Overview
- Radio Times details a Dec 22 to Jan 2 schedule with extended installments and climactic episodes that include a teased fight to the death.
- Aaron Dingle and Robert Sugden are targeted by an unidentified assailant who smashes a car windscreen and sets trees alight near their home.
- Robert later works out who is behind the attacks, though it remains unclear whether he can halt the threat.
- On Christmas morning, Robert leaves on a sudden errand and fails to return, raising alarm for Aaron and Victoria during village celebrations.
- Parallel storylines see Celia Daniels and Ray Walters prepare to flee as their drug scheme faces exposure, with Ray later ordered to carry out a grisly task that keeps a villager in danger.