{"id":238195,"date":"2026-01-14T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238195\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:13:11","slug":"emmerdale-to-reveal-nicolas-surprising-role-in-rays-death-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238195\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale to reveal Nicola’s surprising role in Ray’s death mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale spoilers<\/a> follow.<\/p>\n

Emmerdale will dedicate next week to Ray Walters’ mysterious death<\/a>, as the episodes airing between 19 and 23 January will be dedicated to flashbacks<\/a> of the day Ray was killed, showing what all the suspects were really up to on the time in question.<\/p>\n

Laurel Thomas, who discovered Ray’s crimes shortly before he died<\/a>, will be a big part of next week’s episodes. New information about the flashbacks reveal that Nicola King has a surprising part to play in events too.<\/p>\n

In the scenes set to air during Monday’s (19 January) episode, Ray stands over the dead body of mum Celia Daniels before grabbing his red bag and heading for the door.<\/p>\n

He heads back to Mulberry and tries to explain to Laurel that his traumatic past is the reason he’s done such terrible things. But she refuses to listen.<\/p>\n

\"laurel<\/p>\n

ITV<\/p>\n

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He begs for his freedom and she reluctantly agrees to let him walk away. However, her son Arthur is determined to make him pay for all the pain he’s inflicted.<\/p>\n

That’s where Nicola factors in, as she urges Laurel to lure Ray into a trap.<\/p>\n

Will she actually go through with it though? And if she does, could it prove to be a risky move?<\/p>\n

\"laurel<\/p>\n

ITV<\/p>\n

Related: Emmerdale star responds to missed opportunity for Rhona and Cain team-up<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Laurel often listens to Nicola’s advice when it comes to her life \u2014 but this is on a whole other level,” our Emmerdale source says.<\/p>\n

“Nicola encouraged Laurel to make sure that Ray didn’t get away with his crimes, but this would have been a major risk. How far did Laurel go? And did it place her in danger?”<\/p>\n

Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 8pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX<\/a> and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Read more Emmerdale spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. This week’s episode<\/a> features a chat with Coronation Street star Jacob Roberts, who plays Kit Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmerdale spoilers follow. Emmerdale will dedicate next week to Ray Walters’ mysterious death, as the episodes airing between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[635,128634,637,146,85,46,636,128633,411],"class_list":["post-238195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-5af36ab6-6177-4708-a692-aa770c545487","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-emmerdale-to-reveal-nicolas-role-in-death-mystery","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}