Happy Valley Page #3

Season #2 Episode #2

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CATHERINE:

And it is just for two or three

nights. ‘Til the trafficking unit

sorts something out, she knows

that.

WINNIE:

She’s saying you’re very kind. Mi

cemo se brinuti o tebi, draga moja.

(we’ll look after you,

love)

I’m saying yes, you’re wonderful -

so long as we all stay on the right

side of you, ‘cos if we don’t

you’re a pain in the arse.

(then to ILINKA, she winks

and smiles at her)

Kao sto kazu ovdje u Engleskoj -

njezin lavez je gori od njezinog

ugriza.

As they say here in England, her bark’s worse than her bite.

CATHERINE:

Yeah. Good. Thanks for that,

Winnie.

Titles

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3 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, KITCHEN. DAY 5. 07.45 3

Everyone’s busy getting ready for work and school: AMANDA’s

rushing the packed lunches, JACK can’t find his school

planner or his calculator, BEN’s slowly and methodically

piling too much Nutella onto his toast and AMBER’s pouring

too much milk onto her Cheerios. Radio 2 (equivalent) is on

slightly too loud. JOHN comes down the stairs and in, pulling

his jacket on. He’s cross, hassled. Disproportionately so.

He’s just come in to share some thoughts with them all before

he goes to work

JOHN:

Light left on in the bathroom.

Again. His bedroom light on, her

bedroom light on.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 8.

AMBER:

I’m going back up there!

JOHN:

You’re not up there now. Who’s left

this?

He’s found an abandoned bowl half full of soggy Frosted

Shreddies on the surface above the dishwasher.

BEN:

He did.

Meaning JACK.

JACK:

So what? I’ve lost my calculator.

JOHN:

So don’t pour so much cereal if you

know you’re not going to eat it!

It’s all to pay for, it doesn’t

grow on trees!

AMBER:

He needs to calm down.

JOHN:

I don’t need to calm down, I need

to not be surrounded by people who

take the p[iss] mickey. All the

time.

(he checks his watch,

grabs his keys, he should

have been out of here

five minutes ago)

I’ll see you later.

AMANDA:

Yup.

He kisses AMANDA. She lets him. It’s perfunctory, he needn’t

have bothered. He’s off, the door shuts in his wake.

JACK:

What’s up with him?

We linger on AMANDA. We sense irritation, indifference, a

woman who’s made the decision to bide her time.

AMANDA:

God knows.

JACK:

Eh?

AMANDA dismisses what she just said, and instead suggests (a

bit hush hush, not something she wants AMBER to hear)

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 9.

AMANDA:

It’s this killer, it’s this bloke

who’s murdering prostitutes.

They’re tough jobs to work on, I

suppose. I don’t know.

JACK seems to buy that, but still mumbles JACK

No need to take it out on us.

But of course AMANDA does suspect there’s more to it.

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3A EXT. VICKY’S FLAT. DAY 5. 07.49 3A

Establisher.

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4 INT. VICKY’S FLAT, HALLWAY. DAY 5. 07.50 4

In contrast to JOHN’s house, things in VICKY’s flat are very

calm. VICKY puts the last touches of make-up on. Checksherself out. Squirts herself with some expensive perfumeshe’s treated herself to. She looks deep into her own eyes.

She’s not evil, she’s telling herself; she’s just getting

even with someone who’s lead her up the garden path. She’s

doing the right thing. She has the radio on. One itemfinishes, and then it goes into NEWSREADER

In Calderdale in West Yorkshire,

police chiefs have called forincreased vigilance in thecommunity following the linking ofthe murder of three women in the

area over the last five m[onths] -

VICKY flips the radio off: she doesn’t want to hear about

that. We get the idea as she continues to look at herselfthat she’s nervous about what she’s doing; it’s illegal, it’s

blackmail, she’s playing with fire and it could go wrong.

She dismisses it, pulls her coat on, gets her handbag, andheads off to work.

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4A INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, STAIRWELL. DAY 5.

08.01

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The troops are all heading out of the office and down thestairs, all kitted up for the day.

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