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Stephen has gone - and Dolly's attempts to pick up the pieces of her life are hard enough, without the village gossip. Eric cracks nasty jokes at Matt and Dolly's expense. Alan asks him to keep quiet.

Nick foils a raid on the Beckindale Shop and post office. He proves to be a hero of the hour. But as the robbers flee the scene, they drop some of the money onto the floor. Nick cannot help but take some of the money that the robbers dropped on the floor.

A quiet drink in The Woolpack turns into a nightmare for Matt, while Joe and Sandie discover that both Ruth and Phil have guilty secrets. Matt storms out of the pub when Phil asks how he is, and goes to his truck and cries. Jack follows him and provides a shoulder to cry on for Matt. They go back to fix the fence and then decide to call it a day. Nick is becoming friendlier with Clare Sutcliffe.

Joe has to decide whether he still wants to marry Ruth - and Nick discovers that the money he stole has gone missing. He goes to phone the police but then decides not to. Nick tells Archie. Archie gives him a lift into Leeds. Joe is horrified to discover that Ruth saw Liam while she was in Ireland. Ruth wants to be with Joe but he feels she may still remain in touch with Liam and that he cannot risk that. He says that every time she goes out, he will think she is going to see Liam or to phone him. She tries to talk him round but he says the trust has gone. He decides to break up with Ruth for good and asks her to leave.

Annie and Dolly have a chat about her marriage to Matt. Dolly has booked a holiday but Matt is not in the holiday mood and ends up tearing up the tickets. Phil is in trouble with the Inland Revenue and Sandie finds that he has been lying through his teeth about their debts. Nick is hiding his grief over stealing some of the money left over by the robbers in the Post Office raid. He and Archie meet Clare's sister Helen while in Leeds. They go to a department store and then onto a nightclub.

Eric chats up Dolly at Hotten Cattle Market and an angry Matt threatens to break his neck. Ruth and Joe call off their relationship once and for all and she decides to return to Ireland so she can marry Liam. Matt says he should have hit Eric. Matt and Dolly still have a lot of marriage troubles but plan to work on it. Nick takes Clare around Leeds. He then gets a bus back to Beckindale and invites her to visit him there.

Nick is still in a strange mood. Mrs. Bates and Kathy Merrick try and find out what is wrong with him. They even worry he may be on drugs but Kathy knows he would not do drugs. Dolly gets a letter from Stephen saying his offer to join her in Scotland is still on. Nick, Archie, Jackie, Clare and Helen have a party at Emmerdale Farm while Annie Sugden goes out for the evening.

Matt, Dolly and Sam are packing to go on holiday in Spain. While Matt takes a look around the farm to see that everything is alright, Dolly talks to Annie about the future

Someone calls the Woolpack in the middle of night and wakes up Amos. Kathy tells Jackie that she thinks there is something odd about Clare.

Matt, Dolly and Sam are back from their holiday, but there's still tension between them. Nick is looking for Clare, but Archie's sure she's left Beckindale for good.

Amos is fighting the death watch beetle in The Woolpack, but it looks like he's got a fight on his hands with Donald too, if he wants to hang on to his clothes!

An evening spent remembering the past takes Jack and Marian to the brink of a startling new future.

The longer Marian stays with Jack the more she risks, and Henry is determined to send her home.

It looks like Caroline has found a companion. Alan decides that only desperate measures will even the score!

Alan decides that the best way to get over Caroline's affair is to have one of his own. While, Matt finds disturbing evidence that Dolly's affair might not be in the past.

Annie returns to the farm keen to catch up on the news, but Jack makes an announcement that shocks not just Annie but the rest of the family as well.

Amos' brother Ezra turns up at The Woolpack. Amos wonders why he has suddenly turned up after not seeing Amos for a few years. At Home Farm some people are surveying the land. Turner notices them and is wondering why they are here. Ezra says he has suddenly got a phobia for meat and is going vegetarian.

The alarm on one of the barns at Emmerdale Farm is going off. Matt stops it as a distressed Dolly worries the police may arrive. Amos' brother Ezra is staying at the Woolpack

Jack is getting ready to leave Beckindale to live with Marian in Italy. It is the 2nd anniversary of the death of his wife Pat as well and tensions are running high at Emmerdale Farm. Jackie accuses Jack of being selfish and also for forgetting the anniversary of Pat's death. Meanwhile, Ezra fights his sudden phobia of meat once and for all by carving up and mincing meat in a shed at Emmerdale Farm with Amos, Jack and Jackie watching. He then leaves to return to Whitehaven.

It is an emotional day at Emmerdale Farm as Jack is preparing to leave again to live with Marian in Rome. He bids an emotional farewell to everyone and then leaves for the airport. Turner has been invited to lunch in Hotten with Denis Rigg. Denis turns up late and when he suggests to Turner that he buys Joe out of Home Farm. Turner walks out saying he will not see his partner out of a home, leaving Denis with a flea in his ear.

Sandie has welcomed her new lodgers at Mill Cottage. They are Kate and her teenage children Rachel and Mark. Mark and Rachel now have to adjust to living in new surroundings. Turner is nursing a massive hangover and even has a touch of diarrhoea. Joe meets Kate again at the local supermarket. She says that is her day job. Kate says she saw Denis Rigg at The Feathers last night with a well dressed big man with a posh voice. Joe suspects it was Turner. Alan has not yet met Kate officially. Joe worries that Denis is trying to play him and Alan into selling their shares in Home Farm.

There's a dog on the loose in Beckindale attacking sheep, but while Joe tries to track it down, Alan is more than interested in a visitor from the skies!

When he finds the dog that's been killing sheep, Joe thinks his troubles are over, but they're only just beginning. Jackie, too thinks his future's looking brighter as he takes over at Emmerdale Farm, but, like Joe, he's a nasty shock in store

The balloon goes up at Beckindale fete, as Seth sets out to prove that Amos's tales of daredevil flying are so much hot air, while Joe's joy-ride turns out to be anything but and Dolly's emotions are up in the air when she hears that Stephen may be around.