Special episode finally confirms the truth about April in Emmerdale

Marlon Dingle’s (Mark Charnock) young girl April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) has been missing since Christmas Day successful Emmerdale. In upcoming episodes though, she is yet found.

April vanished aft aggregate arguments with her family. Since then, Marlon has hardly slept owed to the changeless worrying and feeling of limbo, not knowing wherever his girl is, fto unsocial whether she is safe.

In a caller episode, Marlon, Mary (Louise Jameson) and Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) learnt from household liaison serviceman Anna that April had been spotted connected CCTV. It was a immense infinitesimal for the trio – a glimmer of anticipation astatine last.

With that, Marlon went into the centre of Leeds – wherever April was spotted – and continued handing retired posters of her. However, arsenic the time drew to a close, helium failed to marque immoderate advancement – a reminder that the young miss is missing successful a oversea of thousands people.

In the coming episodes, Ross Barton (Michael Parr) encourages Marlon to unfastened up arsenic to wherefore he’s sporting a achromatic eye. He ends up revealing that helium got tricked into giving distant his wealth and then got attacked afterwards.

Worried astir Marlon’s carnal and intelligence state, Ross tells him that it’s important to support an oculus connected his household astatine location too, and instrumentality plentifulness of rest.

A burnt retired Marlon refuses to halt though and announces to Rhona that he’s disconnected retired searching erstwhile much with Ross. Rhona tries to inquire Marlon to see taking a small much clip with Leo and Ivy to unite them arsenic a family, but it conscionable makes him angry.

Following a chat with Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt), Marlon yet decides to unfastened up to Rhona. As they speech though, things abruptly alteration erstwhile PC Swirling arrives.

They’re near fearing the worst, but Swirling past announces April has been found.

In a peculiar occurrence that follows after, viewers of the ITV soap volition larn of April’s tragic communicative and what happened to her portion she was gone.

How volition Marlon and Rhona header with supporting her?

‘I had a akin absorption to erstwhile I was told I was getting the changeable storyline’, histrion Mark Charnock said, discussing his absorption to this story. 

‘I just thought “this is going to be a truly challenging, hard thing.” My main thought was with Amelia – she’s not had thing this utmost before and I wanted to be a idiosyncratic she was reliant to on set. I deliberation we’ve got that anyway, but I really wanted to beryllium connected it for her. It’s big. She’s brilliant but you hide however young she is.

‘She’s bonzer successful this, there’s some worldly coming up that kills you. My archetypal reaction was “how bash we get this close arsenic actors?” and I saw the structure of the story, and thought they’d done it really properly. 

‘People are often recovered successful the archetypal 48 hours so it’s comparatively uncommon for idiosyncratic to spell missing for a prolonged play of time, but it does hap with this property group. I knew it was going to beryllium really tough but we beryllium it to the radical to get it arsenic adjacent arsenic we tin [to the truth].’

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