Happy Valley Page #12

Season #1 Episode #3

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 60.

CLARE:

Especially since she’s been ill.

CATHERINE’s not sure what to make of it. But knowing only

what she does, it does smack of domestic abuse. RYAN’s

stomped back down stairs again and lobs something at

CATHERINE. A cuddly toy. CATHERINE manages to catch it.

RYAN:

You’re just jealous ‘cos I might

like him better than I like you.

CATHERINE nods sagely. She’s just knackered really, rather

than sage.

CATHERINE:

Yes. Well. You might like to think

that.

RYAN:

I wish I lived there. With them.

CLARE:

Ryan. Don’t talk to your Granny

like that, she’s had a very

difficult day.

RYAN:

I don’t care.

He stomps back off upstairs.

CLARE:

Y’all right?

CATHERINE wanders into the kitchen pulling her coat off,

absent-mindedly still clutching the teddy.

CATHERINE:

Yeah. I’m fine. I’ve got ‘punch

bag’ tattooed across my forehead,

but other than that.

CUT TO:

59 INT. NEVISON & HELEN’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 8. 59

19.47

Back to NEVISON and HELEN

HELEN:

I think we’re making a mistake.

NEVISON remains in a state of anxiety, but is determined to

be calm, for HELEN’s sake

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 61.

NEVISON:

No.

HELEN:

I should’ve just gone and not told

you where I was going.

NEVISON:

I’m glad you told me. And I

understand why you wanted to talk

to her, but I’m convinced this is

the right way forward. Helen. I

think... after tomorrow. They’re

gonna let her go. And you know, the

police, they can be very good. But

sometimes. They just get it really

badly wrong. I’ve done everything

they’ve said. I’m not going to blow

it now.

HELEN wants to trust him, wants to trust that he knows best.

But she clearly has a doubt that not going to the police

isn’t the right thing to do.

HELEN:

Why don’t you want the police

around?

NEVISON:

That’s not - that’s just

NEVISON amazed:
that was almost like an accusation.

HELEN:

This is our daughter.

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60 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 8. 19.48 60

Back to CATHERINE and CLARE. CATHERINE’s just getting food

from the oven that CLARE’s kept warm for her. CLARE’s come in

to sit with CATHERINE while she eats supper. At length

CLARE:

On the plus side. Of all...

Kirsten. It’s taken your mind off

Tommy Lee Royce.

CATHERINE’s struck. CLARE’s right, it had. But now she’s gone

and reminded her of him again.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 62.

61 EXT. MILTON AVENUE. DAY 9. 10.00 61

Next morning. CATHERINE (on duty, in uniform, even though

this isn’t strictly speaking police business) looks up at the

dilapidated house. She goes and knocks on the door again.

Nothing. She looks through the windows. Nothing. She goes and

tries the door again. She glances unobtrusively around, to

make sure no-one’s about, then gives the door a damned good

kick, right on the lock. It crashes open. She pauses a

moment, to make sure she hasn’t attracted anyone’s attention

in the well-populated vicinity. Nothing. She steps inside.

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62 INT. MILTON AVENUE, LIVING ROOM/BEDROOM/HALLWAY. DAY 9. 62

10.01

CATHERINE takes stock: three doors. She looks in the sitting

room. Takes in the grunge, although it’s nothing she won’t

have seen a thousand times before in a thousand different

chaotic scuzzy households. She looks in the kitchen. Recently

abandoned food, including the left-overs of the take-away

that TOMMY bought from MICKEY. She looks in the fridge: beer.

So it definitely feels like someone’s been here. Recently.

Yet it also feels abandoned.

She goes upstairs and takes in the bedrooms. Which are pretty

bare, and equally sad.

She comes down the stairs, and lingers. There must be

something that gives her a clue about something to do with

TOMMY. Then she feels a draught. She realises it’s coming

from a smaller, slightly ajar door that she hadn’t registered

earlier. The cellar.

She pushes the door open, and flashes her torch down the

stairs. She finds the light switch, and goes down. Amidst the

junk, she finds several things that intrigue and worry her. A

chair, in the middle of the room on it’s own, which just

seems odd. Because it’s not like all the other mildewed stuff

down here. And blood - small spatters, but enough - on the

floor and whitewashed wall (from when TOMMY duffed LEWIS up).

And then - on the floor - she finds ANN’s knickers. Which

sends a bit of a shiver up her spine. Then she sees fragments

of used masking tape. Like you might use to bind or gag some

one. The four things on their own - even abandoned knickers -

might seem neither here nor there, but collectively - to a

suspicious mind (like CATHERINE’s), and knowing what she

knows about TOMMY - it’s troublesome.

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63 EXT. MILTON AVENUE. DAY 9. 10.02 63

CATHERINE walks back to her car (her own car, not a patrol

car). She’s on her mobile.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 63.

CATHERINE:

You know that day I came home and

said, “Tommy Lee Royce is out of

prison”

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

64 INT. HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN MISSION. DAY 9. 10.03 64

CLARE’s busy behind the counter, presently on her mobile

CLARE:

Yeah.

CATHERINE:

D’you remember?

CLARE:

Yeah.

CATHERINE:

And you said, “I know”. And I said,

“Why didn’t you tell me?”, and you

said, “I didn’t want to upset you”.

CLARE:

Yeah.

CATHERINE:

Well... how did you know?

Reluctant to admit, because she knows CATHERINE’ll be annoyed

with her for not letting on

CLARE:

He was here. He came in here once

or twice. After he got released.

They often come in here. Ex-cons.

Til they’ve sorted themselves out.

(silence)

Are you cross? Because if you are,

you needn’t be. You know what you

get like. I didn’t say anything

because I care about you. I know

you think I bury my head in the

sand, but

CATHERINE:

Did you speak to him?

CLARE:

I gave him a cup of tea. It’s what

we do.

(silence)

Are you speaking to me?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 64.

CATHERINE:

(she’s quiet, she gets it,

she understands)

Yeah.

CLARE:

(reluctant to ask)

So... have you found anything out?

CATHERINE:

Well there’s no-one there. I broke

in, and... yeah. I found something.

I don’t know what. Exactly. I

knocked on a few doors either side,

but. Nobody seems to know anything.

I think he’s had someone in there,

I think he’s hurt someone in there.

CLARE:

How? Why?

CATHERINE:

I found things in the cellar.

CLARE:

Well... can’t you investigate it?

Properly. If

CATHERINE:

Yeah! How? No crime’s been

reported, and I’ve just broken into

a house. The fact that I’m a police

officer doesn’t make it legal.

(she mulls)

I might go knocking on his mother’s

door, on Rishworth. She won’t know

owt, but. Then I might find out who

owns this house.

CLARE:

I still don’t know what it is you

think you’re going to do to him.

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