Happy Valley Page #2

Season #2 Episode #2

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WINNIE:

It’s only me!

We get the idea from the way CATHERINE talks to WINNIE that

WINNIE’s a bit deaf.

CATHERINE:

Come on in, Winnie!

WINNIE has a rather severe look, but is essentially salt of

the earth. She has a distant Croatian/Yugoslavian accent,

tempered by sixty years of West Yorkshire.

WINNIE:

Where is she?

(she sees ILINKA)

Oh, jadnice! Sto ti se dogodilo?

Oh you poor thing! What happened?

ILINKA:

(she cries)

Moram razgovarati sa svojom

obitelji! Treba mi telefon.

I need to talk to my family, I need a telephone.

WINNIE comforts ILINKA. WINNIE’s upset and appalled at the

state of ILINKA.

WINNIE:

Da, mozete doci kod mene kuci I

koristiti moj telefon.

You can come over to my house and use my telephone.

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ILINKA:

Ova policajka je bila jako ljubazna

prema meni.

This police woman has been very kind to me.

We might want to glimpse the total lack of comprehension from

CATHERINE, CLARE and DANIEL during this emotional exchange.

CATHERINE:

And it is just for two or three

nights. ‘Til the trafficking unit

sorts something out, she knows

that.

WINNIE:

She’s saying you’re very kind. Mi

cemo se brinuti o tebi, draga moja.

(we’ll look after you,

love)

I’m saying yes, you’re wonderful -

so long as we all stay on the right

side of you, ‘cos if we don’t

you’re a pain in the arse.

(then to ILINKA, she winks

and smiles at her)

Kao sto kazu ovdje u Engleskoj -

njezin lavez je gori od njezinog

ugriza.

As they say here in England, her bark’s worse than her bite.

CATHERINE:

Yeah. Good. Thanks for that,

Winnie.

Titles

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3 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 5. 07.45 3

Everyone’s busy getting ready for work and school: AMANDA’s

rushing the packed lunches, JACK can’t find his school

planner or his calculator, BEN’s slowly and methodically

piling too much Nutella onto his toast and AMBER’s pouring

too much milk onto her Cheerios. Radio 2 (equivalent) is on

slightly too loud. JOHN comes down the stairs and in, pulling

his jacket on. He’s cross, hassled. Disproportionately so.

He’s just come in to share some thoughts with them all before

he goes to work

JOHN:

Light left on in the bathroom.

Again. His bedroom light on, her

bedroom light on.

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AMBER:

I’m going back up there!

JOHN:

You’re not up there now. Who’s left

this?

He’s found an abandoned bowl half full of soggy Frosted

Shreddies on the surface above the dishwasher.

BEN:

He did.

Meaning JACK.

JACK:

So what? I’ve lost my calculator.

JOHN:

So don’t pour so much cereal if you

know you’re not going to eat it!

It’s all to pay for, it doesn’t

grow on trees!

AMBER:

He needs to calm down.

JOHN:

I don’t need to calm down, I need

to not be surrounded by people who

take the p[iss] mickey. All the

time.

(he checks his watch,

grabs his keys, he should

have been out of here

five minutes ago)

I’ll see you later.

AMANDA:

Yup.

He kisses AMANDA. She lets him. It’s perfunctory, he needn’t

have bothered. He’s off, the door shuts in his wake.

JACK:

What’s up with him?

We linger on AMANDA. We sense irritation, indifference, a

woman who’s made the decision to bide her time.

AMANDA:

God knows.

JACK:

Eh?

AMANDA dismisses what she just said, and instead suggests (a

bit hush hush, not something she wants AMBER to hear)

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AMANDA:

It’s this killer, it’s this bloke

who’s murdering prostitutes.

They’re tough jobs to work on, I

suppose. I don’t know.

JACK seems to buy that, but still mumbles JACK

No need to take it out on us.

But of course AMANDA does suspect there’s more to it.

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3A EXT. VICKY’S FLAT. DAY 5. 07.49 3A

Establisher.

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4 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, HALLWAY. DAY 5. 07.50 4

In contrast to JOHN’s house, things in VICKY’s flat are very

calm. VICKY puts the last touches of make-up on. Checksherself out. Squirts herself with some expensive perfumeshe’s treated herself to. She looks deep into her own eyes.

She’s not evil, she’s telling herself; she’s just getting

even with someone who’s lead her up the garden path. She’s

doing the right thing. She has the radio on. One itemfinishes, and then it goes into NEWSREADER

In Calderdale in West Yorkshire,

police chiefs have called forincreased vigilance in thecommunity following the linking ofthe murder of three women in the

area over the last five m[onths] -

VICKY flips the radio off: she doesn’t want to hear about

that. We get the idea as she continues to look at herselfthat she’s nervous about what she’s doing; it’s illegal, it’s

blackmail, she’s playing with fire and it could go wrong.

She dismisses it, pulls her coat on, gets her handbag, andheads off to work.

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4A INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, STAIRWELL. DAY 5.

08.01

4A *

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The troops are all heading out of the office and down thestairs, all kitted up for the day.

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MIKE’s heading up the stairs. CATHERINE’s the last one out, *

all kitted up (well, the same kit she’s in when she arrests *

skunk boy). *

MIKE *

(worried, he grab her arm *

to stop her going) *

You’re not going on t’house-to-*

house, are you? *

CATHERINE pauses and lowers her voice. She doesn’t want the *

team to know why she isn’t going on the house-to-house; she *

just wants them to assume she has better things to do. *

CATHERINE *

No. That would be unethical. What *

with me being prime suspect. *

Etcetera. *

MIKE *

Just checking. *

CATHERINE *

They’re going on the house-to-*

house. So unless you can find me *

more staff, I’m going to arrest a *

fifteen year old at Salter Hebble *

High for dealing skunk behind the *

science block. *

MIKE *

(heads off to his office) *

Okay, good. *

CATHERINE’s annoyed; she should be deploying one of the *

troops to do this, it isn’t something a sergeant should be *

doing. She heads down the stairs, and passes JODIE and ANDY, *

who are just on their way upstairs to the Norland Road H-MiT *

offices. *

JODIE *

Morning. *

CATHERINE *

(frosty) *

Morning. *

As CATHERINE heads past them down the stairs she hears JODIE *

mumble to ANDY -*

JODIE *

That’s Catherine Cawood. *

-which obviously irritates the hell out of CATHERINE and *

makes her feel like prime suspect all over again, and all the *

horrible feelings that brings. She deals with it. *

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 9B.

5

EXT. SALTER HEBBLE HIGH SCHOOL. DAY 5. 08.15 5 *

CATHERINE’s marching a handcuffed YEAR 11 LAD (age 15) out of

the school building and towards her patrol car.

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She has his collar firmly gripped with one hand, and in the

other she carries two transparent evidence bags, one

containing something like twenty-five little ziploc bags full

of cannabis, and the other containing a load of money. Droves

of kids are just arriving for school and are of course

fascinated to see a police sergeant nicking a student.

CATHERINE talks at the LAD loud and clear - largely for the

benefit and instruction of any other kids who are listening.

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