Happy Valley Page #11

Season #2 Episode #1

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CATHERINE:

What’s your name?

OLD MAN:

My name?

CATHERINE:

Yes, your name. What’s your name?

LIAM:

Yer name!

OLD MAN:

Is it Geoffrey?

CATHERINE:

Is it?

LIAM:

Dun’t know his own name, you’re as

mad as me grandad!

CATHERINE:

So Geoffrey, where do you live?

OLD MAN:

I live down Jepson Lane.

CATHERINE:

Do you?

LIAM:

He lives up Fairy Cake Lane.

OLD MAN:

Yes. Number twenty-eight.

CATHERINE:

Okay.

OLD MAN:

With my mother and dad.

LIAM:

(happy, not in the least

bit nasty)

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 54.

LIAM (CONT'D)

You lying git! With yer mum and

dad? You lying ole bugger!

CATHERINE:

(to GEOFFREY)

Can you just excuse me a second,

love?

CATHERINE goes and gets right in LIAM’s face, and says very

quietly

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Would you like to move along?

Or I’ll rip your cock off and shove it up your arse, is the

subtext, despite the lack of volume.

LIAM:

I were just trying to help.

CATHERINE:

Sure. Mind how you go.

LIAM wobbles away shouting “Come on you Spu-urs!” to two

elderly ladies standing on the other platform. CATHERINE

takes her hi-viz jacket off and puts it round GEOFFREY’s

shoulders. Just then her radio kicks in with a message

RADIO:

Bravo November four-five? Yes we do

have an elderly male fitting that

description. Geoffrey Barrett,

eighty-eight years of age, reported

missing from his home address,

number 13 Park Royd Lane, Kebroyd.

I’ve spoken to his daughter, she’s

coming to meet you at your

location.

CATHERINE:

I’m going to sit him inside the

cafe and get him a hot drink, can

you let her know that’s where we’ll

be?

CUT TO:

56 INT. SOWERBY BRIDGE RAILWAY STATION, CAFE. DAY 3. 08.45 56

GEOFFREY (still wearing CATHERINE’s hi-vis jacket) sits at a

table. He’s got his reading glasses on now (from his plastic

bag) and he’s studying his bus pass. CATHERINE’s at the

counter getting him a cup of tea, when her mobile bleats.

It’s CLARE.

CATHERINE:

What d’you know?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 55.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

57 EXT. STREET. DAY 3. 08.46 57

CLARE’s heading up the road to the bus stop, away from the

cul-de-sac where LUCY and DANIEL live.

CLARE:

Well. She let me in - Lucy did -

and she was very polite and she was

very happy to chat, and - to my

mind - very far from “off her

rocker”. She was also keen to put

the record straight.

CATHERINE:

Okay.

CLARE:

So according to her - brace

yourself - Daniel’s been having a

fling. With some lass he was at

school with.

CATHERINE’s sickened, baffled.

CATHERINE:

What lass? Not

CLARE:

Laura Robertshaw.

(silence. The penny

dropped at CATHERINE’s

end the nano second

before CLARE said it)

Catherine?

CATHERINE’s further sickened. The boring, distressing

inevitability. Eventually

CATHERINE:

Yeah, I’m still here.

CLARE:

Who is she?

CATHERINE:

You know that saying about how

‘poison comes in little bottles’?

CLARE:

Really?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 56.

CATHERINE:
yup.

CUT TO:

58 EXT. KING’S CROSS STATION. DAY 3. 09.30 58

Establishing shot.

CUT TO:

59 INT. TRAIN, KING’S CROSS STATION. DAY 3. 09.30 59

FRANCES DRUMMOND (40) looks nervous and eager as her train

arrives at its destination. She’s a neat little woman.

Perhaps she wears glasses and looks rather studious. The

train announcer talks in a Scottish accent, reminding people

that “We are now arriving at London King’s Cross. This

service terminates here, and passengers are reminded to take

their luggage with them” etc.

CUT TO:

60 EXT. TRAIN, KING’S CROSS STATION. DAY 3. 09.31 60

FRANCES gets off the train with a substantial amount of

luggage. It’s nearly bigger than she is, but she struggles

with it with great determination.

CUT TO:

61 EXT. LEFT LUGGAGE, KINGS CROSS STATION. DAY 3. 09.35 61

FRANCES has checked all her luggage into left luggage. She

gets a receipt.

CUT TO:

61A INT. FEMALE TOILETS, KINGS CROSS STATION. DAY 3. 09.36 61A

FRANCES fixes her hair in the mirror after her long journey.

CUT TO:

62 INT. GRAVESEND PRISON, VISITORS’ SECURITY. DAY 3. 11.00 62

FRANCES looks very out of place in this oppressive, austere

prison. We see her being checked through rigorous security

procedures.

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 57.

63 INT. GRAVESEND PRISON, VISITING ROOM. DAY 3. 11.15 63

FRANCES is with TOMMY. TOMMY has tears streaming down his

face. FRANCES comes across as intelligent, educated. She’s

utterly captivated by TOMMY.

FRANCES:

I can’t believe they told you

something like in such a matter-offact

way.

TOMMY:

How else are they gonna do it? In

here.

FRANCES:

It’s appalling.

TOMMY:

I know she was what she was and

everyfin, but it’s still yer mother

int it?

FRANCES:

Of course it is.

TOMMY:

I’ve got this idea. In me head. And

it’s bugging me.

FRANCES:

What?

He’s reluctant to say it. He knows it’ll sound far-fetched.

TOMMY:

That f***ing b*tch.

(FRANCES:
who?)

Cawood.

FRANCES:

What about her?

It’s clear from her tone and her whole reaction that FRANCES

has no affection for CATHERINE.

TOMMY:

They came in to talk to me.

Yesterday afternoon. These police.

She’s been dead five, six, seven

weeks me mum, they’re not sure.

Cawood rang me mum up making

threats. She told me, me mother

did. I spoke to her on t’phone, she

were crying.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 58.

TOMMY (CONT'D)

She’d seen Ryan outside t’shop down

Hebden, and she’d spoke to him, she

said, “I’m your granny”, that’s all

she said, “I’m your granny”, then

Cawood’s ringing her up making

threats.

FRANCES:

I remember, you told me.

TOMMY:

Yeah. Well. There y’go. Then she

turns up dead. Strangled. Mashed up

inside wi’ broken glass. You see

she’s clever this b*tch, she’d do

something like that so everyone’d

go, “Well a woman’d never do

something like that to another

woman”. You see, I know how a b*tch

like that thinks. I said to ‘em,

“Are you even questioning her?”

FRANCES:

What did they say?

TOMMY:

F[uck]ing

(daft voice)

‘all lines of inquiry are being

pursued’ bollocks. They’ll hide it.

If it is her. They’ll cover it up.

She’s untouchable.

(he’s still tearful)

She’s ruined my life. And she’s

[f***ing] untouchable.

TOMMY’s tears bring tears to FRANCES’s eyes, because she

can’t bear to see him to miserable.

FRANCES:

I love you.

TOMMY:

I know you do.

They hold hands (if they’re allowed to) and gaze deep into

one another’s eyes.

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