1998
Scott came back to the village on leave and spent the night with Lyn Hutchinson, ignoring her in the morning. He mysteriously arrived back in Emmerdale a few months later and refused to say why he had left the army.
Smooth talking Scott encouraged the village lads to help him do odd jobs around the village to pay for repairing an old banger of a car, but he left them to do all the hard work. Vic, Scott’s stepfather, was killed on Christmas day during a bungled robbery. At the same time, Scott was struggling to contain his growing affection for his step-sister, Kelly. He bought her a pretty top for Christmas and they ended up kissing in the deserted vet’s surgery on Christmas Day

1999
When he returned he was very jealous of the amount of time Kelly spent with Roy and did his best to split them up ; he persuaded Kelly to sleep with him at Stella’s party, but is furious that she insists on being with Roy.
Scott has tried to put his fling with Kelly behind him, but when Roy went to prison he tried to cheer her up by taking her out to dinner at a posh hotel. They ended up sleeping together again, although Scott really regretted it.

2000
Scott finds Kelly unconscious in the cricket pavillion after her suicide attempt. He hides and later burns the letters and tape she had left, worried that everyone would find out about them sleeping together. Scott agrees to go into partnership with Roy in the garage. Roy and Scott fight in the garage. Sick of Scott’s behaviour Roy walks out of the garage leaving Scott unable to cope on his own. Scott asks Frankie to work at the garage, she agrees. Donna tells the whole pub that Kelly and Scott had been sleeping together. Viv freaks out and throws Scott out of the house when she learns what was in Kelly’s suicide letters and why he burnt them. Scott sleeps in the garage as he has nowhere else to go.