Emmerdale's Mack launches shocking attack on Dan amid secret baby torment

Tonight, Charity took a call from granddaughter Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) before passing on the news to Mack that Reuben was having a scan on his brain. Mack persuaded Charity not to go to the hospital, while he found it more and more tough to hide his feelings from her.

In the Woolpack, Mack was alone when Caleb Milligan (William Ash) burst in and tried to join him for a pint, making out they were friends when they had barely said two words to each other! Mack snapped that he wanted to be left alone, and Caleb did so.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Chloe was visited by local nurse Wendy Posner (Susan Cookson) who worried that she had missed the signs of Reuben's illness. It transpired that Reuben didn't have a bleed on his brain, but Chloe was terrified that Reuben could still die.

Back at the pub, Mack listened as Chloe's sister Amy Wyatt (Natalie Ann Jamieson) described the distress of seeing Reuben so helpless. When Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) made a harmless effort to add that the machines in the hospital were at least keeping the baby alive, Mack snapped once more. Charity noticed that Mack was drinking a lot, while he continued to have a go at Dan.

When Dan told him to shut up, Mack responded by punching him in the face and storming out, leaving a horrified Charity in his wake. Is she getting closer to the truth?

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