In Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Who shot Howard and Why?
One of the pivotal characters in “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” the prequel and second spin-off to “Power,” played by Omar Epps, is Malcolm Howard. The storyline, which is set in the 1990s in South Jamaica, Queens, centers on Kanan Stark’s early life, showing how he develops from a bright high school student to a feared drug lord. Kanan Stark is a main antagonist and later anti-villain in the original series. Howard is most certainly going to be essential to that shift, based on what we’ve seen in the first season of “Raising Kanan.” Howard is shot in the “Paid in Full” season 1 finale. He is struggling in the aftermath in the season 2 premiere, “Back in the Day.” We can answer your question on who shot Howard. Spoilers follow.
Who killed Howard?
Three months have gone since the shooting at the start of the second season, and Howard has spent the entire time in the hospital getting better from his wounds. He claims to have amnesia and cannot recall who or why he was shot. His behavior in the first episode, though, suggests otherwise. While Howard’s memory loss is unexpected, one of his doctors tells Shannon Burke that it is not entirely unexpected. He says that the brain is a mysterious, intriguing device that burying painful memories and suppressing trauma. In fact, he claims that what occurred to Howard was as miraculous as it gets.
Howard’s cancer diagnosis was revealed in season 1. Howard has reportedly undergone a bone marrow transplant during the past three months, and his cancer is currently in remission. Even though Howard claims to have no recall of what happened to him, his behavior after being released from the hospital suggests otherwise.
The first season’s climax included Howard being shot by Kanan. Raquel, his mother, made sure that Unique, her fiercest adversary, would be held accountable. While Kanan was sent to Virginia Beach by Raquel, Unique was detained. She invites him back to New York City in the season 2 debut after learning that Howard has amnesia. Unique is released from police custody in the interim since numerous eyewitnesses have identified him as being somewhere else than where Howard was shot at the time of the occurrence. We witness Howard watching Kanan from his automobile despite his denials. He does, it seemed, recall something.
How Howard was shot?
On the advice of his mother, Kanan shot Howard; he was unaware that the man was actually his biological father. Howard and Raq appeared to have reached an agreement in episode 9, “Loyal to the End.” Kanan would be given to Howard as a donor after she informed him that he was his biological father. In exchange, Unique and his crew would encounter difficulties conducting business, and Howard would guarantee that the Thomas siblings and Kanan would receive compassionate treatment from the police.
Raq, as we discover later, had no intention of keeping her end of the arrangement. In fact, it appears that she sent their son to kill Howard so that she could let him know how bitter she was about him as he passed away. It makes sense why Kanan develops the way he does in the first season of the show. Everything he knows, he has learnt from his mother.