The first trailer of Happy Valley season 3 has been released by the BBC, and it appears that the upcoming instalment of the crime drama will be another corker.
After having its last broadcast on our screens seven years ago, Sally Wainwright’s series is returning for a third and final excursion. Original cast members including Sarah Lancashire, 58, and James Norton, 37, will be reprising their roles in the new instalment.
In the video that lasts approximately five minutes, we observe a Lancashire police officer named Sergeant Catherine Cawood having to perform a U-turn after receiving a call concerning bones.
The detective then parks up at a Yorkshire reservoir where workers point her towards the remains before she jokes amid the grisly weather: ‘Turned out nice again.’
Cawood makes her way towards the ocean by slogging through the muck, and when she gets there, she is visibly surprised to find a human skeleton that has washed up on the shore.
Following her additional investigation of the area, she calls the control room to report the discovery of human remains. She also informs the room that forensics will arrive at the scene of the crime shortly.
Cawood briefs the two cops on the current status of the skeleton, and throughout the course of the conversation, one of the officers makes light conversation and mentions that he had heard she was retiring this year.
‘Yep, seven months, one week, three days,’ she responds, with the officer going on: ‘Teeth still in tact?’
In a brilliant moment of dark humour, Cawood checks out her own gnashers before realising the investigator was referring to the skeleton.
The forensics duo mock Cawood for calling the remains a ‘he’, going on to joke: ‘You know what his favourite sandwich is too?’
Cawood, though, is known for her lack of reaction to jibes, so she just informs the two of them that she is aware of who the culprit is.
She alleges that it is the body of a man who died approximately ten years ago after falling off a balcony on the third floor while under the influence of narcotics while he was “off his head.”
Cawood claimed that she was able to identify the teeth in the bone because she had previously arrested the man for violating a public order ordinance, and the man had retaliated by biting her.
‘People used to say he had upset someone he shouldn’t have,’ Cawood tells the flabbergasted officers. ‘And that he had been buried in concrete up in Scammonden [reservoir].
‘But what happened were wrong eh? This is Baitings [reservoir].
‘You might find his legs over there. I’ll leave it with you. T**ts.’
Cawood not only has to deal with her grandson who is in his teenage years, but she also needs to investigate the remains, which will set in motion a series of events that will take her right back to Tommy Lee Royce (Norton).
Ryan (Rhys Connah), now 16, has ideas of his own about the kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father, leaving Catherine’s sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran) caught in the middle.
When a neighbour in another part of the valley is taken into custody, a local pharmacist in another section of the valley finds himself in over his head.
Happy Valley starts tomorrow on BBC One and iPlayer at 9pm.
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