Happy Valley Page #2

Season #2 Episode #2

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CLARE (CONT'D)

our Ryan. That I. Am an

(mouthing it)

Alcoholic.

CATHERINE looks at DANIEL: really?

DANIEL:

It wasn’t -

(tongue-tied)

just - so cut and dried as that. As

I have tried to explain.

CLARE:

Nine years old, and he’s telling

him stuff he never needed to know.

DANIEL:

He. Asked. He. Used the word (

mouths it)

alcoholic.

CATHERINE:

(worried:
why did RYAN

even think to ask that?)

Did he?

DANIEL:

(flustered again)

I didn’t I didn’t I didn’t know how

to respond.

CATHERINE:

When was this?

DANIEL:

Last week, it was when you were at

the hospice, it was when Helen

died.

Around about now we see 85-year-old WINNIE (who’s bad on her

legs) heading across the back yard from the house opposite.

CATHERINE:

Right, well tell him you

misunderstood, you got the wrong

end of the stick, and she’s not.

CLARE looks at DANIEL: there you go. Do that.

DANIEL:

But that’s - it’s lying. He’ll

think I’m someone who makes stuff

up.

CLARE:

No, he’ll think you’re someone who

gets the wrong end of the stick.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 6.

DANIEL’s beleaguered: he’s not much happier with that.

DANIEL:

He’s not daft. He’s the opposite of

daft actually, he’s very bright,

he’s very perceptive, and he’ll be

able to tell straight away that I’m

talking shite

(smiling at ILINKA)

- sorry - and that’ll just

reinforce the fact that she is -

(correcting himself

quickly)

was. An (

mouths it gently)

alcoholic.

Poor wretched ILINKA watches cluelessly as they debate. The

two back doors are wide open (as usual on sunny afternoons)

and WINNIE calls as she struggles up the step into the

conservatory

WINNIE:

It’s only me!

We get the idea from the way CATHERINE talks to WINNIE that

WINNIE’s a bit deaf.

CATHERINE:

Come on in, Winnie!

WINNIE has a rather severe look, but is essentially salt of

the earth. She has a distant Croatian/Yugoslavian accent,

tempered by sixty years of West Yorkshire.

WINNIE:

Where is she?

(she sees ILINKA)

Oh, jadnice! Sto ti se dogodilo?

Oh you poor thing! What happened?

ILINKA:

(she cries)

Moram razgovarati sa svojom

obitelji! Treba mi telefon.

I need to talk to my family, I need a telephone.

WINNIE comforts ILINKA. WINNIE’s upset and appalled at the

state of ILINKA.

WINNIE:

Da, mozete doci kod mene kuci I

koristiti moj telefon.

You can come over to my house and use my telephone.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 7.

ILINKA:

Ova policajka je bila jako ljubazna

prema meni.

This police woman has been very kind to me.

We might want to glimpse the total lack of comprehension from

CATHERINE, CLARE and DANIEL during this emotional exchange.

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