Black Lightning Recap: Black Jesus

Season 1 / Episode 4 / CWWriter: Pat CharlesDirector: Michael Schultz Today, somebody is freaking out in the boy’s bathroom at Garfield High. Jefferson isn’t down for homeboy practicing his urinal chucking and manages to knock him out with two electric shocks. Now I’m no doctor, but I don’t think shocking someone in the middle of their drug-induced freak-out is the best plan out there… Anyway, school security shows up late and clearly shit must go down at this school because he immediately knows it’s a bad trip. Anissa is on her way to be…late for school… and catches two of her students about to buy some drugs in broad fucking daylight. She confronts our intrepid salesmen who respond by showing off their glock like they’re not selling drugs in broad fucking daylight. Anissa, high off her powers but not realizing that strong doesn’t mean bulletproof, doesn’t immediately back down from the threat. She gets called a “bitch” but gets back in her car. She ain’t gotta stay. She got their faces burned in her memory and she got time to-DAY. They don’t even know they in danger. Jefferson takes the drugs he found on his student to Peter who explains they must be the new drug the kids all like, Tide Po- I mean Green Light. He mentions the crimes of the last three episodes as if we didn’t open the premiere with a news report on how crime in Freedland had gotten so out of hand, the police couldn’t do anything. Jefferson hits the streets that night for some good old-fashioned, Batman-sty…