As Caleb (William Ash) lay in hospital in a coma after being pushed from a ridge and left for dead in a recent Emmerdale episode, it seemed that the only person who really cared whether he lived or died was his sister, Chas (Lucy Pargeter).
At the start of Monday (June 19)’s episode we saw an anxious Chas keeping vigil by Caleb’s bedside. Soon joined by Cain (Jeff Hordley), Chas was told by a nurse that Caleb had suffered from mild hypothermia after lying in the deserted spot overnight before he was found by Cain. He’d had surgery for a broken leg and was being kept in a coma to give any brain swelling the chance to heal.
Chas was in no doubt about who was to blame for what happened to Caleb as she pointed the finger at Cain, wondering whether he’d gone back to the spot where Caleb fell the following day to ‘admire his handiwork.’
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‘This is Al all over again,’ she accused him. Chas knows better than anyone that when Cain feels aggrieved about something his fiery temper leads him to violence. He’d done it when he discovered her affair with Al Chapman (Michael Wildman) – leading directly to Al’s death as his attempt to teach Chas’s lover a lesson had gone terribly wrong when his son Kyle (Huey Quinn) picked up a gun and shot Al.
With Caleb showing that he was prepared to throw his family under a bus to get what he wanted, destroying Moira (Natalie J. Robb)’s business in the process, and with his stinging words to Cain and the rest of the family, Cain certainly had the motive to react violently towards his brother.
As the police proceeded to question everyone in the frame for the killing – Will (Dean Andrews), Leyla (Roxy Shahidi), Mackenzie (Lawrence Robb) and Cain – Cain’s alibi was so weak it was almost non-existent. He’d been for a walk on the evening Caleb was pushed. The next morning, when he found his brother injured at the bottom of the cliff he’d been out walking Zak (Steve Halliwell)’s dog Monty.
The police focused their attention elsewhere, deciding that it was Mackenzie who had the motive and opportunity to try to kill Caleb after fighting with him earlier. Chas, however, was deeply suspicious of Cain. This only deepened when she overheard a conversation between Cain and Zak later.
‘Maybe you should just tell the truth,’ Zak said.
‘Nobody needs to know but us,’ Cain replied.
Chas’s ears pricked up and she demanded to know what they’d been talking about. She asked Zak if Cain was ‘hassling him for an alibi’ after pushing Caleb. Chas pleaded with Zak not to get involved in covering for Cain and Zak was about to say something but Cain told his dad to ignore Chas.
‘What aren’t you telling me?’ she asked the Dingle patriarch, but he refused to answer. Chas gave up trying to get any information from the two men but vowed that she was determined to find out what they were keeping from her.
Is Zak covering for Cain’s murderous actions? Or is there another explanation?
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