Episode 3 marks the point where Harlan Coben's "Run Away" starts to take a wild turn. Don't get me wrong, these shows are always a bit nuts, and this one hasn't exactly been calm from the very beginning. However, "Breaking Point" is aptly titled because it's exactly that. There's a whirlwind of revelations, connections, and implications in each of the core subplots (which, as we know, are inevitably all the same plot, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.) A bit of backstory, both shown and implied, helps to provide some necessary texture. We're not quite halfway through yet, but it feels like we're well on our way. Everyone's bedding in, the stakes are clear, and the reveals are piling up. Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on your perspective - so are the bodies.

"Breaking Point" begins 25 years in the past, providing some backstory for Elena. Back then, she was a police officer, and we see her carrying out an armed raid and meeting her husband while also taking a bullet in the backside. Don't worry too much about the timeline since Ruth Jones doesn't look any younger; just focus on the meet-cute.
In the present day, Elena is sitting at the grave of her husband, Joel, pouring out Guinness in his honor. This might seem like a bit of contouring, but it's actually connected to the ongoing subplot about Elena stalking a vegan woman, which considerably escalates here. In case it wasn't obvious already, Elena breaking into the woman's house - her name is Maria - leaves no doubt. While there, she finds a photograph of Lou, proving that Maria is connected to her in some way. And since Lou was Joel's mother, well... the pieces fit. However, we also see later that Maria has cameras in the house and knows that Elena broke in, so her next visit to the cafe should be pretty awkward.
Continuing from where we left off in the previous episode, Elena and Simon share their stories about how they arrived at this juncture. As they speak, Cornelius's eyes light up upon hearing Isaac's name, but more on that later. This is information we already had, but the crucial revelation is that the email Paige sent to Henry originated from an IP address at Maybridge University - the same institution where Sam attends.
At the hospital, Simon confronts his son about having recently seen Paige. He confesses that she appeared at his halls of residence about a week prior, right after the park incident. She stayed for four days, but when he went out to replace a broken string on her guitar, he returned to find her gone. She had also cleared him out, along with half of the rooms on the block. That's what the money was for - Yvonne was helping him pay everyone back.
Paige isn't new to thievery. During her previous visit to the family home six months prior, she had stolen some jewelry, which seemed to be Ingrid's breaking point. Here, Simon and Elena embark on separate quests. Simon is attending Aaron's memorial service at his family's rural petting zoo, while Elena is heading to the tattoo parlor from the previous episode.
You'll recall that in the previous episode, Isaac and Ruby uncovered CCTV footage revealing that Ingrid left the hospital during her shift on the night Aaron was murdered. Footage also shows her leaving at the end of her shift, but not returning to the hospital in between.
Isaac confronts Jay about this, but he has a ready-made justification. On her night shifts, Ingrid goes to a nearby Mexican street food place called Busy Burritos to get a deal on nachos for the nurses. When Ruby and Isaac follow that lead, though, the Busy Burritos proprietor says that while Ingrid ordered in person as usual, she asked for it to be delivered instead of waiting around, and then snuck out of the back door. It's quite peculiar.
At the end of Run Away Episode 3, Isaac and Ruby acquire more CCTV footage that sees Ingrid being followed by a man who looks very much like Jay. It's even more intriguing.
Meanwhile, Simon attends Aaron's memorial service and briefly speaks with his father, Wiley, who isn't forthcoming with information. He has a bit more luck with his wife, Enid, though. She has been Aaron's stepmother since he was eight, but she never liked him. He was always trouble. His birth mother, Bruna, had apparently died in a car accident. Wiley claimed to have met her in a vineyard in Italy, but when she called the passport office because she couldn't find his passport, she was informed that he had never possessed one in his life. So, he's lying about how he met Aaron's mother. Simon asks Wiley about this but, again, he isn't forthcoming. He does reveal, however, that Paige and Aaron didn't meet at university, as Simon suspected. Instead, she came to the farm looking for him and found him staying in the grim caravan that Simon had earlier seen during the memorial. He goes there again and has a glance inside, discovering Paige's Lanford jersey. She was there recently, but she's once again gone.
Something happened to Paige at Lanford that compelled her to hook up with Aaron. But what? While this is going on, Lou tells Elena that the mobile number on the tattoo parlour flyer belongs to one Damien Gorsch, who, as we know, was the guy Ash and Dee Dee killed. The tattoo place is her next stop.
At the crime scene, Elena's contacts in the police force allow her access alongside DS Alex Talbot, the guy investigating. She intuits immediately that the robbery was staged and the young victim – his name was Robin Bailey, not that it matters now – was simply collateral. Damien's husband, Neil, promptly arrives, and while he doesn't know anything about Henry Thorpe or Paige Greene, he does vaguely recall the name Aaron Corval. He also allows Elena a peek at the shop database.
Here, a connection emerges. Damien was looking up an ancestry website. Given that Henry was adopted and Simon clarified in this episode that Aaron's father had been deeply mysterious about his parentage, it seems like a connection is beginning to emerge.