Emmerdale spoilers: Sick abuser Tom leaves Belle injured and in pain | Soaps

The dinner party from hell took place on Tuesday (May 7). Emmerdale in a special episode that focused on an event hosted by Belle and Tom King (Eden Taylor Draper And James Chase) and saw the day's events unfold from two different angles as things got very nasty indeed.

Belle was blindsided when Tom told her he had Marlon (Mark Charnock), Rhona (Zoe Henry), Mandy (Lisa Riley), Paddy (Dominic Brunt), Vanessa (Michelle Hardwick) and Suzy (Martelle Edinborough) for dinner.

She had never cooked for so many people before, but Belle learned it during her class relationship with Tom that it is safer to go along with what he wants.

One thing he really wants is for them to have a baby and we've seen that Belle knows she definitely doesn't want that and she's taken steps to prevent that.

earlier we saw her visiting Manpreet (Rebecca Sarker) to arrange for her birth control pills to be picked up separately from her other medications, so that Tom does not know that she is still taking the pill.

Unfortunately, she decided to stash the pills in a drawer in the kitchen, and amid the chaotic events of the dinner party – where Marlon and Rhona have a stand-up argument in front of the other shocked guests – Tom found the pills.

Due to the way the action was presented in two different timelines, we saw Belle in tears at one point in the first half and Mandy asking if she was okay. Belle said it was only the onions that bothered her, while Tom pretended that Belle always got emotional when she used her mother's baking dish.

In the second half we discovered the reason for her tears – she had looked in the drawer, realized that Tom must have found the pills, and she was terrified of what would happen next.

After Rhona stormed out with an explanation that her marriage to Marlon was over, the other guests soon followed and Belle was alone with Tom. Once it was no longer necessary for him to wear the mask of a kind host and loving husband, he once again revealed his true nature.

“You think you're so smart, don't you?” he began and launched a terrible attack on Belle. He swept the cake she had made for dessert off the counter. and waved the pill bag at her, calling her “manipulative,” “unhinged” and “crazy.”

As Belle tried to get away, he grabbed her and forced her hand under the kitchen faucet that was hot for washing dishes. As Belle screamed for him to burn her, she finally escaped.

As Belle cried and wrapped her burned hand in a tea towel, Tom muttered that she was “a wonderful woman” and went upstairs, leaving Belle looking completely traumatized.

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