Emmerdale confirms Dr Todd’s fate on ITVX – as other bullying victims are revealed

Emmerdale‘s Dr Todd scores another victory tonight as her bold blackmail plan pays off. Will Jacob Sugden’s workplace ordeal get even worse as a consequence?

Todd is fighting to save her reputation after medical trainee Jacob went to the hospital’s HR department to accuse her of bullying – but she now has an ace up her sleeve after discovering Charity Dingle’s big secret.

Thursday’s episode sees Todd pay another visit to Charity’s hospital room, making veiled threats to expose the fact that Jacob isn’t baby Leyla’s biological father.

“I’m sure that I would do a much better job of keeping your secret if you convince Jacob to drop the complaint,” Todd brazenly suggests.

“It’s not blackmail – we’d be doing each other a favour. Besides, I think Sarah and Jacob are the lucky ones – and it’d be awful to destroy their happiness over something so silly.”

Backed into a corner, Charity reluctantly goes ahead and encourages Jacob to withdraw his accusations against Todd.

Charity claims to be acting in Jacob’s best interests as she suggests that he’d be better off working with Todd rather than against her.

This unexpected “advice” quickly influences Jacob, so he returns to see HR rep Carol and says that he doesn’t want to take his complaint any further.

Although Jacob’s mind is made up, a disturbing detail emerges as Carol confirms that he isn’t the first person to raise concerns over Todd’s approach.

“Between you and me, other people have approached me about Dr Todd off the record,” she explains. “We were waiting for someone to stand up and make it official. I was hoping that your complaint might have encouraged others to speak up.”

Back in the village later, Jacob approaches Todd and reveals his decision to let her off the hook. The warring colleagues agree to start afresh once Jacob is back from paternity leave in a few weeks’ time.

In reality, though, Todd has no intention of dropping her sly vendetta against Jacob. Will the situation take another dark turn once Jacob is back at work?

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.”