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Power season five episode eight trailer starring Omari Hardwick
New York crime drama Power is currently midway through its fifth season.
Fans have been gripped since episode one as the gripping thriller, which stars rapper 50 Cent, heats up.
The series is broadcast in the US on American network Starz and new episodes are added weekly to Netflix in the UK.
Power follows James St Patrick aka Ghost who is played by Omari Hardwick.
Season five picks up with Ghost Patrick in a dangerous alliance with his former drug partner and brother-in-arms and mortal enemy.
According to Starz: “As Ghost mourns the death of his daughter, he searches for vengeance and throws himself into his work, reaching new, professional heights.
“But with this newfound publicity, his quest for blood threatens to dismantle his legitimate legacy.
“Ghost is blind to new enemies and, as the Feds grow closer to unmasking his true identity, Ghost must remain vigilant toward those wanting to take him down for his past criminal enterprises.”
WHERE IS POWER FILMED? WHERE IS IT SET?
Power season 5 cast [Image: Starz]
James ‘Ghost’ St Patrick - Omari Hardwick
Lead character Ghost is played by Being Mary Jane actor Omari Hardwick.
Ghost is described as “brilliant and debonair” but is battling to hold on to his status as a rising entrepreneur following the death of his daughter.
Season five sees him seek revenge as well as new heights of success to build a legacy for his daughter.
Hardwick is also set to star in movie Sorry to Bother You which is settee be released this year.
WHY IS EPISODE 8 OF POWER NOT ON NETFLIX?
Omari Hardwick as James ‘Ghost’ St Patrick [Image: Starz]
Tommy Egan - Joseph Sikora
Joseph Sikora plays Tommy Egan, Ghost’s right-hand man.
The two started the drug business together and Tommy is loyal to a fault.
Season five sees him out on his own after trying to connect with the Serbians and now he has to completely rebuild.
Sikora has appeared in a number of crime dramas including Boardwalk Empire, True Detective and The Heart, She Holler.
HOW MANY EPISODES ARE IN POWER SEASON 5?
Joseph Sikora plays Tommy Egan [Image: Starz]
Angela Valdes - Lela Loren
Lela Loren plays Angela Valdes, an Assistant United States Attorney tasked with hunting Ghost and James' love interest.
Valdes has to toe the line between protecting James and bringing his alter-ego Ghost to justice.
Season five sees her avoid exposure while working as the Head of Criminal of the Eastern District of New York.
Loren has also appeared in Covert Affairs and Gang Related.
Lela Loren plays Angela Valdes [Image: Starz]
Tasha St Patrick - Naturi Naughton
Naturi Naughton plays Tasha St Patrick, James' wife and criminal accomplice.
Season five sees her living with the consequences of marrying into the world of crime.
She is mourning the death of their daughter and also worried about their son’s involvement in the business.
Naughty has also starred in Queen of the South and Mad Men.
Naturi Naughton as Tasha St Patrick [Image: Starz]
Kanan - Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson
Rapper 50 Cent plays Ghost’s former boss and mentor.
After learning that Ghost set him up and got him locked up, Kanan wrecked havoc on his business.
The two are now allied to take down a common enemy.
Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson as Kanan [Image: Starz]
Other cast members include Rotimi Akinosho as Dre Coleman, La La Anthony as LaKeisha Grant and Jerry Ferrera as Joe Proctor.
Matt Cedeno stars as Cristobal alongside Shane Johnston as Cooper Saxe and Sung Kang as John Mak.
Michael Rainey Jr plays Tariq St Patrick and Brandon Victor Dixon plays Terry Silver.
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Happy birthday, Tariq. Know what your Uncle Tommy got you? The fear of God!
This week’s Power marks a mostly bitter, not-so-sweet event for the St. Patrick family: Tariq and Raina’s annual celebration, which basically only highlights how upset Ghost and Tasha are that their twin daughter, and not their twin son, was gunned down at the end of last season. [Think I’m being harsh? Tasha basically says that, verbatim, during the hour.]
And on top of everything, Tommy lets the birthday boy know that he’s figured out exactly who tipped Dre off the night of the hit. And when that happened, I might’ve said “Oh” and a word TVLine won’t allow me to print.
Also: Kendrick Lamar is amazing. But you likely already knew that. Read on for the highlights of “Happy Birthday.”
TERMINATION TWO WAYS | The episode opens with Vincent summoning Tony Teresi, Sammy and Tommy to the bar, because the Mob boss has figured out that something about the shooting doesn’t add up. When Tommy blurts out that it was Dre, Vincent realizes that Tommy [and Sammy] lied about “handling” Dre in retaliation for the deaths of the two Italian hitters from the season premiere. Tommy admits that he hadn’t told the truth, which prompts Vincent to hand Tony a gun and demand that he choose one of his “boys” to kill — and when a horrified Tony refuses, Vincent says he’ll murder all three of them otherwise. So Tony reluctantly pulls the trigger on Sammy… only to find out that there are no bullets in the gun. As Tommy and Sammy process the fact that neither of them is going to die that day, Vincent washes his hands clean of the trio — and that includes firing them from his operation.
When Tommy tells Kanan and Ghost about the incident, Ghost wonders why the old man would choose the son he just met over a close, longtime friend and business associate. This angers Tommy, who counters that he’s Teresi’s flesh and blood. All three men agree that Dre was likely behind the drive-by — even though Kanan knows full well he wasn’t — and then Ghost gives Tommy a clean check and leaves.
