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Recap / Accused 2023 S 1 E 4 Kendall's Story

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When his 10-year-old daughter is sexually assaulted, a father wrestles with the temptation of taking justice into his own hands.


  • Bittersweet Ending: The man who assaulted Kendall's daughter is dead. But Kendall is going to prison for the murder Lamar committed.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Lamar has a temper ready to go at a moment's notice.
  • Hypocrite: Lamar espouses all episode about how they need to handle things themselves...right until his killing of the assaulter looks to send him back to prison. At which point he sells Kendall out falsely at the drop of a hat.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: Lamar is the instigator for most of the episode's problems, constantly goading Kendall into handling matters himself instead of going to the cops.
  • Vigilante Execution: After his daughter is molested at the park, Kendall's friend Lamar convinces him to join Lamar and David in hunting down the pedophile and beating the shit out of him. After Lamar goes too far and the man dies the next morning, Kendall becomes an immediate suspect for this very reason. Lamar and David proceed to invoke this as Kendall's reason when they claim he was the sole perpetrator and they "tried stopping him".

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