Everything April has been hiding is finally revealed — but not in the way anyone expected.

On Christmas Eve, Marlon and Leo prepare a small family party, but April disappears.

On the table, they find a hastily written note: “Don’t look for me. I have to finish this.”

It turns out April has been planning her own confrontation with Ray Walters, who is hiding in an abandoned house on the edge of the village.

The opening scene for “Christmas Episode” is revealed to be breathtaking: snow falls, April takes a USB, walks into a cold house, and confronts Ray. He sneers: “Do you really think you can win?” When she tries to call the police, Ray rushes in, violently wrestling. The struggle causes the USB to fall to the floor, shattering, and April is pushed, hitting her head on the wall.

Meanwhile, Marlon and Rhona and the villagers discover that April’s phone still has the GPS on. The group rushes through the snow, racing against time to save her. The scene where Marlon desperately screams: “APRIL! DAD IS HERE!” promises to make the audience choke up. When they arrive, Ray has disappeared, April is unconscious. She is taken to hospital in critical condition, and the police declare: “This is no longer an accident – ​​this is a crime.”

The final episode of Emmerdale is expected to end with a shocking cliffhanger: Is Ray arrested or still on the run? The USB is broken, but can the data be recovered? And most importantly – will April survive to tell the story? A haunting final scene could happen: in a dimly lit hospital room, April opens her eyes, looks out the window at the falling snow, and sees… Ray’s silhouette standing silently in the night.