Happy Valley Page #12

Season #2 Episode #2

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 56.

The look ANDY’s giving her is designed to make people shrivel

up. But we also get the idea - as CATHERINE gives him a

similar look back - that she probably doesn’t care. We hear

Tommy still shouting and kicking as he’s dragged outside.

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49

EXT. HEPTONSTALL GRAVEYARD. DAY 6. 17.15 49

Maybe an hour later. CATHERINE’s at BECKY’s grave. Wallowing

in all the stuff she wallows in whenever she goes up there.

She feels vindicated, she’s glad she went to the crematorium,

it was worth it. She got exactly what she wanted from it,

even though she didn’t know what she wanted when she went

there. Her mobile bleats. She checks who’s ringing. Mike

Taylor. She knows she’s going to have to face the music and

she’s feeling robust enough to do so. She accepts the call.

CATHERINE:

Hello.

MIKE:

Where are you?

CATHERINE:

Nowhere. It’s my day off. Why,

where are you?

Cutting as and when with:

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50

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, REPORT ROOM/STAIRS/ 50

FRONT DESK. DAY 6. 17.16

MIKE’s angry, and really really trying hard not to let it

show. He knows this must have been tough for CATHERINE, but

she has over stepped the mark. We see JOYCE at the front desk

and a MEMBER OF CLERICAL UNIFORM STAFF (WOMAN).

MIKE:

I do do

my best for you. You know.

Catherine. What the hell did you go

there for?

CATHERINE:

Just... I dunno. To make sure.

MIKE:

To make sure...? What?

CATHERINE thinks about that. She can’t explain to MIKE on a

phone call, so it’s easier to say

CATHERINE:

Dunno.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 57.

He gives her a moment to enlarge on that, but he just gets

silence.

MIKE:

Right! Well I’ve just had my arse

kicked by the Super for not

explaining to you beforehand that

if you were so much as thinking of

turning up there today it would be

considered grossly inappropriate.

CATHERINE puts her finger over the mic on the phone and

mumbles

CATHERINE:

Yeah piss off whatever.

MIKE:

Also. Are you listening? Also.

You’ve still not alibied yourself,

and turning up there - at the

victim’s funeral - has not helped

your case one jot, one iota, one...

(he can’t think of another

thing)

Tiny little bit.

CATHERINE hadn’t thought of that. Suddenly not so robust any

more. But then she remembers

CATHERINE:

I haven’t got a case.

MIKE:

This is really serious, Catherine.

You have got a case to answer! You

found the body, you made

threatening phone calls, you had a

motive, and now you’ve turned up at

the victim’s funeral!

CATHERINE:

What motive?

MIKE:

Revenge. Against Tommy Lee Royce.

(oh yeah, oops)

You’ve demonstrated very very poor

judgement going there today.

(silence)

Catherine?

CATHERINE:

Yeah I’m still here.

MIKE:

Right well stop pissing about and

get yourself eliminated.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 58.

CATHERINE keeps calm as she replies. She does still regard it

as a massive indignity that she has to eliminate herself.

Even though she should know better.

CATHERINE:

I can’t. I’ve checked everything,

my calendar, my pocket book, my

smart phone, the rosta, everything.

And there’s nothing. I wasn’t doing

anything with anybody who can give

me an alibi on any of those days. I

mean I probably was but I have no

record of it. All right?

(silence)

Boss?

(silence)

Mike?

MIKE’s just bewildered at the other end. Why won’t she play

the game? CATHERINE’s starting to realise she may have made a

bad move by going to the crematorium, but she still doesn’t

really care. If she had the choice to do it again she

probably would.

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50A INT. CAR. DAY 6. 17.20 50A

TOMMY’s being driven back to H.M.P. Gravesend. He’s still

very very angry, his eyes are red from tears of anger, and

his forehead’s gashed from the scuffle he created.

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51 OMITTED 51

52 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, BEDROOM. DAY 6. 18.46 52

JOHN’s putting clothes into an over night bag.

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53 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 6. 18.47 53

AMANDA’s busy unloading carrier bags from the supermarket,

and we can hear the tv in another room, so we know the

children are around. JOHN heads downstairs and into the

kitchen. With the over night bag.

JOHN:

(happy)

Oh, you’re back! I’ve been called

away on obs. We’re following a

suspect.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 58A.

AMANDA:

Oh okay. How’re you feeling?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 59-60.

JOHN:

I’m fine. It might be two days.

Hopefully not. If it’s gonna be any

longer than that I’ll let you know.

AMANDA:

You need to catch this bastard.

JOHN:

We will.

(he kisses her. Again it’s

sexless, perfunctory)

Seeya.

AMANDA:

Bye.

He goes. We linger on AMANDA again. We sense that she hasn’t

bought a word of that. But again, it clearly suits her not to

say anything about it. AMBER wanders in to refill her glass

with juice.

AMBER:

Where’s he going?

AMANDA:

Work.

(she goes back to

unpacking her shopping)

Always work.

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54 OMITTED 54

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 61.

54A EXT. VICKY’S FLAT. EVENING 6. 20.29 54A

Establisher. We can see JOHN’S car parked in the street

opposite.

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55 INT. VICKY’S FLAT. EVENING 6. 20.30 55

VICKY’s just opened the door to JOHN. With his over night bag

and a bunch of flowers. She smiles. She looks nice. He

smiles.

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56 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, LIVING ROOM. EVENING 6. 20.31 56

In the sitting/dining area VICKY hands JOHN a glass of wine.

She’s set the table. Through in the kitchen there’s some

music on, and the kitchen’s full of stuff where VICKY’s been

busy cooking.

JOHN:

How’s this going to work? I mean. I

have to be frank. I don’t feel much

like being intimate. With the

threat of those pictures. Of me.

Out there somewhere in the ether.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 62.

VICKY takes that on board, but then chooses not to run with

it.

VICKY:

What did she say? Amanda. When you

told her.

JOHN considers.

JOHN:

She said she knew. She said she’d

known for a while. Well, suspected.

VICKY:

Did she want to know who I was?

JOHN:

Yeah.

VICKY:

Did you tell her?

JOHN:

No.

VICKY:

I know you’re worried about the

children. But we can make it work.

You can bring them here.

JOHN:

There’s not room.

VICKY:

Yeah. Obviously. We’d have to get

somewhere bigger.

JOHN:

At some point. You will have to

give me the phone, and anywhere

you’ve backed ‘em up. I mean... we

have to have that trust back. Don’t

we? I have to.

VICKY:

So she didn’t go mad? She didn’t

make a big scene in front of the

kids?

JOHN:

No.

VICKY:

I wonder why?

A moment. Is she testing him?

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