Happy Valley Page #7

Season #2 Episode #2

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First I knew was when Joyce called

me down to t’front desk.

We jump back to

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24

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, FRONT DESK. DAY 4. 24

10.40

CATHERINE and JOYCE look alarmed and bewildered as

breathless, bedraggled, utterly desperate and pathetic ILINKA

pleads far too fast at them

ILINKA:

Morati mi pomoci! Ako me uhvate

ubiti ce me! Molim vas pomozite mi.

Nemojte dopustiti da me uhvate.

Moram nazvati svoju obitelj! Molim

vas pomozite mi!

You have to help me! If they get hold of me now they’ll kill

me! Please help me! Don’t let them get me! Please let me call

my family! Please help me!

CATHERINE:

(discreetly to JOYCE

during the above)

I’ll ring language line.

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25

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 25

EVENING 5. 19.42

As before.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 32.

CATHERINE:

I’d no idea what she was saying.

But I could see how desperate she

was.

WINNIE:

And we think we live in a civilised

country.

CATHERINE:

Oh, I think we do, Winnie. On the

whole. That’s why they want to come

here in the first place.

Ironically.

Just then DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDANT ANDY SHEPHERD taps on the

door and steps in. CATHERINE stands up. She’s off duty, but

it’s kind of instinctive.

ANDY:

Sergeant Cawood.

CATHERINE:

Sir.

ANDY:

Is this Mrs. Babic?

Pron. Babich.

WINNIE:

Winnie.

ANDY:

(he offers his hand)

Detective Superintendent Shepherd.

We’re very grateful to you, Winnie.

This’s opened up whole new lines of

inquiry for us. I wanted to say

thank you.

WINNIE:

Oh, that’s

ANDY:

(he isn’t really

interested in WINNIE’s

response, it’s not why he

came in. He addresses

CATHERINE)

Can I have a word?

He means in the next room, not in front of WINNIE.

CATHERINE:

Sure.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 33.

She steps outside the room with him.

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26

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, REPORT ROOM. 26

EVENING. 5. 19.43

ANDY walks far enough away from CATHERINE’s office for WINNIE

not to be able to glean any of this (the report room’s almost

empty). But he still keeps it hush hush.

ANDY:

Ilinka’s concerned that she might

have been followed. Here. To the

nick.

CATHERINE:

How? Sir.

ANDY:

I dunno. But. You let her go

outside. For a comfort break.

Yesterday afternoon.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

ANDY:

She thinks she saw a car

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27

EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, YARD. DAY 4. 13.00 27

ILINKA’s in the back yard having a cigarette. An elderly,

battered VW Golf is loitering along Norland Road with a

craggy looking middle aged bloke driving it. DAVE comes out

of the back door to join ILINKA in having a cigarette. As

soon as the bloke in the VW sees a uniform, he puts his foot

down and heads off. ILINKA notices this, whereas DAVE

doesn’t.

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28

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, REPORT ROOM. 28

EVENING 5. 19.44

ANDY:

-which disappeared as soon as

whoever it was driving it saw a

uniform.

CATHERINE had no idea.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 34.

CATHERINE:

Really?

ANDY:

So the concern is. That - if she’s

right - whoever it was may have

followed you when you drove her

back to your house later in the

day.

This is all a bit of a shock.

CATHERINE:

Sh*t.

ANDY:

Yup.

CATHERINE:

But... I’d have noticed, I’d have

seen. If somebody’d followed me.

ANDY:

How sure can you be? It isn’t like

you were looking for it, is it?

CATHERINE:

(she can’t be sure. How

could she be sure?)

I:

ANDY:

(interrupts)

So what you’ve gone and done.

Inadvertently, and - I’m sure -

with the best intentions

CATHERINE:

There was nowhere else to take her,

there was nowhere else had any

space.

ANDY:

What you’ve done. Is put that

little old lady in there in a

potentially very vulnerable and

dangerous position.

(CATHERINE can’t deny

that. She feels stupid)

If it’s who we think it is, these

people don’t muck about. If they

think Ilinka’s told us stuff that

could compromise them - which she

has - they’ll kill her. They’ll put

a petrol bomb through the door,

they’ll do something.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 34A.

ANDY (CONT'D)

I’ve contacted the security people,

they’re going to put a C.P. alarm

in Winnie’s house.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 35.

ANDY (CONT'D)

They’re going there right now,

they’ll be there when you get back.

I’m not going as far as an Osman

warning - I don’t want to freak her

out - but perhaps you could explain

to Winnie what they’re doing

without causing her any more alarm

than we need to.

CATHERINE fights the urge to apologise; she knows it’ll only

be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

CATHERINE:

Yup.

ANDY:

Oh, and do yourself a favour.

Sergeant. Hurry up with your alibi

on either of the first two murders,

and then we can eliminate you. No-

one is doing this to embarrass you

Catherine. It’s ticking boxes, we

all know it’s ridiculous, we all

know you’ve got the QPM, we all

know you’re a credit to the police

service, we all know you’re not a

killer. Please. Just. Do it. Okay?

CATHERINE:

Sir.

He heads off. CATHERINE feels bad. She knows the only reason

he’s not kicked her arse is because she got beaten up so

badly eighteen months ago, and because they do all still have

a huge respect for her even when she’s made a daft mistake

like this. She mumbles/mouths “sh*t” to herself.

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29

EXT. NEVISON’S HOUSE. NIGHT 5. 20.30 29

The house is lit up warmly from within. A number of cars are

parked outside.

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30

INT. NEVISON’S HOUSE, NEVISON AND HELEN’S BEDROOM. 30

NIGHT 5. 20.31

NEV’s alone. With something of HELEN’s, or perhaps a

photograph of her when she was younger. There’s a gentle tap-

tap at the door and ANN appears. We hear the distant sound of

conversation from downstairs.

ANN:

Y’all right? Dad?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 36.

NEVISON:

Yep.

ANN:

Y’coming downstairs?

NEVISON:

(no)

In a minute.

ANN:

People keep asking after you.

NEVISON:

Mm.

She sits.

ANN:

I wish we didn’t have a full house.

NEVISON:

No. Well. They’ll be gone after

tomorrow. And then. It’ll be just

you and me.

(a moment, they manage

something of a smile at

each other)

I’m sorry we don’t allus see eye to

eye. I do love you, you know. I am

proud of you.

He’s verging on tearful. So is she. Not that either of them

give in to it.

ANN:

I’m proud of you.

NEV’s touched. ANN’s never really said anything to him like

that before.

NEVISON:

Are you?

(she nods. A moment, then

something that’s preying

on NEV’s mind -)

I sacked this fella last week. It’s

been bothering me.

ANN:

What did he do?

NEVISON:

He made a mistake. And then he

didn’t handle it so well and I had

to pick up the pieces. So. I gave

him his marching orders.

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