Happy Valley Page #10

Season #1 Episode #2

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Cut to a few moments later, the three of them at the door,

CATHERINE just pressing the bell. They’ve brought a bottle of

wine, some mineral water, some flowers and some chocolates.

LUCY (28) answers the door smiling, when she sees CATHERINE’s

lovely black eye.

LUCY:

Catherine! What’ve you done to your

face?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 47A.

CATHERINE:

Oh, work. How’re you?

They hug.

LUCY:

Really well! Ooh, it looks sore. Hi

Clare!

CLARE:

Aww! Hello love.

They hug, and then LUCY sees RYAN behind CLARE. Clearly he

wasn’t expected.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 48.

CATHERINE:

His friend he was going to, he’s

got a sore throat. So we - he - got

blown out at the last minute.

CLARE ruffles RYAN’s hair affectionately

CLARE:

So.

-and smiles.

RYAN:

(a mumble as he presents

LUCY with a box of

Celebrations)

I brung you some chocolates.

CLARE & CATHERINE

Brought.

CUT TO:

41 INT. DANIEL’S HOUSE, KITCHEN/DINING ROOM. EVENING 6. 41

17.46

CATHERINE comes into the kitchen. DANIEL (28, Catherine’s

son), plus RICHARD and ROS (46, RICHARD’s new wife) are here,

DANIEL just pouring drinks for RICHARD and ROS.

DANIEL:

Mum!

CATHERINE:

Hi. Hello. Hi Ros.

ROS:

Good Lord, what’ve you done to your

eye?

ROS and CATHERINE are perfectly polite and pleasant with one

another.

CATHERINE:

Work.

(not quite looking at

RICHARD)

How’re you?

RICHARD:

(nervous)

Good. Good. I

CATHERINE:

(adding fast, to DANIEL,

before RYAN appears)

I’ve brought Ryan.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 49.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

He was going round to his friend’s

only they cried off at the last

minute, ‘cos he’s got a bug. His

friend has. So.

CLARE, RYAN and LUCY come into the kitchen, LUCY smiling as

bravely as she can.

LUCY:

Ryan brought me some chocolates!

Neither DANIEL nor RICHARD are delighted about having RYAN

here, though they’re both grown-up enough not to exactly

flaunt it or say anything.

CUT TO:

41A INT. DANIEL’S HOUSE, KITCHEN/DINING ROOM. NIGHT 6. 41A

18.05

Quarter of an hour later. They’re all sitting at the dining

table. RYAN working his way slowly through a massive plateful

of food.

ROS:

The thing is - this house - it’s

the sort that just doesn’t come on

the market very often. If we didn’t

go for it now, we might not get the

chance again.

RICHARD:

Which would be fine. If I wasn’t

being made redundant.

RICHARD subtly attempts to appeal to CATHERINE, hoping she’ll

wade in with support.

DANIEL:

When did you find this out?

RICHARD:

Last week.

ROS:

The thing is, they’re going to

still need journalists. It’s going

on-line, fair enough, but they

still need stories.

CATHERINE looks at RICHARD. He didn’t tell her this bit, when

she ended up in bed with him. He left her firmly under the

impression that he was losing his job, full stop.

RICHARD:

We have to reapply. And they need

exactly half the number of us. So.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 50.

ROS:

So you’re assuming you won’t be one

of the ones they want back, which

is [nonsense]

RICHARD:

That’s not entirely the point. Is

it. The point is half of us might

be taken back on, half of us won’t.

I wouldn’t want to be in either

position. I’d rather walk away.

Having made my feelings about the

whole damned thing plain.

ROS:

Well that’s just...

(”silly” she wants to say)

Cutting your nose off to spite your

face.

RICHARD:

Well you may choose to see it that

way, the point is - either way -

it’s certainly not a good time to

get saddled with a bigger mortgage.

DANIEL:

On a lighter note. Sorry, dad. But -

the reason we asked you all round.

Was ‘cos we’ve got some kind of

more happy news. For you. Erm.

(he wants it to sound

momentous, and he messes

it up, because he just

wants to laugh with

happiness)

Lucy’s - we’re - she’s pregnant,

we’re having a baby.

CATHERINE, CLARE and ROS all squeal simultaneously with

delight -

CATHERINE CLARE:

Oh my God! Aww!

ROS CATHERINE:

Ohh - ! Oh, that’s

CATHERINE (who’s sitting next to LUCY) spontaneously grabs

LUCY’s hand, and she’s crying with delight. LUCY’s so touched

it makes her want to cry.

LUCY:

Oh, Catherine.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 51.

CATHERINE:

That’s wonderful.

(she looks at DANIEL)

That is wonderful. That is really

LUCY:

You’re crying.

CATHERINE:

I’m happy.

LUCY:

Aw - !

CATHERINE:

How - how - how many - ?

LUCY:

How many weeks? Twelve. We thought

we’d wait ‘til - y’know

CATHERINE:

Ohh! And are you - [all right?]

LUCY:

I’m fine. I felt a bit sick once or

twice, I think that’s how I knew.

And then I went off coffee and red

wine, which made me think ‘hello!’

RICHARD:

Congratulations.

ROS:

(realising, happy, amused,

she says it entirely

guilelessly)

Oh no! You’re going to be

grandparents!

CATHERINE doesn’t respond immediately, and if RYAN wasn’t

present she’d let it go. But he is present. She tries to say

it as pleasantly and inoffensively as she can. Chiefly for

RYAN’s benefit so he’ll think nothing of it.

CATHERINE:

Well. We’re already grandparents.

DANIEL really doesn’t like that. He doesn’t recognise RYAN as

anything, including not as his parents’ first grand child.

CLARE:

(jumping in quick)

What y’going to do about work, have

y’decided?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 52.

LUCY:

Well obviously, I don’t want to

give my job up.

During the above short exchange, we’re looking at CATHERINE

and then RICHARD. And DANIEL too. CATHERINE irritated that

there isn’t more respect for RYAN’s feelings, and DANIEL and

RICHARD are irked that they have to even pretend to put up

with this cuckoo-in-the-nest (again, not that they’re small-

minded enough to say it).

CUT TO:

42 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, RYAN’S BEDROOM. NIGHT 6. 20.45 42

RYAN’s in bed. CATHERINE’s reading to him. CATHERINE reads

brilliantly, whispering it almost, but with great emphasis.

You can’t not read this poem brilliantly, it’s so good.

CATHERINE:

Ho Ho for the robbers, The cops and

the robbers, Ho Ho! And the toys?

They were all taken back. By a

Santa Claus copper in a Santa Claus

sack. While the rest of the force

searched day and night, For an

elderly lady of medium height, With

a fondness for earrings and red fox

furs, And a habit of taking what

wasn’t hers. She usually carried a

sizeable bag. Her name, of course,

was Grandma Swagg. Ho Ho for the

robbers, The cops and the robbers,

Ho Ho!

RYAN’s quiet and looks like he wasn’t listening (although he

probably liked the sound). He looks like he was lost in

thought about something else.

RYAN:

Granny.

CATHERINE:

(she smooths his hair)

Yes chick?

RYAN:

Is that Richard my Grandad?

CATHERINE takes a moment to think things through, but then

she’s still flustered

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