Power Recap: Season 4, Ep. 10 – “You Can’t Fix This”

The fourth season of Power ends with cliffhangers, death, and big reveals.

Spoilers are below. You have been WARNED!

Raina’s murder reverberated across the entire POWER landscape. Her death served as the catalyst for unexpected alliances, personal accountability, and desperate plays for self-preservation. Her demise also led to the revelation of whose been orchestrating Ghost’s downfall this season: Dre.

Andre Coleman. Who would’ve thought that Dre would be the epicenter of everyone’s disdain? The kid from the streets of Southside Jamaica Queens who was coerced by Kanan to infiltrate Ghost’s organization and destroy it from within, has now evolved from Trojan Horse to urban warfare strategist.

Dre positioned himself with the Jiminez by implicitly excommunicating Tommy from his own organization, attempted to kill Kanan, and will silence anyone who dares blow his cover (including Father Callahan, who tried to do the right thing among all his sinful ways, and still ended up dead). Slowly his anonymity began to unravel, as those affected around him began to collaborate and put the pieces of this season-long puzzle together, along with finding Raina’s killer, Ray Ray.

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Ghost promised Tasha he would get retribution for Raina no matter what. That meant contacting Tommy, his ride or die partner in crime, to carry out their vengeance. No matter the disagreements, Ghost and Tommy will discard petty differences when the family is in need. They wanted answers and went looking at Uriel and the Jiminez first. After a nail gun inspired persuasion technique, Uriel denies killing Raina, and confesses to killing Julio in a plot devised by Dre.

Tommy immediately heads to Truth to confront Dre, when he sees the impromptu meeting between Dre and Ray Ray taking place. Ray Ray still wants his payments for keeping Dre alive and Dre reluctantly accepts. They plan to meet at Ray Ray’s spot for the money drop.

Kanan rolls up on Tommy during the “Meet your Italian extended family” event, to discuss the botched hit. Tommy recognizes the hitmen as Tainos, working with Cristobal who is connected to Dre. A later conversation with Tariq, discussing Ray Ray’s whereabouts, along with the news of Raina’s death, allows Kanan to put two and two together and link Ray Ray to the murder. Kanan tells Tommy, who confronts Destiny about Ray Ray. A simple gun in the face gets Destiny talking, and soon Tommy gets Ray Ray’s location.

Tariq, who’s acted like a petulant entitled prick for most of the season, feels the affects of his twin sister’s death, and finally wakes up. He lies about the details of her death, because he wants to right this wrong. Tariq wants to end Ray Ray, and will go to any length to do so. He takes Tasha’s gun, confronts Dre about Ray Ray and threatens to snitch to his dad about everything if he doesn’t get an address. Dre complies and Tariq is on his way.

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Tasha can’t find Tariq, and knows that he’s lying about Raina. She’s so desperate, she gets Angela’s help tracing Tariq’s phone to locate him. Angela informs Tasha that if Ghost is implicated in Ray Ray’s murder, he will get the death penalty. Angela still has enough love for Ghost to help while still keeping focus on her duties.

This culminates in one of the most surreal moments in POWER series history: The convergence of the St. Patrick family on Ray-Ray’s location, all with the intent to kill. Tasha, Ghost, Tommy and Tariq make it to the apartment, but Tariq gets there first. He surprises Ray Ray, who challenges Tariq to shoot him. As Ghost, who sees Tariq enter the elevator before he can), Tommy and Tasha race to stop Tariq, a gunshot rings out in the apartment. Tariq has killed Ray Ray, and officially become a St. Patrick. As the family surrounds him and immediately goes into tactical killer mode to clean the crime scene and vacate, you can see the catatonic look on Tariq’s face symbolize that he’s IN the family business now.

The St. Patrick’s got their revenge, but there’s still opportunists looking to expose them to more danger. Saxe still wants to take Ghost down, and convinces DA Robinson to interview Maria Suarez, the woman from way back in the Series pilot, whose boyfriend was killed by Ghost. She was blindfolded but recognized his voice from the TV, and now wants to get justice.

Councilman Tate wants a clean image from the neighborhood to be at the forefront of his development plans. He enlists a local pastor that will hold Raina’s service for a “small honorarium”. This functional extortion that Tate purports as the cost of doing business, suggests that he might know more about Ghost than we think.

Silver wants Tasha, but Tasha needs a lawyer, not a boyfriend. She knows that her gun will come back to haunt her after Ray Ray’s murder, and needs consultation in the worst way.

Finally, Dre has solidified himself with the Jiminez, and Ghost can’t ride on him now. However, the new alliance of Ghost, Tommy and Kanan, has come together in the final scene to devise a way to get their revenge on Dre. Kanan has his crew, and Tommy has his “family” now. Season 5 looks like all-out war, so you better get ready!