‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ Season 3 Episode 2 ‘Flipmode’
Entertainment Editor Bianca Gregg is back with her weekly recaps of all things Power Universe with the return of ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan.’ The saga continues with the origin story of one of the universe’s most notorious characters; Kanan.
Unique and Raq are continuing their secret romantic rendezvous’ but this time things are interrupted by our fish selling Italian friend — Stefano. He roughs up Unique a bit for kicks and giggles but who he really needs is Raq. He explains to her that Sal has become a bit of a problem and it’s time for him to head to the upper room, but in order for things to not blow back on him — he enlists Raq for the job. She reluctantly agrees considering these mafia folks can not be trusted and Stefano threatened her.
Lou and Marvin are out at the club and chile Lou-Lou has become the quintessential drunk uncle that is angry at the whole family — in his case just Raquel. Marvin peeps a couple of white guys watching him and after he calms Lou-Lou down from whooping the ass of a server, he excuses himself to the bathroom. The two men follow him into the bathroom and they ask how much for a gram of coke. Marvin accuses them of assuming he is a drug dealer because he is Black, however he takes them up on their offer. He gives the two men his pager number and tells them if they need anything, hit him up.
Officer Burke’s funeral service is underway and who knew Omar Epps would get the chance to play Officer Malcolm as “Bishop” in this scene. If you get the reference, then you are my kind of readers. Malcolm played a great fake grieving officer hurt over the suicide of his partner — knowing he put that bullet in Burke’s head. With her death, Captain Baptiste wishes to quickly close up her case and tells Malcolm if he finds anything dirty in her files, let him know. Outside of the service, Burke’s father rips into Detective Foyle for her relationship with his daughter. He partially blames her for Burke’s suicide. Foyle locks eyes with Malcolm — appearing to suspect something is up with him.
Kanan is discovering a possible scheme to make money, buy into this white guy named Paul’s courier service and move drugs that way. Kanan is definitely a student of the game, we are watching his climb.
Marvin and Raq have a quick discussion on what needs to happen with Sal. Marvin has been tasked with getting Sal up out of here. Stefano will supply them with a place and time.
Jukebox makes an attempt to enlist into the military. When she gets home James, Nicole’s father, is visiting with Marvin. He stopped by to tell Jukebox about an opportunity to audition for a girl group. Jukebox tells him that she has stopped singing but James reminds her that Nicole thought so highly of her voice and that she should consider. When he leaves, Marvin expresses his shock in her not wanting to sing anymore simply because she has been passionate about it since being a small child. Marvin asks Juke what she wants to do and she replies that she does not know.
Sal is warned by the Feds that there is a possible assassination attempt being planned for him, from within the family. Sal brushes off the warning and refuses to cooperate for protection. They tell him whatever is going to happen, will be soon.
Unique returns home to his girlfriend being extremely uncomfortable being around Ronnie. Unique assures her the set-up is temporary and Ronnie will be moving out soon.
Raq tries to surprise Kanan with a new car but clearly she will not be able to buy her sons forgiveness or respect.
Unique pays a visit to Stefano’s shop to talk business. Although they had a rough meeting, both agree that money supersedes it all. He wants in on the heroine business but Stefano tells Unique he would need to get the thumbs up from the other partners.
You know when something is about to come to an end — reflection tends to become a common thing. We see that with Sal, discussing his son with his wife and admitting he would not want to do this life with anyone else.
Marvin pays a visit to Lou-Lou to ask for his assistance with something but he easily declines — no helping Raq.
Ah the return of Juliana. Raq delivers the message to her plug that she is out of the game and her business with them is done. Juliana suspects she is lying. Well Juliana messed up and found out that Raq speaks Spanish and baby — I want Raq to knock that George Washington looking wig up off her head! I will be patient though.
Unique and Ronnie head out to the club. The bouncer gives Ronnie some problems over what he is wearing. The bouncer even goes so far as to call Ronnie a convict. Inside the club, Ronnie is very isolated. He gets angry when a couple of women try to dance on him. He tells Unique the club scene is not him and that he is not the typical man that just got out of prison. He eyes the bouncer who tried to play him from a distance.
Jukebox visits Lou-Lou and asks for his help with a song for the girl group competition. He apologizes to Juke for dissing her on the music end and for the death of her mother. Lou expresses regret for a lot of things. Juke tells him she is sorry about what happened to Zisa saying she did not deserve what happened. Lou responds by telling her none of them deserve any of this — it rings so true.
Foyle tries to have a conversation with Captain Baptiste but he insists she let her rest in peace. There was simply too much smoke around her.
Marvin found somebody to help him with Sal — DeMo. At this point, DeMo needs to be on payroll chile! Marvin and DeMo are disguised as postal workers, waiting outside of the church for Sal to come outside. Sal kept his promise to his wife to be present for the christening of their grandchild. When the family exits the church, Marvin waits for Sal to hand the baby over. As he poses with his wife for a family picture, Marvin gets a clear head shot and kills Sal. I hope you guys paid attention to 50’s narration at the end of this episode — foreshadowing for sure!
New episodes of “Raising Kanan” are available Friday at midnight on the STARZ app, all STARZ streaming, and on-demand platforms. On linear, new episodes will premiere every Friday at 8pm ET/PT on STARZ.
