Happy Valley Page #13

Season #2 Episode #1

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LEONIE:

Boots. Boots’s.

CATHERINE:

Okay. Listen. You need to know.

We’ve got a bit of a weirdo doing

the rounds. He’s killed three

girls. Women. One in Elland, one in

Brighouse, then another one two

days ago up Ovenden. There’s going

to be an announcement later this

aft. He’s targeting vulnerable

people like yourselves. All right?

And he’s not just killing ‘em, he’s

doing stuff to ‘em - I can’t really

tell you what, I’ll leave it to

your imagination - but it’s not

much fun, so you need to be aware,

all right? You need to have eyes in

your backside.

(LEONIE’s busy checking

out her sandwich innards)

Leonie, are you listening?

It’s at this point that we cut to the inside of a little van CUT

TO:

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 65.

71 INT/EXT. VAN/STONEYROYD LANE. DAY 3. 15.31 71

We’re inside a van as it comes around the corner and we see

CATHERINE chatting to ANNETTE and LEONIE from our POV inside

the van. Then we see that it’s SEAN BALMFORTH driving the

van. He’s got loud music on, and he’s swigging vodka from a

half bottle. Instantly he knows CATHERINE isn’t one of the

girls; her big black boots and black trousers beneath her

civvies coat (and her general robust, healthy, upright

appearance) give her away instantly. SEAN puts his foot down

and speeds* [see below] past them...

CUT TO:

72 EXT. STONEYROYD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE. DAY 3. 15.32 72

CATHERINE:

...new cars, new punters, anyone

who makes your flesh crawl, anyone

you’ve felt you were lucky to come

away from alive, anyone that makes

you feel uncomfortable or odd,

promise me you’ll come and talk to

me.

(SEAN’s van speeds* past:

we now see the van is a

small, elderly van that’d

struggle to pass it’s

MOT)

Who’s that?

ANNETTE and LEONIE watch the van then chorus together in a

genuine “Dunno”. CATHERINE tries to make a mental note of the

number plate (FL02 GDK) before it disappears.

*SEAN might be too nousy to speed past. It’s more something

CATHERINE notices about someone who was lingering... and then

wasn’t.

CUT TO:

72A EXT. SOWERBY BRIDGE. EVENING 2. 20.30 72A

It’s a rainy, gloomy evening in Sowerby Bridge.

CUT TO:

73 INT. HOSPICE, CORRIDOR. EVENING 3. 20.29 73

It’s raining.

CATHERINE and CLARE head along the corridor to HELEN’s room.

They talk in hushed voices

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 66.

CLARE:

It’s been going on for months, she

reckons. She thinks it was going on

even before Daisy was born.

CATHERINE:

I’m not saying owt to him. If he

wants to talk to me, he’ll talk to

me. I’m not starting interfering in

people’s marriages.

CLARE:

Course, whether it’s true or not...

although why would she make it up?

I don’t think she would, but she

coulda got wrong end o’ t’stick.

CATHERINE:

We’ll have to tidy out the spare

bedroom. If he is stopping. He’s

not camping out in t’sitting room,

not for any length of time, it’s

not fair on Ryan. It’s not fair on

us.

CLARE:

I could move out.

CATHERINE:

You’re not moving out.

CLARE:

It’s more his home than mine.

Though. Isn’t it? Technically.

CATHERINE still feels sh*t about what she said to CLARE

eighteen months ago about getting her own place.

CATHERINE:

Don’t say that.

They’ve reached HELEN’s room. The bed is empty. It’s been

made up neatly. The cards and flowers are gone. They look at

one another, their hearts sinking. CLARE’s particularly,

CLARE’s the one who’s close to HELEN. Expected as it is,

these things are always a shock. The emptiness of the bed. An

ORDERLY is passing.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Excuse me. Where’s Mrs. Gallagher?

CUT TO:

74 INT. HOSPICE, VISITOR’S SITTING ROOM. EVENING 3. 20.32 74

It’s still raining outside. NEVISON and ANN sit silently,

close (but separate) to one another.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 67.

They’re both in calm, quiet, reflective, tearful mode.

CATHERINE goes and hugs ANN. ANN hugs CATHERINE tight and

silently cries her eyes out. NEV sees that CLARE has tears in

her eyes. He stands up and (slightly self-consciously) hugs

her. He knows how much HELEN meant to CLARE.

NEV:

(he whispers, reassuring

himself as much as CLARE)

It were very peaceful. Very

peaceful.

ANN’s really blubbing now because she can let go with

CATHERINE in a way she just couldn’t with her dad.

CATHERINE’s tearful too because it’s so heart breaking, and

because she cares deeply about ANN.

CATHERINE:

Shhh...

CUT TO:

75 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 3. 20.40 75

It’s dark outside, and still raining. DANIEL and RYAN are

sitting cosily at the table in the kitchen together playing

King of Tokyo (a board game). DANIEL’s watching RYAN as RYAN

shakes and throws the dice; we sense that DANIEL’s somehow

made peace with RYAN over the last eighteen months, and now

actually finds it a good and surprising thing that’s

happened. RYAN moves his piece on the board, and then

RYAN:

Can I get a biscuit Uncle Daniel?

DANIEL’s surprised he’s being asked. But then of course he

realises that RYAN’s young enough to think that you just do

ask the adult, whoever the adult is.

DANIEL:

Yeah. I guess so. D’you know where

they are?

Course he does.

RYAN:

Do you want one?

DANIEL:

Nar. Thanks. Actually... I might

have a beer.

(he gets one from a four-

pack from the fridge)

While Auntie Clare’s out.

He winks at RYAN as he says it.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 68.

RYAN:

Why? Can you not drink beer when

Auntie Clare’s in?

DANIEL:

Well... you can. But we don’t. Do

we. ‘Cos...

RYAN:

Why?

DANIEL’s kicking himself: he shouldn’t have got into this

conversation.

DANIEL:

She doesn’t like it.

RYAN:

Why?

DANIEL:

Erm...

(he’s struggling)

Well, because sh[e] - it’s -

because she’s - erm -

RYAN:

Is she an alcoholink?

DANIEL’s surprised. He considers his answer carefully. But

given that RYAN seems to know more than DANIEL was about to

give him credit for

DANIEL:

Well yes. Yes, she is. Was. Is.

RYAN takes that in. Nods. Thinks about it.

RYAN:

What is an alcoholink?

DANIEL:
oh sh*t.

DANIEL:

It’s - it’s - actually it’s alcoholic.

It’s someone who...

(how to put it?)

doesn’t... like alcohol.

RYAN:

I don’t like it.

DANIEL:

No okay, it’s - actually, what it

is is, it’s someone who likes

alcohol...

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 69.

DANIEL (CONT'D)

(whispers/mouths it, like

it’s something we don’t

mention)

A bit too much.

DANIEL pulls a face, and makes a wobbly hand drinking gesture

to accompany the line. On confused RYAN, the cogs whirring in

his brain.

CUT TO:

76 EXT. HEBDEN BRIDGE RAILWAY STATION. NIGHT 3. 20.45 76

A train has just pulled into Hebden Bridge station. Still

raining. Amongst others, FRANCES DRUMMOND steps off with her

voluminous luggage. She looks around for signs for the town

centre, but struggles to see anything through her glasses in

the rain. She perseveres, identifies what she needs to know,

and heads off.

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