Emmerdale spoilers: Broken Charity Dingle’s fate sealed as the police confront Mack Boyd over stabbing
Viewers were shocked when Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins)’s deteriorating mental health finally overwhelmed her in recent Emmerdale episodes. In the middle of a night terror, she lashed out at Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) with a knife and left him fighting for his life.
This was all the culmination of weeks of trauma for Charity, who’s been secretly suffering ever since she killed Damon ‘Harry’ Harris (Robert Beck) at Christmas.
Reliving the moment the gun went off every time she hears a loud noise, Charity has had panic attacks and has been overcome by bouts of fear or rage that she can’t control.
Following the stabbing, Mackenzie is in hospital and detectives want to question him about what happened. He tries his best to defend Charity, who is later released and goes home.
Cain (Jeff Hordley) tries to offer his sympathy, but Charity pushes him away and insists on being alone as she tries to process what just happened.
Sarah (Katie Hill) and Noah (Jack Downham) are upset to hear from Cain that Charity spent the night alone and, despite his insistence that Charity needs space they rush to her.
Their arrival only upsets Charity more as she panics about who is trying to get into the house. Sarah, worried for her gran, kicks the door in but a terrified Charity insists that she and Noah both leave.
Similarly when Mack eventually comes home, Charity is scared she might try to hurt him again and begs him to go.
It’s left to Cain to try to reason with Charity, and when she tells him she might hurt him, too, if he stays he insists on staying to prove she isn’t dangerous.
He then asks her to think about having counselling, as Emma Atkins told us.
‘Cain just thinks it’s a good thing and also suggests that Kyle (Huey Quinn), having killed Al (Michael Wildman), he’s obviously been through counselling as well. She’s just trying to deny, deny that she needs help. And Chas (Lucy Pargeter) comes to the rescue as well. And eventually she makes an appointment with a doctor and she agrees that she needs help, real help.’