'Snowfall' season 2 portrays Franklin as a boy who is all about power and the ideal drug lord of the West
Franklin Saint has always been a person who is on a quest for power. Probably, Damson Idris' child-like face was an excellent mask for the character. However, it was quite evident from the very beginning that Saint wanted something more than just a comfortable lifestyle but, he wasn't looking for any kind of authority. Authority is something somebody else hands over to you, somebody "allows" you to authorize. Power, on the other hand, is a nurtured passion.
After all, a character called "Franklin Saint" can only be expected to do the unexpected. In contrary to what his name suggests (Franklin means freeman from the Mid. Eng. word "frankelin") Franklin was born to a generation within a community which was free but was bound by chains everywhere else. The African-American families, during the 80s, faced tremendous structural challenges in a way that they were pushed to the margins of city areas. This hypersegregation of the community into the crowded, dilapidated neighborhoods, that had no law and order, was a chief reason behind the massive inflow of crack-cocaine.