Emmerdale's evil Meena Jutla sets her sights on a child next week on the ITV soap, as she steps up her killer plans.
The character murdered teenager Leanna Cavanagh, 18, last month by shoving her off a bridge.
Leanna had learned of her dark past and her recent lies, leading to Meena silencing her.
But unhinged Meena makes a shocking decision next week, as she targets Victoria Sugden who has been getting close to Meena's boyfriend David Metcalfe.
Her possessiveness of David and desperation to have him all to herself has led to her acting out, and next week she targets his young son Theo, who turns two years old in November.
Speaking about the scenes, Meena actress Paige Sandhu has confessed the character will actually contemplate murdering the child in upcoming scenes.
Kidnapping Theo to make Victoria look like she isn't fit to mind David's child anymore, things could go too far after she lures him out of the house.
After a chilling trailer teased the scenes, she explained: "It's off the cuff, she's trying to get Victoria out of the way by manipulating David into thinking, 'I can look after Theo, you don't need Victoria'.
"When that mucks up she thinks what can I do to really split them up, and I guess kidnapping Theo and blaming it on Victoria would be a good way for him to never trust her again, but it's pretty spontaneous."
On whether she might go as far as to kill a child, Paige said of her psychotic character: "I definitely think she'd kill a child, she has no empathy at all. She doesn't care, she can't, she literally can't empathise.
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"The way I played the scene was that I believe that Meena deliberated between just kidnapping Theo or killing him, and making it look like an accident.
"The benefit for her would be David would never be able to forgive Victoria, meaning she would be out of his life.
"But I think the reason Meena didn't go there was because then David would be grieving, and that would be really boring and annoying and then I'd have to look like I care, and that sort of isn't that great for me so maybe the best thing is to kidnap him and then I can bring him back, and I will look like the hero.
"She loves playing the hero, it's actually really interesting I did some research about the differences between male psychopaths and female psychopaths, and male psychopaths have this need for power… whereas female psychopaths, they want admiration, appreciation and that attention, that adoration and love kinda thing.
"Meena loves to be the centre of attention and to have people loving her, all the compliments, she's the life of the party and wants it to be all about her, so playing the hero is her ideal."
Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7pm on ITV, with an extra episode at 8pm on Thursdays.