That’s when Kanan floats the idea of taking Dre out by edging him out of his own organization. Given the way Cristian’s increased responsibility irks Dre, he reasons, “Maybe we help that beef along.” But Tommy says no, because Ghost would think it’s a bad idea, thanks to Dre’s new visibility in the Queens Child Project. Kanan shakes his head in disappointment. “Ghost got you believing you can’t do nothing without him,” he says on his way out. [Side note: This man is a master manipulator, and I am here for it.]
Laces is enjoyably wacky but not stupid: When he hears Kanan pull out his gun after the second murder, he realizes he’s probably next. But K ultimately decides not to shoot the man, and the moment is a surreal one in which Laces appears to see into K’s soul… until it becomes clear he’s just lampooning some anti-depression medication ad he heard once. And then, with a high-pitched giggle and a funny little walk, Laces shuffles off into the night.
First, he has Angela meet him in the store where he’s trying to pick out shoes for a birthday gift for Tariq. Her face registers three letters: a W, a T and an F? She tells him she can’t get sucked back into seeing him, then he plays the “It’s my dead daughter’s birthday” card, and she immediately feels terrible. Not terrible enough to ignore a call from Tameika, mind you, but still. She apologizes and takes off. Ghost buys a pair of sneakers.
Then, Ghost gets a little bit of a win by having the Bassetts fire Dre, who signed a noncompete agreement when he worked at Truth. That means the QCP fundraiser currently scheduled for Dre’s club will be moved to Truth, as well, and James seriously thinks he’s gotten the better of his protégé. But when Tate brings Dre to the party, anyway, Ghost starts drinking all the booze in the place. Pretty soon, he’s got Tate in a stranglehold up against the bar, and everyone is watching. “You know you done f—ked up, right?” Tate says calmly afterward.
SADDEST PARTY EVER | While Ghost is finding new lows for his reputation to sink to, he’s also missing Tariq’s birthday dinner at the apartment and forgetting to pick up the cake. Tommy seems to give the teen a bit of a reprieve from the gloom when he lets Tariq drive his car. But when they pull over, Tommy continues their very cordial conversation by saying, “It was you who warned Dre that we was coming for him, wasn’t it?” WHAT. WAIT. WHAT. The kid initially plays dumb but eventually confesses, saying he did so “‘Cause he helped me get my enemy.” Tommy shakes his head. “Loyal only to your own cause,” Tommy says. “Sounds exactly like Ghost.” Then he warns Tariq that he knows nothing.
Back at the house, Terry seems to save the day by bringing by the cake Ghost never picked up from the bakery. Then the cops show up looking for Tasha’s gun, wanting to check it against their database. Tasha reminds them that she reported it stolen, and things are a little tense while that gets checked out, but then they leave. Blanca, however, who is in the group of officers who visit, certainly notices Tasha’s discomfiture. And she seems to enjoy it.
After the police leave, Terry is sure that Tasha is lying about the gun, but he still thinks she’s doing so to cover for Ghost. “Either you are a victim of James’ actions, or you’re an accomplice. Call me when you decide which one you are.” And after he leaves, the family goes to eat the cake… but they’re all a little horrified when they realize that Tasha ordered it with Raina’s name on it by accident/force of habit. And when Tariq finds her crying in her bathroom and tells her that he wants to confess, she tells him to “just get the f—k out the way” and let the adults handle things. Then he asks if she wishes he died instead of Raina, and she cries but doesn’t say no.
GHOST V. ‘RIQ | Ghost comes home drunker than drunk, slurring and falling, and quickly gets into a nasty argument with Tariq. “I gave you everything,” Ghost yells, crowing about how ungrateful his son is. “You lied to me my entire life about who we are and where we come from,” Tariq counters. “All you do is think about yourself. Mom, Uncle Tommy and Kanan think that, too. Maybe it Raina hated you, she would still be alive.” That, as you might imagine, does not go over well with the senior St. Patrick, who lumbers around as he tries [and fails] to beat his son into the ground. Tasha breaks it up, and Tariq announces he’s going back to Choate that night. [Kanan winds up driving him.] After he takes off, Tasha kicks Ghost out.
Ghost winds up at church, where the pastor who presided over Raina’s funeral listens to his soused reasoning as to why everyone but himself is to blame — including God! — for Raina’s death. I love how the reverend is slicing through Ghost’s BS like it’s kobe beef. “What are the choices that led you to this moment? What would you do differently if you could?” the clergyman asks him. “What would Raina do? What would Raina want you to do?” Ultimately, Ghost says he knows what he wants and needs to do: “I want to be a better man.” Then the pastor asks where he lost his way… and the next thing we know, Ghost is showing up at Angela’s door. She lets him in.
But now that Angie knows what Mak and Saxe are up to, she has Proctor arrange a meeting with Tommy in which she offers him blanket immunity in exchange for telling her everything he knows. She also takes the tracker off his car, which rattles him a little. Tommy turns her down, but afterward, Proctor reminds him that immunity could go a long way if Bailey Markham’s death ever comes to light. Tommy threatens him that it better never do so.
After a conversation with Teresi about how snitching’s not snitching if the people you rat out don’t really matter to you, Tommy arrives at Angela’s apartment and asks for the tracker back. She’s spooked, but plays it tough as she wonders why he won’t take the immunity deal; otherwise, she could just nail him later on some other charges. After all, what’s to stop her? He’s incredibly chilling as he says the thing that’ll stop her is the same fear that made her tuck her gun into the waistband of her pants before she let him in. Then he indicates that he’s been spying on her for some time, and leaves her to freak in private.
Meanwhile, Teresi tells Saxe and Mak about the check from Ghost he saw at Tommy’s apartment, and it’s all those two can do to stop themselves from peeing with joy.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the episode? Sound off in the comments!