Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #2

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CATHERINE:

Couldn’t believe how much gear they

were carrying. And a bit of

everything. Coke, heroin, m-cat,

cannabis, crystals, e’s.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 21.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

He had over three thousand quid in

his pockets.

CLARE:

No wonder he didn’t want copping.

CATHERINE:

What really...

(resists saying “pisses me

off”, but the urge is

there)

Annoys me. I rang ahead, I flagged

it up to the drugs squad, I said

d’you wanna talk to these lads

first? Yes they did. I said I

wanted Twiggy and Shafiq sitting in

on the interviews once they got ‘em

to Halifax. Fine, no problem.

Course it’s all “no comment no

comment no comment”. So then that’s

it. For us. At our level. We never

get any closer. We never get any

higher up the food chain. Any

intelligence they have - drugs

squad - about where all this stuff

is coming from, how it’s getting

here, I never get to hear about it.

I just get to mop up the mess at

the bottom end. And we should know -

I should know - if they know stuff

about people on my patch, people

bringing stuff into this valley, I

should damn well know about it.

CLARE:

Why would they not let you know?

CATHERINE:

Oh, they’ll have some covert

surveillance stuff going on that

numpties like me aren’t allowed to

know about

CLARE:

What, in case you tell your sister?

CATHERINE:

-til they need a bit of back-up.

(then answering CLARE’s

question)

Exactly.

CLARE:

And she leaks it to her contacts in

the media.

CATHERINE:

Which you would.

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CLARE:

Inevitably.

CATHERINE:

Either that or they don’t actually

know any more than I do. Which is

even more worrying.

A pause. They smoke. They sip tea.

CLARE:

Least it’s got your mind off...

(she won’t say the name

TOMMY LEE ROYCE)

That other business.

There’s a pause, a moment, a hiatus, where it feels like that

could be the end of the scene. Only it isn’t

CATHERINE:

I printed a photo of the little

(’c*nt’, she was going to

say. Only she retrained

herself)

-sh*t off the box and I went into

t’Chinese.

CLARE:

Just say that again slower.

CATHERINE:

Mickey Yip runs it. D’you remember

Mickey Yip? He was in the year

between us at school.

CUT TO:

20 INT. CHINESE TAKE AWAY, RAWSON LANE. DAY 5. 14.30 20

Earlier today. CATHERINE’s showing the photo of TOMMY to

MICKEY YIP, who’s behind the counter. He’s shaking his head;

not seen the bloke. (CATHERINE’s on her way home at this

stage, so she’ll have the black eye).

CATHERINE:

Okay, well d’you wanna keep it?

Behind the counter. Tell everybody

that works here - and if he does

come in, if you recognise him - if

you see him looking at your menu

out there, if you see him walk

past, anything - can you give us a

ring?

(she gives her card)

-when you’ve got a minute. Don’t

challenge him, don’t approach him,

don’t say anything.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 23.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

Just act normally, serve him,

whatever, then ring me. Okay?

CUT TO:

21 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACK YARD. DAY 5. 15.51 21

CATHERINE and CLARE, as before.

CLARE:

Right. Well. You know my opinion.

A pause. Then suddenly CATHERINE

Oo!

She jumps up and heads into the house.

CLARE:

What?

CATHERINE:

I forgot.

CUT TO:

22 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 5. 15.52 22

CATHERINE finds her phone, scrolls through her address book,

finds a number and presses call.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

23 INT. HALIFAX GAZETTE OFFICE, RICHARD’S DESK. DAY 5. 15.53 23

RICHARD’s tired at his desk, ready to pack up for the day,

when his mobile bleats. He sees the name ‘Catherine’ on the

screen. Of all the names he’d love to see pop up on his

mobile screen, that’s the one. And we can see it in his face.

He tries not to give it away too much in his voice.

RICHARD:

Hello.

CATHERINE:

Hello, it’s me.

RICHARD:

I know.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 24.

CATHERINE:

Do you know a Kevin Weatherill? He

lives next-door-but-three to you

and Ros, he drives a BMW.

RICHARD:

Kevin? Yeah.

CATHERINE:

What’s he like?

RICHARD:

Oh, they’re very nice. Ordinary.

Quiet. Two girls. She’s in the

early stages of multiple sclerosis.

Jenny. His wife. She walks with a

stick. Sometimes a wheelchair. But

no, they’re... yeah. He’s an

accountant. He works for Nevison

Gallagher.

Pause.

CATHERINE:

Okay.

RICHARD:

Why?

CATHERINE:

Any...? Problems. That you know of.

RICHARD:

Not that I’m aware of. Why?

CATHERINE:

No reason.

RICHARD:

Is that...? [any help]

CATHERINE:

Yeah, thanks.

(swift key change)

Is Lucy pregnant?

RICHARD:

(much more interested)

I wondered that.

CUT TO:

24

INT. KEVIN’S HOUSE, HALLWAY/KITCHEN/LIVING ROOM. 24

EVENING 5. 17.30

KEVIN’s just got in from work. JENNY’s preparing supper. The

girls are watching TV in another room.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 25.

JENNY:

Hi.

KEVIN:

Hi.

JENNY:

Have you had a nice day?

KEVIN can’t decide whether to say it or not, and then

KEVIN:

The weirdest thing.

JENNY:

What?

KEVIN:

It’s - you can’t mention it, not to

anyone.

JENNY:

Okay.

KEVIN:

Nevison’s - like I’ve never seen

him, all over the place. And - God.

JENNY:

What?

KEVIN:

Someone’s taken Ann.

JENNY:

Taken?

KEVIN:

Abducted. Kidnapped. They rang him.

On her phone. This morning, midmorning,

saying they wanted a

million pounds. In cash. And he

JENNY:

Has he been to the police?

KEVIN:

No! God, no! These people...

(his pulse is racing, he’s

terrified)

The thing is. The thing I didn’t

know. Helen’s ill. Really ill. I

mean

JENNY:

Helen?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 26.

KEVIN:

Liver cancer. She’s dying, she’s...

JENNY:

Oh my God.

(awed silence)

When did - ? He should go to the

police!

KEVIN:

No. That’s

JENNY:

He should, they’ll know how to deal

with it!

KEVIN:

It’s easy to say! But can you

imagine? If it was one of these

two?

(he means their daughters)

These people don’t mess around

Jenny! If he steps out of line,

they’re threatening to do things to

her and... Jesus.

JENNY:

We should - you should - why don’t

you ring the police? From here.

KEVIN:

No. No. No. No. They’re watching

him, they might be watching me.

JENNY:

Has he got the money?

KEVIN:

Well that’s the thing! Even if you

can access that amount, it’s not

just so simple. You can’t just walk

into a bank and withdraw a million

pounds. In cash. You have to do it

over a period of time and then all

kinds of questions would be [asked]

-!

JENNY:

(interrupts)

So... God, so... so when did Helen

find out about...?

KEVIN:

Recently. I don’t know, he only

just said it the other day.

JENNY:

That’s

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 27.

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