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Opinion: Emmerdale’s Belle and Tom flashback was a soap masterpiece – here’s why it had us on the edge of our seats

Emmerdale just aired a special flashback episode for Belle and Tom and it was the gripping TV this storyline needed.

Tom continued to abuse Belle on ‘holiday’ (Credit: ITV) Yesterday’s episode of Emmerdale (Tuesday, July 23), left viewers on a cliff-hanger as Charity and Cain turned up to the Welsh cottage to find the place trashed, with blood on the walls! The time before this, the soap also aired a different sort of episode which showed different characters’ version of events on the night of Lydia’s rapist, Craig’s death. Feeling physically sick and frightened for their lives whilst watching both Belle and Piper go through such abuse, Emmerdale has us more emotionally invested in the storyline than ever before.

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