Happy Valley Page #5

Season #2 Episode #2

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-which obviously irritates the hell out of CATHERINE and *

makes her feel like prime suspect all over again, and all the *

horrible feelings that brings. She deals with it. *

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

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EXT. SALTER HEBBLE HIGH SCHOOL. DAY 5. 08.15 5 *

CATHERINE’s marching a handcuffed YEAR 11 LAD (age 15) out of

the school building and towards her patrol car.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 10.

She has his collar firmly gripped with one hand, and in the

other she carries two transparent evidence bags, one

containing something like twenty-five little ziploc bags full

of cannabis, and the other containing a load of money. Droves

of kids are just arriving for school and are of course

fascinated to see a police sergeant nicking a student.

CATHERINE talks at the LAD loud and clear - largely for the

benefit and instruction of any other kids who are listening.

CATHERINE:

So lad! This is what happens when

you get caught dealing skunk behind

the science block! I’ll tell you

what though, pal. You wouldn’t

touch this stuff if you saw what

they put on it. I mean literally

you wouldn’t touch it, never mind

inhale it. D’you know how it’s

grown? You don’t know and you don’t

care, I know. I’m going to tell you

anyway because - you never know -

it might serve as a wake-up call.

They’ll find a terrace house, rip

everything out - including the

bathroom, all the fixtures and

fittings - and fill the whole place

with cannabis plants. Then they

employ a load of illegal immigrants

- well I say ‘employ’, I use the

term loosely - to chuck a load of

seriously unpleasant illegal

chemicals on them to make them grow

far too fast, and not only that,

once they’ve ripped the bathroom

out there’s nowhere to go and do

the necessary, so guess what - they

sh*t on the plants! No, they really

do. That’s what you’re dealing with

here, that’s what you’ve been

handling. Human faeces.

(she pulls the patrol car

door open and steers him

in)

Get in, you idiot.

Just then CATHERINE hears MIKE’s voice through her ear piece

MIKE:

Catherine?

She checks her radio and sees MIKE’s call signal (as she

shuts the LAD in the patrol car).

CATHERINE:

Boss.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 11.

Cutting as and when with:

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INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, REPORT ROOM/CORRIDOR. 6

DAY 5. 08.16

MIKE:

You busy?

CATHERINE:

(yes)

No.

MIKE:

Okay. So. I’ve just heard. And I

thought you’d like to know...

(delicately)

The Home Office’ve given Tommy Lee

Royce permission to attend his

mother’s funeral. Tomorrow. At the

crematorium. In Elland. I’ve just

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