Doctor Caitlin Todd (Caroline Harker) is busy manipulating Vanessa Woodfield (Michelle Hardwick) and Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker) amid its attempt to destroy Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Factory) in Emmerdale.
For a reason yet to be revealed, Doctor Todd has spent the last few months slowly drifting away from Jacob’s trust. It started at Hotten General Hospital and appeared Doctor Todd twisting situations involving the enthusiastic resident doctor.
This ongoing situation has left Jacob’s head in a mess. When he’s not questioning whether he has what it takes to be a doctor in a busy NHS hospital, he’s busy believing he’s capable, and that’s because Doctor Todd is so unpredictable in what he tells him.
Some days her words will leave Jacob in a dark place, but other times she will give him opportunities to improve his career and comment on what a good job he does at the hospital.
If this was kept within the confines of Hotten General, perhaps Jacob’s nightmare would have ended sooner, but things are now even more complex due to Dr. Todd living in the village.
She’s moved in with Vanessa, which means the lines between her and Jacob have become even more blurred – and Dr. Todd is taking advantage of that.
Caitlin has now started telling Vanessa and Manpreet that Jacob is obsessed with her. Things unfold between the two and Dr. Todd is able to immediately tell Manpreet and Vanessa a different story to make it seem like Jacob is being completely inappropriate.
Shortly after moving to the village, Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell) left a bottle of wine on the doorstep, but pretended the gift was from Jacob. For Dr. Todd, this was the perfect opportunity to reiterate to her two friends that Jacob wasn’t paying attention professional boundaries between them.
In tonight’s episode, Doctor Todd was in the pub with Vanessa and some other women playing another round of darts. As the alcohol continued to flow, Mary Goskirk (Louise Jameson) pointed out to a bemused Vanessa that it’s pretty obvious she has chemistry with Dr. Todd.
When they got home, a drunk Vanessa was too busy trying not to throw up to focus on the fact that Caitlin was talking about Jacob again, claiming that the conversation they had over coffee that morning still proved her theory that he was obsessed with her.
Todd then told Vanessa to go to bed and said she would make sure she wasn’t too hungry until morning. Vanessa is taken in by how kind Doctor Todd is – but is there a real connection between them?
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Or the surgeon is just being polite so she can pull the wool over Vanessa’s eyes when it comes to what’s really going on with her and Jacob?
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