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The Runaway

TV·2011–2011·1 season, 6 episodes·Sky One·Drama·1h

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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.

Castfull cast & details

Joanna VanderhamJoanna VanderhamCathy ConnorJack O'ConnellJack O'ConnellEamonn DochertyKeith AllenKeith AllenDanny DixonKen StottKen StottJoeyKierston WareingKierston WareingMadgeBurn GormanBurn GormanRichard GatesAlan CummingAlan CummingDesraeMax IronsMax IronsTommy

Episodes by season

Season016Episodes2011Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01The Runaway S01E01Part 1March 31, 2011—Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are childhood sweethearts who are desperate to escape their East End roots. When Cathy murders her Mum’s pi
  2. S01E02The Runaway S01E02Part 2April 7, 2011—Cathy's desperate situation turns more so when she finds herself in a correctional facility. Eamonn quickly becomes embroiled in an underwor
  3. S01E03The Runaway S01E03Part 3April 14, 2011—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
  4. S01E04The Runaway S01E04Part 4April 21, 2011—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
  5. S01E05The Runaway S01E05Part 5April 28, 2011—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, Ki
  6. S01E06The Runaway S01E06Part 6May 5, 2011—Cathy and Eamonn think about the future but soon learn that the odds are stacked against them making it together.

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