If you think Emmerdale only revolves around family drama, this week will change your mind.

The focus is none other than Celia Daniels – a woman who looks gentle but is actually the brain controlling a sophisticated crime ring, and April Windsor is just a pawn in her chessboard.

As soon as April was arrested, Celia immediately turned the incident into an advantage.

Instead of fearing being exposed, she went straight into the battle, showing a coldness that made the audience’s hair stand on end.

In a context where everyone thought April had just slipped up, Celia saw it as an opportunity to tighten her control.

In a scene that evokes the feeling of a British crime movie, Celia meets April at the Woolpack. The light is dim yellow, the bar is crowded but no one pays attention to the tense conversation. Celia placed her hand lightly on the table, looked at April without blinking, and said,
“You know where this will go if you open your mouth.”

Not harsh, not outright threatening – but the tone of her voice was enough to make April pale.

Celia knew April’s weakness: family. She used that as bait, making April believe that if she spoke, the first people to be harmed would be Bob or Marlon. And so April – a girl barely old enough to be a schoolboy – had to turn herself into a shield to protect her loved ones, even if it meant living in the dark.

Bob didn’t know anything about the meeting, but he felt things were getting out of control. When he was about to reveal what April had said to Marlon, Celia was there – standing on the corner, looking straight at Bob as if warning: “Don’t try it.”