After a tense meeting at Victoria House, John Sugden has no time. He decides to execute his biggest plan yet: flee England to start a new life in France.

The audience watches with bated breath as he prepares.

John contacts several underground contacts, plots a route across the border.

He envisions himself crossing the border, disappearing from Yorkshire as if he never existed.

However, the cracks in his plan are evident: the police have tightened the roads, the villagers are on guard, and his wanted list is everywhere.

In a haunting scene, John stands alone by the river, looking south as if he can see Paris in the distance. He mutters: “There, I’ll start again… no one will know who I am.” But the audience knows this is no fairy tale. Crime can’t be easily left behind, and the border could be where he stumbles.

By setting up this daring plan, Emmerdale adds a new twist: a chase across the border. Will John really escape, or is it all a trap?