The recent limo crash that left three people dead in Emmerdale seemed like a tragic accident.
Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) had been driving one of the two limos hired for the evening when, out of nowhere, her son Noah (Jack Downham) stumbled straight in front of the car. Swerving to avoid him, the car ended up on a frozen lake.
Suzy Merton (Martelle Edinborough) was killed in the initial impact, while Amy Barton (Natalie Ann Jamieson) lost her life when she plunged through the ice trying to escape and Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi) died on her way to hospital.
It was a shattering event that rocked the entire village, but the big mystery behind it was why Noah was wandering about the woods in the snow after dark, apparently under the influence of a drug he didn’t know he’d taken.
It’s something that has nagged at Charity and for a long time she’s had the feeling that it had something to do with Joe Tate (Ned Porteous). When Noah realised he had a vague memory of waking up at some point in a hospital with Joe in the room there was nothing that could be pinned on Joe – but Charity knew that Joe had spiked Noah.
What she couldn’t work out was the reason. Viewers know that Joe was in desperate need of a kidney transplant and was having Noah tested – without his knowledge or consent – to see if he was a match. He wasn’t, and Joe eventually got the kidney he needed from his uncle Caleb Miligan (William Ash), again without knowledge or consent.
This is all about to come to light, and it’s fair to say that when Charity finally learns the truth she’s going to be gunning for revenge against Joe Tate.
Caleb has already worked out that Joe stole his kidney, and talking to Noah helped him put the final piece in the puzzle. In upcoming episodes Ruby (Beth Cordingly) lets slip to Charity that she knows something about who spiked Noah.
Charity quizzes her and eventually works everything out about Noah’s spiking, the limo crash and Caleb’s kidney.
An enraged Charity makes a pledge that she will make sure Joe has his comeuppance.
She talks to Noah and enlists him in her plot, but he struggles with the knowledge that Joe spiked him and led him to cause the deaths of the three women in the limo crash, something that has been troubling his conscience.
