What. An. Hour.
The chips are falling into place now, and we’re circling the tip of this wild and alluring season. With the deck stacked towards Tommy, from enemies he can see and enemies he is not even conscious of, you may’t even start to foretell how issues will find yourself.
But when that closing body of Energy Guide IV: Power Season 2 Episode 8 was any indication, he is by no means felt extra alive.
This was a really messy installment from begin to end.
And there isn’t any simple place to leap in, nevertheless it’s in all probability greatest to start out on the prime with Vic doing his damndest to cowl his tracks.
Vic has been flying by the seat of his pants since he grew to become a snitch, and he stepped in it when he killed Vargas. He could not have had a selection, nevertheless it put a fair bigger goal on his again so far as Stacy was involved.
Stacy Marks looks like each legal professional we have seen throughout the Energy Universe rolled into one. Notoriously dangerous at their jobs, save for a pair, the attorneys we have seen on this Universe are obsessive about bringing down the dangerous man to the purpose their ethics go flying out the rattling window, typically alongside their dignity.
Stacy: , if Miguel Garcia finds out that you simply fucking his little sister, he would possibly take you off the map earlier than I do. Watch out, Mr. Egan. Chicago is a really harmful metropolis.
Tommy: So I preserve listening to.
Stacy desires to make her mark in Chicago, and he or she sees a pathway by capturing a infamous prison like Tommy Egan. I am positive she desires to assist rid the streets of medication and violence, however I can not assist however suppose her ambition trumps virtually the whole lot else.
Bobby offers an attention-grabbing counterpoint to that ambition, however she does not appear to essentially hearken to him ever. She’s received a plan, and he or she’s working in a approach the place she is going to get all of the glory if issues go proper.
However issues have not been going proper, and whereas she’s had Vic on the hook, he is been in regards to the least useful informant within the historical past of informants.
Vic Flynn made his mattress and has to lie in it now, although it is so obvious to Stacy and the viewers that he does not wish to actually screw Tommy over. However he was at all times going to must, and killing Vargas simply sped up the timeline.
Vic was a naked minimal informant, giving the FEDs simply sufficient info to construct their case, however he was not at all giving them something they may use as a ending transfer. Catching Vic in a lie meant that Stacy may exert all her energy and get Vic to implicate Tommy, whether or not his phrases have been true or not.
Now, Stacy will function shifting ahead like she’s going to drop some bombshell on Tommy, however she does not know that Tommy’s now been tipped off to the rat, and there isn’t any approach in hell he does not instantly finger Vic because the traitor.
Tommy’s suspicious by nature, however who else may or not it’s however Vic?
Vic did a wonderful job of pushing the blame onto Jenard and Claudia, and Tommy’s simply as suspicious of them, however he wasn’t with them twice when Vargas was sniffing round.
Within the aftermath of the homicide, Tommy was seeing what was proper in entrance of him, however with new information and a while to suppose issues by way of, Jenard going to the FEDs would make about as a lot sense as him going himself.
Jenard could also be A LOT of issues, and we all know he is actively attempting to undermine Tommy in one other approach, however he is not the one to go to the authorities, even when it could imply eliminating Tommy for good.
It was unbelievable listening to Tommy principally inform Jenard he was fortunate Tommy let him again into CBI, like Tommy did not come into city seventeen seconds in the past and Jenard hadn’t spent his grownup life serving to set up CBI as one of many greatest crews within the metropolis.
Tommy Egan will at all times have ALL the audacity.
It is so attention-grabbing watching Tommy do that dance with all these folks he is aware of do not care about him and he is aware of he cannot belief. However so long as they’re helpful to him and serving to him get to the place he must be, he is retaining them round.
However even understanding he cannot belief them, does he notice how many individuals are actively after him?
We all know that Tommy can discover his approach out of even essentially the most dire of conditions, nevertheless it’s okay to be involved about Tommy as a result of he is received warmth from so many various instructions, and he cannot leap over each hurdle.
We have seen him get tripped up prior to now, and we have seen him lose folks, and we have seen him hit all-time low. To suppose Tommy will be in management always and by no means get touched would make for a reasonably rattling boring present, and that is by no means been how Energy has operated.
Proper now, Diamond (and Mireya if you wish to lump her in) are the one folks in Tommy’s orbit not praying on his downfall and making strikes to make it occur.
And we’ll see over the subsequent two hours in the event that they succeed or not.
Talking of Tommy’s enemies, it took virtually the entire season for Miguel to lastly see what his Abuelita picked up on instantly.
Miguel Garcia’s received satisfaction oozing out of his pores, and he wanted to be stared within the face with Tommy’s betrayal to grasp that he was being performed. And he did not even have time to completely course of that earlier than Tommy determined to rub it in by rubbing elbows along with his superiors.
Tommy has achieved an ideal job retaining his relationship with Mireya and his enterprise relationship with Miguel separate. Nonetheless, he pounced on her details about the quinceañera with out hesitation or care for a way it could make Mireya really feel.
Tommy had an ideal speech about eager to be trustworthy with Mireya and studying from his previous errors, however he did not appear to consider how his barging into the get together to speak enterprise would have an effect on his relationship.
Mireya has been so up and down with Tommy, from swearing him off, however not likely, and falling head over heels seemingly in a single day. However wasn’t it at all times going to finish up right here?
She has alluded to Miguel killing one or each of them about forty occasions by now, however she’s at all times folded when Tommy would guarantee her the whole lot can be okay. However seeing Tommy and Miguel collectively will need to have been the spark she wanted to push her to stroll away from the state of affairs.
