While the whole village of Emmerdale is busy decorating, arguing, worrying about illegal hunting dramas and the Queen of Home Farm collapsed in the woods, there is one character who is almost completely forgotten from the general picture: Bear Wolf.

Many people in the village believe that Bear simply left after family conflicts, but the truth is revealed by the spoiler: he is imprisoned in a “labor camp” run by Celia,

living every day in the hell she created, without Christmas lights, without warm dinners, only fear, hunger and the feeling that he has been forgotten by the world.

Bear is the type of person who is stubborn, noisy, sometimes causing trouble, but always has a very “normal” energy: he accepts his mistakes, says he is hurt, and is not good at hiding.

Because of that, the fact that he was tricked into Celia’s hands is even more painful. A man who had tried to connect, to find his place in his family, ended up enslaved in a system of exploitation with no way out. In that prison, Bear not only worked himself to the bone; he also had to witness stories that, if he survived, he would never forget for the rest of his life – including the death of Anya, the rare cellmate who gave him a bit of warmth in the darkness.

The scene where Bear had to bury Anya with his own hands, trying to organize a “makeshift funeral” for her in inhumane circumstances, is one of the most painful moments in this storyline. It shows that no matter how trampled, Bear still tried to cling to humanity: trying to treat the deceased with kindness, trying to maintain the idea that the person was a full person, not just a commodity that Celia used and threw away.