The following article contains spoilers from an episode of Emmerdale that hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet, but can be viewed on ITVX.
Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) thought she would try to get through to evil Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) in Friday’s Emmerdale episode, but her intervention backfired spectacularly. It did, however, give us a bit of an insight into Celia’s early life that hinted at tragedy in her past.
Since April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) revealed to her family that she’d been caught up in Celia and Ray (Joe Absolom)’s drug dealing operation, her parents Marlon (Mark Charnock) and Rhona have desperately tried to think of ways to end the nightmare.
An attempt to flee the village with the family was foiled by Ray, who menacingly told them that he had eyes and ears on them at all times.
Marlon and Rhona hoped that they could pay off the debt that Ray reckons April owes him – the sum of £20k.
They scraped the money together with the help of a pay day loan with ridiculous interest rates, but when they gave it to Ray he took he money and informed them that nothing had changed.
There was better news for them when they heard that Dylan (Fred Kettle) is going to survive the injuries he got when Ray deliberately ran him over as a warning. In fact he’s doing so well that the doctors plan to wake him soon from his induced coma.
This news has also found its way back to Celia.
In the Woolpack in this episode, Rhona saw Celia and made a desperate offer to do the drug-dealing jobs instead of April. Celia appeared to consider this for a few moments before deciding that Rhona would ‘pee her pants at the first sign of trouble.’
Angrily, Rhona asked her how she slept at night, and Celia’s answer was chilling.
‘I don’t,’ she said. ‘And neither will April.’ She went on to say that everything that was happening to April had also happened to her.
‘I even had my own Dylan,’ she said, and there was perhaps a ghost of a smile at the memory before she shut it down by saying he was ‘long gone now.’ Could that have been a turning point in Celia’s life, the point at which she started to turn from being a victim into the hard, apparently emotionless, villain she is now?
‘Look how I turned out,’ she said. ‘Always better to be the hammer than the anvil!’
She then turned her attention to the fact that Dylan is waking up – and issued a threat: ’Wherever April goes, men’s bodies just litter the pavement. Don’t let Dylan’s be the next one.’
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Rhona should have kept quiet but she couldn’t help herself from saying that Dylan would come round and then they’ll all talk to the police. Celia informed her she’d ‘overplayed her hand.’
With a feeling of dread, Rhona went back to Marlon and told him that she’d just made everything worse and was now terrified that Celia would kill Dylan. The couple agreed that someone will have to be with Dylan every minute of the day to make sure he’s safe.
Will it be enough?
