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<\/p>\nSPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from the Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 5 premiere.<\/p>\n
The first few moments in the\u00a0Power Book III: Raising Kanan\u00a0Season 5 premiere answer the big cliffhanger from the Season 4 finale: Does Kanan (Mekai Curtis) take down his mother, Raq (Patina Miller)? The answer is no, but what does go down is something just as sad and painful.<\/p>\n
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While Kanan stood there hesitating to shoot his mother, he was startled from behind as Raq\u2019s bodyguard, Ruben (Dean Wil), cocked his gun to take Kanan down. In a split second, Lou (Malcolm May) shoves the would-be shooter, whose gun accidentally goes off, but the bullets go in a different direction. As all of that is going on, Kanan is also reacting. He turns around and pulls the trigger twice, fatally shooting his uncle.<\/p>\n
In his final moments alive, Lou briefly looks at his sister and nephew before falling down. In the aftermath, Raq is yelling at Kanan, \u201cWhat the fuck did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raq runs to Lou and comforts him. Ruben suggests calling an ambulance, but he is stopped by Raq, who questions what they would tell the authorities about what went down. So Lou just lies there bleeding to death and crying while Raq tells her baby brother how much she loves him.<\/p>\n
And just like that, the heart of the Thomas family is gone. Poor Lou didn\u2019t even get to say one word before he was killed off. The heart of the Thomas family is gone.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s no time to mourn, however, as the body needs to be taken care of without it coming back to Raq or Kanan. Ruben helped Raq clean up the scene and take the body to dispose of it. On the ride there, Ruben admits he wasn\u2019t going to shoot Kanan; he was trying to scare him off so he wouldn\u2019t shoot her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s done is done,\u201d Raq tells Ruben somberly while driving him home. She tells him he can\u2019t tell anyone about what happened that night, but she killed him anyway so as not to leave any loose ends. Raq acts hard, but in a later scene, she breaks down trying to clean Lou\u2019s blood from the walls and reckon with everything that went down.<\/p>\n
When Marvin learns his baby brother is dead, he is beside himself. His pain turns to hatred, and with that, an intense urge for revenge. The streets say Nique (Joey Bada$$) is behind Lou\u2019s murder, and Marvin is on the chase, one that continues beyond Season 5\u2019s first episode.<\/p>\n
Deadline spoke to show creator Sacha Penn about Lou\u2019s death, going back to Manhattan, and how the new characters this season shake things up.<\/p>\n
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Malcolm Mays as Lou<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: First of all, Sascha, how dare you? Not Lou! He was my favorite.<\/p>\n
SASCHA PENN: If I\u2019d known\u2026 You never told me, Rosy. We\u2019ve talked so many times. You never told me Lou was your favorite. Lou is my fault. I never\u2026 maybe it would have changed things.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: [Laughs] Okay, he had to die. I understand. But poor Malcolm Mays doesn\u2019t get even one word in Season 5.<\/p>\n
PENN: It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: Why did you pick Lou, and what effect did you want it to have on Kanan?<\/p>\n
PENN: It\u2019s a seismic shock for the entire family, right? Because I think up until that point, there is this feeling of, I won\u2019t say invincibility in the family, but it does feel like on some level they can\u2019t be touched. They haven\u2019t been touched in this way. So I think part of the reason why it hits quite as hard as it does is that it does set off the story in a way where it\u2019s like, Oh, wow, anything is possible at this point. That\u2019s the way it is for the characters as well; they\u2019ve lost. What\u2019s interesting is that Lou, and it\u2019s probably one of the reasons why you and a lot of other people who watch the show care so much, was the heart and conscience of the family.<\/p>\n
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DEADLINE: Kanan is doing a good job isolating himself from the family. Now, he\u2019s running with Breeze (Shameik Moore), who is becoming a big influence on Kanan. What can you share about this relationship?<\/p>\n
PENN: Breeze is this character that\u2019s always existed in this mythological space of the Power universe. We always felt like he would be a part of this fifth and final season because we wanted to introduce him. I think the challenge with something like this, Rosy, is that the character you imagined is never the same as the character that you actually experience. So I\u2019m fully prepared for part of the fanbase to be like, this isn\u2019t who I thought Breeze was going to be.<\/p>\n
I do think that you see his impact and influence on Kanan in interesting ways. By the way, knowing full well that down the road, and this is again, Power mythology or lore, he ultimately does meet his end by Ghost. So he\u2019s not some sort of deity or anything. He\u2019s a guy who is charismatic, and he\u2019s smart, and he\u2019s talented in his own way, but he\u2019s also just a guy. We do sort of humanize him in that way.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: This season, the show connects to Manhattan, where it all began. The new location brings new characters in the fold, like Flossie (Leslie Grossman) and Pino Bernardi (Joe Pantaleon). What can you share?<\/p>\n
PENN: This story always ends up in Manhattan; that was inevitable. The thing about Manhattan is the stakes are higher, and the players are probably a little smarter in some respects. It\u2019s interesting to see Raq and Kanan bump up against that. It\u2019s nice for Raq to have another foil; she hasn\u2019t had too many other female characters who have been as formidable. Flossie is. The new characters open up the story in really interesting ways.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: After the traumatic loss of Lou, Raq and Marvin aren\u2019t in their right mind. How will that affect their game?<\/p>\n
PENN: It does impact their thinking in ways that are not entirely helpful. When you go through trauma like that, in real life, you\u2019re just reacting to everything at that point. Life comes at you, and you just react; there\u2019s not a lot of forethought or anything, because you can\u2019t think straight. That\u2019s a big part of what we see happen for Marvin and Raq across Season 5; rather than thinking adaptively, they\u2019re reacting instinctively, and that\u2019s always dangerous.<\/p>\n
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