Frank drives through the village. There are dead animals and destroyed buildings everywhere. As the fires rage out of control he realizes the bridge is damaged, preventing the emergency services from getting through.
Jack finds Mark's watch at the morgue and realises Mark is among the dead. Leonard is dead, and Annie is unconscious. Chris is freed from the rubble, with no feeling in his legs. Zoe can't find Archie, and Seth is missing.
Seth and the Windsor children turn up. Seth's house is destroyed. He hears Alice crying in the rubble. Nick has been found blinded. Archie is still missing. Michael blames Eric for his mother's death.
Nick wanders around the village looking for Archie. He is in shock and Seth tries to tell him to go back to hospital. The Windsor kids don't want to go to school. Frank visits Chris.
Caroline Bates returns. Frank and Sarah strike up a deal, and Jack agrees to give it a go. Alan proposes to Shirley, but she doesn't take him seriously.
Kathy tells Zoe that Chris will never walk again. A town meeting is called to determine what to do with the compensation payments. Shirley agrees to marry Alan Turner. Annie is still in a coma and Jack wonders if he should pull the plug.
Robert won't go to school. Seth tries to get through to Nick Bates. Zoe proposes a vet clinic in Beckindale, and Kim offers to finance it. Shirley notices a 15% increase in Vic's prices. Jack tries to convince Joe to let ma go.
Joe agrees with Jack only if he or Jack stay with Annie to make sure someone is with her if she recovers. Gavin dumps Lynn. The doctor tells Rachel that she has depression. A loan shark is after Eric. Scott talks to Sampson.
The doctor tells Alan that a wedding is good for the village. Shirley invites Lynn. Seth talks Nick out of his shock. Scott is upset by the disaster. Vic attacks a looter, and is arrested..
Shirley and Alan's wedding. Viv refuses to go because Shirley is an ex prostitute. Jack and Sarah visit Annie. Frank tells Kim that Chris will never walk again, and he has to tell him.
Frank and Kim tell Chris the bad news. Alan tells Shirley that he is afraid to fly because of the plane explosion in Beckindale. Nick is released from hospital. Jack and Sarah realize that Annie may not come of the coma.
Vic gets his liquor license. The sports club opening. Gavin shows up and Lynn tries to hit him. Michael threatens Eric. Nick finds out that Seth is living in a shack. Bernard tells Jack and Sarah that Annie is breathing on her own.
Viv begs the doctor for sedatives to sleep. Cathy invites Seth to live in her house. The police ask people to gather at the Woolpack. The builders found a skeleton. Bernard's daughter tells him that she is getting married at 16 yrs old.
Bernard forbids the marriage. Kathy tells Frank that Chris got a huge loan against the house. Michael follows Eric and punches him. Viv confides in Sarah. Elsa agrees to help Michael Catch Eric for the murder of their mother.
Alan and Shirley are back. They find out about the skeleton. Michael visits his mum's grave. Frank has another business deal for the Sugdens. Michael gives little Donna Windsor a ride in the tractor and loses control.
Donna is rescued. Alan tells Seth that he is selling game farm. Seth has no claim for insurance on his house. Elsa and Nick see the judge and he orders little Alice to be returned to Nick. Chris lays guilt on Kathy to stay with him.
The skeleton appears to be Viking, and they found a well buried under the Woolpack. Alan reopens the pub with a "Viking well" hoping people will throw money in it. Viv decides to sue Joe Sugden for the tractor accident.
Eric receives a letter from the insurance company. Frank asks Kim to remarry him. The memorial is today and Eric dedicates a bench to Elizabeth. The loan shark returns and wants Eric to pay a late payment fee.
Jack begs the appeal fund committee for money. Eric's photo is in the paper and he is angry that Michael gave them an old photo to use. Will someone from his past see it? Rachel tries to smooth things over between Joe and Michael.
Angharad finds a letter to Jessi from Danny, talking about running away to Scotland.Frank is building a bungalow for Kathy and Chris. Teenagers are drinking outside the pub. Stripper night at the sport's bar.
