Next week in Emmerdale, the drama continues to explode when John Sugden – a wanted criminal – suddenly contacts Caleb Milligan in a secret meeting in the middle of the night.

No longer stopping at simple blackmail, John makes a direct threat, putting the fate of Cain and Aaron in the balance.

While the police increase surveillance of the village, the audience witnessed John’s reckless escape.

He groped out in the dark, looking for the meeting place with Caleb.

This meeting took place in a tense atmosphere, each line like a knife cutting into Caleb’s usual calm.

John looked straight at Caleb, coldly repeating: “If you don’t help me get out of here, Cain and Aaron will be dragged down with me. I know enough to bring the whole Dingle family down.” This threat left Caleb speechless, because he knew clearly that Cain and Aaron were both involved in the cover-up of Anthony Fox’s death.

What was more frightening was that John no longer just wanted to escape abroad. He wanted Caleb to prepare money, documents and means of transportation, as a “silence fee” to keep the secret. This situation pushed Caleb into a dead end: if he agreed, he would become an accomplice to the crime; if he refused, the risk of the whole family being exposed to the law was inevitable.

Meanwhile, Ruby began to notice unusual changes in her husband. She kept questioning, but Caleb remained silent. That silence made Ruby even more afraid that John was getting closer and closer to exposing the truth. The scenes of Ruby looking at her husband in tears, while Caleb turned away with a heavy face, made the audience suffocate.