Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #4

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LEWIS:

No. He isn’t. He hasn’t got his

hands mucky. He doesn’t have to

sit. In that caravan.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 12.

ASHLEY:

She’s coming from Halifax, she’ll

be here in ten minutes.

There’s no arguing with that: LEWIS heads off. ASHLEY’s well

agitated; he knows he has to calm himself down, he has to

look as calm and cool as a cucumber when this policewoman

gets here. And him with his sandbags full of drugs in plain

sight. He heads off into the out house with the cannabis

blocks.

CUT TO:

14 INT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. 11.38 14

ANN’s curled up in a corner, on the floor, still tied up but

not gagged. We see evidence that she’s been injected with

heroin to make her docile; a grungy brown spoon, a lighter,

citric acid, a needle. She looks catatonic, and her skin is

grey, pale, moist (and she’s dribbling saliva and she’s

probably vomited). She also looks increasingly dishevelled,

smelly and wretched. There’s some annoying (aggressive) music

on (not too loud). We discover TOMMY, who’s just having a wee

in the little bathroom, whilst checking his hair in the

mirror. He’s wearing nothing but his boxers and a T-shirt (no

balaclava). He’s got into the habit of treating ANN like

she’s not really there, except when he wants her, so he’ll

burp and fart and scratch himself whenever. Suddenly the door

opens, light floods in (the curtains are permanently drawn).

LEWIS appears - not that ANN can see him from the angle she’s

at - and he silently beckons TOMMY outside. We linger on ANN

for a few moments as TOMMY follows LEWIS outside. Despite the

state she’s in, we get a dim flicker of her terror and

frustration at not being able to discern what they’re saying

out there...

CUT TO:

15 EXT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. CONTINUOUS. 11.39 15

All whispered

LEWIS:

There’s a police woman coming to

t’farm, so we’ve to keep quiet ‘til

she’s gone.

TOMMY:

What police woman? Not that one I

saw?

LEWIS:

How the hell do I know? Where’s yer

balaclava?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 12A.

TOMMY hesitates and says very quietly right in LEWIS’s face

(still so ANN can’t hear)

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE FOUR. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 13.

TOMMY:

We don’t really need ‘em any more.

Do we? Little numpty-brain.

LEWIS takes in his meaning: because we’re going to kill her.

LEWIS follows TOMMY back inside the caravan

CUT TO:

16 INT. CARAVAN. DAY 9. CONTINUOUS. 11.40 16

-but gingerly tries to keep his face away from ANN, still

not even half way reconciled to that idea that they’re going

to kill her. He pulls the door shut. Locks it. TOMMY turns

the music off. Then LEWIS sees the state ANN’s in.

LEWIS:

What you done to her?

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