Happy Valley (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2014)

Sarah Lancashire: Catherine Cawood

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• Catherine Cawood : With all these fumes frankly, I don't know how you're staying conscious - you could go up any second whether you intend to or not. And once you go up, you won't just go up a bit, you'll go up a lot. And the other big thing to say is, it hurts. Three seconds in and you'll be screaming at me to put you out, seven seconds in and you'll be begging me to shoot you.

• Catherine Cawood : [trying to talk Liam out of setting himself on fire]  I'm Catherine, by the way. I'm forty-seven. I'm divorced. I live with my sister, who's a recovering heroin addict. I've two grown-up children - one dead, one who don't speak to me - and a grandson. So...

  Liam Hughes : Why? Why don't he speak to you?

  Catherine Cawood : Its complicated. Let's talk about you.

• [first lines] 

  Catherine Cawood : Have you got a fire extinguisher?

  Shop Keeper : A f...

  Catherine Cawood : For putting out fires. I've got one in the car, but I may need something bigger. There's a fella round the corner reckoning to set fire to himself! Thank you, we're on top of that. How much for these?

  Kirsten McAskill : [arriving on scene]  Nice glasses.

  Catherine Cawood : Well, he can send himself to paradise - that's his choice - but he's not taking my eyebrows with him.