Happy Valley Page #2

Season #1 Episode #5

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ANN:

Ann. Gallagher.

MIKE TAYLOR:

And who’s done this to my sergeant?

ANN:

I don’t know his name, but he’s

still in there, he’s in the cellar,

she sprayed him with something.

MIKE ducks out of the car.

MIKE TAYLOR:

(to the troops)

You and you, round the back. Shaf,

you’re going in the ambulance with

Catherine. If she speaks, I want to

know what she’s saying. You

(PATROL OFFICER 2)

- stay wi’ t’lass. Everyone else

(he nods - through the

front door. They pile in,

no questions asked)

Check the cellar first! And be

careful!

(he gets on his radio)

I want the on-call D.I., I want HMIT,

I want CSI. This is the

attempted murder. Of a police

officer.

With a pained glance back at CATHERINE (who’s now in safe

hands) he dives into the house after his troops.

CUT TO:

6 INT. LYNN DEWHURST’S HOUSE, CELLAR. DAY 11. 09.06 6

PATROL OFFICER 1 and TWIGGY pile down the stairs into the

cellar with torches and batons. There’s nothing. No-one.

TOMMY’s gone. This is a big moment: last time we saw him he

was totally incapacitated, how can he have gone? The OFFICERS

check out all the possible nooks and crannies, but there’s

nothing.

TWIGGY:

(shouts up the stairs)

There’s nobody down here, Sir!

MIKE TAYLOR:

She sprayed him! She gassed him!

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 6.

7 EXT. STREET. DAY 11. 09.07 7

We discover TOMMY hiding behind an old coal hole. His eyes

are streaming, and it’s an effort of will not to give into

the pain and start howling. He gets his mobile phone out of

his back pocket, and struggles to access his numbers. His

vision is so impaired it’s almost impossible. TOMMY will

never in his life have felt so incapacitated. He finds the

number he’s looking for and it rings. Eventually

VOICE:

(it’s ASHLEY, oov)

Hello?

TOMMY:

Ashley. It’s Tommy.

Cutting as and when with:

CUT TO:

8 EXT. LIGHT HAZELS FARM. DAY 11. CONTINUOUS. 09.08 8

ASHLEY:

Hello?

TOMMY:

It’s Tommy.

ASHLEY can hear that TOMMY isn’t himself.

ASHLEY:

Are you all right?

TOMMY:

She’s escaped.

ASHLEY:

What?

TOMMY:

She escaped. That bastard police

woman! They’ve got her. You’ve got

to pick me up, you’ve got to help

me, [they’ve] - !

ASHLEY assesses things quickly.

ASHLEY:

You’re on your own, pal.

He hangs up.

TOMMY:

Ashley? Ashley!

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FIVE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 7.

Cut back to ASHLEY. He turns his phone off and takes out the

sim card, drops it on the floor and grinds it into the

gravel, then kicks it in all different directions as he

mutters angrily to himself -

ASHLEY:

Sh*t. Sh*t!

Cut back to TOMMY, howling/muttering about what a bastard

ASHLEY is. He accesses another number. It rings. And rings.

Eventually, cautiously

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