Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday’sPowerBook II: Ghostseason 1 finale.
“I always do what I gotta do.
It always comes down to me, my family, and a gun.”
Joseph Sikora on ‘Power’.Starz
But that was only one of the many problems he faced.
Upon taking the stand at his mother’s trial, Tariq, a.k.a.
Yes,Tommy is back!
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And he “owes” Tasha a bullet.
He’s also none too happy to see Tariq, the real Ghost killer.
Still, Tommy wants more, following Tariq and Tasha to Ghost’s grave.
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Oh, and did I mention that Tariq killed his professor?
You don’t know me.
You would have realized that I am the bad spot.
I killed my own father to protect my mother.
I killed my best friend to protect my family.
And you think I won’t do whatever it takes to survive?"
Get all of that?
For morePower, goread our interview with Tommy himself, Joseph Sikora.
And it’s finally here.
I was a little nervous when at first you just showed his car driving away.
So I was briefly worried, but I knew you wouldn’t do that to me.
But that was a real argument in the writers' room about when you should see him.
And I think [that] was part of why we did that.
Plus, he really did loveLaKeisha (La La Anthony)and we want to honor that.
That perfectly leads me into one of the most burning questions: Is Tasha gone from the show?
Will that hold true for him moving forward?
Joseph says he felt like it was a finality.I don’t talk about future series, obviously.
You know me better than that, but it was a really good question and I like your style!
If we’re onPower Book Xand Tariq is 30 and Tommy is 50, different story.
There might be a show there.
He’s saying, “Look at me.
Look at who I really am in this moment, Mom.”
But the kill at the end is not an assertion of any kind of identity in a sense.
Well, it is and it isn’t.
It’s not that he wants to be a killer he doesn’t want that.
When he says that, he’s also including the Tejadas in that.
Because he’s also silencing someone who knows about Dru (Lovell Adams-Gray).
And when they had their final conflict, it was boy versus man.
And there are going to be moments and decisions where he does exactly what his father would have done.
You never knew what he was going to do.
That is a very different situation from anything we’ve had before.
Because it was always Cane messing up and Tariq knowing about it.
What are these shows always about?
Cane has some power in knowing that Tariq has committed this murder.
And I want to be really clear that this is the murder of a civilian.
We definitely escalated the stakes here.
You mention Saxe, andwe talked at the midseason finaleabout how exciting the prospect of a Saxe/Davis partnership was.
Why was that a direction you wanted to go in?
I really feel like great actors play great tennis with each other.
It’s different styles, but it comes out as a beautiful game.
And Tariq definitely feels like he’s walking around as a ticking time bomb.
Oh, he’s gota lotgoing on there.
He’s killing it in that department.
I don’t know if you’ve ever juggled more than one person, but it takes work.
That is part of the reason I’ve been surprised he has so many interested women.
This man has no time.We designed them very specifically.
With Lauren (Paige Hurd), he got an old school meet-cute.
With Effie (Alix Lapri), there is history, she knows him.
