Happy Valley Page #3

Season #1 Episode #4

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14 INT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. 11.38 14

ANN’s curled up in a corner, on the floor, still tied up but

not gagged. We see evidence that she’s been injected with

heroin to make her docile; a grungy brown spoon, a lighter,

citric acid, a needle. She looks catatonic, and her skin is

grey, pale, moist (and she’s dribbling saliva and she’s

probably vomited). She also looks increasingly dishevelled,

smelly and wretched. There’s some annoying (aggressive) music

on (not too loud). We discover TOMMY, who’s just having a wee

in the little bathroom, whilst checking his hair in the

mirror. He’s wearing nothing but his boxers and a T-shirt (no

balaclava). He’s got into the habit of treating ANN like

she’s not really there, except when he wants her, so he’ll

burp and fart and scratch himself whenever. Suddenly the door

opens, light floods in (the curtains are permanently drawn).

LEWIS appears - not that ANN can see him from the angle she’s

at - and he silently beckons TOMMY outside. We linger on ANN

for a few moments as TOMMY follows LEWIS outside. Despite the

state she’s in, we get a dim flicker of her terror and

frustration at not being able to discern what they’re saying

out there...

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15 EXT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. CONTINUOUS. 11.39 15

All whispered

LEWIS:

There’s a police woman coming to

t’farm, so we’ve to keep quiet ‘til

she’s gone.

TOMMY:

What police woman? Not that one I

saw?

LEWIS:

How the hell do I know? Where’s yer

balaclava?

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

TOMMY hesitates and says very quietly right in LEWIS’s face

(still so ANN can’t hear)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 13.

TOMMY:

We don’t really need ‘em any more.

Do we? Little numpty-brain.

LEWIS takes in his meaning: because we’re going to kill her.

LEWIS follows TOMMY back inside the caravan

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16 INT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. CONTINUOUS. 11.40 16

-but gingerly tries to keep his face away from ANN, still

not even half way reconciled to that idea that they’re going

to kill her. He pulls the door shut. Locks it. TOMMY turns

the music off. Then LEWIS sees the state ANN’s in.

LEWIS:

What you done to her?

TOMMY:

I’ve give her a bit of smack. Keep

her docile.

LEWIS:

She needs a gag on.

TOMMY:

(shakes his head)

She keeps being sick. Unless yer

want her to choke? She won’t

scream. She can’t.

ANN dimly senses something’s going on. But what? And we know

just looking at her that she can’t scream.

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17 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S PATROL CAR/ROAD. DAY 9. 11.41 17

CATHERINE’s listening to RICHARD on the hands-free as she

drives towards ASHLEY’s farm.

RICHARD:

(oov)

Right, so I’ve got some information

for you. About drugs. In the

valley, and you’re right -

Cutting as and when with:

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 14.

18 INT. CAFE. DAY 9. 11.42 18

RICHARD:

-it would make a fantastic

article, and it does need writing

about.

RICHARD’s on his phone, his laptop open.

CATHERINE:

(oov)

Good.

RICHARD:

You wouldn’t believe the chain

there is before it gets onto the

streets.

CATHERINE:

Oh, I would.

RICHARD:

Heroin. Is imported pure, one

hundred percent. Then they all cut

it, everyone who handles it, all

the way down the chain. To maximise

their profits as they go. By the

time it reaches the streets, street

heroin, it’s probably no more than

two percent pure.

CATHERINE:

(she knows all this)

No, really?

RICHARD:

And they’ll cut it with anything.

Brick dust. Brick dust! Face

powder, talcum powder, bicarbonate

of soda, so when they’ve been

injecting for long enough, if the

veins haven’t collapsed, they get

blocked. Then they start having to

have their legs amputated.

CATHERINE:

Yup.

RICHARD:

Oh and up and down this chain,

they’re all frightened of the

person above. However high up they

are

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 15.

CATHERINE’s just pulling up in front of ASHLEY’s house.

CATHERINE can see ASHLEY unloading sandbags by himself down

near the scaffolded end of the house. He’s seen her.

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19 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 9. 11.43 19

RICHARD:

(oov)

-there’s always someone above

pushing them to take more and more

and more. So they have to push

those under them to take more and

more and more. And you know, your

big regional dealers - and the

people further down the chain -

they’ll be people who appear to be

perfectly respectable, with

perfectly respectable businesses.

It’s all very slick, it’s all very

well organised.

CATHERINE:

I’ve gotta go, can I ring you

later? I’m glad you’re doing this.

RICHARD:

Sure.

CATHERINE:

Seeya.

RICHARD:

Bye.

CATHERINE hangs up and steps out of her car and approaches

ASHLEY. She’s aware that as the owner of the property he may

well have been up to no good in it; however, she doesn’t want

to necessarily give him that impression.

ASHLEY:

Morning.

CATHERINE:

Ashley Cowgill?

ASHLEY:

Yep.

CATHERINE:

I’ve just spoken to your wife

regarding your property on Milton

Avenue.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 16.

ASHLEY:

(he nods, he knows)

She’s just rung me.

CATHERINE:

I need to inform you that we’ve had

reason to enter the property

ASHLEY:

(a bit of a challenge)

Why?

CATHERINE:

-and I need to ask you a couple of

questions. Is that all right?

ASHLEY:

Yeah but why why why did you have

to - ?

He’s nervous. Understandably.

CATHERINE:

Someone’s broken in.

ASHLEY:

When?

CATHERINE:

Were you aware the property was

insecure?

ASHLEY:

No.

His tone of voice implies that it wasn’t insecure.

CATHERINE:

When did you last visit the

property yourself?

ASHLEY:

Well... it’ll be two or three

months since now.

So in fact he can’t argue that it wasn’t insecure.

CATHERINE:

And your wife says you’ve no

tenants? At the minute.

ASHLEY:

We’ve never had any, I’ve not got

round to sorting it out.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 17.

CATHERINE:

Who has keys to the property

besides yourself?

ASHLEY:

No-one. Should have. Have they

damaged it? Have they nicked the

boiler? Has it been flooded? Have

they left sh*t everywhere?

CATHERINE:

So - no, not that I know of - so no-

one - that you know of, no-one

officially - was in there? Yeah?

ASHLEY:

Yeah. No. They weren’t.

CATHERINE:

Okay. Well. I have to be frank with

you, Mr.Cowgill. We’ve got reason

to believe something a bit

sinister’s gone on in there. In

your house, in this house that you -

your wife - own.

ASHLEY:

What d’you mean? What sort o’

sinister?

CATHERINE:

I don’t know. I’ve got a scene of

crime officer in there right now

taking a few swabs and a few

photographs.

(she’s interested in his

reaction. Of course he

looks suitably shocked

and worried)

What it looks like to me. Is that

someone’s been held in there.

Against their will. And treated

rather unpleasantly.

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