Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #4

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LYNN:

(she nods)

He’ll be here when he wants summat,

d’y’know what I mean. But y’never

know when that’s gonna be, d’y’know

what I mean.

CATHERINE:

So you’ll pass on that message for

me, Lynn?

LYNN:

Yep.

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CATHERINE:

All right. You look after yourself.

LYNN:

And you, love.

CATHERINE:

I’ll see myself out.

CATHERINE sets off.

LYNN:

Are you...?

CATHERINE:

What? Am I what?

LYNN’s struggling to formulate the question.

LYNN:

Catherine Cawood? Is it you that’s -

your grandson - is that him that’s

our Tommy’s lad?

(CATHERINE stares, words

escape her)

You live in Hebden Bridge, don’t

yer?

CATHERINE:

Who’s told you that?

LYNN:

Is he called Ryan?

CATHERINE:

Who’s told you that?

LYNN:

Somebody mentioned it. Other day. I

were down in Hebden.

CATHERINE:

Who?

LYNN:

Friend of a friend. I dunno.

Somebody.

CATHERINE:

Who.

LYNN:

I don’t know, I can’t remember.

CATHERINE takes it in. She can’t decide if LYNN genuinely

can’t remember of if she’s prevaricating.

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CATHERINE:

Well who were you with?

LYNN:

I don’t think you’d know ‘em.

CATHERINE:

Try me.

LYNN:

Well you would. The usual smack-

heads. Sorry. They don’t like being

called smack-heads, but they are.

CATHERINE weighs things up. She’s rattled, but she keeps

calm.

CATHERINE:

Your Tommy. Has got nothing. To do

with my grandson. All right?

LYNN:

(she nods dopily, shrugs)

I were only saying.

LYNN suddenly looks like a victim: someone who’s quickly

intimidated. CATHERINE’s as gentle as she can be (well,

gentle but firm given how shaken she feels)

CATHERINE:

You need to get that idea right out

of your head.

LYNN:

Right.

CATHERINE:

Right.

CATHERINE lingers a moment longer, and then goes.

CUT TO:

26 EXT. LYNN DEWHURST’S HOUSE. DAY 9. 12.17 26

CATHERINE gets into her patrol car. We linger on her

thoughts:
that’s really really shaken her. She’s spent eight

years thinking no-one outside her very immediate family had

an inkling who RYAN’s dad was.

Then - SUDDENLY - she sees hanged BECKY through the rear view

mirror, sitting in the back of the patrol car. It’s shocking,

it’s frightening. CATHERINE turns around quickly. But there

is no BECKY.

CATHERINE:

Sh*t! SH*T.

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And CATHERINE’s left reeling from the horror of her mad brain

pulling stunts on her again, and the complex feelings that

are aroused; she could’ve touched BECKY. She has to stop

herself from crying. This is getting ridiculous, she’s got to

get help (except she knows she won’t).

CUT TO:

27 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 9. 12.18 27

ASHLEY, TOMMY and LEWIS are sitting on the back of the wagon

with the sandbags. They smoke, they ponder. Silence.

Eventually

TOMMY:

Why don’t we draw straws?

LEWIS:

Because I’m not doing it, that’s

why not.

TOMMY:

Why not? It’s your turn.

TOMMY’s trying to provoke a reaction from LEWIS, and he knows

it.

LEWIS:

(he turns to ASHLEY)

You must know somebody. Higher up.

Somebody who can make people

disappear.

ASHLEY:

(sarcasm)

D’you think?

LEWIS:

Gary Gaggoski. He disappeared. Tony

Stead says he’s sat at t’bottom of

Scammonden dam in concrete

underpants.

TOMMY gives a noiseless snigger/sneer. ASHLEY’s not amused.

ASHLEY:

Nobody “higher up”

(air bunnies)

Is gonna know a single damned thing

about this stupid business. Because

the second they do, it’s me

they’ll...

(he goes quiet and pale

for a second. What

they’ll do to him scares

him)

(MORE)

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ASHLEY (CONT'D)

We were moonlighting, we were out

of our depth, it shouldn’t have

happened. D’you think I want people

“higher up” thinking we’re a

liability?

LEWIS:

(a mumble)

It were your idea.

ASHLEY:

All right!

(he tries to resist saying

the next thing, but he

can’t help it)

It wasn’t my idea to murder a

police woman. Was it?

LEWIS:

Y’should get him round here! Little

Kevin shitty-arse twat-face! Make

him do it, let him get his hands

all covered in blood and

ASHLEY:

(interrupts)

Yeah, well I’m tempted.

LEWIS:

Rub his stupid nose in it.

TOMMY:

Have you ever killed anybody?

ASHLEY realises TOMMY’s addressing him. In that low-key

challenging manner.

ASHLEY:

Me? Sod off, have I ‘ell.

TOMMY’s thinking.

TOMMY:

If you both. Give me five grand.

Each. From that stash Kevin brought

ovver yesterday. I’ll do it.

ASHLEY:

How?

TOMMY:

Doesn’t matter how.

(he watches them)

Deal or no deal?

LEWIS:

You’re not gonna do to her what you

did to that police woman.

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TOMMY:

(bored with LEWIS)

Aren’t I.

Silence. LEWIS struggles to say it. He doesn’t want ANN dead,

but what’s the alternative? At least this way he doesn’t have

to do it himself.

LEWIS:

(quiet, reluctant)

Deal.

ASHLEY needs to think about it more. But he knows there is

only one viable way out of this.

ASHLEY:

Yeah. Okay. Deal.

TOMMY:

I’ll need a van. Not a white one. I

don’t want pulling over.

ASHLEY:

Okay. And then. When it’s done. You

two. You need to disappear. All

right?

LEWIS looks worried. He has nowhere to disappear to.

LEWIS:

Are you sacking us?

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ASHLEY:

I’m advising you to move on. You’ve

got your stash. From Kevin. So move

on.

LEWIS:

(shocked, hurt)

You’re sacking us.

CUT TO:

28 EXT. MILTON AVENUE. DAY 9. 12.30 28

The CSI van is still outside as CATHERINE pulls up in her

patrol car. She still looks pale and shaken, but she’s just

getting on with things; she has no choice. Autopilot. SHAF

appears along the street. He’s got his day book in his hand,

he’s been doing house-to-house and taking notes.

CATHERINE:

What d’you know?

She opens the boot of her patrol car and takes some blue CSI

over shoes from a big plastic container.

SHAFIQ:

Fella said he saw a white transit

van parked down here, outside the

property like... four days ago. And

that’s about it.

CATHERINE:

(significantly)

A white transit van?

SHAFIQ:

Yeah. Then again how many white

transit vans are there in Halifax?

It’d be a bit of a coincidence,

wouldn’t it?

CATHERINE agrees: yes, it would be.

CATHERINE:

I’ll flag it up to H-MIT, they

might want to check any CCTV.

SHAFIQ:

D’you want me to knock on a few

more doors?

CATHERINE:

No. I’ll just pop down the cellar

and have a word with the CSI, then

we’ll leave it at that.

(MORE)

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CATHERINE (CONT'D)

(and now her phone’s

ringing. She’s weary: who

the hell’s this? She

checks the screen:

CLARE’s mobile)

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