Monet Tejada in 'I Can't Fix This’ Power Book II: Ghost S4E7

Monet Tejada in 'I Can't Fix This’ Power Book II: Ghost Season 4 Episode 7

Show: Power Book II: Ghost | Season 4, Episode 7  |  Network: Starz  |  Aired: September 13, 2024

I can't fix this. Can we just sit with those four words for a second? Because in four seasons of Power Book II: Ghost we have never heard anything like that from Monet Tejada. She fixes things. That is what she does. That is who she IS. And this episode is the one where she comes face to face with something she cannot fix no matter how hard she tries. And Mary J. Blige made me cry. I am not ashamed to say it.

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Tragedy Strikes

Episode 7 delivers the kind of gut punch that this show is famous for. Tragedy strikes the Tejada family and it sets everyone on a mission of revenge. Dru is sent to take out a threat connected to Carter's organization in order to protect the family. And Diana, in seeking justice for what was done to them, kills Felicia, only to discover that Felicia had a child upstairs in the house.

The weight of that discovery lands on everyone in the room including Monet. It is one of those moments that the show handles with unusual honesty: sometimes the people you hurt have other people who love them. And that does not make the mission wrong exactly, but it does make it heavier.

Carter Uses the Tejadas

Carter shows up to the scene and immediately pivots. He is going to use the Tejadas and Tariq as leverage against Noma. The trap gets tighter. Every move Monet makes is drawing the net closer. And for the first time she is operating in a situation where her intelligence and her strategy cannot fully compensate for how outgunned she is.

The Performance

This is one of Mary's finest episodes of the entire four season run. She plays Monet at her most human and most overwhelmed without ever letting her become weak. There is a difference between being overwhelmed and being weak and Mary knows exactly where that line is.

The scene where the full weight of everything lands on Monet and she says, even if only to herself, I cannot fix this, is heartbreaking in the best possible way. Because for Monet Tejada to admit that, even privately, means something catastrophic has happened.

I could not stop thinking about this episode for days after I watched it.

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