Happy Valley Page #2

Season #2 Episode #1

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CLARE:

I don’t know how you do it.

CATHERINE:

Farmer wasn’t laughing.

CLARE:

Well they never do, do they.

According to you.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 5.

9A EXT. FAR SUNDERLAND FARM. DAY 1. 14.00 9A

Establisher.

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10 INT. FAR SUNDERLAND FARM, LIVING ROOM. DAY 1. 14.01 10

It’s like we’ve stepped back in time to a cross between the

1870s and the 1970s. The squalor, the poverty, the dirt.

Nothing new or even clean. CATHERINE’s with 43-year-old

ALISON GARRS and her son, 26-year-old DARYL GARRS.

ALISON:

It’s not first time. Lads come up

off the estate off their heads on

God-knows-what and then they’ll

take one.

CATHERINE:

Really?

(ALISON:
yup)

And... what d’you think it is they

do with ‘em when they’ve got ‘em?

ALISON:

Sell ‘em. Eat ‘em. God knows how.

DARYL:

They’re gimmers, they’re not ‘ogs.

CATHERINE looks to ALISON for an explanation.

ALISON:

They’re for breeding, not eating.

Meat’ll be as tough as an old boot.

DARYL:

They won’t know that though will

they? They’re stupid.

We get the idea that shy DARYL doesn’t often offer

suggestions.

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11 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, CONSERVATORY. DAY 1. 17.38 11

CATHERINE:

It was what happened next that was

really comical.

(although she doesn’t

exactly look amused)

Well, I say comical.

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE ONE. GREEN SCRIPT. 6.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

I’d been back at the nick maybe an

hour, hour and a half, and then

there’s another call.

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12

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION. CATHERINE’S OFFICE, 12

DAY 1. 15.30

CATHERINE’s busy at her desk when JOYCE is heard approaching -

JOYCE:

Catherine!

CATHERINE:

Joyce!

JOYCE pops her head in.

JOYCE:

I think we may have entered the

Twilight Zone.

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13

EXT. LOCAL HOUSING ESTATE. DAY 1. 16.00 13

CATHERINE and SHAF are looking around an open grassy knoll

(perhaps near the children’s play ground) and there are three

dead mongrels visible from where they’re standing (like

CATHERINE and SHAF are in the middle of a vast irregular

triangle, each point of which is made up of a single dead

dog). A council truck is just pulling up (the sort that

removes dead vermin from the side of the road). A good few onlookers:

this is a creepy sight. SHAF looks kinda freaked,

like he has indeed just entered the twilight zone...

SHAF:

This is like some...

(a fazed-out mumble)

crazy weird sh*t, man.

He’s been reading too much Stephen King as well. And whilst

this does seem weird, CATHERINE is of the experienced opinion

that there’ll be a perfectly banal explanation. She’s on her

radio.

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