Happy Valley Page #11

Season #2 Episode #3

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PARAMEDIC:

He’s dead.

CATHERINE:

Thanks, love.

PARAMEDIC:

(calling back)

It’s on the left. Careful as you go

down, it’s slippery.

CATHERINE:

(to ANN)

They’ll be from St.Werberg’s. Find

out if they walk through here

regularly, and if they do, at what

times, and if they’re familiar with

anybody else who walks through

here.

(she gets on her radio)

Bravo November four-five, I’m in

Crow Wood Park, suspected suicide

confirmed dead by the paramedic. We

need a CSI here and somebody from

CID if anyone’s available.

We cut to the hanging body (nothing gruesome, just the legs)

as CATHERINE and ANN approach. The trousers damp where the

dead man has wet himself. It’s slightly off the main drag

through the park (which could account for other people

having missed it earlier in the day). CATHERINE and ANN come

and look at it. ANN’s mezmerised. It’s the peacock thing

again. CATHERINE’s more interested in the scene: a couple of

empty vodka bottles at the foot of the tree, an old jacket.

ANN:

(awed, subdued, shocked,

fascinated)

Wow...

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CATHERINE:

Yup.

ANN:

How y’gonna get him down?

CATHERINE:

Oh that’s easy. I’m gonna wait for

CID to turn up and let them do it.

(at length as ANN

continues to gawp at the

body - )

So. Come on. These names.

(ANN groans)

Just spit them out quickly then

it’s done with.

ANN:

I don’t wanna be like the messenger

that gets shot.

CATHERINE:

Do you think I’m that small minded?

Possibly, yes we can see ANN thinking.

ANN:

Shall I go and take those first

accounts?

CATHERINE:

I’ll tell you what -

(getting her day book out,

and a pen)

you can write them down if it’s

easier.

ANN:

I’m not sure I should.

CATHERINE:

No love, I’m not asking you.

ANN:

I think - going back to ethics -

you shouldn’t use your rank to make

me tell you something like that.

CATHERINE:

Rank? We’re friends.

ANN:

Not at work! You said that.

CATHERINE’s not sure whether she should resort to this or

not, but it flies out anyway

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CATHERINE:

I saved your life. From that

bastard.

(ANN’s shocked, that’s

below the belt. CATHERINE

might be shocked too that

she’s resorted to that,

but it’s out there now)

Oooh! Yes! Go on, lady. Get round

that one.

ANN:

D’you really want to know that

badly? Catherine.

CATHERINE pauses: maybe she doesn’t. Actually.

CATHERINE:

Are they really sh*t?

ANN:

No.

(well, yes)

They’re affectionate. But. You

know. Not - not - not what you

might choose. For yourself. That’s

all.

(CATHERINE’s looking

worried. Suddenly - )

If you really want to know, I will

tell you.

CATHERINE’s bothered now. Once she knows, that’s it, she’s

never going to not know. It’ll be something she has to live

with. And maybe some things are better left unknown. While

she’s deliberating on this, something about the dead man

arrests her attention. She stares and stares, walks round him

to get a better view of his face to confirm what she’s

thinking. Perhaps it’s a tattoo she remembers.

ANN:

What’s up?

CATHERINE:

I know him.

(she’s amazed, and

freaked:
suddenly this

feels creepy)

It’s that bloke I tasered. They let

him out on bail yesterday.

CUT TO:

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37 EXT. STREET, SOWERBY BRIDGE. DAY 9. 11.40 37

A poor area, similar to where LYNN DEWHURST lived.

CATHERINE’s knocking on a door. She knocks gently, it’s not a

keys on the window job. She’s got SHAF with her.

CATHERINE:

D’you want to do the talking?

(SHAF’s nervous: he hoped

and assumed CATHERINE

would do the heavy stuff)

It’s good practise for you. And

anyway - look - it was me that

tasered him, if we weren’t so

understaffed and underresourced I

wouldn’t even be here. This is

bordering on

(back to unethical)

Awkward.

The door opens. A 24-year-old woman, poorly dressed. She

looks deeply suspicious when she sees two police officers. In

her culture the police are the enemy: they’re unpleasant,

difficult people. As soon as she sees them all she wants to

do is shut the door.

SHAF:

Mrs. Dragovic?

MRS. DRAGOVIC

There’s no-one here.

SHAF:

(nods, accepts that, he

knows GORAN’s not here)

Is your husband Goran Dragovic?

MRS. DRAGOVIC

He’s not here, he works shifts.

SHAF:

Could we come in?

MRS. DRAGOVIC

It’s not a good time for me, I’m

busy, I’m going out.

She’s about to shut the door. SHAF has to stop her.

SHAF:

It’s important, Mrs. Dragovic.

There’s been an accident.

MRS. DRAGOVIC

What accident?

SHAF:

Can we...?

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Come in, he means, whilst making it clear with his body

language that he’s coming in anyway. And CATHERINE’s right

behind him.

CUT TO:

38 INT. DRAGOVIC HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. DAY 9. 11.41 38

SHAF and CATHERINE step inside. There’s a baby and a toddler.

CATHERINE takes her hat off and makes a fuss of the toddler

so it’s not frightened of her and SHAF. The toddler has a

single toy to play with. It’s clear from the state of the

room that the family have very little money.

SHAF:

You might want to sit down.

Beneath the stoical exterior, we sense that MRS. DRAGOVIC is

terrified.

CUT TO:

39 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, H-MIT OFFICES. DAY 9. 39

12.15

JOHN’s busy with his head in his computer screen, opposite

D.I. JODIE SHACKLETON, also busy with her head in her

computer. A number of other detectives are similarly quietly

busy. The office has a quiet, intense feel. JOHN doesn’t

notice ANN walk in. He’s in a world of his own.

ANN:

Hiya.

JOHN:

Oh. Hello.

ANN:

I saw a dead body this morning.

This fella hanged himself.

JOHN:

You’ll get used to it.

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ANN:

Oh, I didn’t mind, I was

fascinated. His tongue was like

(she mimes, makes an

appropriate noise to go

with it)

-and his lips were blue, proper

blue, and his eyes were all like

bulging out. Does that make me

weird? Not being freaked?

(JOHN’s about to answer,

but ANN doesn’t wait for

it, she’s too full of

questions)

Is it true that men get an erection

when they hang?

JODIE chips in, but barely looks up from what she’s busy with

on her computer throughout the whole scene

JODIE:

(amused)

Well it depends what they were

doing at the time.

ANN:

So normally not? Then.

JODIE:

It’s a myth.

ANN:

Okay. Good! Well there you go, I’ve

learned something!

(back to JOHN)

Inspector Taylor sent me up with

this for Mr. Shepherd.

(a piece of paper)

Is he in?

JOHN:

No, he’s stepped out.

ANN:

It’s nothing, it’s just Brunhilde’s

alibi. Finally. Joyce down at

t’front desk worked it out.

JODIE:

Brunhilde?

JOHN:

Miss Trunchbull.

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ANN:

Sergeant Cawood.

JOHN:

(taking it)

I’ll put it on his desk.

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