Eric's wife, who saw the photo in the paper turns up and blackmails him for half of the insurance money to keep her mouth shut. Michael intercepts her and they chat, she just says Eric owes her money.
Jack finds a despondent Joe in the barn with a shotgun. He gets Vic to talk to him before Joe does anything stupid. If Vic drops the lawsuit, Joe won't be so desperate. Eileen finds out that Eric is getting more money than he said.
Easter fun fair. Joe is much better now that Vic has dropped the lawsuit. Jack and Sarah take new baby Victoria Anne to see Annie. Sarah thinks Annie moved.
Joe insists that they take Victoria back to the hospital. Annie hears the baby cry and wakes up. She asks questions about the accident. They avoid telling her that her husband and Mark are dead. Kathy preps the house for Chris.
Frank takes a donated painting to get appraised by Eric. The widow Betty announces she is moving back to Beckendale. Jack tells ma that Leonard is dead, and she says "Who is Leonard". Chris is home and feeling very sorry for himself.
Frank sees the paper and his painting sold at auction for 1 million. He goes after Eric, but he weasels out of it. Annie is fully awake and Joe tells her about Leonard and Mark. Chris keeps giving Kathy a hard time. Eileen is back.
Chris falls out of his wheelchair and takes it out on Kathy. The Sugdens announce their engagement. Viv's sister brings news of Viv's ex. Eileen and Eric work out an agreement.
The inquest is today. Kim evicts Eric for swindling them. Michael knows Eric and Eileen are up to something, but he has no idea that Eric is a bigamist.
Nick and Alice are back from his mums. Luke, Danny and Biff go rock climbing. Vic falls in the creek and gets his foot stuck. The rock climbers and the Sugdens save him.
Vic and Viv prepare for the worst. The ex husband Reg Dawson is arriving today. Due to the village disaster, the villagers want to rename the town. Shirley suggests Emmerdale because of the Sugdens heritage.
It's Jack's turn on the stand at the inquest. Michael warns Eileen about Eric, then she confronts him and he threatens her. Reg seem to be very odd, and perhaps disillusioned.
Michael steals Joe's gun. Joe finds him in the woods with the intention of killing Eric. Joe finds out the whole story of Michael's accusation. Reg starts quoting the bible in the pub and people are beginning to think he is odd.
Reg starts talking about taking Viv and Scott back to London. He says God does not recognise the divorce. They are starting to be nervous of Reg. Ma Sugden comes home from hospital. Eric gives his cheque to a thug for something.
Three armed men raid the P.O. while Vic is out delivering papers. Joe is suspicious and shoots at them. Alan is shot by a stray bullet.They kidnap Viv and take her out the door and leave the gas on. it explodes and Vic thinks Viv is dead.
They commandeer Shirley's car and drag both her and Viv across land when the car can go no further. Seth track their footprints. Viv recognises Reg. Seth tells them to go to home farm as that is the only place they can be.
The police converge on home farm. The raiders send out a body (their driver) and the police take Vic to see if it is Viv. Joe goes to the sports bar when he realises that if he hadn't interfered, this would not have escalated.
The police wait patiently as tension at the Home Farm siege escalates and relationships become strained. Things end badly as Reg Dawson tries to shoot Viv but kills Shirley by mistake before being gunned down.
Joe gives the Windsors his cottage to live in until the Post Office is repaired. Eric offers to buy his house from Frank. Viv tells Vic that she wants to take Scott to the funeral of Reg.
Viv goes to see Alan to say sorry. He blames her and Joe for Shirley's death and bans her from the funeral. Michael finds out that Eric owed a huge debt when his mum was killed. Rachel tells Joe not to blame himself for this.
Nick asks Zoe to be a witness against Elsa for him. Michael confronts Eric. Eric attacks him, Elsa walks in, there is a struggle. Michael punches Eric, and he hits his head. Elsa gives him Eric's car keys and tells him to run.
Rachel sees Michael speeding off in Eric's car and goes to investigate. She finds Eric and phones an ambulance. The police search for Michael and they find Eric's car at the airport 2 hours later.