Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #5

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I’m not armed. I’m not dangerous!

Oy! You! Specky-four-eyes! Are yer

listening?

TOMMY:

(anxious to hear what’s

been said on telly)

Shhh - !

MIKE TAYLOR - CATHERINE’s Inspector - appears on screen,

being filmed and photographed by the national media. The

report cuts to him well into his appeal (otherwise he’s

repeating info we already know). His manner is calm and

measured. He leaves pauses for his information to sink in.

MIKE TAYLOR:

All forces across the country have

been alerted, as well as all ports

and airports. However, we have

reason to believe that the two men

have not left the locality. I would

ask the community to be vigilant.

And not to hesitate before

reporting anything even slightly

suspicious.

(MORE)

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

MIKE TAYLOR (CONT'D)

Anyone helping these two men*

through some misguided sense of

loyalty, should be in no doubt as

to the seriousness of the crimes

they’ve committed. The brutal

murder of P.C. Kirsten McAskill,

the attempted murder of Sergeant

Catherine Cawood, who this evening

remains in a critical condition in

hospital, and the abduction of Ann

Gallagher.

*We might want to glimpse BRETT, spaced out on the couch.

Conscious, taking it in (-ish), but off his face on

something.

LEWIS:

They’re gonna do door-to-door,

house-to-house, then what?

TOMMY looks carefully at LEWIS. He’s quiet, still suffering,

still keen not to alienate LEWIS, he needs him on side.

TOMMY:

I’ll think of something.

And we believe him.

MIKE TAYLOR:

To Tommy Lee Royce and Lewis

Whippey I would like to say. There

is no safe haven, you will not

escape justice.

LEWIS is worried. TOMMY’s more angry than anything else.

TOMMY:

(a murmur)

Twat.

CUT TO:

27 OMITTED 27

28 INT. HOSPITAL, HIGH DEPENDENCY WARD/CORRIDOR. NIGHT 11. 28

22.54.

A corridor outside the ward. PHIL CRABTREE has arrived to

interview CATHERINE he’s pacing the corridor. We can see into

the ward, where CATHERINE is still unconscious. CLARE and

DANIEL with their heads in their hands, that restless

combination of anxious and bored. PHIL’s restless too: he

needs to talk to CATHERINE just as soon as she is able to

maintain any kind of conversation.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 24.

29 INT. HOSPITAL, HIGH DEPENDENCY WARD. NIGHT 11. 23.55 29

CATHERINE’s regaining consciousness/awareness. CLARE touches

CATHERINE:

CLARE:

Catherine? Catherine?

CATHERINE’s sleepy: somewhere between this world and the

unconscious.

CATHERINE:

Oh hello.

CLARE:

Daniel’s here. There’s a detective

needs to talk to you. About what

happened.

CATHERINE:

No sh*t.

CLARE:

We’ve been here all day.

CATHERINE:

All day? Why, what time is it?

CLARE:

Knocking on for midnight. You’ve

been asleep, you’ve had an

anaesthetic.

It’s taking CATHERINE so many seconds more than normal to

process things.

CATHERINE:

Why?

CLARE:

She said the doctor’s going to come

and explain everything to you.

CATHERINE:

Explain everything to me? Why? Have

I died?

CLARE:

No! You just need to take things

steady for a few days, that’s all.

Can you remember what happened?

(CATHERINE looks vague)

You got Ann Gallagher out alive.

You saved her life.

CATHERINE:

Is she all right?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 25.

CLARE:

Yeah. Physically, she’s - and oh my

God do Helen and Nevison love you!

I had a phone call, he said, “If

ever there’s anything we can do”, I

said, “Well if you fancied paying

off the mortgage”!

CLARE tries for a smile, but it looks like CATHERINE doesn’t

quite get it. She’s miles away, thinking how vivid it was

when she saw BECKY, and lost in the anaesthetic.

CLARE (CONT’D)

They said you were losing blood.

Internally. That’s why they had to

take you into the operating

theatre, you were in there for five

hours. More. They’ve all been very

kind.

DANIEL appears on the other side of CATHERINE, all tender and

soft.

DANIEL:

Mum? How you feeling?

CATHERINE:

Hello love.

DANIEL:

How’re you feeling?

CATHERINE:

What do I look like?

CLARE:

You’re (

delicately, fondly)

Bruised.

DANIEL:

Mum, there’s a detective from H-MIT

outside, he wants to talk to you.

About what happened.

CATHERINE nods. Suddenly she looks upset, thoughtful,

vulnerable. The idea of having been in surgery for so long

has upset her.

CLARE:

Y’all right?

CATHERINE nods, can’t speak for a moment, overwhelmed with

such a confusion of emotions. She becomes aware that her

right hand is in plaster. Flash back (either visual or sound)

to TOMMY kicking her in the arse, going, “Do you like that?”

It makes CATHERINE cringe inwardly; something she can never

tell anyone, it’s too humiliating.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 26.

CATHERINE:

I got him though, eh? I got the

bastard.

CLARE and DANIEL both know she didn’t, but they don’t want to

inflict that on her just yet.

CUT TO:

30 INT. HOSPITAL, HIGH DEPENDENCY WARD/CORRIDOR. NIGHT 11. 30

02.00.

PHIL and his D.C. are with CATHERINE. DANIEL and CLARE have

been asked to wait in the corridor. Perhaps we see them

through an internal window. CATHERINE’s still half asleep,

but she’s gaining some kind of awareness.

PHIL:

The big news. Is that we’re this

close to proving that the people

who abducted Ann Gallagher were the

same people who murdered Kirsten

McAskill.

So that’s big. Not entirely unexpected from CATHERINE’s pov,

but the confirmation is shocking.

CATHERINE:

God almighty.

PHIL:

You were right about Milton Avenue.

We picked Ashley Cowgill up around

lunch time. Ann’s told us she was

held in a caravan for two nights

after they removed her from Milton

Avenue. She was in Milton Avenue. I

fast-tracked the swabs you

authorised. We found DNA from Ann,

Tommy Lee Royce, and the blood...

is from a lad called Lewis Whippey.

CATHERINE:

Lewis Whippey. I collared him for

nicking a motor when he was

fifteen.

PHIL:

Ann Gallagher’s identified them

both in the viper suite as the men

who abducted her. Back to Cowgill.

He’s the registered owner of a

white van.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 27.

The same make, model and yearthat’d been at the scene where

Kirsten died. Course, he had an

excuse.

PHIL (CONT'D)

CUT TO:

31 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, INTERVIEW ROOM. DAY 11.

14.20.

31

Earlier this afternoon. ASHLEY’s with his LAWYER and

D.C.CHRISTINE WHITTAKER.

ASHLEY:

It was stolen. The van. Last week.

CHRISTINE:

Did you report it to the police?

ASHLEY:

No. What’d have been t’point? You’d

not do owt about it.

CHRISTINE:

Well for the insurance, at least.

ASHLEY:

Wasn’t worth owt, wasn’t worth the

hassle. It was a sh*t heap.

CUT TO:

32 INT. HOSPITAL, HIGH DEPENDENCY WARD. NIGHT 11 02.01. 32

CATHERINE, PHIL and the D.C.

PHIL:

He’s denying everything of course.

Doesn’t know Tommy or Lewis fromadam. But we’ve got telecoms

analysing his phone, it’s only a

matter of time. And we took the

dogs in. They sniffed out twentykilos of cannabis stashed in one of

his caravans. He didn’t know

anything about that either.

Wow.

CATHERINE:

PHIL:

Yup. There is some less good news,

however. I’m afraid.

(he hesitates. He knowsit’s going to hit her.

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