John Sugden's next victim 'sealed' as Paddy becomes embroiled in the Emmerdale killer's web
John has no idea Paddy could be on to him, but there are fears for when he finds outThings are not looking good for Paddy Dingle after he was revealed as the crisis volunteer counselling John Sugden in Emmerdale.
We know John will go to extreme lengths to protect his secrets, whatever the cost. So is Paddy’s time up if John figures out he’s on to him?
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John started to realise things weren’t going as he’d hoped when he framed Owen for Nate’s death when he went to see Cain and saw what a state he was still in. Having hoped Owen being named the killer would give Cain closure, John was disappointed. Even his carefully crafted ‘suicide’ note hadn’t made a blind bit of difference to Cain’s mood.
Liam later told John Cain didn’t have justice because there had been no trial, no explanation and no way to remember Nate properly. John was gutted his brilliant plan had not worked out how he thought it would.
Meanwhile, Robert was still intrigued by the whole thing. Especially when Moira revealed Owen had supposedly planted Nate’s phone in Frankie’s playhouse, framing Tracy.
Robert very quickly realised this was not adding up at all…
Elsewhere, Marlon was worried Paddy was isolating himself when he didn’t want to play Zombie Apocolypse again. But Paddy had other plans – and we were about to find out what.
As John knocked back the whiskey, he was having a conversation via messages with a volunteer at the crisis line. He stopped typing when they recommended a call rather than messages. And we saw who was the one helping John: Paddy!
Is Paddy John Sugden’s next victim in Emmerdale?
So this puts Paddy in the firing line, well and truly. John is opening up to the anonymous volunteer like he has no one else and if Paddy learns all the facts, that puts him in a lot of danger. A LOT.
So far, John has decided not to call and talk to Paddy. But if he does, it wouldn’t take much for the vet to recognise his voice. And then he would put two and two together and find out everything.
John is no stranger to trying to silence people – he was fully prepared to kill Aidan Moore when he woke up and knew too much.
And, despite Aaron being like a son to Paddy, we doubt John feels that strongly about him that he would spare his life. In fact, it would give him the chance to play the hero again as he comforted Aaron over Paddy’s demise.
But perhaps Paddy is too big for John to take down? We imagine if Paddy were to be leaving the soap – of which there are no rumours at all, we must add – it would be with a much bigger storyline than this. With Robert also on John’s case, perhaps he and Paddy could team up against John?
It really is about time this came to an end. However Emmerdale decides to finish it, it had better come quick – and with no harm done to Paddy!
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