01/01/2026
It's panic stations in Ambridge and one resident makes a heartbreaking discovery
As the New Year begins Emma and Will desperately search for Keira, unable to contact Ed or Eddie, while drawing a blank with Keira鈥檚 friends. Will reassures Emma, who believes that somehow it鈥檚 all her fault.
Lilian finds Fallon treating a cut to her hand, downplaying any effect George鈥檚 appearance earlier might have had on her. Meanwhile, Neil and Tracy meet up on the Green, joined by Jazzer, then Will and Emma, the strain beginning to tell on all of them. Jazzer and Neil head off to check a bridle path, while Emma blames herself again, before Tracy suggests calling George, in case he knows something. On the bridle path Neil hears the sound of a phone, before spotting a body.
Fallon joins Emma, Will and Tracy, suggesting they ring the police, before Will tries George and increasingly frazzled Emma despairs her phone has died. Elsewhere, Neil calls 999, reporting that George hasn鈥檛 got a pulse, while Jazzer reels in shock. Neil then wraps George in his coat, desperately looking for signs of life, while an ambulance someone else has called approaches. Emma panics, thinking the ambulance is for Keira and chases after it, followed by Will, not hearing Tracy report that Keira鈥檚 been found. On the path Neil tells Emma it鈥檚 not Keira, while Will passes on the news that Keira鈥檚 safe. Neil then tells them George has been attacked, but won鈥檛 say how badly he's been hurt. He tries to hold Emma back, but she tears herself free to be with her son.
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