The residents of Emmerdale were rocked by the sudden, shock death of Ethan Anderson (Emile John) in Tuesday (May 28)’s episode.
The lawyer collapsed at home as he and his father Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) prepared to go to court, where Ethan was due to be sentenced for driving offences that led to Nicky Miligan (Lewis Cope) being seriously injured.
Viewers later saw Nicky’s mum, Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly), taking revenge for what happened to her son by running Ethan over and then driving away from the scene.
She later visited him at his home where she showed no remorse for her actions, which had led to him being battered and bruised. In fact, she warned him that if Nicky didn’t pull through she would ‘Finish the job.’
In the wake of Ethan’s death it was his grieving father Charles’ turn to issue threats, as he pledged ‘by almighty God’ that whoever had committed the hit and run would be made to pay for their actions. Charles was convinced that Ethan must have sustained hidden injuries during that incident that then led to his death.
Ruby was talking to Claudette Anderson (Flo Wilson) when Charles and Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker) came back from the hospital with the news about Ethan and we saw the shock on her face as she realised that her actions might have led to his death.
Clearly for all her tough talk, Ruby is not so callous that she would actually want someone else’s son dead.
While everyone waits for the result of the post mortem to determine whether it was the hit and run that killed Ethan, Ruby is terrified of the possible consequences she might face.
A new spoiler video shows the moment that Ruby spots the police in the village. While Caleb Miligan (William Ash) reassures her that it ‘Could be about anything,’ Ruby is almost paralysed with fear.
Caleb urges her to stick to the story that they’ve agreed together and act like they’re going about their normal business.
Ruby’s fears are confirmed when PC Swirling (Andy Moore) approaches and asks if Caleb and Ruby have a few minutes to spare. ‘You’ll no doubt have heard about Ethan Anderson,’ he says.
Trying to act normally Ruby says they were there when Ethan was taken away by the ambulance.
Interestingly, the only other person in the clip is Rose Jackson (Christine Tremarco). We recently discovered that there’s a link between Ruby and Rose, with the latter apparently working with Ruby to destroy Kim Tate (Claire King).
Rose has been living at Home Farm at the request of her daughter, Dawn Fletcher (Olivia Bromley).
Rose abandoned Dawn when she was five years old but is now apparently on a mission to get to know her daughter, particularly as Dawn’s son Evan is in hospital with leukaemia and she needs as much support as she can get.
Kim Tate already distrusts Rose because of her history with Will Taylor (Dean Andrews) and Dawn, but in recent scenes viewers have seen Rose talking to Ruby about the plot against Kim – with Rose seemingly wanting to get out of the deal they made together.
What will Rose do with the information that Ruby is being questioned by the police? Could this be her chance to get out of the pact they have together?
And will the police get to the truth of what Ruby did to Ethan?
