I’m so used to people getting the wrong idea on this show - Tommy and Holly’s relationship seems to be built on the pattern of one character saying they need to holler at the other, but the other running off to do something else - that I feel like I’m watching an extreme version of Three’s Company. “Help Me” shows how, as always, Power finds ways to conveniently structure everything so bad things might’ve been avoided if the characters just talked to each other. He breaks into Tommy’s place to discover a dead Holly next to a curled-up Tommy, muttering the episode title: “Help me.” After they head to the river where Ghost dumps the body, they conclude that they need to work together to kill Lobos, who’s on his way to getting transferred and, eventually, sprung out.
Of course, a hoodied Ghost comes to his aid again. Of course, this happens while Tommy and Holly have their knock-down, drag-out fight, with Holly taunting him about his “not normal” bond to Ghost and Tommy ultimately wrapping his hands around her throat. (Tariq is still in the car, but he’s too busy listening to his headphones to hear any of it.) It seems dicey for James until Dean and his security team show up to save his ass, then tell him to get the hell outta there. As ordered by Holly, the Jamaicans show up with AK-47s cocked and loaded behind James’s car, getting him to step out by denting his bumper. Then again, James just came face-to-face with death, so he’s probably glad to hold his woman. Alas, that thought is nixed when Angela tells him that not only did Ruiz not give up Ghost, but Lobos is giving up the Jimenez cartel, closing up the entire case. That makes James silently mull over signing the separation papers he asked Proctor to draw up, pondering if it’s the right decision to break up his already broken home for someone who’s still keeping secrets from him. But later on, Jamie finds out she was talking about Ruiz, as James’s lawyer, Proctor, informs him that he saw Ruiz and Angela going into one of his building’s conference rooms.
She even stops their obligatory lovemaking scene to talk about the “obstacles” in their lives, which she describes as their families getting in the way of their happiness. (This spooked the hell out of Ruiz, calling her a witch in his native tongue.)įor a minute there, I thought the Jamie-Angela love train was coming to an infinite halt. Unfortunately, Knox’s plans are thwarted once again by Angela, who not only tells Ruiz that a jury wouldn’t convict a man who wanted to protect her daughter from a predator, but that Ghost saved his life. Knox dropped that nugget out there, telling him he could get the death penalty for whacking an informant if he doesn’t give up Ghost. And Sandoval has to keep on protecting Lobos, so he doesn’t off him or his daughter.Įven Ruiz, who comes back to talk to the Feds, is reminded of the hit he put out on Nomar when he found out about him and his daughter.
Dre becomes Kanan’s minion when he makes a surprise visit to his place, holding his daughter and threatening to send her ass out the window. James spent the day with Tariq, trying to get the bottom of all this lashing out he’s been doing. Tommy’s mom comes by for a visit, takes an immediate disliking to Holly, and later tells Tommy to get rid of her.
It’s a common theme this week: “Help Me” is largely concerned with parents going all out to protect their children. After all, she’s looking out for Tommy and her unborn child, which he still didn’t know about. You can’t blame Holly for making an executive decision. Her confession comes right after Tommy learns that the Koreans, not Lobos, tried to exterminate him outside the church when a hoodied Ghost came to the rescue. (Or Christopher and Adriana, whichever you prefer.) This dysfunctional coupling finally goes off the rails when Holly admits she ordered the Jamaicans to put a hit out on Ghost. Power’s least-beloved character gets offed at the hands of her one true love, officially making her and Tommy the show’s resident Sid and Nancy.
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