Doug Kendall

Doug Kendall
Biographical Information
Full name	Doug Kendall
Status	Deceased
Gender	Male
Alias	Jason Bailey
Profession	Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery (formerly)
Relationships
Family	Unnamed Father Unnamed Mother †
Romances	Maddie Buckley (ex-wife)
Appearances
Portrayed by	Brian Hallisay
First seen	"Under Pressure"
Last seen	"There Goes the Groom"

Doug Kendall was Maddie's abusive ex-husband.

History

Maddie met Doug when she was nineteen years old and moved to Boston with him once he’d been accepted into medical school. It was later discussed that he was the second youngest chief of Cardiothoracic Medicine.

After Maddie escaped to Los Angeles, he threatened to track her down over the phone.

Eventually, Doug was able to do 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 Doug learned from Chimney that he was going on a date with Maddie, he became enraged and went to Maddie's apartment, where he violently attacked Chimney by stabbing him multiple times in the stomach. He then confronted Maddie and kidnapped her.

Doug later told Maddie that he was unsure if he had killed Chimney but believed that 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 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 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.

Even after his death, Doug continued to make an impact in the lives of the main characters. He was seen in flashbacks in "Christmas Spirit" and "Boston" as Maddie relived the trauma of her abduction, and also appeared in Buck's coma dream in "In Another Life" and Chimney's hallucinations in "There Goes the Groom".

Relationships

Maddie Buckley

Main article: Maddie-Doug (relationship)

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

Season Two
"Under Pressure*"	"7.1"	"Help Is Not Coming"	"Stuck"	"Awful People"	"Dosed"
"Haunted"	"Buck, Actually"	"Hen Begins"	"Merry Ex-Mas"	"New Beginnings"	"Chimney Begins*"
"Fight or Flight"	"Broken"	"Ocean's 9-1-1"	"Bobby Begins Again"	"Careful What You Wish For"	"This Life We Choose"

Note:
* denotes voice only appearance.

Season Three
"Kids Today"	"Sink or Swim"	"The Searchers"	"Triggers"	"Rage"	"Monsters"
"Athena Begins"	"Malfunction"	"Fallout"	"Christmas Spirit*"	"Seize the Day"	"Fools"
"Pinned"	"The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1"	"Eddie Begins"	"The One That Got Away"	"Powerless"	"What's Next?"

Note:
* denotes archive footage only appearance.

Season Five
"Panic"	"Desperate Times"	"Desperate Measures"	"Home and Away"	"Peer Pressure"	"Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1"
"Ghost Stories"	"Defend in Place"	"Past is Prologue"	"Wrapped in Red"	"Outside Looking In"	"Boston*"
"Fear-O-Phobia"	"Dumb Luck"	"FOMO"	"May Day"	"Hero Complex"	"Starting Over"

Note:
* denotes archive footage only appearance.

Season Six
"Let the Games Begin"	"Crash & Learn"	"The Devil You Know"	"Animal Instincts"	"Home Invasion"	"Tomorrow"
"Cursed"	"What's Your Fantasy?"	"Red Flag"	"In a Flash"	"In Another Life*"	"Recovery"
"Mixed Feelings"	"Performance Anxiety"	"Death and Taxes"	"Lost & Found"	"Love Is in the Air"	"Pay It Forward"

Note:
* denotes dream or hallucination only appearance.

Season Seven
"Abandon ‘Ships"	"Rock the Boat"	"Capsized"	"Buck, Bothered and Bewildered"	"You Don't Know Me"
"There Goes the Groom*"	"Ghost of a Second Chance"	"Step Nine"	"Ashes, Ashes"	"All Fall Down"

Note:
* denotes dream or hallucination only appearance.

Trivia

• Doug Kendall was killed on April 1, 2019, the same day that his final episode "Fight or Flight" aired in the US.
• Doug's actor, Brian Hallisay, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, who portrays Maddie, are married in real life.
  • This was due to Brian’s friendship with Tim Minear, who hired Brian to play the role of Doug, prior to telling Jennifer, who heard it from crew members.

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