Happy Valley Page #7

Season #1 Episode #3

---

CUT TO:

24 INT. CATHERINE’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 7. 23.30 24

Later. CATHERINE - still in half uniform - is sitting staring

at the fire. CLARE - in her dressing gown - is sitting with

her. Silence.

CATHERINE:

I had to give her a bit of a

talking to. Yesterday morning. I

said, “I’m not your mother. You’re

a police officer, nobody bullies

you”. So she’d be out to prove

something. She said, “This is all I

wanted to do, all my life, and I’m

sh*t at it”, and I should’ve said

“No you’re not. You’re fantastic,

you’re lovely”, but I didn’t. I

just let her dwell on it, so she’d

be thinking I’d be thinking she was

sh*t at it, and I didn’t, I don’t

think that, she wasn’t.

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 15.

CLARE doesn’t know what to say; nothing seems big enough. She

knows just how badly CATHERINE’ll be taking this, and all she

can do is listen.

CUT TO:

25 EXT. SCAMMONDEN ROAD. NIGHT 7. 20.30 25

We’re back earlier in the evening. The whole circus has

arrived:
a helicopter’s chopping around overheard.

CATHERINE’s cordoned off the area around KIRSTEN’s body and

KIRSTEN’s patrol car. A CSI tent’s been put up over KIRSTEN.

Arc lights on the top of a couple of police Range Rovers

illuminate the whole scene, there’s a camera on a tripod in

the road, someone else is filming the road with a hand-held

camera, the place is busy with flourescent-jacketed CSI

officers, CID officers, Collision Investigation Branch

officers, H-MIT officers. The DISTRICT COMMANDER - PRAVEEN

BADAL (a Chief Superintendant) comes over to CATHERINE, who

is just stuffing her flourescent jacket into a CSI bag which

a CSI officer is holding open for her. She’s got smudges of

blood on her face, she’s shivering. PRAVEEN is being blunt to

be kind

PRAVEEN:

Catherine. Go home. You’ve done all

you can.

CATHERINE:

Who’s telling the next of kin? Sir.

You?

PRAVEEN:

Yes, that’s

...what normally happens.

CSI OFFICER:

I need your trousers and your boots

as well.

That’s all she needs, stripping off here (even though she

knew they’d need her trousers and boots as well). She

addresses PRAVEEN

CATHERINE:

Would you like me to come with you?

PRAVEEN:

Who is the next of kin?

CUT TO:

HAPPY VALLEY. EPISODE THREE. BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT 16.

26 INT. KIRSTEN & OLLIE’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 7. 26

20.50

CATHERINE (changed into whatever kit she had down at the

nick) and PRAVEEN BADAL are with 26-year-old OLLIE. Who is

inconsolable. This lad is in love with KIRSTEN. (N.B.

CATHERINE’s washed the blood off her face).

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes