Happy Valley Page #3

Season #1 Episode #2
Synopsis: Catherine is a no-nonsense police sergeant who heads up a team of officers in a rural Yorkshire valley. When a staged kidnapping spirals out of control turning into a brutal series of crimes, Catherine finds herself involved in something significantly bigger than her rank, but unknowingly close to home.
Genre: Crime, Drama
  15 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
TV-MA
Year:
2014
58 min
440 Views


CLARE:

You see... that - saying something

like that - that just makes me even

more worried that you’re not...

Dries up.

CATHERINE:

Not what.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 6.

CLARE:

Not going to deal with it

rationally.

CATHERINE:

Rationally? I’ve got no intentions

of dealing with it rationally. I’m

amazed you think anybody’d expect

me to.

CLARE’s about to react again when she realises

CLARE:

You’re just winding me up.

CATHERINE:

My intention. Is to deal with it

effectively.

So now CLARE doesn’t know if she’s winding her up or if she

really means it.

CLARE:

Right, well you’ve heard what I’m

saying. You worry about me. Staying

on the...

(self-conscious, doesn’t

like saying it)

Wagon. I worry about you. Okay?

(adding as bluntly and

unsentimentally as she

can - )

You’re the only sister I’ve got.

CUT TO:

5

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S OFFICE. 5

DAY 5. 13.30.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 7.

CATHERINE’s busy at her computer when JOYCE sticks her head

round the door.

JOYCE:

Catherine.

CATHERINE:

Joyce.

JOYCE:

Mrs. Godley from Turnpike Street in

Elland rang on the desk line to say

“Them lads in that ice cream van

are at it again”.

CATHERINE:

(her eyes light up: she’s

thrilled)

Right now?

JOYCE:

Right now.

CATHERINE chucks her reading glasses down and dives out of

her office and through to the main office, shouting

CATHERINE:

Job on, boys and girls! I need

everybody.

CUT TO:

6 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. DAY 5. 6

13.31

KIRSTEN and another PC (plus a bloke in civvies) are all busy

at computers as CATHERINE (immediately continuous from above)

comes in and tells them

CATHERINE:

The ice-cream man cometh! Let’s go

go go and get him.

(to KIRSTEN; swift, fond

and motherly - )

And you make sure you’re tooled up

properly this time, lady.

(KIRSTEN and the other PC

are already grabbing

their utility belts, stab-

proof vests, helmets.

They head out, buzzing

just like CATHERINE.

CATHERINE’s on her radio

now, talking to her

shoulder - )

Four-five to nine-two-four-two.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 8.

CATHERINE pulls on her utility belt, her stab-proof vest, her

helmet, and heads out after the other two.

SHAFIQ:

Nine-two-four-two, go ahead.

We’re right with CATHERINE as she follows KIRSTEN and the

other PC through the little kitchen at the back of the nick

(grabbing car keys from hooks on the wall as they go)

CATHERINE:

What’s your location, Shaf? One of

us’ll pick y’up, it’s all hands on

deck.

SHAFIQ:

(oov)

We’re just on by t’wharf.

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Sally Wainwright

Sally A Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer and playwright. She won the 2009 Writer of the Year Award given by the RTS in 2009 for Unforgiven. She is known for work on the BBC dramas Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. Both have won BAFTA's award for best series, and Wainwright was voted best writer. more…

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