Fly ones we have a lot to unpack in the world of Power so let’s get to it. We took a week off from bringing you our recaps thanks in large part to last week’s episode being leaked and messing up the whole flow. So lets just jump into tonight’s very emotional episode that definitely had folks yelling at their television screens!
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Last week’s episode of Power did the absolute most in an hour! There were so many twist and turns squeezed into one episode that left everyone’s heads spinning and mind’s completely blown.
Ghost and Tommy lost a very loyal soldier in Julio thanks to Dre’s sneaky ass. Kanan flipped on Jukebox and decided to save Riq instead of exacting his revenge on Ghost by killing them both. On top of having to saving Riq, Ghost also learned his wife made a deal with his enemy Simon Stern forcing him into working with him again. Tommy almost had Christmas cancelled on himself when he went to Chicago alone, BUT thanks to his convincing story – he made it out of the windy city alive. Oh and he also made peace with Holly in his own way by beating Holly’s molesting ass Uncle’s head in with a baseball bat. BRUH!
Now that we are all caught up , let’s get into this week’s episode of Black America’s new favorite Sunday pastime Power!
The Fallout From The Failed Kidnapping!
Tonight’s episode opens up with Ghost and Riq’s extremely annoying ass riding the train after surviving a very traumatic ordeal.
Now we are sure you are wondering why Ghost and Riq are riding the train home instead of taking a Uber or something?
Well we are just going to assume that this is Ghost just trying to make sure there is no evidence of both him and Riq being anywhere near that murder scene. The two of them look absolutely dazed and hell it’s understandable, Riq almost lost his life and Ghost almost witnessed it. Hell lets not forget that Ghost also just saw the man he tried to flame broil not too long ago save his son. So there is definitely a lot of processing going on between the both of them during that train ride back home.
Tommy finally gets back in town and quickly learns from Black Grimace (yes that’s his name) that Ghost and Kanan hit the stash house and killed one of the crew. After his ordeal in Chicago this was the last thing he thought he would have to be worried about.
At that exact moment Tommy gets a call from Ghost and he wants answers ASAP. Ghost doesn’t tell him much details just that something happened with his nephew and where to meet them. Tommy wastes no time and heads over to Ghost and Riq’s location to find out what happened to his nephew. As soon as he hops out the truck and ask’s Riq if he was okay? Riq immediately runs to his Uncle and gives him a hug.
That was a much better hug than the one he gave his own father last episode after he saved his damn life.
Riq gets in the car while his father and uncle chop it up and Ghost brings Tommy up to speed about what’s going on. Ghost reveals to Tommy that Kanan is still alive and that him and Jukebox were the ones behind Riq’s kidnapping. Tommy also had something to reveal as well and that was the fact that Tasha already received a ransom request that she failed to reveal to Ghost. Ghost breaks down exactly what happened between him Kanan and Jukebox and how Kanan turned on her. Tommy was basically like all of us last Sunday after hearing the story.
Before Tommy takes them home he has to know one thing from Riq. He asks Riq if Dre was telling the truth in regards to know anything about going on. This was Riq’s chance to redeem himself with the Power massive and guess what? He failed the test miserably by lying once again when he tells Tommy that Dre is pretty much clean on the Kanan matter.
Ghost and Riq finally make it home and are immediately greeted by Tasha whom has been worried sick about her son Riq. She immediately wants to know where they both have been all night? She wants the answer from the Riq especially and tells him not to lie to her about it either. Riq responds to his mother by raising his voice and pointing out that his mom lied to him about what happened to Shawn? Tasha was like:
Ghost reveals to Tasha that Riq was kidnapped by Kanan and that it wasn’t the first time it happened. After swallowing that tough pill, Ghost and Tasha head into the bedroom to argue .
