Emmerdale spoilers follow.
Emmerdale's Dawn Fletcher has confided in Kim Tate about her suspicions of Joe Tate, following her father Will Taylor's death.
Joe returned to the village on Christmas Day as part of his scheme to take Kim down, after she tried to have him killed six years ago.
After Joe arrived at Home Farm and exposed Will's involvement in the scheme, Will suffered a heart attack in a shocking festive cliffhanger.
Kim performed life-saving measures on her husband, but when the emergency services arrived and took over, they quickly pronounced Will dead.
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While the family were grieving at home, Charity told Billy about Joe's dodgy past, leading him and Dawn to believe that Joe was somehow involved in Will's death.
Tonight's (December 30) episode saw Dawn tell Kim that she wanted to begin planning her dad's funeral, while Kim urged her to "grieve" first.
"I've been thinking about when we could have it. Well, it depends on when we get the results of the postmortem," Dawn said. "I just wanna do right by dad. I don't wanna leave anything to the last minute."
Joe then led Kim out of the room to give Dawn and Billy some "space". A frustrated Dawn then told her husband that she noticed Joe looked "worried" when she mentioned the postmortem.
"He was trying to act like it was nothing, but he was stressing," she noted.
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"It's like he's come in, he's taking over and he's just controlling everything. There's definitely something going on, isn't there?"
Later, Dawn managed to get Kim on her own and shared her suspicions of Joe after he returned to the village on the day that Will died. "It's a bit weird, isn't it?" she said.
"The Kim I know would think he did something," Dawn continued, before Kim said that she "can't just accuse people" without any proof.
"Something's not right, Kim. I can feel it in my gut," Dawn added, with Kim then noting that Joe didn't know Will, so wouldn't have any reason to hurt him.
"You're grieving Dawn, we all are. But we need to keep some sort of perspective," she added, leaving Dawn frustrated.
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With Dawn's suspicions on her mind, Kim spoke to Joe about his "random" arrival. Joe assured Kim that he was gathering proof that Will was out to ruin her, saying: "My hands are clean here."
Joe then went to "pacify" Dawn about his intentions with her family, but she refused to believe his "nice guy act".
"I don't even know you, Joe. All I know is since you turned up, everything has gone bad," she said.
"You've got this wrong," Joe assured, before Dawn warned: "No, you have, because whatever you did to my dad, it'll come out. Just watch."
Will Dawn be able to uncover Joe's sinister plans?
Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 7.30pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX.
