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[^2]\n\nTo save her abducted son's life, the protagonist must follow cryptic commands and race against time across London's streets and underground tracks. [^3]\n\nApple TV will premiere the Australian thriller series Last Seen on 2026-09-09, starring Patrick Brammall as an ex-police detective now working as an emergency dispatcher whose young daughter Maggie went missing, adapted from Ryan David Jahn's novel The Dispatcher. [^4]\n\nApple TV will premiere the film Mayday on 2026-09-04, a thriller set in 1987 in which Ryan Reynolds plays a U.S. Navy pilot who crash-lands behind enemy lines in Soviet territory and is helped by Kenneth Branagh as an ex-KGB agent. [^5]\n\nPrime Video is scheduled to premiere the thriller The Runner on 2026-09-02, starring Gal Gadot as a London lawyer whose morning run is interrupted by a phone call that escalates into demands threatening her family, with Damian Lewis as the villain. 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