Black Lightning Recap — ‘The Book of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry Scene

Season 2 / Episode 3, ‘The Book of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry Scene/ The CW Gangsta’s Paradise Starting on a side note–I have been a huge Nine Inch Nails fan since I was about 13 years old, so when this episode began with the NIN/David Bowie song, “I’m Afraid of Americans”, I about lost it. Of course folks in Freeland are afraid, but for all the wrong reasons. The Green Light Babies are plentiful, they are violent and they are Black. The episode begins with a scene that reminds audiences that the war on drugs and the Black community is never truly over, it simply evolves and shifts with the times. In this (fictional) universe, Green Light is ruining lives, but so are the authorities. Freeland cops don’t know how to deal with the epidemic, and so far this season, the villain is less a single entity than a lack of coordinated effort within the community to fix things.

The bad guys–The One Hundred, Tobias, Khalil (“Painkiller”)–are organized. Tobias and Khalil have a meeting about the importance of scheduling. Tobias is a smart dude, he knows that the survival of his organization depends on structure. Everything he does is for a reason, from sending Khalil to handle a drug dealer who has been funny with the money to the trail he left detectives that leads to the dynamic final scene. Who Runs the World? Girls.

While Jennifer is attempting to form some structure around her new powers, her parents arrange a meeting with Perenna. Jennifer discovers that her paren…