Dead Before Dawn

Dead Before Dawn streams in the US on The CW and Fawesome, and free with ads on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and 5 more apps, as of October 5, 2026.

Her marriage is over. But her nightmare has just begun.

Based upon a true story. Wife with young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful, but violent and abusive, husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately, for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convince her that she must “pretend” to have been murdered in order to prove her husband’s involvement.