Emmerdale’s Cain Dingle to play key role in Charity and Mack stabbing aftermath
He tries his best to help Charity recover.
Emmerdale spoilers follow.
Emmerdale‘s Cain Dingle steps in to support his ex-partner Charity next week amid her trauma over stabbing Mackenzie Boyd.
Cain spots how much Charity is struggling after she violently lashed out at Mackenzie during a night terror.
Next week’s episodes see the police release Charity from custody pending further investigations into the incident at her family home.
Charity can’t bear to be around her family, even though they support her, so she tries to shut them all out of her house.
Charity’s son Noah and granddaughter Sarah rush to see her, concerned that she spent the night alone after being released.
Still sleep-deprived, Charity becomes rattled and anxious over Noah and Sarah’s attempts to enter her locked home.
Sarah ultimately takes drastic action by kicking down the front door of the cottage. This annoys Charity, who tells Sarah and Noah to leave.
Mackenzie isn’t far behind the teens, turning up to see Charity and making it clear that he wants to reconcile. Charity still refuses to listen and asks him to go too.
Once alone, Charity turns to a bottle of whisky in the hope that it will make her feel better.
Cain is next to pay a visit, urging Charity to get help for her turmoil. He suggests that counselling sessions might help, but Charity is sceptical.
Refusing to back down, Cain offers to stay in the house overnight to prove that Charity isn’t a danger to anyone.
Charity remains reluctant, but eventually agrees to consider counselling to talk through how shooting Damon ‘Harry’ Harris at Christmas has affected her mental health.
Emma Atkins, who plays Charity, recently tol demmerdalesnews: “Charity cuts herself off and it’s Cain who comes into the house and brings her to her senses a little bit by saying: ‘We need to pull rank, we need to get the family involved. You need to come out of the shell that you’re in and get help’.
“Cain takes Charity on a walk. They go through the woods but Charity says: ‘I just don’t want to. I can’t be with anyone, I can’t be near anyone, I don’t trust myself’.
“Cain asks why Charity won’t consider counselling, but Charity feels that once she unravels this hellhole of her life to someone, there’s no stopping her and who knows what might come out?
“Cain still thinks it’s a good thing and makes reference to the fact that Kyle killed Al – because he’s obviously been through counselling as well. Charity doesn’t think that it’s the same kind of situation. So she’s just trying to deny that she needs help.
“Obviously Chas comes to the rescue as well. Eventually Charity makes an appointment with a doctor and she agrees that she needs help – real help.”
Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 7.30pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX.
