Happy Valley Page #11

Season #1 Episode #2

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CATHERINE:

He’s - he’s - he’s - he used to be

my husband. So yes. He -

technically.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 53.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

And he was your mum’s dad, so. Yes.

Yes, he’s. He is your grandad.

RYAN:

Can I go and see him?

CATHERINE finds herself nodding, wanting to say yes.

CATHERINE:

Would you like to?

RYAN:

Where does he live?

CATHERINE:

On towards Ripponden.

RYAN:

Could you drive me over? Like one

Saturday morning. And then he could

play football with me.

CATHERINE doesn’t know what to say. She just has an urge to

sound positive about it. Even though she has no real grounds

for optimism.

CATHERINE:

We’ll have [to] - we’ll have to

see.

CUT TO:

43 INT/EXT. KEVIN’S CAR/STREET. DAY 7. 11.30 43

Next day. KEVIN’s driving to McDonald’s in Huddersfield.

There’s a rucksack on the passenger seat, which he seems

nervous of (it’s full of £20,000). His mobile rings. A number

comes up on his bluetooth.

KEVIN:

Hello?

VOICE:

(ASHLEY)

Kevin. It’s Ashley. You do realise

you don’t really have to drive to

McDonald’s off Huddersfield ring

road, don’t you?

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44 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 7. 11.50 44

KEVIN’s car pulls up outside the farmhouse.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 54.

45

INT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM, KITCHEN. DAY 7. 12.05 45

ASHLEY (wearing gloves) pulls open the rucksack. Loads of

money. Even KEVIN finds himself entranced for a moment. It

looks good. All that lolly. ASHLEY just wants to laugh at it.

It’s so simple, it’s so pleasing. KEVIN feels relaxed enough

to ask

KEVIN:

She’s all right. Ann. Isn’t she?

ASHLEY gets a couple of plastic bags from under the sink.

ASHLEY:

She’s fine.

(he stuffs eight wedges of

cash into one plastic

bag)

She’s absolutely fine. There you

go. That’s yours.

KEVIN doesn’t want to take it. We see it in his eyes. But he

daren’t not take it either. So he does. ASHLEY stuffs the

remainder into the second plastic bag.

CUT TO:

46

EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 7. 12.07 46

KEVIN opens the boot of his car. He lifts open the hidden

trap door where the spare wheel lives, and stashes the

plastic bag with his share of the cash in there. He hates

this, he doesn’t want it, he’d love to just throw it away.

But how can he? It’s money. He shuts the trap door, and shuts

the boot, relieved it’s out of sight.

CUT TO:

47

INT. RICHARD & ROS’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 7. 16.30 47

ROS is sipping a cup of tea, sitting at the table, reading

The Week, relaxing after a busy day at work, probably just

got the supper in the oven, when the doorbell goes.

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48

INT/EXT. RICHARD & ROS’S HOUSE, FRONT DOOR/ KITCHEN. 48

DAY 7. 16.31

ROS pulls the door open. It’s CATHERINE (still in her

uniform). ROS is surprised, pleasant

ROS:

Hello.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 55.

CATHERINE:

Is he in?

ROS:

Yes! Come in.

CATHERINE:

(she does)

I was just passing, I was

ROS:

He’s getting changed, I’ll give him

a shout.

(she goes and calls up the

stairs)

Richard!

(then to CATHERINE)

Can I make you a cup of tea?

CATHERINE:

No. Thank you.

ROS:

I meant to say. About yesterday.

I’m sorry I put my foot in it.

CATHERINE:

It’s fine.

ROS:

I said it without thinking.

CATHERINE:

It’s fine.

ROS can’t tell if she’s genuinely being forgiven or if

CATHERINE’s just saying it and secretly thinks she’s a b*tch.

Or at least inept. CATHERINE smiles; she wants to mean it.

She knows there’s nothing to be gained from making fights;

they might as well move on. Just then RICHARD comes in.

RICHARD:

Hi.

