The Runaway
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.
Overview
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.
Lavinia Warner
Creator / EP
Nick Goding
Producer
Episodes
1. Part 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.
2. Part 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.
3. Part 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.
Cast & Crew
Joanna Vanderham
Cathy Connor
Jack O'Connell
Eamonn Docherty
Keith Allen
Danny Dixon
Ken Stott
Joey
Sam Spruell
Jim Harvey
Kierston Wareing
Madge
