A seemingly normal morning in Emmerdale turns into a nightmare for Moira Dingle when her husband, Cain, suddenly disappears without a trace.

Everyone initially thinks Cain is just out running errands, but when his phone is switched off, his car is in the garage, and Cain is nowhere to be seen at the farmhouse overnight, Moira knows something is seriously wrong.

When the police officially issue a statement about an incident involving Cain Dingle, Moira is thrown into a spiral of anxiety.

She rushes to the station, demanding information, but all she gets is a cold: “We are investigating, Mrs Dingle, please wait for further information.”

People in the village began to whisper, saying that Cain might have gotten into serious trouble, some even saying he had been arrested for violent conduct in a pub fight the week before.

Moira refused to believe it. She remembered the night before Cain disappeared – he had been acting strangely, avoiding her gaze and saying: “I have to go on a trip, don’t ask why.” Now those words rang out like a premonition. She rushed to find her son Matty to ask, but Matty didn’t know anything either, only shocked to see his mother lose her composure to the point of almost fainting in the cowshed.

The sight of Moira clutching the newspaper with the headline “Cain Dingle suspected in attack on police” sent shivers down the spine of the audience. She had to deal with the fear of the hospital announcing her health test results were abnormal, while also facing the possibility of losing her husband – a double blow that left the resilient woman almost broken.