Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #2

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me, and the’s no need. All right?

(but she can’t help it)

Do you want something to eat?

(she doesn’t respond)

Do you need to use the bucket?

(no response)

I won’t look.

(no response)

Right well I’m - I’ll come back in

a bit. You see if - when - I can

trust you, I’d be able to unfasten

you. So you can

(he nods at the bucket)

An’ everyfin. So.

He looks at her a bit longer. Part of him hates this. He’s a

nasty little sod in his own right, but he does have a

modicum, an atom of empathy, and... this isn’t really his

thing. He turns to go. That’s when he sees the knickers,

several feet away from ANN, discarded on the floor. He

doesn’t get it for a moment. But he knows they weren’t there

before.

LEWIS (CONT’D)

Are them - ? [yours]?

(he looks at her. Her

reaction answers his

question)

Why [did] - ? Wh[at] - ?

But he doesn’t need to ask. He realises from her reaction

what’s happened. She struggles to cry because she’s so

effectively gagged, but essentially that’s what’s happening.

He lingers, lost in thought for a few moments. ANN’s

terrified. Is he going to get it into his head to rape her as

well? LEWIS can see in her eyes that’s what she’s thinking,

and it makes him feel very uneasy. He lingers a few moments

longer, then goes back up the stairs.

CUT TO:

15 INT. MILTON AVENUE, SITTING ROOM. DAY 5. 15.02 15

LEWIS comes in pulling his balaclava off. He sits in front of

his game, which he’s put on pause. He doesn’t like what he’s

just discovered, it disturbs him. That’s what nonces are,

that’s what nonces do. Isn’t it? Or is it good to f*** anyone

if you’re a bit of a lad?

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 16.

16 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 5. 15.03 16

ASHLEY COWGILL’s busy when his mobile rings.

ASHLEY:

‘Lo.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

17 INT. MILTON AVENUE, SITTING ROOM. DAY 5. 15.04 17

LEWIS (on his mobile to ASHLEY) was about to say, “I think

this bastard’s raped her”, when he has a different sudden

notion

LEWIS:

Are we allowed to f*** her?

(silence)

Ashley?

ASHLEY absorbs the implications of the unexpected question.

ASHLEY:

Why would y’be asking me that,

Lewis?

LEWIS:

I’m just asking.

ASHLEY:

(light, amused/bemused)

You’re a sick little bastard,

aren’t yer?

LEWIS:

No, no, it isn’t me. It’s

Dries up.

ASHLEY:

What?

LEWIS:

Is he there? Weirdo. I sent him

ovver.

TOMMY is just starting to strip off his T-shirt to start

lugging stuff around the building site.

ASHLEY:

(curious, but not letting

TOMMY know he’s talking

about him)

Yeah.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 17.

LEWIS:

I fink he’s had her. In t’cellar.

ASHLEY remains calm.

ASHLEY:

Why what - what makes you think

that? Lewis?

LEWIS:

Well he’s had her knickers off,

anyway, and

(dries up)

So I just - I’m just asking.

Really. That wasn’t - that isn’t -

that wasn’t the plan. Is it?

On ASHLEY. No. That wasn’t the plan. But perhaps it has its

advantages. If any pressure needs to be put on NEVISON, for

instance. ASHLEY’s brain’s ticking. Of course all LEWIS can

hear is silence.

LEWIS (CONT’D)

Ashley?

ASHLEY:

Well. Lewis. I don’t want you to

feel that it’s obligatory.

LEWIS doesn’t get it. Then he does. Or thinks he does. On the

other end of the line ASHLEY’s amused by LEWIS’s

bewilderment.

LEWIS:

You mean you told him to do that?

ASHLEY:

No. No, I didn’t. Sounds to me like

he was just using his initiative.

LEWIS isn’t comfortable with this. Is ASHLEY winding him up?

LEWIS:

Right well I’m not - I don’t wanna -

that’s

(dries up)

I’m not doing that.

ASHLEY:

I wasn’t asking you to, Lewis.

LEWIS:

Good. If this goes tits up, I’m not

the noncy little weirdo bastard

that’s getting done for rape.

ASHLEY:

Right.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 18.

LEWIS:

Right.

(pause)

Right.

LEWIS hangs up. ASHLEY hangs up. He looks troubled. Then

amused as he thinks of LEWIS. Then troubled again as he

thinks of TOMMY. He turns around and watches oblivious TOMMY

as he lugs heavy stuff effortlessly round the building site.

Then we cut back to LEWIS in the house at Milton Avenue. He

has some thinking of his own to do.

CUT TO:

18 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN/HALLWAY. DAY 5. 15.45 18

CLARE’s baking in the kitchen when CATHERINE and RYAN come in

from work/school. RYAN runs into the kitchen and heads

straight for the fridge, informing CLARE with excitement

RYAN:

Granny’s been in a fight.

CATHERINE follows RYAN in, carrying RYAN’s bag and coat,

which she dumps on the table. She’s got a lovely black eye

emerging where ALFIE TYSON booted her.

CLARE:

My God.

CATHERINE:

Is it bad?

RYAN:

She was chasing this scrote, and he

kicked her in t’face.

CLARE:

(to CATHERINE)

Did he get away?

RYAN:

Hell, no.

CLARE:

What’d he been doing?

RYAN:

Selling ice creams.

CLARE:

(looking at CATHERINE)

Oh. Okay.

CATHERINE’s filling the kettle.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 19.

CATHERINE:

Are you going to get changed?

RYAN:

Yup.

Having quenched his thirst (or whatever he went in the fridge

for) he heads out of the room and upstairs. CLARE pushes

CATHERINE’s hair off her forehead to have a proper look.

CLARE:

Y’okay?

CATHERINE:

Coupla Nurofen, I’ll be like new.

CLARE:

Have you not taken something

before?

CATHERINE:

(tired, irritable)

I’ve not had time.

CLARE gets pills from a cupboard and gives them to CATHERINE

with a glass of water.

CLARE:

Daniel rang. We’ve been invited

round for tea tomorrow.

CATHERINE:

(she prepares to be arsy:

the effect the word

‘Daniel’ has on her)

All of us?

CLARE:

Well. I said - “I’ll see if Ryan

can go round to his friend’s

house”, and he didn’t say, “No

that’s fine, you bring him with

you”. So. I’m - yeah - assuming

it’s just you and me.

CATHERINE:

So... he rang you. His aunty. He

didn’t ring me, his mother.

CLARE:

Well he rang on t’house line.

CATHERINE:

When he knows I’m at work.

CLARE:

You work shifts, Catherine. You

coulda been here.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 20.

CATHERINE:

Why tea tomorrow?

CLARE:

I don’t know. Maybe him and Lucy’ve

got some news. He’s invited Richard

and Ros round as well.

CATHERINE:

Oh.

(subtext:
deep joy. Not.

Then remembering the

other thing -)

What news?

(CLARE shrugs)

Is Lucy pregnant?

CLARE:

You know as much as me.

CATHERINE:

Oh well, that’d be...

(she nods, manages a

smile. She’d like that)

You mean you didn’t ask?

CLARE:

No. I’m not a copper. He’d have

said over the phone if he’d wanted

me to know. They probably want to

make an announcement.

CATHERINE:

So you think that is what it is.

CLARE:

I don’t know!

A moment, then

CATHERINE:

(something she doesn’t do

often)

Have y’got any fags?

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19 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACK YARD. DAY 5. 15.50 19

A few minutes later. CATHERINE and CLARE sitting side by side

on the door step, smoking cigarettes, sipping mugs of tea.

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