Happy Valley Page #4

Season #1 Episode #3
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
478 Views


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EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.28 14

TOMMY puts the Mini into reverse again. KIRSTEN sees the

white lights. It’s the last thing she will see.

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15

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, CATHERINE’S 15

OFFICE/CORRIDOR. EVENING 7. 17.29

CATHERINE hears over the radio as she dives out of her office

and along the corridor

RADIO:

Control to all units. Officer

requires urgent assistance,

Scammonden Road, Ripponden.

CATHERINE talks loud and clear

CATHERINE:

Bravo November four-five,

responding.

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16

EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.30 16

TOMMY puts his foot down and reverses over KIRSTEN. We don’t

need to see it; we can see it off LEWIS’s face. We may hear

the noise as well, which will be like so many water melons

getting crushed. LEWIS has to look away. He may even get

squirted in blood.

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HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 10.

17 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. EVENING 7. 17

17.31

CATHERINE dives into the other room to see who’s around.

SHAFIQ and TWIGGY are sitting with their coats on, nowhere

near their radios, ready to go home, having a laugh.

SHAFIQ:

We’re off for a drink Sarg when

Kirsten shows up. Y’coming?

CATHERINE’s gone as white as a sheet.

CATHERINE:

We’ve got a code zero, Scammonden

Road, it’s Kirsten.

A shiver goes up SHAFIQ and TWIGGY’s spines. Instinctively

they grab their radios - which, having mentally knocked off

for the day, they’d turned off - and dive out of the room

after CATHERINE. This is a proper mad frantic scramble. Other

officers/units are responding over the radio too (t.b.w.) as

CATHERINE heads back through to her office, grabs car keys

and heads outside

CATHERINE (CONT’D)

Bravo November four-five, e.t.a.

seven minutes. Have you called an

ambulance?

(then to TWIGGY and SHAFIQ

as they’re piling out of

the back door)

Shafiq, you come wi’ me, Twiggy,

take the other car.

RADIO:

Ambulance is on it’s way, four-

five.

SHAFIQ:

What’s happened?

(The beeping noise continues, which is chilling: if the

officer in trouble had pressed the emergency button by

accident, she’d have deactivated it by now).

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18 EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.32 18

TOMMY - having pulled forward again off KIRSTEN - gets out of

the Mini. LEWIS can’t bring himself to look.

TOMMY:

Where’s the keys?

(LEWIS holds them up)

Right, well go.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 11.

LEWIS:

You’ve - !

” - killed a police officer”. He can’t speak, he’s gone

weird, he’s in shock.

TOMMY:

Go. You get that van off this road

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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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