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Season 4 starts out right where we left off a whole year ago. James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) has been arrested for the murder of FBI agent Greg Knox. (Andy Bean) Ironically, with all the BS Ghost HAS done, this is a murder he didn’t commit. But ex-girlfriend Angela Valdez (Lela Loren) doesn’t care – she’s been betrayed and believes that Ghost did the deed.

Sandoval, (David Fumero) Angela’s boss, who actually did kill Knox is throwing away the gun when his deputy Cooper calls to tell him Ghost has been arrested. Whew! Sandoval holds onto the weapon. Sure, how that go wrong?

Tariq (Michael Rainey, Jr.) is still missing – in the clutches of Kanan (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) and Jukebox (Anika Noni Rose). It doesn’t look good for Tarik but now that Ghost has been arrested, Dre has an idea where Tariq might be. Of course, Dre (Rotimi Akinosho) also knows Kanan is alive and hanging with Tarik. How does neither Ghost nor Tommy (Joseph Sikora) have their ears to the street and don’t know Kanan is alive?

Yay! Keisha (La La Anthony) is also alive after her mysterious disappearance last season. Tommy hid her from Milan and then killed him, so Keisha is free to go back to her salon, despite the fact that Tasha and Tommy are washing money there. But hey, she lives, so that’s a good thing. Tasha (Naturi Naughton) finds out that Ghost has been arrested from Proctor (Jerry Ferrara) who has his own problems – his ex/baby mama is on drugs again so he’s gotta take his daughter and get Ghost out of jail. Problems.

Tommy’s running the drug operation and Dre’s running the club. Julio (J. R. Ramirez) is the new distro and he’s already pulling rank by getting his booty call Sue a job at the club. Meantime, Dre’s gotta keep the club going, get Tariq back from Kanan and deal with this BS. Problems.

Dre does extract Tariq from Kanan by promising him and jukebox 50K a week of drug money. Hope that’s coming out of Dre’s cut, ’cause otherwise how could that go wrong? Dre immediately heads to the top of the list of characters unlikely to survive this season along with Angela and Tarik. We wish to hell it could be Kanan, but not sure if 50’s ego will let that happen.

Tariq tells Tasha the ransom demand was a joke when he fell asleep hanging with some new friend. Tommy wants to know who this ‘Slim’ is but Dre plays it off. Tommy assures Tasha that Kanan is dead. Ha!

Tasha’s gotta bail out Ghost, but guess what? There’s no money. Ghost sold the stocks and took the emergency fund likely when he was running away with Angela. Oh, boy does he regret that now. He thought he could put it back – says everyone when they take money they shouldn’t.

Angela has the gall to appear at Tasha and Ghost’s apartment to execute a federal warrant. She should know they won’t find anything there, but it’s a little revenge. Tasha and Keisha are disgusted as is Raina (Donshea Hopkins) who confronts Angela about the betrayal.

Meanwhile, back at the office, Angela arresting Ghost isn’t doing her career much good. Since she was ‘f-ing’ the murder suspect and the defendant, she’s pretty much burnt career wise. But so is the entire office. John Mak (Sung Kang), the new prosecutor guy this season, has already set up an OG jail informant, Terry Terasi (badass actor William Sadler, so you know it’s real) to snitch on a case but it looks like he’s going to get involved with Ghost in some way. Also, Mak moved the investigation to his office where Sandoval will be the second chair. John tells Angela he needs her help, but she’ll be no chair at all. Ouch. Angela better figure out her next play because after Ghost’s trial, it doesn’t look like she’ll have a job at all.

Tommy has to win Petar’s (Aleksandar Popovic) confidence since the Serbs already know about Ghost’s arrest. Petar told them, so he’s gotta stay around to keep tables on the operation. Petar tells Tommy he’s gotta be transparent otherwise we know how the Serbs get down. Tommy calms the troops – it’s business as usual. He also lets Dre know to toe the line. Poor Dre. He’s gotta jump through a lot of hoops this season.

At jail, Tasha comes through. She needs clean bail money and Ghost tells her where to get it. He doesn’t tell her that he’s being targeted by a sadistic marshal, Williams (Charlie Murphy, in sadly, his last role) who doesn’t like cop killers.

Ghost is losing all around. In his bail hearing, Proctor looks like he’s going to get bail. They’ve got the clean money. But John takes care of that and convinces the judge the alleged murdered of a federal agent deserves no such mercy. Bail denied.

In the closing scene, Ghost gets his ass kicked by Williams and another marshal. This looks like a long season for Ghost.

QUOTABLE: Tasha to Angela when Angela questions why Ghost was sleeping in the den: “I didn’t want any bedbugs to transfer from your place.”

KILL LIST: 1. Dre. 2. Angela 3. Tarik 4. Kanan (we’ll update the order as the season goes on.

 

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