Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #2

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-and through the outer back door.

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7 EXT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, BACK YARD. DAY 5. 13.32 7

Continuous

CATHERINE:

Is Jonno with you?

SHAFIQ:

(oov)

Yep, he’s here.

CATHERINE:

Two minutes. Bravo November Four-

five to Control.

CATHERINE dives into one patrol car as KIRSTEN and the other

PC dive into another. We stick with Catherine.

CONTROL:

Go ahead four-five.

CATHERINE:

Have we a mobile unit - double

crewed - I need ‘em for a back-up

job on Turnpike Street in Elland.

Silent approach, rendezvous on

Cemetery Road.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE TWO. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 9.

8 EXT. TURNPIKE STREET, ELLAND. DAY 5. 13.50 8

Just above Turnpike Street is a little grassed area with a

small children’s playground. There’s an ice cream van parked

right next to it, with an unusual number of customers, most

of them low-life and hoodies. There’s a few toddlers with

mums too, but they’re outnumbered.

Inside the van we glimpse close-up as one of two lads serving

ice-cream drops a wrap of dope into the bottom of a cone,

pulls a swirl of ice cream on top, and hands it over the

counter to a lad offering a tenner. The other lad inside the

van takes the tenner and pockets it (and obviously gives no

change). The next hoodie appears at the window, and asks the

lad for “two o’ them what he had”, and proffers a couple of

tenners.

Just then a patrol car and a traffic car appear from one end

of the street, and a second patrol car from the other. At

speed. They’ve got the blue lights flashing, but no sirens.

People start shouting “Feds!” “Pigs!” ”Bastard police!” etc,

whilst the two boys in the van are going, “Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t!”

The boy who was collecting the cash jumps into the driver’s

seat and starts trying to turn the engine over, but it’s no

use:
one patrol car’s pulled up right in front, one right

behind, whilst the traffic car’s boxed him in at the side.

Which obliges the lad to say “Sh*t!” again.

The clientele are all dispersing - fast. CATHERINE, KIRSTEN,

SHAFIQ, TWIGGY (a PC) and the other PC, plus the two TRAFFIC

COPS, all dive out of their vehicles. The two dope-sellers

come flying out of the ice-cream van window, one after the

other, and race off. Because some of the clients are running

off too, there’s some confusion about who’s who. Six of the

seven police officers grab who they can, whilst one of them

secures the ice cream van. One of the dope-sellers is grabbed

and floored and cuffed (by KIRSTEN and TWIGGY), but

CATHERINE’s got her eye on the other one, who’s legging it.

CATHERINE:

(at SHAFIQ)

THAT ONE!

SHAFIQ diverts from the one he’s after to join CATHERINE

racing after this one. CATHERINE gets close enough, then

rugby tackles him to the ground, but it’s messy, and he

manages to free one of his legs and boots her in the eye.

SHAFIQ dives on top. CATHERINE grabs one of the lad’s arms,

pushes it up behind his back and slips the cuffs on

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