Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #6

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Four cars back, we find two DETECTIVE CONSTABLES in the

surveillance car who’ve just heard the shots and seen the

bike speed off. They both exclaim “Sh*t!”/“Bloody hell!” etc.

The DETECTIVE CONSTABLE driving the car puts his hazard

warnings on and dives out of the vehicle to go and look at

what’s happened. The other one gets on the radio

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 17.

DETECTIVE CONSTABLE 1

D.C. 9224, urgent assistance

required. We’ve got a shooting on

the A629 ambulance requested,

helicopter requested. There’s two

suspects on a motorbike heading

along the A629 Halifax Road towards

Huddersfield.

We cut to the other DETECTIVE CONSTABLE, who’s just reached

ASHLEY’s Range Rover. ASHLEY’s been shot in the head, and in

the mouth. He’s dead.

CUT TO:

25 EXT. SOWERBY BRIDGE. DAY 17. 12.00 25

Time passing:
a week. The tower blocks, the hills, the

weather.

CUT TO:

26 INT. NARROW BOAT. DAY 17. 14.15 26

We find TOMMY still alive, after a week. It looks like he’s

made a reasonable little nest for himself in the narrow boat.

But he’s down to the dregs of his inherited supplies. He

looks rested, but no less pale. He’s still not right. He

checks the time:
quarter past two. He’s got an idea: it’s

time to venture outside once again.

CUT TO:

27 EXT. NARROW BOAT. DAY 17. 14.20 27

TOMMY closes the boat up, and looks around to make sure that

no-one’s seen him. He takes things steadily; the stab wound

to his body continues to give him trouble. He finds his feet

and heads back along the tow-path, into Hebden Bridge.

CUT TO:

28 EXT. SCHOOL. DAY 17. 15.15 28

Kids emerge from the school. RYAN dives out and races over to

CATHERINE.

CATHERINE:

We’ve to go to t’Nisa.

RYAN:

Why?

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

We discover some distance away pale TOMMY watching them. He

has a bag of groceries that he’s bought.

CATHERINE:

Just a few more bits and pieces for

tonight that Clare’s gone and

forgotten.

RYAN:

Can I have some sweets?

CATHERINE:

Have you been good?

RYAN:

Yeah.

CATHERINE:

All day?

RYAN:

Yes.

CUT TO:

29 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE/FRONT DOOR. DAY 17. 16.05 29

TOMMY - at a safe distance - has followed CATHERINE and RYAN.

They head along the street with shopping bags and up the

steps to the house.

RYAN:

Can I stay up late?

CATHERINE:

For a bit. If you behave.

RYAN:

Is me Grandad coming?

CATHERINE:

Yup.

RYAN:

Is Ros coming?

CATHERINE:

Yes.

RYAN:

I like Ros.

CATHERINE holds the door open for RYAN. She follows him

inside, and the door closes.

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

We linger on TOMMY; he knows where they live.

CUT TO:

30 INT/EXT. NEVISON’S CAR/CATHERINE’S STREET. NIGHT 17. 30

20.00

Later that evening. It’s dark. NEVISON’s Bentley pulls up

behind CATHERINE’s car. The GALLAGHERS - laden with presents -

step out. HELEN and NEVISON mid-debate.

N.B. HELEN is starting to look frailer. She hooks up with ANN

as they walk along the street. (We should feel that NEVISON

is being slightly more solicitous towards ANN than HELEN,

even though nothing is said).

HELEN:

When was this?

NEVISON:

Last week. She came to see me.

HELEN:

Yes, but when did you stop his

salary?

NEVISON:

As soon as they arrested him.

HELEN:

Is that legal?

(NEV shrugs:
don’t know,

don’t care)

But surely she’s right, we don’t

know how culpable he was. Or

wasn’t.

NEVISON:

Yeah well if she wants it, she can

take legal action.

HELEN:

She uses a wheelchair. None of it

was her doing. Was it. Her or the

children.

NEVISON:

No. But like I explained to her.

Actions - his actions - have

consequences.

They’ve reached the front door. NEV presses the doorbell.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 20.

31 INT. CATHERTINE’S HOUSE, SITTING ROOM. NIGHT 17. 20.01 31

CLARE:

Ooh! That’ll be them.

CLARE gets up to answer the door. RICHARD, ROS, DANIEL, LUCY,

SHAF, JOYCE and RYAN are having a lively conversation. Music

plays from the CD player. (LUCY’s pregnancy is showing: 4 - 5

months). No CATHERINE.

LUCY:

In the mouth? Shot in the mouth?

SHAF:

I didn’t see (

conscious of RYAN he

mouths it - )

the body meself. I mean we

attended, but by that time - you

know - it’s all cordoned off and we

don’t go nowhere near, but

ROS:

That wasn’t on the news, the mouth

thing.

CUT TO:

32 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 17. 20.02 32

CATHERINE’s having a cigarette by the back door. Already

she’s found an excuse not to be in the throng, and kind of

wishing everyone would go home. There’s loads of delicious

buffet food (untouched) spread out on the table. From the

other room the lively chat continues

SHAF:

It’ll come out at the trial.

JOYCE:

If they catch ‘em.

LUCY:

Why the mouth?

SHAF:

Belt and braces, isn’t it.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 21.

33 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, SITTING ROOM. NIGHT 17. 20.03 33

JOYCE:

Or

SHAF:

Oh yeah.

JOYCE:

-it can be a thing.

During this we notice that DANIEL is topping up his glass a

bit too readily, and looking unpleasantly at his dad. RICHARD

remains unaware.

RICHARD:

(amused)

A what?

JOYCE:

(remembering, teasing)

You’re a journalist.

i.e. so I’m not telling you.

RICHARD:

No longer, Joyce! As of last week.

Redundant.

ROS gives him an good-humoured but irritable nudge: she hates

him announcing it like its something to be proud of.

LUCY:

What thing?

JOYCE:

Like a message. To anyone else.

SHAF:

If you grass - if you talk -

(points a pretend gun at

his mouth)

this is what happens.

ROS LUCY:

Good grief. Oh my God.

ROS:

Does that [really] - do people

really - ?

On JOYCE:
yup.

LUCY:

(appalled)

So who did it?

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

SHAF:

Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.

RICHARD ROS:

On a Honda! With a lead pipe!

DANIEL:

If they knew who did it, they’d

have arrested ‘em. Wouldn’t they?

Dur.

DANIEL’s a bit more aggressive there than he needed to be

(whereas RICHARD, SHAF and ROS were just being jolly), and

LUCY’s made to feel a bit daft for not wording her question

better. RICHARD looks at DANIEL like, “that was a bit harsh”,

but it’s a nuance of a moment, and the edge is take off by

the entrance of the GALLAGHERS

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