Hollyoaks confirms incredibly dark scenes as Grace Black goes too far in exploitation story

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Grace looms as Dillon and Frankie look terrified in Hollyoaks — Grace Black groomed and manipulated Frankie Osborne and Dillon Ray in chilling scenes(Picture: Lime Pictures)

Grace Black (Tamara Wall) provided Frankie Osborne (Isabelle Smith) and Dillon Ray (Nathaniel Dass) with drugs and encouraged them to have sex with her party-goers as part of her ongoing child exploration operation.

The former nightclub owner is overseeing said operation with DI Banks and brother Rex Gallagher (Jonny Labey), with the latter having groomed Dillon into carrying out illegal activities for him.

Frankie, meanwhile, was deemed ‘perfect’ by Grace in bone-chilling scenes earlier this year, with the gangster intent on using what the teen has been through in the past two years to groom her.

After successfully keeping Frankie apart from dad Darren (Ashley Taylor Dawson), Grace invited her and Dillon to a party, branding the former the guest of honour.

Frankie was excited, as was Dillon, unaware of what awaited for them when they turned up at the venue. Upon arrival, Grace gave them drugs and encouraged them to let off some steam as they mingled with the partygoers.

Dillon, however, soon worked out what was going on after he crossed paths with Cooper – who previously paid Rex to sleep with the teen.

Armed with newfound knowledge, Dillon confronted Grace, who used the opportunity to manipulate Frankie further into her web.

”You’re at a party, you’re laughing, you’re having fun’, said Grace to Fankie, determined to get her on side – no matter what it took.

‘You’re not the scared little girl you were yesterday. I thought that’s what you wanted?’.

Dillon warns Frankie at a party in Hollyoaks — Dillon realised what the party was in aid of – and warned Frankie (Picture: Lime Pictures)

Using her ordeal at the hands of abusive brother JJ (Ryan Mulvey), Grace claimed that sleeping with men for money would allow Frankie the chance to ‘enjoy being with a man consensually for the first time’.

Frankie came away from the conversation believing that Grace was being nice, unaware that the gangster was grooming her.

Dillon wasn’t sold on the plan but – with Grace’s words in her head – Frankie believed that she was ‘finally in control’ as she took a party-goer’s hand and led him to another room.

Dillon, meanwhile, was led away to another room by Cooper, who was keen to spend another night with him. Grace looked on with glee in sinister scenes.

Hollyoaks streams Mondays to Wednesdays from 6am on Channel 4’s streaming platform, or catch episodes on TV at 7pm on E4.