Emmerdale has aired a heartbreaking revelation for Steph Miligan as Anthony Fox’s death storyline comes to a head.
In tonight’s emotional episode, Steph was still convinced her parents were lying to her about Anthony’s disappearance. In earlier scenes, Ruby killed her father Anthony, who had abused her when she was a teenager and fathered Steph.
In new scenes, Ross Barton warned Caleb that Steph intended to go to the police as she suspected her dad had lied about the gun she’d found in the safe.
Caleb rushed home, where he found Steph confronting Ruby about Anthony. Insisting Ruby knew the truth, Steph asked her mum to finally be honest with her and stop covering for Caleb.
Ruby was about to cave in to the pressure, but her husband stopped her.
“There’s nothing for her to confess to,” he said. “Because it was me. I killed him.”
Despite Caleb’s assurances he didn’t mean to and it happened in the rage of the moment, Steph reacted badly, pushing her father and accusing her mother of hating Anthony.
“He was just an old man, and you killed him!” Steph yelled before ordering Caleb to hand himself in before she could report him.
Before he could head to the police station, Ruby pleaded with Caleb not to take the fall for what she did. He insisted, saying: “I couldn’t save you back then, I’m saving you now.”
Devastated, Ruby resorted to telling Steph what really happened thirty years prior.
“I can’t do this,” Ruby began. “That man… I left home because he was abusing me. Sexually abusing me.”
“As soon as I could, I ran away,” she continued.
“I thought you got kicked out because you were pregnant?” Steph asked.
With Ruby remaining silent, Steph put two and two together, realising in horror that Anthony was her biological father.
“I feel sick,” Steph said, pacing around the room.
“Everything you are feeling right now, I would walk into a fire to make it go away,” Ruby told her daughter.
As Steph was worrying about Caleb going to the police, Ruby blurted it all out.
“It was me, I did it. I ended his life,” Ruby finally said.
Mother and daughter raced to the police station to stop Caleb before it was too late. The three went back home, where Caleb reassured Steph nothing would change.
“You’ll always be my little girl,” he said. “I am your dad.”
Elsewhere in the village, Vanessa Woodfield found Mary Goskirk’s bracelet under the sofa, realising she was Suzy Merton’s other woman.
Furious and heartbroken, Vanessa headed to the Woolpack, where she confronted Mary with Rhona by her side.
Mary admitted to having kissed Suzy and said she was sorry, but Vanessa threw a drink in her face in front of all the other patrons.
