Happy Valley Page #7

Season #1 Episode #6

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40 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 18. 08.01 40

Breakfast. CLARE (dressing gown), RYAN (new hair cut?

Something to show passage of time). CATHERINE comes in. CLARE

notices how smart CATHERINE is, and normally would comment.

But the truth is they haven’t really been speaking to each

other properly for the last three weeks.

CLARE:

Morning.

CATHERINE:

Morning.

CATHERINE makes herself coffee. Silence. Eventually

CLARE:

Ryan’s been asking if he can start

coming home by himself.

RYAN:

Not by myself! With Cesco. On us

bikes.

CATHERINE’s not sure.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 34.

CATHERINE:

You’d have to remember to wear your

helmet. And not just leave it

somewhere.

RYAN:

But I look like a geek!

CLARE:

And a fluorescent jacket.

(RYAN’s face:
YOU ARE

KIDDING ME??)

And you use the same route we

always use home.

CATHERINE:

That’s the deal. Take it or leave

it.

RYAN:

Tch.

He’s looking at CATHERINE like he hates her. She’s got her

back to him, so she doesn’t notice. CLARE does. CLARE hates

the atmosphere they’re living in, it’s doing her head in.

RYAN’s finished his breakfast. CLARE picks up his bowl.

CLARE:

You going to go and brush your

teeth, love?

(he heads upstairs. CLARE

decides to risk the

response she might get,

and says as pleasantly as

she can - )

You look very smart.

CATHERINE can’t decide whether to bother answering or not.

CATHERINE:

Yeah well I’ve got a Return To Work

interview. And the District

Commander’s popping in to see me.

So.

It’s all said in a very matter-of-fact way. The subtext is

still f*** off and don’t speak to me.

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41 INT. NARROW BOAT. DAY 18. 08.30 41

TOMMY’s having breakfast too. In his narrow little kitchen,

dressed in a sleeping bag to keep warm, listening to the news

very quietly on Radio Leeds. He drinks milk from a carton and

lights a cigarette.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 35.

His living space is starting to look a mess. He looks pale

and ill. Basically he’s developing septicemia.

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42

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 42

DAY 18. 09.10

9:
10am. CATHERINE’s desk is festooned with welcome back cards

and helium balloons and flowers. Through in the main room

there’s a huge cake with ‘WELCOME BACK SARG’ on it in big

blue lettering. But no CATHERINE.

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43

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, INSPECTOR’S OFFICE. 43

DAY 18. 09.11

CATHERINE’s standing in front of MIKE TAYLOR and the DISTRICT

COMMANDER, PRAVEEN BADAL, who’s smiling.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

How are you?

CATHERINE:

Very well sir, thank you.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

Good! Sit down.

She does. Then before PRAVEEN can come out with any more

pleasantries

CATHERINE:

Why haven’t you caught Tommy Lee

Royce? And that other little

scrote.

MIKE’s slightly concerned that CATHERINE’s gone straight for

the boss’s jugular.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

We’re doing everything we can,

Catherine. You know that.

CATHERINE:

Is Lynn Dewhurst being followed?

PRAVEEN BADAL:

(he turns to MIKE)

Who?

MIKE:

Tommy Lee Royce’s mother.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 36.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

Well yes. As far as I understand,

everything is being done. I will

ask. About that.

(he grabs a pen and a post-

it note off MIKE’s desk

and writes it down)

I’ll look into it personally.

CATHERINE:

Has anyone tried to identify who

his father is? He could be holed up

with him.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

Yes. That’s - I’m sure

MIKE:

(embarrassed)

Well actually. No. Sir. I don’t

think anybody does know who his

father is.

CATHERINE:

Have we interviewed his old cell

mate? From Wakefield. In case he’s

talked about family and friends

we’re not aware of.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

I will raise that, I’m very happy

to, I can’t imagine it hasn’t been

[done]

CATHERINE:

(interrupts)

Have any senior officers attended

the PACT meetings and specifically

asked the community for help?

MIKE:

Yes. That’s definitely happened,

I’ve done that myself.

CATHERINE:

Have we collected CCTV from all the

Chinese takeaways in the valley?

MIKE:

Sorry. Catherine. Why would we do

that?

CATHERINE:

Well we know Tommy Lee Royce liked

the Chinese takeaway on Milton

Avenue, so

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 37.

MIKE:

That’s - that’s -

(with the best will in the

world)

that’s too random. Catherine.

CATHERINE:

Is it? I think it’d be good

detective work. Myself. Personally.

(to the DISTRICT

COMMANDER)

Are you not writing that one down?

Sir.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

(he smiles)

I’ll raise it.

(but no, he’s not writing

it down)

Anyway, welcome back, Catherine!

He’s smiling. CATHERINE isn’t.

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44

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CORRIDOR OUTSIDE 44

INSPECTOR’S OFFICE. DAY 18. 09.13

CATHERINE leaves MIKE’s office and heads to her office.

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45

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, INSPECTOR’S OFFICE. 45

DAY 18. 09.14

MIKE and PRAVEEN BADAL sit in silence for a moment.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

Has Occupational Health given her

the all clear?

MIKE:

Well yeah. Or she wouldn’t be here.

She wanted to come back sooner than

she should of course. But you know

what she’s like.

PRAVEEN BADAL:

She’s not operational?

MIKE:

(shakes his head)

I’ve restricted her to her desk for

three weeks. But I didn’t want to

keep her away if she wants to be

here.

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PRAVEEN BADAL:

Okay. Well (

he stands up to leave)

keep an eye on her.

(he puts the Post-it note

in his top pocket. And we

sense he will genuinely

look into the things he’s

promised). He’s about to

leave, then - )

You probably won’t see it in the

papers or on the news, but over the

weekend there were some major drug

arrests. Here and on the Continent.

MIKE TAYLOR:

Really? Had they not sussed it out?

That we were onto them? Isn’t that

why they murdered Ashley Cowgill?

PRAVEEN BADAL:

Wasn’t them. It couldn’t have been.

Otherwise yes. They would have

known we were onto them.

MIKE TAYLOR:

So who killed Ashley Cowgill then?

PRAVEEN BADAL:

(a shrug)

Maybe his wife didn’t fancy

spending the rest of her life in

hiding. And the bullet in the mouth

thing - if it was her - a nice

touch. To make it look like he’d

been shot for grassing.

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46

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 46

DAY 18. 10.00

Later. CATHERINE’s busy at her desk when JOYCE pops her head

in

JOYCE:

Catherine.

(she nods in the direction

of the reception desk)

I think you should come and listen

to this.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 38A.

47 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, FRONT DESK. DAY 18. 47

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