Just to stress this is an idea about where Emmerdale could take this because I thought the same with Carl and Cameron. Both Pete and Cameron are generally 'good' people who turned killers due to circumstance rather than design.

If Pete is so racked with guilt he starts seeing Ross, even talking to him, arguing with him (yes, I know, I'm sorry ). I almost wanted Ross' face to appear in the reflection of the washing machine instead of Pete's own. Ross would be a figment of Pete's imagination, a sign of a complete mental breakdown. It's already been said that Pete is going down a very dark place and this would match that.

I think it would be more interesting route to take then have a disappearing body because Ross isn't dead, or turning Pete into a mass murderer.

I'm not sure what everyone else thinks.

He's dead get over it lol

It would could be an interesting take and when it is revealled that Ross is alive Pete (and the viewers) will be left wondering which 'sightings' were real and which were in Pete's head, especially if the 'visions' cause Pete to do other bad things.

I am not sure he is dead, if Pete had actually buried Ross I would have believed it but just covering him with tree limbs leaves it open for him to be alive...he could just have been knocked out. I think he will be back......

I really don't want him to be alive. It'd be such a tired pathetic cliché. I hope he's found quickly, buried, a murder investigation launched etc. with the mental side covered with Pete.

Theyve definitely left it open incase michael ever decides to come back to ED in the future. If his career takes off then i guess we wont see him again. Hence why no absolute exit interview.but still the murder storyline for pete. We know emma is worried about his disappearance next week so he doesnt wake up and come back straight away.

They never do. Suspected victims always disappear months on end to goodness knows where.

It's clearly been left to wonder at this moment.

This storyline has taken on the "Game Of Thrones" effect, in that since last night I've read countless people thinking up ways to bring him back, despite the obvious fact that he is dead.

That said, I do like the OP's idea of him appearing as Pete's imagination.

Hollyoaks did something along these lines last year, when the character of Rhys Ashworth who died a year or two ago, began appearing to Cindy Cunningham in the grips of her breakdown due to bi polar.

Years ago, Home and Away aired a storyline in which Bobby Simpson, who had died a year or two previously, appeared out of the fridge in a super freaky scene, during Ailsa Stewart's breakdown story.

Emmerdale years ago, featured Marlon talking to Trisha, shortly after she had been killed in the great storm that befell Emmerdale that Christmas. Sheree Murphy appeared in the scenes and they had an actual conversation. It was very touching.

Similarly, Vera Duckworth returned to the Street three years after her death, to collect husband Jack, as he too passed away in the same chair Vera died in.

So this has been done before. I'm not sure Emmerdale will see it fitting for this type of story but you never know, perhaps if Pete does go onto have a breakdown.

I favour the Dallas/Bobby Ewing method of bringing dead characters back to life

Just have Ross step out of the shower!




(excuse me whilst I mull over that thought....)

I am sitting on the fence.. I am 50/50 that he is dead or alive. There was enough to say he was dead, and enough to say he could be alive. If he is alive he would be seriously dishevelled... might turn up in a hospital appeal for a man who turned up with no recollection of his name or who he is...

I would not say he is obviously dead... Pete checked his pulse in a panic, and he isn't a paramedic, nurse, doctor... he could have missed it, and he may have just been unconscious. Declan was smashed over the head a few times and left to drown in the middle of a lake, and he turned up

Which is why I would prefer if they didn't follow this route with Ross; we've already had a 'dead' person coming back. It's old hat.