Emmerdale viewers watched in horror as a catastrophic car crash pile-up, which has been teased for weeks, left several people with gruesome injuries.
All the episodes this week have been focusing on the same 24-hour period, but from perspectives of different groups of characters – until their stories all collided with one catastrophic event.
The first episode of Thursday’s double bill in the ITV soap ended with several cars crashing into one another, with two people trapped under water and one falling off the bridge in what has been described as one of the biggest stunts in a British soap.
And viewers couldn’t cope as they watched James fall and hit Ashley’s car, which in turn, kick-started a chain of car crashes involving Aaron, Robert, Lachlan, Pierce, Paddy and Rhona – with Aaron and Robert (aka Robron) finding themselves trapped under water.
Wow oh my god #emmerdale what an episode. My heart was in my mouth 😲😲😲
— Kelly Anderson (@willipops) October 20, 2016
OMG Emmerdale! I'm literally shaking like a leaf from the episode, can't wait until 8pm! #Emmerdale
— Amelia (@Ameliaread18) October 20, 2016
#emmerdale HAS ME SHOOK
— Cyclone (@c_yclone) October 20, 2016
#Emmerdale I'm still trying to get my head round this... Emma went psycho, pushed James off the bridge, he landed on Ashley's car which....
— Rose Lyn (@R0531YN) October 20, 2016
OH MY GOD EMMERDALE!!!! 😳😳😳😳😳😳 Had to look away way too upsetting & tragic 😳😳😳 #emmerdale
— ♔ Lottie Jessica ♔ (@lottiejessica) October 20, 2016
People were blown away by the dramatic plot:
Holy mother of soap land!! x #Emmerdale
— Sally Ann Matthews (@SallyAnMatthews) October 20, 2016
I think that was the best stunt ever done in TV history #Emmerdale #NoReturn
— Hetty (@XhetsX) October 20, 2016
Amazing stunts in #Emmerdale tonight!
— Jenny Saunders (@Jensau) October 20, 2016
Wow @emmerdale what an episode 😐edge of your sofa stuff 😩well done set the bar for drama AMAZING #emmerdale
— Kelley Foley (@KelleyFoley20) October 20, 2016
The speculation was that James didn’t survive the fall – after being pushed by Emma:
Let's just say James has to be dead falling from that height onto a moving car he would be dead instantly #Emmerdale
— Robron is my life (@Robronismyworld) October 20, 2016
If James survives this, he's got more lives than a cat! 😹 #emmerdale #noreturn
— Mrs Lindsay Stanton (@LindsayH2607) October 20, 2016
James is dead for sure. Emma what have you done #Emmerdale
— Bill Farrell (@BillFarrell2) October 20, 2016
But miraculously, he was found breathing and taken to the hospital:
My word #Emmerdale 😱😱😱 #Wow I'm in shock James is alive!!!
— GoonerJon (@Jon_79Davies) October 20, 2016
James fell down the stairs broke his leg, been poisoned tortured & kidnapped got thrown of a bridge hit by a car & still alive #Emmerdale
— Andys Rule (@Andysrule) October 20, 2016
James broke his leg, fell down the stairs at least 3 times, has been drugged and fallen off a bridge and he's STILL ALIVE????? #emmerdale
— Gill Singh (@GillSingh_67) October 20, 2016
Meanwhile, Emma is getting a lot of hate on Twitter as being the person responsible for the epic crash:
Emma is looking just as creepy as ever #Emmerdale #NoReturn
— Cerys Emily (@SamSmithFan_XX) October 20, 2016
Of all the people that could of been hit by a car and Emma is left standing 😒 #Emmerdale
— Danielle Carroll (@Danielle_Cxo) October 20, 2016
Thanks to Emma the physcopath for causing this #Emmerdale
— Robron is my life (@Robronismyworld) October 20, 2016
Praying James survives to tell everyone it was all Emma! #Emmerdale
— E x (@BetterOffAsTwo) October 20, 2016
Some did make it out alive after the gruesome collision, but it remains to be seen whether any of them will make a full recovery.
And viewers have one burning question:
Who will live & who will die ?? #Emmerdale #NoReturn 🎬🎥🎭📺
— ♥Kezza_Lou♥ (@KerryLouiseRoss) October 20, 2016
Oh my god #emmerdale who is going to die.
— Margaret Browne (@Margare93623921) October 20, 2016
Wonder who is going to die! #Emmerdale
— Rachel Puddifer (@Rachel14F1) October 20, 2016
Who is going to die? #emmerdale #noreturn
— RACH (@aaronsugdennjh) October 20, 2016
