In the latest episode of Emmerdale, a character seemed to leave the soap for good on Thursday night, after an armed confrontation with the police.
Emmerdale fans watched a character leave the soap on Thursday night, a year after he joined the show.
Villain Callum crouched down in dramatic scenes during an armed confrontation with police after he tried to kill Leyla Harding.
Callum kidnapped Leyla earlier this week, a day after attacking her friend Suzy with a brick and leaving her for dead.
The girls had recently revealed his drug trafficking crimes to police, after he accidentally stabbed Leyla’s son Jacob earlier this year.
Jacob barely survived, but since he owned the knife, Leyla realized they couldn’t go to the police.
Instead, she filmed him trading at a club and had him arrested, and Suzy shared claims that he was grass to his criminal buddies.
In the fallout, he attacked Suzy and kidnapped Leyla, before attacking and taking her hostage – seemingly intending to kill her.
As he threatened her and dragged her through the woods to a disused outhouse, Suzy managed to get his location and set out to save Leyla with Jacob.
The police were also called and armed officers soon showed up – but not before Callum took Suzy and Jacob hostage as well.
He took a gun out of his pocket and started waving it at the three of them, promising to get them out of the way.
As he prepared to shoot Jacob, Leyla begged him to kill her instead, while Suzy also yelled at him to let them live.
At that point, the police reached out and urged him to leave the cabin building and put down his weapon.
Armed police surrounded the building with their guns aimed at the entrance, and when Callum emerged he had several red dots aimed at him.
Realizing there was no way out, he watched in fear as he was told to lower his gun and help the police.
He eventually did so and was arrested, with Jacob, Suzy and Leyla stepping out terrified.
When Callum was led away by the police and eventually caught, they told him he was under arrest for kidnapping, forcible confinement and possession of a firearm.
The trio watching breathed a sigh of relief, happy to be alive, as Jacob held his mother and told her it was finally over.
Leyla’s fate was eventually revealed in the episode out of fear she might be killed, with no plans for her or Suzy to leave the village – while Callum is now believed to have left.
Emmerdale goes out weeknights at 7.30pm on ITV1 and ITVX, with an hour-long episode on Thursdays.