Happy Valley Page #6

Season #1 Episode #3

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quartered, we’re gonna get thrown

to the lions, we’re going to be

crucified. Upside down. In public.

You... wanker.

TOMMY:

Two things. Three things. I. Have

not come this far, I have not spent

the last three days doing all the

sh*t I’ve been doing. To get so

little out of it. That’s one. Two.

She knows too much. She heard him -

sh*t for brains - talk about

(daft voice)

“ringing ASHLEY up at t’farm”.

(ASHLEY’s appalled)

And last night. He told the little

police lady his name, his own name,

and she - rich b*tch - was two feet

away from him in t’back o’ t’van.

So.

ASHLEY:

How d’you know?

TOMMY:

He told me.

ASHLEY’s taking it in. The implications. The contortions.

Eventually

ASHLEY:

What was the third thing?

TOMMY:

Oh yeah.

(he gets closer to ASHLEY.

He’s taller, bigger)

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 26.

TOMMY (CONT'D)

We don’t call me a wanker. She’s

staying here. And you’re ringing

Nev. And telling him. We want an

undred grand this time. Right? And

then... well, we’ll see.

ASHLEY:

They’re onto us! You idiot. Why was

she following you last night? The

copper. Why did that other one turn

up at the house?

TOMMY:

I don’t think they are. She wasn’t

following us. She stopped him ‘cos

he had a light out. And that other

one, at the house. If they really

knew what we were up to, there’d

have been fifteen of ‘em and they’d

have kicked the door down.

ASHLEY’s given pause for thought. He realises TOMMY’s right.

Which gives him a modicum of relief.

ASHLEY:

Okay.

(he pauses and thinks

things through again)

All right. So who’s staying here

and who’s taking t’Mini?

TOMMY:

He can stay here. He’s shitting

bricks, he’ll be useless out there.

I’ll tell him.

TOMMY lingers a moment to make sure what he’s said has sunk

in, then goes back into the caravan. We linger on ASHLEY, who

now finds himself in something resembling the compromised

position KEVIN’s in.

CUT TO:

37 INT. KEVIN’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 8. 08.30 37

KEVIN’s making the girls’ packed lunches. JENNY’s at the

breakfast table with the girls. They’re in that last frantic

five minutes, where if they don’t get off to school

imminently, they’re going to be late.

JENNY:

(to MELISSA)

Have you finished?

CATRIONA:

I’ve finished.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 27.

JENNY:

(the fifteenth time)

Right well can you both go and

brush your teeth, please.

MELISSA:

(busy reading, she pushes

her magazine away with a

‘tch’)

All right.

They go out of the room and off down the corridor. JENNY

watches KEVIN. He’s preoccupied, she can tell. Inside, he’s

panicking, there’s just something about the way he’s making

the sandwiches. Of course she knows what it’s about, but has

there been a development?

JENNY:

(quietly)

What’s the matter?

KEVIN struggles. He’s done the thing she told him not to do.

KEVIN:

He made me take some of the money.

Ashley. Yesterday. He split it up.

He gave me two thousand pounds. In

a bag. And what could I do? I

couldn’t say “No thanks”, he’d have

been suspicious, I couldn’t

JENNY’s appalled.

JENNY:

What did you do with it?

KEVIN:

It’s in the car.

JENNY:

In the car?

KEVIN:

Under the - in with the spare

wheel. It’s hidden. I

(struggles)

I don’t know what to do with it.

JENNY:

Destroy it. Burn it.

KEVIN:

No! It’s money.

JENNY:

Leave it somewhere.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 28.

KEVIN:

No.

JENNY:

Don’t bring it in the house.

KEVIN:

I’m not going to.

JENNY:

Put it in a bin.

(KEVIN’s shaking his head)

Are your fingerprints on it?

KEVIN:

No.

JENNY:

On the bag?

KEVIN:

I:

Yes, they are. MELISSA heads back in.

MELISSA:

I’m ready!

JENNY:

(suspicious)

That was quick.

MELISSA:

What’s in those sandwiches?

KEVIN:

Tuna mayonnaise.

MELISSA:

How many times do I have to say the

same thing?

KEVIN:

It’s fine.

MELISSA:

It’s not fine, it’s disgusting.

JENNY:

Don’t go on at dad. Have you

brushed your teeth properly?

MELISSA:

Nobody listens.

KEVIN has to struggle not to scream at them to shut up, his

head’s in such turmoil.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 29.

KEVIN:

(offering MELISSA her

lunch bag)

We need to be in the car.

CUT TO:

38 INT. NEVISON & HELEN’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. DAY 8. 09.00 38

The national news is on telly. Images of the police operation

up Scammonden Road.

NEWSREADER:

(oov)

The road between Blackstone Edge

and Mytholmroyd remains closed as

crime scene investigators continue

to analyse the isolated rural area

where the incident took place just

after five o’clock yesterday

evening. They now have the task of

trying to piece together exactly

what happened when twenty-three

year old police constable Kirsten

McAskill was knocked down and

killed.

The PRAVEEN BADAL comes on screen, giving an interview.

PRAVEEN:

We know that we’re looking for a

white transit van. Early

indications from the scene suggest

that a second vehicle was involved

in the incident. From debris left

in the road we’re confident that we

will be able to identify the make

and model and colour of that second

vehicle. We are treating the

incident as murder. We believe it

was a deliberate act, not an

accident. We’re very keen for

people to come forward. If they saw

a white van in the area around that

time. It may have been in

Ripponden, Rishworth, it may have

been in Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge,

it may have gone across the border

into Lancashire. Please don’t

assume your information won’t be

useful to us, please don’t assume

that someone else will tell us what

we need to know.

We discover HELEN watching the news.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 30.

NEVISON:

Helen?

HELEN:

(a murmur)

Awful.

NEVISON:

Are you all right?

She flips the telly off.

HELEN:

(lost)

Where is she?

NEVISON:

She’s somewhere.

HELEN:

I’ve got my name on the rosta

today. At the Mission. I think I’d

like to go. And help out.

NEVISON’s a bit surprised that she wants to.

NEVISON:

Are you sure?

(on the other hand - )

Perhaps you should. Keep yourself

busy.

HELEN:

Someone should be here. In case...

she could just walk through the

door.

NEVISON:

Right, well I’ll... ring ‘em and

tell ‘em I won’t be coming into the

office.

They’re holding hands.

HELEN:

Would you mind? Is that selfish?

NEVISON:

No. No. No. God no.

He means it more every time he says it.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 31.

39 INT. NGA, CORRIDOR/KEVIN’S OFFICE. DAY 8. 09.30 39

Preoccupied KEVIN arrives for work. Heads through to his

office. Just as he’s settling at his desk, JUSTINE appears at

the door, looking pale.

JUSTINE:

Have you heard the news? Kevin?

KEVIN’s terrified. Does everyone know about the kidnap? Has

HELEN died? His face goes ashen.

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