'The Haves And The Have Nots' Season 8 Episode 2 Preview: Why is Derrick still harassing Hanna?
'The Haves And The Have Nots' returned for its eighth and what is strongly speculated to be its final season. We've seen a lot of things going down on this OWN show and things have just been getting crazier and more bizarre as the show progressed. In the premiere, Alyssa decides to pull a fast one on David (Peter Parros) after he sleeps with her. She runs out of the house screaming rape and then he drags her back. However, David has learned something from his diabolic ex-wife.
She starts laughing maniacally and then tells him that he had done her wrong years ago by separating her and her sister. David had recorded this confession and coolly plays it back to her, so that storyline comes to an end before Alyssa can do anything else. Meanwhile, Veronica (Angela Robinson) is busy with her new boy toy, Samuel, though she can't help but exchange some snarky comments with him.
She has her reasons to sleep with him of course, as she feels that he's onto something and is somehow tracking her. Samuel seems to be on good terms with Derrick, Hanna's rapist, as we realize later. Moreover, Samuel's wife is sick of his behavior.
The question fans asked throughout the episode was, where is Candace (Tika Sumpter)? There was so much talk and speculation about her supposed pregnancy but she wasn't even seen in this episode, though Charles was.
Charles is still moping about her to Landon. On the other hand, Hanna is being followed and tracked, though god bless the person to try that. She hits back and when she does, she hits hard. Her accountants are trying to play her as well, and being the bull-headed woman she is, she stays one step ahead. However, the episode ends on a cliffhanger, as Derrick turns up at her house.
Why is Derrick back at all? It's time the show wrote him out for good or at least got Benny to dispose of him. Derrick had raped Hanna a long time ago and tried to excuse it under the influence of drugs. It is a question whether the show is desperately trying to seek redemption for him...because no, that's out of the question. If this is the final season, it's time to wrap up many of the mysteries once and for all.
'The Haves And The Have Nots' airs on OWN on Tuesdays at 8 pm.
