If April is the prey, Bear is the victim, then Celia Daniels must be called “the devil in a dress”.

Her face is peaceful, her words are gentle – but her heart is so cold that it makes viewers shiver.

After Anya’s death, Celia appears on the gray ground, not panicking, not feeling guilty.

She orders the body to be buried as if asking to clean up a pile of trash.

Tells Ray to guard, ensuring no evidence, no identity, no crying. Celia uses Anya’s death as a warning: “Whoever opens their mouth – shares the same fate.”

Celia understands very well: the obsession with murder, the obsession with hiding evidence, the fear of the police – all turn the victim into a willing slave. April stays silent because she believes she “killed”. Bear was silent because he thought he was “complicit”. Simo – Mick was silent because he was afraid of being buried next.

Celia did not use a whip, did not need to torture – just planted guilt in their heads. That was the most cruel.

The most painful scene? The scene where Bear looked at the burial pit, remembered Anya’s face still smiling, remembered what she had said – “One day… we can escape, right?” Now that sentence became a curse. And Bear was no longer Bear. He became an emotionally dead machine, living for fear.

Emmerdale brought a naked image: crime is not always noisy. Sometimes it is mixed with a frozen calm. Celia used the law of silence to keep the whole camp in chains. And the audience could only shudder, then wonder – in real life, how many “Celia” are as soft as that?