'Power Book III: Raising Kanan' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap

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Lou’s drinking creates a problem for the whole family when Shantel goes looking for justice. Kanan assimilates into Ronnie’s crew, and Raq formulates a new plan for Unique’s former heroin operation.

This week’s episode started with Paul getting a very unpleasant surprise in the form of Ronnie and some of his goons. While he was watching TV, they busted into his house and roughed him up a bit before taking him to Kanan. Kanan explained to Paul that he and Ronnie didn’t like the stuff he was talking about going to the police. While this is happening, Famous unknowingly walks in. As soon as he peeps the scene, he offers to leave and come back and get his stuff another day. Ronnie tells him that he can stay. Before they leave, Ronnie makes sure that Paul (who had pissed himself out of fear at this point) understands that saying he was going to go to the cops was even worse than doing it. After Paul clearly got the message, Ronnie and Kanan walked him to his apartment. Kanan told Famous to get his stuff and be gone by the time he got back. Elsewhere, Raq made her way to discuss business with Quân. She wanted to keep the same deal with him that Unique had. Quân told her about Unique’s plan to expand and how he had trouble doing it, especially with the transportation aspect. He didn’t think the spot Unique had was worth all the trouble. Raq was able to convince him to work with her on pretty much a 2 month probational period. Back at the spot, Fanous quickly packed his stuff in his bag, including his gun. As he was trying to speed out, Kanan and Ronnie were coming back in. Ronnie started to grill Famous with a whole bunch of questions while Kanan sat by and watched. Ronnie went on to share how Kanan told him that Famous likes to talk. Famous denied the allegations and told Ronnie he didn’t have anything to worry about. Ronnie took offense and got very close as if he was going to harm Famous. Kanan had to step in and tell Ronnie that Famous keeps things close for the most part and if he didn’t, he’s handle him himself.

Another person who was trying to step into a situation was Howard. Tanner again brought him in to question him about Marvin but refused to tell Howard exactly what the task force was looking for. Howard played it cool and gave him some generic information about Marvin being hungry and not taking sh-t from anyone. He did admit that it wasn’t out of the realm of possibilities that Marvin could have ran into the Italians and started working together. Before they could finish their conversation, Howard notices Detective Peng escorting Shantel (Scrappy’s mom) to the interrogation room. He convinced Tanner that he should ask Peng about the streets because he knows everything about them (the streets). Howard switches spots with Peng and begans to question Shantel. While Howard pretended he was trying to help, Marvin was actually doing that. He pulled up on Gerald, only to find that he had left his two daughters in the car outside in the cold for who knows how long. As soon as Gerald opens the door, Marvin can tell that he’s been shooting ho drugs. Back at the police station, Shantel shocks the hell out of Howard when she tells him that Lou was the one who told her the information about Scrap’s death. As Howard tries to understand the situation a bit more, he continues to question her until she tells him that Lou might’ve had a drink prior to coming to her house. Howard then emphasized drunk statements about commissions of crimes don’t go too far. Before they departed from each other, he also warned Shantel to not tell anyone else about what she heard because that’s when bad things usually happen. Marvin realized something bad could happen if Gerald continued doing what he was doing so he told him about hisself. One person who has learned a lot about themself over the past couple of seasons is Famous. He realized that home is where he needed to be as we seen him return to his mother’s home. He took the gun out of his bag and put it in a shoe box in his closet. He and his mother share a very emotional conversation where they both apologize for what they had previously had done. It’s obvious that things are still weighing heavy on Famous but he and his mother are both happy he’s home. In other happy news, N’Kiyah was able to secure Butta a gig opening up for a bigger artist. Howard went to Raq with the information Shantel opened up to him about. A pissed off Raq tells him that she’ll handle Lou. She then shifts her focus to the Task Force and what they’re looking into. For some reason (maybe because he feels like Raq always messes things up), Howard doesn’t bring up the fact that they’re looking into Marvin.

