Watch Run Away: A viral video, a missing daughter and the twists that keep you guessing

HARLAN Coben’s latest limited series, Run Away, on Netflix, thrusts viewers into a maze of secrets as Simon Greene (James Nesbitt) searches for his missing daughter Paige (Ellie de Lange).

When Simon finally locates Paige, she is strung out on drugs and accompanied by the troubled Aaron Corval (Thomas Flynn), a young man Simon blames for taking his daughter away. In a fit of rage, Simon attacks Aaron; Paige flees again, and the confrontation is captured on video, quickly going viral.

The clip lands Simon in hot water when Aaron is later found murdered, setting the stage for Coben and head writer/executive producer Danny Brocklehurst’s “shared vision” of twists that only deepen with each episode.

“We love twists and turns,” Coben told Tudum. “In our view, it gets better with each episode.”

Detectives Isaac Fagbenle (Alfred Enoch) and Ruby Todd (Amy Gledhill) are assigned to the case, with Simon as their prime suspect. Meanwhile, Simon and his wife Ingrid (Minnie Driver) return to Aaron’s apartment - the last place Paige was seen - to restart their search.

Under the cover of night, they meet Cornelius Faber (Lucian Msamati), a neighbour who was friends with Paige. Cornelius reveals that two days before Aaron’s death, he saw Paige heading to her drug dealer, Rocco (Marcus Fraser), with blood on her face, suggesting Aaron had beaten her. He directs Simon and Ingrid to Rocco, but the encounter ends disastrously when Ingrid is shot and left in a coma.

With his wife now critically injured, Simon presses on, driven by a desperate need to find Paige.

In the course of his hunt, he meets private investigator Elena Ravenscroft (Ruth Jones), who is also pursuing a missing‑persons case that may be linked to Aaron’s murder and Paige’s troubled past. Jones describes their partnership as “unexpected allies,” noting that “they share things about their personal lives that overlap, and they’re weirdly able to be a little bit of a comfort to each other.”

As Simon and Elena dig deeper, a pair of paid assassins - Ash (Jon Pointing) and Dee Dee (Maeve Courtier‑Lilley) - roam the city, eliminating anyone who might have a connection to Aaron.

The series piles on “extraordinary circumstances” and “huge” drama, according to Nesbitt, who says his character is taken to “very dark places.”

With questions mounting—who murdered Aaron Corval? Is Paige Greene still alive? And where does this mystery ultimately lead?—Run Away promises to unravel its many secrets episode by episode, with Coben, Brocklehurst, Nesbitt, and Jones breaking down the major twists and untangling the tangled web of the show’s narrative.