Happy Valley Page #4

Season #2 Episode #1

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16 INT/EXT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, CONSERVATORY. DAY 1. 17.42 16

CATHERINE and CLARE as before.

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

CATHERINE:

...was when I smell this s[mell] -

I was going to say ‘smell’, but the

word doesn’t begin to do it

justice.

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17 EXT. FLATS. DAY 1. 16.31 17

They’ve locked the van doors (the lads bang and shout abuse

aimed at CATHERINE from inside the van, SHAF and GORKEM are

there), and now CATHERINE’s heading for the bin shed,

following her experience, her nose, her instincts.

CATHERINE:

(v.o.)

It coulda been anything, fish,

poultry, you name it, but whatever

it was, it was well off.

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18 INT. HOUSING ESTATE, BIN SHED. DAY 1. 16.32 18

CATHERINE pulls the door open. The smell hits her. She pulls

a pair of latex CSI gloves on and comes in. Garbage

everywhere:
over flowing bins, split black bags. She comes

further in and looks around. Then she sees something that

compels her to stare. We don’t see it (or maybe we just see a

human hand poking out from the rubbish or something) but we

know from her reaction that it’s something horrific.

Titles

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19 EXT. BARKISLAND. DAY 1. 18.35 19

Early evening.

An estate of smart new family homes. We’re particularly

interested in one house which has a couple of smart, newish

cars outside (a mid-range BMW and VW Zafira), and a

collection of kids’ bikes. This is JOHN WADSWORTH’s house.

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20 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE. KITCHEN. DAY 1. 18.36 20

The WADSWORTH family are all in from school and work: a

noisy, busy household. Mum (AMANDA, 46) is cooking, Dad

(JOHN, 48) has set the table and now he’s sitting at the far

end of the kitchen playing Scrabble on his Ipad.

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

JACK (15) and BEN (13) are having a heated debate, and AMBER

(8) is struggling to get the screw-top off a juice carton.

(The debate shouldn’t sound as angry as it might read, it’s

just the hurly-burly of teenagers and tired parents)...

AMANDA:

Don’t start playing on that Play

Station again, Ben! Your tea’s

nearly ready!

BEN:

It’s my turn! It’s not again.

JACK:

(helping himself to

something from the

fridge, taking the piss)

Aw! Is he crying?

BEN:

Piss off.

AMANDA:

John, can you tell him not to turn

it back on again? And don’t swear.

AMBER:

This won’t open!

JOHN:

You’ve heard what your mother’s

said.

AMANDA:

(at JACK as she takes the

carton off AMBER to open

it)

You’re not raiding the fridge, you,

five minutes before your tea.

Just then JOHN’s phone beeps with a text. He gets his phone

out of his pocket, but realises it’s not that phone. It’s his

other phone. A phone his wife doesn’t know he has. He quickly

gets it out of his jacket pocket (which he’d left draped

somewhere) and grabs it as unobtrusively as he can.

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