Dawn in danger from Joe ahead of exit in Emmerdale ITVX release
The following article contains spoilers from the episode of Emmerdale dated April 10. It hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet, but can be viewed on ITVX and YouTube.
It’s taken her way longer than I expected, but Emmerdale’s Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) is finally beginning to see Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) for who he really is.
Dawn was waved a giant red flag last year when she discovered that Joe was responsible for the limo crash, which killed three women. She was utterly horrified that she had let her children around this man and yet still…she didn’t leave him.
Staggering I know.
The couple are now engaged, and Dawn recently made it clear to Joe that she’d like to have a baby with him. Their journey so far this year has been great for Joe – he lives in a big house, has a family, and is gaining access to more farmland and money through totally vile means that Dawn is oblivious to. He has lots of power – but that’s now starting to go to his head.
As part of Joe’s plan to gain access to Butler’s, he blackmailed Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) into planting some ID cards found on Celia’s farmland. Joe had obtained footage of Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) killing her brother John earlier in the year, and told Robert that he’d take it to the police if he didn’t do as he was asked.
Robert hid the passports, but had no idea that they were stolen by a woman responsible for such horror. He’s been well aware that he’s one of the reasons Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) is in prison, but kept it to himself to protect Victoria.
When Robert learnt about Moira’s plan to plead guilty at the hearing, he felt horrendous. He headed to Home Farm and asked Joe if there was anything they could do, but that poisonous power and greed led him to basically ignore everything Robert was saying.
Robert decided to try and bring Joe down a peg or two in today’s episode, and enlisted help from Ross Barton (Michael Parr). Just like his Director of Operations job, Ross wasn’t very good at helping Robert, so he was forced to sort everything himself.
Robert attempted to get into Joe’s computer to access the video of Vic, but was caught by Dawn. He tried to cover, but Dawn ended up finding the video.
It was at this point another red flag appeared in front of her face only this time, Dawn actually acknowledged it was there. She confronted Joe about the video, and then deleted it from his device. Dawn was totally disgusted and told Joe that it feels like she doesn’t know him anymore.
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Joe claimed that he kept the video for insurance purposes, and everything he did after was for his and Dawn’s family. In the past, these types of comments from Joe would’ve been enough to win Dawn over – but not this time.
She packed a bag and left Home Farm, telling Joe that she’d be spending the night at Billy Fletcher’s (Jay Kontzle).
Joe was left standing all alone in Home Farm, somewhat shocked that things had escalated so badly. We now know that Olivia Bromley will leave her role as Dawn Taylor this year, suggesting things with Joe aren’t going to get back on track.
Will Dawn simply leave Emmerdale?
Or will Joe take action to prevent her from telling anyone else about his grim moves?
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