Geoffrey Keen as Detective Inspector Drakin.During the voyage Robbie falls seriously ill, and Lloyd turns the boat back towards Scotland, where he knows the police are waiting for him. They finally reach a small Scottish fishing port, where Lloyd steals a boat and sets sail for Ireland. Both feel they have 'burned their bridges' and now have nothing to lose. As their journey progresses, however, the pair gradually develop a strong bond of friendship, trust and common cause. Initially Lloyd regards Robbie dismissively, as an unwanted inconvenience, while Robbie is wary and suspicious of Lloyd. The film follows the pair as they travel northwards towards Scotland, with the police in somewhat baffled pursuit, and charts the developing relationship between the two. Thereafter, Lloyd feels compelled to bring Robbie along with him.
Lloyd decides, hesitantly, to use the boy to retrieve some much needed cash from his apartment. Robbie attaches himself to Lloyd, who repeatedly tries to rid himself of the boy, albeit as caringly as possible. Here, he literally runs into Chris Lloyd ( Dirk Bogarde) who is himself on the run as he has, in the heat of passion, just killed his wife's employer, whom Lloyd had discovered, was having an affair with his wife. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, he fears he will receive severe punishment as he has in the past for misdemeanours, so flees into the London streets. Robbie ( Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6-year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London.
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