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The BBC has dropped the opening scene of Happy Valley season 3 and it looks like the crime drama will be another corker.
Sally Wainwright’s series is back for a third and final outing after last airing on our screens seven years ago, with OG cast members including Sarah Lancashire, 58, and James Norton, 37, reprising their roles.
The five-minute clip sees Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Lancashire) forced to make a U-turn in her police car after receiving a call about 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.’
Sludging through the much, Cawood makes her way towards the water where she is visibly shocked to find a human skeleton that has washed up.
After further inspecting the area, she calls the control room and announces there are human remains, with forensics shortly turning up at the crime scene.
Sarah Lancashire is back as the no-nonsense sergeant (Picture: BBC)
Catherine Cawood rushes to the potential crime scene (Picture: BBC)
Cawood briefs the pair of officers on the state of the skeleton, with one of them making small talk and saying 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.
Cawood is the first officer to arrive at the reservoir to inspect the remains (Picture: BBC)
The bones found at the reservoir turn out to be human remains (Picture: BBC)
The forensics duo mock Cawood for calling the remains a ‘he’, going on to joke: ‘You know what his favourite sandwich is too?’
But the famously no-nonsense Cawood doesn’t react to their jibes, informing the pair she knows exactly who it is.
She claims its the body of a man who fell from a third-floor balcony about a decade ago when he was ‘off his head’ on drugs.
The forensics team mock the brilliance of Cawood (Picture: BBC)
Cawood said she recognised the teeth in the skeleton because she had nicked the man on a public order offence previously and he had responded 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].
James Norton also returns as villain Tommy Lee Royce (Picture: PA)
‘You might find his legs over there. I’ll leave it with you. T**ts.’
As well as investigating the remains, which will spark a chain of events that leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce (Norton), Cawood also has to contend with her teenage grandson.
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.
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Elsewhere, in another part of the valley, a local pharmacist gets in over his head when a neighbour is arrested.
Happy Valley starts tomorrow on BBC One and iPlayer at 9pm.
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