Kim Tate (Claire King) had a lot on her mind in Monday (April 3)’s episode of Emmerdale. To begin with she had to digest the disappointing (to her) news that nanny Nicky (Lewis Cope) and her protégée Gabby (Rosie Bentham) are in a relationship.

Kim’s response was swift as she handed Nicky his P45. Despite Gabby’s protestations, Kim insisted that when the affair inevitably went wrong, it would be her grandson Thomas who would get hurt.

This was a fair point, but what seemed to really get Kim seething was that the whole point of hiring a nanny was so that Gabby could focus on her career of becoming Kim’s mini-me. Kim now realised that Gabby had been less interested in business than she had in pleasure.

Nicky’s reaction to this was to propose to Gabby to show how serious he was about her. ‘Oh dear lord,’ Kim muttered as the ever-smiling nanny dropped to one knee in the middle of the Hide as Laurel (Charlotte Bellamy) and Bernice (Samantha Giles) looked on. Kim was spared having to witness any more of this spectacle by a phone call from Will (Dean Andrews) – there was trouble brewing back at Home Farm and her presence was required urgently.

There’s nothing like a crisis to take your mind off a problem, and what Will was dealing with was serious. He’d just spotted Billy (Jay Kontzle)’s car in the barn, with an Alex (Liam Boyle)-shaped dent in it.

Viewers will recall that, on the way out for fish and chips to celebrate him and Dawn (Olivia Bromley) getting legal permanent custody of Lucas (Noah Ryan Aspinall) and Clemmie (Mabel Addison), Billy accidentally ran over Alex who was distracted after his pharmacy van heist had been rumbled by Charles (Kevin Mathurin). Billy left the scene of the accident without reporting it, knowing that his past history with Alex could look like he had a motive to kill him.

Billy told Dawn what had happened but she insisted they had to keep quiet about it.

Then, with Charles and Alex having previously been in an argument after Charles discovered what Alex was up to, the police had arrested Charles as being the most likely suspect in the hit and run that has left Alex in a coma – and he had no evidence or alibi to prove he hadn’t done it. Plus there was also an Alex-shaped dent in his car after a fight between the two.

Will told Kim about Billy’s car and that Billy admitted he’d been the one who ran Alex over. Kim immediately went into damage limitation mode, telling Will to fix up the car and emphasising that he should source the spare parts he needed from different places so as not to raise suspicion – because when the heat is on, Killer Kim Tate is ice cool. ‘This affects us all,’ she told her family, instructing Billy that he had to carry on as normal.

Billy was almost immediately finding it hard to follow Kim’s instructions, paying a visit to the crash scene and telling Dawn that he couldn’t allow an innocent Charles to go to prison for something he didn’t do. He vowed to hand himself in if the police didn’t drop the case.

As Alex still remains unconscious in his hospital bed, things could get considerably worse if he dies.

If he does and somebody has to face a murder charge, where will that leave Kim, Will and Dawn who are now all complicit in hiding Billy’s crime?

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