Emmerdale’s Dawn revenge plans left in tatters – has Joe won again?

Emmerdale has seen Dawn Fletcher’s revenge plan against Joe Tate be derailed after a domestic incident sent her back into his arms.

In tonight’s scenes, tension was at an all-time high at Home Farm as Dawn continued pushing Joe for more money. She’d been plotting against him with Moira Dingle, who’s hellbent on revenge after Joe had his sights on her farm and even landed her in prison earlier this year.

Eavesdropping on Dawn asking Joe for more money, Graham Foster urged him to put a stop to her requests. Aware that Dawn had been working against him and was planning to leave him, Joe reassured Graham he had “absolutely no intention of losing” — but he didn’t sound too convinced.

When Graham returned to Home Farm to find Dawn lying unconscious at the bottom of the stairs, he assumed Joe must’ve pushed her.

“What have you done?” he asked Joe.

“She’s pregnant with my baby, for God’s sake,” Joe told Graham once they were at the hospital. “What kind of man do you think I am?”

Despite the assurances, Graham was suspicious of Joe’s motives for not telling Dawn that he knew of her plan. “I want her to stay because it’s her choice,” Joe insisted.

Later on, the doctor confirmed Dawn fainted as she didn’t have any bruising and her iron levels were low. She got closer to Joe as they watched their baby on an ultrasound monitor, with him being moved to tears at the news that their child was strong and healthy.

Back at home, Joe prepared a salad for Dawn and poured his heart out, admitting he wouldn’t be able to live with her and the kids.

“I think I realised I’ve never actually been in love before you,” he added. But Dawn stopped him. She hesitated for a moment, as Joe insisted: “You know you can tell me anything and we will work through it. Together.”

Moved by Joe’s declaration, a guilt-ridden Dawn chose not to reveal the extent of her plan.

“I love you,” she told him. “I love you, and I always will.”

The pair shared a passionate kiss as Dawn appeared to have put her scheming on hold, but is it game over for Moira?

Dawn Fletcher (Olivia Bromley) has had reservations about her plot against Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) in Emmerdale – but it may be too late to change her mind.

It’s about time he experienced some comeuppance, after Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) discovered that he blackmailed Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) into planting passports belonging to Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) and Ray Walters’s (Joe Absolom) enslaved workers in the living room of Butler’s Farm.

She was framed, and sent down for several months on a human trafficking and double murder charge. If Robert had refused, Joe would’ve took an incriminating video of Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) killing her half-brother John (Oliver Farnworth) to the police.

Becoming increasingly guilt-ridden, Robert decided to come clean. Moira was, understandably, furious – though said that she wouldn’t go to the police – it was her husband Cain (Jeff Hordley) that he had to watch out for.

Seeking revenge on Joe, Moira made her way to Home Farm and aimed a double-barreled shotgun towards him. Dawn intervened, revealing that she was pregnant, and demanded to know whether Joe had really committed the crimes.

He denied everything, but she could tell that he was lying.

Later, she met with Moira and Cain on a country road, and the trio began to put a plan in place. Moira told Dawn that they needed to look at the situation from a fresh perspective, and really make Joe pay for his crimes.

She hoped that Dawn would resume their ‘happy’ life together, go through with their wedding, and then take him for everything he has.

Dawn promised that she would handover the funds to the Dingles, which would further enrage Joe.

However, in today’s episode, she began to feel guilt-ridden over her scheming as Joe doted over her. She was experiencing morning sickness, and he bought her a care package to try and ease the symptoms and hopefully make her feel a little brighter.

Joe even invited her ex-husband Billy (Jay Kontzle) for a meal, wanting to cement their new blended family.

Dawn rushed off to Wishing Will Cottage to tell Moira that she was questioning their plans. Moira suggested that she should flee the village before Joe discovered what they were doing, but she was insistent that he should be the one who left, and not her.

Vowing to win the war, Dawn agreed that she was going to take Joe for every penny that he owned.

Little did she realise, Joe and Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) were well aware of what was going on – and they were playing the long game to ensure that she didn’t get away with it.

How will Joe get his counter revenge?