Happy Valley Page #2

Season #1 Episode #3

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KIRSTEN:

(a smile)

What you got in there? An elephant?

LEWIS:

No. Just. My dog.

KIRSTEN’s curious. Why would a dog start making a fuss now

rather than earlier?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 7.

And anyway, it just didn’t sound like a dog. A dog would

bark. Properly. Surely. Not that KIRSTEN shows LEWIS she’s

suspicious. She keeps it light

KIRSTEN:

What sort is he?

LEWIS hesitates a split second too long.

LEWIS:

Labrador.

KIRSTEN:

Nice. What’s he called?

First thing that comes into his head

LEWIS:

Tommy.

KIRSTEN:

Can I see him?

LEWIS can’t help glancing at the Mini, and so KIRSTEN becomes

more aware of it too.

We glimpse TOMMY inside the Mini, continuing to watch LEWIS’s

progress in the rear view mirror, only he’s much closer now.

LEWIS:

Well you could. Only if I open

t’doors he’ll run off.

Just then there’s a more sustained attempt on ANN’s part to

draw attention to herself. More movement, more banging

around, more muffled sounds that are distinctly less dog and

more human. We glimpse TOMMY again; he clocks the movement of

the van.

KIRSTEN:

I’d like to see inside the van.

LEWIS:

It’s locked.

KIRSTEN:

Where’s the keys?

LEWIS:

It’s just a dog.

KIRSTEN:

I’d like you to open the van.

Lewis. Where are the keys?

LEWIS:

He’ll go mad. He’ll run across

t’moor and I’ll never find him.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 8.

KIRSTEN:

Are they in your pocket?

(he doesn’t answer)

Are they in the ignition?

Some subtle unconscious movement of his body indicates that

he’s left them in the ignition.

KIRSTEN (CONT’D)

Wait here.

KIRSTEN goes to get the keys (she tries to keep an eye on

LEWIS as she does this, even though it’s not possible for the

whole task). LEWIS looks towards the Mini, assuming TOMMY’s

watching through his rear view mirror. He pulls a face like

“What do we do now?” TOMMY puts the car gently into reverse.

LEWIS sees the white reverse lights come on. It may or may

not mean anything to LEWIS, but TOMMY intends it as a signal:

he’s going to reverse (I think maybe LEWIS does kind of get

it, even if it’s only subconsciously). KIRSTEN comes back

with the keys. She looks towards the Mini.

KIRSTEN (CONT’D)

(nods towards Mini)

Do you know that person?

LEWIS:

No.

She offers the keys to LEWIS.

KIRSTEN:

Open it for me. Please.

LEWIS takes the key gingerly. Just then, TOMMY puts his foot

down and the Mini hurtles backwards. LEWIS dives out of the

way, but unsuspecting KIRSTEN doesn’t. Her legs and lower

body are crushed between the back of the Mini and the back of

the van. TOMMY puts the Mini into first and moves forward

with a lurch. KIRSTEN collapses to the ground, her legs

shattered, her face pressed against the mud and gravel on the

road. She’s in a weird heightened state of consciousness (aka

shock) she knows what’s happened, but in so much agony she

can’t even scream. What she does manage to do is fumble for

the instant response button on her radio.

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11

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 11

EVENING 7. 17.25

CATHERINE’s at her desk, still tapping away at the computer

(filling in an incident form, sipping tea) when suddenly a

beeping sound starts from the radio. Instantly she’s on red

alert. The sound means one thing; officer in trouble.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 9.

12

EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.26 12

KIRSTEN manages to whisper

KIRSTEN:

I think they’ve killed me.

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13

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 13

EVENING 7. 17.27

Stunned CATHERINE’s just heard KIRSTEN’s voice. But did she

quite catch what she said?

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14

EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.28 14

TOMMY puts the Mini into reverse again. KIRSTEN sees the

white lights. It’s the last thing she will see.

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15

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S 15

OFFICE/CORRIDOR. EVENING 7. 17.29

CATHERINE hears over the radio as she dives out of her office

and along the corridor

RADIO:

Control to all units. Officer

requires urgent assistance,

Scammonden Road, Ripponden.

CATHERINE talks loud and clear

CATHERINE:

Bravo November four-five,

responding.

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16

EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.30 16

TOMMY puts his foot down and reverses over KIRSTEN. We don’t

need to see it; we can see it off LEWIS’s face. We may hear

the noise as well, which will be like so many water melons

getting crushed. LEWIS has to look away. He may even get

squirted in blood.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 10.

17 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. EVENING 7. 17

17.31

CATHERINE dives into the other room to see who’s around.

SHAFIQ and TWIGGY are sitting with their coats on, nowhere

near their radios, ready to go home, having a laugh.

SHAFIQ:

We’re off for a drink Sarg when

Kirsten shows up. Y’coming?

CATHERINE’s gone as white as a sheet.

CATHERINE:

We’ve got a code zero, Scammonden

Road, it’s Kirsten.

A shiver goes up SHAFIQ and TWIGGY’s spines. Instinctively

they grab their radios - which, having mentally knocked off

for the day, they’d turned off - and dive out of the room

after CATHERINE. This is a proper mad frantic scramble. Other

officers/units are responding over the radio too (t.b.w.) as

CATHERINE heads back through to her office, grabs car keys

and heads outside

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Bravo November four-five, e.t.a.

seven minutes. Have you called an

ambulance?

(then to TWIGGY and SHAFIQ

as they’re piling out of

the back door)

Shafiq, you come wi’ me, Twiggy,

take the other car.

RADIO:

Ambulance is on it’s way, four-

five.

SHAFIQ:

What’s happened?

(The beeping noise continues, which is chilling: if the

officer in trouble had pressed the emergency button by

accident, she’d have deactivated it by now).

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18 EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.32 18

TOMMY - having pulled forward again off KIRSTEN - gets out of

the Mini. LEWIS can’t bring himself to look.

TOMMY:

Where’s the keys?

(LEWIS holds them up)

Right, well go.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 11.

LEWIS:

You’ve - !

” - killed a police officer”. He can’t speak, he’s gone

weird, he’s in shock.

TOMMY:

Go. You get that van off this road

fast. Like your arse is on fire.

LEWIS - stunned, nauseous, disbelieving (possibly nearly in

tears) - hesitates a moment longer

LEWIS:

You...!

(he can’t think of a word

bad enough)

nutter!

He turns and gets in the van, turns the engine over, and

drives away. TOMMY does a three point turn - reversing over

KIRSTEN again to avoid the risk of her still being alive -

and drives off after LEWIS.

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19 EXT. SOWERBY BRIDGE. EVENING 7. 17.50 19

The light falls more and more. The police Discovery and

police car weave through the last of the Sowerby Bridge rush

hour traffic with their insistent blue lights and sirens -

driving over pavements and on the wrong side of the road if

necessary - then speed off as soon as they’re through the

jam, the tyres screeching as CATHERINE and TWIGGY really go

for it.

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