John Lennon wrote Imagine and then screamed his childhood trauma into a microphone on Plastic Ono Band. He preached peace while terrorizing the people closest to him. He abandoned his first son, then spent five years as a househusband raising his second. The contradictions were the man.

This episode traces Lennon from his abandonment by both parents through the Beatles, his partnership with Yoko Ono, his lost weekend in Los Angeles, and his five years of domestic life before his murder in 1980.

• He was abandoned by his father and then effectively by his mother, who was killed when he was seventeen
• Plastic Ono Band is considered one of the rawest and most emotionally honest albums ever recorded
• He spent five years as a househusband raising Sean before returning to music in 1980
• He was shot and killed outside his New York apartment on December 8, 1980