At Gerald’s, Marvin helps clean up and makes the girls cookies while simultaneously telling Gerald about how he needs to get himself together. In the midst of their conversation we found out that the girls’ mother is also on drugs. In fact, she’s the one that got Gerald hooked. It’s so bad that he can’t even go to family because he’s stolen from so many of them. The reason Marvin actually came was so that he could show Gerald a picture of Jukebox for his story. While the two men were discussing things, Juke was meeting with another counselor to try and figure out a job that she liked. After Marvin told Gerald that he needed to do better and Gerald said he didn’t think he could alone, Marvin assured him that he wasn’t by himself in all of it. Someone who has felt alone for the majority of the season is Lou. We pick up with him At Cafe Vous where he’s in the studio listening to Famous’ new 4-1-1 track. Raq and Marvin quickly discussed what Lou did and concluded that he needed to make it right. Those two had bigger fish to fry though. They met with the Richard and his wife at the Golden Pavilion (Chinese restaurant Unique was running work out of) and made it clear that things would continue as usual but they needed to get bigger. Richard shared that they don’t even own the restaurant, his Uncle does, along with 20 other restaurants in Queens and Brooklyn. Luckily for them, Raq and Marvin didn’t even have to wait long to meet the Uncle because he was dining in the restaurant as the conversation was taking place. Juke and Iesha shared a moment when Juke heard her throwing up in a stall in the bathroom. It seems like Iesha is battling with an eating disorder of some sort and is sort of ashamed of herself for it. As they walked back into the practice studio space, Juke noticed Kanan and Krystal getting pretty acquainted, which she didn’t appreciate. Before Kanan and Iesha could leave to head to their movie date, Juke couldn’t let the opportunity to be petty pass her by. She mentioned to Kanan how she hadn’t seen him around in a while and said it must be because he was hanging around his new “old” friends. She continued by telling Iesha (in front of Kanan) that Snaps and Pop used to stick up banks until they started selling dope. Juke then straight up asked Kanan if they were teaching him how to be a bank robber. After Kanan and Iesha left, Juke warned Krystal that Kanan was with Iesha and to stay away from him. Krystal response showed that she clearly didn’t care too much at all. Back at the Golden Pavilion, Raq and Marvin discussed profit and market share with the restaurant owner. He told Raq that he wanted a percentage of her business. She told him she might be willing to agree to that. Before she did though, she said she’d check out all of the locations of the restaurants he owns and then circle back. It’s safe to say that Kanan and Iesha won’t be circling back on each other though. On their date, Kanan got a little too aggressive with Iesha even after she told him to slow down. When he basically ignored her telling him no, she told him he was going home. Instead of following after her or trying to stop her, he nonchalantly told her that he was going to stay and watch the movie and that she knew how to take the bus home.

Speaking of forms of transportation, Raq got right to work. She began scoping out as many of the Chinese restaurants as she could. She paid super close attention to how things were being unpacked and delivered. Marvin pulled up on a drunk Lou at the studio and delivered a message. He told his younger brother that if he wanted to kill himself, that was fine but he wouldn’t allow him to take everybody else down with him. Lou was so drunk that he didn’t even know what Marvin was referring to. Marvin literally had to tell Lou what he did. He continued by letting him know that Shantel went to the police station and dropped his name and the only reason he wasn’t arrested was because Howard was holding them down. Apparently Ronnie has been holding down Unique and Pernessa’s house as of late. Pernessa walked in on him…and Juliana awkwardly kissing (well at least Juliana was kissing him). Although she was only coming to get some stuff for her son, Pernessa did ask what Juliana was doing there. Ronnie told her to get her stuff and go. As Pernessa is grabbing her stuff, Juliana warns Ronnie that it’s not good for people to see them together. Ronnie brushes it off and says that Pernessa isn’t anything they should worry about. Juliana responds by telling him that enemies are dangerous, especially when they’re families. This is a bit ironic because she is actually working with Ronnie behind her cousin’s back. Detective Howard is used to doing things behind people’s backs. He came face to face with Captain Burke for the first time since the funeral. Burke voiced his regrets for how everything went down with him and his daughter before she passed. Staying in character, Howard again lets Burke know that if he needs anything, he can come to him. When Raq needs something, she doesn’t wait to get it. After scouting the restaurant locations a night, the next morning, Raq made her way to the company that supplies the restaurants with equipment, cookware, tableware, janitorial supplies and other things. The owner didn’t give Raq the time of day, stating that he and his brother (who he owns the company with) only supply Chinese restaurants. That wasn’t good news for Raq but at least someone else got some. Detective Howard was informed by Captain Baptiste that he basically was a shoe-in for the Queens Narcotics gig, pending an enhanced background check. Captain Baptiste and the other cop in the room joked that as long as Howard wasn’t a serial killer, he’d be fine. That’s surely going to have to be an elephant that gets addressed. Juke couldn’t let what Kanan did to Iesha go without it also being addressed. She made her way to Kanan’s apartment (which was being guarded by two of Ronnie’s men) and confronted her cousin. She let him know that Iesha told her about the movies. As she pushed Kanan, Juke reminded her younger cousin that she told him to be good to Iesha so he wouldn’t mess up the music thing she had going. After Kanan downplays what she said and told her he had stuff to do, she hit him with some cold hard facts. Juke told Kanan that the stuff he was doing with Ronnie didn’t make him grown. She continued by saying that he was still just a scared little boy trying to show his mother that he’s a man. Ironically enough, Ronnie was sitting there listening to the whole conversation, eating a bowl of cereal. Once Juke left, Ronnie told Kanan he could talk to her. Kanan wasn’t having it at all and told Ronnie that he would never talk to Juke. He then emphasized that his family doesn’t have anything to do with the two of them.

