Caleb executes his plan to double-cross a dangerous Emmerdale villager – and may regret it
Caleb Miligan (William Ash) is currently a man on a mission in Emmerdale, as he once again sets his sights on ruining Kim Tate (Claire King)’s life. The last time he tried to destroy Kim he used his son Nicky (Lewis Cope) as an accomplice.
This time he’s gone into partnership with Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson) and in Tuesday (August 27)’s episode Caleb proved more than ready to double cross Jai.
The two men are planning to buy some land and build up an empire to rival that of Kim Tate and Will Taylor (Dean Andrews) by setting up a haulage firm that will drive Will out of business.
Caleb has persuaded Jai to invest in this scheme, which he’s been happy to do because it helps to hide his assets from Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy), who is divorcing him, and Caleb has promised a huge return on his investment. In this episode, Caleb wanted more cash.
He said that their planning application had hit a snag. Fixing it would involve bribing his contact at the council with £20k more – so he asked Jai for half that.
Luckily Jai happened to have £10k in cash in his pocket at that very moment, as Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) had just given him six months’ rent in advance for Holdgate. Reluctantly he handed it over to Caleb.
And he accompanied it with a threat. ‘I’m not a man to be messed with, Caleb. Try it again, you’ll find out.’
We know that Jai is more than capable of carrying out this threat, as his ruthless behaviour in dealing with his father Amit (Anil Goutam) proved. He imprisoned and tortured Amit, blackmailed Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell) and swindled his own brother Suni (Brahmdeo Shannon Ramana) out of his inheritance – all apparently without a guilty conscience.
His treatment of Laurel over the divorce has also shown that Jai will do anything to protect his own selfish needs.
He may have met his match in Caleb, though, as we later saw Caleb counting out the cash, and it became obvious that the story about the planning application had been a lie. Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) was pleased to see so much loose change as she felt the need of a spending spree at Harvey Nicks.
Caleb said he needed every penny to buy the haulage yard. ‘If they ever decide to sell,’ Ruby cautioned. Caleb said that everything was in place and as soon as he was done they’d be ‘glad to get rid.’
Ruby felt a little bit sorry for Jimmy King (Nick Miles), who’d lose his livelihood, but none at all for Will.
Later, Caleb told Ruby he needed her to be at home because she might have to be an alibi for him. Then he headed to the haulage yard and we saw him sabotaging one of the vehicles by pouring something into the petrol tank.
The haulage yard have had a run of bad luck recently, with deliveries going missing and a fine following an inspection – and Caleb was behind all of them.
He is playing a dangerous game. As well as going head-to-head against Will Taylor, who is capable of some ruthless actions himself, Caleb could face even more trouble from the man he’s relying on as a business partner.
If Jai realises that Caleb has been treating him like a fool, all bets are off.
