if she got questioned about Moira hitting her. Lydia was unsure about this, but Cain threatened her and said she didn’t have a choice.
While Cain was playing bad cop, Joe took a different approach. He spoke to Lydia and Sam and said that he likes them both, and said Moira shouldn’t get away with an act of violence.
Moira ended up getting released from prison due to the complaint getting dropped. Unfortunately though, that wasn’t the end of the matter.
In the pub, Cain and Sam continued to argue. Cain felt frustrated over Sam’s loyalty to the Tates, while Sam looked at his brother differently after his confrontation with Lydia.
Cain told Sam that he needs to pick a side – and he chose the Tates…which is bound to just make things worse.
But with Joe confirming he definitely didn’t organise the barn break-in, who did?
