Well damn! This episode of Power lets us know one thing for sure – people are only looking out for self.
Teresi (William Sadler) is at the top of the list of people who has his own agenda and that’s simply to remain a free man and home with his dying wife Connie (Mercedes Ruehl) in her last days.
The only way to ensure his freedom is to uncover some type of dirt on Tommy (Joseph Sikora) that Mak (Sung Kang) and Saxe (Shane Johnson) can use to somehow lock both he and Ghost up. But, James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) is the real target.
Mak and Saxe are under a very strict timeline and a lot of pressure to find something they can use against Tommy and Ghost or Tameika (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) will be pulling the plug on this side-investigation they have going on behind Angela’s (Lela Loren) back.
The U.S. attorney’s office gives Teresi until end of day to find out something useful on his long-lost son or it’s back to prison he goes. Luckily, for him, he finds out that Tommy is washing his dirty money through Ghost’s Queens Child Project and relays that information to Mak and Saxe.
The family dynamic between the Italians, Teresi and Tommy shifts after Vincent (Joe Perrino) gives Teresi a gun and forces him to choose between his longtime friend, Sammy (Bill Sage) and his newly found son, Tommy, on which one he will shoot in the head for being disloyal. Teresi points the gun at Sammy and pulls the trigger. Luckily for Sammy, the gun isn’t loaded.
Tommy catches up with Tarik by letting him drive his car on his birthday. It’s a gift but it’s also a for Tommy to find out why Tarik saved Andre’s ass. Tarik says that Andre helped him get Ray Ray so he owed him one. Tommy doesn’t see it that way and tells Tarik that just like his father, he only cares about his own agenda, not the good of everyone involved.
It’s looking like Ghost and Kanan’s (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) plan to cause friction between Tommy and his new Italian family is working. Now, Kanan has implemented a new plan to drive a wedge between Dre (Rotimi) and Cristobol (Matt Cedeno) by killing off members of the Tianos so Cristobol will think Dre is behind it.
Kanan manages to shoot and kill two Tianos in this episode with the help of a drug addict with the gift of gab named Laces (Kendrick Lamar). (BTW- standing ovation for Kendrick’s performance!)
Laces is able to distract both Tianos long enough for Kanan to roll up on a bicycle to shoot one in the head, and come from behind the shoot the other. SMH!
Angela solicits the help of Proctor (Joe Ferrara) to arrange a surprise meeting with Tommy. Her DEA boo thing, Steve Tampio, may have been able to pull rank to release the Jimenez and walk away from the case, but she’s not willing to let go without a fight.
Now being privy to the details of Mak and Saxe’s secret investigation of Tommy and Ghost, she uses that information to get Tommy to agree to work with her to gather details on the Jimenez. She also agrees to help Proctor get reinstated as a lawyer. Let’s just hope she can make good on these promises.
Ghost is still unravelling. The stunt that Tate (Larenz Tate) pulls getting Dre (Rotimi Akinosho) to be the new face of the Queens Child Project has Ghost on edge and losing his leverage. He calls in Simon Stern (Victor Garber) one of the folks backing the QCP hoping to help convince Tate to drop Dre. When that doesn’t go well, Ghost comes up with a plan to have Dre removed from his position as the boss of the club.
Some legal jargon found in Ghost’s contract with his club Truth lists a non-compete clause that Dre just can’t get around. Dre not only loses his position at the club, he loses his means for trafficking drugs.
It’s a smart move, but it doesn’t stop Tate. He’s just going to get Dre a new gig with one of his cronies. At an event held at Truth, Ghost finally loses his cool. When he sees Dre in the club, he approaches Tate and since he’s been drinking heavily, he’s not thinking right. Ghost ends up choking Tate out in front of everyone. Tate doesn’t mind. When Ghost finally lets up off of him and realizes what he’s done, Tate says: “You know you done f’d up right”?
One can only imagine the trouble that’s right around the corner for Ghost and this project. He heads home, still drunk, only to encounter Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.) who has a few choice words for his father after the birthday celebration gone wrong for the twins. (Did anyone else miss the fact that Raina and Tariq are twins?)
Tasha (Naturi Naughton) screws up the cake order. With Raina gone, she only needs to order one cake, and she mistakenly orders the one she would normally give Raina. It’s a mess and to make matters worse, the police with everyone’s favorite internal affairs officer in tow show up looking for Tasha’s gun. They need it to follow up a lead but it seems they are trying to intimidate the St. Patrick’s. Fortunately, it checks out that the gun was reported stolen.
Ghost tries to fight his son, when he gets disrespectful, but is too drunk to land any blows. Tariq heads back to Choate and guess who gives him a ride. His old buddy, Kanan.
Meantime, Ghost is at the lowest we’ve seen him this season. He heads to the church, where the pastor who presided at Raina’s funeral forces him to face up to his own responsibility in all the bad choices he’s made. Ghost says he wants to be a good man. So he heads over to….you guessed it… Angela’s apartment. Do you think he gets it yet?
QUOTABLE: “A rat is only a rat if he rats on somebody he should be loyal to. If you inform on somebody that you don’t give two sh*ts about to advance your own cause, that’s just business” – Tony Teresi
KILL LIST: Diego Jiminez, Dre, Teresi
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Wanda J. Coppage is a full -time Music Director at an Urban AC radio station, journalist and proud Virginia State University alum – Go Trojans! As a music enthusiast who can’t go a day without hearing R&B/Soul or Classic Hip Hop as well as a TV passionista, why not live a life that covers both?
