The Runaway (2011)

Name: The Runaway
Rating: 6.1

Rating: 6.1

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.

First Air Date: 2011-03-31

Last Air Date: 2011-05-05

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Networks: Sky One

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Top Cast

Joanna Vanderham as Cathy Connor
Jack O'Connell as Eamonn Docherty
Keith Allen as Danny Dixon
Ken Stott as Joey
Kierston Wareing as Madge
Burn Gorman as Richard Gates
Alan Cumming as Desrae
Max Irons as Tommy
Noah Hedges as Eamonn Docherty
Sam Spruell as Jim Harvey

Seasons

None (2011)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Part 1 (2011-03-31)

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.
Ep. 2: Part 2 (2011-04-07)

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.
Ep. 3: Part 3 (2011-04-14)

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.
Ep. 4: Part 4 (2011-04-21)

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
Ep. 5: Part 5 (2011-04-28)

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.
Ep. 6: Part 6 (2011-05-05)

Cathy and Eamonn think about the future but soon learn that the odds are stacked against them making it together.