Happy Valley Page #7

Season #2 Episode #3

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23 INT. MORTUARY. NIGHT 8. 20.54 23

The clock now reads 20:54. The post-mortem is over. VICKY’s

body has been denuded. Her carcass is on the slab, and on

various other sterile surfaces are the bowels, the lungs and

other vital organs, and the vaginal area, which has been cut

out in a block.

JOHN (still bagging and labelling human evidence from VICKY’s

body in little tubes and plastic jars) strains to hear what

ANDY and DR CAROL FOWLER are saying.

CAROL:

She was asphyxiated with quite a

narrow ligature, looking at the

bruising on the muscle. Something

like an electric cable. The grazing

on the right knee happened - I

would imagine - during the

struggle. She was alive when it

happened. She was already dead

though when the internal vaginal

injuries were inflicted.

ANDY:

Are we looking at the same killer?

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CAROL:

Yeah.

(we should be looking at

JOHN for his private

silent reactions to all

this)

I mean it’s very similar. Not as

frenzied, not as extensive.

Internally. But yeah, broken glass -

a broken bottle - used again to

inflict the wounds. So... I don’t

know, maybe he was disturbed before

he’d done what he wanted to do.

It’s essentially the same. Just

less of it.

ANDY:

Can you be any more specific about

her age?

CAROL:

The internal organs are healthy

enough. She wasn’t a drinker, she

didn’t smoke. Never given birth.

Teeth are in good condition, so

ANDY:

So not...? What you’d think of as a

typical prostitute lifestyle?

CAROL:

(shakes his head)

She’s maybe forty-five to fifty-

five?

ANDY:

Could she be eastern European?

CAROL:

(shakes her head)

British dental work.

ANDY:

And you’re still confident she’s

been there two or three weeks?

CAROL:

(She nods:
yup)

There’s no more than three weeks’

hair regrowth. From the roots. Even

with skin slippage.

ANDY:

Was she killed where we found her?

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CAROL:

(shakes her head, can’t

say)

There was very little blood. At the

scene. But. It’s rained. And the

ground’s porous. We’ve lost any

post-mortem hyper-statis because of

the skin discolouration. So. I

couldn’t really tell you.

ANDY’s thoughtful.

We end on JOHN. He’s got through it. And ANDY appears to have

learned very little of any devastating significance.

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24 EXT. HANGINGROYD STREET. NIGHT 8. 21.00 24

CATHERINE heads along the street (possibly mumbling to

herself about what’s just passed with JOYCE) and up to the

front door.

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25 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 8. 21.01 25

Irritable DANIEL’s watching telly by himself as CATHERINE

heads into the room. Everyone on telly’s laughing, DANIEL

isn’t. CATHERINE’s a bit cool with DANIEL.

CATHERINE:

Where is everyone?

DANIEL:

Ryan’s in bed. Clare and Neil are

in t’kitchen with Winnie and Ilinka

and why can’t all these people just

go home?

CATHERINE heads out and through to the kitchen to see what’s

going on, then pops her head back in again.

CATHERINE:

Are you all right?

DANIEL:

(reluctant to make it real

by talking about it)

I’ve had a letter from a solicitor.

About divorce proceedings.

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CATHERINE takes that in, lingers/dwells on it for a moment

(realising he probably needs some sympathy and an ear) then

heads through to the kitchen to sort out the other thing

first. We go with her.

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26 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. NIGHT 8. 21.02 26

CATHERINE walks in and finds WINNIE and ILINKA sitting at the

table, and CLARE and NEIL busy making tea and biscuits. (NEIL

is all tactile/protective with CLARE, like he’s looking after

her since her lapse).

CLARE:

They think they’ve found another

one. It’s been on t’news. National

news on t’telly.

CATHERINE:

Have they announced it? Officially?

CLARE:

Well, they’re saying everything

suggests it’s another one. I don’t

know how official it is.

WINNIE:

(nodding ILINKA’s way)

She’s worried it’ll be someone else

she knows. She says they went

missing all t’time.

CATHERINE gives ILINKA’s shoulder a reassuring squeeze.

CLARE:

And it isn’t just that. They’ve let

that fella out on bail.

NEIL:

Can I pour you some tea? Catherine?

CATHERINE:

No thanks. What fella?

WINNIE:

That one you tasered. He’s called

Goran Dragovic. And she’s terrified

he’s going to come after her.

CATHERINE:

He’s been let out on bail?

CLARE:

Charged him with false

imprisonment, and people

trafficking [and]

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WINNIE:

‘People trafficking for purposes of

prostitution’.

CLARE:

- and then they’ve let him out on

bail.

CATHERINE:

Wow.

We see CATHERINE go a bit thoughtful.

CLARE:

Are they mental?

CATHERINE:

It doesn’t mean you’re in any more

danger. Tell her.

WINNIE’s not entirely convinced, but

WINNIE:

Catherine kase to ne znaci da ste u

opasnosti.

CATHERINE:

(she addresses ILINKA)

He might be out but he still

doesn’t know where you are.

WINNIE:

On bi mogao biti iz zatvora. Ali on

ne zna gdje ste.

But then the reason she went a bit thoughtful

CATHERINE:

It just means he knows somebody

with enough money to pay his bail

for him.

WINNIE:

The Knezevics?

CATHERINE:

God knows. On the plus side, he

won’t be going anywhere, ‘cos we’ll

have taken his passport off him.

(on reflection - )

If that is a plus.

WINNIE:

There was something else as well.

This is news to CLARE and NEIL as well as CATHERINE.

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CATHERINE/CLARE

What?

WINNIE knows instinctively that this is a bad idea

WINNIE:

She wants to go back to work at the

biscuit factory.

CATHERINE:

(a quick, decisive

response)

She can’t do that.

WINNIE:

I don’t think it’s a great idea,

but she keeps going on about how

they were all very nice to her. The

other people, and them that ran it,

I mean they are a legitimate

No, that’s - the people who own it

bus[iness] CATHERINE

CLARE:

It doesn’t matter What,

employing traffickedwomen?

CATHERINE:

(to CLARE)

probably don’t even realise they

are trafficked, they probably were

perfectly nice to her.

(then to WINNIE)

The problem is [is]

CLARE:

How could they not know? They don’t

pay ‘em!

CATHERINE:

No, they do! The biscuit factory

does. What happens is the

traffickers set themselves up as a

legitimate employment agency. They

don’t go round advertising the fact

that they’re criminal scum, it’s

not written on their foreheads.

They provide staff, women,

employees, then the biscuit factory

pays the money to them, the

(air bunnies)

‘Employment agency’ stroke criminal

scum, then it’s them that don’t

pass the wages on to the women.

That’s how they make their money.

However

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