Happy Valley Page #9

Season #2 Episode #2

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CLARE:

Tea?

CATHERINE:

(she’s so cold she can’t

move. The tea’s very

welcome)

Ooh...

CLARE:

I got the note.

(a post-it note with

scrawl on it:
I am

sleeping in the

conservatory. C x)

Why?

CATHERINE:

Oh, I didn’t want to disturb you

and

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 43.

She points up:
Neil.

CLARE:

No, I didn’t mean why did you leave

a note, I meant, why are you

sleeping in the conservatory?

CATHERINE:

Oh. Winnie. We put an alarm in her

house last night. In case anybody

unsavoury followed Ilinka. So I

just thought I’d keep an eye out.

CLARE:

(she takes in the cricket

bat)

You never knock off, do you?

CATHERINE:

I shouldn’t have brought her here.

Well, I should, she needed to be

somewhere, and I don’t think they

did follow us. But. I was stupid

not to think about it.

CATHERINE sits up to drink the tea.

CLARE:

He’s gone. Neil. He starts his

shift at t’shop at half past six. I

had a really good chat with him

last night.

She’s smiling, she’s happy, she wants CATHERINE to be happy

for her.

CATHERINE:

(wry)

Oh is that what it was?

CLARE sits on the bed/settee.

CLARE:

I told him... that I’ve got a bit

of history. Turns out he does too.

CATHERINE hesitates before deciding to say it

CATHERINE:

I know.

CLARE:

You know?

CATHERINE:

A coupla drunk and incapables,

yeah. I PNC’d him.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 44.

CLARE:

I thought you weren’t supposed to

do that.

CATHERINE:

We’re not.

CLARE:

Not for personal

CATHERINE:

It’s a sackable offence. Don’t tell

him.

CLARE:

So why didn’t you tell me? That you

knew.

CATHERINE:

I didn’t know whether you’d want to

hear it or not.

CLARE:

So when was this? When he

CATHERINE:

Five or six years ago.

CLARE:

You see that’s when his marriage

broke down! It sounded awful. He

had a good [job] - I mean a really

good job. At the building society.

Then he got involved with this

woman. An affair, a fling, and

(CATHERINE tuts/sniggers:

obviously not impressed)

Oh yeah, and you’re whiter than

white, aren’t you?

(CATHERINE’s not going to

bother responding to

that)

Why did you PNC him?

CATHERINE:

Dunno. Instinct. Way he flinched

when I took my coat off and he saw

my uniform.

CLARE:

Anyway it all got very unpleasant,

she started making threats, like

CATHERINE:

Did she boil his bunny?

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 45.

CLARE:

-I dunno, but it all became known.

She told his wife, his kids - and

he had a breakdown. A proper the

real deal nervous breakdown. He

couldn’t speak. He lost his family,

his house, his job, his self

respect. Everything. So he ended up

drinking and that must be when that

happened, when he hit rock bottom.

CATHERINE:

Does he drink now?

CLARE:

No.

CATHERINE:

How d’you know?

CLARE:

He told me. He’s a good person,

Catherine, he always was.

CLARE wants CATHERINE’s approval, and for her to be happy for

her. But CATHERINE’s luke warm. What CLARE’s said begs too

many questions, and anyway, CATHERINE’s preoccupied; she’s

got TOMMY LEE ROYCE’s visit to West Yorkshire this afternoon

preying on her mind.

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39

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, H-MIT BRIEFING ROOM. 39

DAY 6. 09.45

We’re looking at JOHN WADSWORTH, as usual not concentrating

on what’s being said. JODIE begins the briefing. Everyone

else is taking brisk notes. The room is now standing room

only because the inquiry has expanded so hugely. ANDY

SHEPHERD’s firing on all six cylinders: he’s focused and he

cares.

JODIE:

At the time of her death Aurelia

Petrovic was living at 58, Hibernia

Street in Boothtown. She was -

according to Ilinka - thirty-four

years old. Ilinka told us that she

came from a village called Ivanec

in Northern Croatia, and that she

has a mother and a sister there.

So let’s make contact with Europol.

Their ground officer should be able

to help us trace her family.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 45A.

ANDY:

I want as much information on the

family as possible.

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 46.

ANDY (CONT'D)

When did they last have any contact

with Aurelia? I want detail. The

Hibernia Street address has been

secured as a potential crime scene

and CSI are on route so let’s see

what that throws up. Let’s liaise

with the ops room for the Peveril

Lane raid because they should be

collating full profiles on all the

women found there and this could be

crucial to our investigation. If

Aurelia was trafficked I want to

know when, who by, and what she’s

been doing since she entered the

UK. Who lived at 58, Hibernia

Street? Who visited? Who owns it? I

want a full picture of the

movements at and around that

address. I want CCTV, I want you

liaising with local beat bobbies. I

want house to house. Let's get

everything we can on the Knezevics.

Contact NCA. See if they have any

operations going on connected to

the Knezevics. It looks like it's

going to get more complicated but

this is where your skills are

vital.

We glimpse MIKE TAYLOR taking everything in, as usual.

CUT TO:

40 EXT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL. DAY 6. 10.30 40

Establishing shot: a class playing rounders in the yard under

supervision.

CUT TO:

41 INT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL, CLASSROOM. DAY 6. 10.30 41

RYAN is with MISS WEALAND in a quiet corner doing one-to-one

reading. RYAN’s reading is slow and tortuous. FRANCES is

perfectly good and calm and kind to RYAN. If we didn’t know

other stuff about her we’d think what a lovely T.A.

FRANCES is dressed very smartly and in black.

RYAN:

I. Am. Not. Going. To. Ask. You.

Again. George. Said. Granny. My

granny doesn’t look like that, like

a little ole woman. And she’d know

how to deal wi’ this George lad

better an’ all.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 47.

He prods at a picture in the book of generic granny with grey

hair and glasses.

FRANCES:

What does your granny look like?

RYAN:

She’s a policeman. Woman.

FRANCES:

Is she?

RYAN:

She chases scrotes and druggies and

nutters.

FRANCES:

What about your other granny?

RYAN:

I haven’t got another one.

FRANCES:

Your dad’s mum.

RYAN:

We don’t talk about me dad. And

anyway...

(he’s teasing, he’s

smiling, he’s started to

like MISS WEALAND)

How do you know that my granny

isn’t me dad’s mum? I didn’t tell

you that.

FRANCES:

Oh, I must’ve just made a lucky

guess there, Ryan.

She tries to turn his attention back to the book.

RYAN:

Why you all dressed up?

FRANCES:

You’re very good at diversion

tactics, aren’t you?

RYAN:

(his face lights up: he

doesn’t know what that

means but it sounds good)

Am I?

FRANCES:

I’m dressed up because I’m going to

a funeral this afternoon.

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