Still feeling a bit guilty, sad, confused and a lot of other emotions, Captain Burke met with Adina at a park. The intended reason of them meeting was so that he could give her an old picture of her and Shannon (Burke) that he found when he picked her stuff up from the precinct. Captain Burke apologized for how he acted towards the both of them and then asked Adina if she knew why she might’ve killed herself. Adina responds that it could have been a lot of things (herself, Captain Burke, the job). When Captain Burke brought up how obsessed Shannon was with Howard and him potentially hiding things, Adina quickly let him know that she had already told his daughter that she wouldn’t go anywhere near Howard. If there’s one person that Pernessa wishes wouldn’t come anywhere near her, it’s Ronnie. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what he did. As she was grabbing groceries from the car about to head into her mother’s house, Ronnie appeared out of nowhere, obviously scaring Pernessa. Ronnie warned P that whoever killed Unique is still out there. He went on to let her know that she has to be careful and that he doesn’t want anything to happen to her since she’s all that Jerome has left. Back at Cafe Vous, Mama Joyce visited. Of course, it wasn’t for anything but to ask for some money and to criticize Lou’s current situation. Before she departed, Joyce mentioned how Lou’s father spent way too much time in joints like Cafe Vous and how it impacted him. Lou responded by saying it wasn’t the spots that did it to him, pretty much again referencing that it was her who drove their father (her husband) away. The interaction clearly got to Lou and a concerned Shirley could easily tell. In her own right, Juke was obviously concerned about Kanan. She did the only thing she thought she could and went to her Aunt to update her on what was going on. Although she didn’t know specifics, Juke told Raq that Kanan was working with Pops, Snaps and Ronnie. She also disclosed that Famous moved out the spot too. Juke noticed the change in Kanan and it was visible how sick it made Raq as she was hearing Juke tell her. Kanan was definitely changing alright. In this instance, changing girls. It didn’t take him long to get over Iesha as Kanan made his way to Krystal’s crib and assumingly spent the night with her. The episode ended with Lou having to fix what he messed up. Marvin chaperoned his brother back to Shantel’s house and waited in the car. Lou, who was still drinking before he got out the car, walked to the house and rang the doorbell. When Shantel let him in, it seems like she already knew her fate because she didn’t even say any words. Instead, Lou expressed how he didn’t want this and how he was sorry. He then shot her twice. Lou got back in the car and they drove off. As they drove past the house, Lou looked into the window and again had a hallucination of Scrappy. How long will Lou’s demons continue to haunt him? What will they cause him to do? How will Raq respond to the news of Kanan working with Ronnie, Snaps and Pop? Will working with Chinese restaurants work out for her and Marvin? Will Marvin end up getting implicated in a serious case because of Howard? How long will Howard be able to keep his double life up? Has Kanan ruined Juke’s group with his shenanigans? What’s next with Ronnie? There are so many questions we still have left with only three episodes left in the season. Let us know what you thought about this episode and what you think will happen on the next one in the comments!