Happy Valley Page #10

Season #2 Episode #2

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 48.

RYAN:

So is my Granny! And my Auntie

Clare.

FRANCES:

(worried)

Is she? Are they?

RYAN:

I wanted to go as well so I

wouldn’t have to come to school but

they wouldn’t let me. Did you know

Helen as well then?

FRANCES:

Helen?

(relief)

No. No, I’m going to someone else’s

funeral.

RYAN:

Whose?

The irony isn’t lost on FRANCES, even though it’s entirely

wasted on RYAN

FRANCES:

You didn’t know her.

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42

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CORRIDOR/STAIRS. 42

DAY 6. 11.10

Permanently pre-occupied JOHN WADSWORTH is just coming out of

the mens’ loos. He heads along a corridor, and ANDY SHEPHERD

and MIKE TAYLOR brush past him going the other way. ANDY (who

is dressed all in black) is just sharing an anecdote with

MIKE, it’s entirely coincidental, ANDY’s clearly talking

about someone else

ANDY:

(he’s smiling, amused)

I said to him, “Stop being a push

over, you pillock. You’ve got to

take decisive action! You can’t let

yourself get bullied like this,

you’re a copper for God’s sake, and

you’re a bloody good one an’ all”.

Unwittingly, ANDY’s words have an impact on JOHN. ANDY and

MIKE disappear down the corridor, still chatting, but for

JOHN this is a decisive moment. He can’t let himself be

bullied like this. Instead of going back to where he should,

he takes a detour down the stairs.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 49.

43 EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, BACKYARD. DAY 6. 11.11 43

JOHN comes out with his two phones in his hands, stuffs his

normal phone back in his pocket and presses VICKY’s number on

the phone he keeps for ringing VICKY. He’s excited. For the

first time he can see a possible way forward. Pause pause.

Ring ring. Eventually

VICKY:

(ov)

Hello.

JOHN:

Hi. It’s me. I’ve erm... you’re

right. You’re right! I should leave

her. I shoulda left her years ago.

I’m gonna go round this afternoon,

this evening - after work - and get

my stuff and that’s it, I’ll tell

her.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

44 INT. OSWALDS DEPARTMENT STORE, HALIFAX. DAY 6. 11.12 44

VICKY takes this in.

JOHN:

(ov)

Then I’ll be round at yours. Is

that all right?

Clearly this wasn’t quite what she expected, even though it

is what she wants. Is he playing her?

VICKY:

Well... yeah. Yeah. Yeah, course.

JOHN:

Right then.

VICKY:

Well...

(testing him)

you must feel relieved. Now you’ve

made that decision.

JOHN:

Yeah. Yeah! Yeah I do.

He feigns joy as best he can. And obviously she’s not daft:

she’s yet to make a decision about whether she’s buying it or

if she believes he’s up to something.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 50.

VICKY:

Okay. Well I’ll see you... what

time? Half sevenish?

JOHN:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

VICKY:

I’ll cook.

Right.

JOHN:

VICKY:

(what’s he up to?)

Great.

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45 OMITTED 45 *

46 INT. NEVISON’S HOUSE, HALLWAY/KITCHEN. DAY 6. 16.01 46

We go with SEAN as he makes his way through the house. Allthe rooms are packed with people dressed in black. Herecognises ANN (chatting to someone), although she doesn’t

recognise him. Eventually he sees NEV across the way. He’s

chatting to CATHERINE and CLARE and others (not that SEAN hasany reason to know who CATHERINE and CLARE are; last time heclocked CATHERINE it was fleeting and she was in policemode). He spots a table full of glasses of wine alreadypoured, grabs one, and nervously knocks half of it backstraight off. Then he has the courage to approach NEV. We cutto be with unwitting NEV as SEAN approaches.

NEVISON:

No, she’d have been pleased, she

never liked owt mawkish. I wanted

it to be a celebration, she

wouldn’t have wanted people going

home sticking their head in theoven. Course we’re planning aproper memorial service in thecathedral in Halifax, althoughwe’ve not got a date yet. It’ssomething [she’d]

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 51.

SEAN taps NEV on his shoulder.

SEAN:

Mr. Gallagher.

(NEV turns. We - and NEV realise

how nervous SEAN

is. He talks too fast)

Sorry. Nev. To interrupt. I just

wanted to say how sorry. I am. I

had a lot to be grateful to Mrs.

Gallagher for. And...

(he seems genuinely

emotional talking about

HELEN)

I tried to catch your eye at the

crem but obviously you had a lot on

your mind, and I realise you

probably might not want me here,

but I just wanted to say sorry.

Again. About that other business.

NEVISON:

Sean. Lad. What am I gonna do with

you. Eh?

We cut to CATHERINE and CLARE as NEV continues to talk to

SEAN. CATHERINE’s intrigued by SEAN. There’s something about

him that speaks to her copper’s instincts.

CATHERINE:

Who’s that?

CLARE:

That. Is Sean...

(can’t remember his

surname)

somebody. Works for Nev.

(lowers her voice)

He’s been inside. He used to hang

about at the Mission just after he

got out. Helen got him on the

straight and narrow and he’s been

working for Nev ever since.

Balmforth! Sean Balmforth.

(CATHERINE goes a bit

thoughtful)

What?

CATHERINE spends a second or so weighing up whether to share

what she knows or not, then

CATHERINE:

I was down Stoneyroyd Lane a coupla

days ago.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 52.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

Warning the girls to be extra

vigilant wi’ this bastard out there

doing what he’s doing and this van

came creeping along, and then when

whoever it was saw me they sped

off. So I PNC’d the vehicle, and...

that was the name that came up as

the owner. Sean Balmforth.

CLARE pulls a face like she wouldn’t put it past him. NEV and

SEAN are shaking hands, we get the idea that NEV’s given him

his job back.

CLARE:

You see that were the thing with

Helen. Just occasionally there’d be

someone come along, and you’d

think, “I wouldn’t touch that

bastard with a barge pole”. But she

never thought like that. About

anyone. Ever. No-one was beyond the

pale.

We might be reminded of that conversation CATHERINE had with

ANNETTE and LEONIE about “was there ever anyone that gave you

the creeps?” We see CATHERINE mull CLARE’s comment over. Then

suddenly

CATHERINE:

Listen, I’ve got to go.

CLARE:

Eh?

CATHERINE:

I’ve stuff to do. You stay here,

this is your crowd. I’ll pick you

up later. Is that okay? If I take

the car?

CLARE:

(wrong footed)

I don’t actually know that many

[people]

CATHERINE:

Yes you do.

(nodding at someone from

The Mission)

Liz is here.

This so isn’t what CLARE expected.

CLARE:

Okay. But. If I get bored I’ll need

picking up sooner.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 53.

CATHERINE:

I am coming back.

CLARE:

I thought we were stopping.

CATHERINE:

(she nods, she’s not

listening)

I’m going to slip out.

She means so she’s not saying big emotional goodbyes to NEV

or ANN (also she doesn’t want ANN to know where she’s going).

She goes, and CLARE’s left a bit high and dry and a bit

pissed off; she assumed CATHERINE would be here for the

duration (and whilst there will be people here from the

Mission side of HELEN’s world, CLARE will feel out of her

depth and shabby beside the confident affluent majority).

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