Jacob and Liv are growing closer as he moves on from his ordeal with Maya, and learns to accept Liv's asexuality.

Cuddling on the sofa at Mill Cottage, they're startled when they're interrupted by Robert and Aaron, who roughly throws Jacab out, telling him to stay away.

The next day, Jacob is confiding in Maya when it becomes clear that she'd stitched him up the day before, and told Aaron and Robert where he was.

Furious, Jacob tells Maya to leave him alone, threatening that he'll tell David about the affair if she doesn't.

Maya is terrified that she's losing control of Jacob, and hurt when he rejects her advances. She tries to apologise, but Jacob is fuming,

Maya decides it will be best if she leaves the village. While she's packing, she falls of a stall, hitting her head and knocking herself out.

Dawn meets with a social worker, who tells her that they've already started the adoption process for Dawn's son Lucas.

Dawn is floored to learn she might never see her son again. Later on she lashes out at Harriet, and vows to get her son back through any means possible.

Dawn distracts the social worker, and when she leaves the room, Dawn has a look at the open screen...

Whipping out her phone, Dawn takes a picture of Lucas's file – zooming in on his current address.

The next day, Dawn leans on Ryan for support. Ryan tries his best to comfort a sobbing Dawn, and tells her that she should do what makes her happy, and fight for her cause.

Harriet confronts Dawn about keeping parts of the truth from Ryan, but Dawn plays the victim and tells Harriet to back off. Will Dawn keep away?

Jimmy is avoiding Nicola and ignores a phone call from the school, thinking it might be her.

Elsewhere, Nicola is still struggling to accept responsibility, but when she receives a call from the school saying Elliot is missing, she's forced to snap out of her pity party.

Luckily, Elliot is quickly found and an emotional Nicola promises that she'll be his mum no matter what happens. Next, she has to make up with Jimmy. Will they reconcile?

Moira finally convinces Kerry to let Kyle come home to his dad, and when she breaks the news to Cain that he can have access to Kyle, he's overcome with emotion.

Daring to believe that his bad luck might be coming to an end, Cain's heart sink when the police show up to search Butler's.

When Cain refuses to go with them to the station, they arrest him. Later at the station, they drop a bombshell – they have information that places him at Home Farm at the time of Joe's disappearance.

Cain has no choice but to admit to crossing paths with Joe that day – and hope that Graham backs up his story, when the police inevitably show up to question him.

Jai is concerned when he stumbles upon Manpreet having an altercation with a bailiff outside her home, and suspects her financial difficulties are far worse than she's letting on.

Jai is conflicted when Manpreet urges him not to tell Rishi – but when Jai pushes Manpreet for the truth, she makes a confession he couldn't have seen coming.

Meanwhile, Marlon is frustrated that Paddy won't face up to the truth about Bear Wolf. He resolves to go to the wrestling convention to confront him.