Emmerdale’s Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) nearly causes a serious accident after his hellish first day working in A&E later this week.
A special episode set to air on Thursday will follow a day in the medical student’s life as he begins his work placement in a busy emergency department.
The hour-long edition of the ITV soap aims to highlight the stresses of working with cases of serious injury and life-threatening emergencies
While there, Jacob will become wrapped up in some challenging situations involving several of the villagers – but the drama continues after his shift when he has a serious near miss in his car.
During his shift, fans will see Jacob face the stress of an incoming stab victim, who appears to have a connection to April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan).
Jacob watches as Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) arrive, desperate for news on missing April, and as time passes without updates on how the victim is doing, tensions in the family room rise.
Eventually, Jacob is heartbroken as he watches a nurse enter to deliver devastating news to Marlon and Rhona.
Jacob jumps into action when Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) rushes in with a drunk Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill), who collapses.
After he helps Sarah, Jacob deals her some very tough love, before he is soon caught up in another emergency.
After his day in A&E, an exhausted Jacob heads home in his car, but is mortified when he narrowly avoids hitting Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarkar) in his car.
Jacob can’t stop apologising but Manpreet is worried about his obvious exhaustion.
Will the near-miss force him to rethink his medical career?
Speaking about the special episode, Emmerdale Producer Sophie Roper explains: ‘When Jacob first embarked on his aspirations of having a medical degree we knew at some point we wanted to show a day in his life.
‘As the episode unfolds, Jacob will encounter some challenging situations that also affect some of our Emmerdale villagers, pushing Jacob to his limits both professionally and personally.’
