Emmerdale‘s Charity Dingle has found herself in an impossible situation this week. She has to secure the £100,000 for Dr Caitlin Todd, or risk the blackmailing medical practitioner revealing that baby Leyla is actually the result of a one-night affair with Ross Barton.
Although she told Chas that she wouldn’t really go through with her plan of robbing the depot, tonight’s episode (4 June) showed her doing just that…
The latest episode saw a nervous Charity learn from Kerry Wyatt that not everyone at the depot had a day off due to the work that was being done there.
While trying to mask her panic, she quickly came up with the excuse that she was throwing a menu tasting session at the pub with free drinks, and told Kerry to skive off with the other workers, without letting Caleb Milligan know.
Her plan hit a snag when Caleb turned up to The Woolpack and saw everyone in there and kicked off. Once they convinced him to join, Charity left Marlon in charge of everything and dashed away.
Chas turned up at the pub, and realised exactly what Charity was up to. She headed over to the depot and caught her red-handed!
The two didn’t have much time to argue, as Noah and Billy Fletcher turned up and immediately noticed that something was up, with Billy calling Caleb to come down.
After Charity snuck away, Chas caught up with her back home and called her out on her behaviour, telling her that Caleb is blaming Noah for the robbery after he lost his keys (Charity secretly stole them).
Indeed, he chastised the youngster for costing him a fortune, as the insurance won’t cover what looks like an inside job.
“I had no choice!” Charity insisted, claiming that she couldn’t put Sarah, Jacob or Mack through the pain of the truth, but Chas told her that she’s just lying to protect herself, and she won’t be able to keep it up forever.
Charity felt like she’d be in the clear once Dr Todd was out of the picture, and handed over £30,000 in cash as an advance with the promise that she’d get the rest once the sale of the pub to Kim Tate went through.
Only the villainous doctor revealed that she knows that Kim has pulled out of the sale, and she’s not changing her deadline…
Although it looks like Dr Todd couldn’t get any worse, spoilers for next week have revealed that she will cross the line like never before.
