Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) has been betrayed by Caleb Miligan (William Ash) and forgiven him umpteen times in Emmerdale. But it only ever takes one thing to finally make a person snap, and Ruby is about to have her buckeroo moment.
Ruby is in a bit of a weird emotional state because her estranged mum has died, and she has no idea how to feel.
It’s the woman who kicked her out and left her to fend for herself with no family or means, and yet Ruby can’t help but feel some level of regret at not having a final word with her mother.
Little does she know, her mum had tried to reach out in the lead up to her death.
Helen had got hold of Caleb, who refused to put her in touch with her daughter after all of the hurt she’d caused. But after some pushing, he’d made a deal; if she paid him 100 grand, he’d get the two women in a room together.
Both fortunately and unfortunately for Caleb, Helen made the transaction, but passed before he could alert Ruby to what was going on.
He pocketed the money and kept quiet, even when Ruby began drowning her sorrows over the fact that her mum seemingly couldn’t even bear one last word with her.
Now she’s in charge of sorting her late mum’s estate, which feels like the final painful blow for Ruby.
When she receives her mum’s ashes, she takes impulsive action on how to dispose of them. She’s full of anger and resentment that Helen had one last way to twist the knife and that was to make Ruby executor and leave her to deal with all the bureaucracy that comes with it.
While in the pub hitting the bottle, Chas (Lucy Pargeter) tries to offer Ruby comfort and suggests she seek out Helen’s final words in case they might mean something and bring closure.
This is the beginning of Caleb’s undoing. Ruby speaks with the hospital and learns the heatsinking, devastating truth – that Helen had been yearning for a death bed reconciliation, and Caleb had been there and blocked it.
Suddenly his lies become clear, and Ruby confronts him. Is this the lowest he’s ever sunk? Just wait until she finds out he snagged himself £100,000 in the process…
