At the start of January, Emmerdale’s Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) left us all stunned when he returned from the dead.

The character, who was apparently murdered in 2020, got caught up in the Corriedale crash. He had a woman in the back of his van tied up, who turned out to be Coronation Street’s Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown).

While we’ve gone on to discover that Jodie is a woman who shouldn’t be messed with, we don’t actually know why she was in the back of Graham’s van, and what happened in the lead up to her being in there.

We get somewhat closer to getting our answers next week in Emmerdale, as Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) finds Graham bloodied and bruised following a brutal attack.

Star Zoe Henry explained more: ‘She doesn’t know she’s going to see Graham. She goes up to Home Farm reluctantly. Vanessa says: “You need to go up to Home Farm, you need to check out Kim’s horses”. I think she knows that is loaded, there’s a risk. She goes there and Graham has been attacked – and unbeknownst to her at this point, stabbed.

‘So she goes into medical mode, gets him into Home Farm and tries to get the wound dressed. She wants to take him to hospital but he won’t go.’

Zoe revealed: ‘It transpires that this has happened because of Rhona. So Jodie – who was at the back of the car in the Corriedale ep – that was a job for Graham and she got away, so he failed the mission.’

Rhona learns that Graham has only been attacked because she asked him for help with finding Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) a couple of days ago. If Graham didn’t take the risk, his whereabouts would’ve remained unknown.

‘He laid low and hoped that would be the end of it, but then when Dylan went missing Rhona pleaded with him for help and said: “Can you help find him?” And in doing so, he exposed where he was and so therefore these people that he’d been working for came to find him and that was then teaching him a lesson’, Zoe said.

‘So it’s Rhona’s fault – and I think that’s why Rhona is glad that she’s found him and she was there.’

Alongside the ongoing drama at Home Farm, Graham has been busy making it very obvious that he still loves Rhona. He’s said it so many times and on the odd occasion, it’s been clear that Rhona still feels something for Graham as well. However, Rhona has actually done the right thing and not acted on it because she doesn’t want her marriage to fall apart.

This is soapland though, which means Rhona’s moral compass can only work for so long. While she’s busy tending to an unwell Graham, the chemistry between them suddenly reignites only this time, those flames are bigger than ever before.

‘He’s been stabbed on his side, so in the physical act of trying to dress that wound, she’s very close to him and she’s touching his skin. I imagine in that moment it’s like, bam, you’re back to where you were six years ago’, Zoe told us.

‘They were a couple, they were obviously intimate and that proximity just brings everything back. It’s risky, it’s exciting and it’s also terrifying for Rhona.’

Rhona will make her choice between Marlon and Graham soon and for Zoe, given everything Rhona and her family have just been through with Celia and Ray, it seems she’s made up her mind when it comes to which team she’s on.

‘The amazing story that Amelia’s [Flanagan, who plays April] just told – the whole Celia and Ray thing – has just cemented Rhona’s role, not as April’s mother but as close as she could ever be to Donna. I think that would be as difficult to walk away from as it would be to walk away from Marlon.’