Terri Blackstock’s If I Run (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Kat Graham, Evan Roderick, Zak Santiago
Director: Michael M. Scott
Writer(s): TBA
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Adapted from best-selling author Terri Blackstock’s book, If I Run follows Casey Cox, a woman on the run after discovering her best friend Brent has been murdered–and she is being framed for it.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Casey Cox washes blood off her Keds and hands and throws a flash drive in her bag. She is going on the run with wads of cash and attempting to leave no trace behind. Casey cuts and dyes her hair while crying in the mirror. (Her highlights look really cute tho!)
Detectives investigate the crime scene of a murder victim, Casey’s friend Brant. She walked into his murder scene and contaminated the evidence. Casey was working on an investigation with Brant, and he was killed for getting too close to the truth. Casey gets a new identity as Kris Allen and keeps moving.
Dylan Roberts is a former Marine back from Afghanistan with PTSD, and a private investigator hires him. Dylan gets pretty close to catching up with Casey at a bus station. His bosses aren’t impressed. Dylan learns that Casey’s dad was a cop who ALLEGEDLY committed suicide, and Casey found the body. This was the case Brant was looking into, and he was murdered over it.
On the bus, Casey befriends a woman named Lucy whose teen granddaughter went missing. The police ruled it a runaway, and Ms. Lucy thinks God will make things right. They discuss religion and God’s wrath on those who do evil. (It’s a religious turn, I didn’t see coming.) We cut to, presumably, the teen who is alive and locked in a shed, singing a lullaby to a baby she probably had while in captivity.
This teen girl, Laura, is going to be more integral to the plot than initially appears. We see her captor’s wife bringing Laura food, and telling her that he doesn’t love Laura.
Detective Dylan continues to track Casey, and has PTSD. He talks to Casey’s sister, and she tells him her sister would never kill anyone and is being set up. The evidence at the crime scene doesn’t really add up for Dylan. He does all this while being hot.
Casey settles in Atlanta and stays with Lucy. She gets a job at a computer repair shop and has the shop owner try to decode the corrupted flash drive taken from Brant’s apartment. The wife of the kidnapper rolls in one day to get her cellphone looked at and is wearing kidnapped Laura’s very distinctive (and fugly) angel necklace. The wife’s name is Arelle, and she is married to the unofficial town mayor, Frank.
Hannah, Casey’s sister, has a change of heart and helps Detective Dylan figure out where her sister might be. He calls Casey on her burner phone, and she tells him about her dad being framed by the police. Dylan takes a conversation hard left and starts talking about God. While they talk, Casey realizes that Dylan is in the same park as she is and makes a run for it. They chase each other, and she eventually gets away.
Casey stops by the house to bring Arielle her phone, and no one answers the door. Casey hears a baby crying inside and finds it strange. Frank stops by the store and threatens Casey to respect his privacy or else! Casey does the exact opposite and goes back to the house.
Detective Dylan gets closer to uncovering information about Casey’s dad. Still, when he goes to meet with a potential witness, he finds her dead. It could be called a DEAD end. Detective Dylan opens up about his whole troop dying, except him, and wonders why God kept him alive over the others. Casey shares her story about the missing teen, and Detective Dylan helps her look into that case as well.
At Frank’s house, Casey hears the baby and Laura calling for help. Casey tries to pry open the door, but the police arrest her for trespassing and bring her into custody. Since Frank has such a stellar reputation, the police think Casey is making it up. Ms. Lucybails Casey out of jail and doesn’t believe Casey’s story either.
The flash drive is unencrypted, and the two people who are dead were about to blow the whistle on crooked police evidence tampering.
Detective Dylan gets a tip about Casey’s bail and talks with Ms. Lucy. She tells him that Casey is in way over her head and tells him where Casey is headed next. To save Laura from Frank’s house.
Frank and Arelle enjoy some drinks at the bar, while Casey breaks into the basement where she heard Laura. HOW DID THE POLICE NOT FIND HER AND THE BABY?!!? Casey tries to sneak Laura and the baby out, but Frank catches them. He fights Casey as Laura watches on helplessly. Frank’s wife, Arelle, shoots her husband for calling her an “idiot.”
Detective Dylan is impressed that Casey solved a crime, and Laura is reunited with her grandmother. They quickly move on from that storyline and get back to the police cover-up of Casey’s murder. They decide to work together to uncover the truth. Casey gives Detective Dylan the flash drive before his boss comes on the scene, disappointed that Casey has evaded them once again.
More to come in 2026! (When I wioo remember none of this.)
STRAY Thoughts
The first in a series of three movies.
The religious monologues felt super out of place in casual conversation in a Lifetime movie. It feels pandering to a more conservative Christian subset, who also love true crimes?
Kat Graham is one of those actors I know by name only.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪 (3 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Girl in the basement, On the run, Crooked Cops, New Identity.
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
Put a Cork in It (Skip It!)
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really liked the movie, but was really pissed to find out that it was to be continued. I wish they would just make the multiple movies upfront and then show them one after the other. I would rather wait a week than a year
I know, I was like 2026?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Why do they ruin a good story with cursing? This was the absolute best trilogy in book form I’ve ever listened to on audiobook and I just Google searched and it says there is language. Why? So useless.