'Power Book IV: Force' Episode 1 Recap: Chicago welcomes Tommy with a bloody shootout
Tommy Egan is back to claim what it rightfully his in the newest spin-off titled ‘Power Book IV: Force’. If you have seen earlier editions of the ‘Power’ franchise, then you know that Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) has left New York after losing his girlfriend Lakeisha and his best friend Ghost. The demons of his past were haunting him at every corner. At first, he decided to make his way to California, but he suddenly changed his mind and reached Chicago.
In the premiere episode of ‘Power Book IV: Force’, we see Tommy reaching Chicago and encountering an angry man who was asking for parking fee. Tommy handles the situation in his own way and threatens the man who had a knife in his hand. However, a bigger problem was waiting to unravel itself. While having a smoke in front of a pub, he meets Vic (Shane Harper), heir to the Irish mob throne, who asks him to move. Tommy was confused and didn’t move. So, Vic, and one of his men, got out of the car guns in hand.
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After that encounter, Tommy returned to Gloria’s bar and saw Vic’s friend, Simon, having an argument with Gloria. When Simon stepped out back, Tommy confronted him and they got into a fight. Tommy beat the hell out of him and broke his arm. Gloria saw what Tommy did and invited him home.
Tommy and Gloria have sex with each and even though he got to know more details about her life, he had to leave. On the other hand, Vic was trying to reach Simon and as soon as he tried calling him, two bullets came right through his windshield and bamboozled him. The bullets were fired by Tommy, who was forcing him to introduce him to his connect. As the meeting took place, Tommy posed as one of Vic’s main guys. The meeting soon turned into a shootout after two tweekers and Jenard made their way to meet Tommy and Vic.
Tommy let them run out of bullets and took them out, making an example out of them. He returned the gun to Vic and when Jenard learned that Tommy was not with Vic, they both turned the weapons on him. Though he made them realize that Vic didn’t have enough money to buy the drug and Tommy wanted a fee for this help. So, he took all the drugs and money with him and went away.
Jenard meets Diamond and tells him about what happened during the deal. Diamond wanted to meet Tommy and told Jenard that he wants to do something else now. He’s done killing people.
During the concluding moments of the episode, Tommy meets Walter, one of the biggest drugs dealers, who told him to get out of Chicago. Tommy realizes that if he needs to build something big, then he would have to sacrifice some things. So, he did not go back to LA and decided to stay in Chicago to build his own empire.
‘Power Book IV: Force’ returns to STARZ with a new episode every Sunday at 9 pm EST.