Doug Kendall

**Doug Kendall** was Maddie's abusive ex-husband.

## History

Doug's father always demean for coming in second place, leading to them having a strained status but in contrast his mother always supported him and left him wine glasses after her death.

After graduating medical school, Doug became the youngest chief surgeon at his job. He later met and married Maddie, with her always supporting him and him doting on her. It was never known when Doug became abusive to Maddie back in Pennsylvania, but it became clear Maddie wanted to escape him, and he wouldn't accept this fact, even though nearly everyone else who saw or knew them did.

After Maddie escaped to Los Angeles, he threatened to track her down her over the phone and eventually did so by befriending Chimney (using the alias Jason Bailey) and using Maddie's divorce papers. He also stole Chimney's wallet and stalked him in a successful attempt to find out where Maddie was living. When he learned that Maddie and Chimney were dating, he violently stabbed Chimney and abducted Maddie, though he voiced that he was unsure if he killed the former but believed he would bleed out. However, Buck happened to arrive minutes later, dialed for assistance and rescued Chimney. Soon after, with Athena, Josh and Buck's efforts, they started tracking Maddie via Doug's phone.

As they were running out of fuel on their rental vehicle, Doug stopped at a gas station, and killed the cashier trying to help Maddie when she attempted to escape. He then got rid of his phone by dropping it into a passing cargo truck, throwing the authorities off of their trail. A sheriff managed to discover Doug's rental car information which Maddie had left in the bathroom of the gas station in an attempt to pass a note to the cashier, which the authorities exploit to locate Doug's rental vehicle.

Though Doug cut the phone lines at the lakeside cabin where he had taken Maddie, Maddie managed to ambush him with a fireplace rod and escaped again into the woods, just as the authorities closed in on the abandoned car. Doug chased after her, telling her that she couldn't run away from him forever, and fired the remaining 4 rounds in the revolver, but they all missed. Without other options, Doug resorted to stabbing Maddie multiple times with a switchblade. Eventually, the knife was knocked away from him, and Maddie grabbed it before he could it get it back, repeatedly stabbing Doug in the chest and killing him. Buck later arrived with Athena just as Maddie made her way out of the woods and the authorities secured Doug's corpse. Maddie is reunited with Buck, who informs her that Chimney survived being attacked by Doug, and an ambulance comes to transport her to the hospital.

## Relationships

### Maddie Buckley

Doug and Maddie were dating in 2004 when Doug was accepted into medical school in Boston. Doug asked her to go with him to Boston and Maddie agreed. By 2012, they were already married and had moved back to Pennsylvania. He was abusive to her during their relationship and after many violent moments with him, Maddie decided to leave him for good and fled to Los Angeles in 2018.

## Appearances

 "Haunted"
 "**Fight or Flight**"

*Note:
\* denotes voice only appearance.*

 "Athena Begins"
 "Pinned"

*Note:
\* denotes archive footage only appearance.*

 "Ghost Stories"
 "Fear-O-Phobia"

*Note:
\* denotes archive footage only appearance.*

 "Cursed"
 "Mixed Feelings"

*Note:
\* denotes dream or hallucination only appearance.*

## Trivia

* Doug Kendall was killed on the same day "Fight or Flight" aired in US.
* Doug's actor, Brian Hallisay, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, who portrays Maddie, are married in real life.
* He appears in a flashback in season 6 where Buck is in a coma.
* He was only pretending to be a guy named Jason to befriend Chimney and later stabs him before he punches and kidnaps Maddie.