Happy Valley Page #5

Season #2 Episode #2

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be an armed escort, he’ll be

handcuffed at all times, they’ll

have done a full risk assessment

already and an operational order’ll

be in place. He’ll be in, out, then

straight back to the same nasty

little cell in Gravesend Prison

that he’ll be occupying for the

next five hundred years.

ANN:

Where? Where’s his mother’s

funeral?

And this is tough for ANN too. It’s the same crematorium.

CATHERINE:

Elland.

ANN hates that.

ANN:

Before m[y mum]?

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CATHERINE:

No. After. Later in the afternoon.

ANN’s being stoical. She takes her time.

ANN:

Right.

CATHERINE:

You won’t see him.

But perhaps ANN wants to. We linger on her.

CUT TO:

15 INT/EXT./JOHN’S CAR/NEWSAGENTS. DAY 5. 15.45 15

JOHN comes out of a newsagent’s shop clutching a lottery

scratch card and gets into his car. He’s shaking. He finds a

coin and scratches the panels off the card. He hasn’t won. He

knew it was a long shot. But... it could’ve happened and his

problems would be over.

He looks at the photos of himself again, trying to persuade

himself they’re not that bad. But they are. Every time. It

never gets better.

A moment, then he remembers the other thing ANN said. He

opens his contact list on his phone to access a number. He

dials. Pause pause. Ring ring. Eventually

JOHN:

( - and he feels sh*t

about what he’s doing,

but - )

Mum? Hi. It’s me.

(awkward pause. “Who?”)

John!

(he speaks slowly and

clearly, like she’s deaf)

I thought I might pop in and change

that light bulb. For you. In your

kitchen.

CUT TO:

16 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 5. 16.30 16

CLARE’s preparing supper. RYAN’s sitting at the table eating

biscuits and sipping tea.

RYAN:

I said “I don’t need any help”.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 21.

CLARE:

(her heart melts for him)

You do need help love, you need all

the help you can get with your

reading.

We hear the front door as CATHERINE arrives home from work.

RYAN:

I don’t, not if I’m gonna play for

Man City. I told her, I said, I

spelled it out for her.

CATHERINE heads in.

CLARE:

(amused)

Did you. Indeed. Hiya.

CATHERINE:

Hiya.

RYAN:

She talks funny an’ all.

CLARE:

Funny in what way?

RYAN:

She’s Scottish.

CATHERINE:

Who is?

CLARE:

This new T.A.

RYAN:

Miss Weeland.

CLARE:

Yes, well it sounds to me like

she’s trying to help you, so you

just try and be nice to her.

(RYAN mimes hanging

himself before he’ll be

nice to her. CLARE turns

to CATHERINE)

Winnie wants you. Before you start

pouring yourself any tea.

CUT TO:

17 EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, BACKYARD. DAY 5. 16.35 17

CATHERINE heads across from her house and goes and taps on

WINNIE’s door.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 22.

WINNIE’s house is always open, and CATHERINE’s one of the

people who’s allowed to go straight in (as long as she’s

polite and wipes her feet).

CATHERINE:

Only me, Winnie!

CUT TO:

18 INT. WINNIE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 5. 16.36 18

CATHERINE comes in and WINNIE and ILINKA are there in the

kitchen, surrounded by newspapers and WINNIE’s old photo

albums:
she’s been sharing her life with ILINKA. ILINKA looks

like a different human being to the one we met yesterday,

relaxed, well fed, well clothed.

WINNIE:

Here she is! Now then, Catherine

ILINKA jumps up spontaneously and hugs CATHERINE. She’s still

timid, overwhelmed and vulnerable in her manner, but the

difference is heart-breaking: she’s smiling now.

ILINKA:

Thank you. Thank you. Catherine.

CATHERINE:

Aww. How’s she been?

WINNIE:

She’s been absolutely fine.

CATHERINE:

Good.

(nodding and smiling at

ILINKA)

Good!

(she urges ILINKA to sit

down)

Did you want me?

WINNIE:

Look at this.

That’s when CATHERINE sees what’s on the pages from the

Halifax Evening Courier they’ve got spread out. There’s a

police photo of the clothes that the unidentified Brighouse

victim of the serial killer was wearing when she was found.

(Of course this is all in the news again now because the

connections between the three murders have been made, and

it’s news that they are now looking for a serial killer).

ILINKA:

(prodding the photo)

To je Aurelijina odjeca. Moja

prijateljica Aurelija.

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These are Aurelia’s clothes. My friend Aurelia.

WINNIE:

She had this friend, Aurelia.

ILINKA:

Aurelija Petrovic.

WINNIE:

They were shunted from one house to

another every few months by these

people, these men, but they always

managed to keep together, her and

Aurelia, and they became close.

Aurelia apparently was pretty, and

as well as working at the biscuit

factory she [had to] - they [made

her]

WINNIE doesn’t like saying it.

CATHERINE:

Prostitution?

WINNIE:

(she nods, it sickens her)

Then one day. She thinks about

twelve or thirteen weeks since. She

never came back, and she’s not seen

her since, and these - she seems

very certain - are her clothes. The

girl they’ve never identified. She

says they didn’t have many clothes,

any of ‘em.

CATHERINE:

Aurelia - ?

WINNIE ILINKA:

Petrovic. Petrovic.

CATHERINE takes it in, this is potentially a huge development

for the investigation.

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Okay. Wow. Okay. You should’ve rung

me at work with this, Winnie.

WINNIE:

Well I don’t like bothering you

when you’re at work, and I did tell

Clare.

CATHERINE:

Okay, tell her:
we’re going to have

to go back down to the station and

talk about this to the team working

on the murders.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 24.

WINNIE:

Catherine zeli otici u Sowerby

Bridge s tobom njom i razgovarati o

ovome sa ljudima koji istrazuju

ubojstvo.

ILINKA:

Policijom?

Police officers?

WINNIE:

Da.

ILINKA:

(panicky)

Ne, ne ne ne.

WINNIE:

She doesn’t want to talk to the

police.

CATHERINE:

Why?

WINNIE:

Zasto ne zelis razgovarati s

policijom?

Why won’t you talk to the police?

ILINKA:

Knezenvici ce me ubiti.

WINNIE:

She says the Knezevics’ll kill her.

She’s mentioned these Knezevics

more than once.

CATHERINE takes that in. It’s big. Not that she wants to draw

attention to that.

CATHERINE:

How? How did she mention them?

WINNIE:

Just... well. As a threat.

CATHERINE:

Did she see any of the Knezevics?

WINNIE:

I don’t know.

CATHERINE:

Ask her.

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WINNIE:

Jeste li ikad vidjeli neku od

Knezevica?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 25.

ILINKA:

Ne ne, ali jedan od njih je dolazio

u kucu ponekad spavati s

Aureliajom.

WINNIE’s reluctant to repeat that.

CATHERINE:

What?

WINNIE:

She says. One of them used to come

to the house. To... do the

business. With Aurelia. But she

never saw him. Who are they?

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