"Infatuation is not love" declares a close friend of Peggy, the victim in this episode of Stalked.
It all begins at the University of New Mexico, where an outwardly charming young man (Patrick) is going out of his way to help Peggy settle in. Her sister Debbie takes an instant dislike to him, feeling that he's forcing the pace in what she believes to be Peggy's first romance. There follows a three-year relationship, where Patrick demonstrates his controlling character, with intervals of abuse and reconciliation (neediness), which a criminal psychologist is able to identify as a familiar pattern that does not bode well.
Peggy finally nerves herself to escape and moves to a new location, where she meets a very different young man, Mark, who treats her gently and lovingly. But Patrick has been able to trace her, and keeps up a campaign of all-day harassment by phone. On the advice of the police, she keeps a tally of all his actions, including the burning-down of Mark's house, enabling them to charge him.
With his trial only days away, Patrick breaks into her home... and the rest we can't tell you. But let's just say it would all have been very different if only he'd had to attend court.
As happens so often with these short episodes (21 minutes in this case), we get a series of quite needless interruptions about 'The story so far', complete with a repeated reminder that some of the material is potentially disturbing. This is lazy editing, that spoils the drumbeat effect of a story with a truly dramatic climax.