Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #6

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CLARE:

Nevison and Helen and Ann are here!

HELEN:

Hello. Hello!

Fond greetings. Hello/how’re you?/pleased to meet you etc

CLARE:

Catherine’s just through there.

ANN heads straight through to the kitchen without bothering

with anyone else. NEVISON follows her (although he says a few

polite hellos on his way through).

CUT TO:

34 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN/BACK DOOR. NIGHT 17. 34

20.04

CATHERINE’s spotted the GALLAGHERS from the kitchen door. She

treads her fag under foot, and turns to greet them. ANN gives

CATHERINE the biggest hug ever, and doesn’t let go.

CATHERINE:

Hello.

(she looks at NEVISON as

she hugs ANN)

How are you all?

ANN:

Alive.

NEVISON tries to smile. But it’s difficult. He hasn’t smiled

once since CATHERINE told him what she told him.

HELEN:

Hello Catherine.

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HELEN hugs CATHERINE next. HELEN thinks this is the first

time any of them have seen CATHERINE since ANN was rescued.

For her this is a very big moment: the big thank you.

CUT TO:

35 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACK DOOR. NIGHT 17. 20.45 35

Later. CATHERINE and ANN on the doorstep having a fag.

They’re both mellow, they’ve both had a few drinks. Everyone

else is in the other room chatting.

ANN:

Your son looks young, you must have

had him late.

CATHERINE:

Ryan? He’s not my son, he’s my

grandson. Daniel’s my son. The one

who’s drinking too much.

ANN:

Oh, I thought he was like me. A

late arrival. She couldn’t get

pregnant for long enough. So she

had IVF. In her forties. Hence me

looking like I hang around with my

grandparents. I was the long

anticipated disappointment.

CATHERINE:

Why are you a disappointment?

CATHERINE can’t see it. She likes spiky, spirited ANN.

ANN:

Hundreds of millions of pounds

spent on my education, and here I

am, unnecessary and unemployed. I

graduated from the Royal Northern

last year with a 2.1, which

qualifies me for nothing. Unless I

want to teach, which frankly I’d

rather stick hot pins in my eyes.

And get gang raped. I speak from

experience. Well. Not gang rape.

But. You know.

CATHERINE:

How’re you coping?

ANN:

I’m coping. I have to. For my

mother’s sake. Which is good. What

happened says more about him than

it’ll ever say about me.

(MORE)

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ANN (CONT'D)

And I’m not pregnant any more, and

I haven’t got AIDS. So.

CATHERINE:

You were pregnant?

ANN:

(shrugs:
dunno)

They gave me a pill. After they’d

taken the swabs. It made me bleed.

And - if there was anything - it

went.

(she swipes it all away

with her hand.

(CATHERINE’s gone

thoughtful)

Are you all right?

CATHERINE nods.

CATHERINE:

It’s a good attitude. Women so

often blame themselves. God knows

why, it’s ridiculous. But they do.

In almost every circumstance.

You’re very rare.

ANN:

I just want them to catch him.

Yup. So does CATHERINE.

CATHERINE:

We will.

CUT TO:

36 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, SITTING ROOM. NIGHT 17. 21.45 36

Later. Everyone’s chatting noisily in the sitting room

(including CATHERINE and ANN, chatting in a huddle with LUCY

and ROS)(perhaps we get the idea that at this point

CATHERINE’s not hating the evening as much as she

anticipated). Unlikely combinations: SHAF entertaining HELEN,

RYAN telling NEV and CLARE why he hates school. DANIEL (now

very drunk) heads off through to the kitchen to find more

booze. We go with him...

CUT TO:

37 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 17. 21.46 37

The food’s been well attacked. RICHARD’s just helping himself

to more when DANIEL comes through to open another bottle of

wine. Like CATHERINE, RICHARD’s noticed that DANIEL’s been

knocking it back.

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RICHARD:

Are you all right lad?

DANIEL:

I’m assuming Ros doesn’t know

you’ve been at it again with me

mother.

That was just loud enough to be slightly worrying for

RICHARD, given that ROS is just through there in the next

room along with everyone else (the door’s ajar).

RICHARD:

What makes you - where’ve you got

that from?

DANIEL:

So you’re all happy little families

with Ryan now, are you?

RICHARD:

We’ve been helping out. While your

mum’s been poorly, yeah. That’s

[all]

DANIEL:

Liar.

(he waits for a response

from RICHARD. Given how

drunk DANIEL is, RICHARD

has the courage to keep

his cool)

Clare told me.

(RICHARD freezes)

I thought you got it, but... Jesus.

RICHARD:

Got...? What?

DANIEL:

The damage. The damage done. When

she decided to take on that...

thing.

He means RYAN. RICHARD lowers his voice

RICHARD:

Daniel, you’ve had a lot to drink.

You’re talking louder than you

might [realise]

DANIEL:

You’re as warped as she is.

He taps the side of his head on “warped”, meaning mental.

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RICHARD:

(kind)

I’m lost, you’ve lost me, I don’t

know what’s going on, can you start

at the beginning? What’s the

matter? Why’ve you got so upset?

DANIEL:

Have you forgotten. That thing she

said to me. Have you forgotten

that?

A pause.

RICHARD:

No. No. No, I haven’t forgotten

Daniel, but

Just then RYAN comes through from the next room to top his

glass up with fizzy yukky delicious shiny pop.

DANIEL:

Oh hello. Here he is. The thing

that shouldn’t exist.

RYAN:

(clueless, world of his

own)

Eh?

RICHARD:

Daniel, why don’t you and me go and

get some fresh [air] - ?

There’s a little tussle and RICHARD tries to persuade DANIEL

to the door

DANIEL:

Sod off.

( - and a glass gets

knocked onto the floor)

Sh*t.

Smash:
it goes everywhere.

RICHARD:

Now look what you’ve

DANIEL:

(trying to laugh)

Couldn’t believe that when she told

me. When Clare told me. I thought

of all the people who understood...

you did. And then you just get back

into bed with her.

CLARE (who heard the smash) appears at the door.

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CLARE:

What’s going on?

RICHARD:

He’s got glass everywhere.

CLARE:

What’s the matter?

CATHERINE’s appeared behind CLARE.

CATHERINE:

What’s going on?

RICHARD:

Daniel’s up[set] - he’s had a bit

to drink. Why don’t you take Ryan

upstairs, Catherine?

CLARE’s on red alert; she suspects it’s something to do with

her spilling the beans.

CATHERINE:

Why, what’s up, Daniel?

DANIEL:

Yeah go on, sod off to bed you

little twat.

(then, just as casually to

CATHERINE - )

And you can piss off as well you

old b*tch.

CATHERINE:

(confidentially to CLARE)

D’you wanna take Ryan upstairs?

I’ll deal with this.

DANIEL:

Oh, you’ll ‘deal with this’!? You

think?

CLARE CATHERINE:

(to RYAN, gentle butfirm)

Come on, lovey.

(at DANIEL, also gentlebut firm)

D’you want to calm down?

RYAN goes with CLARE.

DANIEL (CONT’D)

I wasn’t talking to you anyway. I

stopped talking to you years ago.

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