Happy Valley Page #6

Season #2 Episode #2

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CATHERINE’s very intrigued but cautious; this is potentially

big stuff. Then confidentially to WINNIE (even though she

knows ILINKA speaks no English, it’s an instinctive thing - )

CATHERINE:

They’re the Halifax mafia.

(she sniggers

humourlessly)

Course it’d be the Knezevics.

Trafficking women, that’d be...

yeah. Right up their alley. We

arrested one of their mob

yesterday. The one I tasered, did

she tell you?

WINNIE:

Yeah.

CATHERINE:

He’s way down the food chain, but

they won’t get anything out of him,

it’ll be all ‘no comment’. Tell

her:
this is murder. Knezenvics or

no Knezenvics. In fact - good -

anything we can get on the

Knezevics. We have to report it, we

have to do it for Aurelia, and we

have to do it now.

WINNIE:

Moramo to uciniti za Aureliju.

We have to do it for Aurelia.

ILINKA looks from WINNIE to CATHERINE; she really doesn’t

want to do this, she has terror in her eyes.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 26.

19 EXT. VICKY’S FLAT, RIPPONDEN. DAY 5. 18.00 19

An establishing shot of the yard at the back of VICKY’s flat.

JOHN’s car is parked in the street opposite.

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20 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, LIVING ROOM. DAY 5. 18.01 20

JOHN’s just given VICKY one thousand pounds in cash. They’re

sitting next to one another on the settee in VICKY’s flat.

VICKY:

Your mother?

JOHN:

I nearly turned up without it.

VICKY:

Oh, that would’ve been a mistake.

She’s smiling, she’s keeping it light.

JOHN:

I can’t do this more than once,

Vicky. I don’t have this kind of

money. My mother keeps that in her

freezer for emergencies.

VICKY:

You’re on a good wage. Amanda is.

JOHN:

There’s never anything left at the

end of the month.

VICKY:

Well I can’t help that.

JOHN:

Please. Take this. And then, let’s

call it a day. Please give me the

phone, whatever you took those

pictures on, anything else you’ve

downloaded it onto, you keep that

(the money)

and then... let’s just call it a

day. Where is it?

VICKY:

What?

JOHN:

The phone.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 27.

VICKY:

Oh, it’s somewhere. You can have

this back, John.

(the money)

And the phone. Take it.

JOHN:

Where is it?

VICKY:

(but it’s only the money

she’s offering back)

Go on. I don’t really want it. All

you have to do. Is what you’ve been

saying you’d do for the last

eighteen months. Leave her.

(JOHN has no response)

You hate her, you hate the kids,

you

JOHN:

It’s not ab[out] - ! I do not hate

the children.

VICKY:

They drive you up the wall.

JOHN:

Yes, but

(then he suddenly

remembers the biggest

point of all)

You drugged me! You drugged me and

you took those ridiculous pictures

of me! You ff... mad b*tch! How the

hell could you start to imagine I’d

want to come and live with you now?

VICKY:

I did that [because]

JOHN:

You’re unhinged, you’re - ! God! I

don’t know what you are!

VICKY:

I did that. Because I love you.

JOHN:

You love me?

VICKY:

I know it was a bit mad, but I am

desperate. Desperate. To make you

see how much I care about you.

JOHN:

So you did that?

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VICKY:

(she puts her hand on his)

Yes.

JOHN:

(delicately)

I think. You’re not well. Mentally.

Vicky. I think... you’ve got to

see. This isn’t... how someone can

behave. It’s not what I want any

more. We have to be grown up. And

you know, I’m not even worth it.

I’m old, I’m boring, I’m tired.

God, I’m tired.

VICKY:

You see this is what she does to

you! This is how she makes you see

yourself! You are none of those

things! You’re wonderful. You’re

funny, you’re kind, you’re good,

you work hard, you deserve a nice

life!

JOHN:

Well then why are you doing this to

me?

VICKY:

Because I love you, and you deserve

better. People sometimes don’t have

enough respect for themselves and

their own right to be happy. And

it’s wrong, it’s unhealthy.

JOHN’s bewildered.

JOHN:

Please let me go. Please. Give me

the phone - you keep that money -

and please let me go.

VICKY:

In the end you’ll thank me.

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21 EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. EVENING 5. 19.00 21

Establisher.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 29.

22 OMITTED 22

23 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE.

EVENING 5. 19.41

23

WINNIE’s sitting with CATHERINE. Twiddling their thumbs.

WINNIE:

I don’t know why they won’t let me

sit in and translate for them.

It’s not the first time she’s said it.

CATHERINE:

It’s protocol, Winnie.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 30.

WINNIE:

They’ll have me written off as

senile.

That makes CATHERINE smile: WINNIE’s the least senile 80+

year old she knows.

CATHERINE:

(she checks the time)

Do you want me to take you home?

WINNIE:

No. No, I’ll wait for her. Poor

lass. How do they get into a pickle

like this?

CATHERINE:

Do you really want to know?

WINNIE:

Now you think I’m senile.

CATHERINE:

They promise them a better life.

And a job. Then when they get here

they take their passport and their

papers, syphon off their wages,

tell ‘em they’re sending it all

home to the family, along with any

letters they write - which of

course they aren’t - and they don’t

know any better. Penny only drops

months later when they’ve never had

any letters back from their

families. And then when the penny

does drop there’s very little they

can do about it. The only people

they’ve had any contact with are

the ones that’s trafficked ‘em in

the first place, and each other.

WINNIE:

It’s evil.

CATHERINE:

Yup.

WINNIE:

Well if you know damned well it’s

these Knezevics doing it, why don’t

you arrest ‘em?

CATHERINE:

Oh, Winnie. They’re clever. They’re

clever -

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 30A.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

(she doesn’t swear in

front of WINNIE as a

rule, so when she does

it’s clear it’s meant)

bastards. It’s one thing knowing

somebody’s done something, it’s a

different kettle of fish having the

evidence to arrest ‘em for it.

WINNIE:

How did she escape?

CATHERINE:

She was on a fag break. At Bowen’s

biscuit factory. They don’t run -

normally - because they’ve got no

idea where they are, and they can’t

speak any English, and they’re

terrified. So effectively they’re

trapped.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 31.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

All they know is where they live

and where they work. They’re taken

there and back in a minibus. Every

day. That’s their life, it’s all

they know. She got over the wall

and she just ran and ran and ran.

She had no idea where she was going

and if they’d caught her they’d

have beaten her black and blue.

WINNIE:

How did she know to come here?

CATHERINE:

She didn’t. She just kept saying

police - polizija -as best she

could and people kept pointing her

in the right direction. Apparently.

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