Episode 1 Season 1 Episode Summary: Sergeant Catherine Cawood copes with the news of Tommy Lee Royce’s release from prison, while dealing with her troubled grandson’s disturbing behavior, and the numerous drug-related cases in her district. Unbeknownst to her, she has also come across a kidnapping on its outset and has the identity of its mastermind.
Happy Valley Recap of Episode 1 Season 1: Sergeant Catherine Cawood, a 47-year-old divorcee, arrives at a convenience store, buys a fire extinguisher and a pair of sunglasses. She meets PC Kirsten McAskill at a nearby playground hauling the fire extinguisher while donning her newly bought sunglasses for protection. They are attending to Liam Hughes, a 23-year-old unemployed heroin addict who has doused himself in gasoline and threatening self-immolation after learning his ex-girlfriend has started sleeping with his best friend.
Sgt. Cawood keeps Liam engaged while waiting for the high-ranking, highly trained specialist expert negotiator to arrive. She introduces herself as a 47-year-old divorcee living with her recovering heroin addict sister. Moreover, Catherine has two adult children, one estranged, the other deceased and had left her with a grandson. Later, Richard Cawood, Catherine’s journalist ex-husband, catches her on her way home from work and asks about the incident at the playground hoping to get details to write for his newspaper. He invites her to dinner adding he is about to lose his job. Although sympathetic, Catherine makes her leave as she is to fetch her grandson, Ryan. Richard, however, shares the devastating news of Tommy Lee Royce’s release from prison. The news gnaws at her mind as she waits for her grandson at the schoolyard when another unpleasant news greets her. Ryan lost his temper at school and threw chairs across the room hurting himself in the process. Catherine arrives home and updates her sister, Clare, of Ryan’s disturbing behavior along with the upsetting news of Tommy Lee Royce’s discharge only to learn Clare already knew about Tommy but kept it from her to spare her grief.
Kevin Weatherill speaks with Nevison Gallagher, the owner of Nevison Gallagher Associates Industrial Refrigeration, about his daughter’s acceptance at a prestigious school and asks for a raise. Nevison condescendingly alludes to rejecting Kevin’s request, but informs him of considering his request. Kevin becomes upset over dinner as he and his wife discuss Nevison’s decision to reject his pay raise request. The Gallagher’s dinner conversation is about Kevin’s request as well for he is a friend of the family. Both Nevison’s wife and daughter disagree with his decision, and his daughter walks out after he bluntly expresses his disappointment for not seeing the fruits of her expensive college education.
Catherine has accepted Richard’s dinner invitation after all, and she listens patiently as he casually complains about his new wife’s inconsiderate desire to buy a new house despite his job loss. His new wife is confident of him finding another job, a confidence he, a middle-aged man, doesn’t share. Richard presses Catherine again on the incident on the playground, one people have been gossiping about and have blown out of proportion. As it turns out, Catherine had sprayed Liam with the fire extinguisher the moment he decided to smoke a cigarette unaware it would unwittingly ignite him. Catherine becomes annoyed when Richard continues to press her of the uninteresting domestic case with the heroin addict and irritably recommends he write about a more substantial article on the proliferation of drugs in their district. She then moves on to the most likely reason for her accepting the dinner invitation, Tommy Lee Royce. Catherine presses Richard for information about Tommy, but he doesn’t have much to share. She knows more about Tommy than Richard having done her research after learning the news of his release. Catherine has learned of his release address, but is doubtful he is actually living with his mother while on probation. Richard drives Catherine home, and finds her desirously gazing at him. They kiss passionately and decide to continue their tryst in the house. The next morning, Catherine visits the grave of her deceased eighteen-year-old daughter with Clare and Ryan, and confides her preoccupation with Tommy Lee Royce whose whereabouts is unknown but whom she believes is close.
