ITV Share By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 Our Emmerdale review: Cain causing trouble - again, John sneaking around and Caleb making very bad choices 'It's been a weird couple of weeks,' said Mack. He's right! Caleb and Ruby's daughter Features John Sugden Share By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 This week’s Emmerdale had a lot to live up to! After the excitement of the last couple of weeks, we were worried that this week’s episodes could have been a bit of an anticlimax. Were we right? Hmm. Certainly when it comes to some of this week’s Emmerdale storylines. The image of Dr Liam weeing in a sink is seared on to our eyeballs for life. Anyway, as Mack said to Aaron in a masterful example of understatement: “It’s been a weird couple of weeks.” Here’s what we thought of the action in this week’s Emmerdale review. John is a master of hiding (Credit: ITV) Stealthy John There were police everywhere in the village. Every. Where. Except, it seemed, where John was. Which was also everywhere. Peeking round corners, wandering up to the depot, hanging out behind cars. And yet no one saw him. But then again, he is ex-military which apparently gives a person the same powers as an invisibility cloak provides! Anyway, John skulked around the village, fading into the background whenever anyone walked past. And he ended up at the depot where he had a proposal for Caleb. He wanted Caleb to take him to Europe in one of his trucks, and in return he wouldn’t tell the police about Anthony’s death. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Caleb agreed to John’s demands (Credit: ITV) Caleb’s lack of critical thinking Now, we are not forensic scientists. We are not criminologists. We are not detectives. But we have watched a lot of episodes of Unforgotten so we consider ourselves pretty much fully qualified. And we don’t think John pointing the finger at Ruby for Anthony’s death would hold a lot of water. So what if her DNA was on the body? He was her dad. They lived in the same house. Plus Ruby is a trustworthy, upstanding member of the community whereas John is – hold on, let us just check our notes – oh that’s right, an unhinged kidnapper and murderer. Hmm. Still Jai clocking the dashcam footage of John in the truck and using it to get the upper hand over Caleb is probably the punishment Mr Miligan deserved. For the love of god, Cain, have you learned NOTHING? (Credit: ITV) Cain’s lack of any thinking at all But all those very sensible arguments did not seem to bother Caleb. He agreed to help John, but then he also told Cain, and Cain showed up with a shotgun in typical Cain fashion, and the whole thing went off the rails in a most frustrating and infuriating way. Cain Dingle has been showing up with a shotgun – metaphorically and literally – since he first arrived in Emmerdale 500 years ago or thereabouts. It never ends well. More often than not it leads to more trouble. Sometimes it ends in someone’s death. Once it ended with his own son in prison for murder. And yet, still his first response to any sort of bother is to go storming in with his fists, or a weapon. This time it ended up with him being clobbered round the noggin and bundled into the back of Caleb’s car. Meanwhile Caleb took John off to Hull and then to Rotterdam. John cunningly hid under a sheet when the customs officer came looking (Credit: ITV) The customs officer’s lack of looking We would like to add customs officer to the list of jobs we have not done, but think we’d be really good at. Well, we’d certainly be better than the one who ‘searched’ Caleb’s truck. And by search we mean open one box. Oh and ignore the man-shaped mound hidden under a dust-sheet beside the unopened boxes. So thanks to the combined rubbishness of Caleb, Cain and the customs chap, John has got away. But we reckon he’ll be back. A Christmas return, perhaps… Flossie’s getting on our wick (Credit: ITV) Feisty April Well, well, well, April – or should we call her Flossie – has got a bit lippy with evil Ray. It was actually quite funny when she said, with a raised eyebrow, that the interest charges on her and Dylan’s ‘debt’ were “criminal”. But we’re still not loving this storyline, because April is an entitled little madam who treats her parents like something on the bottom of her shoe and who has well and truly got herself into this whole mess. But also Rhona, we know it’s a while since you were at school but ‘working from home’ is not a thing for kids in y11. Not. A. Thing. And you know what else isn’t a thing? Ray’s mysterious bosses who keep cranking up the pressure on his teenage minions. They’re just Ray, right? He’s the one running this whole thing? Meanwhile, the evil drug dealer took time out of his busy drug dealing schedule to teach Dylan how to drive. Dylan pointed out that he doesn’t have a provisional licence – and therefore no insurance – and Ray reassured him he didn’t need one, because they weren’t going on the road. But he did make the effort to get him some L plates. Awww. Cute. Concerned Claudette wants Liam to get checked out. We just want him to stop (Credit: ITV) Liam’s water works We know Liam’s trouble with his wees is probably a useful reminder for men of a certain age to get their prostates checked. We understand that’s important. But… URGH. Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns Share Good to Know Share By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 By Kerry Barrett Sep 27 2025 Previous Story Next Story
