Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #5

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RYAN:

Why’s she in hospital?

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

RICHARD isn’t sure if it’s appropriate to say “She got beaten

up”. ROS knows it isn’t

ROS:

She’s had a bit of an accident at

work.

RYAN:

Is she all right?

Again, RICHARD knows (and is terrified) that things are touch

and go at the moment. So ROS gets in quickly with

ROS:

She’s going to be absolutely fine,

love!

She knows they can cross any other bridges when they have to.

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22 INT. HOSPITAL, FAMILY ROOM. NIGHT 11. 17.17 22

We see the clock: seventeen minutes past five. CLARE and

DANIEL have been here all day. Silence. The NURSE pops her

head in.

NURSE:

She’s out of theatre.

(CLARE nearly collapses

with relief)

She’s in the recovery room. We’ll

leave her in there for an hour or

so, then you can wait for her on

the ward. She’ll be very groggy,

she’ll be very nauseous, she’ll

barely be aware you’re there.

But... you might want to be.

CLARE:

Yeah, yeah, course.

DANIEL:

Is she going to be...? You know.

NURSE:

They’ve stopped the bleeding.

They’ve stitched her up. It’s a

matter of time now. And you need to

talk to the doctor. I’ll pop back

in a few minutes and take you up to

the ward.

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

She smiles kindly and leaves them to it. CLARE looks and sees

that DANIEL is even more overcome with emotion and relief

than she is. She hugs him.

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22A INT. HOSPITAL, HIGH DEPENDENCY WARD. NIGHT 11. 17.30. 22A

CATHERINE has various tubes and wires attached, recording her

vital signs. Her face is bruised (a fractured cheek bone) and

her right hand is in a plaster cast (broken bones in her

hand). She’s asleep. CLARE and DANIEL are with her.

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23 INT. GALLAGHERS’ HOUSE, SITTING ROOM. NIGHT 11. 17.45 23

The GALLAGHERS arrive home. ANN will have been in hospital,

and then giving evidence. ANN sits down. NEVISON and HELEN

are all over her. She’s shaking. She’s got withdrawal

symptoms from the heroin TOMMY injected her with.

HELEN:

Could you eat something?

ANN:

No. I don’t know. Should I?

HELEN:

You need to take the Subutex.

ANN:

Yeah. Yeah.

HELEN gets it out of her bag.

NEVISON:

What were they asking you?

ANN:

(a mumble, she addresses

her mother - )

I don’t want to go through it all

again.

NEVISON:

That’s fine.

ANN:

I want to go and see Clare’s

sister.

NEVISON:

She’s going to let us know. When

you can visit.

(MORE)

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NEVISON (CONT'D)

(ANN snuggles up to her

mother like a child, as

HELEN tries to read the

instructions that come

with the Subutex)

I’ll - I’ll put the kettle on.

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24

EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. NIGHT 11. 19.00 24

Establisher.

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25

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, INTERVIEW ROOM. 25

NIGHT 11. 19.01

KEVIN’s with his SOLICITOR, and two DETECTIVE CONSTABLES.

KEVIN:

The weekend before last. I went to

give Ashley my cheque. For the

rental. On the caravan. His boys -

these two -

(there are photos of TOMMY

and LEWIS on the table in

front of him)

were unloading sand. From the back

of a truck. One of the bags split

open. There. Right in front of me,

and there was a block of - what I

assumed - was cannabis. I was

frightened. They knew I’d seen it.

I pretended I hadn’t. But... they

made threats. Ashley. Made threats.

Well no, first of all he pretended

he didn’t know what it was, and I -

stupidly - said, “We should call

the police”, and then. That’s when

things got weird and strange and

ugly. He asked me - asked, ha - he

asked me inside the farm, and he

made threats. Against me and

against my family. If I even

thought about going to the police.

He could see how frightened I was,

and maybe that’s when he got the

idea. You see, I’d talked about

Nevison. Just in passing, just that

I worked there. He knew I was an

accountant, so. Then the next

morning. He said he knew he could

trust me. What he meant was he

could see how easily intimidated I

was.

(MORE)

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KEVIN (CONT'D)

He said they needed a man on the

inside. Because they were planning

this thing. This...

(he hesitates to say

‘kidnap’)

To get money out of Nevison.

Extortion. I said they couldn’t do

that, I explained that Helen was

ill, and...

(he dries up)

I was frightened. I thought if I

did what they said, and got it over

with, Ann would be all right, and

then I could tell the police

everything. I tried to! I went to a

police station! On the morning I

knew they were going to grab her, I

walked into the police station in

Sowerby Bridge, and I - I nearly

told someone. A woman, a sergeant.

But then I left. I was a coward, I

couldn’t. Then. After the first

time, they gave me some of the

money. I didn’t want it! But they

made me, they put it in my car, and

they made me drive away, and I

didn’t know what to do with it! I

couldn’t just dump it somewhere, it

was money! It was Nevison’s money.

And then - oh God -

(he becomes upset, he

whispers, he’s so

terrified of what’s

happened)

- they told me it was them that’d

killed Kirsten McAskill.

KEVIN’s story is convincing.

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26

INT. BRETT’S FLAT, SITTING ROOM. SOWERBY BRIDGE. 26

NIGHT 11. 21.03

We’re watching telly. The 9 o’clock news on BBC1.

NEWREADER:

The two wanted men have been named

as Tommy Lee Royce and Lewis

Whippey. Abduh Rehman reports from

West Yorkshire.

ABDUH REHMAN is a polite, educated 30-something bloke in

glasses, who stands outside LYNN DEWHURST’s house, which has

been cordoned off as a crime scene. As he speaks, we find

TOMMY sitting on the floor with his back against the wall in

the empty, squalid flat we found LEWIS in earlier.

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

The only thing of any value here is the telly. TOMMY’s

bruised, and his eyes are bloodshot, but he’s over the worst.

Also here are LEWIS, and BRETT. BRETT’s well out of it. We

see the paraphernalia; he’s been injecting.

ABDUH REHMAN:

Within an hour of the discovery of

Ann Gallagher - who’d been abducted

and held hostage for more than four

days - it became apparent to

detectives that the same men who

had abducted the 24-year-old were

also responsible for the murder of

police constable Kirsten McAskill.

Two arrests were made this morning,

and two more men are wanted for

questioning:
twenty eight-year old

Tommy Lee Royce

(police photos of TOMMY

and LEWIS appear on

screen)

-and twenty-two-year-old Lewis

Whippey, both with previous

convictions for car theft and drugs

offences. A man-hunt was launched

this morning involving over two

hundred officers from The Yorkshire

Police. A spokesman warned that

both men may be armed and

dangerous, and should not be

approached.

LEWIS:

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