The 'Power Book II' Showrunner Reveals Why Season 3's Fifth Episode Is a 'True Turning Point'

Dark Secrets have controlled all the action so far in 'Power Book II: Ghost' Season 3, but Episode 5 marks what showrunner Brett Mahoney calls the "true turning point" that put everyone beware.

The episode, titled "No More Second Chances," picks up after Detective Kevin Whitman (Jeff Hephner) is shot and killed in Monet's (Mary J. Blige) home. excuse is really a murder cover-up. There's also the fact that Monet has finally found out who killed his son Zeke: her husband, Lorenzo (Berto Colón). Then, on the other side of "Power Book II," Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.), his girlfriend, Effie (Alix Lapri), and his partner-in-crime, Brayden (Gianni Paolo), find themselves in a mess. abroad during their business trip to Italy, when the latter gets kidnapped while on a mission for their new connected drug, Noma (Caroline Chikezie).

"Episode Five is a huge turning point in terms of revealing the secrets that others have."

Everything is a mess at the end of the episode, which only ends with one shocking revelation after the next. Tariq finally discovers that his ex Lauren (Paige Hurd) is still alive (after Effie and Brayden led him to believe she was dead); attorney Cooper Saxe (Shane Johnson) realizes his girlfriend/ADA partner Jenny Sullivan (Paton Ashbrook) has always lied to him about Lauren; and Lorenzo is killed by his nephew Gordo (Erik Hernandez) after Monet punches him. Viewers saw many of these moments coming, but no one could have predicted that so much would be revealed halfway through season three.

Mahoney tells POPSUGAR that the theme for Season 3 is all about betrayal, as loyalty and truth are very rare. “Episode five is a huge turning point in terms of revealing the secrets that other people have,” he explains. "We saw, of course, that Monet acts on what she knows in [episode] five, and then for Tariq, it's kind of like that bomb goes off. And the question is, what is it? What's he going to do about it moving forward?"

As Mahoney previously told POPSUGAR, Lauren resurfacing this season after she was thought to have been killed by Effie (with Brayden's help) in season two is still a "huge problem. ". In recent episodes, we learned that Jenny was keeping Lauren in witness protection t...