Emmerdale spoilers: Charity Dingle orders Mack Boyd to leave as she fears she might kill him

Everyone was worried about Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) in Tuesday (February 27)’s episode of Emmerdale. Sarah (Katie Hill) and Noah (Jack Downham) were furious with Cain (Jeff Hordley), who’d seen Charity at Jacobs Fold but had left her there when she told him she needed to be on her own.

When they got to the house they found the door locked. Charity was inside, looking scared and anxious, refusing to open the door or even to talk to her son and granddaughter. When Sarah tried to kick the door in, Charity finally opened it – only to tell them to go away and leave her alone.

Since Charity stabbed Mackenzie (Lawrence Robb) while hallucinating that she was being attacked by Damon ‘Harry’ Harris (Robert Beck), she’s terrified about what she could do next – so she certainly didn’t want Noah or Sarah around her.

Back in the hospital, Mack was telling Moira (Natalie J. Robb) that Charity came to see him the previous day, although he was barely conscious at the time. He was worried about her and wanted to go to her, insisting that Charity didn’t mean to harm him and that he wasn’t afraid of her.

Moira urged him to stay where he was – it’s only been a couple of days since he had surgery, after all – but it wasn’t long before Mack appeared at Jacobs Fold, letting himself in with a back door key.

Charity told him to get out. ‘I’m not angry with you,’ he reassured her. ‘You’ve got nothing to be afraid of.’

But she wasn’t afraid of him – she was afraid of what she might do to him. ‘I could hurt you,’ she said.

She rushed upstairs, but when she eventually came back down he was sitting waiting for her. Again she urged him to go back to the hospital and get better and again he insisted that the stabbing hadn’t been her fault. She was ill, he told her, and had been for months. She needed expert help.

Charity knew that even if she spoke to a therapist it would take a long time to get better.

‘Until I’m fixed you can’t be here,’ she told him. Mack tried to argue, but Charity said if he refused to leave she would go off on her own, somewhere he couldn’t find her. ‘You go or I do,’ she insisted.

So Mack had no option but to leave. At least the family know where Charity is and can check in on her. If she took off, anything could happen.

At Butlers he reported back to the family. They’d told Moses (Arthur Cockroft) that Mack and Charity were away on holiday to cover for the fact that one was in police custody for stabbing the other.

Now Mack decided to tell him a modified version of the truth. He reassured Moses that ‘Everything’s going to be all right.’

At that moment Charity was downing a large glass of whisky in an attempt to make herself feel calmer – far less certain than Mack that everything would be all right.