Thursday’s (July 18) double bill set the stage for two of the show’s biggest storylines to intersect, starting with the latest from Rose Jackson’s plot at Home Farm.

Rose has been secretly working with Ruby Fox-Miligan to take revenge on Kim Tate, with her latest plot involving spiking Will Taylor’s drink to get him to cheat on Kim.

Meanwhile, Ella recently disappeared from the village after it was revealed that she’d killed her best friend as a child.

Ella had been dating Liam Cavanagh before the truth came out, but he ordered her to leave Emmerdale and never return after discovering her lies.

The latest episode saw Rose conflicted about her plot to drug Will since Dawn had only just started referring to her as “mum”.

Rose ultimately decided to move forward with her drink-spiking plot, but she was interrupted before Will could take a sip.

Dawn and Kim arrived back at Home Farm and decided to join Will and Rose for drinks. This led to a mix-up where Rose lost track of who had the spiked drink.

Across town, Mandy found Ella suspiciously lurking around the village and questioned why she’d come back. Ella promised she’d returned only to collect her things and would then be off.

Mandy could see how distraught Ella was about her life being ruined once again, only to get an alarming phone call moments after Ella drove away.

Sam Dingle had called the emergency service because there was a crash on the country road involving Ella and Dawn’s cars. Sam had found both Ella and Dawn unconscious in their respective vehicles.

Both were rushed to the hospital, where Dawn explained to Kim and Will that she’d suddenly started to feel ill while driving.

Billy told Kim and Will that Dawn would be undergoing a toxicology test, with Kim questioning Dawn on whether she’d relapsed.

“There’s no point in lying about it,” Kim told her.