The two go back and forth about the situation and why information was neglected to be share. Ghost takes it there by saying Tasha only had one job and she loses it. Tasha rips Ghost a new one by breaking down that not only did she have deal with his lying son, she also had scrounge up bail money and play housewife to keep Ghost stress free as instructed by Proctor. Tasha makes it perfectly clear that the only reason they are in this situation is because Ghost couldn’t keep stop messing with that fed punani.
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Ghost is a free man and he owes his life to none other than Angela Valdez who put her neck on the line for him by telling the truth. So that means everything goes back to normal now for Ghost right?
Ghost has even more trouble waiting for him on the outside in the form of Kanan and Jukebox. With Ghost being free they decide it’s time to put their original plan of holding Riq hostage for ransom back in motion. Oh and of course once they get paid they will kill both Ghost and his son for good measure.
So lets step into tonight’s episode of Power shall we?
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Last weeks episode of Power was an emotional roller coaster ride and left us wondering how in the world can the Power writers top it? Well they most certainly succeeded cause tonight’s episode ‘Don’t Thank Me’ takes this season to another level.It easily is the seasons best so far!
Hit the gallery below to get into this weeks Power recap!
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Team James St. Patrick managed to score a minor victory in court thanks to Proctor’s skills and having the D.N.A evidence thrown out. BUT Ghost, his family and anyone closely associated with him are not out the woods yet. Ghost has a new enemy to worry about in Tony Teresi, his son is out running the streets with his old nemesis Kanan and the prosecution is still hungry to get him the needle.
Now it’s time to step into this week’s Power recap!
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Looks like Ghost will be fighting for his freedom as well as trying to keep his family safe based on newly released set photos from season 4 of Power!
Season 3 set a record for viewership across all platforms, making it the most-watched show on Starz with a whopping 7.1 million people tuning in every Sunday and being ranked #1 among all weekend cable programs for African Americans. We were left with the bombshell of Ghost being arrested by his ex-girlfriend Assistant U.S.Attorney Angela Valdes for the death of Agent Greg Knox a crime he damn sure didn’t commit.
Power season 4 looks to pick up where season 3 left off with Ghost in court battling it out with the feds and old foes while picking up new allies along the way. His biggest challenge remains the inner struggle with becoming the man he wants to be and the man he truly is.
All we have to say is can Summer 2017 hurry up and get here already! Season 4 is currently still in production be sure to stay tuned to the SFPL for more updates regarding Power!
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“In My Best Interest”: POWERful Moments From Powers Season 3 Finale!
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eason 3 of Power is officially over, insert all the sad face emojis :-(. There were plenty of heart pounding moments as we finally learned the fate of Tommy and Ghost and how they will deal with Milan. Tonight’s season finale delivered on what was a season full of death, betrayal, lies, sex, and twists and turns.
We broke down all the key POWERful moments from the season finale. Hit the gallery below to revisit the moments that had as either shocked, shaking our heads or applauding.
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ower returned from its week hiatus and doesn’t miss a beat! We are immediately thrown back into the world of lust,deceit, drugs, betrayal and murder.
There were many moments that had us going oh snap and wow in episode 309, hit the gallery below to see the most POWERful moments from tonight’s episode of Power.
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xcuse the absence last week FLY gals and gents, but Beanz is back with your with your weekly Power recap. Everyone’s head is on a swivel now, trust is an at all time low and our emotions just watching this show are all over the place. Let’s get into episode 308 which is conveniently titled “Trust Me”.
The episode opens up with Tommy who has survived the severe ass whooping he received at the hands of Milan’s men. He is awaken by his unlikely savior and his pet hovering over his badly bruised body.
Tommy initially thinks that Milan wants to use him for ransom but the Serbian drug lord has different intentions for him. Instead of being his usual scary self Milan is weirdly nice to Tommy and tells him that Tommy is not being held against his will. He tells him that he will have him stitched up and that they have some business to discuss.
Ohhhh Milan is up to something!
Mike on the other hand is a nervous wreck and rightfully so. Now that Lobos is dead he is getting the heat thrown on him by both Hugo and the Feds.
