Emmerdale spoilers: Bob Hope crumbles on the day of Heath’s funeral and makes a shocking decision
Poor Bob isn’t coping. Meanwhile, Angel is in the graveyard and is overcome with guilt. Will she finally come clean and save this family from destruction?
No one should ever have to bury their child, and as the day of Heath’s (Sebastian Dowling) funeral rolls around, it’s no surprise to anyone that Bob (Tony Audenshaw) isn’t coping in Emmerdale.
On top of his indescribable grief, Bob is also battling his dark emotions towards his daughter, who he blames for Heath’s death. He reveals to Wendy that he’s refusing to see Cathy (Gabrielle Dowling) for her own safety.
But Brenda (Lesley Dunlop), who’s already promised to be there for Cathy through thick and thin, is ready to take Bob on.
She gives him an earful for abandoning his daughter, who is also grieving for her own twin. Bob is immobilised by her words; he knows she has a point.
Bob isn’t coping
But though he knows Brenda is right, he cannot see through Cathy’s supposed lies about who was behind the wheel that night. Cathy has maintained it was Angel who drove the car they were joyriding in off the road killing Heath, but with eyewitnesses and evidence saying otherwise, her pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
With Cathy’s lies swirling around his head, Bob crumbles at the thought of the day and makes a huge decision – he tells a stunned Wendy that he won’t attend his own son’s funeral. The weight of Heath’s death is crushing him.
Pollard (Chris Chittel) is forced to break this news to Cathy, who is devastated. But she decides to put her brother before herself and attend alone.
The whole village is there to say their goodbyes as Cathy faces her grief solo. But at the sight of Heath’s coffin, Cathy breaks. She’s lost her twin, and she’s losing her dad.
At the last moment, Bob appears by her side. They support each other through it, but Cathy is rocked to realise later that Bob still doesn’t believe her.
She lashes out at him, spitting that she won’t move home while her dad thinks she killed her brother and Bob is forced to leave as emotions overcome him.
Meanwhile, Angel is in the graveyard and is overcome with guilt. Will she finally come clean and save this family from destruction?
