Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #4

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ASHLEY:

(a mumble)

Bloody hell.

CATHERINE:

Yeah. So. We’ve had a couple of

releases from prison in the area

over the last few weeks, and I was

wondering if any of these names

were familiar to you. Zak Midgeley?

(ASHLEY shakes his head)

Jamie Monkford.

(ASHLEY shakes his head)

Usman Farah.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 18.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

(ASHLEY shakes his head.

He’s starting to feel

optimistic; she’s barking

up the wrong tree)

Tommy Lee Royce.

ASHLEY:

Should they be familiar to me?

CATHERINE:

Are they? Any of ‘em?

ASHLEY:

No.

CATHERINE:

These lads are all in their

twenties. Do you employ anyone or

had contact with anyone that age

who might associate with lads like

that? Newly released from prison?

ASHLEY:

No. No.

CATHERINE nods, takes it in, takes her time.

CATHERINE:

We’ll have finished at the property

in an hour or so. You might want to

go in when we’ve done and make sure

it’s secure.

(ASHLEY nods. He looks

suitably solemn and

shaken)

If anything occurs to you. That

might be relevant. Will you ring

me?

She gives him a card with her number on.

ASHLEY:

Sure.

CATHERINE:

Thanks for your time.

ASHLEY:

Well thanks for telling me.

CATHERINE pauses and looks at the sand bags.

CATHERINE:

What you building?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 19.

ASHLEY:

Just renovating this barn. It’s

been going on months, it’s ‘cos

part of it’s listed, they make you

jump through hoops.

CATHERINE seems to accept that.

CATHERINE:

I’ll be in touch.

CATHERINE heads back to her car. She has a definite instinct

that he’s dodgy, and that there was a flicker of something

different when she mentioned TOMMY’s name. Then we glimpse

ASHLEY; he’s terrified. He’s angry as well. And he’s

confused. How much does she know? How much more will she know

when the CSI’s done his stuff? The mess just got bigger.

CUT TO:

20 INT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. 11.44 20

ANN and TOMMY and LEWIS sit in silence. They hear ASHLEY pull

up on the quad bike outside. TOMMY peers cautiously through

the curtain to make sure ASHLEY’s alone. He goes and pushes

the door open. ASHLEY beckons him out. And LEWIS.

CUT TO:

21 EXT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. 11.45 21

TOMMY LEWIS:

Has she gone? What does she know?

ASHLEY doesn’t raise his voice, but no-one’s in any doubt

about how angry he is.

ASHLEY:

Why didn’t you tidy up?

TOMMY:

There wasn’t time. And you never

told us to.

ASHLEY:

She’s found stuff (

realising what TOMMY just

said)

Do I have to tell you everything?

TOMMY:

What stuff?

ASHLEY:

Whatever you left!

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 20.

TOMMY:

In the cellar?

ASHLEY:

I don’t know! She didn’t go into

details!

TOMMY:

There wasn’t time to tidy up. We

had to get out fast, didn’t we, in

case she came back. Was it her?

Same one? What did she look like?

ASHLEY:

Just... I don’t know! Does it

matter? I need to think.

TOMMY:

Why?

ASHLEY:

(noticing)

Where’s your balaclavas?

LEWIS glances not quite at TOMMY. He’s not saying it.

TOMMY:

(he’s a bit less cocky

this time)

Well... we don’t need ‘em. Any

more. Do we.

ASHLEY looks weary. And as if he didn’t know it before...

this is going rapidly from bad to worse.

CUT TO:

22 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S PATROL CAR/ROAD. DAY 9. 11.50 22

CATHERINE’s talking on her radio, point-to-point.

CATHERINE:

How we doing?

CUT TO:

23 EXT. MILTON AVENUE. DAY 9. 11.51 23

There’s a CSI van parked outside the house. The gateway has

been taped off. SHAFIQ’s on the radio to CATHERINE.

SHAFIQ:

CSI’s here. He’s just gone in, just

now, I’ve told him what you want

doing, and I’ve filmed all the

upstairs with the headcam.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 21.

CATHERINE:

Kitchen, sitting room

SHAFIQ:

Yeah, and the upstairs upstairs

CATHERINE:

Good lad.

SHAFIQ:

- so I’m just gonna knock on a few

doors now.

CATHERINE:

Great. I’ll be there in half an

hour. Ish. I’ve just got another

house call to make. I’m popping in

on Tommy Lee Royce’s mother, okay?

SHAFIQ:

Who?

CATHERINE:

Newly released. Then I’ll be with

you. Are you all right?

We know he’s still struggling, just like they all are, but

SHAFIQ:

Yeah, I’m good, thanks.

CATHERINE:

(murmurs to herself)

Bless.

(then louder)

See y’in a bit!

CUT TO:

24 EXT. LYNN DEWHURST’S HOUSE. DAY 9. 12.15 24

CATHERINE’s knocking on the door of a row of Edwardian

terraces. Most of them look perfectly respectable, except

one, which looks distinctly crappier than the rest, and has

stuff strewn about in the tiny front yard that really should

be in a skip.

CATHERINE waits. She taps again, this time with her car keys

against the glass to make a sharper noise. She looks through

the letter box, and sees some shuffling movement inside.

Another moment, then the door’s pulled open gingerly. We see

45-year-old Lynn Dewhurst. She has the scrawny sunken

features of a heroin addict.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 22.

CATHERINE:

Hello Lynn. I’m Catherine Cawood.

Have you got a few minutes?

CUT TO:

25 INT. LYNN DEWHURST’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 9. 12.16 25

LYNN’s house is the worst kind of dump. CATHERINE follows

LYNN through to the kitchen. So this is how TOMMY grew up.

LYNN sits at the kitchen table, too pissed to stand up for

long. She’s at that half asleep shaky rambling phase, where

they’ve got lazy verbal diarrhoea.

LYNN:

I’ll be honest we’ yer, if it’s

about our Tommy I’ve not seen him,

all right?

CATHERINE:

This is his registered release

addr[ess]

LYNN:

(she interrupts)

I mean I’ve seen him, y’know what I

mean, but

(she lights a cigarette)

Sit down - he doesn’t live here. I

don’t know where he lives.

CATHERINE doesn’t fancy the only available chair, so she

remains standing.

CATHERINE:

When did you last see him?

LYNN:

(shakes her head)

Three weeks ago. When he come out.

He stayed like one night ‘ere but

then he were off. Gone. I don’t

know where.

CATHERINE:

Have you got a mobile number for

him?

LYNN:

Nope. No. He’s not got one. I mean

he’s probably got one, y’know what

I mean, but I don’t know owt about

it if he has.

CATHERINE:

Who does he hang about with?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 23.

LYNN:

Nobody. I don’t know. People. I

don’t know. Has he done summat?

CATHERINE:

If you see him

LYNN:

Stupid question. And he’s not been

out three weeks.

CATHERINE:

If you see him. Can you tell him.

That I need to see him. Sergeant

Cawood. Catherine Cawood.

(she gives her one of her

cards)

And to pop down to Norland road

nick in Sowerby Bridge. At his

earliest convenience.

LYNN:

Okay. It’s unlikely. That I’ll see

him. But. Y’know. If I do. I will.

CATHERINE:

Okay.

LYNN:

Right.

CATHERINE:

You’ll remember?

LYNN:

I’ll try.

CATHERINE:

And tell him. It’ll be much better

for him. If he pops in to see me.

Without me having to go looking for

him next time he has a meeting with

his parole officer. Okay?

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