Post — Aaron Ngo

Major spoilers ahead! Read with caution!

This week's episode keeps the duo separated but determined to get their justice. Tandy, after Greg's death, is intent on taking down Roxxon. On the other hand, Tyrone wants revenge/justice on Connors for his brother Billy's death.

Sometimes I wish the show would allow them to work together, but at least their separation works in this episode, unlike in the past four episodes. While Tandy is developing and messing with her powers for personal gain, this causes Tyrone's powers to go out of control. These two are more connected than they think.

After Tyrone reflects on the past, he is transported to Billy's old friend Duane. This was a nice scene, a good sense of what Billy's life could've been, and how Duane managed to escape the bad neighborhood they were raised in.

This connects perfectly with the basketball game. While his mom believes Tyrone will honor Billy by winning, Tyrone instead misses the winning shot to give the team something to celebrate. After he looked into their fears, Tyrone realized how much the other team suffered and what they have to face outside of basketball.

Tandy, on the other hand, meets up with Tyrone beforehand at school. She shows him how she can control her powers and asks for a printer to use. After this, she steals a school uniform in order to get a hostess job at Roxxon and to gather more information.

It's crazy how she is doing all this "real stuff" while Tyrone is focused heavily on a basketball game. The two extremes between the characters seems ridiculous at times, but whatever, it works for me.

But...

A lot of names have been thrown at us. I didn't memorize them all. But one name is made clear in this episode: Peter Scarborough. He is the evil mastermind who hopes to make money even if it gets a lot of his people killed. It's an awful sight to see, but despite witnessing such horror, Tandy refuses to murder him when she has the chance.

Detective O'Reilly also got down to business in this episode. After her tryst with a random officer in the back of the police car, she has a talk with Tyrone about Connors. She also mentions how she transferred to New Orleans from Harlem, cementing the connection between this show and Luke Cage.

Then the most bizarre thing happens... she does cocaine to get closer to Connors? I don't understand how she does high-level drugs like that without question. Unless she is corrupt like the rest of them, this seems out of character. But it would pull her arc in a different direction if she turned out to be dirty too.

Side note: Liam was sighted in this episode but still in prison and bitter about Tandy! Hang in there, buddy! You deserve better than her.

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