No one yet knows that Nate Robinson (Jurell Carter) has been languishing at the bottom of the Emmerdale lake, but they’re about to.
As far as the Dingles are concerned, Nate did a bunk months ago to Shetland, cutting contact with his wife and daughter except for the odd text, and driving the nail in the coffin by sending a third- party company to come and collect his belongings.
So far, the Dingles have very strangely not questioned this, believing instead that family man Nate had had some kind of personality transplant and abandoned his loved ones.
Cain (Jeff Hordley) even allowed himself to be talked out of heading to Scotland to look for him.
But one Dingle is finally about to question things, much to John Sugden’s (Oliver Farnworth) fear, and it all comes down to chance.
Hard up and vengeful Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh) is still using Nate’s credit card, but when it’s unexpectedly declined, Belle (Eden Taylor Draper) steps in to help.
The two women chat, and it’s Belle who starts to clock how out of character this behaviour is of Nate.
After doing some digging, Belle later tells Sam (James Hooton) that Nate never arrived for his job in the Shetlands. This is pretty groundbreaking news, and Cain struggles to absorb this development.
This is very bad for John, who desperately tries to convince Belle that Nate must be fine. He manipulates her into giving up her plan to report it to the police.
Belle decides not to call the cops, realising it would impact Tracy and Frankie, and chooses instead to focus on the wedding. But things here are not done and John is not yet safe.
As wedding prep gets underway, John is left panicked when he overhears Moira (Natalie J Robb) tell Cain the lake needs to be dredged.
The lake is currently hiding the secret of Nate’s fate and would be devastating for John if the water company does their thing. Who will reveal his secret first, the water company, or Belle?
