Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #3

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CSI OFFICER:

I need your trousers and your boots

as well.

That’s all she needs, stripping off here (even though she

knew they’d need her trousers and boots as well). She

addresses PRAVEEN

CATHERINE:

Would you like me to come with you?

PRAVEEN:

Who is the next of kin?

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 16.

26 INT. KIRSTEN & OLLIE’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 7. 26

20.50

CATHERINE (changed into whatever kit she had down at the

nick) and PRAVEEN BADAL are with 26-year-old OLLIE. Who is

inconsolable. This lad is in love with KIRSTEN. (N.B.

CATHERINE’s washed the blood off her face).

CATHERINE:

Is there someone we can ring to

come and be with you? Ollie?

OLLIE shakes his head and manages through his tears

OLLIE:

Oh my God. Carolyn and Ian.

PRAVEEN:

Sorry, who?

He turns to CATHERINE.

CATHERINE:

Kirsten’s mum and dad.

There’s a knock at the door.

OLLIE:

Who’s this?

CATHERINE:

It’ll be the Family Liaison

Officer. Do you want to tell

Carolyn and Ian? Or is it something

you’d like me to do?

OLLIE can’t make a decision.

OLLIE:

Can you do it?

CUT TO:

27 OMITTED 27

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 17.

28 EXT. KIRSTEN & OLLIE’S HOUSE. NIGHT 7. 21.52 28

CATHERINE and PRAVEEN leave KIRSTEN and OLLIE’S house and

head for his car.

PRAVEEN:

Where do the parents live?

CATHERINE:

Five minutes away.

PRAVEEN:

Where’s your car?

CATHERINE:

At the nick.

PRAVEEN:

Right, well we’ll visit the parents

then I’m dropping you off at the

nick and then you’re going home.

You’ve got to let other people do

their jobs now.

CATHERINE:

I’ve got to write a duty statement.

The S.I.O.’ll need it.

Course he will.

PRAVEEN:

And then you’re going home. Oh, and

-

He indicates that they should get into the car before he says

the next bit.

CUT TO:

29 INT/EXT. PRAVEEN’S CAR/KIRSTEN & OLLIE’S HOUSE. NIGHT 7. 29

21.53

CATHERINE gets in beside him.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 18.

PRAVEEN:

You arrested Marcus Gascoigne.

Yesterday.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

PRAVEEN:

D’you think you might’ve made a

mistake?

CATHERINE:

No. Sir. There was a packet of -

what appeared to be - cocaine.

Slipped down the side of his car

seat. He refused to be

breathalysed, and he stank like a

brewery.

PRAVEEN:

Yeah, what I meant was. He does a

lot for us. On the council. How big

was this packet?

CATHERINE:

Tiny.

PRAVEEN:

Personal use. I’m sure he’s had his

fingers burned, so I’m just asking

you to consider. The implications.

Before you take it any further.

CATHERINE:

Well... it depends what comes back

from the lab.

PRAVEEN:

Has it gone to the lab?

CATHERINE:

No, it's gone into the store up at

Halifax to have a field test.

PRAVEEN:

Take it out.

She looks at him. She’s worried. He shouldn’t be asking her

to do that.

CATHERINE:

I can’t do that.

A moment, then he says in a tone of voice that is entirely

reasonable and gentle and unchallenging

PRAVEEN:

Well do something.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 19.

He’s looking at her. She’s looking at him. She doesn’t know

what to say. She’s not going to say “yes”, and right at this

moment she hasn’t got what it takes to say “no”. So she says

nothing. She looks out front, like she’s thinking about it.

He turns the engine over.

CUT TO:

30 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 7. 23.31 30

As before. CATHERINE staring at the fire.

CLARE:

D’you want some more tea?

Her voice remains so flat it’s almost non-existent

CATHERINE:

No.

CLARE:

Could you eat something?

CATHERINE:

No.

CLARE:

You should try and get some sleep.

She knows she can’t sleep.

CATHERINE:

What could a man, men, people -

they, she said ‘they’, “they’ve

killed me” - what could they be

doing. In a van, with a van. That

was so bad. That they had to kill a

police officer? A kid.

(silence)

What’d she stumbled across?

CLARE takes it in, considers. It’s an intriguing question.

CUT TO:

31 EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. DAY 8. 08.00 31

Next morning. Mobile news crews from the BBC and ITV and SKY

hover outside the nick. There are already a huge number of

bunches of flowers outside, with more arriving by the minute.

LIAM HUGHES comes staggering along the street. He’s fifty-two

states of pissed. He’s clutching a really rather nice looking

bunch of supermarket flowers. He’s shaky-wobbly-stinky drunk

(despite the fact that it’s 8am), but still conscious and

more or less able to function, like a proper dyed-in-the-wool

alky.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 20.

Entirely unaware of how ridiculous he looks, he nods with

appropriate forlorn respect at someone from a news crew and

heads into the nick.

CUT TO:

32 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, FRONT DESK. DAY 8. 32

08.01

Reception is awash with flowers. JOYCE and SHAFIQ are fussing

about where they can all go. JOYCE speaks kindly, gently,

she’s just being efficient

JOYCE:

I don’t mind where they go, Shaf,

but this is a working area. We’re a

police station. I don’t want people

coming in, throwing up on ‘em,

that’s the [thing]

SHAFIQ:

I’m - I can - we can take ‘em down

to Sunset Boulevard, some of ‘em.

JOYCE:

That’s a lovely idea.

SHAFIQ:

Kirsten would’ve

JOYCE:

-she’d have loved that.

SHAFIQ:

And they’ll love it, won’t they?

The old folk. Then they’re not just

sat here wilting.

They see (and probably smell) LIAM as he comes in.

LIAM:

I’m - I’ve

He indicates his flowers, but can’t speak for crying, which

comes upon him suddenly.

JOYCE:

Aww...

SHAFIQ:

(he’s touched)

Aw, that’s really kind, Liam. Don’t

cry.

(SHAF’s crying now, and

it’s almost like he’s

telling himself - )

Don’t cry, pal.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 21.

SHAFIQ hugs LIAM. Despite the smell. They both have tears in

their eyes as, utterly sincerely

LIAM:

I nicked ‘em from outside Aldi’s

but it’s the fort that counts, int

it?

SHAFIQ:

Course it is. Course it is.

TWIGGY sticks his head round from behind JOYCE’s counter and

says to SHAFIQ.

TWIGGY:

He’s here - the boss.

CUT TO:

33 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. DAY 8. 33

08.15

PRAVEEN BADAL addresses the assembled team of CATHERINE and

six constables:
SHAFIQ, TWIGGY, plus the other PC from the

ice cream van raid in ep 2, and three other PCs. Also present

is a casually dressed DOCTOR and a POLICE CHAPLAIN. But it’s

CATHERINE we’re chiefly interested in and what’s going on

inside her head.

PRAVEEN:

It’s going to be tough few days.

It’s going to be a tough few weeks.

I can’t pretend, an incident like

this - this close to home - you

don’t get over it. You learn to

live with it. We never expect it to

be on our own doorstep when these

things happen. But today it is. And

I know from what Catherine’s told

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