Hugo immediately asks Mike where is Lobos but Mike insists he doesn’t know. The exchange in both English and Spanish gets heated after Mike asks for the phone used by Hugo to contact him. Mike wants to destroy it so nothing can lead back to him. The request triggers Hugo to press Mike and request some money and a plane ticket so he can get the hell out of dodge.
Mike tells Hugo he can’t help him, doing so will ensure they get caught by the feds. Hugo is not trying to hear it and dangles Mike’s ex-wife and daughter over his head telling him he knows their location thanks to Lobos and he will kill them if Mike doesn’t help him. No money and plane ticket = no phone and the death of his loved ones!
Poor Mike has a real huge dilemma on his hands.
We catch back up with Tommy who literally has the blues after surviving his encounter with Milan’s men. His moment of solitude is interrupted by Ghost who has been trying to find him. Ghost immediately notices the bruises on Tommy’s face.
Tommy tells Ghost that his bruises are the outcome of him letting Father Callahan live to see another day against the wishes of Milan. Ghost tells him that Milan came by the crib and threatened the kids and that the feds found Lobos’ body.
Well yeah Ghost that was kind of dumb of leaving Lobos’ body to let the “vultures have at him“.
Ghost tells Tommy the feds know that whoever killed Lobos had inside information and that they think Angela is the leak. Ghost wants Tommy to hit up Hugo and meet with him so he can tell them who is Lobos’ inside guy working for the Feds. Tommy immediately realizes that move will also help Angela and he was like:
Tommy hates Angela with every ounce of his white soul and doesn’t mind seeing her in an orange jumpsuit or dead for that matter. Ghost tells him that if she goes down, they all go down and that they are all connected. Tommy was like:
Tommy realizes he has no choice but to call Hugo and set up the meeting.
Speaking of Angela, looks like she is also making sure all the alibis checkout cause she knows her ass is on the line.
Angela receives surveillance footage from Karen’s hotel in hopes that Ghost will show up in it making his alibi stick. Her worries are put to bed when a stretching Ghost can be seen on the camera footage but we all know he didn’t go for no damn jog that day.
It’s a good thing Ghost’s alibi so far is looking good cause Saxe and Greg are still trying to get Ruiz to snitch on him.
Fortunately for Ghost, Ruiz is not here for Saxe and Greg at all being that they failed to keep Lobos safe. Ruiz tells them they won’t be getting any more information out of him. Looks like they gotta look somewhere else cause the Ruiz ship has sailed on them. Basically this was Ruiz to Saxe and Greg:
Well with Ruiz being the least of his worries for now there is still the issue of Milan. Ghost bumps into Dre at Truth and speaks to him about his new nemesis.
Dre the firecracker that he is wants to know what Ghost’s move is gonna be after he finds out that Milan showed up Ghost’s crib last episode. Ghost tells Dre that right now there won’t be any moves made till he gets more information on Milan.
He also lets Dre know till further notice that they will only talk club business at Truth since there are ears and eyes on them at all times in there. That’s not where the bad news ends though for Ghost, Dre informs his boss that his competition across the street got the drop on him again and scooped the deal from Karen. Ghost was like:
Ghost leaves but unbeknownst to Ghost, Dre is reporting his every move to his nemesis Kanan.
Dre informs Kanan that Milan has Ghost spooked, information that Kanan exactly needed to hear about him.On his way out Ghost makes a very keen observation. He notices a particular brand of cigarettes that one of Milan’s henchman is smoking and steals the pack.
This might be the break that Ghost desperately needs to help him rid himself of Milan.
Tommy meets up with Hugo who is now on the edge, the meeting immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Hugo drawing his gun on Tommy.
Hugo believes that Tommy double crossed them when it came to freeing his now dead boss Lobos. Poor Hugo doesn’t realize that tables will be quickly turning on him.
Ghost magically appears and puts all the pressure on Hugo.
