The Runaway (2011)

6.1 (14 votes)

1 Season

March 31, 2011

English

Drama

Synopsis

Childhood friends Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty were brought up together in the heart of gangland East London. Separated by violent circumstances their lives take strikingly different directions until they meet again as adults.

Creator

Lavinia Warner, Charles Pattinson, George Faber

Network

Sky One

Episodes

Part 1

Mar 31, 2011

60 min

Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are childhood sweethearts who are desperate to escape their East End roots. When Cathy murders her Mum’s pimp in self defence it changes their lives forever.

Part 2

Apr 7, 2011

60 min

Cathy's desperate situation turns more so when she finds herself in a correctional facility. Eamonn quickly becomes embroiled in an underworld of crime, earning his stripes by protecting Dixon from getting shot on a heist.

Part 3

Apr 14, 2011

60 min

With Desrae’s help, Cathy reinvents herself in Soho. Cathy and Eamonn are reunited but it ends in disaster and Eamonn is forced to flee the country.

Part 4

Apr 21, 2011

60 min

Eamonn returns to London to supply detonators to members of the IRA, before the death of his father makes him yearn for Cathy even more. The pair are reunited again, and with their chemistry as strong as ever, the pair plan to start a new life in America together. Meanwhile, Dixon's attacks on the West End clubs intensify

Part 5

Apr 28, 2011

60 min

Cathy and Tommy's marriage is on the rocks which is further exacerbated when Eamonn returns to London. When Tommy's drug deal goes wrong, Kitty's life is left hanging in the balance.