The Price

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• Genre(s): Thriller, Drama
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Peter Smith
• Cast(s): Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan, Simon Jones, Derek Thompson See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 6h
• Award(s): BAFTA TV 1986 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, One Battle After Another
• Story:
  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.
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