In this week’s Power Book II: Ghost, a deeply painful loss leads to self-reflection, healing and inner peace… just kidding! Diana’s trauma sets off a series of events that make everything worse for a whole lot of people, which is how it tends to go in the Powerverse, right? On the upside: At least we get a Tasha sighting.
Diana wakes up in a hospital bed and the first thing she sees is a tearful Tariq sitting by her bedside. “I’m so sorry, Diana,” he says, and that’s when it sinks in: She lost the baby. Later, her anger takes over. Tariq’s involvement in the drug game led to her attack, she says (though… your entire family’s entire livelihood might’ve also had something to do with it, no, D?), and she kicks him out of her room. When Cane and Monet show up, Diana tells them that Felicia was behind her miscarriage.
Tariq, who has decided to avenge his unborn child himself, calls Davis to get the addresses of Carter’s cops. But before the lawyer can do anything, he’s summoned to Noma’s. She wants help getting the government contracts that she was so close to, but he points out that the contracts require an American citizen to head up the company that will launder her cash — and she obviously would need someone she trusts in that role. She scoffs at his insinuation that he’d be the person she’d choose, but that doesn’t stop him from putting the moves on her.
TATE ON THE RAMPAGE | Congressman Tate identifies his brother’s body at the morgue while Carter (!) looks on. The story he feeds Rashad is that a drug dealer murdered him, and Tate demands to know who it was. Carter lies and says some of the Russians Kamaal busted were behind the hit, so Tate demands that Carter call him the minute they find the shooter.
It soon becomes clear that even Carter’s fellow task force members don’t know that he killed Kamaal. He doubles down on his story that the Russians are behind the hit, and he tasks Nico and Felicia to take them out before Rashad Tate’s involvement brings the Investigative Affairs Bureau knocking on their door… again.
DIRTY COP IS GOING DOWN! | Remember when Diana wanted out of the life? Now she wants to kill Felicia herself. Monet tries to intervene by meeting with Carter, who had no idea a) that Diana was pregnant, and b) that Felicia beat her up. Either way, it doesn’t change his deal with the Tejadas: “You think I’m just going to give you permission to execute one of my cops?” he wonders. (The answer is NOPE.) Then he threatens to throw Monet in Rikers Island if she doesn’t back off. Meanwhile, Dru calls Diana and finds out what happened, then warns her to let him and/or Monet take care of things. But she’s not in the mood for listening. Felicia “is mine,” she tells him, grabbing a gun from Monet’s safe.
When Carter confronts Felicia about her attack on Diana, he figures out that she’s using drugs again and is livid when he realizes that Tariq killed Zion at the safehouse. She shows him the only existing security camera footage of the murder; he tells her to go home and not talk to anyone. But Felicia doesn’t know that Diana follows her from the precinct’s parking lot.
