On Emmerdale the following week, Kyle’s trauma is revealed upon his return to the village, and is Chas’s secret about to be revealed?
While Matty (Ash Palmisciano) was looking for explanations for why Amy (Natalie Jamieson), Kyle (Huey Quinn), and Moira (Natalie J. Robb) decided to pack up and move to Belfast, he never anticipated to learn the horrifying truth about Al’s (Michael Wildman) death. Cain (Jeff Hordley) is actually stepping in for 10-year-old Kyle while he is incarcerated for murder and waiting to be sentenced.
The atmosphere between Matty, his mother, and his ex-girlfriend will be noticeably chilly when Moira, Amy, and Kyle return to the village the following week. Matty is still upset about their lack of trust in him.
Matty was hoping for a reconciliation with Amy after she dumped him without explanation, but he is disappointed by her insistence that their relationship is over. Taking care of Kyle must be her top priority.
Chloe (Jessie Elland) is also prowling around, as if Kyle weren’t enough to be concerned about. Chloe has come to the (false) conclusion that Moira was the other woman, which is why Cain shot Al (Michael Wildman), after learning that he was having an affair with her mother Kerry (Laura Norton) at the time of his death.
Amy is determined to clear her name because she is concerned about how Chloe’s ongoing investigation will impact Moira given everything else that is going on. By pleading with her to do it for Kerry’s sake, she persuades her newly discovered sister to end her investigation.
But Chloe is taken aback when Amy later requests that she leave. Chloe informs Amy that she is pregnant because she has nowhere else to turn, which puts Amy in an awkward situation. Chloe staying puts Kyle’s terrible secret at even greater risk of leaking, but can she really be that heartless as to throw her out?
Moira suggests looking for Al’s mistress herself when she visits Cain in jail. She has no idea that the mysterious woman causing all the stress is actually her sister-in-law Chas (Lucy Pargeter), but Cain chooses to keep this information to himself. He is more worried about how quickly their own secret appears to be getting out there.
In the meantime, Kyle makes his way back to the crime scene and is visibly troubled by what he did. He starts to assemble a memorial for Al by piling rocks in the center of the barn.
Matty is concerned to later discover the rocks, realising what they symbolise, and he voices his misgivings about Kyle returning to school, worrying that it’s too soon.
The following morning, as they send Kyle off to school, Matty, Moira, and Amy put on a brave face and make an effort to act as though everything is normal. I can almost feel the family’s anxiety: are they acting properly?
When Amy updates Moira, she also mentions Chloe’s pregnancy because Matty and Amy have reconciled and have talked things over. Mack (Lawrence Robb), Moira’s brother, is uneasy about being the father of her child, but it appears his secret is safe for the time being.
Speaking of keeping things hidden, while Cain continues to keep Chas’s antics with Al to himself, he isn’t the only one who is aware of them. While Chas’s son Aaron (Danny Miller), who was disgusted with his mother, has since returned to Italy, there is still the minor issue of Belle (Eden Taylor-Draper).
When she saw them leaving a hotel in August, Belle was the first to learn that Chas was seeing Al, and she had trusted Chas when she said she’d put an end to it.
Chas’s guarded response to Belle’s teasing about her infidelity, however, tells Belle everything she needs to know because she realizes right away that it was still going on when Al passed away. Chas is compelled to refute Belle’s allegations, but how long can Belle continue to act this way?
