Happy Valley Page #6

Season #2 Episode #2

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heard, just now. So. I thought you

deserved to know. In advance.

Before you saw it on the news or in

the papers.

CATHERINE takes it in. It affects her. Deeply. It hits her

straight in the gut, like anything to do with that bastard

does. She’s gone quiet. GORKEM and SLEDGE are there too.

CATHERINE:

Right.

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7

EXT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL. DAY 5. 09.30 7

Establishing shot across the play ground, the roof tops and

the hills beyond.

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8

INT. ST. MARKS JUNIOR SCHOOL. DAY 5. 09.31 8

Assembly. The children and staff sing a song. We glimpse

MRS.BERESFORD, then RYAN and FRANCESCO, then a few teachers.

As the song ends - to our surprise - we come to FRANCES

DRUMMOND, singing and smiling at the children.

MRS.BERESFORD

Sit down everyone. Now, this

morning I’m delighted to tell you

that we have a new member of staff

joining us. Miss Wealand...

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HAPPY VALLEY SERIES TWO. EPISODE TWO. GREEN SCRIPT. 12.

MRS.BERESFORD (CONT'D)

(we see FRANCES smiling

happily at the children)

...has come all the way from

Linlithgow in Scotland to take over

from Mrs.Etherington as our new

teaching assistant! And I’m sure

you’d all like to join me in giving

her a really big warm welcome. So

shall we do that? Yes? Everyone?

After three. One - two - three

(the kids all join in,

like it’s something they

always do at their school

to a new person or a

guest)

Welcome to our school, Miss

Wealand.

We end on FRANCES smiling at RYAN. She’s got eye contact.

RYAN (half distracted by FRANCESCO) smiles back perkily.

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9 EXT. BATEMAN STREET, KING CROSS. DAY 5. 10.00 9

A couple of patrol cars and a couple of CID cars and a mobile

police unit are parked up Lynn’s street. We see officers -

detectives coupled up with uniforms - doing house-to-house.

LYNN’s house is boarded up now SOCO and POLSA have finished

dissecting it and there’s a uniformed officer stood outside

the house. We discover ANN GALLAGHER glancing up the road at

the boarded up house where she was held captive eighteen

months ago. It’s the first time she’s been back here since

then. She’s been paired up with JOHN WADSWORTH again. JOHN’s

just knocked on a door for the second time. At length

ANN:

I don’t think there’s anyone in.

(JOHN goes and taps loud

on the window with his

car keys:
metal on glass.

It won’t be the first

time ANN’s seen him do

it)

Is that an approved technique?

JOHN:

For getting people out of bed,

yeah.

JOHN didn’t mean to be funny (he’s too preoccupied), but ANN

finds it funny and lets out a little laugh. (ANN of course is

preoccupied too, it’s her mother’s funeral tomorrow, but at

least she hasn’t got any secrets preying on her mind).

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