‘Power Book II: Ghost’ Season 4, Episode 5: Can Revenge Wait?

Last week I made some predictions about how I assumed this series would end. This week I believe I used to be mistaken about the whole lot I assumed.

For example, Det. Carter because the New York version of Det. Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) from Training Day was not on my bingo card. I used to be certain Carter desired to nail Tariq and Monet. I used to be certain his obsessive nature was about putting criminals in jail, not lining his own pockets, because he’s an economics student and realizes he cannot stop the drug trade. I assumed he would send Tariq to jail; now I’m as uncertain as I’m about anything about this show as how their romance will end.

Speaking of Tariq, he and Diana discuss their future child. Diana, correctly, wants to maintain her child as distant from the drug game as possible. So what does Tariq determine to do, since he desires to be a parent and involved in his child’s life? He decides that quitting the sport will not be the reply – heaven will not be. The answer is to develop into a boss. He believes that his father’s problem and supreme downfall was that he had one foot in the sport and one foot out, and all of his enemies, ghosts and demons eventually caught up with him. Tariq has decided to immerse himself in the sport, but I believe he’ll do it with none enemies or people attempting to kill him on his way up, so he can keep his family secure? I’m no drug dealer, but that logic seems really flimsy, especially coming from a man who studies canon at legendary Stansfield University!

It’s price noting, though, that he’s slipping into his role as king by considering by way of leverage, revenge, and who he must step on to get to the highest. You know, the identical top that may keep him, his child, Diana, and the remainder of his family insulated from…revenge.

Oh, sigh. Let’s move on.

I do not know why Dru’s character annoys me a lot at this point, but he does. It’s weird because he’s the one always telling Monet about herself and holding her accountable. Every time Monet tries to discuss her family, Dru tells her what a fake she is, and it forces her to confess what a nasty mother she was. She still wants that life within the drug game, nevertheless it looks as if she really wants to maintain her family together. Sweet. And by the best way, I laughed so hard when she got here out of the shadows with an automatic rifle and commenced shooting while she, Dru, and their two hired goons tried to rob other drug dealers. That was right before Detective Carter showed up and told them they may sell drugs so long as he and his team got a 35% cut… and didn’t kill any civilians. That’s the one rule in keeping with Detective Carter: Don’t kill any civilians; all drug dealers are fair game. Maybe that is how we get to our conclusion.

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Cane and Noma have a wierd relationship. Cane is here showing Noma how vital he’s to her, and even gets right into a full-on fistfight with rival drug dealer Zion to indicate her that so long as they play together, Noma is nice anywhere in New York. Except then she goes to blow Davis away, like, that night. She’s playing a dangerous game with Davis and Cane.

Brayden’s girlfriend is a horrible person. Period. I’ll inform you why. She and Brayden discuss how she has sickle cell disease and the way she refuses to let anyone tell her what to do along with her body or control it. I get that; it’s smart. THEN, she drugs Tariq (despite the fact that her explanation of HOW she did it makes no logistical sense) because “He needs an outlet”??? What an entire hypocrite. And also, crime??? I don’t love her and I do not understand her and Brayden. But I can be remiss if I didn’t indicate that what Brayden told Tariq about his selfishness is totally accurate. Tariq really doesn’t appear to care about Brayden in any respect, beyond how it’d help him. Brayden’s life has really fallen apart, and Tariq doesn’t appear to care in any respect about it, it seems.

This is an excellent time to notice that there are five episodes left on this series. Five. The story is starting to choose up in an enormous and interesting way. Tariq is just now discovering that he desires to be on top of the mountain. Monet has full freedom to deal drugs. Noma’s daughter is about to get entangled, teasing Tariq, and Noma is playing fast and loose with Cane and Davis. Zion is about to return to Noma and Cane. We really don’t know what Detective Carter is as much as, but now that we all know he’s a badass, the chances are infinite. Tasha remains to be somewhere in Pennsylvania within the witness protection program, fueling Tariq’s dominance. And we have now five episodes left?

Thankfully, the writers, producers, and everybody involved love us, so we have now to attend a number of months to learn how this all ends, leaving people like me, who spend far more time fascinated by this stuff than they need to, to ponder and discuss them until September when the show returns.

All I do know is that a few of the most important characters must be dead by the point that is over, or I’ll never forgive them for ending the second best series in its category… identical to that.