Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) has decided to leave Emmerdale, and Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) soon realizes that she is unable to change her mind.
Sarah had felt pushed out of the family due to the focus on criminal Noah (Jack Downham) and his court case.
In the aftermath of Sarah’s announcement that she is leaving, Charity is miserable, and she is shown in dismay as the girl packs her belongings in tonight’s episode.
Sarah has packed her bags in a new teaser film, and she appears to have an answer for everything, including her assertion that she can simply transfer to a different institution.
As Charity laments her failure, she asks Sarah what she should tell Debbie, but Sarah says that if her mother cared, she would be here.
That is a valid point.
Charity gives Sarah some money, and it appears that she has accepted the possibility of losing both Sarah and her estranged son Noah.
Charity has been’mortified’ over forgetting Sarah’s birthday, according to Emma, but it’s too late.
But does Charity believe that this whole ordeal will cause her to reconsider her parenting abilities?
‘She feels like she’s learnt her own lesson, in a way,’ Emma mused. She believes she did the right thing in some ways, but she wonders whether she could have gotten through this with Noah without putting him in the middle of it.
‘There’s a lot to be learned on every level between Charity and Noah. Noah needed a short, sharp shock to make him be accountable for what he’s done and what he needs is sitting down and unravelling the whole escapade, this whole nightmare that he’s got himself embroiled in.
‘I think that’s where Charity does come good because she’s quite good at saying “Right, let’s pick this apart, let’s get down to what caused you to do it. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been present in your life enough. Maybe it’s because you’ve just been left to your own devices and felt bored or distracted or whatever.
‘Why are you doing these things and how can we prevent it from happening again?”‘