Happy Valley Page #5

Season #1 Episode #3

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fast. Like your arse is on fire.

LEWIS - stunned, nauseous, disbelieving (possibly nearly in

tears) - hesitates a moment longer

LEWIS:

You...!

(he can’t think of a word

bad enough)

nutter!

He turns and gets in the van, turns the engine over, and

drives away. TOMMY does a three point turn - reversing over

KIRSTEN again to avoid the risk of her still being alive -

and drives off after LEWIS.

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19 EXT. SOWERBY BRIDGE. EVENING 7. 17.50 19

The light falls more and more. The police Discovery and

police car weave through the last of the Sowerby Bridge rush

hour traffic with their insistent blue lights and sirens -

driving over pavements and on the wrong side of the road if

necessary - then speed off as soon as they’re through the

jam, the tyres screeching as CATHERINE and TWIGGY really go

for it.

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20 INT. DISCOVERY. EVENING 7. 17.51 20

SHAFIQ’s next to CATHERINE in the Discovery. CATHERINE’s

driving.

CATHERINE:

She’d seen a white tranny with a

light out, she was gonna

(she gets on radio again)

Bravo November four-five. Had she

just P.N.C.d a white transit van?

RADIO:

She’d put in a request, but not

given the registration.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 12.

CATHERINE:

I want the helicopter up now -now

NOW - looking for a white transit

van.

CATHERINE realises she lost it there for a second, she reins

it in.

SHAFIQ:

(for CATHERINE’s ears

only)

Why would she do that? Put in a

request but not give the

registration?

CATHERINE doesn’t know, but clearly something’s gone very

badly wrong.

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21 EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.52 21

We see KIRSTEN’s face in the gloom. The only illumination is

from the rear lights of her patrol car and the revolving bar

lights. She’s dead, no question. Silence. Gloom across the

moor as the light continues to fade. We become aware of

headlights. The sound of the two vehicles approaching at

speed. Blue lights, headlights. The Discovery is in front. It

slows up as it approaches the scene.

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22 INT/EXT. DISCOVERY/STREET. EVENING 7. 17.53 22

CATHERINE and SHAFIQ can see what’s in the road: someone in

uniform, dead. They both freeze. Just for a second.

SHAFIQ:

(a whisper)

That isn’t Kirsten.

CATHERINE:

Pass me the

‘Torch’. She’s pointing at the glove compartment. SHAFIQ

passes it. CATHERINE gets out of the Discovery. SHAFIQ feels

too wobbly to move for another few seconds.

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23 EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. EVENING 7. 17.54 23

TWIGGY’s pulled up behind the Discovery. He gets out but is

reluctant to move forward; he’s as nervous as SHAFIQ.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 13.

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