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This weekly recap might as well be titled the “Ronnie Report” because, really, I spent the ENTIRE episode looking for any clues from anybody that maybe, Ronnie didn’t actually kill Unique but, ya know, mostly kill him. I was hoping there’d be some scene of Unique laid up in a coma, but sadly, it wasn’t meant to be. Nobody’s found his body yet but the streets and the police are all working with the belief that Unique Mathis is with the ancestors now. I did wonder where the Unique story was going to go. I suppose it was always going to end up with him dead or in jail but this just seemed unfair.
This, of course, creates a ripple effect of things. For starters, Pernessa (Unique’s baby mama) runs up on Raquel with a gun like she’s going to kill her, and well, those who aren’t made for the streets rarely win those battles. Raquel does manage to give her some advice and make some suggestions about Unique’s likely killer: Ronnie.
Ronnie, on the other hand, is now trying to get back into the game and visits Juliana to let her know that Unique won’t be coming back and thus gets some work.
Let me take a sidebar right quick; do you mind? I hope not. Anywho, I’m really struggling and have been struggling with the idea of Ronnie as some kind of head of a drug organization. Ronnie seems like the least personable human on the planet, and I can’t imagine him being charming enough even in the short term to make allies. I can imagine him as an enforcer, but enforcers aren’t the head of the snake. Was Ronnie THAT good at selling heroin that everybody revered him and thus realized there’s money to be made with him? Ronnie’s disposition is so off-putting I find even that hard to believe. Anywho, I’m just struggling with the idea of Ronnie in his former life as the head of an organization of…
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