- I'm outta the game.
OK? Old life is done.
- The cleaner you get, the dirtier I become.
Is the anticipation killing you yet?
"Power" season six is almost here, so let's quickly catch up and get ready
for the August 25th premiere.
When we last left James in season four, he was reeling from the death of his
daughter Raina and teaming up with Tommy and Kanan to bring down Dre.
So get ready for an excessive amount of lying, double-crossing,
and smiling secretly while walking away from a conversation.
You know when characters do that, they're up to no good,
so let's smile like nobody's lookin'.
Here's your IMDb Cheat Sheet for season five of "Power".
- What you two talkin' about? - You!
In an effort to protect Tariq from being implicated
in his murder of Ray-Ray,
Tasha not only convinces LaKeisha to provide an alibi for the family,
but also convinces Angela to erase the evidence of the gun used
in the murder from the evidence file.
- You want me to bury the records?
You can do that? It's just--you just click a mouse and it's gone?
Well OK, I guess it's gone.
Killing the ultimate smiler, Dre, turns out to be a little more complicated
than Ghost, Tommy, and Kanan originally thought considering
Dre's protected by his drug suppliers: Diego and Alicia Jiminez.
Meanwhile, James is in the middle of a classic downward spiral:
drinking, crying, hallucinating his dead daughter,
stabbing a stranger in a back alley fourteen times, we've all been there.
- James! My good brother.
Councilman Slimeball Tate takes notice of James' aberrant behavior
and elects Dre as the new face of the Queens Child Project.
Wait, don't they hate each other?
Oh no, this is awkward, isn't it?
(applause)
Oh, and Tasha's really had enough of James and tells him to...
- GO!
So he goes back with Angie.
Tommy's new daddy, Tony Teresi, gets out of prison.
I thought he was in there for life?
How do you get out of pri--oh, it's because he made a deal with the Feds to deliver
information secretly about Tommy and Ghost.
- So if we ain't gonna drop Teresi, then what we gonna do?
Ghost suspects that Teresi's up to some snitching
(remember, these two weren't exactly besties in prison)
so he plans to manipulate Tommy into wanting his dear old dad dead.
Aww, why can't Tommy have anything nice?
Maybe it's because he's a [bleep]ing lunatic.
- Hey Angie. - [bleep], Tommy!
Enter Detective Blanca Rodriguez, Internal Affairs, who is immediately
suspicious of Angela's connection to all this drug and murder stuff
and has her own little secret corkboard connecting all the dots.
Angela's not a big fan of dots connecting with other dots
especially when she is one of those dots.
- Your boss is coverin' her ass, you know.
And then you got Kanan who is just straight up screwing with everybody.
He's staging false flag attacks against Tommy,
he's giving Tariq Drug 101 lessons...
- This right here is a pound of weed. This a kilo of coke.
You see, he's got this big, master plan to be the biggest goddamn
drug dealer in New York Ci--oh, nevermind, he's dead.
- Rest in peace, you tough bastard.
OK, so what happened was that Tasha planted the Ray-Ray murder weapon
on Kanan,
he has a shootout with the cops,
and while it doesn't go too well, he's ultimately framed for Ray-Ray's murder
and everything is all cleaned up.
Or is it?
You ever get that feeling when you walk into a room that everyone was just
talking about you?
Well, the walls are finally closing in on Angela and, by association,
Tommy, Ghost, and Tasha.
- None of you trust me.
- After everything I've done for each one of you.
The four of them team up to try and dig their way out of this mess
by making a list of friends and enemies that they can manipulate.
Angie convinces Dre to testify that the Jiminez were behind the murders
of Lobos and Sandoval and not Ghost and Tommy.
Tommy convinces LaKeisha to keep her mouth shut about all this,
and Ghost may or may not have killed Terry Silver,
who was working with the Feds to implicate everyone else and save Tasha.
- She's innocent. I'll get her to flip.
In the final moments, Tommy learns that he was manipulated to kill his father,
goes to kill Ghost, but ends up shooting Angela instead.
Love hurts.
(screams)
So, as usual, we get a lot of loose ends.
Tariq seems to have accepted his life of crime,
Dre is not dead and in custody,
Tommy's betrayed Ghost and gets Drug Inc. back up and running
with Dre's old crew,
Simon Stern grew a mustache,
and let's not forget Season-One-Episode-One Woman who could maybe identify James
St. Patrick as Ghost.
- I'll never forget his voice.
So, what's gonna happen?
Well, we'd be lying if we said it probably doesn't involve a lot of lying.
Catch the final betrayal of "Power" on August 25th to see what goes down.