In the final three episodes of the ABC legal drama s sophomore season, Aaron was appointed special prosecutor on a police brutality case involving an NYPD cop who shot and ultimately killed an unarmed Black man named Andy Josiah, a story that s all too familiar from news headlines. Faced with a legal system actively working against them, Aaron and his team fought to convict the cop, and in the finale, they pulled off a victory of sorts. While the jury found the officer guilty of criminally negligent homicide instead of manslaughter in the first degree, the latter of which was the harsher charge, the judge intervened and gave him the maximum sentence allowed for that count. So justice was served to an extent.
Black Lightning on the CW.
Jefferson Pierce and his family squashed the Markovian invasion in season 3 of
Black Lightning, but the cost of that war is at the heart of the CW superhero drama s fourth and final season, which premiered Monday.
Picking up a year after the season 3 finale, season opener The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter One found Jefferson (Cress Williams), who had given up being Black Lightning, mourning the death of his best friend, Chief Bill Henderson (Damon Gupton). Jefferson s grief not only created a rift between him and Lynn (Christine Adams), but also made him angry. He took his rage out on two police officers harassing an innocent Black kid, electrocuting them and destroying their car. Then after Jennifer, a.k.a. Lightning (China Anne McClain), was injured during a drug bust, he tracked down the gang member who shot her and put him in the hospital. In other words, our hero is in a dark place.