Bear Wolf was once Emmerdale’s generous, rough but kind man. And then suddenly… he disappeared.

Rumours abound: deserted, abandoned, runaway.

But the truth is in the darkest of movie-style: Bear was picked up by Ray Walters and thrown into a slave labour camp – hidden among turkey farms and dilapidated barns.

There, people are treated like animals. No days off, no warm soup, just cold lights isolated in the fields.

Bear is forced to work himself to exhaustion. At night – he lies on the floor, listening to the moans of others in the same situation: Anya, Mick, Simo… people no one knows if they are alive or dead.

At the climax, Anya – a girl who accidentally fell – got an infected foot wound. Bear hugged her, wiped her, supported her, begged Ray to take her to the hospital. But Ray just smirked: “I won’t let anyone see you guys.” That sentence was a death sentence. Anya was dying in Bear’s arms, gasping for breath, shivering, then gradually fainted. Bear collapsed with her. It was no longer a movie – it was a living nightmare.

Ray made Bear dig his own grave, burying Anya in the middle of the wasteland – no grave, no name, no one knew. Only the howling wind and the cold hole. Bear held the shovel, his hands shaking, tears falling into the ground. A person who used to talk loudly, used to laugh loudly while drinking beer – now buried his friend. Buried the last of his humanity.

Bear looked up at the sky, and at that moment, Emmerdale became a dark and scary movie. No more moral debate, no more “who is right and who is wrong” – just a warning: hell is real, and it exists even when we are silent.

At that stage, Bear had only two choices: to die slowly in the darkness – or to risk his life to escape. The melancholy in Bear’s eyes, that despair made many fans swear to quit the show. But it was also there that Bear quietly started to think of escaping. Every glance, every small action – a fragile ray of hope in the air filled with death.