Emmerdale has shared a moving first look at Marlon Dingle's health battle, as his loved ones struggle to cope in the fallout.
The character will face terror next week on the ITV soap when he suffers a stroke, and is rushed to hospital.
He's found collapsed by his young daughter April, before he is raced in for emergency surgery.
A new teaser clip reveals the moment Marlon realises something is wrong, and he is struck by horror before falling to the floor.
Marlon's vision becomes very blurred, before he looks in the mirror and fearfully realises his face has drooped on one side.
Next, viewers see young April begging her dad to be okay, as she tearfully tells him: "Dad, just speak to me please."
The trailer shows different moments as Marlon is rushed to hospital, and some of his love ones react to what has happened to him.
His partner Rhona stares down at an engagement ring, after Marlon was due to propose to her - while she was also planning on popping the question.
After April is seen crying, Rhona is also seen fighting back tears as the enormity of their situation hits her.
Marlon's best friend Paddy Kirk is shown at his hospital bedside, urging him: "Will you just come back to me, please. I can't cope."
Rhona is then heard saying: "It doesn't matter how long this takes, or how hard it is, we're gonna do it together."
Her mother Mary then embraces an emotional April, and reaches her hand out to comfort her daughter before the teaser comes to an end.
Actor Mark recently opened up about the storyline, and told of Marlon's "long journey" ahead for his recovery.
Speaking to The Mirror and other press, actor Mark confessed that while he wasn't "worried" about the change to his character long-term, he did feel the pressure to do the plot as accurately as possible.
He told us: "He has a thrombectomy and they drag the clot out and it's only the beginning of the story really. It helps with his facial drooping in the first instance, but he's still got a very long journey about learning how to speak and all that stuff again.
"It's all down his right side and so his arm, his leg and his mouth are all quite badly affected, so he has trouble. He goes through phases.
"He's got a phase where it affects his speech and being able to express himself properly."
Mark added: "I don't think he’s going to get to where he wants to be for a long time, and we're just at the beginning of his journey.
"He can't work anymore, and he feels, wrongly, that he can't be the dad he wants to be anymore, which is everything to him, because of his incapacitation.
"But because of Rhona and Paddy and other characters who come into this story who are a big support, there's some comedy in it too, there's some fun to be had in it and some lovely scenes with Paddy, really funny and well written in the hospital quite early on.
"There’s a great deal of hope that things can only get better from where they are, there’s positivity to be had from it too so hopefully apart from it being distressing, traumatic for the characters, also it will inspire them to get their lives back.
"And hopefully it will inspire the people watching to maybe change their lifestyles a little bit in order to head this off before it happens to them – because it happens to so many people."
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Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7:30pm on ITV, with an hour-long episode on Thursdays.