Did she actually suppose Tommy can be above killing Miguel? Whereas I understood her anger towards Tommy, I did not fairly perceive her shock. Was Tommy imagined to let the person kill him if it got here right down to it?
Their entire spat simply strengthened how little they learn about one another, particularly on Tommy’s half, with this sort of fantasy he is constructed up in his head.
He absolutely satisfied himself they may come clear to the world and that if Miguel pushed again, he’d stick a bullet in his head, after which he and Mireya Garcia would stay fortunately ever after.
That was completely by no means going to occur, even with Mireya’s insistence that Miguel would kill her in a minute. She was by no means going to advocate for Miguel’s demise.
Stacy’s little drop by Mireya’s was exactly why she did not wish to get entangled with Tommy within the first place. She’s made an effort to remain away from Miguel’s enterprise, and right here she will get concerned with Tommy, and abruptly, she might be concerned in a RICO.
Dropping the LaKeisha bomb was one thing I did not see coming, and as soon as Mireya does some research, what is going to she do shifting ahead?
Whereas I can not see Mireya straight up turning on Tommy in any approach, how deep are her emotions proper now? Deep sufficient to permit herself to go all in with a man who has a number of deceased girlfriends and is not remotely excited by leaving the life?
Another person by no means leaving the life? Diamond Sampson.
Look, I’m an unapologetic Diamond stan. There’s one thing about his calming presence and quiet dominance I’ve loved since he was launched, and since he is been with Tommy, their partnership, whereas rocky, has nonetheless been such an thrilling a part of the season.
I’ve lamented the subplot with Leon and Gianna solely as a result of it is felt misplaced from the whole lot else. However throughout Energy Guide IV: Power Season 2 Episode 7, it grew to become clear that possibly this was all being set as much as finish in tragedy.
Now, it additionally taught Diamond one thing, or on the very least, allowed him his first likelihood since getting out of jail to do greater than be the person he was earlier than he went in.
You may see the satisfaction on his face when Reeves thanked him for his speech and heard that he made a distinction in somebody’s life in a optimistic approach.
Diamond wasn’t precisely strolling round attempting to be some motivational speaker or a person who gave again to the group, however he loved serving to Leon, and he loved serving to him grow to be extra assertive and conscious of his power.
He was beaming, watching Leon arise for himself and punch that bully straight in his jaw, however the whole lot turned horrible within the blink of an eye fixed.
Leon was an ideal child, stuffed with a lot promise, and his life was taken by a coward who was embarrassed that he received confirmed up.
Diamond was naturally full of large guilt, however he did not pull that set off. All he needed to do since he met Leon was assist him, not complicate his life or put him in peril.
That was by no means his intention, and the guilt he’ll really feel about this one will probably be heavy in his coronary heart for a very long time.
As I used to be saying earlier than, Diamond’s calm is one thing I really like and one thing we’re so used to seeing, however Leon’s demise simply tore him as much as the purpose he was ingesting himself to blackout territory and showering himself in medication and cash to show some extent.
Gianna: I do know who you might be. My neighbor instructed me.
Diamond: Oh, yeah? Who am I?
Gianna: Diamond Sampson. Head of CBI. You are a gangbanger, and a drug supplier. However do not get it twisted. I knew that earlier than I allow you to in my mattress. I am grown.
Diamond requested Gianna to inform him who he was earlier, and he could not even deny it to himself anymore, so he determined to put on it like a scarlet letter.
Tommy was proper on time and somewhat too late to assist Diamond, and when Reeves confirmed up on the barbershop, I used to be satisfied Tommy would get the drop on him. What’s one other lifeless member of regulation enforcement at this level?
However Diamond actually breaking freed from his stupor to only Sweeney Todd his parole officer was loopy.
The deaths this season don’t cease, particularly the deaths of these in perceived positions of energy.
Tommy was nervous about Diamond all hour. Afraid that he was slipping and he had his priorities blended up.
And a distracted and unfocused Diamond was dangerous for Tommy. In the long term, issues do not work with out Diamond, and that is why he was so blissful to see that blood cascading down the mirror.
The Diamond Sampson he wanted was again, and now the video games can really start.
Every part Else You Want To Know
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The blood squirting from Reeve’s neck was so nasty. One of many nastier deaths on the sequence.
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I discussed this earlier, however Stacy genuinely does not hearken to something Bobby says. I might really feel dangerous for him, however he is aware of who he married.
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It took me approach too lengthy to recollect who Jamal was when he first confronted Reeves.
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Kate returned only for JP to inform her the reality and provides her an ultimatum concerning her sobriety. I do not know if that may work with Kate, nor do I do know the place this uncared for storyline goes.
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Kate stated she was in New York, and I am VERY interested by what she was doing there.
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What number of occasions will Jenard get choked this season? That could be a severe query.
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Mirković has taken about as many L’s as Jenard has this season, and possibly he must workforce up with Miguel as a result of I do not see how the Serbs make it out of this season some other approach.
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Claudia Flynn, at all times eager to go scorched earth, will ultimately come again to chunk her. She’s placing an excessive amount of belief in Shanti, not understanding that Shanti’s loyalty will probably be to herself and Jenard earlier than anybody else.
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It is fascinating watching Shanti work and seeing how she navigates her place with everybody round her. In one other life, she and Tommy would have been an thrilling workforce. However on this life, I stay up for seeing them grow to be true adversaries as soon as Tommy absolutely figures out the sport she’s enjoying.
This was a number of phrases, but when there was ever an episode that wanted it, it is this one.
Not a single minute of this hour was wasted, and with solely two episodes left, we’re heading towards an epic conclusion.
Do me a favor and drop all of your ideas down under and be sure to watch Energy Guide IV: Power on-line proper now so you may be part of the dialog!
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