Emmerdale spoiler: Declan returns to the village

Emmerdale's revenge-seeking Declan Macey makes his return to the village with a gun tonight, intent on making everyone see wife Charity through his eyes.

On Wednesday, viewers saw Declan (Jason Merrells) reveal that he was alive and well by recording a threatening message that Charity (Emma Atkins) would wish he had died, and in Friday's episode some of the villagers will discover that he has survived his ordeal in the woods.

Declan had taken Charity on a woodland break where he planned to kill her for lying about having an abortion, but she managed to escape in a tense showdown on the lake. Members of both their families had arrived to try to avert disaster - Declan's nephew Robbie Lawson (Jamie Shelton) was killed in the scuffle, and Declan was last seen floating away to what was assumed to be his death.

On Friday, screams are heard before Declan's sister Megan (Gaynor Faye), who has been grieving for her son, walks into the room with her missing brother holding a gun to her.

He snarls that no one will get hurt as long as they listen to what he has to say, because it is time that everyone knew the truth about Charity - but what will he say?

Next week, Charity will see her nightmare take an even darker twist as the village turn their backs on her and she is attacked and held captive in a shipping container.

 

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.