In Netflix‘s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, the shocking reveal of who was behind the years-long cyber-bullying attacks against Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny only unearths more questions about the horrific harassment campaign.

We’ll cut to the chase. The twist at the end of the documentary is that the mom did it, a horrifying revelation that even the show doesn’t know quite how to handle.

Across two years, Kendra Licari sent countless threatening messages to her daughter, who was 13 when the ordeal began, and her boyfriend. The texts, sometimes up to 50 a day, included insults hurled at Lauryn, sexually explicit advances towards Owen and suggestions that the teens should end their lives.

The act, which sent Kendra to prison on multiple counts of stalking, is inexplicable — that much we can all agree on. But even though the show does make feeble attempts to explore why Kendra set out to ruin the teens’ lives like this, it glosses over her darkest motive — a predatory obsession with her daughter’s teenage boyfriend.

Kendra, who reveals in the doc that she was sexually assaulted when she was a teenager, seems to suggest that her actions were born out of a desire to protect her daughter. She talks about feeling terrified to watch her daughter grow up and become vulnerable in a young relationship.

The documentary’s director, Skye Borgman, has even suggested that Kendra’s actions might be a form of Munchausen by proxy, describing what she did as “harming someone to keep them close.”

But this does little to explain Kendra’s specific focus on Owen.

“Hi Lauryn, Owen is breaking up with you,” one text read. That was followed by, “He no longer likes you and hasn’t liked you for a while. It’s obvious he wants me.”

Other texts about Owen were more sexually explicit. “Owen wants sex, bj’s n making out,” one read. “he don’t want ur sry a—.”

Kendra’s apparent obsession with Owen was evident to a friend of Lauryn who told The Cut in January that she had personally witnessed Kendra reading her daughter’s texts from Owen and, as Lauryn, replying, “I love you.”

If Kendra’s motive was to protect her daughter, then how does the documentary explain her sending anonymous texts Owen’s new girlfriend a year after his breakup with Lauryn.

While Owen’s mom alludes to Kendra’s terrifying fixation on her son, the documentary chooses to present a High School Catfish story about a mom and a daughter rather than emphasizing Kendra’s abuse of Owen, only furthering her ability to manipulate the situation.

Regardless of who Kendra’s ultimate target was, both Owen and Lauryn had their lives ripped apart by her harassment.

At the end of the documentary, Lauryn speaks about her complicated relationship with her mother and her hopes for the future.

“I hope me and my mom can rebuild our relationship, because I feel like I’m definitely missing a part of me,” she said. “Now that she’s out [of prison], I just want her to get the help that she needs, so then, when we see each other, it doesn’t go back to the old ways and how it was before.”

She added, “Being without that relationship I think is really hurting me, and I think rebuilding our relationship will help both of us a lot. I love her more than anything.”

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