If you’re waiting for a true Emmerdale-style explosion, here it is. Moira Dingle isn’t holding back this week.

And when Moira doesn’t hold back, everyone holds their breath.

It all starts with paperwork, invoices, and the devious trick Celia is all too familiar with: forged signatures.

Moira discovers her signature has been forged on a series of documents related to a “huge” order she never agreed to.

In short, Celia is trying to trap Moira in a financial, legal, and honor trap all at once.

Moira doesn’t beat around the bush. She takes the evidence straight to Woolpack, where Celia stands like a little queen, speaking sweetly but with cold eyes. Celia plays her role perfectly: feigning innocence, feigning surprise, feigning misunderstanding. She spoke softly, but each word was like a scratch on the listener’s nerves, pushing Moira further and further into a position where she felt like, “You’re overreacting.” And true to her manipulative nature, Celia knew exactly when to speak: when there were many people around, so that if Moira reacted, she would be the bad guy.

But Moira wasn’t one to be easily fooled. She looked directly at Celia, pressing her with questions, peeling back layer by layer. The more Celia tried to cover up, the more Moira’s face flushed with anger. And then the slap came. A quick, sharp, powerful slap. The entire restaurant froze, as if struck dumb. Some gasped, others turned to look at each other as if to say, “Wow, she actually dared to do that?” Moira stood still for a moment after the slap, as if she herself realized she had just crossed a line.