actors Dan Renton Skinner and Tom Davis as the obnoxious targets of her rage . When Ruth goes after her third victim - a businesswoman played by Kate Dickie , whose only perceived ‘ crime ’ seems to be her prioritizing of her career - Prevenge undergoes a drastic tonal shift that it never quite recovers from . It becomes apparent that Ruth ’ s victims share a specific connection - their names are on a hit-list she keeps in a journal filled of gruesome sketches , like the schoolbook of a teenage goth - and the ‘ P ’ in the film ’ s title becomes silent . As people who seem like perfectly decent citizens fall victim to Ruth ’ s blade , we lose whatever empathy we might have originally had for her . The interactions between Ruth and her tar-