Ghost tells Hugo to give up his inside contact so they can get revenge on him and help their cause in the process. Hugo has no idea that Lobos is dead and threatens the dynamic drug dealing duo that when Lobos finds out about them they will be in trouble.
His threats go even further when he starts talking about Bell and Holly and that instantly triggers the crazy that lays dormant inside Tommy.
Tommy flips on Hugo and fills him with bullets, he kills whatever chance they had at the moment to find out who was the inside contact. Ghost of course is not too pleased with Tommy’s course of action and basically reacts like:
Ghost tells Tommy he has to control himself but Tommy feels he is in total control (he clearly isn’t). Tommy is back on f*** Angela mode and tells Ghost to tell his b**** to not talk and leaves.
Good thing Ghost is the smart one out the bunch and checks Hugo’s corpse for anything that can help their cause and he finds the cell phone he used to talk to Mike.
Back at the federal office Saxe, Greg and Angela are trying to figure out what moves MJ is trying to make in the investigation against them.
Suspicion is running high in the office and finger-pointing is rampant. Their meeting is interrupted by Donovan, he informs them that hit on Lobos was definitely premeditated. Donovan spills all the details pointing out that there was one set of bullets in Lobos and two different sets of footprints.
Greg was like:
That’s all he needed to hear cause we all know who he thinks is behind all of it.
MJ takes her detective skills to Truth to press Ghost and squeeze whatever she can out him on Angela and get him to snitch on her.
Unfortunately for MJ, Ghost is no snitch and plays dumb very well. He refutes all of MJ’s claims of him using Angela to get information out of Angela to commit capital murder. MJ even goes as far to throw in the fact that Ghost paid Angela’s rent to soften her up.
When she asks the million dollar question about Felipe Lobos, Ghost responds by asking “Who is Felipe Lobos?”
Greg is still on the case and meets up Medina.
Greg presents all the new findings to Medina and the fact that one of the hitters had a New York accent and wasn’t speaking Spanish. When Greg tells Medina that he thinks it was Tommy Egan he immediately reacts like:
Medina heard enough and on top of everything was not too happy to find out at the time that Greg was suspended during the time he was helping him. He tells Greg to kick rocks and come back when he has some actual facts he can work it and not insubstantial evidence.
Looks like Lobos isn’t the only one with friends in very high places. Ghost meets up with his contact in vice to explore his cigarette lead.
Ghost asks Donato for addresses and locations of warehouses where they would store the illegal cigs. In return Ghost will hook him up with a huge career changing bust. Donato can’t turn down that opportunity tells Ghost he can’t give him addresses or a warehouse but he can give him bars where they sell them out of.
He tells Ghost that he’s going to have to do all the “leg work” and find out on his own the information he needs by going to the bars and getting cozy with patrons and owners. Unfortunately for Ghost that’s going to require him hitting the booze heavy again to get folks talking.
Back on the Angela front, she heads to Tasha’s apartment to have a conversation with her.
Tasha isn’t too happy to see her husband’s side chick in her lobby once again. She asks Angela if she has a job and she quickly replies saying she puts murdering drug dealers in jail and asking Tasha what does she do?
Angela’s purpose for her visit is to check up on alibis, she points out that Ghost’s alibi will hold up but wonders about Tommy’s. Tasha initially refuses to answer the question, Angela decides she has had enough and starts to make her exit. It’s there Tasha realizes she has to say something and says that Tommy was with his mother Kate in Long Island.
Angela leaves, Tasha quickly picks up her phone and tells Tommy that they have a problem.
Tommy receives the message and is in the process of getting a look at the warehouse that houses Milan’s product.
Tommy is blown away by what he sees what Milan is working with, he also learns that Milan is in the pill business. Milan’s goon explains how they plan to move all of that product. Tommy hears the plan and is not impressed at all, he gives them a much better plan.
Tommy just basically proved he’s worth keeping around just a tad bit longer to Milan as his knowledge proves quite useful. We shall see how long Milan will want to keep the heartbroken distro around though.
