Emmerdale’s Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) is sitting on the knowledge that Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) is in prison because of him.

He was blackmailed by Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) into framing Moira for the modern slavery operation by placing passports and IDs of Celia’s enslaved workers on Moira’s farm, and the trick worked a little too well.

Robert might be a bit of a bad lad, but he has a conscience, and it’s not sitting well with him that he’s responsible for her incarceration while her family around her crumbles. She’s been cleared of Celia Daniels’ and Anya’s murders, that’s something at least.

Moira has languished in prison as her farm has been sold from beneath her, and the guilt has grown in Robert.

But for Moira nothing is getting better. Though the murder charges have since been dropped, the modern slavery ones remain, and because of Robert’s involvement, there looks like no way out of those, and Moira decides she needs to plead guilty to the charges. This is shocking news and the only one who can resolve this situation is Robert himself.

Robert visits Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) in prison in a bid to pump him for information that might help Moira. Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller), is also on the hunt for evidence, having seen the impact of this mess on his best mate Mack (Lawrence Robb).

Actor Ryan Hawley ramped up the drama, saying: ‘[Robert] goes to Bear because he’s his absolute last chance, race against the clock. Robert’s going to have to turn himself in and confess to all the things that he’s done by planting the evidence to prevent Moira from getting a really long sentence and being away from her family and kids.’

The whole clan go out searching, but it’s Robert who finds him and in their moment alone, he vows to get his mum back.

Aaron is left wide eyed when Robert announces the next part of this plan – he will turn himself in. It’s the only way and Aaron knows it, and begs for just one more night.

Speaking of Robert’s decision to come clean, Ryan said: ‘Robert finds Kyle, and he makes a decision off the back of Kyle saying how it’s impacted his life, Moira going to prison. And I think Robert really feels that. He feels the weight of the consequences of what he’s done, and feels that the only way that he can make things right is by putting himself back in the situation where he’d get charged with tampering with evidence and then have to go to prison.’

Bear tells Robert about a number plate that he once hid for Ray which gives Aaron new hope that they can resolve this before going to the police, but they’re on borrowed time before Moira pleads guilty.

They trace the number plates to a storage unit and Robert and Aaron race there – but will they find what they need to stop Robert having to turn himself in or Moira going down for a crime she didn’t commit?