While Mackenzie Boyd is finally out of the bunker, he’s not quite out of the woods yet (metaphorically speaking; he is actually out of the

woods where the bunker is located), while actor Lawrence Robb who plays the recently freed Mack has enjoyed a weekend away with several of his Emmerdale co-stars.

 

 

On-screen, Mack was embroiled in a feud with the army medic, telling anybody who’d listen that he suspected John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) of being a grade A wrong’un. As he screamed his theories from the rooftops, however, he was outwitted by John at every turn.

Viewers have known for a while, however, that Mack is bang on the money: John is incredibly dangerous. He has a ‘hero complex’, which compels him to endanger the lives of others, only so he can then appear just in time to save them and bask in the glory and gratitude of their loved ones.

 

 

One of John’s stunts saw Nate Robinson (Jurell Carter) lose his life when he unfortunately expired before John could complete the ‘savior’ portion of his routine. Poor Nate ended up being dumped in the lake, with John covering his tracks via a stitch up. John later framed Mack for the slurry leak he caused at Mack’s sister Moira Dingle’s (Natalie J Robb) farm, plunging her into serious financial hardship.

Though Mack eventually let his feud with John drop somewhat, with Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) taking up the mantle of John’s number one nemesis, he later realised that he had been right all along, when he discovered evidence that John had killed Nate.

After a tense car ride, John chased Mack through the forest with, armed with crossbow, and seemingly killed him when he shot him with it, before attacking him with a huge rock.

Devastated fans were relieved when it was revealed that John hadn’t actually offed Mack, instead keeping him imprisoned inside a bunker-cum-jail, close to where John was staying in a remote cottage with husband Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller), who he’d begun to drug in order to increase his need for his husband.

Although best friend Aaron heard Mack’s cries for help and attempted to save him, he wound up plummeting from a gorge when John decided to take the ultimate revenge on his love rival/half brother Robert.

When Aaron awoke following a failed murder attempt by John, he revealed Mack’s grim fate.

Mack injected himself with the syringe John had left for him previously, in an effort to end his suffering, hallucinating his wife, Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins), before losing consciousness, who, upon learning of what’d happened, raced to the bunker to save her husband.