Craig returns to Hollyoaks with Steph and Tom. Steph is worried about what people will say regarding Niall and that she might be blamed by the McQueens for his death. 
Niall gives chase and screams after Steph; Craig, who has been looking for her, hears Niall shouting and follows them. Niall traps Steph on a cliff edge and she warns him not to come any closer. He then tries to take their lives by throwing himself and Steph over the edge off the cliff. Craig then appears and tells Niall that Steph does not love him and to let her go. Niall then beats Craig in a bloody mess while Steph watches helpless.
Craig then tells Niall to look at 
Steph who is scared by him and his behaviour. Niall then asks Steph if this is true and she confirms it. Angry and alone, 
Niall throws Craig into Steph's arms, kisses her briefly and then rips off the necklace he got her and walks to the edge of the cliff. Steph helps Craig up and then hears Niall 
say "Goodbye, Steph" just before he steps backward over the 
edge,
jumping off the cliff, falling onto a pile of rocks below, ultimately leading to his 
death. Steph watches helplessly as Niall lies motionless below; Craig holds her pulling her away from the edge and Niall's body.
Niall talk to Tom about how he would feel if he and Steph become his parents and then they can move away and be a happy family. Tom, however, chooses to live with Steph and Mandy.
Niall, feeling rejected by Tom, leaves him and Craig locked up in the cottage and takes Steph away to the barn where he has been staying. At the barn he sets up a meal for them and the pair talk about Niall's behaviour and the hurt that he has caused, mentioning things like Niall running down and killing Max (Steph's one day husband), the church explosion, the death of Tina and murdering Keiron Hobbs. Niall manages to convince Steph that he's willing to change, but Steph claims she needs the toilet and Niall shows her through to another section of the barn. While in the other room Steph uses her mobile phone to call the police, but she is cut off when
Niall suddenly appears behind her and crushes it. Back at the cottage, Pete arrives back to check on things and
discovers Craig tied up. He frees him and then they go and check on Tom. Craig then asks Tom where Niall took him the previous day, believing Niall will have taken Steph to the same place, but Tom is not sure.
In the barn Niall ties up Steph and tells her that he feels betrayed by her, but she knocks him out and manages to escape into the fields.
Steph and Craig are distraught that Tom is missing, but Niall lets their fear build and then makes contact with the pair. He then gives them a deal:
if Steph meets with him then he will 
return Tom safely, but Niall's plan goes wrong and Tom escapes. Angry that he has been tricked by a child, he sets out to find Steph himself, and arrives back at the cottage where Tom has found Craig. Niall surprises the pair and ties Craig up and locks Tom in another room. Steph then returns and is shocked to be face to face with Niall. They then talk to each other with Niall desperate for her to love him.
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Steph - 'Yes please... so long as
Steph - 'You know with you being gay I just presumed'
Craig and Pete have a talk, lying under the stars (dont u think the scene with Jp should be so romantic and sweet??.. I can dream a kiss between them but..) 
On 24 November 2008, Craig met up with his sister Steph and little Tom in Scotland for a holiday at a remote cottage, having e-mailed the details to Steph previously. Craig later reveals that this is because John Paul needed time to himself after going out on late night benders following the death of his sister Tina. 
craig - actually we had a bit of a falling out. 
JP : (to Myra) « "Since I found the courage to live my life."
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Mercy : "You're lucky to have found someone, you know. Don't let that go."
JP: "I won't".
So lovely that he is going back to Craig and that his last words were "I love you, Mum."
John Paul returns on 16 October 2008 when Niall kidnaps him and the rest of his family. When Myra is finally re-united with her daughters in St Eustace church,
Niall reveals he has also kidnapped John
Paul and brings him out to join his family. He gives Myra six questions for her six children, promising to kill a child for every question she gets wrong. Myra manages to get two right by luck and has to pick four children to do. John Paul bravely tells his mother that he loves her and then offers himself up for sacrifice, as does his sister Mercedes. Carmel and Jacqui are also chosen to die. However, Niall shocks the family further when he reveals that he has killed Kieron.
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Before he can do anything else, Jack and Darren arrive to rescue the McQueens, and in the chaos Niall detonate the explosives, with the whole family still inside.
After the explosion, Niall begins to feel guilty for putting his mother through such a traumatic experience and begins to try and help her, but John Paul, vengeful against Niall for all he has done, turns up, prepared to kill him. When Niall is trying to lift some debris that is trapping Myra, John Paul appears with an improvised weapon and threatens him. Niall
manages to convince him to help him shift the debris, though, but afterwards John Paul resumes arguing with him.
Their argument is cut short when an angel statue falls
towards them. Niall pushes John Paul and Myra out of the way,
saving their lives, but apparently crushes himself in the process. While all of this is going on Jack, Darren, Tony and
Dominic work as hard as they can to save the rest of the McQueens. However, when everyone else makes it out safely Dom comes out carrying Tina's body leaving the family heartbroken. Though at the end of the episode and unknown to everyone else, Niall's reflection in the window of an ambulance is apparent, thus proving that he is still
alive.
John Paul decides to return to Dublin immediately, rather than stay for Tina's funeral, believing that he cannot stay in Hollyoaks because too much has happened to him there and he needs to continue his new life.
John Paul makes it to the platform just as 
the train is leaving, he is angry and very 
upset, but looks across 
the platforms and sees Craig at another platform! They rush into an embrace :)
JP: Craig, you've got no idea how much you've hurt me. So I just wanted to say to you, you know, before you walk out of my life forever, that I wouldn't have missed any of it for the world.
JP: I don't know how we keep finding ourselves here, 
I really don't. But the one thing that I do know, the one thing that i'm sure of is that I love you. I really love 
you and...
just gonna see me off?
John Paul and Craig board the train hand in hand.    JP: What?! Craig: I'm messin'. |
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