Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #6
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
376 Views


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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 9.

CATHERINE (CONT'D)

Is there anything I’ve said you

don’t understand?

CATHERINE gives it a moment to sink in, then heads for the

car. TOMMY goes and bangs on the window, his face only two

inches from RYAN’s.

TOMMY:

You’re my son! I’m your dad! You’re

my son, Ryan! I knew your mum!

TOMMY pulls at the door handle, but terrified RYAN’s locked

in (terrified but fascinated). CATHERINE gets in and drives

off, a bit too fast, doesn’t pause to put her seat belt on.

CUT TO:

15 INT. RYAN’S SCHOOL, CLASSROOM. DAY 15. 14.45 15

On RYAN. He’s also thinking about that same incident (and has

been on and off ever since it happened). MRS.MUKHERJEE’s

reading The Railway Children before home-time. The children

sit around her in a circle. RYAN’s miles away, thinking about

the man who said he was his dad (and maybe MRS.MUKHERJEE’s

reading a story that happens to have ‘dad’ in it).

MRS MUKHERJEE:

"I knew something wonderful was

going to happen," said Bobbie, as

they went up the road, "but I

didn't think it was going to be

this. Oh, my Daddy, my Daddy!"

"Then didn't Mother get my letter?"

Father asked.

"There weren't any letters this

morning. Oh! Daddy! it IS really

you, isn't it?"

The clasp of a hand she had not

forgotten assured her that it was.

"You must go in by yourself,

Bobbie, and tell Mother quite

quietly that it's all right.

They've caught the man who did it.

Everyone knows now that it wasn't

your Daddy."

"I always knew it wasn't," said

Bobbie.

CUT TO:

16 EXT. SCHOOL. DAY 15. 15.15 16

CATHERINE waits for RYAN as he emerges from the school. No

MRS.MUKHERJEE, much to CATHERINE’s relief.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 9A.

CATHERINE:

Y’had a good day?

RYAN:

Yep.

CATHERINE:

You sure?

RYAN:

Yes.

CUT TO:

17 EXT. NISA. DAY 15. 15.30 17

RYAN leaves the Nisa, CATHERINE’s right behind him (we

recognise the street where TOMMY bought pills just a few

hours ago). RYAN (with bike and helmet) has a packet of

sweets that CATHERINE’s just bought for him.

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

CATHERINE:

I’m sorry I’ve not been much fun

lately.

RYAN:

(struggling to open his

sweets)

S’all right.

CATHERINE:

(she offers to take the

sweets off him to open

them)

I miss your mum sometimes, that’s

all.

Saying that just suddenly makes her emotional.

RYAN:

(he notices)

Why’re you crying?

CATHERINE:

(brushing it off, trying

to smile)

Oh, it just happens. When you get

to my age.

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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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