Amit Sharma (Anil Goutam) has made a dramatic exit from Emmerdale – with Caleb (William Ash) and Ruby Miligan (Beth Cordingly) set to follow.
Amit has wreaked havoc on the the village for months, with recent scenes showing his attempt to fleece soap legend Eric Pollard out of his financial assets.
Keen to get his hands on his fortune, he invited him to join a new ‘business venture’.
In a further twist, we learnt that when his brother Rishi (Bhaskar Patel) fell down the stairs and passed away at Holdgate Farm last year, he was the one responsible in a bid to get his hands on inheritance money that would pay off his mounting debts.
After finding out that Amit was responsible, Jai played him at his own game and flung him down the very same staircase.
Realising that he’d broken his leg, he made matters worse and stood on it in a bid to get Amit to explain his reasoning for Rishi’s death, before taking his phone so that he couldn’t call for help.
He explained how he had begged his brother to hand over his share, which was met with him sharing some tough home truths, enough to cause him to lash out and be complicit in his death.
As a vicious row erupted between the pair, Pollard showed up and demanded to call the police, but after sending him on his way, Jai had other ideas.
In tonight’s (29th March) episode, Suni (Brahmdeo Shannon Ramana) was devastated to learn that his dad had seemingly left the village without saying goodbye.
Keeping shtum on yesterday’s events, Jai ordered Pollard to Holdgate to reveal that he’d kept Amit tied up.
We didn’t see this one coming!
Telling him that he’d only let him free if he signed over his shares in Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits and left for India, Jai told him to fabricate a story about his leg when he sought medical attention.
In agreement – Eric asserted that Amit deserved everything that was coming to him.
Back at the HOP, Jai dealt a further blow and told Suni that his dad had left nothing to him as he didn’t think he was capable of running a business.
Actor Chris Bisson has spoken out about how his character will change following the incident: ‘The fact that Rishi is no longer with him, means that Jai feels like he needs to avenge his death in some way.
‘Jai is not a murderer deep down but I think he has been pushed to his limit here. But he has let Amit away with his life
‘But it has changed something inside him and going forward the way he views life and people and relationships may well be affected. Certainly the way he treats business will probably be affected too.’
Is this the last we’ve seen of Amit?
Meanwhile, following the explosive fallout of Caleb’s affair with Tracy Robinson (Amy Walsh), things have been incredibly tense amongst their neighbours.
Caleb’s wife Ruby has persisted in adding fuel to the fire by winding up just about everyone she’s met since arriving.
She even forced her husband to ruin Tracy’s prospects of opening a new nursery by exposing her past as a sex worker to potential clients.
After a huge falling out with his family, Ruby suggested forgetting about them and he started to look at properties in Manchester.
Worried that their son Nicky (Lewis Cope) wouldn’t want to venture far, she suggested nearby Harrogate instead.
Could they be about to make a grand departure?
If next week’s spoilers are anything to go by – we don’t reckon so.
