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Season #1 Episode #4

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CATHERINE:

Do this first. Oh, and knock on a

few doors. See if anyone’s seen any

comings and goings. Or heard

anything. Oh, and

(nods at the computer)

-trawl the box and see if we’ve

got anything on the address.

SHAFIQ:

(he prods his key board

efficiently as he asks -)

Did the boss go to the H-MIT

briefing this morning?

CATHERINE:

She was run over. More than once.

She was crushed to death.

(SHAFIQ’s like ... what?

Suddenly someone answers

the phone at the other

end)

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 7.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

Hello. Am I speaking to Julie

Mulligan?

(yes)

Hi, it’s Sergeant Cawood here, down

at Norland Road police station.

There’s something you might be able

to help me with, and I’m just

wondering if I could pop in and

have a chat?

(she suddenly notices how

deathly pale SHAF’s gone,

like he’s going to faint)

Are you all right?

The rest of the exchange is incidental as we stay on SHAF and

see what he’s going through

JULIE:

(OOV)

Er... yeah. Yeah. Sure. When?

CATHERINE:

(looking at SHAF)

Any time. Soon. Now.

JULIE:

What’s it to do with?

CATHERINE:

(to SHAF, a whisper)

Put your head between your knees.

CUT TO:

10 INT. HAIR SALON. DAY 9. 11.30 10

CATHERINE’s with JULIE MULLIGAN, a tanned (well actually

she’s been tangoed, she’s bright orange), well made-up woman

in her early forties, like something off TOWIE (eyelashes you

could slash open a tin of beans with) except with a thick

Sowerby Bridge accent. CATHERINE looks pale next to JULIE

(but then again most people would).

JULIE:

Look, I have to be honest wi’ yer.

It’s in my name for tax reasons,

and I don’t actually have a lot to

do with it, so...

CATHERINE:

That’s all right, who does it have

something to do with?

JULIE:

I don’t mean anything illegal. It’s

literally ‘cos I pay less tax than

he does - my husband - so...

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 8.

JULIE (CONT'D)

Plan was he’d do it up and rent it

out, only - surprise surprise -

he’s never got his backside into

gear, so

CATHERINE:

What’s your husband’s name? Where

can I find him?

JULIE:

What’s happened?

CATHERINE:

I need to talk to him about one of

his tenants.

JULIE:

He has no tenants, there are no

tenants, there’s never been any

tenants. Not there.

(a moment)

Well not that I know of. It’s been

stood empty.

CATHERINE:

(she nods, takes it on

board)

What’s his name?

Cut to five minutes later...

CUT TO:

11 EXT. HAIR SALON. DAY 9. 11.35 11

CATHERINE turns her patrol car round in the road and pulls

away.

CUT TO:

12 INT. HAIR SALON. DAY 9. 11.36 12

Keeping away from the window, JULIE watches CATHERINE’s car

leave, then she scrolls through her address book. She makes a

call. Ring ring. Eventually

VOICE:

(it’s ASHLEY COWGILL)

Hello my little orange blossom.

JULIE:

You better not be up to anything.

Cutting as and when with

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 9.

13 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 9. 11.37 13

ASHLEY loves arguing with his wife. It’s one of his favourite

pastimes; keeping calm and watching/hearing her get more and

more wound up gives him pleasure like nothing else. Even when

he’s got a lot on his mind like he has now.

ASHLEY:

Who, me?

JULIE:

You’ve got a copper coming to see

you.

Suddenly not so funny. ASHLEY was helping LEWIS unload

sandbags off the back of a wagon and onto the building site.

He moves away from LEWIS.

ASHLEY:

What copper?

JULIE:

A police woman.

ASHLEY:

How d’you know?

JULIE:

She’s just been in here, just now.

LEWIS:

Sh*t!

He’s picked up a sandbag on the back of the truck and it’s

split open at the bottom: a couple of blocks of cannabis have

dropped out. LEWIS looks at ASHLEY for an opinion, but

ASHLEY’s preoccupied (although he sees with some irritation

what’s happened)

ASHLEY:

So - well - what did she want?

JULIE:

Summat about the house on Milton

Avenue. It’s been broken into.

ASHLEY:

Br - ?

He dries up. LEWIS collects up the blocks of cannabis.

JULIE:

Have you been doing summat dodgy in

there?

ASHLEY:

No. What did she say?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 10.

JULIE:

The’s no tenants, is the?

ASHLEY:

No. No. No tenants.

JULIE:

Somebody’s broken in and she needs

to talk to you.

ASHLEY:

Nobody’s br

He shuts up. It bothers him. She’s broken in, this police

woman, he suddenly realises that. She’s been noseying around

and now she’s broken in. But why? What does she know?

JULIE:

Right, well she’s coming. And

you’re in bother y’bastard, if

you’ve been up to something.

Silence, then they speak together

ASHLEY JULIE:

I -I am not. Not. Visiting you

in prison.

ASHLEY:

I don’t even know what you’re on

about! Why am I ‘up to something’

just ‘cos some toe rag’s decided to

break into some property?

LEWIS is interested in ASHLEY’s conversation now he’s heard

that (even though he doesn’t know what it refers to).

JULIE:

Yeah, that’s right Ashley, you’re

talking to the woman that was born

last week. She’ll be there in ten

minutes.

ASHLEY realises she’s hung up.

LEWIS:

(angry)

These bags. Are sh*t.

ASHLEY:

Give it here.

LEWIS passes the cannabis blocks to ASHLEY.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

Okay, I want you to go stay in

t’caravan wi’ Tommy and

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 11.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

(he can’t say ANN’s name,

knowing they’re probably

going to kill her)

Her. And keep it down.

LEWIS:

Why?

ASHLEY:

(reluctant)

There’s a police woman coming

ovver, I’ll deal with her.

LEWIS:

(red alert)

What police woman?

ASHLEY:

You both stay in -how the hell do

I know? - you both stay in there

‘til I come and tell you she’s been

and gone. All right? I don’t want

to hear a peep out of anyone. No

noise, no movement.

LEWIS hesitates - he hates this, he hates what they’ve gone

and got themselves involved in -

LEWIS:

If that little chicken-sh*t rat-

faced...

(trying to think of words

bad enough)

turd’s been to t’police

ASHLEY:

He hasn’t, he won’t have, d’you

think they’d send one woman if they

knew owt?

Oh yeah. But then LEWIS realises

LEWIS:

Well she must know summat.

Despite his logic, ASHLEY himself remains jittery.

ASHLEY:

He hasn’t been to the police!

Right? He’s in this just as deep as

anyone.

LEWIS:

No. He isn’t. He hasn’t got his

hands mucky. He doesn’t have to

sit. In that caravan.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 12.

ASHLEY:

She’s coming from Halifax, she’ll

be here in ten minutes.

There’s no arguing with that: LEWIS heads off. ASHLEY’s well

agitated; he knows he has to calm himself down, he has to

look as calm and cool as a cucumber when this policewoman

gets here. And him with his sandbags full of drugs in plain

sight. He heads off into the out house with the cannabis

blocks.

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