The Runaway

2011 - 2011

Part 1

31st March 2011

Episode 1

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

Episode 2

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

14th April 2011

Episode 3

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

21st April 2011

Episode 4

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

28th April 2011

Episode 5

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.

Part 6

Episode 6

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

Top Cast

Joanna Vanderham•Jack O'Connell•Keith Allen

Director

David Richards

Writer

Allan Cubitt

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.

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Joanna Vanderham

Cathy Connor

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Jack O'Connell

Eamonn Docherty

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Keith Allen

Danny Dixon

Ken Stott Image

Ken Stott

Joey

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Kierston Wareing

Madge

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Burn Gorman

Richard Gates

Alan Cumming Image

Alan Cumming

Desrae

Max Irons Image

Max Irons

Tommy

Noah Hedges

Eamonn Docherty

Full Crew

David Richards

Director

Allan Cubitt

Writer

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Martina Cole

Novel

Lavinia Warner

Executive Producer

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Charles Pattinson

Executive Producer

George Faber

Executive Producer

Helen Flint

Executive Producer

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Elaine Pyke

Executive Producer

Huw Kennair-Jones

Executive Producer

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Martina Cole

Executive Producer

Nick Goding

Producer

Charlotte Essex

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