Emmerdale fans were left distracted over a format change on Tuesday's episode as Mackenzie Boyd, Charity Dingle and Chloe Harris were involved in a brutal car crash as part of the ITV soap's stunt week.
Only recently, Chloe overheard exes Mackenzie and Charity discussing their recent night of passion together, leaving the young mum, who welcomed baby boy Reuben with now fiancé Mackenzie earlier this year, heartbroken over the betrayal.
On Tuesday, Mackenzie and Chloe prepared to leave for a holiday break in Scotland with the hope of moving there permanently soon. However, after Chloe spotted a tender moment between Mackenzie and Charity in the village, she was left seething.
Emmerdale fans were left distracted over a format change on Tuesday's episode as Mackenzie Boyd, Charity Dingle and Chloe Harris were involved in a brutal car crashLater in the episode, a withdrawn Chloe decided to drive to Scotland with Mackenzie blissfully oblivious to her fractured state of mind, especially as she started having visions and echoing her revenge thoughts in a clever filming moment, where she would voice her plans in a breakout scene with dramatic music taking centre stage during the episode.
Soap watchers were quick to react to the format change, which is different to normal episodes. One person said: "Wow tense music and distortion in #Emmerdale here we go folks", a different account put: "The music sounds like a horror film #Emmerdale", another fan joked: "Any need for the eeire background music?" while another soap watcher added: "What’s with this tense music!? #Emmerdale."
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Later in the episode, things only went from bad to worse when the duo spotted Charity broken down at the side of the road, and with mischief on her mind, Chloe offered her a lift. In the car, things soon turned awkward when Chloe started making several digs and passive aggressive comments.
Charity soon started to get concerned when Chloe intentionally missed their turn and headed towards the moors with a plan to abandon Charity and Mackenzie somewhere remote. Charity demanded she pull over as things got even more tense to which a van suddenly came out of nowhere, smashing into them.
Mackenzie was put in an awful dilemma or picking one person to save (ITV)In a terrifying moment, their car tumbled upside down multiple times before landing with Mackenzie quickly regaining consciousness. As he urgently called emergency services, he was soon left panicked when he realised the car was suspended on the edge of a cliff.
Charity then regained consciousness and absolutely terrified realised what had happened with both her and Chloe trapped in the vehicle. Chloe then also woke up and started to panic but Mackenzie was quick to calm the duo down, guiding them to both safely and gently get out the vehicle.
However, in true soap style, the car started to slip away. Mackenzie was put in an awful dilemma or picking one person to save as they both reached out their arms, the episode ended with Mackenzie picking one hand with the identity yet to be revealed as the car rolled down the cliff.
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