Happy Valley Page #2

Season #2 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
691 Views


or two blips with alcohol - for

nearly twelve years. Then she fell

off the wagon. At this funeral. And

she said it was my fault. Which -

(she hesitates. She blames

herself more than she’s

prepared to let on)

well, it was and it wasn’t. And in

fact... that was the same day that

I did this thing that’s meant I’m

having to do this. Business. Here.

With you.

THERAPIST:

Ah. Yes. Tommy Lee Royce’s mother’s

funeral. We will come onto that.

TITLES:

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2 INT. THERAPIST’S ROOM. DAY 8. 09.31 2

As before, CATHERINE and the THERAPIST.

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE THREE. PEACH SCRIPT. 66.

THERAPIST:

So language like, “I could’ve

merrily strung Ryan up”, “happily

throttled Daniel”, “cheerfully

strangled Clare”. There are two

points there. On one level you

don’t mean it, these are people you

love, unquestionably, it’s an

expression of frustration, and

ironically affection, when their

behaviour falls short of what you

would like or expect. On another

level. You are angry. Whether it’s

with them or - perhaps more likely -

with other people. People you can’t

express your anger to directly the

way you can with the people you

live with. These are chosen,

sarcastic, brutal expressions.

CATHERINE thinks about that. And she knows there’s truth in

it. At some muddled level. Not that she’s going to admit it.

CATHERINE:

I’m a police officer. I see things.

I’m not going to share the same

vocabulary as Mary Poppins.

The THERAPIST smiles. He’s kind, objective, fascinated

THERAPIST:

Tell me about Clare. Two weeks ago.

Why did she think it was your fault

that she’d fallen off the wagon?

CATHERINE pulls this face/heaves a sigh like she can’t be

bothered to explain.

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3 INT. JOCKEY’S CLUB, HEBDEN BRIDGE. NIGHT 6. 23.20 3

Two weeks ago.

CATHERINE and CLARE at a table together. Loud music. Everyone

else here is tattooed, pierced, dyed hair, cool, hip, mad,

sad and happening, Hebden Bridge style. CLARE’s got a pint,

CATHERINE’s on diet coke (she’s got work in a few short

hours). CATHERINE’s decided to go with the flow: CLARE has

lapsed, she’ll contain it tomorrow. For now, she’s letting

CLARE do what she has to do. They have to shout, the music’s

so loud

HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE THREE. PEACH SCRIPT. 77.

CLARE:

I thought you were stopping! I

thought we were both stopping, and

suddenly you’re not! And I’m on my

own, and I don’t know anybody!

Except like three people, and two

of them’s Nev and Ann, and they’re

busy talking to people. And you

were five hours. You said “I shan’t

be so long”. Or whatever. And

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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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