

10/01/1985
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

Peter Barkworth
as Geoffrey Carr

Harriet Walter
as Frances Carr

Aingeal Grehan
as Kate

Simon Jones
as Lansbury

Derek Thompson
as Frank Crossan

Adrian Dunbar
as Willy

Hugh Fraser
as Richard Lefray

Nicholas Jones
as Andrew

John Kavanagh
as Kearney

Susanna Reid
as Clare

David Lyon
as Simon

Linda Spurrier
as Margaret

Denys Hawthorne
as Doherty

Mark Mulholland
as Watson

Colm Hefferon
as Garda Twomey

Peadar Lamb
as O'Hanlon

Ruth Hegarty
as Eileen

Oliver Maguire
as McLaughlin
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