Emmerdale’s Sam leaves Cain shaken after vicious attack

Sam and Cain Dingle go to war (Picture: ITV) The Dingles are ripping apart at the seams, all over Tom blimmin’ King (James Chase).

The most iconic family in Emmerdale is on its knees, thanks to the return of Belle’s (Eden Taylor-Draper) abuser, who hasn’t actually had to even do much to cause such a gigantic family rift.

Belle learned weeks ago that Tom would be released soon and it immediately put the frighteners on her. Initially, the family banded together to support her, but cracks began to form when Belle received what they thought was a threatening gift from Tom and Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) took matters into his own hands while hiding it all from Belle.

He secretly visited Tom in prison to threaten him, then arranged for him to get seven bells knocked out of him. Problem was, the gift wasn’t from Tom. Cain had set some dangerous wheels in motion by not thinking things through.

He also kicked off the looming rift by getting Samson to do the attack, despite him being on the cusp of his own release. As a result, Samson earned himself a longer stay at his Majesty’s leisure, leaving Cain at odds with Sam (James Hooton) and Lydia (Karen Blick).

And if that wasn’t bad enough, Cain has now given Tom a solid gold reason to come back and terrify Belle. What a job well screwed up.

Feeling so afraid for her own safety, Belle decided to visit Tom herself, with Kammy’s (Shebz Miah) support. But everything played so perfectly into Tom’s hands. It gave him the chance to get in her head and try to prove to her he’s changed – he hasn’t, let’s be clear – and Belle began to believe he might actually be a reformed character. His sneaky side smirk told us otherwise.

The brothers are now at war thanks to Cain causing Sam’s son to prolong his sentence. Sam has quite literally never been this angry. Moira (Natalie J Robb) and Lydia try to pacify the pair, while things are getting steadily worse for Samson. Sam holds Cain fully responsible for Samson’s new predicament.

And in a moment rarer than Cain admitting fault, Sam loses it and choses violence. He easily overpowers his weakened older brother and pins him up against the wall. Cain is truly terrified, having never seen Sam like this. What a swap.

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Cain should be terrified, because Sam doesn’t make the best judgements when he’s of sound mind. And while he currently isn’t, he’s a danger to the Dingles. He decides to visit Tom himself, and enters a deal with the devil. He begs for help in getting Samson out, and Tom has just the plan for him that involves him terrorising Nicola. Has Sam just made things even worse?

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