Emmerdale boss teases multiple deaths in harrowing limo lake stunt

Emmerdale bosses person pulled retired each the stops for a immense limo water stunt to beryllium aired connected Valentine's Day, and the show's manager has revealed a tragic extremity for immoderate of village's residents

Emmerdale is acceptable to aerial 1 of its biggest storylines successful caller years, which amusement manager Vicky Thomas has promised volition amusement "characters successful ways that they person ne'er seen before". The Valentine's Day episode, connected Friday 14 February, volition spot 16 of Emmerdale's biggest characters embroiled successful terrifying limousine clang scenes.

One of cars crashes into the woods, but the 2nd volition plunge into a frozen water - and not everyone volition marque it retired alive. Vicky Thomas, who has directed assorted episodes of the ITV implicit the past decade, said the scenes volition beryllium afloat of "very precocious emotions" and besides teased that the repercussions of the clang volition beryllium felt successful the colony for a agelong clip to come.

"I deliberation the assemblage volition spot the characters successful ways that they person ne'er seen before," she said. "And the repercussions of what happens implicit this nighttime volition spell connected for a precise agelong time. And I deliberation immoderate things volition adjacent alteration everlastingly from them. As determination are immoderate who bash not marque it due to the fact that of what happens to them."

The soap's writers and execs person been tight-lipped astir who volition beryllium progressive successful the harrowing scenes, but we bash cognize that determination volition beryllium a limo afloat of boys and different afloat of girls - and immoderate of them volition extremity up successful the icy water.

On the logistics of shooting specified unthinkable drama, Vicky revealed they'd utilized 3 limousines for the scenes, including a spare 1 that was specially adapted and enactment connected the lake.

"So that is the 1 that remains determination passim - we ne'er drove that 1 anyplace due to the fact that to marque it each work, we had to instrumentality the motor out," she said. "And we had drilled holes successful the bottommost of the conveyance truthful that the h2o would capable it rapidly to spell down. For the archetypal week connected the crystal we filmed with it successful a benignant of chemoreceptor down presumption and past the 2nd week it got attached to an enormous, and I mean enormous, huge, gangly crane.

"The limo dangled from it similar a puppet, floating conscionable supra the ice, and past spot by spot it would yet driblet into this tremendous pit that had been dug below."

There person been a fig of explosive storylines successful Emmerdale implicit the years, which person signalled the exit of immoderate of the soap's best-loved characters. Possibly the astir celebrated of these, the Emmerdale level crash, aired successful 1993 and saw a Canada-bound level tumble retired of the entity and onshore successful the village.

Four regular characters were killed disconnected - Elizabeth Pollard, Archie Brooke, Mark Hughes and Leonard Kempinski - and the full decease toll including the level passengers was 147.

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