Happy Valley Page #6

Season #1 Episode #6

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CATHERINE:

Yes I know, but you’ve smashed a

glass

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 28.

DANIEL:

Oh you know, do yer?

CATHERINE:

- and you’ve had a bit to drink

DANIEL:

You know sod all.

CATHERINE:

-and you’re standing in it and I

don’t want you hurting yourself or

anyone else, so DANIEL

Don’t talk to me like some numpty

you’ve picked up for being off

their head in a gutter.

RICHARD:

Daniel

CATHERINE goes and closes the door into the sitting room,

politely and calmly explaining to everyone else with a smile

CATHERINE:

I’m sorry about this, we’re just

having a bit of a domestic.

LUCY:

What’s going [on] - ?

But CATHERINE’s shut the door. We’re in the kitchen.

DANIEL:

You can shut yourself in there with

that lot, you can, it’s not even

you I’m interested in, I wrote you

off years ago, it’s him I’m

disappointed about.

CATHERINE:

Why?

DANIEL:

(at RICHARD)

You’re going to start believing all

this Holy St.Becky of Assisi sh*t

yourself next dad. Same as her.

RICHARD:

He’s upset because we’ve had Ryan

round at our house.

DANIEL:

It’s not about him. It’s about you.

(it’s RICHARD he’s

addressing)

(MORE)

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DANIEL (CONT'D)

I thought you got it! All of it!

Becky was a loser! She ran rings

round you! She hung around with

wasters and pill-heads and bloody

idiots and she was asking for it!

RICHARD:

You shouldn’t be saying that in

front of your mother, you know it

upsets her.

DANIEL:

Yeah, we wouldn’t want her to stop

believing her own sh*t. She was

asking for it, mother! She liked

him. She told me. She was that

stupid.

LUCY comes in

LUCY:

What’s going on?

DANIEL:

All my life - what’s going on is,

all my life - I behave. I do well

at school. Well enough. I keep my

head down, I never give you a

minute’s bother - either of you -

unlike some - and what thanks do I

get? I get “WHY DIDN’T YOU DIE,

DANIEL? WHY WASN’T IT YOU??”

CATHERINE’s embarrassed. Perhaps we glimpse the people in the

next room, having to hear all this. It’s inevitable, the

house is too small and the walls are too thin. ROS, the

GALLAGHERS, SHAF and JOYCE.

CATHERINE:

If I ever said that

DANIEL:

IF?! There is no IF! He was there!

He knows! Or perhaps you’re gonna

re-write that bit now as well, dad?

RICHARD can’t say anything. He was there, and he knows

CATHERINE did say that, and at the time it was probably

another factor in them getting divorced.

CATHERINE:

If I ever said that I’ve already

[apologised]

DANIEL:

(interrupts)

And nobody’s convinced, you know,

mother!

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 30.

DANIEL (CONT'D)

By all this bereavement crap.

Nobody that matters. We know, we

were there, we know it’s not

sorrow, it’s guilt. You couldn’t

stop her! Becky was off the rails,

she was driving you up the wall,

and there was nothing you could do!

So stop trying to convince yourself

and everyone else that she was

something she wasn’t! She was a

stupid selfish little b*tch! Do you

think she gave a toss about you?

Have some respect for those of us

who were there, and who knew the

truth!

Silence. CATHERINE’s upset, her eyes glazed over with tears.

CATHERINE:

Right.

DANIEL:

(to LUCY)

We’re leaving, I’ve had it wi’

these two, they’re both as mental

as each other.

He strides off out of the back door. LUCY’s mortified. Well

she probably has mixed feelings. She knows how upset DANIEL

was by CATHERINE saying that to him all those years ago.

LUCY:

I’m really sorry. But. You know...

(self conscious; she

doesn’t exactly want to

hurt CATHERINE, but - )

That was not a great thing to say

to someone.

CATHERINE:

She’d just died, I was off my head,

I don’t even remember saying it.

LUCY nods, accepts it, but her sympathies are more with

DANIEL, even if he has just made a bit of an exhibition of

himself.

RICHARD:

I’d better

Go after them.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

RICHARD goes. We linger on CATHERINE. She’s upset, but she’s

angry as well. She sits down, feeling battered. Eventually...

ROS comes in cautiously from the next room.

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ROS:

Catherine?

CATHERINE:

I’m sorry.

ROS:

What for?

CATHERINE:

Everything. I don’t know.

NEVISON’s followed ROS cautiously in.

NEVISON:

I think we’re going to get off.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

NEVISON:

Are you...?

CATHERINE:

Yeah! Sorry. Messy. Family

nonsense. Is Helen all right?

CUT TO:

38 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, SITTING ROOM. NIGHT 17. 22.00 38

CLARE’s just seeing the last guests off. We’re with CATHERINE

in the sitting room.

CLARE:

(oov)

Night! Night night.

(CLARE comes in, closes

the door, sits next to

CATHERINE)

Y’all right?

CATHERINE:

Why did you tell Daniel that?

CLARE:

Oh.

(embarrassed; she’s well

aware now what a mistake

it was)

Because I didn’t know whether you’d

want me to invite Ros. And Richard.

And we were chatting, and

CATHERINE:

You know our Daniel can’t stand me.

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CLARE:

No. Catherine. That’s not [true]

CATHERINE:

It’s a miracle he didn’t yell it

out in front of Ros! About me and

Richard. Bloody hell, Clare!

CLARE:

Catherine. When you were in that

operating theatre all them hours,

he was really really up[set]

CATHERINE:

And you know - so what if I did say

that? It’s true.

CLARE:

Don’t say that.

CATHERINE:

He was always so jealous of her.

CLARE:

Who?

CATHERINE:

Becky!

CLARE:

You shouldn’t say things like that.

CATHERINE:

Oh what do you know?

CLARE’s hurt. Tries to take it in her stride...

CLARE:

Well. To be fair. He might have

been jealous of the fact that she

hogged the lime light. Especially

where you were concerned.

CATHERINE:

I don’t know why I ever listen to a

single word you say. I said I

didn’t want a sodding party.

CLARE:

Fine. All right. I’m sorry. I was

just trying to do something for

you, I was just trying to

CATHERINE:

I’m going to bed.

(CATHERINE goes. CLARE’s

left feeling awful.

CATHERINE comes back in)

(MORE)

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CATHERINE (CONT'D)

You know you really ought to think

about finding your own place to

live.

CLARE can’t believe her ears. CATHERINE heads off upstairs

again.

CUT TO:

39 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, CATHERINE’S BEDROOM. DAY 18. 39

08.00

Three weeks later. We see CATHERINE’s hand (she’s wearing a

hand support) push through the gleaming cuff of a white

shirt. The plaster cast has gone. CATHERINE buttons the

shirt. It’s like that scene in Talk To Her when the female

matador’s getting into the elaborate, elegant kit they wear

for a bull fight. Except this is a sergeant’s uniform. But

it’s uber smart dress uniform. She’s going to be desk bound

for a few weeks; she doesn’t have to worry about getting

dirty, so she might as well look good. She pulls the jacket

on. Buttons it. CATHERINE looks at herself in the mirror.

Dead smart. We look into her eyes: is she ready for this? We

can see that she still has demons.

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