Starz hit series Power is nearing the end as the show made a triumphant return. The last five episodes will answer the million-dollar question of who shot James “Ghost” St Patrick (played by Omari Hardwick)? Each week another suspect will be eliminated from the line-up.
Is Ghost really dead in Power season 6?
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Power season 6
Following the return of Power, fans were hit with a devastating twist which seemed to suggest Ghost had been slain in his nightclub Truth.
Dre (Rotimi) was in an off-licence picking up some supplies on his way out of town when he caught a breaking news report confirming Ghost had been shot.
The news report proved Dre wasn’t the one to pull the trigger on Ghost and removed out of the suspect list.
Understandably, Dre was shocked but had bigger things to worry about as he tried to make it to Las Vegas with his girlfriend Tina (Melissa Mensah) and their daughter Heaven.
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But sadly, Dre didn’t get very far after he was arrested and banged up, only to be murdered in solitary after his cell was set on fire.
Power creator Courtney Kemp has now opened up about the news report and seemed to confirm Ghost’s fate.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kemp said: “Yeah, Ghost is definitely dead.”
When pressed by the publication on any takeaways from the midseason premiere called Still Dre, Kemp teased: “I think it’s self-explanatory and I’ll just say that. I don’t want to give you anymore than that.”
Her words seem to suggest there could be more to the story than meets the eye with some fans convinced Ghost has faked his own death.
Also, in another interview TV Line she seemed to backtrack and tease the former kingpin could still be alive.
In response to Ghost being “dead-dead”, she said: “I mean… I don’t know… I would say…”
On the news bulletin, she said: “Yeah. All I’m going to say is that it looks as though… I’ll just say this: It might be self-explanatory. How about I say it like that?”
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Kemp teased further about the news report: “Do you see that? I mean, do you see a news report? [Laughs] I’m the worst, aren’t I?”
However, Kemp isn’t one to pull punches such as with the death of Angela Valdes (Lela Loren) and it seems the beloved TV drug dealer has now bitten the bullet quite literally.
Kemp said she didn’t want to keep Ghost’s fate a secret right until the end of the series.
She explained: “Well, no, because [all of the last few episodes take place on] the same day, so it would take a lot of disingenuousness to pull that off.
“You know from dealing with me for six years now, I’m not really that guy. I don’t lie. I just omit. You know what I’m saying? So because I don’t lie, I just omit, it’s just… it is what it is.”
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The next instalment will turn the focus on Angela’s grieving sister Paz Valdes (Elizabeth Rodriguez), who wants to wreak bloody vengeance on Ghost, whom she blames for killing her sibling.
Taking a leaf out of Agatha Christie’s book as well as inspiration from the Oscar-winning Japanese film Rashomon (1950), the rest of Power will play out like a murder mystery with conflicting narratives.
Kemp said the structure was something which was discussed in the writers’ room in 2019 and decided upon because it hadn’t really done before in this way.
The writer said the last five episodes were a “companion piece” to the midseason finale.
Power season 6 airs weekly on Starz on Sundays in the US and on Netflix UK on Mondays from 8am GMT
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