Episode 2667 (20th March 2000)

==Plot==
The atmosphere at the Dingles is at an all-time low. Zak is in a foul mood following the shambles of the Dingle family conference and threatens to raise a hand to Emily if she ever speaks out of turn once she's married to Butch when she tries to cheer them up. Butch responds by threatening Zak if he ever does so, and tells him to talk to Lisa. Nellie tells Zak to hit Butch, but this makes him back off and leave, leaving Nellie furious accusing the family of going soft, Lisa arrives at the Dingles to ask Zak to baby-sit, Nellie makes it clear that she is unwelcome and is further angered when Butch takes Lisa's side. Butch tells Emily that he has an idea how they can build some bridges with her father - he is going to ask him for her hand in marriage. Pete is late for a delivery but is wary of taking the only remaining lorry as Lisa hasn't completed the maintenance form. An impatient Chris gives him short shrift and orders him to take it believing Lisa must have forgot. Scott has discovered Sarah is having an affair with Richie, and she is frightened he will expose them. Richie tries to reason with Scott, but he threatens to blackmail them. The GK supermarket bus service is due to leave at 2pm, and all sorts of people want a lift on it - Butch is using the bus to see Emily's father, Kathy needs to go to the bank and is unable to use her car, Sarah needs to get Victoria some medicine as she's unwell, Marc needs to get tickets for a Beck concert he's asked Donna to accompany him to, Frankie is planning to take Joseph to look at the bus depot in Hotten, and Seth needs to go into town for unspecified reasons. To top it all off, Alan is driving the bus. Viv, fearing that the supermarket will drive her customers away, holds a one-woman protest against the bus service and prevents it from moving by blocking its path until she is persuaded by Emily to give up. As Pete drives round into the village, he realises to his horror that the brakes have failed. He is powerless to stop the lorry and after narrowly avoiding a few school children, ploughs straight into the minibus. With the packing inside so heavy, the lorry topples over right on top of the minibus, where the majority of people are seated. 
==Cast==
===Regular cast===
*Sarah Sugden - Alyson Spiro
*Richie Carter - Glenn Lamont
*Victoria Sugden - Hannah Midgley
*Joseph Tate - Oliver Young
*Frankie Smith - Madeleine Bowyer
*Terry Woods - Billy Hartman
*Claudia Nash - Susan Duerden
*Butch Dingle - Paul Loughran
*Zak Dingle - Steve Halliwell
*Emily Wylie - Kate McGregor
*Scott Windsor - Ben Freeman
*Lisa Dingle - Jane Cox
*Belle Dingle - Emily Mather (uncredited)
*Pete Collins - Kirk Smith
*Christopher Tate - Peter Amory
*Kathy Glover - Malandra Burrows
*Alan Turner - Richard Thorp
*Tricia Stokes - Sheree Murphy
*Seth Armstrong - Stan Richards
*Bernice Blackstock - Samantha Giles
*Eric Pollard - Christopher Chittell
*Viv Windsor - Deena Payne
*Robert Sugden - Christopher Smith
*Andy Sugden - Kelvin Fletcher
*Donna Windsor - Verity Rushworth
*Marc Reynolds - Anthony Lewis
===Guest cast===
*Nellie Dingle - Maggie Tagney
==Locations==
*Melby Farm - Farmhouse (kitchen)
*Home Farm - Kitchen
*Wishing Well Cottage - Living room/kitchen and yard
*Unknown office
*Tate Haulage - Haulage yard and office
*Hotten Road
*The Woolpack - Public bar
*Dingle Automotives - Forecourt
*Village Store, Post Office & Off-Licence - Shop floor
*Main Street
==Notes==
*This episode features the death of Pete Collins, but he appears in the next episode when he is brought out of the lorry.
*Richard Hammatt and Wayne Michaels are credited as Stuntman and Stunt Arranger on this episode, respectively.
*ITVX synopsis: Bus Crash - Tragedy strikes when the brakes fail on Pete's lorry.
*This episode is incorrectly labelled on the ITVX website as 'Episode 2668'.
*Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 11,270,000 viewers (14th place - combined figure including repeat).
Category:2000 episodes
Category:Emmerdale episodes
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