Kevin brings his family to the caravan park they frequent, and continues to be resentful of Nev. He has deluded himself of deserving half of Nev’s company, believing his father and Nev conceived the industrial refrigeration business together. Kevin’s father instead ended up working for Nev when he returned home from college. The sight of the caravan park’s owner’s expensive vehicles fills him with envy. Kevin brings his caravan rental payment to Ashley Cowgill, the proprietor, while Ashley and his men are unloading bags of sand. One of the bags rips revealing cannabis packets hidden in the sand. Ashley forces Kevin to join him inside his house through threats despite Kevin’s assurances of silence, and is astounded with the man’s proposal; one Kevin had clearly already deliberated. Kevin proposes working together to kidnap Ann, Nev’s daughter, for a half a million pound ransom. Ashley releases Kevin while he considers the proposal. Jittery Lewis Whippey confronts Ashley after seeing Kevin leaving the house unafraid and even confident, and conveys of his unease of the new hire whose bag of sand ripped. Ashley is unconcerned of a recently released ex-convict who served eight years in prison. In fact, he trusts Tommy enough to discuss Kevin’s proposal with him and Lewis. Later that evening, Ashley calls for Kevin to inform him of his decision. He and his men will proceed with the kidnapping and offers Kevin only ten percent of the ransom upsetting Kevin enough to threaten squealing to the authorities Ashley’s side business. Ashley expresses his indifference having already removed the evidence from his property, and reminds Kevin of his ability to accomplish the kidnapping without his help. Powerless Kevin instead negotiates a twenty percent cut leveraging both his daughters’ education. The next day, Nev calls Kevin to his office to inform him of his decision to pay for Kevin’s daughters’ school fees following Nev’s wife and daughter’s badgering. Moreover, Nev offers him a deputy managing director role revealing his need to take leave given his wife’s dismal liver cancer prognosis.
Sgt. Catherine Cawood and PC Shafiq Shah enters a flat after receiving a 999 call of suspected distress, and finds two drug addicts in bed. They arrest the man who still has a syringe in his foot without complications unlike Liam Hughes who Sgt. Cawood reveals has threatened charges against her for assault. Moreover, the newsagent who sold her the fire extinguisher decided to charge her personally for the item. To add to Catherine’s misfortunes, she is once again summoned at the school due to Ryan’s bouts of anger. The principal informs Catherine of having an educational psychologist spend time with Ryan to uncover the cause of his repeated misconduct especially after receiving complaints from other parents. She believes the psychologist can help Ryan manage his anger. Catherine breaks down in tears and reveals Ryan is the product of the brutal rape of her daughter, Becky, who took her life six weeks after giving birth to Ryan. Catherine does her best to care for the unwanted child so undesired for being the constant reminder of Becky’s rape and eventual suicide that her husband left her following her decision to care for their grandson. She reveals Tommy Lee Royce as Becky’s rapist, imprisoned for drug trafficking but not her daughter’s rape. Catherine is terrified that Ryan is just like Tommy. Later that evening, she once again seeks comfort in a tryst with Richard to whom she confides her gruesome fantasy of killing Tommy Lee Royce.
Kevin is overcome with a guilty conscience and unsuccessfully persuades Ashley to abandon the kidnapping that is already underway. He decides to go to a police station, and insists on speaking to a proper police officer. Sgt. Cawood attends to a distressed Kevin who struggles to convey the crime he has come to report. She notices Kevin’s consternation and offers to continue their chat in her office. Sgt. Cawood makes her way to the side door of the precinct to let Kevin in, but he instead returns to his car and drives away. She makes note of Kevin’s license plate, and returns to the precinct to respond to another case. Kevin finds a phone booth and calls Ashley wanting reassurance that Ann will not be hurt.
Lewis and Tommy have been following Ann in a white van waiting for the right moment to hit her car. They find an opportunity at a remote road. Ann steps out of her yellow Mini Cooper and scolds Lewis while Tommy puts on his ski mask and punches Ann. Lewis and Tommy carry a frantic, screaming Ann inside the van struggling to be free of her kidnappers, but the two men overpower her. Tommy hits Ann once again stunning her enough allowing them to gag, bind, and put her inside a sleeping bag. Tommy finds Ann’s mobile phone in her car and gives it to Lewis before taking her car leaving a nervous Lewis with Ann. Tommy drives Ann’s Mini Cooper into town while Lewis follows close behind. They carry Ann inside a garage and Lewis inadvertently mention’s Ashley’s name causing Tommy to threaten him if he makes another mistake. Lewis leaves for the farm to bring Ashley Ann’s mobile phone, while Tommy goes for a walk. Sgt. Cawood is driving back to the police station telling PC McAskill her last case when she notices Tommy on the sidewalk looking inside a closed curry house. She parks her patrol car and runs to the sidewalk where she last saw him, but he is gone and nowhere in sight. Unbeknownst to her, Tommy has returned to the garage where Ann is bound.
Nev receives a call from Ann’s mobile phone only it’s not Ann on the other line, but Ashley. Ashley, who refers to himself as God, instructs Nev to take his call in twenty minutes on a specific phone booth. Kevin watches as Nev rushes out of the office, and later receives a frantic call from Nev telling him Ann has been kidnapped and her captors are asking a million quid for ransom. Nev has called Kevin for help raising the ransom in two days without raising alarms. Unbeknownst to Kevin, Sgt. Cawood has returned to the police station and looks up his license plate from the database revealing his identity.
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