Payback (Season 2)

Revenge gets real.

Whether it's a cheating ex, a double-crossing co-worker, or the best friend who stabbed you in the back, it's human instinct to want to get even. Though most people don't act on this impulse, there are those who are consumed with getting even. For them, what starts as a nagging bitterness evolves into obsession and results in murder. This true crime documentary series profiles those stories of revenge, told through gripping interviews with the family members, community members, and law enforcement who experienced the events firsthand.

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    Shot for Shot (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2023-05-22

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: When an accomplice to a 2006 murder is gunned down in a neighborhood bar 3 years later, police suspect the nephew of world-renowned boxer, Larry Holmes, who waited patiently to seize his opportunity for revenge.

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    Cycle of Violence (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2023-05-29

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: When an aspiring rapper is shot down in broad daylight after leaving a peace rally, Baltimore Police believe the murder is related to a shooting earlier that day, and their worst fears are realized as more revenge killings occur.

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    Romance Rage and Revenge (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2023-06-05

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After a jealous ex confesses to committing deadly revenge on his romantic rival the victim's family worries he will get away with it because of an inadmissible confession and a circumstantial case.

  • Poster for Vicious Vengeance

    Vicious Vengeance (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2023-06-12

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After an anti-violence activist is gunned down in broad daylight, investigators uncover a twisted case of vengeance and mistaken identity thanks to wiretaps, cellular forensics, surveillance video and rumors on the streets.

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    In Broad Daylight (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2023-06-19

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After a deadly shooting is caught on camera, detectives need to employ multiple investigative methods to convict a suspect who took justice into his own hands, killing the wrong man.

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    The Trouble in Toledo (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2023-06-26

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: When a man is shot in front of his children, his cousin seeks payback, sparking a months-long feud between two families; a back in forth battle of murder and arson wreaks havoc on the city of Toledo, Ohio.

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    Revenge Gone Wrong (Episode 7)

    Writer: Maggie Mock

    Air date: 2023-07-03

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: When Ismail Lewis is shot and killed soon after an alleged domestic assault, authorities suspect the girlfriend; through their investigation they learn she did indeed seek payback, but it was not intended to be deadly.

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    Three's A Crowd (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2023-07-10

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After a woman miraculously survives 17 gunshot wounds, Bellwood, Ill., police, aided by witness statements and video surveillance, uncover a triangle of romance, rage and revenge.

  • Poster for If I Can't Have You

    If I Can't Have You (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2023-11-20

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: In Florida, missing single mother Jennifer Johnson is found brutally murdered. All signs point to her on and off again boyfriend; whether her death is a random act of violence or a tragic tale of romantic revenge.

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    Caught on Camera (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2023-11-27

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: Detroit police are called to the site of an accident; they find father of six Jonte Brooks unresponsive at the wheel, but not from the crash, he's been shot. The investigation soon leads police to suspect his former girlfriend has taken deadly revenge.

  • Poster for Brother's Keeper

    Brother's Keeper (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2023-12-04

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After a gunshot victim is identified as a recent suspect in an earlier killing, northern Virginia police must determine if the crimes are somehow connected and if the deaths are random acts of violence or a more likely act of revenge.

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    I'm Not Scared (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2023-12-11

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: Two months after Shavondes Martin is acquitted of a murder, he becomes a victim of gun violence in Waterloo, IA; while police are convinced the shooting was revenge, they and the rest of the community are shocked to learn his own cousin helped lure him to his death.

  • Poster for Eye for an Eye

    Eye for an Eye (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2023-12-18

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After Chance Gathers, a young man with a criminal record, is shot and killed in broad daylight in Syracuse, NY, investigators have to figure out if the shooting was random or if his death may have been the work of a player from his troubled past intent on payback.

  • Poster for Dead Ends Part 1

    Dead Ends Part 1 (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2024-04-08

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: When young expectant parents are found gunned down outside an apartment complex, Memphis police are shocked when the father-to-be's family members theorize the couple's deaths are the result of a dispute over bundles of hair.

  • Poster for Dead Ends Part 2

    Dead Ends Part 2 (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2024-04-15

    Runtime: 43 min

    Overview: After young parents to be are gunned down in Memphis, police are shocked to learn their deaths resulted from a vengeful dispute over bundles of hair; while certain they have their killer, the road to justice proves trickier than first thought.

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