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Fatal Encounters

This suspenseful new series is packed with twists, turns, cliffhangers and a deadly collision course. Each episode recounts dramatic stories of two fates intertwined in vivid detail.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - A Mother's Nightmare
    January 3, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Fate intrudes when a nine-month pregnant woman is lured to the home of a deeply troubled young woman with a secret plan to steal her fetus. In less than 24 hours, the expecting mom will be forced to fight for her life and the life of her unborn baby.
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  2. S1 E2 - Good Cop, Bad Cop
    January 10, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Two New Orleans police officers work side jobs at the same restaurant. As their lives intertwine, their relationship turns hostile. One of them will unleash a murderous rampage that will bring the entire Crescent City to its knees.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Sausage King
    January 17, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Stuart Alexander fights to save his family's 80 year old sausage plant while Jean Hillery fights to prove herself as a newly-promoted USDA officer. When Jean threatens to shut down the factory for health violations the two collide in a deadly face off.
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  4. S1 E4 - Fatal Voyage
    April 8, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Kelley Branam lives in Miami’s most exclusive neighborhood. Guillermo Zarabozo lives in its grittiest. It’s improbable that their paths would ever cross. But, in less than 24 hours, their lives will intersect at sea in a fatal encounter.
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  5. S1 E5 - A Killer Night in Brooklyn
    April 15, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Nineteen-year-old Mark Fisher is bar hopping in NYC when he leaves his buddies and takes up with a new group. His new acquaintances take him to an after-hours party where he becomes the target of a gang initiation that could cost him his life.
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  6. S1 E6 - Deadly Deeds
    April 22, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Genore Guillory has been helping her struggling neighbors with paid work and financial support, even naming them as beneficiaries on her life insurance policy. But one neighbor is in a white supremacist gang with plans to unload its racist fury her.
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  7. S1 E7 - Wicked
    April 29, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Joel Leyva is a 52-year-old family man and devout Christian. Angela Sanford is a 30-year-old social outcast and practicing Wiccan. After meeting at a racetrack, they develop an unlikely friendship ending in a mysterious murder.
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  8. S1 E8 - Deadly ID
    May 6, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    A group of hard-partying young men meet an alluring, young woman called "Lida" and two of the men separately become intimate with her. But "Lida" isn’t who they think she is, and when they uncover her deepest secret, violence erupts and shatters lives.
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  9. S1 E9 - Who Shot the Sheriff?
    May 13, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Sheriff Brown, of DeKalb County, Georgia, was elected to clean up corruption, but incumbent Sidney Dorsey and his trusty deputy Patrick Cuffy are determined to hold onto their badges at any cost. Only one party will survive in this dramatic showdown.
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  10. S1 E10 - Fueled by Hate
    May 20, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Life couldn’t be better for Pam Waechter: she has close family nearby and a job she loves. But through a series of untimely events, she crosses paths with a disturbed young man named Naveed Haq, and explosive violence results.
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  11. S1 E11 - Living on the Edge
    May 27, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Stephen Hill and Tom Dong meet while struggling to make a name for themselves as actors in the adult film industry. Tom finally finds his way behind the camera while Stephen’s career falters. Their friendship unravels with deadly consequences.
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  12. S1 E12 - Stuck in the Middle
    June 3, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Dog lover Michael Hurlbutt becomes friendly with a local breeder...too friendly, in the eyes of her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend Leonel Marquetti. As the urge to help tangles with an angry insecurity, this three-way relationship is about to turn deadly.
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  13. S1 E13 - A Brother's Debt
    June 10, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    On a sunny August morning, 15-year-old Nick Markowitz is snatched off the sidewalk of his suburban neighborhood by a young marijuana dealer with a bad grudge against Nick’s brother and driven 75 miles north. The spontaneous escalates into a tragedy.
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  14. S1 E14 - The Road To Hell
    June 17, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    52 year old Ray Patterson is a tow-truck driver in Dyersburg, TN. When he sets out to aid a motorist in need, he runs into Steven Ray Thacker -- a cold-blooded killer on the run who’s prepared to do anything to continue to elude police.
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  15. S1 E15 - Final Fantasy
    June 24, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    For years Robert Schwartz has been at odds with his 19-year-old daughter Clara Jane. When she meets a young man who shares her taste for the occult, they start talking about how Clara can get her father out of her life, for good.
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  16. S1 E16 - American Nightmare
    July 1, 2012
    44min
    TV-14
    Bangladeshi immigrant Rais Bhuiyan works at a Dallas gas station and hopes to make it in America. Fate intrudes when the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks lead a local ex-con to concoct a violent revenge plot targeted at Rais.
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Directors
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Cast
Valerie SmaldoneDerwin BrownSidney Dorsey
Studio
discovery plus Ties That Bind
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