Dre is enjoying the perks of working with Ghost, he gets to pick up his kid school and hang out with him at basketball city.
Kanan hits up Dre before Riq comes out telling him he want’s to talk business. Dre tells his secret boss that now is not the time to talk. Now you know, you never tell Kanan that period.
Angela is still on the mission to make sure her ass is covered and that all alibis are straight. She heads to talk to Kate and listen to her to story about Tommy.
Kate explains to Angela that her and Tommy have a “unique” relationship and yeah their mother/son relationship is type weird. Kate tells Angela that Tommy was at the house, he didn’t go anywhere that day and was watching Maury, Povich, Judge Judy and that Tommy really loves Dr.Phil.
Angela keeps the questions coming and asks what did they have to eat and Kate tells her they had pizza. When Angela asks Kate from where, she tells her Tommy picked up the pizza. Angela grows suspicious of the answer and asks Kate that she thought Tommy didn’t go anywhere?
Kate is beginning to look quite silly until Tommy walks in right on time to save his mother from making a complete fool out of herself.
Tommy tells Angela that he was only gone about 20 minutes and Kate cements it by saying it was a short time. He then tells Angela have a seat, looks like they have a lot to talk about.
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ast week’s episode of Power had everyone and including myself on one! So the huge question following the epic death of Holly is how is Courtney and her writers going to follow that epic episode? Well this time we get a near death, a death and an epic break-up! Lets hop into Episode 306 of Power shall we?
We catch up with Tommy in what seems to be the day after his traumatic experience killing his pregnant girlfriend Holly. He is found sleeping in his car by his bro Ghost.
It appears Tommy is having problems staying in his apartment understandably, he did strangle his girlfriend to death in there so I understand. I mean we don’t care that she’s gone though but he still does and hasn’t come to terms with it.
Ghost and Tommy meet to discuss their plan to take out Lobos once and for all but Tommy is still out of it mentally and Ghost knows it.
Tommy has trouble finding his keys to give to Ghost to get into the apartment, once he finds them in his pocket he drops them while handing them over to Ghost. Ghost finally gets the door open to the apartment and poor Tommy begins to just stare inside. Ghost encourages Tommy to get it together because they got work to do.
Tommy and Ghost are not the only ones working on a plan involving Lobos. The feds in are the process of working on a plan to transfer Lobos to another facility in D.C. .
Special Agent in Charge Donovan feels they should be using nothing less than armored tank to transport Lobos out of fear of the Jimenez trying to take him out. Of course that won’t play into Mike’s plan to make sure his secret boss is sprung. Mike uses the fact that people still believe that Lobos is dead to his advantage and they settle on doing a “low profile” transfer utilizing a civilian van modified for the transportation prisoner transport.
Donovan then appoints Greg as the point-man on the transfer as he needs someone he feels he can trust to see this operation through. The meeting adjourns and Angela walks in, she expresses relief to Mike that she can’t believe this case will be finally be over with the transfer of Lobos to D.C.. Little does she know that both her and Mike have secret investments in this case to go away A.S.A.P if they want to live “normal” lives.
Back at Tommy’s crib our favorite duo is getting their plan together and their alibis straight.
Tommy tells Ghost about the details about Hugo and his team, his mind begins to wander off again as he stares into the living room where he took Holly’s life. Ghost immediately notices and closes the door so he can get Tommy back on track. Ghost tells Tommy to link up with Hugo and his men as planned and he will ambush them after they spring Lobos from federal custody. The conversation then switches to alibis, Tommy already has his albi straight using his mom Kate, she will cover for him if he gives her enough coke.
Tommy then brings up the fact he heard Ghost lives with Angela now, Ghost immediately responds he will use his new “business acquaintance” Karen as his alibi. Tommy is confused and thinks Ghost already has “side-bitch on his side-bitch”.
