Happy Valley Page #7

Season #2 Episode #1

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SEAN:

How’s Mrs. Gallagher?

SEAN is essentially a charmless man, but we sense the

question is genuine. Perhaps we sense that HELEN’s kindness

has touched SEAN’s life at some point in the past, and it’s

something he’s always remembered.

NEV:

Oh, she’s...

He shakes his head. SEAN lingers another moment and then

goes. Then NEV feels sh*t: should he have given him another

chance? He dismisses the thought and heads back off outside,

back to HELEN’s bedside.

CUT TO:

41 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, INTERVIEW ROOM. DAY 2. 41

14.55

CATHERINE’s with D.I.SHACKLETON, and a D.C. (because

CATHERINE’s a sergeant she has to be interviewed by someone

of a higher rank than herself).

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 33.

We should get the clear sense that modern detectives aren’t

clever d*cks here to catch the person they’re questioning out

(even when they might appear to be saying something

challenging), they’re simply here to uncover the truth as

objectively and as professionally as they can. They’ve all

got mugs of tea, it’s a casual enough interview. The D.C.

takes notes as CATHERINE talks.

JODIE:

Did you recognise her?

CATHERINE:

At the scene? No no, the face was

gone, it could’ve been a lad for

all I knew. Soon as I realised what

I was looking at I got out of there

and secured it.

JODIE:

But you did know Lynn Dewhurst?

CATHERINE:

(she nods, it sickens her)

Yeah I knew Lynn. She was Tommy Lee

Royce’s mother.

JODIE knows without being told that CATHERINE is the sergeant

who was hospitalised by TOMMY LEE ROYCE before he was

arrested and sent down for three Cat A murders.

JODIE:

What contact had you had with her?

Recently?

CATHERINE knew this was coming. It was the prospect of being

asked this very question that spooked her when MIKE TAYLOR

told her whose body it was she’d discovered.

CATHERINE:

Okay. Well I had had reason -

recently - to warn her to keep away

from my grandson.

(she waits to be prompted,

then realises that JODIE

is simply waiting for her

to do a bit of free

recall)

My daughter, Becky - she’s dead,

she died, she took her own life -

but. Tommy Lee Royce... was the

f[ather] -

(she goes silent and

pauses until she can

trust herself to pick it

up again without becoming

emotional)

he wasn’t the father, he raped her,

he raped my daughter.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 34.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

He wasn’t convicted for it, but

that’s what happened, so. Lynn

found this out about eighteen

months ago - that Royce was Ryan’s

biological... [whatever]. Then

four, five, six weeks ago down in

Hebden, Ryan came home saying he’d

met this woman, this drunk woman,

outside the shop telling him that

she was his grandmother. She didn’t

do anything, but. The point was.

There’s a court order against Royce

making any contact with Ryan

whatsoever, either directly or

indirectly. So I knocked on at her

address - with the intention of

warning her off - but she wasn’t

in, so - or she wasn’t opening the

door -so I left a couple of

messages. On her answer machine.

Messages which may have sounded

threatening, and which I assume

you’ve got hold of. Which is - I

assume - why we’re here.

JODIE doesn’t confirm or deny (but they will have got hold of

them).

JODIE:

What did you say in these messages?

CATHERINE:

Warned her to keep away from him. I

said if she didn’t stay away from

him, she’d regret it. I said if she

came anywhere near Ryan again,

there’d be consequences. Which

there would be - as I say - there’s

a court order.

JODIE:

Did you see Lynn again subsequently

after you’d left those messages?

CATHERINE:

(very definite, clear,

objective)

No.

JODIE:

Which phone did you ring her on?

CATHERINE:

My land line at home.

(an afterthought - )

It’s blocked.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 35.

JODIE:

When exactly did you leave the

messages?

CATHERINE:

When it happened. Four, five, six

weeks ago.

JODIE:

Can you be any more specific?

CATHERINE:

It was a Wednesday when she spoke

to him. Because he was late in. He

has football after school on a

Wednesday, so I knocked on her door

the next day, Thurs[day]

(suddenly it strikes her)

I’d been to Bradford.

(she gets her smart book

from her pocket)

I’d been to a Child Sexual

Exploitation seminar in Bradford

and I was on my way back and I was

passing, so I knocked.

(she finds appropriate the

page)

There you go. Thursday the

fourteenth of July.

(she shows them:
she’s got

the CSE seminar listed in

the smart book)

Then I rang her not long after I

got in. Half past five-ish? And

then again happen an hour later.

JODIE:

Can you remember why you left two

messages?

CATHERINE:

(a shrug, she can’t

remember, she can only

guess at her own motives)

To get the message across. You

could never be certain t’lift’d

gone to t’top floor wi’ Lynn, her

brain was so addled with crap. And

I dunno, I suppose I hoped she

might pick up the phone a second

time.

JODIE accepts that.

JODIE:

And you had no subsequent contact

with her?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 36.

CATHERINE:

You’ve asked me that already Ma’am.

(she kicks herself, she

knows there’s nothing to

be gained getting snippy

with a detective)

No, there was no subsequent

contact.

JODIE:

Okay, look Catherine. You used to

work in H-MIT, you know the

procedure. You left threatening

messages on her answer machine, and

you found the body. We have to

eliminate you, that’s all. At the

minute we’re looking at a two week

period when the pathologist

believes Lynn’s death occurred. He

won’t commit himself to being any

more specific, given the condition

her body was in. What I’d like to

ask you to do is go away and look

at your smart phone, your diary,

your pocket book, your work rosta,

look at your calendar at home, come

back to us with as accurate an

account - a chronological account -

of what you were doing Saturday

23rd July to Saturday 6th August.

You’re not a suspect.

CATHERINE tries to resist saying the next thing, but it slips

out anyway

CATHERINE:

Everyone was a suspect when I was

in H-MIT.

She would like to walk out at this point ideally, but she

can’t, she has to wait to be told she can go.

CUT TO:

42 EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. DAY 2. 15.20 42

CATHERINE’s going home. She’s heading out the back door along

with ANN. Another couple of officers from her team are

heading out too (separately), knocking off for the day. They

call “Seeya/seeya Sarg” etc to one another. CATHERINE and ANN

head for their cars, CATHERINE for her elderly Ford, ANN for

whatever smart little motor NEVISON bought for her to replace

the yellow mini.

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