Emmerdale ‘confirms’ who wipes the grin off Dr Todd’s face – and it’s not Charity or Jacob | Soaps

Dr Caitlin Todd (Caroline Harker), Emmerdale’s most twisted medical professional since John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth), is truly a wretched creature.

A vicious bully at work and an arch manipulator in every other aspect of her life, she’s even managed to take on and almost entirely destroy the usually indomitable Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins).

We were introduced to Todd as the spiteful boss of young student doctor, Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant), who she took an instant dislike to, proceeding to make his working life a living hell. Not satisfied with torturing him at work, she also moved to the village and became Vanessa Woodfield’s (Michelle Hardwick) roommate, allowing her to continue to victimise him when he’s at home, too.

Jacob took to the proper channels by formally reporting Todd to HR at the hospital, though Todd’s discovery that baby Leyla, believed to be Jacob and wife Sarah Sugden’s (Katie Hill), is actually the child of not-so-surrogate, Charity, led to her using this ammunition to force Charity to get Jacob to withdraw his complaint.

Clever enough to know her time was running out, and that Jacob may well resume his official complaint in the future, thus tarnishing her precious career, Todd changed tack and decided to retire early. Though Sarah was insistent that Jacob see his original complaint through, Jacob could see the light at the end of the tunnel, and looked forward to a working life without Todd constantly holding his feet to the fire.

Todd’s new focus on Charity, though, is every bit as cruel and vindictive as it was with Jacob, only without the professional veneer she previously employed. Charity knows of her true, dark nature, thus no haughty or accomplished masquerading is needed.

Initially demanding only £10,000 for her silence regarding Leyla’s true parentage, Todd saw pound signs when she realised that Charity actually owned half of the Woolpack, and multiplied her demand by ten: she now wanted £100,000 to keep her mouth shut and disappear.

With few options to scrape the cash together left, Charity turned to her well-off cousins, Caleb and Ruby Miligan (William Ash and Beth Cordingly), with an offer to purchase her share of the pub. Caleb was instantly aware that something was seriously wrong; Charity would never be so desperate to flog her beloved Woolpack and attempted to dig deeper into what was driving her.

Though Charity kept shtum, Caleb made it abundantly clear that should Charity need his support, he’d be there for her.

Witnessing their exchange made Todd uneasy, and she later let herself into Charity’s house, picking up baby Leyla while landing more threats on Charity. With an ice cold warning that she had no idea what Todd was truly capable of, Charity was left more terrified than ever that her secret was about to be exposed, which would lead her life to ultimately explode.

But will she take Caleb up on his offer?

Caleb is equally as terrifying an enemy as both Charity and Todd, possessing a deeply ruthless streak and a determination to destroy all those that cross him. He appeared in the village initially, determined to claim Home Farm as his true birth right, being the son of Frank Tate (Norman Bowler), with every intention of annihilating Kim Tate (Claire King) on his way to his ultimate goal.

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He even used his son, Nicky (Lewis Cope) to seduce Gabby Thomas (Rosie Bentham) as part of the scheme, seeing her as little more than collateral damage.

Caleb and Charity together would be nearly unstoppable; a manipulative, devious force that could truly spell the end of Dr Caitlin Todd and put her reign of terror down for good.

But would Charity risk more people discovering that the baby she carried for Sarah and Jacob is actually hers and Ross Barton’s (Michael Parr)?

If she doesn’t, Charity may well have to accept defeat, and be left with absolutely nothing by the time that Todd has bled her dry, but that doesn’t sound very Charity-like, does it?

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