Happy Valley

Season #1 Episode #2

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Ep 2 starts approx 40 minutes after we left them in ep 1...

1A EXT. LADSTONE TOWERS, SOWERBY BRIDGE. DAY 5. 10.30 1A

CATHERINE’s just leaving one of the flats having dealt with a

little old man (who’s been burgled, perhaps?).

CATHERINE:

You look after yourself, love. I’ll

be in touch.

She heads off. Round a corner, down some stairs, whatever’s

there. She turns another corner (she’s on perhaps the seventh

floor) and clocks an ice cream van down on the street. It

doesn’t have the usual clientele you’d expect for an ice

cream van, it has unhealthy looking teenage scrotes, who’ve

pushed the mums and toddlers out. CATHERINE starts racing

down the stairs and gets on her radio.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Bravo November four-five. Operation

Greensleeves. Sighted the ice cream

van outside Wilberforce House,

Sowerby Bridge. I’m going after it,

I’m on foot.

CATHERINE gets down to street level and heads for the van,

which is a good twenty-five yards away. Immediately the

clientele round the ice cream van start going, “Pigs”, “Fiveo”

etc. There are two lads in the ice cream van. It takes off

as CATHERINE races towards it, pulling her truncheon out.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

(on her radio again)

Registration romeo bravo five two

yankee tango charlie. I’m going

after it, I’m nearly with it, I’m

gonna stop it.

RADIO:

Bravo November four-five do not

chase the vehicle on foot.

CATHERINE:

(to herself)

Yeah, whatever.

CATHERINE runs along side the vehicle and smashes the

driver’s window with her truncheon.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 1A.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Pull over!

(the scrote driving the

ice cream van recovers

from having glass

shattered all over him

and puts his foot down)

Oy!!

CATHERINE continues to run after the van. She nearly catches

up with it too; it’s only because they don’t stop at a give

way sign (and thus nearly colliding with an on-coming

vehicle) that they manage to get away. CATHERINE reluctantly

accepts she’s not going to catch up with them. She gets back

on her radio.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Failed to stop. Off-side window

smashed. Two occupants. Both white,

male, one with a sleeve tattoo,

dark hair, beard, pale blue T-

shirt, khaki body warmer, the other

ginger hair, beard, pasty-faced,

pink hoody. Driving towards Wharf

Street.

The ice cream van disappears. The driver flashing a V sign

back at CATHERINE. CATHERINE turns and sees a couple of

passers-by (youths) having a smirk and snigger at her

expense, for having tried to chase a vehicle on foot.

CATHERINE catches her breath and mutters to herself

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

You’re getting too bloody old for

this Catherine, love.

CUT TO:

1 INT. NGA, KEVIN’S OFFICE/OPEN PLAN OFFICE. DAY 5. 11.27 1

KEVIN’s in his office (one moment panicking, the next moment

angry, pretending to be busy at his PC, but entirely unable

to concentrate) when he sees NEVISON’s Bentley pull up

sharply outside the front of the building.

NEVISON heads into the open plan reception/office area. He

looks as white as a sheet and about ten years older than the

first time we met him. He heads straight for KEVIN’s office.

NEVISON comes in and closes the door. He sits, but can’t keep

still.

NEVISON:

We’re going to have to take it out

of the business.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 1B.

NEVISON (CONT'D)

We’re going to have to borrow a bit

from here there and everywhere,

that’s how we can do it. And you

haven’t to tell anyone, they get a

whiff anyone else knows and they’re

saying they’re gonna start doing

stuff. To her.

KEVIN:

I won’t. I won’t.

NEVISON:

And they must be watching me,

because they know things.

KEVIN:

These people are often very - very

highly organised.

NEVISON:

For months! Following me. Following

her. Ann. Jesus...

KEVIN:

We can - I can - look into how much

you can take out of the business.

If that’s

NEVISON:

I’ve got maybe two hundred grand I

can lay my hands on immediately,

but even then, are they going to

let me withdraw that much in cash?

Without asking bloody questions.

KEVIN:

It’s your money.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 2.

NEVISON:

They’re gonna start thinking I’m

laundering money, then they’re

gonna ring the police!

KEVIN:

Really?

NEVISON:

Well I would! Why would anybody be

withdrawing that much in cash if it

wasn’t dodgy?

KEVIN:

I:

Shakes his head, he hadn’t thought of that.

NEVISON:

We’ll get it, we’ll get it, I’ll

raise it. I should ring Neil

Mitchell.

KEVIN:

Who?

NEVISON:

He used to work in CID, he’d know

what to

KEVIN:

That’s - that’s (

hoping to strike a note

of caution)

I don’t know if that isn’t

NEVISON:

I’ll ring what’s-is-name. At the

bank. I’ll say, I’ll just say, “I

want two hundred grand - in cash”,

see what he says.

KEVIN:

Sure.

NEVISON:

“How soon can we get it?”.

KEVIN:

Sure.

NEVISON:

See if it can be done without

anybody

KEVIN:

[Sure]

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 3.

NEVISON:

- sticking their bloody

KEVIN:

Sure.

NEVISON:

-noses in.

NEVISON heads out of the office. KEVIN’s bewildered. NEVISON

charges straight back in, his mind still racing, his eyes

alight with terror and anger.

NEVISON (CONT’D)

Pay the money, get her back - safe

and sound - then find out who the

little

(he resists saying

“c*nts”, but it’s a

battle)

gits are and choke ‘em with it.

KEVIN:

(terrified)

Absolutely, absolutely.

We linger on KEVIN as NEVISON strides back to his office. We

may hear him mumble to his PA - “Get me Adam Stapleton on the

phone, tell him it’s important”.

CUT TO:

2 EXT. ALLOTMENTS, HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 5. 11.30 2

CLARE’s been digging all morning (it’s winter, but could she

be aerating the soil?) but right now she’s on her mobile.

CLARE:

Outside the Chinese up Rawson Lane?

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

3 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE'S DESK. DAY 5. 3

11.31

CATHERINE’s at her computer desk.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

CLARE:

How d’you know it was him?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 4.

CATHERINE:

Er... because I’m not blind?

CLARE:

No, come on, he’s been in prison

for God knows how long.

CATHERINE:

So? What? You think I’m seeing

things?

CLARE:

No, I think

(gently)

I think you’ve got it on your

brain. A bit. That’s all. Which is

completely understandable. I just

CATHERINE:

It was him.

CLARE:

Okay! Fine. Fine. Even if it was

She dries up.

CATHERINE:

Yes? “Even if it was”?

A pause.

CLARE:

What time’s your dinner break?

CUT TO:

4 INT. ALLOTMENT SHED. DAY 5. 13.00 4

CATHERINE and CLARE sit in the allotment shed eating lunch.

Both with robust appetites, they’ve both had energy-sapping

mornings.

CLARE:

You pushed it as far as you could

after Becky died. You did

everything you could, Catherine.

Everyone knows what he is, the fact

that the CPS couldn’t run with it

is bad, it’s awful, everyone knows

that, but

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