Episode 2192 (15th April 1997)

==Plot==
Sarah is still worried about Andy hitting Alice and tells Jack that she wished she understood him more, but Jack reassures her that as long as they keep treating him like a member of the family he would settle down. Out of sight, Andy punches Robert for not sticking up for him over Alice. At teatime, Robert is upset when Jack and Sarah tell Andy he can pick the wallpaper for their new room at the new farm. Chris is still worrying about his financial difficulties. Steve overhears his heated discussion with someone at the bank on the phone prompting the two to have another go at each other. Steve tells him that he has respect for Frank, but Chris is no businessman because if he was he would have seen Kim's swindle coming and he wouldn't be in this mess. Later in the Woolpack, Steve tells Rachel there is a lot of potential at Home Farm for him and gloats to a disapproving Rachel that he could make a killing. Zoe receives a phone call from the prison informing her that Frank has been in admitted to the prison hospital after being attacked, but when she goes to visit him she is not prepared for how badly hurt he had been. Zoe urges Frank to tell the guards who had done it, but he says he if did that next time they would kill him. He concedes that he would have to live by the "laws of the jungle" but admits to Zoe that he can’t take much more. When Zoe returns to Home Farm she tells Chris what had happened but when Steve asks if there’s anything he could do, she snaps at him telling him he can find the person who really killed Kim. Later, Zoe is confiding in Sophie that she thinks Frank has given up. Sophie asks her to Paddy's birthday do in the Woolpack to keep her mind off things. Chris seems more worried about his own problems and, after complaining that Steve is showing him no respect, asks Zoe to lend him enough money to keep the bank off his back. She refuses and chastises him for being selfish, telling him that he should go and visit Frank because he needs their support more than ever. When Chris does, he asks Frank to lend him money, but Frank refuses, telling Chris there is no way he would lend him a penny after he tried to shaft him over the livery deal and tells him to never visit again. Paddy tells Zoe and Linda that it is his birthday, but he doesn’t want a fuss. Betty hears about it and a party is promptly organised in the Woolpack. Alan makes peace with Terry, explaining why he had acted in the way he had over Viv. Viv and Vic decide to go to the party together. Mandy is having trouble filling out the application for the bar manager's job and asks Paddy for help. He gives her an envelope. At the party, Paddy tells everyone he is delighted he has been made so welcome in Emmerdale. Butch is gazing after Sophie and asks if he could buy her a drink. Initially she declines but eventually accepts. She gets so drunk she decides she is unable to go back to Zoe's cottage and her request for her to stay the night at his house is met with a wide smile from Butch. Charlie is flirting with Steve while Rachel looks on. However, she leaves angrily, insulting Charlie as she goes. Charlie tells Steve that Rachel is a frump and Steve replies she never used to be like that, while playing with Charlie's hair. Linda tells Biff she wants another baby after Biff tells her she is getting too involved with the Cairns. When Zoe asks Paddy how old he is, he admits that it wasn't really his birthday and he just said it to cheer everybody up. Just as Paddy is going to ask Mandy out on a date, she storms up to him angry about what he had written for her application. He said it was just a joke and he had a real one for her, but she is unwilling to listen as she pours a pint over his cake, an action Alan is extremely angry about. Tony continues to try and persuade Emma to reconsider her decision, telling her she is throwing her life away, but Emma is adamant that she would be keeping Geri, the new name for the baby. Becky tells Tony to stop bullying Emma, insisting that he had better get used to the idea or move out. Tony retorts that this isn't a bad idea. Linda takes Emma to the hospital and tells her that no matter how hard things get to just remember Geri was worth all of it. She tells Emma she wishes she'd made the right decision. Emma confides to Becky that she is worried that Tony won't come round and begs her mum not to let anyone take Geri away from her. Later when Charlie, Emma and Will are with Geri, Emma said she hates her father and calls him selfish, but Will said that Emma is being the selfish one and her decision is ripping the family apart. Later in the chalet, Will says he wishes the baby was dead. When Tony and Becky go to pick up Emma he says he is sorry and admits he has to accept that this is the way it has to be, only for them then to be informed by the nurse that Emma and the baby has disappeared.
==Cast==
===Regular cast===
*Sarah Sugden - Alyson Spiro
*Jack Sugden - Clive Hornby
*Robert Sugden - Christopher Smith
*Andy Hopwood - Kelvin Fletcher
*Christopher Tate - Peter Amory
*Steve Marchant - Paul Opacic
*Anthony Cairns - Edward Peel
*Emma Cairns - Rebecca Loudonsack
*Rebecca Cairns - Sarah Neville
*Patrick Kirk - Dominic Brunt
*Zoe Tate - Leah Bracknell
*Linda Fowler - Tonicha Jeronimo
*Mandy Dingle - Lisa Riley
*Marlon Dingle - Mark Charnock
*Butch Dingle - Paul Loughran
*Sophie Wright - Jane Cameron
*James Tate - Oliver Carroll (uncredited)
*Betty Eagleton - Paula Tilbrook
*Terry Woods - Billy Hartman
*Alan Turner - Richard Thorp
*Rachel Hughes - Glenda McKay
*Geri Cairns - Georgina Annett and Anna Cunningham (uncredited)
*Frank Tate - Norman Bowler
*Vic Windsor - Alun Lewis
*Viv Windsor - Deena Payne
*Charlotte Cairns - Sarah Graham
*Will Cairns - Paul Fox
*Biff Fowler - Stuart Wade
*Victoria Sugden - Hannah Midgley (uncredited)
===Guest cast===
*Sister Kelly - Angela Saville
==Locations==
*Church Lane
*Home Farm - Office, grounds and kitchen
*Home Farm Holiday Park - Woodcock Lodge (porch and living room/kitchen) and grounds
*Tate's Veterinary Surgery - Consulting room and reception
*Wishing Well Cottage - Yard
*Smithy Cottage - Living room
*The Woolpack - Public bar
*Hotten General Hospital - Waiting area and corridor
*HMP Hotten - Hospital wing (Frank's room)
*Windsor's Village Store & Post Office - Shop floor
==Notes==
*First appearance of Hannah Midgley in the role of Victoria Sugden.
Category:1997 episodes
Category:Emmerdale episodes