Happy Valley Page #12

Season #2 Episode #1

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63A EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. DAY 3. 11.24 63A

Establisher. It’s a grim afternoon.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 59.

64 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MIKE’S OFFICE. DAY 3. 64

11.25

CATHERINE (wearing her big outdoor kit, like she’s just got

in) is knocking on MIKE’s open door.

CATHERINE:

You wanted to see me?

MIKE:

(nods)

It’s a serial killer. It’s

official.

CATHERINE:

So I take it I’m off the hook.

Inevitably a spot of light sarcasm crept in there.

MIKE:

Ah.

CATHERINE:

You’re joking.

MIKE:

The thing is.

CATHERINE:

Tell me you’re joking.

MIKE:

They’ve got much more specific

times of death on the other two

operations, so if you can alibi

yourself for those times, you’re

laughing.

CATHERINE:

I’m really seriously not even

thinking about laughing, Mike.

MIKE:

It’s routine, it’s procedure, I

know it’s not much f[un]

CATHERINE:

It’s wank, it’s toss.

MIKE:

D’you want the dates and times?

CATHERINE:

No.

She heads off, back to her own office.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 60.

MIKE:

Shall I email them to you?

CATHERINE:

(oov)

No.

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65 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CORRIDOR. DAY 3. 11.26 65

CATHERINE heads for the main office. We see DAVE and GORKEM.

ANN can be seen in the main room.

MIKE:

(oov)

Walking away isn’t going to make it

go away! Catherine? Where y’going?

CATHERINE:

I’m going to strangle a few more

prostitutes and stick some more

broken bottles where the sun

doesn’t shine.

She’s really wound up. MIKE appears at his door.

MIKE:

You do know that’s not funny. Even

in fun that’s not funny.

CATHERINE:

No. Really? I thought it was

hilarious.

MIKE:

Play the game, Catherine! Just tick

the boxes! It’s all they n[eed]!

CATHERINE’s turned round and is back in MIKE’s face

CATHERINE:

Has anyone thought to go out and

talk to the girls on Stoneyroyd

Lane? Eh? Warn ‘em to watch out for

each other and not to go with

anybody they don’t know, ectetera

ectetera.

MIKE:

Yeah. No. Not yet, but we will do

that obviously. I’m going to email

you those dates.

CATHERINE sets off again towards the main office as MIKE

disappears back into his office.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 61.

CATHERINE:

Yeah good luck with that sir.

CATHERINE heads into the main office...

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66

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. 66

DAY 3. 11.27

...where ANN GALLAGHER’s clutching a telephone. SLEDGE and

SHAF are in there.

ANN:

Catheri[ne?] Sarg. It’s Joyce.

CATHERINE takes the phone off ANN.

CATHERINE:

Joyce.

Cutting as and when with:

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67

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, RECEPTION. DAY 3. 11.28 67

JOYCE:

There’s a lady down here, Alison

Garrs?

(we see ALISON and DARYL

GARRS, who we met at the

farm in scene 10)

She says she’s the one whose sheep

you put out of it’s misery day

before yesterday.

On CATHERINE:
what fresh hell is this? She hands the phone

back to ANN and sets off again.

ANN:

(in CATHERINE’s wake, to

JOYCE - )

She’s coming.

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68

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, RECEPTION. DAY 3. 11.29 68

Seconds later. CATHERINE (not in the best of moods by now)

heads into reception. She’s conscious of trying not to

inflict her mood on them: her problems aren’t their problems.

CATHERINE:

Morning.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 62.

DARYL loiters behind his mother, he’s got a contusion to his

forehead. ALISON isn’t a pushy, unpleasant woman, she doesn’t

like making a fuss. She’s possibly never set foot in a police

station before; she’s here because she’s genuinely aggrieved.

ALISON GARRS:

Look what they’ve done to Daryl.

This is them lads that you let off

with a caution. He went into t’shop

down Ovenden and they started

pushing him around and making sheep

noises at him.

DARYL is embarrassed. And ALISON is nearly in tears saying

the last bit. CATHERINE gets the idea - even more than she

did the first time she met him - that DARYL is crippled by a

chronic lack of confidence. She opens the desk flap to let

them through, and she addresses JOYCE

CATHERINE:

Ask Dave to come down and take a

statement. I want a crime on for a

Section 39.

(then to ALISON and DARYL)

Would you like to come through?

(DARYL’s reluctant,

nervous that there’ll be

even more repercussions.

CATHERINE’s kind to him)

Come on, lad. We don’t bite. I’m

gonna nip this in the bud. Go on

through.

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69 EXT. VALLEY (FROM BURNLEY ROAD). DAY 3. 15.00 69

A GV of the Valley. A grim day.

We jump from late morning to mid/late afternoon...

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70 EXT. STONEYROYD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE. DAY 3. 15.30 70

A girl and a woman loiter together (the girl no older than

17, the woman 32 going on 56) by the railway viaduct. They’re

both junkies; the older one’s pale, wasted, her clothes

crumpled and unwashed, the younger one similar, but with makeup

on. A blue Ford pulls up. The girl and the woman look to

see if they recognise who’s driving. It’s CATHERINE taking a

little detour on her way home from work. CATHERINE gets out

of the car and saunters over to them. She’s got a supermarket

carrier bag.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 63.

CATHERINE:

Hello ladies.

They both chorus “Hiya”. They both know her. They’re a bit in

awe of her, but they both know she’s all right with you if

you’re all right with her.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

How’s things, Annette? How’re you

getting on at Lifeline?

She’s talking to the older one, who seems a bit addled, but

polite enough.

ANNETTE:

Oh... I don’t like going. ShLEONIE

e dunt like going.

ANNETTE:

It’s full o’ smackheads.

CATHERINE:

Yeah, is it?

ANNETTE:

They’ll have yer sat waiting for

hours for nowt and I said to him,

“Look lovey, time’s money”.

LEONIE:

And it is. Y’know. To be fair.

CATHERINE:

Are you hungry?

CATHERINE holds open the supermarket bag, which has sandwich

packs in it (a good few, she didn’t know how many women would

be here).

LEONIE:

(cheerful)

Oh, I’m allus hungry me!

ANNETTE LEONIE (CONT'D)

(fond)I’m like a dustbin.

She’s like a dustbin.

CATHERINE:

You looking after yourself Leonie?

ANNETTE:

Yep. Yup. She is. I keep an eye on

her.

LEONIE:

(reading the label)

Why do they allus put sweetcorn in

wi’ tuna? Who invented that?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 64.

CATHERINE:

Just take it all between you, go

on.

CATHERINE can’t be arsed with them picking and choosing which

sandwiches they do and don’t want, it isn’t like she’s going

to keep any of them after they’ve picked through them.

ANNETTE:

You sure, lovey?

LEONIE:

D’you like my new eyeliner, Mrs.

Cawood?

CATHERINE:

Oh yeah.

ANNETTE:

(fond)

Int she pretty?

CATHERINE:

Where did you nick that from then

Leonie?

ANNETTE gives a little appreciative laugh: funny a police

officer can ask you that and no-one cares.

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