After weeks of confusion, Emmerdale drops a big twist: Bear Wolf returns, but no one recognizes him anymore.

His face is gaunt, his eyes are lost, and his arm is still covered in a sloppy bandage.

When Paddy hugs his father, Bear whispers: “I shouldn’t have come looking for you…” – and that sentence makes the whole audience silent.

No more warm laughter, no more strong appearance – Bear now looks like a survivor from hell.

Paddy asks, but Bear just says: “There are things you don’t want to know.” In his pocket, Paddy finds a crumpled piece of paper: “Celia – don’t trust her.”

Immediately, suspicion falls on Celia. But when Paddy reports to the police, Celia has disappeared from the Dales. Rumours spread that she left shortly before Bear turned up – and her car was seen parked in the woods near where Bear was found.

Bear was later admitted to hospital, but what left viewers shaken was the scene where he woke in the middle of the night, stared into the mirror and whispered: “They know I’m back.” Who were “they”? And why was Bear so scared?

The episode ended with Paddy sitting on the porch, tears streaming down his face. He understood that Bear had returned, but his beloved father now carried wounds deeper than blood. And Celia – though gone – still cast a shadow over every corner of the Dales.

Emmerdale viewers were abuzz on social media: “Who is Celia really?”, “Is Bear hiding something bigger?”, “Or is someone else controlling them both?”

One thing is for sure – Emmerdale is entering its darkest chapter yet, where every look could be a warning, and every character is teetering on the edge of a cliff.