Happy Valley

Season #2 Episode #2

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A week later

1 EXT. HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 4. 16.43 1

We follow CATHERINE’s Ford as she drives over the bridge andinto Hangingroyd Street as she returns home from work. Shepulls up outside her house (not right outside); CATHERINEsteps out of the driver’s side, and ILINKA BLAZEVIC (35,

emaciated, unhealthy, poorly dressed) steps out of thepassenger side. ILINKA is very unsure of herself; CATHERINEhas to more or less physically persuade her in the rightdirection.

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CATHERINE:

(smiling, gesturing)

Here, we’re just along here.

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We follow CATHERINE and ILINKA into the house. *

CUT TO:
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2 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 4. 16.45 2

CLARE’s with DANIEL. DANIEL’s just in from work, still in hissmart clothes. This is angry but hush hush because we canassume RYAN’s in front of the telly in the next room...

CLARE:

You told him?

He asked.

DANIEL:

CLARE:

What d’you mean he asked?

DANIEL:

I - just -

(big sigh)

We were playing a game.

CLARE:
what’s that got to do with anything?

Okay.

CLARE:

DANIEL:

And I said I might have a beer.

While Auntie Clare’s out. And he

said, “What d’you mean?” So He

daren’t complete the sentence.

CLARE:

So you told him?

(DANIEL daren’t say ‘yes’)

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 1A.

CLARE (CONT'D)

When - in fact - you coulda just

said, “Nothing. I didn’t mean

anything, I’m just chuntering”.

DANIEL:

He kept on at me, he kept asking.

And then. He was the one who said

“Is she an alcoholink?”

(beat)

ic.

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CLARE:

And did you tell him the rest? “And

she used to shoot crap up her

veins” as well?

DANIEL:

No. No. Course I didn’t!

CLARE:

You know he’s going to go repeating

that. At school.

DANIEL:

Why would he?

CLARE:

Because he does, it’s the kind of

thing he does.

DANIEL:

Okay well I’m sorry, it just...

(”slipped out”, he was

going to say, but the

truth is - )

he asked.

Just as CLARE’s about to come back at him with another sharp

comment, we hear a key in the lock and the front door’s

pushed open from outside. It’s CATHERINE, in from work,

herding in ILINKA BLAZEVIC (35, emaciated, unhealthy, poorly

dressed).

CATHERINE:

Go through, straight through,

through there, into the kitchen.

That way.

ILINKA is very unsure of herself; CATHERINE has to more or

less physically persuade her into the kitchen. CATHERINE

doesn’t instantly appreciate the tense situation she’s walked

into between CLARE and DANIEL because she’s so focussed on

making ILINKA feel safe and comfortable. CATHERINE has a

kindly, fixed grin on her face.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Ah! They’re all here. This is

Ilinka. Ilinka, this is Daniel. Say

hello.

DANIEL:

Hello.

CATHERINE:

And this is Clare.

CLARE:

Hello.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 3.

ILINKA nods, tries to smile, says a very unconfident, mumbled

“hello” back. DANIEL and CLARE are wondering what the hell’s

going on (both look bad tempered as well as confused).

CATHERINE:

(pulls a chair out, and

indicates to ILINKA)

Sit down! Sit!

(explains to DANIEL and

CLARE)

She doesn’t speak any English. So

(we have to use our hands

to explain things, she

gesticulates)

Tea! Is there any tea?

CLARE:

I’ve just boiled t’kettle.

CATHERINE:

Great!

(at ILINKA, miming)

Tea?

ILINKA:

(she nods, mumbles)

Jako ste ljubazni.

You’re very kind.

CATHERINE:

(nods, smiles, no idea

what she just said)

Yeah. Okay. So.

(she starts making a pot

of tea and prodding a

number into the phone at

the same time)

Ilinka. Came into our nick this

morning - try and smile -

(irritated CLARE and

irritated DANIEL both try

and smile)

And she’d escaped. From a house. Up

Peveril Lane. Where she was being

kept prisoner along with twenty-

five other women who’ve been

trafficked from Croatia.

CLARE:

You’re kidding.

CATHERINE:

She’s been shunted from one house

to another for over four years.

Eight of ‘em in every room at this

last place.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 4.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

She’s been working a ten hour shift

six days a week - for ten pounds a

week - at Bowen’s biscuit factory

up Rastrick.

CLARE:

That’s

CATHERINE:

Slavery, yeah. Anyway, I got an

interpreter on the phone - that

took three weeks - then I got the

O.S.U. and spoke to the trafficking

unit in Sheffield and we busted ‘em

out. The women. Only trouble now is

housing ‘em. We managed to get ten

of ‘em in at a women’s refuge in

Huddersfield, six’ve gone off to a

hostel in Leeds and five of ‘em are

at The Mission waiting for the

council to sort out the flights

back home, and Ilinka... is going

to stay with (

the person she’s dialled

answers the phone: hello?

She peers through the

conservatory across to

the house opposite)

Winnie! It’s Catherine, we’re back.

Do you want to come across?

(WINNIE:
is she there?)

Yes, she’s here.

(mouthing kindly to

ILINKA, pointing at the

phone)

Winnie.

(WINNIE:
get t’kettle on,

kid)

I have indeed got the kettle on,

Winnie. Tata.

CATHERINE hangs up.

CLARE:

I allus thought Winnie were Polish.

CATHERINE:

Yugoslavian. As was.

(a moment, then, realising

from the body language

between CLARE and DANIEL)

What’s up?

CLARE:

(reluctant to say it in

front of ILINKA, but -)

He. Has told

(whisper)

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 5.

CLARE (CONT'D)

our Ryan. That I. Am an

(mouthing it)

Alcoholic.

CATHERINE looks at DANIEL: really?

DANIEL:

It wasn’t -

(tongue-tied)

just - so cut and dried as that. As

I have tried to explain.

CLARE:

Nine years old, and he’s telling

him stuff he never needed to know.

DANIEL:

He. Asked. He. Used the word (

mouths it)

alcoholic.

CATHERINE:

(worried:
why did RYAN

even think to ask that?)

Did he?

DANIEL:

(flustered again)

I didn’t I didn’t I didn’t know how

to respond.

CATHERINE:

When was this?

DANIEL:

Last week, it was when you were at

the hospice, it was when Helen

died.

Around about now we see 85-year-old WINNIE (who’s bad on her

legs) heading across the back yard from the house opposite.

CATHERINE:

Right, well tell him you

misunderstood, you got the wrong

end of the stick, and she’s not.

CLARE looks at DANIEL: there you go. Do that.

DANIEL:

But that’s - it’s lying. He’ll

think I’m someone who makes stuff

up.

CLARE:

No, he’ll think you’re someone who

gets the wrong end of the stick.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 6.

DANIEL’s beleaguered: he’s not much happier with that.

DANIEL:

He’s not daft. He’s the opposite of

daft actually, he’s very bright,

he’s very perceptive, and he’ll be

able to tell straight away that I’m

talking shite

(smiling at ILINKA)

- sorry - and that’ll just

reinforce the fact that she is -

(correcting himself

quickly)

was. An (

mouths it gently)

alcoholic.

Poor wretched ILINKA watches cluelessly as they debate. The

two back doors are wide open (as usual on sunny afternoons)

and WINNIE calls as she struggles up the step into the

conservatory

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