Happy Valley Page #13

Season #2 Episode #2

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 63.

JOHN:

Maybe it hadn’t sunk in. I don’t

know. Maybe she didn’t want to make

a scene. In front of them.

VICKY:

She didn’t follow you. Did she?

JOHN:

I doubt it.

VICKY takes that in (accepts it) and heads back into the

kitchen.

VICKY:

I’m making a moussaka.

JOHN waits ‘til she’s out of view, and then starts looking

under cushions, feeling under the settee, he turns a picture

round to see if anything’s cellotaped to the back. VICKY

heads back in, and misses seeing him doing something

suspicious by a nanosecond. She’s got a mobile phone in her

hand. She holds it up with a smile and then tosses it to him.

VICKY (CONT’D)

There you go.

JOHN can’t believe it. His relief is short-lived of course.

It doesn’t mean she hasn’t backed up the photos elsewhere.

CUT TO:

57 EXT. NEVISON’S HOUSE. NIGHT 6. 21.30 57

CATHERINE’s arrived back at NEV’s. A lot of the cars have

gone, but there are still a few here. CATHERINE reaches the

front door (which isn’t shut) and tentatively heads inside.

CUT TO:

58 INT. NEVISON’S HOUSE, HALLWAY/KITCHEN. NIGHT 6. 21.31 58

CATHERINE comes into the housebody. There’s no-one around at

all, but she can hear voices. She goes further into the

house, and finds a gathering of people in the kitchen,

amongst them NEV.

NEVISON:

Catherine!

CATHERINE:

Hi.

NEV’s had a few drinks.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 64.

NEVISON:

You snuck off.

CATHERINE:

I had things to do. Is our Clare

about?

NEVISON:

I think they’re in t’garden. Her

and Ann, I think they were having a

cigarette. She thinks I don’t know

she smokes. Ann. Not Clare.

CUT TO:

59 EXT. NEVISON’S HOUSE, GARDEN. NIGHT 6. 21.32 59

CATHERINE can hear voices and a bit of laughter as she heads

through the dark into the posh garden. She finds CLARE and

ANN. They’re both smoking, and they’re both drunk. Daft

drunk, the pair of them, and swigging cans of beer. (The tone

of their laughter needs to reflect that they’re still aware

of the sadness of the occasion, but the edge has been taken

off it by the alcohol).

CATHERINE:

Clare?

CLARE:

Oh sh*t, she’s here.

ANN:

Evenin’ all.

CLARE:

Finally.

CATHERINE:

What’s going on?

ANN CATHERINE (CONT'D)

Nothing. (at CLARE)

What y’doing?

CLARE:

Okay. Calm down. I just - I just...

needed something to blur the edges.

ANN:

Anyway, where did you disappear off

to?

CATHERINE:

How much has she had to drink?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 65.

ANN:

I don’t know, I haven’t been

counting.

CLARE:

Don’t start.

CATHERINE:

Don’t start?

ANN:

She’s allowed a drink, it’s a

funeral.

The only reason CATHERINE doesn’t rip into ANN is precisely

because it is her mother’s funeral. She turns to CLARE.

CATHERINE:

D’you want to get in the car?

ANN:

Ey come on Catherine, she’s not

fifteen.

CLARE:

Yeah, come on Catherine.

(CATHERINE tries to get

CLARE’s drink off her)

No no no no no no.

CATHERINE:

Put it down.

CLARE:

I don’t need it.

CATHERINE:

Good put it down then.

CLARE:

Why don’t you chill? Out.

CATHERINE:

You know... today of all days to

fall off the wagon. Helen would’ve

been really proud of you.

“Fall off the wagon” of course makes ANN realise what’s going

on. She’s appalled.

CLARE:

Don’t start throwing that out at

me. That’s below the belt, that is.

CATHERINE:

All right, well what would she have

said? Come on, put it down.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 66.

CLARE:

I’ve been very upset today.

CATHERINE:

I know you’ve been upset, but you

can make the decision. You can make

the right decision, right now, not

to let this go any further. When

did she start?

CLARE:

Can we not talk to me like I’m

about six? Please. Or not even

present.

CATHERINE:

Clare’s an alcoholic.

ANN:

I didn’t know that.

CLARE:

Yeah that’s right, go on, embarrass

me.

CATHERINE:

When did she start?

ANN:

She’s not had tons.

Although ANN doesn’t really know; she doesn’t know when CLARE

started.

CLARE:

Who’s ‘she’? The cat’s mother?

CATHERINE:

I don’t want to embarrass you,

Clare, I just want you to not let

this go any further than it has

done already. I want you to put

that down and I want you to get

into the car.

(impasse)

Please.

(impasse)

Do you want me to treat you like

I’m your sister and I love you. Or

do you want me to treat you like

I’m a police officer? Which I will

do if I have to.

CLARE:

I’ve not done anything illegal.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 67.

CATHERINE:

Yes. But if you carry on, you and

me both know that you probably

will.

CLARE weighs things up, then makes a little exhibition of

handing the can of beer to CATHERINE. Like she can take it or

leave it. CATHERINE takes it.

CLARE:

Well I need a wee anyway. Before we

go.

CATHERINE:

Right.

CLARE sets off towards the house. She trips up and talks to

herself/whatever she’s tripped on

CLARE:

Oops. Shhh. Sorry.

She goes. ANN’s appalled. It’s kind of sobered her up.

ANN:

I’m sorry. Catherine. I had no

idea.

CATHERINE doesn’t want to make ANN feel worse, not today.

CATHERINE:

She’ll go through your fridge,

she’ll be in your cupboards finding

things to take home with her.

ANN:

Oh f[uck].

ANN hands CATHERINE her can of beer and heads for the house.

CATHERINE knows damned well she shouldn’t have left CLARE.

She puts both cans of beer down and follows.

CUT TO:

60 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 6. 21.50 60

JOHN and VICKY have eaten. The room’s nicely lit with

candles, there’s some relaxing music on, and under any other

circumstances it could appear romantic. JOHN’s preoccupied

with the stupid little mobile phone, even though he’s

presumably now deleted everything off it. He’s had a bit to

drink now, just like CLARE.

JOHN:

Thing is though, how do I know you

didn’t back it up somewhere else?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 68.

VICKY:

Because I’m telling you.

(she’s smiling)

And anyway. It doesn’t matter. Now.

Does it? You’re here. You made the

decision to come here. And that’s

all that matters. Even if I had

backed it up - which I haven’t - as

long as you’re here... it wouldn’t

matter.

JOHN:

What if I walked out? Would you

suddenly remember that you had

backed it up somewhere?

VICKY:

Are you going to?

JOHN:

No.

VICKY:

Well then.

JOHN:

Have you?

VICKY:

Have I what?

JOHN:

Backed it up somewhere.

VICKY:

No.

JOHN:

You have, I’m not stupid.

VICKY:

I only used that phone to take the

photos and email them to you. So...

well, yeah. Technically. I could’ve

emailed them to my own email

address as well - and any number of

other people - and backed them up.

But. I didn’t.

(she smiles)

You are going to have to trust me,

John.

JOHN:

Trust you? You know - you do

realise - you could’ve killed me.

With that - ! Bloody drug. Where

did you get it?

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