Power fans spot Tasha and Terry Silver plot hole calling Ghost’s murderous ways into question
TASHA remains a prime murder suspect as the finale of Power draws ever closer.
The Starz and Netflix drama will conclude next week, finally solving the mystery of who shot James ‘Ghost’ St Patrick (Omari Hardwick).
However, there’s one skeleton from Ghost’s closet that viewers can’t seem to make peace with – the assassination of Terry Silver (Brandon Victor Dixon in the season 5 finale.
Terry was taken out after his affair with Ghost’s wife Tasha (Naturi Naughton) was exposed.
After murdering Terry, Ghost left his body to fester in the back of his car in the airport car park, where just moments earlier he had seduced Tasha.
However, fans noticed some inconsistencies when it came to Tasha’s knowledge of the incident.
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The season 6 premiere posed many questions around Terry’s murder, and in the episode Tasha arrived at nightclub Truth to meet with Ghost.
There he revealed that Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) had shot and killed Angela Valdes (Lela Loren).
When he begs for help after seeing “the woman he loves” perish, Tasha retorts: “Where the f*** is Terry Silver, the man that I loved?”
Ghost played dumb, but Tasha’s intuition tells her he’s involved and she later has her suspicions confirmed.
However, despite acting mostly on impulse, Tasha manages to provide extensive information about the hit to the likes of Saxe (Shane Johnson) and Blanca (Monique Gabriela Curmen) when she leads a sting operation against Ghost.
In season 6, episode 9, Saxe and Blanca plot to pin Lakeisha’s (La L Anthony) death on Ghost, but Tasha has her own plans.
She tells them: “James didn’t kill Lakeisha but he did kill Terry Silver.
When asked if she had seen things first hand and grilled about how certain she was, Tasha shot back: “I believe he did it. I just don’t have the proof.”
Tasha said of the location of the body: “I can’t say for certain, I honestly don’t even wanna think about it.
“But, I don’t know, well I suspect that if you go to the old decommissioned parking structure at terminal one of LaGuardia airport, level five, you’ll find him.
“I mean, there’s no traffic, no security there. If I was James and I have a body in a vehicle, I’d go there.”
How would Tasha know not only that Ghost killed Terry, but exactly where he stashed the body?
At no point is Ghost seen filling Tasha in on the murder, and if Tasha’s theory simply stems from the last place she saw Terry, why would she have waited so long before searching?
Fans of the drama took to Reddit to call out the blunder en masse.
One user wrote: “They never explained how Tasha knew EXACTLY where he was, after showing her asking Ghost what happened to Silver for episodes.”
A second chimed in: “At first, Tasha was calling his phone and looking for him like she had no idea where he was.
“So how did she go from leaving him messages to knowing exactly where his body was?”
One cynical commenter claimed they had the answers, sniping: “Dumb writing and plot convenience - out of all the murders that Ghost has committed, Terry Silver would be the one that he gets caught up on. Same with Tommy and Poncho.”
A like-minded fan agreed: “This was just a major plot hole that conveniently got forgotten about. Writers in this show often open books and then forget to close them.”
The furore comes after the ending of Power was leaked online, leaving desperate fans begging for an alternate resolution.
Power season 6 concludes on Starz on Sunday, February 9 and will be available to stream a day later in the UK on Netflix.