Aaron can't help Jackson

Aaron is back in Emmerdale and he's not looking good. Ever since he left Jackson and Hazel in Whitby he's been trying to get his head around Jackson's determination to kill himself. Paddy's worried, but Aaron has shut down; he doesn't know how to talk to anyone about Jackson's plans to end his own life. Hazel has no sympathy for him, though. She wants him to think about Jackson, not about himself, but Aaron's not able to be that selfless. He loves Jackson and wants him alive and can't believe that Hazel is prepared to let Jackson go. Aaron just can't bring himself to do what Jackson and Hazel want him to. Jai can't do what Farmer John wants him to do: invest in Butler's Farm. Oh, it's not that Jai doesn't think the farm has potential, he just doesn't have the money for such an investment. And, in that case, neither does John. It seems no one has money to fund John's ambitions and the clock's ticking on Declan's deadline. Nikhil's ambition is to have another night of passion with Chas - as soon as possible. Jealous Gennie's ambition is to make sure that doesn't happen...

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.