If there was ever an episode designed to test your patience, your morals, and your emotional stamina all at once, Power Book IV: Force Season 3 Episode 7 was it. The hour didn’t just push characters to the edge; it kicked them clean off. Alliances crumbled, long-buried secrets exploded in public, and bodies started dropping so fast it felt less like a crime drama and more like a controlled demolition of everything these people thought they had built.
At this point in the season, exposure isn’t just inevitable; it’s overdue. In true Power fashion, the truth doesn’t surface quietly or conveniently; it arrives swinging, usually at the worst possible moment, and this episode proved that no one is immune when the reckoning finally comes.
The Sampson Brothers - A Tragedy in Real Time
Let’s start with the emotional centre of the chaos: Diamond and Jenard Sampson. Watching these two together was equal parts frustrating and heartbreaking. Diamond, once the steady hand, is unravelling under the weight of bad decisions and even worse advice. Jenard, meanwhile, continues to be his own worst enemy, a man so desperate for validation that he confuses manipulation with intelligence.
At the beginning of the season, Jenard and Shanti looked solid; they seemed aligned, strategic, and even hopeful. Shanti believed she had a partner who understood the long game. Her fatal miscalculation was assuming Jenard was ever truly committed to a future where Diamond didn’t exist.
Jenard’s loyalty has always been conditional, dependent on who’s feeding his ego in the moment. The instant he realized his psychological games were working on Diamond, his focus shifted inward, the plan stopped being about survival or strategy and became about self-importance. Jenard never intended to kill Diamond himself, but had Diamond not spiraled the way he did, Jenard would’ve eventually chosen Shanti over his brother. That window slammed shut the moment Diamond fully bought into Jenard’s paranoia-fueled hype.
Now, the irony is painful. Jenard puffs his chest like a king, yet the second Diamond barks an order, and he obeys without hesitation. In the cruelest twist, Jenard has become exactly what Diamond once was to Tommy, a second-in-command pretending to be free.
Shanti With Clear Eyes but Cold Decisions
Jenard’s attempt to crawl back to Shanti was audacious in the worst way. After the brutal words exchanged between them, after trying to reduce her worth to nothing, he had the nerve to ask her to be “the bigger person” for business; that conversation was the final nail in whatever emotional coffin they shared.
Shanti didn’t fall for it, and that’s what makes her one of the sharpest minds on the board. Love once clouded her judgment, but stripped of emotion, she sees Jenard exactly as he is. She understands power, timing, and leverage better than most people still breathing in Chicago.
Her decision to point toward Tommy wasn’t impulsive; it was calculated. Leaving Tommy alive serves her future far more than killing him ever could; without him, she’s either trapped in CBI with Jenard or cut off from Ché entirely. Tommy, desperate and isolated, was always going to come looking for someone like her.
That partnership? It’s Diamond’s worst nightmare. Tommy, with his back against the wall, is dangerous enough. Tommy, backed by Shanti’s strategy, is catastrophic, and Diamond knew it, which is why fear pushed him into committing one of the episode’s most unforgivable acts.
Diamond Crosses the Line
Killing Kendra was just ruthless and revealing; it marked the moment Diamond officially crossed into moral freefall. For too long, it was easy to defend him, to believe he was operating from a place of survival. Episode 7 stripped that illusion away. Listening to Jenard didn’t just weaken Diamond; it exposed the rot underneath.
When Shanti finally tells Diamond the truth, that Jenard had been entirely on board with removing him, it lands like a delayed grenade. The realisation should haunt him. All that misplaced trust, all those burned bridges, for a brother who’s been quietly sharpening the knife.
Death Comes Knocking Again and Again
This episode felt like a fever dream of violence, one death blurred into the next, each one escalating the chaos. JP’s demise, while tragic, felt inevitable. His reconciliation with D-Mac was the kind of emotional closure Power uses as a warning sign. Still, his death matters, mainly because of what it does to Tommy.
Tommy collapsing to his knees was grief and ignition; there are only a handful of people whose deaths push him into that kind of tunnel-vision rage, and once he’s there, collateral damage becomes unavoidable.
Then there’s Stacy! Her death hit differently, unexpected, abrupt, and shocking, this close to the finale. It redefined the stakes and reminded us that Force isn’t interested in pacing itself gently.
Jenard’s rampage, meanwhile, was pure chaos. Killing JP, King Kilo, and another man in a single violent spiral wasn’t a strategy; it was entitlement mixed with rage. It was a man unravelling in real time, convinced of his own importance, drunk on disrespect.
Cain and Abel, Power Edition
At its core, Diamond and Jenard’s story is biblical in its tragedy. Diamond has always been the chosen one, the natural leader. Jenard has lived in that shadow so long it’s warped him. It started as jealousy and has evolved into something far more dangerous: entitlement. Jenard truly believes he deserves everything Diamond has, and that belief may ultimately get one of them killed.
Now that Diamond knows the truth, their war feels unavoidable. As long as CBI exists, peace between them is a fantasy. The question isn’t if one brother will fall, it’s when.
Tommy Moves On
If there’s one thing this episode made clear, it’s that Tommy has outgrown his need for Diamond. Aligning with Shanti and Miguel serves him better now, even if it feels absurd considering their history. But survival makes strange bedfellows.
Miguel and Tommy teaming up is about shared enemies. Mireya wanted them aligned, but now that she’s gotten her wish, the cost is becoming clearer. Her brush with death should have been a wake-up call, yet she continues to walk dangerously close to a life she once swore she didn’t want.
Luck saved her this time. Luck isn’t a strategy!
The Endgame Looms
With only two episodes left, Force is running out of road. Tommy’s thirst for revenge could easily make him reckless, especially with Bobby lurking, waiting for a single mistake. Everyone is operating on borrowed time now.
The real question isn’t who will die, it’s how. Will they go out in a blaze of glory, or will their downfalls be as messy and humiliating as the choices that led them here?
Power Book IV: Force Season 3 Episode 7 didn’t just raise the stakes; it lit the fuse, and when this thing finally explodes, no one will walk away clean.
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