Happy Valley Page #11

Season #1 Episode #6

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MIKE:

Well. Yes, I imagine he would’ve

done.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 56.

CATHERINE:

You imagine? Have you asked him?

MIKE:

Catherine. I can’t check up on the

District [Commander]

CATHERINE:

He didn’t just toss it in the bin

as soon as I left the room?

MIKE knows she’s had it tough lately, and he’s perfectly fond

of her, but she’s got to get it out of her head that she can

push him around.

MIKE:

No. He didn’t. He put it in his

pocket and I had the distinct

impression he was going to follow

it all up.

CATHERINE:

Yeah but you would say that,

wouldn’t you? ‘Cos you all piss in

the same pot as each other.

They’re in an area where other officers beneath them in rank

are within ear shot.

MIKE:

I’m sorry?

CATHERINE:

Like that nonsense with Marcus

Gascoigne.

MIKE:

Shall we have this conversation in

my office? Sergeant.

CATHERINE:

Have they checked if any of the

hospitals’ve reported any gun shot

wounds or stab wounds?

MIKE:

Catherine.

CATHERINE:

Have they?

MIKE:

Get into my office.

CATHERINE:

What about Roger Elgood?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 57.

MIKE:

Who?

CATHERINE:

Roger Elgood. He was a GP. He lives

on Ripponden. He got struck off

eight months since for signing

blank prescriptions. Don’t you know

what goes on on your patch?

MIKE:

Why would Tommy Lee Royce know to

go to Roger Elgood?

CATHERINE:

Why wouldn’t he?

MIKE:

Catherine. I’m thinking - I’m

wondering - do you think you’ve

come back to work too soon?

CATHERINE:

Yes! Probably! But what alternative

have I got? Who else is even

looking for this bloke?

MIKE:

Catherine. If this was anyone else

CATHERINE:

I’m going home.

MIKE:

No. I need to talk to you in my

office.

CATHERINE:

I’m fed up of working with trained

monkeys.

MIKE:

You’re not gonna get away with

that. I know you’ve not been well

CATHERINE:

Piss off.

MIKE:

(lowers his voice)

I’ll have your stripes lady if you

don’t button it. Please go into my

[office]

CATHERINE:

You can have ‘em, you can shove ‘em

your arse.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 58.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

(she pulls her radio her

epaulets off and chucks

them on the floor. She’s

leaving)

There you go. Pick ‘em up.

MIKE:

You’re in trouble. Catherine.

CATHERINE:

Yeah, whatever. Bye.

She’s gone.

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65 EXT. CANAL. DAY 20. 16.00 65

Later in the day. 4pm.

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66 INT. NARROW BOAT. DAY 20. 16.01 66

TOMMY’s just letting RYAN in.

TOMMY:

Have you not brought your lickle

friend wi’ yer today?

RYAN:

Nar. He didn’t wanna come. He

didn’t think you were very nice to

him.

TOMMY:

Oh?

RYAN:

Neither did I.

TOMMY pushes shut the bolts on the doors. Which RYAN notices,

because TOMMY doesn’t normally do that.

TOMMY:

Was I not?

RYAN:

What’s up?

TOMMY:

I thought I said not to tell

anyone.

Is TOMMY going to get cross? RYAN’s worried. And why did he

put the bolts on?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 59.

RYAN:

You meant grown-ups.

TOMMY:

I meant anyone.

RYAN:

Sorry.

Suddenly TOMMY smiles.

TOMMY:

S’all right. D’yer wanna go through

there? I’ve got summat for yer.

RYAN:

What?

TOMMY:

It’s a surprise.

(RYAN’s worried. TOMMY

points through to the

middle of the boat. The

little sitting room)

Go on. There’s nowt to be

frightened of. You’re not

frightened of me, are yer?

RYAN:

(yes)

No.

RYAN doesn’t have much choice. TOMMY’s locked the exit. RYAN

goes through. TOMMY follows. They reach the little sitting

room. RYAN looks up at TOMMY nervously. TOMMY produces a

couple of cans of Special Brew: one for himself, and one for

RYAN. RYAN takes the tin. He was scared TOMMY was going to

get cross with him.

TOMMY:

Sit yersen down.

But maybe we realise there is something sinister going on in

TOMMY’s head, even if RYAN isn’t sure.

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67

INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN/ HEPTONSTALL 67

GRAVE YARD. DAY 20. 17.30

We find CATHERINE at BECKY’s grave. She’s still in her

uniform (minus her epaulets and radio). (Basically she wants

to die, she wants to be with BECKY). She’s in a bad way. Her

phone rings. She checks the screen: ‘home’. She’s going to

ignore it. But she can’t.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 60.

CATHERINE:

Hello?

CLARE’s voice is agitated

CLARE:

(oov)

It’s me. Where the hell are you?

CATHERINE:

Why?

CLARE:

I rang the nick and nobody’d tell

me where you were.

CATHERINE:

What’s up?

CLARE:

I told Ryan to be in by five, and

he wasn’t, and it got to twenty

past so I rang to see if he was

round at Cesco’s, and guess what

Cesco’s mum told me. That Cesco.

Had told her. That our Ryan. Has

been visiting his dad. On his boat.

Down at the canal.

(silence as CATHERINE

gawps down the other end

of the line)

Where are you?

CATHERINE:

How - how - how does Cesco know

that?

CLARE:

He went with him. Yesterday.

CATHERINE:

All right. Okay. I’m - I’m coming.

I’m

(she races off to wherever

she abandoned her car)

Ring Cesco again. Ask him.

Carefully - I haven’t got their

number on me - ask him carefully

where exactly this boat is, what

it’s called, what colour it is,

anything anything anything that can

identify it.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 61.

68 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S CAR/ROAD, HEPTONSTALL. DAY 20. 68

17.45

CATHERINE races down the hill from Heptonstall to Hebden

Bridge in her car. She’s on her mobile.

CATHERINE:

Shaf! Thank God. I’ve rung the

Inspector’s office - nobody

answering, as per - listen to me

very care[fully]

Cutting as and when with:

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69 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. DAY 20. 69

17.46

SHAF:

(interrupts)

You know you’re in like... thirty

seven different types of trouble?

CATHERINE:

Just listen. I think. I think.

Tommy Lee Royce is on a narrow boat

down on the canal at Hebden Bridge.

(SHAF’s worried. Is this

part of CATHERINE’s nutty

illness?)

I want you to inform Force Comms.,

we need an helicopter up, we need

firearms, we need O.S.U., we need a

dog.

SHAF:

Catherine. Are you sure?

CATHERINE:

Go upstairs and knock on the

D.C.I.’s door! Now, right now! I

know you’re frightened of him, but

now is not the time, and tell him

what’s going on, I need people

there and I need ‘em fast. AND.

SHAF:

What?

CATHERINE:

(she hardly dare say it)

I think he’s got our Ryan with him.

SHAF’s terrified he’s going to make a fool of himself if this

is CATHERINE being nuts. But what if it isn’t?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 62.

SHAF:

I’m on it.

He chucks the phone down and races upstairs.

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70 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE. DAY 20. 17.56 70

CATHERINE pulls up sharp outside her house. CLARE’s waiting.

CLARE dives in the car and they speed off. On CATHERINE’s

radio we can hear an OOV POLICE OFFICER going

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