It’s crunch time for Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) in Emmerdale – Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock), or Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough)?
It’s a toughie – choose the loving dependable, if slightly wet-weekend husband, or the exciting, dangerous, unlikely to settle down Graham. Destroy her family, or break the former love of her life’s heart? Some might say it’s an easy choice, Rhona would beg to differ. Someone is going to be gutted.
God only knows what’s been going on in her head with all her secret meetings with Graham on that bridge, even getting him a meal deal from the caff. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is. Poor old Marlon. Rhona’s feelings for Graham are written all over her face and her actions – her reaction to him sleeping with Kim said everything.
But would she give up everything to run away with him?
The final test for Rhona comes when she’s sent up to Home Farm to check on the horses. Knowing Graham might be around, she lies to husband Marlon, who senses she’s not being honest.
She arrives at the farm to horrifying scenes – Graham bloodied and stabbed!
Rhona jumps into lifesaving mode and does her best to patch Graham up, but it leads to bad things for the mum of three.
‘He’s been stabbed on his side, so in the physical act of trying to dress that wound, she’s very close to him and she’s touching his skin. I imagine in that moment it’s like, bam, you’re back to where you were six years ago, ‘ actress Zoe Henry clued us into what is going through Rhona’s head in that moment.
‘They were a couple, they were obviously intimate and that proximity just brings everything back. It’s risky, it’s exciting and it’s also terrifying for Rhona.’
Oh shame, who’s followed her to the Tate estate? Her husband Marlon. Has he seen her with her hands all over Graham’s injured body? Yes, he has.
Heartbroken Marlon confronts his wife and asks the painful question – does she still love Graham? Her silence speaks a thousand words, and her eyes tell the whole story.
Graham pulls through his injuries and later decides he needs his answer from Rhona. He waits for her outside the pub where she joins to give him her final decision. Will she destroy everything for Graham?
Zoe gave her thoughts on what’s next for the head-turned vet.
‘I can’t imagine how she’d even begin to consider walking away, but she’s been put in an impossible situation of being literally dropped back into where she was emotionally six years ago. It’s like: ‘What? What do I do with this?’”
Actor Mark Charnock also gave his thoughts, and he’d be just as gutted as Marlon if Rhona was to walk away.
‘Anything can happen in soap. I personally would be gutted, because I love working with Zoe, because she’s so brilliant and we get on really well,’ he said.
‘But, as I’m sure Zoe will attest, anything could happen in soap. But if you’re asking me, as an actor, I’d be sad, because I love working with her.’
