{"id":44733,"date":"2025-09-05T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44733\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:56:09","slug":"emmerdale-fans-make-same-plea-after-mackenzie-boyds-short-lived-horror-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44733\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale fans make same plea after Mackenzie Boyd’s short-lived ‘horror escape’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale resembled a horror movie as Mackenzie managed to escape for a few moments before John caught up with him, axe in hand\"mack\"Mack thought he’d finally made his great escape(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Emmerdale<\/a> viewers watched on as Mackenzie Boyd finally broke free from the bunker, but their relief was short-lived after John Sugden caught up with him with an axe in hand.<\/p>\n

While John was set to leave the village with his new husband Aaron Dingle, he offered Mackenzie a lift to the train station after his explosive row with Charity Dingle<\/p>\n

However, in a twist of events, Mack found a clue linking John to Nate Robinson’s death. John had accidentally killed him last year when attempting to “save” him.<\/p>\n

After dumping his body in the lake, he organised Ben to come and pretend to move Nate’s belongings to Shetland where everyone thought he had started his new life.<\/p>\n

He then pinned the death on Owen through a carefully crafted suicide note after Nate’s body was found in the lake.<\/p>\n

Mack flicked through a scrapbook in John’s van and found a photo of John with Ben. After putting two and two together, a nerve-wracking chase ensued, which saw John actively pursuing Mack through the woods. There was a moment of relief when it appeared that Mack might just get away.<\/p>\n

However, in scenes aired at the end of last month, John caught up with Mack and shot him through the chest with a bow before hitting his leg with a heavy rock to break it.<\/p>\n

John visciously attacked Mack in previous scenes(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

It was later revealed that Mack had survived but was being held captive in an underground bunker not too far away from his childhood cottage, where he and Aaron are staying.<\/p>\n

As Mack attempted to appeal to John’s humanity by reassuring him that he’s “one of the good ones” and if he let him free then he wouldn’t say a word about everything the ex-Army medic admitted to – but after Mack’s feeble attempt to make an escape failed, John’s trust in him ended there.<\/p>\n

John later learned about Aaron’s one-night stand with Robert Sugden through a message on Mack’s phone, and from then John’s behaviour became increasingly more erratic.<\/p>\n

During Thursday’s (September 4) hour-long installment of Emmerdale, Aaron and John returned to the village briefly to inform everyone they were moving away.<\/p>\n

However, after Robert made a plea for Aaron to stay, John’s jealousy consumed him. Taking Aaron back to the cottage, he drugged his whiskey.<\/p>\n

John was already on edge after Mackenzie figured out what happened to Aidan Moore, and John admitted he’s the reason Aidan was in a coma.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mackenzie was attempting to make a break for it by pulling a brick out of the bunker wall that he was chained up to. Of course, John witnessed this through his camera and quickly made an excuse to leave.<\/p>\n

As John hunted Mack down once more, Aaron was left on his own under the influence. Stumbling out of the cottage to find John, Aaron ended up collapsing in the woods.<\/p>\n

John had to briefly give up his chasing of Mack as he went to try and “save” Aaron.<\/p>\n

\"John\"John found Mack at the side of the road, and brought his axe with him(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

While there was a moment of hope for Mackenzie as he made it onto the road, he breathed a sigh of relief to be in the fresh air. Sadly, his freedom was short-lived as he lay on the side of the road in pain.<\/p>\n

Pleading for help as a car drove past, it turned out to be John who had arrived with an axe – is Mackenzie’s time truly up?<\/p>\n

Fans expressed their shock on social media, and on X (formerly known as Twitter<\/a>), @tardisgirl93 begged: “Im spiralling like ….. I’ve never been this upset in my life over a soap….. THIS IS BAD FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH EMMERDALE WHAT THE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT MACK TO LIVE PLS HE CAN’T KILL HIM…. ESPECIALLY NOT WITH A AXE”<\/p>\n

@elirobron2 added: “Emmerdale was a horror movie episode poor Aaron and poor Mack” as @sourgemini penned: “that episode of emmerdale was CINEMA”. Another viewer, @polingirl, wrote: “today\u2019s episode was SO intense, felt like a never ending torture”.<\/p>\n

Emmerdale airs on weekdays at 7:30pm on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmerdale resembled a horror movie as Mackenzie managed to escape for a few moments before John caught up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,8311,117,19,17,2770,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-44733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-emmerdale","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-itv","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}