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Emmerdale’s emotional flashbacks to Cain Dingle’s childhood leave fans in tears

We flashed back to Cain's childhood

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Emmerdale likes using flashbacks at the moment and the latest episode featured some going back to Cain Dingle’s childhood.

The scenes, showing a young Cain, his sister Chas, mother Faith and father Shadrach, had fans in tears because they were so emotional.

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With Cain’s ex-wife Moira unable to cope with being a mother to little Isaac, she had given him away to Adam and Victoria, but Faith was determined Cain would step up and raise his son.

She dragged Cain to the old house they used to live in when Cain and Chas were growing up (which surprisingly remained empty!).

As the pair talked about his childhood, we flashed back to Cain as a youngster and Faith, a younger woman, and saw the same scene from both of their points of view.

Cain saw his mum drunk, smashing glasses and stumbling around, before his alcoholic ‘dad’ Shadrach came home.

But Faith’s version was very different – she said she in fact was trying to get rid of Shadrach’s stash and she threw the glass at him to stop him hitting Cain.

As Cain started to realise exactly why his mother, battered and bruised by her husband, had walked out on them all those years ago, he finally broke down over why he couldn’t be a father to Isaac.

He revealed: “Being part of that kid’s life, day in, day out, and not being part of hers, I can’t do it.”

But Faith insisted his little boy needed him and needed to know he was wanted by at least one of them. A tearful Cain eventually realised she was right and he needed to step up.

Back in the village, he went to see Moira and explained he would take Isaac and raise him until she was ready to be a mum to him.

“What if that never happens? What if I can’t ever get past it?” Moira asked tearfully.

“Then I’ll love him enough for the both of us,” Cain responded.

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As she insisted she did love him, she just couldn’t be a mum to him, Cain said: “Yet,” before promising that it would never be too late for her to start.

The whole episode has been hailed as one of the “best ever” of the show on Twitter, with fans in floods of tears.


Carena Crawford
Associate Editor (Soaps)

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