CATHERINE:

Hi. Have you got five minutes?

RICHARD:

Sure.

CATHERINE:

It’s delicate. Can I...?

Sit down.

ROS:

Course. D’you want me to...? Leave

you on your own?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 56.

CATHERINE:

No. No. Okay. Erm. So yesterday,

after yesterday, last night. Ryan

(she knows this’ll go down

like a ton of hot horse

sh*t)

Asked me if you’re his grandad.

(we instantly get from

RICHARD’s body language

that he doesn’t want to

know)

And erm.

(she struggles)

Well I couldn’t...

(dries up)

I said. You used to be my husband.

And that you were his mum’s dad. So

yes, I said yes, you are. His

grandad.

(RICHARD bites his tongue,

resists the powerful

instinct to say “I’m not

his Grandad”)

The thing is.

She daren’t ask. She starts crying, tries not to, but it

breaks her heart what RYAN asked last night.

ROS:

Catherine?

She manages to rein it in.

CATHERINE:

I’m sorry. I am sorry. I know I

made this decision, and you didn’t,

and I’ve brought it all on myself,

and I’ve got no right to ask you

this, but I’m going to.

(a moment)

He asked. If I would drive him over

here one day, one Saturday. So you

could play football with him. You

see... it doesn’t occur to him.

That you - being his Grandad -

wouldn’t want to do that. Wouldn’t

want to play with him.

It makes her cry again saying it. She fights it hard. She

hates looking weak. Or looking like she’s trying to get what

she wants by looking weak. RICHARD’s quiet. Sad.

RICHARD:

I’m not his Grandad. You shouldn’t

have told him that.

CATHERINE absorbs that. Eventually

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 57.

CATHERINE:

Okay.

(she lingers, then gets up

to leave. She’s sad,

thoughtful, quiet)

Fair enough.

(she heads for the door,

but still lingers, then

mumbles as innocuously as

she can - )

Except. You know. You are.

RICHARD:

Don’t - !

CATHERINE:

You know, I don’t get the way you

can think. If I’d

RICHARD:

I’m not going through all this

[again]

CATHERINE:

If I’d decided

RICHARD:

Catherine

CATHERINE:

- to wash my hands of [him]

RICHARD:

Like you said, you made that

[decision] - !

CATHERINE:

-he’d have ended up in care. Our

daughter’s child. Would’ve ended up

in care.

RICHARD:

She never wanted him!

CATHERINE:

It’s still her flesh and blood!

RICHARD:

She was raped!

CATHERINE:

Our flesh and [blood] - !

RICHARD:

She killed herself because of him!

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 58.

CATHERINE:

She killed herself because she’d

been raped, not because of him!

RICHARD:

It’s the same thing!

CATHERINE:

It isn’t! It is not.

RICHARD:

He was there to remind her. Every

day. That’s why she

CATHERINE:

That is not his fault!

Silence.

RICHARD:

I can’t look at him.

Silence. They both step back from it, calm down a notch or

two, recover. CATHERINE turns to leave. She pauses just

before she goes. She’s unable to look RICHARD straight in the

face, but says with as much genuine equanimity as she can

CATHERINE:

I realise it was a big ask.

She lingers another moment: one last chance to change his

mind. But he doesn’t. She turns and goes.

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49 EXT. RICHARD & ROS’S HOUSE, FRONT DOOR/STREET. DAY 7. 49

16.32

CATHERINE leaves the house and gets into her patrol car,

turns the engine over and sets off. Just as she does, she

sees KEVIN’s BMW heading right this way. Of course: he lives

here. And of course he’s uber-conscious of a police car along

his tiny residential lane. He passes her - and sees her, and

she sees him - and turns into his drive. CATHERINE makes a

quick decision:
she’s going to ask him if he’s okay. She

parks her car up. KEVIN’s well nervous as he gets out of his

car. His plan is to scurry for the house, but equally he’s

terrified of looking like he’s hiding something.

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