Emmerdale’s Nicola makes bold and risky play to defeat Tom King – with unexpected outcome

Emmerdale’s Nicola King (Nicola Wheeler) made a risky and rather unexpected determination successful bid to get the power successful the warfare against Tom (James Chase), moving backmost successful to her home.

The erstwhile councillor, arsenic viewers know, made the hard determination to move retired of Victoria Cottage – wherever she has lived with Jimmy (Nick Miles) for years – successful bid to support her kids from abuser Tom.

Tom is nether probe implicit the mode helium treated wife Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) passim the people of their marriage, with ardently Jimmy believing that his nephew is innocent.

Nicola, however, knows afloat good that Tom is guilty, having seen what he’s susceptible of archetypal manus erstwhile helium terrorised her lad Carl Holliday (Charlie Joyce) implicit the whereabouts of his tablet, which harboured important grounds that confirmed his guilt.

With Angelica (Rebecca Bakes) retired of the unafraid children’s location and struggling to settee backmost in, Nicola yet decided to enactment her household archetypal arsenic she told Jimmy she was moving retired – and wouldn’t beryllium moving backmost until Tom left.

Jimmy has recovered himself divided implicit the situation, desperately wanting to beryllium determination for Angel but besides refusing to footwear Tom out.

With Cain (Jeff Hordley) having attacked Tom earlier this week, Jimmy decided to support his nephew, confronting hard-man Cain, who lashed retired and attacked him.

Nicola was horrified erstwhile she acceptable her sights connected Jimmy’s bruises – and was arsenic upset that helium didn’t archer her astir what happened.

Feeling blameworthy for not being there, she decided that she would determination backmost successful to Victoria Cottage – though she made wide that thing has alteration wherever Tom is concerned.

Tom was speedy to marque airy of Nicola’s return, branding them each ‘one large blessed family’, but Nicola reiterated her thoughts connected him, telling the abuser that she feels ‘ill’ conscionable looking astatine him.

But Tom was unfazed, trying to get wrong her caput arsenic helium told her with a sly grin that ‘blood is truthful overmuch thicker than water’ wherever Jimmy is concerned.

Nicola was near with nutrient for thought. Her instrumentality hasn’t done overmuch successful the mode of making Tom consciousness unsettled – if anything, it seems to person had the other effect.

But if there’s 1 happening we cognize astir Nicola it’s that she’s relentless and she volition not halt until she gets what she wants – and that’s Tom retired of their lives for good.

Emmerdale airs weeknights astatine 7:30pm connected ITV1 oregon watercourse from 7am connected ITVX.

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