Sumith Prasad
In the fifth episode of Starz’s crime drama series ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season 3, Unique’s life gets threatened when he turns against his brother Ronnie. Although Unique tries to help his sibling by offering him a job, Ronnie discards it and betrays the former’s trust in him. When the younger brother realizes that Ronnie has been going behind his back, he lashes out. The latter, however, doesn’t accept the drug lord’s reaction. Ronnie retaliates in ways Unique never expects, only for the latter’s life to get severely threatened. The episode ends without offering a confirmation regarding the drug dealer’s fate! SPOILERS AHEAD.
Unique’s Fate
When Unique realizes that Ronnie has been looking for a job, he takes his brother to the Golden Pavilion restaurant, the hub of his new drug operations. Ronnie, however, doesn’t accept the offer. He thinks that the job is not significant enough for either him or Unique. He tells his younger brother that he is not playing the game well since his focus is on sleeping with Raquel “Raq” Thomas. When Unique dismisses Ronnie’s words, the latter lets the former’s wife Parnessa know that her husband is having sex with Raq, the same woman who once tried to hunt down the family.
Meanwhile, Unique realizes that Ronnie killed Deen, the distributor who supplied drugs to him and Raq. In addition, Parnessa confronts him about sleeping with Raq, only for him to lash out against Ronnie. Unique finds Ronnie, beats him up, and walks away. Ronnie, however, doesn’t let his brother walk away after establishing his power on him. He goes after Unique and hits him repeatedly on his head with a rod. After he is done, Ronnie dumps the body of his brother in a ditch as well.
Ronnie then replaces Unique on the streets of Queens believing that his brother is dead. However, Unique has been alive all along. Even though he gets injured, Ronnie’s attack turns out to be inadequate to kill the drug lord as he appears in the third season finale alive. After mysteriously getting rescued from the ditch, Unique remains a spectator of his sibling’s dealings and resurfaces only after the latter gets killed by Kanan for trying to harm his mother. Unique must have managed to attract the attention of someone to receive help and remain alive after ending up in the ditch. Upon learning about Ronnie’s murderous nature, he then seemingly waits for the fall of his sibling to come out of hiding.
Joey Bada$$’s Exit and Return
Joey Bada$$ did exit from ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ after the fifth episode of the third season. The renowned rapper had to embark on a tour while the shooting of the installment was progressing. “The truth of the matter is there was things in my schedule that was conflicting and we were trying to make it work, but I had to go on tour, in Australia and Europe [in winter 2022], and there’s obviously no way to be in two places at once,” the actor-singer told People. But Joey didn’t want to be away from the crime drama for long. He reached out to the series creator Sascha Penn to find a way back into the show.
“I didn’t initially know I was coming back. Initially, my character [Unique] was dead. But I spoke to Sascha, who is the genius who created the whole show. And we had a couple of conversations, and we were able to come to an agreement of like, ‘Let’s bring this character back,’” Joey told Complex. The actor’s return also means that he is a part of the upcoming fourth season of the show. “We are in the process of shooting season 4, and whew, it sucks that we got to wait a year to see this s— because… This season is, ooh, oh man, I’m going to just let y’all get [the finale] and then just shut up. But season 4 is incredible,” he said in the same People interview in February 2024.
Joey also previewed what to expect from Unique in the upcoming installment of the crime drama. “I think the interesting thing about Unique now is — the Unique that everybody knows is dead. This guy got his head banged and bone fragments left on the weapon of his execution. He’s not the same. […] So, I think what people can expect is a way more hyperactive, irritable, just rageful guy. It’s going to be an interesting spin on who this character [is, because Unique] has been, historically, somebody who’s more calculated and smooth with his delivery and kind of conscious and things like that,” the actor added.
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