Tasha (Naturi Naughton) is tight-lipped with Keisha but she wastes no time asking her to provide an alibi should anyone ask.
But she ends up having to tell Angela. Not because they’re cool, or ready to become sister-wives or anything like that. She tells Angela that Tariq shot Ray Ray because Angela thought that her beloved Jamie did it. She starts panicking and convinces herself that Tasha played her in asking her to trace Tariq’s phone.
To get her help, Tasha has to confess that Tariq who shot Ray Ray using her gun. She asks Angela to remove the ballistics information from the NYPD database that can trace that bullet found in the wall of Ray Ray’s apartment back to her or Tariq.
Angela says she’d have to log into the system as someone else, which is obstruction of justice, conspiracy, tampering with evidence…blah, blah, blah. Just know that at the end of the day, she got it done. She logs into the system as whomever, finds the file from the raid they did at the St. Patrick home, and deletes it.
As much as she hates to admit it, Angela is still Team Jamie all day and everybody knows it. Especially her colleagues, Mak (Sung Kang) and Saxe (Cooper Johnson) who both want her gone. There’s also some new trouble heading in Angela’s direction.
Internal Affairs, Blanca Rodriquez (Monique Gabriella Curnen), is on Angela’s heels (or $400 stilettos, as she put it) after showing up at the crime scene of Ray Ray’s apartment) and seeing Valdes, who had absolutely nothing to do with the case, leaving the scene.
She also finds Valdes’ business card at Ray Ray’s little cousin, Destiny’s (Andrea-Rachel Parker) house, and you can see her wheels turning trying to figure out how and why Angela is attached to this case.
Meanwhile, watching Dre (Rotimi) dodge all these literal and figurative bullets has the potential to drive you crazy or make you think of that Kanye West verse, “[he] must got a angel, cause look how death missed his ass…”
The first time is a ambush where he lures Kanan, Ghost and Tommy to a desolate spot so he can he can get them, before he gets got (use your urban dictionary for that one).
The sounds of gunplay fill the warehouse but Ghost, Tommy, Kanan, Dre and Cristobol (Matt Cedeno) remain alive. Can these guys not shoot or what? Well, Ghost is hit but fortunately for him, it’s a surface wound .
The second time Dre cheats death is with the help of a real angel – Raina. Or at least it’s the thought of “What would Raina do” that makes Tariq want to save this dude’s life. overhears Ghost and Tommy plotting at the funeral and warns Dre, just in the nick of time.
