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Season #2 Episode #2

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47 EXT. PARK WOOD CREMATORIUM, ELLAND. DAY 6. 16.20 47

CATHERINE pulls up in her car in the car park. She looks in

her rear view mirror at a couple of black saloon cars that

are parked right by the crematorium entrance. There is a

single marked police car parked discreetly and a plain CID

car. There are a handful of people hanging about in mourning

clothes. Two of them are plain clothes officers. We recognise

FRANCES DRUMMOND, but of course she’s just another face to

CATHERINE (also FRANCES may have taken the precaution of

wearing a hat that partially obscures her face). There are

three or four wobbly smack-heads who hung about with LYNN.

Another vehicle pulls up in the car park, not far from

CATHERINE, and ANDY SHEPHERD steps out. (He’s here as the

S.I.O. working on LYNN’s murder (which is why we saw him

dressed in black earlier). CATHERINE has to make sure he

doesn’t clock her.

The hearse arrives with LYNN DEWHURST’s coffin in it. From

one of the saloon cars an uniformed PRISON GUARD emerges,

followed closely by TOMMY, to whom he is handcuffed. TOMMY’s

wearing a suit, which he looks uncomfortable in. A second

uniform PRISON GUARD steps out of the other side. (A third

uniformed PRISON GUARD is driving the vehicle).

CATHERINE reacts when she sees Tommy. Anger, primarily, and a

whole host of other things. Her heart beats faster. TOMMY

sees FRANCES. They glance surreptitiously at one another, not

wanting to draw attention to themselves. They both know they

won’t be allowed any contact with one another. TOMMY’s

allowed to stand and watch as LYNN’s coffin is taken out of

the hearse and pushed on a trolley into the crematorium.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 54.

When everyone from the funeral party has gone inside the

building the hearse, the two saloon cars and the patrol car

drive off round to the other side of the chapel, all of which

CATHERINE has watched through her rear view mirror). Then she

gets out of her car and heads up to the building.

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48 INT. PARK WOOD CREMATORIUM, ELLAND. DAY 6. 16.21 48

CATHERINE lets herself quietly into the building, keen not to

be seen, but there’s no-one around, they’ve all gone into the

chapel. She peers through the glass doors into the chapel.

The small party is all congregated at the front with their

backs to CATHERINE. CATHERINE stares at the back of TOMMY’s

head. She has to decide whether she’s going to go in or not.

A hymn starts up, and even though the small congregation

doesn’t make a huge amount of noise, CATHERINE decides to

take the risk of slipping into the chapel, hoping no-one will

turn around and look at her. She keeps her head down as she

slips in. As soon as she does she sees two plain clothed

police officers who are standing at the back, but who weren’t

visible from the door. She’s quick to show in her body

language that she is no threat to anyone.

Only FRANCES hears something and turns around to look as

CATHERINE slips unobtrusively into a pew near the back.

FRANCES knows what CATHERINE looks like because she’ll have

seen pictures of her at the time of TOMMY’s trial. FRANCES is

alarmed, because she doesn’t want to be seen and later

recognised in the playground by CATHERINE. She turns back

round to the front and keeps her head down, but we can see

that she feels agitated.

We cut to look at TOMMY close up, with CATHERINE in the back

ground. TOMMY tries to sing the hymn, but he finds himself

emotional, even tearful. LYNN’s toothless drinking buddies

from Hebden are emotional too but do their best to warble

along to the hymn. CATHERINE finds herself compelled to look

at TOMMY, like she felt compelled to come here. It’s

pointless, it’s irrational. She hates seeing how well he

looks. He’s obviously looking after himself in prison, he’s

obviously coping mentally, and it irritates her profoundly.

The VICAR’s next words affect TOMMY, forced as he is to

reflect upon himself and his own life

VICAR:

Grant us, Lord, the wisdom and the

grace to use aright the time that

is left to us here on earth. Lead

us to repent of our sins, the evil

we have done, and the good we have

not yet done.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 54A.

48A INT. NEVISON’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. DAY 6. 16.45 48A

CLARE’s on a settee, on her own, no-one to talk to.

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48B INT. PARK WOOD CREMATORIUM, ELLAND. DAY 6. 48B

16.50

The VICAR as he approaches the closing sentiments of the

ceremony.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 55.

VICAR:

We entrust our sister, Lynn, to

God’s merciful keeping. And we now

commit her body to be cremated in

sure and certain hope of the

resurrection to eternal life

through our Lord Jesus Christ, who

died, who was buried, and rose

again for us.

(we discover TOMMY looking

suitably moved and

emotional as the curtain

is drawn)

Unto him that is able to keep us

from falling, and to present us

faultless before the presence of

his glory with exceeding joy, to

the only wise God our Saviour, be

glory and majesty, dominion and

power, both now and ever. Amen.

TOMMY’s given a moment to sit before he’s lead outside, but

it’s CATHERINE we’re chiefly interested in, observing all

this. The PRISON GUARD who TOMMY’s cuffed to discreetly asks

TOMMY if he’s ready to leave. He is. He stands up, and it’s

then as he happens to glance down the chapel (in an attempt

to glance at FRANCES, who is sitting right behind him)(it

might even be FRANCES who indicates to him to look behind her

at CATHERINE) that he sees CATHERINE. It’s at that moment

that CATHERINE realises that this is what she wanted. She

wanted him to see her watching him handcuffed, humiliated,

heavily guarded, seriously convicted. And so she can’t resist

a look of intense satisfaction creeping across her face in

that split second. TOMMY interprets her look correctly and it

appalls him.

TOMMY:

What’s that f***ing b*tch doing

here? Who’s let that b*tch in?

(everyone turns and sees

CATHERINE, including ANDY

SHEPHERD. TOMMY starts

really kicking off, he’s

lost it)

She killed my mother! You killed my

mother, you filthy b*tch! I know

what you did to her! You filthy

b*tch! You’re gonna get it in the

neck one day, you’re gonna get

what’s coming to you, you filthy

f***ing whore!

TOMMY’s dragged and pushed outside via the side door by the

two GUARDS he’s handcuffed to, and a number of other

officials/officers join them in getting him out of the chapel

quickly. FRANCES slinks out after TOMMY as unobtrusively as

she can, along with the other three mourners. ANDY looks at

CATHERINE. We get the idea she’s in big trouble.

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