Emmerdale 's Nicky Miligan faces fresh turmoil next week in the lead-up to his wedding to Gabby Thomas.
After several attempts to pull out of a secret revenge plan against the Tates with his dad Caleb Miligan, he's left panicked as his stag do approaches next week.
Spoilers reveal the troubled character pushes ahead with the plan reluctantly, but the growing pressure of what is expected of him leaves him struggling.
Matters are made worse when a character returns to the village and leaves Caleb worried his plan is about to fall apart just as it finally seems to be getting somewhere.
Viewers know that Caleb is the secret son of Frank Tate, the late husband of Kim Tate. Caleb wants to avenge his dad's death in 1997 believing Kim killed him, somehow hearing that she was involved.
Caleb wants revenge on Kim and to fleece her for everything she owns, believing it was his dad's fortune and belongs to him.
He's tasked Nicky with marrying Gabby, the mother of Kim's grandson Thomas Tate, in the hope of getting every bit of her fortune.
But viewers know that Nicky is gay and is secretly seeing lover Ally, the person he truly loves and wants to be with.
Caleb is desperate to put a stop to this and his own son's happiness to get his revenge - but with the cracks showing, will the stag do be the final straw for Nicky?
Ally returns to the village to confront Nicky about the wedding and him dumping him, still not knowing the full story.
Nicky agrees to meet with him the next day, but will Caleb catch them together and will it lead to Nicky ending their plan?
It comes as Ally appeared to leave the village last week, after a threat to Nicky by his dad Caleb.
Nicky forced his lover Ally to leave the village for good and told him he planned to go through with his upcoming wedding, while it was clearly not what he wanted.
Nicky finally confirmed his sexuality to his dad last week. He confessed he was too scared to tell his dad he was gay as he didn't think he would approve, but Caleb quickly showed support to his son and said he "just wanted him to be happy".
This support didn't last for long though as Nicky made it clear he didn't want to go through with his plan to marry Gabby Thomas, leaving Caleb attacking him before issuing a dark threat.
Grabbing his son and threatening him, he shouted: "No, no you can and you will... my son does what I tell him, no questions asked. If you mess this up, family or not I will destroy you. You know that I can."
In Friday's episode, Caleb appeared slightly remorseful for lashing out before finding out where his son stood with their revenge plan.
The nanny was clearly torn and in turmoil over lying to Gabby and not getting to be with Ally, but when his dad suggested they were nearly at the end of their mission he decided to help him.
Ally was stunned when Nicky met up with him and dumped him, before telling him to leave with the character storming off.
Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX, with an hour-long episode on Thursdays.
