Happy Valley Page #14

Season #2 Episode #2

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 69.

VICKY:

(shrugs, smiles)

The internet.

He shakes his head in disgust: drugs bought off the internet.

As a police officer he knows better than anyone how that’s

asking for trouble.

JOHN:

Cooked up in someone’s backyard?!

Full of sh*t. I could be dead.

(then he realises - )

So what? I wish you had killed me.

VICKY:

Look, we can [either]

JOHN:

Have you any -any - idea of the

misery I’ve been through in the

last ten days?

VICKY:

Look. We can either keep going over

this or we can move on.

JOHN:

I might need to destroy your

computer.

VICKY:

You’re not destroying my computer.

It cost money.

JOHN:

Did you send them to anyone else?

VICKY:

No.

JOHN:

Did you?

VICKY:

No.

(she waits to see if he’s

willing to accept that,

but it’s not clear that

he is doing)

Pudding?

(she waits for a reply.

His thoughts are so

massively on other things

he doesn’t respond)

You’ve got the phone. That’s it.

It’s over. We can move on.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 70.

She starts collecting the plates, and heads into the kitchen.

JOHN’s looking at her computer which is at the other side of

the room. Suddenly he gets up, gets hold of the tower, pulls

all it’s leads out, like he’s taking it. VICKY comes back in

from the kitchen and tries to stop him.

VICKY (CONT’D)

Stop it! Stop it! Don’t you dare

touch my things! You pig!

She clonks him with something. It’s a shock. He slaps her

back. Which is equally shocking.

JOHN:

B*tch.

He slaps her again, really starts laying into her. They

fight. It’s a bit crap (like real fights are) but he gets her

on the floor in a head lock or something ridiculous.

VICKY:

I’ll scream. You’re hurting me,

John. I’ll scream. I will scream.

John. I’ll scream!

JOHN’s eyes land on the electric cable from the computer. He

grabs it and wraps it round her neck and tightens it.

VICKY (CONT’D)

No. No. No no no!

She starts kicking out, but it’s futile as he pulls tighter

and tighter. He can barely speak, it requires so much effort

to do this, but he’s off his head

JOHN:

Y’shouldn’t’ve done it,

y’shouldn’t’ve done it,

y’shouldn’t’ve done it.

He keeps repeating it, over and over, in a mad whisper, right

in her ear.

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61 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S CAR/STREET. NIGHT 6. 22.00 61

Driving home. CLARE can feel the anger and frustration

radiating off CATHERINE. And despite that, CLARE suddenly

finds herself saying

CLARE:

I need a drink.

CATHERINE:

No you don’t.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 71.

CLARE:

Yeah well I do. So.

CATHERINE:

Okay, where you gonna get it from?

CLARE:

Have you got any cash?

CATHERINE:

Seriously?

(that’s so mad it’s funny)

Even if I had you’d have to fight

me for it, and you know as well as

I do that you wouldn’t win.

CLARE:

You’re so fff...

CLARE’s sneering.

CATHERINE:

What? What am I?

(no response)

Get a grip, Clare.

CLARE:

If you hadn’t left me there I

probably wouldn’t have even

started!

CATHERINE:

I had things to do, and I needed

the car!

CLARE:

What things? You took day off work!

I was bored shitless, that’s why I

started!

CATHERINE:

You’re not laying that on me.

CLARE:

One day.

(she becomes tearful)

One day! And I’m not allowed to be

upset.

She’s getting tetchy and fidgety and desperate for another

drink.

CATHERINE:

You’re allowed to be upset. You are

allowed to be upset. Do you really

want to remember Helen’s funeral as

the day you fell off the wagon?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 72.

Course she doesn’t. But these demons are strong, and they’ve

still got CLARE gripped.

CUT TO:

62 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 6. 22.49 62

VICKY’s dead.

We find JOHN just looking at her. He’s transfixed, terrified,

silently off his head: what’s he just done?

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63 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE. NIGHT 6. 22.50 63

CATHERINE’s car’s parked outside the house.

CUT TO:

64 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 6. 22.59 64

CATHERINE’s with DANIEL. They’re talking hush hush. CLARE’s

upstairs, but you never know.

DANIEL:

So what happened?

CATHERINE:

They didn’t know.

(she makes a ‘drinking’

gesture with her hand)

DANIEL:

(pointing aloft)

What’s she doing now?

CATHERINE:

I’ve no idea, but at least she’s

in. Unless she’s shinning down the

drainpipe.

Just then CLARE comes in. From upstairs. She’s got her coat

on. Zipped up, like she’s going somewhere. She looks

belligerent, embarrassed, and she’s clearly still the worse

for wear.

CLARE:

I’m going outside. For a fag. If

that’s all right. With the Gestapo.

She means CATHERINE, obviously. CATHERINE watches her go.

Doesn’t speak.

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EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 73.

DANIEL:

(quietly, to his mum)

Where’s she gonna go? It’s eleven

o’clock, she’ll not get served

anywhere.

CATHERINE:

What’s she doing?

CATHERINE doesn’t want to look (doesn’t want to be seen

spying). DANIEL surreptitiously has a look.

DANIEL:

Lighting up.

CATHERINE:

She’ll go down t’Jockey’s. They

stay open while all hours.

DANIEL:

She’s just smoking.

CUT TO:

EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACKYARD. NIGHT 6. 23.00 65

CLARE’s smoking. We’re aware of CATHERINE and DANIEL through

in the kitchen, trying not to be too obtrusive. CLARE’s

digging in her pockets. She finds a couple of screwed up

fivers, and some coins. She can make her own choice. She can

finish the cigarette and go back in. Or she can go and get a

drink down the Jockey’s. She’s agitated. Suddenly she makes

the decision and slinks off down the back yard. Fast.

CUT TO:

INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 6. 23.08 66

DANIEL:

Mum.

CATHERINE grabs her coat and dives out of the back door.

CUT TO:

EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACK STREET. NIGHT 6. 23.09 67

CATHERINE has to race to catch up with CLARE. And it’s eleven

o’clock at night on a week day, she can’t start shouting.

CATHERINE:

Clare! Clare!

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 74.

CLARE:

F***ing hell. Can you not leave me

alone?

CATHERINE:

Where y’going?

CLARE:

I’m not going anywhere.

CATHERINE:

I’m coming with you.

CLARE:

Fine.

CATHERINE:

I know where you’re going.

CLARE:

Whatever.

CATHERINE:

Don’t do this.

CLARE:

I need some space, I need you to

stop pestering me, Catherine.

CATHERINE:

What about Neil?

CLARE:

(nasty, dismissive)

What about him?

CATHERINE:

You see this is what (

she taps the side of her

head)

-it does to you, it makes you

selfish and small-minded and

unpleasant, and that isn’t you.

CLARE:

You don’t like him.

CATHERINE:

I never said that.

CLARE:

You PNC’d him!

CATHERINE:

Shh...!

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 75.

CLARE:

People don’t need to say things,

you can still tell what they’re

thinking.

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