Happy Valley Page #3

Season #1 Episode #6

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TOMMY falls over with the effort, and it takes a moment for

him to recover himself in his weakened state.

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12 INT. NARROW BOAT. DAY 15. 14.31 12

It’s dark and sparse inside the narrow boat, but it has some

basic amenities:
a kitchen, a gas hob, even a kettle. TOMMY

closes and bolts the doors behind him, looking out again to

check that no-one’s spotted him. He wanders through to the

next bit, and finds a narrow double-sized bunk. He levers

himself down onto it. He’s exhausted but his mind’s buzzing.

He knows this is the end, in some shape or form. And the only

really clear thing in his mind is RYAN. We get into his

(slightly delirious?) thoughts, his memory of his earlier

encounter with CATHERINE, the one before he beat her up

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13 EXT. STREET, HEBDEN BRIDGE. DAY 10. 15.16 13

TOMMY LEE ROYCE appears right in front of CATHERINE

TOMMY:

You wanted to see me.

-but it’s RYAN he’s looking at. We now see the whole thing

from RYAN’s point of view (which we didn’t last time).

CATHERINE pulls the car door open and bundles RYAN in...

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14 INT. CATHERINE’S CAR. DAY 10. 15.17 14

We’re with RYAN as he witnesses the scene between his granny

and this stranger. A lot of it’s hush hush; RYAN can’t make

out everything that’s being said [and maybe the following

scene shouldn’t be played out literally, it’s more like an

impression, a memory, a truncated version of the original

scene] and what he can make out doesn’t make much sense to

him. RYAN’s fascinated and terrified

CATHERINE:

Where’re you living?

TOMMY:

Is that my son?

CATHERINE:

I know you’re not at your release

address. Which is where you should

be living, so where you living?

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE SIX. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT. 8.

TOMMY:

I am living there. Is that my son?

CATHERINE:

No. Not according to your mother

you’re not. What were you doing at

Milton Avenue?

TOMMY:

What?

CATHERINE:

Number sixty two Milton Avenue,

Sowerby Bridge. What were you doing

there?

TOMMY:

Must be somebody who looks like me.

CATHERINE:

Okay. Well we’ll see. When I get

the swabs and prints back from the

lab.

TOMMY:

How come Becky’s dead?

CATHERINE:

I’m not talking to you about my

daughter.

TOMMY:

That’s my lad.

CATHERINE heads for the driver’s door.

CATHERINE:

He’s got nothing to do with you.

TOMMY:

You know me and your Becky had a

thing going on.

She goes back and gets right in his face.

CATHERINE:

A ‘thing going on’? You twisted

little bastard, you raped her.

TOMMY:

I didn’t.

CATHERINE:

I know what you did to her because

she told me. You better not cross

me, arse hole. Because if you do, I

will chop your dick off and I’ll

make you swallow it.

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