Power Book II: Ghost Recap: Bye, Felicia

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 Power verse, right? On the upside: At least we get a Tasha sighting.

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Read on for the highlights of “I Can’t Fix This.”

BAD NEWS | 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.

HEY, MA | Tariq swings by Tasha’s place, where takes one look at his face and instantly knows he’s in trouble. He swears he can fix it himself, but winds up telling her everything — including how once he gets what he needs from Davis, “I’m going to make a move.” But Tasha counters with several good points. First, Diana likely doesn’t want anyone to run in and save her, because she’s (rightfully) super angry and wanting to take action on her own. Second, it’s OK for Tariq to be angry, too. “That child was hope, a chance for a life outside of all this s—t,” she points out. Third, killing a cop is not a great choice under ANY circumstances — and if the Tejadas take retaliatory action, he’d better distance himself, “because your family is here , and we are waiting for you. So please be smart. Be strategic.” He pipes up that she wasn’t very smart or strategic when she shot Monet. Tasha’s response? “That bitch don’t know I shot her.”

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EFFIE IS FIGURING IT OUT | Effie and Brayden pretend they’re carjacking victims to play on the sympathies of a cop’s wife, so they can get in and Effie can hack into the NYPD’s computer system via the cop’s laptop. They nearly blow it when Brayden offers details that contradict their cover story, but off a signal from Effie, Cane shows up in a cop’s uniform and distracts the homeowner so that they can get away safely. Later, Effie looks up the report of the Russian bust from the last episode and, given her insider knowledge, realizes that Carter’s task force has been skimming off the top when they raid drug operations.

Later, after a very loving interaction with Effie, Cane proposes to Noma (?!), essentially offering a less flirty version of what Davis did. Weirdly, this seems to turn her on; he says he’ll go along with whatever type of partnership she wants, and she kisses him. Back at his place, a disappointed Effie realizes he’s not coming back that night, and leaves.

THE MESS GETS MESSIER | Dru kills the guy who was threatening him in jail, then makes it look like he hung himself. Not long after, Carter kills a member of the Russian gang and then presents him to Congressman Tate, saying that the dead man was Kamaal’s murderer. Tate is grateful. Then Carter meets with Dru, who wants Carter to leave Diana and Monet out of things in exchange for the prison killing Dru committed on his behalf. Carter is not inclined to agree, and instead warns Dru not to retaliate for what happened to Diana.

Too late! Diana sneaks into Felicia’s house and, after a prolonged fight in the kitchen, winds up killing the cop by smashing her skull with a skillet. Only after Di is done, though, does she see some toys on the floor and realize that Felicia is a mom. She calls Tariq, panicked; after he arrives, Felicia’s young son wakes up and wonders where his mother is. They pretend to be cops covering for Felicia when she got called in for an unexpected late shift, and things just get messier from there.

“I can’t fix this for you, just like I couldn’t fix it for my own family,” Tariq tells her, explaining how killing Ray Ray in retaliation for Raina’s death didn’t do anything to take away his pain. But before they can discuss further, Carter and Dru bust in. Carter makes it clear that he would happily kill Monet and Diana, but Dru bought their survival by confessing that Monet had been stealing from Noma, and not the Russians, when Carter caught her.

“As far as I’m concerned, all of you are going down for this,” Carter tells the group… unless they get him leverage against Noma, in which case he’ll make Felicia’s death look like an accident. Then he yells at them to leave so he and Dru can clean up the mess. “Welcome to the f—king team, Tariq,” Carter whispers as a subdued St. Patrick walks out the door.

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