Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #4

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ASHLEY:

So - well - what did she want?

JULIE:

Summat about the house on Milton

Avenue. It’s been broken into.

ASHLEY:

Br - ?

He dries up. LEWIS collects up the blocks of cannabis.

JULIE:

Have you been doing summat dodgy in

there?

ASHLEY:

No. What did she say?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 10.

JULIE:

The’s no tenants, is the?

ASHLEY:

No. No. No tenants.

JULIE:

Somebody’s broken in and she needs

to talk to you.

ASHLEY:

Nobody’s br

He shuts up. It bothers him. She’s broken in, this police

woman, he suddenly realises that. She’s been noseying around

and now she’s broken in. But why? What does she know?

JULIE:

Right, well she’s coming. And

you’re in bother y’bastard, if

you’ve been up to something.

Silence, then they speak together

ASHLEY JULIE:

I -I am not. Not. Visiting you

in prison.

ASHLEY:

I don’t even know what you’re on

about! Why am I ‘up to something’

just ‘cos some toe rag’s decided to

break into some property?

LEWIS is interested in ASHLEY’s conversation now he’s heard

that (even though he doesn’t know what it refers to).

JULIE:

Yeah, that’s right Ashley, you’re

talking to the woman that was born

last week. She’ll be there in ten

minutes.

ASHLEY realises she’s hung up.

LEWIS:

(angry)

These bags. Are sh*t.

ASHLEY:

Give it here.

LEWIS passes the cannabis blocks to ASHLEY.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

Okay, I want you to go stay in

t’caravan wi’ Tommy and

(MORE)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 11.

ASHLEY (CONT’D)

(he can’t say ANN’s name,

knowing they’re probably

going to kill her)

Her. And keep it down.

LEWIS:

Why?

ASHLEY:

(reluctant)

There’s a police woman coming

ovver, I’ll deal with her.

LEWIS:

(red alert)

What police woman?

ASHLEY:

You both stay in -how the hell do

I know? - you both stay in there

‘til I come and tell you she’s been

and gone. All right? I don’t want

to hear a peep out of anyone. No

noise, no movement.

LEWIS hesitates - he hates this, he hates what they’ve gone

and got themselves involved in -

LEWIS:

If that little chicken-sh*t rat-

faced...

(trying to think of words

bad enough)

turd’s been to t’police

ASHLEY:

He hasn’t, he won’t have, d’you

think they’d send one woman if they

knew owt?

Oh yeah. But then LEWIS realises

LEWIS:

Well she must know summat.

Despite his logic, ASHLEY himself remains jittery.

ASHLEY:

He hasn’t been to the police!

Right? He’s in this just as deep as

anyone.

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