Happy Valley Page #3

Season #2 Episode #2

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CATHERINE:

So lad! This is what happens when

you get caught dealing skunk behind

the science block! I’ll tell you

what though, pal. You wouldn’t

touch this stuff if you saw what

they put on it. I mean literally

you wouldn’t touch it, never mind

inhale it. D’you know how it’s

grown? You don’t know and you don’t

care, I know. I’m going to tell you

anyway because - you never know -

it might serve as a wake-up call.

They’ll find a terrace house, rip

everything out - including the

bathroom, all the fixtures and

fittings - and fill the whole place

with cannabis plants. Then they

employ a load of illegal immigrants

- well I say ‘employ’, I use the

term loosely - to chuck a load of

seriously unpleasant illegal

chemicals on them to make them grow

far too fast, and not only that,

once they’ve ripped the bathroom

out there’s nowhere to go and do

the necessary, so guess what - they

sh*t on the plants! No, they really

do. That’s what you’re dealing with

here, that’s what you’ve been

handling. Human faeces.

(she pulls the patrol car

door open and steers him

in)

Get in, you idiot.

Just then CATHERINE hears MIKE’s voice through her ear piece

MIKE:

Catherine?

She checks her radio and sees MIKE’s call signal (as she

shuts the LAD in the patrol car).

CATHERINE:

Boss.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 11.

Cutting as and when with:

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6

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, REPORT ROOM/CORRIDOR. 6

DAY 5. 08.16

MIKE:

You busy?

CATHERINE:

(yes)

No.

MIKE:

Okay. So. I’ve just heard. And I

thought you’d like to know...

(delicately)

The Home Office’ve given Tommy Lee

Royce permission to attend his

mother’s funeral. Tomorrow. At the

crematorium. In Elland. I’ve just

heard, just now. So. I thought you

deserved to know. In advance.

Before you saw it on the news or in

the papers.

CATHERINE takes it in. It affects her. Deeply. It hits her

straight in the gut, like anything to do with that bastard

does. She’s gone quiet. GORKEM and SLEDGE are there too.

CATHERINE:

Right.

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7

EXT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL. DAY 5. 09.30 7

Establishing shot across the play ground, the roof tops and

the hills beyond.

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8

INT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL. DAY 5. 09.31 8

Assembly. The children and staff sing a song. We glimpse

MRS.BERESFORD, then RYAN and FRANCESCO, then a few teachers.

As the song ends - to our surprise - we come to FRANCES

DRUMMOND, singing and smiling at the children.

MRS.BERESFORD

Sit down everyone. Now, this

morning I’m delighted to tell you

that we have a new member of staff

joining us. Miss Wealand...

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 12.

MRS.BERESFORD (CONT'D)

(we see FRANCES smiling

happily at the children)

...has come all the way from

Linlithgow in Scotland to take over

from Mrs.Etherington as our new

teaching assistant! And I’m sure

you’d all like to join me in giving

her a really big warm welcome. So

shall we do that? Yes? Everyone?

After three. One - two - three

(the kids all join in,

like it’s something they

always do at their school

to a new person or a

guest)

Welcome to our school, Miss

Wealand.

We end on FRANCES smiling at RYAN. She’s got eye contact.

RYAN (half distracted by FRANCESCO) smiles back perkily.

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9 EXT. BATEMAN STREET, KING CROSS. DAY 5. 10.00 9

A couple of patrol cars and a couple of CID cars and a mobile

police unit are parked up Lynn’s street. We see officers -

detectives coupled up with uniforms - doing house-to-house.

LYNN’s house is boarded up now SOCO and POLSA have finished

dissecting it and there’s a uniformed officer stood outside

the house. We discover ANN GALLAGHER glancing up the road at

the boarded up house where she was held captive eighteen

months ago. It’s the first time she’s been back here since

then. She’s been paired up with JOHN WADSWORTH again. JOHN’s

just knocked on a door for the second time. At length

ANN:

I don’t think there’s anyone in.

(JOHN goes and taps loud

on the window with his

car keys:
metal on glass.

It won’t be the first

time ANN’s seen him do

it)

Is that an approved technique?

JOHN:

For getting people out of bed,

yeah.

JOHN didn’t mean to be funny (he’s too preoccupied), but ANN

finds it funny and lets out a little laugh. (ANN of course is

preoccupied too, it’s her mother’s funeral tomorrow, but at

least she hasn’t got any secrets preying on her mind).

ANN:

Do you enjoy this job?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 13.

JOHN:

It’s not all house-to-house.

ANN:

Only you never look happy.

JOHN doesn’t know whether to bother answering that or not.

But deep down and despite his problems, he’s grown used to

ANN in the few days they’ve been thrown together.

JOHN:

If you had to lay your hands on a

thousand pounds. Just like that.

What would you do?

ANN:

Ask me dad.

JOHN:

What, and he’d just shell out?

ANN:

He’s a millionaire, so... probably

not.

JOHN:

Your dad is a millionaire?

ANN:

He’s like so rich it’s boring.

JOHN:

Wow.

(ANN:
yup)

So how does he feel about you being

a PCSO?

ANN:

Oh. Y’know. “Hundreds of millions

of pounds spent on her education

and she wants to be a bloody police

man”. Only not so polite.

(JOHN manages a smile)

Why d’you need a thousand pounds?

JOHN’s smile vanishes. Like it was never there.

JOHN:

It’s complicated.

(JOHN decides they’re not

in. He flicks his head

indicating that they

should strolls on to the

next house)

You’re not exactly a barrel o’

laughs yourself you know kid.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 14.

ANN:

Yeah well it’s my mother’s funeral

tomorrow.

JOHN manages a little laugh. He thinks she’s winding him up.

Then to his horror he realises she means it.

JOHN:

Is it? Oh God, I’m sorry, I had no

idea.

ANN:

I haven’t been advertising it.

JOHN:

(kind, concerned)

You shouldn’t be at work, Ann.

ANN:

I’d go mad at home.

JOHN doesn’t quite know what to say.

JOHN:

Was it sudden?

ANN:

(shakes her head)

Cancer.

JOHN:

Well...

(awkward, but his concern

is sincere)

I’m sorry. I am sorry.

ANN appreciates his concern. She knocks on the next door. No-

one answers. Silence. Eventually

ANN:

You could always buy a lottery

ticket.

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9A EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. DAY 5. 12.29 9A

Establisher.

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10 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, STAIRS. DAY 5. 12.30 10

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