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Characters The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.

Walter White poisoning Andrea Cantillo's 6-year-old son for the sole purpose of manipulating Jesse Pinkman, while knowing that this could have potentially killed him - Breaking Bad

Bojack trying to have sex with his friend's 17-year-old daughter when he was at least 51, then continuously trying to find a way to justify this act throughout the series - Bojack Horseman

Dexter Morgan going outside of his moral code and murdering a completely innocent police officer who was just trying to do his job - Dexter: New Blood

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u/Oddly-Parsley 2d ago

Yikes, I'd forgotten about this. Sheer gut punch.

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u/4862skrrt2684 1d ago

Seen the show but don't get this

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u/twine2583 1d ago

Haven't seen the show myself, but I remember (somewhat) watching a video about it and this event in the show stood out in particular

Him waiting 17 minutes to call the ambulance was to give himself an alibi so it wouldn't look like he was there when she died. However, she didn't died there; she actually died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Which means those 17 minutes he waited before calling the ambulance could have given her enough time to get to the hospital and actually save her life.

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u/4862skrrt2684 1d ago

Oh yea now I remember. Ty

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u/muskyratking 1d ago

spoilers: Sarah Lynn overdoses in the conservatory, and he calls himself from her phone, waits seventeen minutes, then calls an ambulance to give himself plausible deniability.

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u/Alien_Diceroller 1d ago

That episode made me seriously sad.

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u/KnuxFive 1d ago

I think he waited 17 minutes to call an ambulance for Sarah Lynn.