‘Pretty brutal’: Emily White on what’s coming next for Emmerdale’s Rebecca

Things have gotten bleak on Emmerdale lately and they're only set to get darker.

Fans might have breathed a sigh of relief last week when it was revealed that Lachlan hadn't killed Rebecca but actress Emily Head has said that the character's ordeal is far from over. Rebecca is terrified after she learns the truth about Lachlan, she has said. "After he confesses to the crash and Gerry, Lachlan then thinks he has to kill Rebecca too, so crushes up sleeping tablets in a bottle of water, comes to the shed in the old glamping site to give it to her, but Rebecca manages to talk him out of doing it," she told Metro. "He doesn’t kill her but leaves her tied up again. "I think he acts on impulse from what we’ve seen, he doesn’t think about what will happen after he’s done something. Somehow Rebecca being able to talk to him and her saying “we’re family, you’ll always be family” convinces him to keep her alive. "Her ultimate plan is survival. She's asked him to let her go – 'as long as I can be with Seb I will go away I won’t tell anyone whats happened, I won’t talk to anyone, I will forget you ever existed if that’s what it means to be with my son'. That is what’s driving her through, keeping her alive. Adrenaline filled trying to escape is the idea of being with her son again." Emily admitted that the scenes get quite intense. "They’re pretty full on. He never hits her but he is certainly a bit rough at times and very menacing. I think there is a reason she doesn’t really fight back, she has her hands free for a lot of it. My initial reaction reading scripts was why doesn’t she claw at his face? But she is genuinely terrified of what he may do to her. "Survival instinct kicks in and to be subdued is a better option. They have a massive argument and he’s not very happy with her after that, she screams at him about all the awful things he’s done. He gets very angry and yanks at her chain, some of it is pretty brutal but there’s nothing too violent that we can’t put it on TV!" Emily was tight-lipped about whether this would mean the end for Rebecca. "I think as long as we’re telling good stories, it doesn’t matter when or how you go, as long as you enjoy the work that you’re doing," she said.