Emmerdale confirms everyone’s worst fears over Dr Todd’s next move

Emmerdale‘s newest villain Dr Todd strikes again tonight as she spreads malicious lies about Jacob Sugden.

Despite agreeing to call a truce with her young protégé, ruthless Todd can’t resist reigniting their feud as she seeks to destroy his reputation.

Jacob is currently on paternity leave following the heartwarming arrival of baby Leyla, and has been looking forward to a fresh start with Todd upon his return to work.

However, as the colleagues keep bumping into each other in the village, Todd starts to subtly make Jacob aware that his problems aren’t over.

At the café, Todd is intrigued when she hears Jacob and Sarah telling friends and neighbours that Leyla has been keeping them awake all night.

Cornering Jacob for a quiet word, Todd inappropriately asks him whether he feels “excluded and pushed out” now everyone’s focus is on Leyla and Sarah.

Later at the pub, Todd tries to involve herself again by offering to help with Leyla, but she gets short shrift from Jacob.

Venting to Manpreet and Vanessa afterwards, Todd complains: “He’s apologised, so I thought we were moving on. And now he goes and pulls stunts like that.”

A baffled Manpreet points out that Jacob isn’t doing anything more than visiting his local pub, but Todd replies: “It’s much more sinister than that. This morning, when we met at the café, he engineered it so that we could talk to each other alone. And now he’s here, taking up my space.”

Todd’s lies prove that she has no intention of keeping the peace with Jacob, as she wants to make him pay for making a complaint about her to the HR department at the hospital.

Jacob has since withdrawn his accusations, but upcoming episodes see him regret backing down so easily – and Todd may already have the upper hand…

Emmerdale is set to continue its dark storyline involving Dr Todd, with things getting worse for Jacob Sudgen. The workplace bullying plot has seen Todd target Jacob, making him question his abilities as a doctor.

But in recent episodes, viewers have seen Dr Todd move to the village and last week, she told Manpreet Sharma and Vanessa Woodfield that her student has an inappropriate crush on her.

Speaking about Dr Todd, actor Caroline Harker revealed that she didn’t know the direction her character would take when she first joined the soap for a guest role.

“I slightly sensed that – I mean, there was nothing, on paper, I didn’t know, but I slightly sensed that because they reacted to the character so well over in the hospital,” Harker said.

“But I honestly thought that she would be more of a maternal figure to Jacob. I had no idea that this was in the air.”

Harker added that Dr Todd has “a strength to her”, that the actor thought “was going to be used in a different way”, while sharing that she believes her character “feels quite blameless for everything”.

This week will see Jacob make a formal complaint about Todd to HR, and Harker has admitted she is excited over what is to come.

“I think it’s really quite testing,” she shared. “I mean, the scripts come through and they’re amazing, and you just think ‘oh right, okay, I didn’t expect this’. Yes, very good, it’s a very good challenge.”

As for whether Dr Todd is redeemable, Harker said: “I think if she had a lot of therapy or she was born again!

“Everyone’s redeemable, but it would take quite a big shift in her life to be redeemable.”