Happy Valley

Season #1 Episode #6

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1 EXT. HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 15. 10.30 1

TOMMY steps off the bus in Hebden Bridge. He’s pale, and he’s

in pain, but he keeps moving. He crosses the road into the

main part of the little town. Despite what we know about him,

to anyone in the street he doesn’t look out of place, huddled

up, head down, hands in pockets in the cold winter weather

with his glasses and his beard and his copy of War and Peace

and his lap-top bag.

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2 EXT. CHEMIST SHOP, HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 15. 10.35 2

TOMMY leaves a chemist shop with a couple of packets of

painkillers. He walks along. In another shop window, he sees

an A5 West Yorkshire Police WANTED poster ‘Have you seen this

man?’ and a photo of the arrogant, clean-shaven yob TOMMY was

four weeks ago and a WANTED poster for LEWIS too. He goes

round a quiet corner, rips open one of the packets of

painkillers, and pops four of the pills into his hand, throws

them back into his mouth and swallows them.

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3 OMITTED 3

4 OMITTED 4

5 EXT. NGA. DAY 15. 12.00 5

CATHERINE and CLARE pull up in their clapped out car.

(CATHERINE still can’t drive because of the op, and because

her hand’s still in plaster). They both look a bit

thoughtful.

CLARE:

I’ll wait in the car.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

CATHERINE gathers her resources, gets out of the car and

heads towards the building. (CATHERINE’s used to delivering

bad news in the course of her work, but this is so much more

personal).

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 1A.

6 INT. NGA, NEVISON’S OFFICE. DAY 15. 12.01 6

NEVISON’S busy in his office with four of his heads of

department when JUSTINE pops her head in at the door.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 2.

JUSTINE:

Nevison? Sorry to disturb, but I

thought you’d want to know.

Sergeant Cawood’s here, she’s

asking to see you.

NEVISON jumps to his feet, he’s delighted. He heads out of

his office to greet her

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7 INT. NGA, OUTSIDE NEVISON’S OFFICE. DAY 15. 12.02 7

CATHERINE’s loitering by JUSTINE’s desk as exhuberant NEV

emerges from his office

NEVISON:

Catherine!

CATHERINE:

Hello. Sorry - you’re busy.

NEVISON:

No!

CATHERINE:

I can w[ait]

NEVISON:

No! No no. Never too busy.

(he looks back into his

office)

Can we do this later, fellas?

(he cheerfully indicates

for them to vacate his

office, and turns back to

CATHERINE)

How are you?

CATHERINE:

(she exhibits her broken

arm)

I’m

She doesn’t know what she is. All over the place.

NEVISON:

We were wanting to come and see

you. In the hospital, [but]

CATHERINE:

Oh, I wasn’t worth looking at.

NEVISON:

D’you want to - ?

Come through.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 3.

CATHERINE:

Sure.

NEVISON:

Would you like some tea? Or - ?

CATHERINE:

Tea, yes.

(to JUSTINE.)

Thank you.

CATHERINE’s thinking that NEVISON’s going to need it more

than she does. They head into NEV’s office...

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8 INT. NGA, NEVISON’S OFFICE. DAY 15. 12.03 8

...and NEV indicates for CATHERINE to sit down.

NEVISON:

You got my message?

CATHERINE:

Sorry, which?

NEVISON:

I spoke to Clare. Your sister,

Clare. I wanted you to know. If

ever there’s anything I can do for

you. Ever. Anything.

CATHERINE:

Oh

NEVISON:

She suggested paying off your

mortgage. How much do you owe?

CATHERINE:

You’re not paying my mortgage off,

don’t be silly.

NEVISON:

You can’t begin to understand how

much pleasure it’d give me and

Helen to be able to do something

like that.

CATHERINE:

She was joking.

NEVISON:

I don’t think she was.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 4.

CATHERINE:

I don’t [think] - I was doing my

job, I don’t think it’d be... you

know.

NEVISON:

What?

CATHERINE:

Ethical. Appropriate. Not that I’m

not grateful! But... that isn’t

[why I’m here]

NEVISON:

I’d like to do something.

CATHERINE:

Sure. But that isn’t why I’m here.

(a moment. NEV can sense

something grave is

coming)

Ann came to see me. In hospital.

NEVISON:

Ann did?

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

NEVISON:

Ann did? I thought

CATHERINE:

She got in. Yes, I wasn’t...

(self-conscious)

seeing people. But she got in. And.

I didn’t mind, I was pleased to see

her. But. Then. She told me

something. Something that was

difficult. Something she wanted -

wants - you to know, but she

couldn’t face telling you herself.

So she asked me. To. So.

(a moment)

She was raped. One of them - Tommy

Lee Royce. He raped her.

(she lets that sink in)

When it goes to trial - and it

will, we will get him -

(she so wants to believe

that)

when it goes to trial, you’ll need

to know that. Because you don’t

want to be hearing it for the first

time in court. So. She doesn’t want

her mum to know. Because Helen

might never need to know.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 5.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

(CATHERINE hopes NEV gets

the implication:
because

she may be dead be then)

Might she?

NEVISON:

(shakes his head, almost

no voice)

No.

CATHERINE:

But you do need to know. So. She

asked me to tell you that. Because

she couldn’t.

(NEVISON’s staring,

appalled)

She’s tough, she’s clever, she’s

dealing with it. But the hardest

part of it now - for her - was not

knowing how to tell you.

Part of NEVISON’s world just collapsed. (And CATHERINE would

love to tell him that she knows EXACTLY how he feels. But

it’s just not appropriate to start bringing up her own

troubles).

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9 OMITTED 9

10 EXT. UPPER LIGHTHAZELS FARM. DAY 15. 13.00 10

ASHLEY (plus another LAD in the passenger seat) drives an

open-backed wagon (laden with bags of sand) up to the

farmhouse. There are a couple of men working on the site.

ASHLEY steps out. The LAD goes and opens up the back of the

wagon and starts unloading the sacks, one by one, just as

TOMMY and LEWIS used to. JULIE happens to be heading out of

the house and over to the Evoque, dressed for work. Her face

like thunder. A very unhappy woman.

JULIE:

(looking out across the

landscape)

Where are they?

ASHLEY:

Who?

ASHLEY is also a shadow of his former self.

JULIE:

I thought they had you ‘under

observation’ at all times?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 6.

ASHLEY:

Shh!

(he doesn’t want the new

LAD or the men on the

site to hear that. He

glances surreptitiously

out at the landscape)

Dunno. They’ll be somewhere.

There’s a car parked several hundred yards away. It may well

be pensioners out for the day, but JULIE decides it’s NCA.

She lifts her top up and flashes her charlies at them.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

What you doing?

He lunges at her to make her cover herself up.

JULIE:

Geddoff me, bastard! You bastard.

(then she points at ASHLEY

and the wagon, and mouths

loud and clear to the

vast landscape)

NOTHING. TO DO WITH ME.

ASHLEY:

*[F***ing] stop it!

*Words in [square brackets] to be implied rather than stated.

JULIE heads off and slams into her Evoque.

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