Power Book III: Raising Kanan
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And then there are the plot twists.
Episode ten leaves us wanting to know whats going to happen next.
Inlast weeks episode, Sam decided to be defiant and ignore Marvins warning to leave town.
This leaves Marvin no choice but to kill him.
Sam barely notices Marvin walking up towards him in the crackhouse because hes getting high.
He begs for forgiveness, but in the drug game, forgiveness doesnt exist.
But Raq isnt scared.
With expansion on her mind, she switches the subject and extends Unique an invitation to join her crew.
He then proceeds to flirt with her, and lo and behold, Ms. Raquel Thomas likes it.
As shocking as this is considering that they were enemies, it makes perfect sense.
They understand each others lives, and Unique brings the edge and hood-ness that Symphony was lacking.
With what drugs to sell, you ask?
Kanan makes an executive decision to pick up (i.e., steal) product from his mother.
That shit mine, it been mine, he boldly says.
Hes reached the peak of his rebellious phase.
Raq warned the entire crew, including Kanan, to stay off of the corners a long time ago.
When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
Standing on the corner lands Kanan in the hot seat with Burke.
She arrests Kanan and takes him back to Baisley park to question him (totally not police protocol).
Scared and in search of assistance, Kanan confides in Howard about all that happened with Burke.
Howard decides that the three of them him, Raq, and Kanan need to sit down and talk.
It was Cory who set Juke up to be targeted by the church.
But she warns her that she has a target on her back.
This is not a surprise, since Burke has been sticking her nose everywhere it doesnt belong.
Before assisting Juke with getting released from police custody, Burke goes to a crackhouse looking for Sam.
The house is filled with addicts, but Sam isnt present.
Burke reads the scene as an execution and blatantly accuses Howard of having something to do with it.
The tension between the two partners is no longer hidden.
This is your problem, not mine.
Our garbage goes out to Jersey, not the other way around.
You deal with this quickly and completely, he tells Sal.
Next, Uniques spot gets hit, and unfortunately Worrell doesnt make it.
Crack dying, business is changing, we gotta change with it, Nique tells Worrell.
And now his right-hand man is gone.
To honor Worrell, Nique puts several bullets in one of Sals men.
Sals team hits up the studio next.
Ready and Marvin both get hit, but Readys wounds are fatal.
Marvin stumbles down the staircase, wounded and in search of safety.
It doesnt help that his gun is also jammed.
It is at this moment the writers toy with our emotions.
Raq, meanwhile, has no idea that her spots have been attacked.
The visitor is none other than Kenya, who came by to talk to Raq mother to mother.
But there isnt much time for conversation, because Sals men are watching Raqs house.
It takes no time before Raq realizes she and Kenya are in danger Wait, where are my guys?
They just let you walk up here like this?
Is this how Raqs life ends?
Over some bullshit Jersey beef?
After all that she built?
Just do what the fuck you came here to do, she boldly tells him.
But before he can pull the trigger, a single bullet pierces his stomach.
If you didnt know about Southside Jamaica, Queens, now you do!
Season three is for sure about to take us on another wild ride.
Other Notes
Raq telling Lou she owns him is WILD!
Season two solidified that shes definitely more vicious than Monet Tejada.
When you think youre the smartest one in the room its easy to get outsmarted.
Juliana, Juliana, Juliana!
We are about to see more of Juliana in season three, and shes not here for Raqs shit.
Juke and Marvin making amends is the perfect ending to their father-daughter relationship this season.
Raq and Unique, a hood love story.
That has a nice ring to it!
