Power Book II: Ghost is back on Starz, and season 3 wastes no time in letting us know there is a new baddie in town looking to make life miserable for the Tejadas and Riq.
Noma Makes Her Presence Felt, and Tariq Feels Bad About Lauren
The season 3 premiere wastes no time establishing the perceived significant threat that will have everyone on their Ps and Qs. The episode opens up with MacLean (Clifford “Method Man” Smith) handing off that expensive rock now dead informant Dante planned to give Monet (Mary J. Blige) before he was taken out.
The ring ends up on the auction block, where a wealthy white guy buys it for a large sum of money while a mysterious and very kind on the eyes Black woman watches it being sold. We immediately learn the ring belongs to her when that same woman shows up while the same white man proposes to his girlfriend, telling him to hand over her ring.
We quickly learn that Noma is a woman with very little patience when things don’t go her way, and she cuts off Karen’s hand with a large machete and relieves the severed hand of the ring, and puts it on her finger and walks away while her goons put the couple out of their misery.
Noma means business.
Riq Is Still Finding Life Is Hard When Your Skin Color Is The Wrong Color
Back at Stansfield, it’s a new semester at the prestigious school, and Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.) is currently packing up his things because he can no longer stay in the room. Brayden’s (Gianni Paolo) family wants him out because they feel he is the reason their son is dealing drugs, despite proudly owning up to his illegal ambitions.
Riq still feels responsible for Lauren’s death and stares at a photo of himself and her before his current boo, Effie (Alix Lapri), who is responsible for killing Lauren, tells him what happened to his ex is not his fault. Their tender moment ends with Brayden’s mom telling Riq he needs to get his things and leave the room.
Riq finds it very hard to…
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