Happy Valley Page #12

Season #1 Episode #2

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CATHERINE:

Hello.

He turns and sees her.

KEVIN:

Hi.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 59.

CATHERINE:

How are you? Kevin is it?

KEVIN:

Fine! Fine, I’m fine.

CATHERINE:

You left. Abruptly. Was

everything...? All right?

KEVIN:

Yes. Yes.

CATHERINE:

You never finished telling me your

story.

KEVIN:

I changed my mind. It wasn’t...

really a police matter.

CATHERINE:

Okay. Well if there’s anything I

can do.

KEVIN:

Sure.

Just then her mobile bleats. She answers it.

CATHERINE:

Hello?

MICKEY:

(oov)

Is that Catherine?

CATHERINE:

Yep.

MICKEY:

(oov)

It’s Mickey! From the Chef Imperial

up Rawson Lane.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

50 EXT. CHINESE TAKE AWAY, BACK YARD. DAY 7. 16.33 50

MICKEY’s on his mobile.

MICKEY:

That fella you were looking for’s

been in. Just now.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 60.

MICKEY (CONT'D)

I came outside for a smoke when he

left so I could keep an eye on him,

and I saw where he went. I saw

which gate he went in.

Cut back to CATHERINE mesmerised by this information.

CATHERINE:

(to KEVIN)

I’ve got to go.

KEVIN:

Sure.

CATHERINE:

(on the phone to MICKEY)

I’ll be with you in five minutes.

CATHERINE turns and goes.

CUT TO:

51 EXT. MILTON AVENUE. DAY 7. 16.45 51

CATHERINE’s car’s parked just further along from the take

away. We find CATHERINE just heading through the gate into

the garden where TOMMY and LEWIS drove in to drop ANN off (in

ep 1).

She looks around. She approaches the dilapidated house. It

feels deserted. She knocks on the door. Silence.

CUT TO:

52 INT/EXT. MILTON AVENUE, CELLAR/STREET. DAY 7. 16.46 52

Continuous. ANN - still bound, gagged and tied to the chair -

has heard the knock on the door. She tries to scream “Help!”

We cut back to CATHERINE, who hasn’t heard ANN try to scream.

She knocks on the door again.

ANN hears the second knock. She stands up - still tied to the

chair - and tries to make as loud a sound as she can by

crashing the chair into the wall.

Outside, CATHERINE can hear nothing. But she’s still

interested in the house. She looks through the windows. It

tells her very little. The place does look very crappy. But

she sees signs that people have been here recently. The TV,

the X-box. Dirty plates and cutlery.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 61.

53 INT/EXT. MILTON AVENUE, BEDROOM/CELLAR/STREET. DAY 7. 53

16.47

Nervous silent TOMMY is pressed against the wall by a window,

looking out. He can see the patrol car. He knows he’s got a

copper knocking on the door.

Outside, CATHERINE is very reluctant to give up. She tries

the door. It’s locked. Reluctantly, she decides she’s got to

give up. For now. She wanders back towards the gate.

TOMMY catches a glimpse of her. The sight of CATHERINE means

nothing to him personally, she’s simply a copper to him, and

he’s very uncomfortable.

CATHERINE gives up and leaves. Gets back into her patrol car,

and drives away.

We glimpse ANN in the cellar, exhausted from trying - in vain

-to improvise as much noise as she could. She cries.

CUT TO:

54 INT/EXT. MILTON AVENUE, BEDROOM/STREET. DAY 7. 16.48 54

TOMMY grabs his mobile phone, glancing frantically out of the

window, then ducking out of sight again into the hallway,

terrified that the copper’s going to come back.

TOMMY:

(murmuring to himself)

Answer the phone, yer twat.

(ASHLEY:
hello?)

Ashley. It’s Tommy. Why have I just

had the bastard police knocking on

the door?

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

55 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 7. 16.49 55

ASHLEY was busy overseeing a delivery of building materials

to the building site. LEWIS’s with him.

ASHLEY:

What you talking about?

TOMMY:

Some slag of a policewoman knocking

on this door!

(ASHLEY:
When?)

Now! Just now!

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 62.

ASHLEY:

Don’t - don’t - don’t do anything,

don’t panic, I’ll - has she gone?

TOMMY:

Yeah. Yeah, I fink so.

ASHLEY:

I’ll send Lewis. With the van.

Bruised LEWIS mimes at ASHLEY “What?”

TOMMY:

When?

ASHLEY:

Now, right now. Get her ready,

we’ll move her.

TOMMY:

Where to?

ASHLEY:

I don’t know. Yet. I’ll think.

TOMMY:

How come the police know anything?

Who’s said anything?

ASHLEY:

Nothing, nobody. You just get her

ready to shift her. All right?

(he hangs up, then says

quietly to LEWIS - )

Take the van. To Milton Avenue,

pick the lass up, then ring me.

LEWIS:

What’s up?

ASHLEY:

Police’ve been knocking on the

door.

LEWIS:

(terrified)

I’m not [going there]

ASHLEY:

Do it.

LEWIS has to weigh up what he’s more terrified of; ASHLEY, or

getting collared by the police.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

D’you want that money?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 63.

LEWIS:

I’ll get t’keys.

(he heads for house)

Where we taking her?

ASHLEY:

I don’t know. Yet. Just ring me,

soon as you’re on the move.

CUT TO:

56 INT. KEVIN’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 7. 17.00 56

KEVIN and JENNY are preparing supper listening to the Radio 4

news when his mobile phone bleats. He checks the screen:

Ashley Cowgill. He answers the phone, discreetly leaving the

room as he does so.

KEVIN:

Hello?

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

57 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 7. 17.01 57

ASHLEY:

Kevin. Why’ve I got police knocking

on my door down Milton Avenue?

KEVIN:

Where?

ASHLEY:

The house! Where I’m keeping her!

I’ve had police knocking on it!

KEVIN:

I - no - I - I don’t know.

ASHLEY:

Has Nevison been to the police?

KEVIN:

No. No! Not that I... no. No, he

hasn’t. Not that I [know of]

ASHLEY:

Well why they knocking on the door

then?

KEVIN:

(terrified)

I’ve got no idea. Sh*t. Sh*t.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 64.

ASHLEY:

Don’t worry, they went away again,

I’m moving her, but why are they

knocking on that door? What do they

know?

KEVIN:

(at a loss)

I - I - I’ve absolutely no idea.

ASHLEY hangs up. On ASHLEY, bemused, curious, angry,

frightened. Then cut back to KEVIN. Frightened, bemused. What

do they know?

END OF EPISODE:

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