Happy Valley Page #2

Season #1 Episode #2

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(he resists saying

“c*nts”, but it’s a

battle)

gits are and choke ‘em with it.

KEVIN:

(terrified)

Absolutely, absolutely.

We linger on KEVIN as NEVISON strides back to his office. We

may hear him mumble to his PA - “Get me Adam Stapleton on the

phone, tell him it’s important”.

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2 EXT. ALLOTMENTS, HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 5. 11.30 2

CLARE’s been digging all morning (it’s winter, but could she

be aerating the soil?) but right now she’s on her mobile.

CLARE:

Outside the Chinese up Rawson Lane?

Cutting as and when with:

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3 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE'S DESK. DAY 5. 3

11.31

CATHERINE’s at her computer desk.

CATHERINE:

Yeah.

CLARE:

How d’you know it was him?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 4.

CATHERINE:

Er... because I’m not blind?

CLARE:

No, come on, he’s been in prison

for God knows how long.

CATHERINE:

So? What? You think I’m seeing

things?

CLARE:

No, I think

(gently)

I think you’ve got it on your

brain. A bit. That’s all. Which is

completely understandable. I just

CATHERINE:

It was him.

CLARE:

Okay! Fine. Fine. Even if it was

She dries up.

CATHERINE:

Yes? “Even if it was”?

A pause.

CLARE:

What time’s your dinner break?

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4 INT. ALLOTMENT SHED. DAY 5. 13.00 4

CATHERINE and CLARE sit in the allotment shed eating lunch.

Both with robust appetites, they’ve both had energy-sapping

mornings.

CLARE:

You pushed it as far as you could

after Becky died. You did

everything you could, Catherine.

Everyone knows what he is, the fact

that the CPS couldn’t run with it

is bad, it’s awful, everyone knows

that, but

Dries up.

CATHERINE:

What?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 5.

CLARE keeps it low-key, light; she gives a shrug as she selfconsciously

admits

CLARE:

I worry about you. Getting yourself

all upset and obsessed with it all

over again.

CATHERINE:

That subhuman piece of rotting

excrement. Should be on the Sex

Offenders’ Register. And he isn’t.

I think that’s something worth

getting obsessed with and upset

about. Don’t you?

In some ways CLARE does: she hates this man for what he did

to her niece. But

CLARE:

You’re never going to be able to

approach this objectively, you’re

just going to make yourself ill

again.

That gives CATHERINE brief pause for thought. She dismisses

it

CATHERINE:

He’s on my patch. You think I’m

going to ignore it? Sooner or

later, unless someone marks his

card for him - big style - he’s

going to hurt someone else.

CLARE:

Is that what you’re going to do?

Mark his card for him?

CATHERINE:

It’s my job.

CLARE:

How? How y’gonna do it?

CATHERINE:

The less you know, Clare.

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