Ghost corrects him and tells him that Karen is an investor and that he will stay at her property up on the Hudson. He can just tell Angela he was away on a business trip and that will be his alibi. Tommy isn’t so sure that Angela will buy into that being that he still doesn’t trust her but Ghost is sure his boo will eat it all up.
The conversation is interrupted by a loud knock on the door, Tommy really should invest in a doorbell or something cause it sounds like the police always knocking at his door.
Well fortunately for Tommy it’s Tasha, she comes walking in the house asking where is Holly and is surprised to see Ghost in the building .
Shocked to find that the duo “worked some shit out” over night Tasha asks immediately what the hell is going on?
Tommy starts to tell Tasha that something big is about to happen but Ghost quickly interjects stating they don’t need to involve her. Tommy insists saying they need Tasha, Tasha looking puzzled wants to know exactly what they need her for?
Ghost quickly heads tot he club, we jump in a conversation between him and his unlikely “knight in shining armor” and head of security Dean.
Dean immediately asks how is Riq is doing? Ghost tells him that he is fine, Dean of course is shocked being that three men died right in front of them at the coy reaction. Riq didn’t see any if it as his amazing noise-canceling headphones made sure he was focused on his music and not the thwarted attempt on his father’s life. Ghost is appreciative of Dean’s efforts but expresses the fact he specifically told Dean not to follow him anymore. The man saved your life and that’s the thanks he gets?
Dean points out that he acted on a hunch and that his hunch helped save Ghost and his son. He tells Ghost if it happens again he will be forced to report it to the authorities. Ghost reassured Dean that it won’t happen again and that he won’t be sharing any plans on how he will make sure it won’t with Dean anytime soon.
The tense meeting between is interrupted by the arrival of Karen.
Ghost called the meeting to get his alibi in order with Karen. He asks if her if they could move their meeting to her hotel on the Hudson. He tells her he wants to spend the night, get the “Basset experience” from the inside out and understand her system. Karen loves the idea as it shows he’s taking her seriously and looks like Ghost’s alibi is set.
We zap to the St.Patrick residence and it’s just like old times with the trio back intact. They are discussing more details about the upcoming job and Tommy kicks things off by stating there should be no phones. Ghost agrees to Tommy’s suggestion and he is shocked being that Ghost can’t be disconnected from the club for that long.
Things get pretty interesting when Tasha asks Ghost why Kate is Tommy’s alibi and not Holly? Ghost tells her it’s just a bad idea. Holly asks if they broke up? Ghost remains silent, then Tasha brings up the baby by guessing Tommy must have told her. Ghost’s face was like:
Ghost gets over the shock of learning Holly was pregnant and tells Tasha that Tommy didn’t tell him much about it. Tasha expresses guilt for telling her to tell Tommy about the baby ohhhhh Tasha if you only knew.
Ghost quickly changes the subject and asks Tasha if Tommy could crash at their house for the night? He fears Tommy will go somewhere and get hammered jeopardizing their plan.
Before Ghost can get in the elevator to leave Tasha asks Ghost if he’s going to home to Angela? Ghost tells her it’s all part of the plan, he bids the both of them ado, before the doors close Tasha gets in one last sentence. She yells at Ghost it’s the “usual shit” and that “he’s always leaving her with the mess”.
With everything coming together there is one more part of the plan Ghost has to get in order and that is selling Angela on his alibi. Ghost heads to Angela’s place to pack and get ready for his trip to Kate’s hotel. Angela walks in the middle of Ghost packing and inquires as to where he is going?
Ghost tells Angela about his visit to Karen’s property on the Hudson and his plan to stay. Angela was initially suspicious about the whole thing but he quickly quells that by telling her she should come with him.
Ghost sells Angela on the dream of jet setting across the world once he lands this huge deal with Karen. Oh Angela is putty in Ghost’s hands at this point and you know exactly where this conversation is going.
If you guessed an intense sex scene, congratulations you win the prize of nothing 🙂 !
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