Tommy Egan Outsmarts King Kilo With a Ruthless Power Play
Tommy Egan flips the script on King Kilo, offering up Rashan Ratner instead of D-Mac after Mad Dog’s murder. The move reshapes alliances, exposes fractures in the SODs, and reinforces Tommy’s brutal code: protect family at all costs.
Tommy Egan corners Rashan Ratner as tensions escalate in Power Book IV: Force. Courtesy of Starz
Tommy Egan is predictable in only one way, which is the simple truth. Pushing his family, he burns the world down. Everything else? Chaos that is improvised and delivered with a smirk and a lot of blood.
But even by Tommy’s standards, the latest twist in Power Book IV: Force plays as a chess move pulled straight out of a nightmare. Instead of serving up his nephew, D-Mac, to King Kilo—as Kilo demands Mad Dog’s murder—Tommy chooses a different path. A dirtier one. One that completely turns the hierarchy of Chicago’s underworld upside down.
The person he offers?
Rashan Ratner, portrayed by Demorris Burrows, was once the head of the Sons of Destruction. Still, lately, he has been too busy seeking out new alliances to realize that his foundation is disappearing.
Saving D-Mac is not the only reason for this pivot. It’s about redefining who gets to make rules in a city where alliances crumble faster than bodies fall.
In response to Leon’s death, D-Mac, hungry for validation and eager to prove his loyalty to CBI, kills Mad Dog, King Kilo’s nephew. It’s reckless. It’s emotional. Diamond tries to hide this move because he knows Tommy’s reaction will be catastrophic.
Volatility is present in their confrontation:
Tommy: “You goddamn right I don’t understand.”
Diamond: “D-Mac is a killer… He knocked down Mad Dog.”
That moment shifts everything. D-Mac’s mistake isn’t just a crime — it’s a war declaration. And King Kilo[Glen ‘Big Baby Davis] ’s response is predictable: blood for blood. He wants D-Mac dead.
Diamond’s solution? Keep D-Mac close. Keep Tommy in the dark. Lie until he can find a way out.
Tommy’s solution?
Fix it himself — even if “fixing” means someone else has to go.
The Sons of Destruction Crack in Half
The Sons of Destruction were supposed to be out of the picture — at least, that was the vote. But Malik brings Tommy news that flips the board: the vote wasn’t unanimous. Rashan has been quietly plotting, trying to slide the SODs into dealings with Marquez, a crew Tommy already has bad blood with.
Malik nails the point:
“Rashan been making moves to get the SODs in with Marquez.”
To Tommy, that’s not just betrayal.
That’s opportunity.
If Rashan wants to play leader? Then he can die like one.
And Malik?
He gets the crown in return.
The Plan: A Body for a Body, But the Right One
Tommy and Diamond reach the same ruthless logic:
Kilo wants a body, so give him one.
Just not their body.
Rashan becomes the stand-in for D-Mac. A proxy sacrifice.
And Jenard, of all people, gets recruited to sell the story.
His response is exactly what anyone would expect:
“Ni*ga, I ain’t motherfuckin’ Houdini.”
But Diamond pushes anyway. Tommy’s plan needs him. The lie needs a messenger. And Jenard, for once, doesn’t get to choose the role he plays.
Meanwhile Tommy meets with Malik privately, sealing their new alliance with a blunt promise:
“I’ma handle Rashan. And I’m gon’ make you king.”
Malik gives the location.
The meet is set.
And Tommy takes care of the rest.
Rashan Ratner Never Saw the Sky Falling
When Tommy corners Rashan, there’s no speech. No negotiation. No fake moral high ground.
Just the cold efficiency of a man who’s been burying threats his entire adult life.
Rashan’s ambition, his secret backdoor deals, his attempt to climb higher than Tommy ever allowed — all erased in seconds.
By the time his body hits the floor, the hierarchy is rewritten:
Malik becomes the new SOD king.
King Kilo gets a corpse he believes avenges Mad Dog.
D-Mac gets another stay of execution — even if he doesn’t deserve it.
Diamond and Tommy keep Chicago from imploding… for now.
And Tommy?
He walks away stained but satisfied.
Another crisis solved by stacking bodies like sandbags.
In the End, the Streets Don’t Bend — They Break
This wasn’t strategy. Not really. It was survival. It was Tommy protecting family in the only way he knows how: violently, decisively, and without apology.
Rashan Ratner didn’t die because he was the worst person involved.
He died because he was the most expendable.
And in Tommy Egan’s Chicago, that alone is a death sentence.
The fallout hasn’t even started yet — but when it does, everyone will remember the moment the script flipped, and Rashan was handed over as the offering that kept CBI alive for one more day.
[[Anthony L. McKnight II]] also known as Krispy was Born in Rochester, NY attending the “School Of The Arts” Class of 2009. He graduated with a Regents Arts diploma while studying Creative Writing and other arts. He recently became the founder of the Los Angeles Lakers Fan Club on Clubhouse. His club has hosted several celebrity interviews inside the fan club, from names such as Robert Horry, Gloria James, Mark Medina, Jovan Buha. His favorite hobby is spending a day out in nature, favorite sports basketball & football.
