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ITV soap viewers will know that April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) has been reluctantly dealing drugs for Celia (Jaye Griffiths) and her son Ray Walters (Joe Absolom), in an attempt to pay off her boyfriend Dylan Penders’ (Fred Kettle) debt.
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That’s not all, as the evil pair have also been running an illegal slave ring on their farm, with Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) being held captive.
April recently confided in her parents, Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry), about her situation, with Ray knocking Dylan over with his car in retaliation. The youngster has only just awoken from a coma at Hotten General.
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Elsewhere, Ray has struck up a romance with Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy), who currently has no idea of his evil nature.
During Wednesday’s (November 17) episode, which is now available to stream on ITVX, Ray’s worlds collided when Celia joined him and Laurel for dinner.
However, it soon became clear that Celia used the get-together as a power play, with Ray pleading with her to be nice to Laurel. After observing Ray and Laurel’s blossoming romance, Celia became worried that her son was getting too attached.
She therefore decided to damage things between the couple by painting her son as a manipulative, emotionally-distant playboy. An upset Laurel then told Ray to leave as she tried to decide whether she should stay with him or not.
Ray later confronted Celia after Laurel brushed him off, with Celia soon putting her son in his place.
After violently slapping him in the face, Celia warned: “You think she’ll make your life easier? She won’t, because you need someone to keep you real, someone who will stop you drifting off into these fantasies of yours.
“She doesn’t know you. She doesn’t want you the way you think she does, because you are weak, Ray. You are so weak, you need someone to tell you when to speak, how to feel, how to exist.
“Aren’t you lucky that I am still here doing exactly that? Cry if you want to my boy, but wipe your face before anyone sees you. They already pity you. Let’s not confirm why.”
Celia then walked away, just before a tearful Ray punched a nearby wall. After watching the tense scenes, several Emmerdale fans believe that this could be the final straw for Ray, and he might finally turn on his evil mother in upcoming scenes.
“Ray is defo turning on Celia after that outburst,” one person wrote on a Facebook fan page.
Another added: “Yeah Celia is going down. Ray surely can’t let her slap him and just get away with it,” while a third said: “I truly think Ray wants to change his ways and actually cares about Laurel. He has to turn on Celia soon.”
A fourth fan echoed the sentiment, saying: “What if Ray kills Celia over Christmas? That would be sooo good!”