Shock, “Energy Guide II: Ghost” followers — Lauren is again! Properly, technically, in accordance with season three’s March 17 premiere, she by no means really left. As viewers might bear in mind, Lauren (performed by Paige Hurd) was thought to have been killed off by Effie (Alix Lapri) and Brayden (Gianni Paolo) in season two’s penultimate episode. After it is found that she’s working with ADA Jenny Sullivan (Paton Ashbrook) and catches Brayden, her boyfriend, Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.), and Cane (Woody McClain) speaking about their drug dealings on a wire, Effie and Brayden, unbeknownst to Tariq, take Lauren out to the woods to kill her — all in an effort to keep away from felony prices.
Although viewers did not see Hurd’s character really die, many believed that scene marked the tip of the highway for her, with Jenny later revealing that Lauren’s physique was discovered by locals after a “automotive accident.” That seems to be an entire lie, nonetheless, as a result of, as seen on the finish of season three’s opening episode, Jenny has, in actual fact, been hiding a very-alive Lauren at an undisclosed location your entire time.
“It is an enormous concern as a result of Tariq was actually near Lauren and was actually unhappy to see her go. [Plus,] Effie and Brayden are conserving that secret from [him].”
In fact, Effie and Brayden are nonetheless beneath the impression they killed Lauren, and Tariq is totally at nighttime concerning the state of affairs. So “Energy Guide II” showrunner Brett Mahoney tells POPSUGAR that Lauren’s faked-out loss of life and stunning return are going to trigger main issues for the trio in season three. “It is an enormous concern as a result of Tariq was actually near Lauren and was actually unhappy to see her go. [Plus,] Effie and Brayden are conserving that secret from [him],” he says. “As we’ll see in season three, Tariq is admittedly counting on Effie and Brayden. They’re his household, and so they’re changing into nearer and nearer.” However on the identical time, Mahoney says their secret is “a bombshell ready to detonate that is going to vary their entire dynamic when Tariq finds out what they really did.”
Rainey Jr., Paolo, and Lapri all agree that the reality about what occurred to Lauren goes to utterly wreck the belief the three pals have. “I believe that it might probably’t finish in another approach apart from horrible,” Alix says frankly. “Hopefully, we will all nonetheless be pals after. [But] I believe it is only a lot to kill somebody’s lover.”
As we have seen in earlier situations in “Energy Guide II” and its father or mother collection, Tariq “does not do nicely with being lied to,” Rainey Jr. affirms. Viewers have seen what betrayal has pushed the younger faculty pupil to do up to now — from rebelling in opposition to his felony mother and father and befriending their enemy, Kanan, to killing his personal father. Regardless of this, it is grow to be clear that over the past two seasons of “Energy Guide II,” Tariq is slowly however certainly turning into the whole lot he resented his father for being — a liar and a drug supplier who always deceives these closest to him. Nonetheless, Paolo predicts that Brayden and Effie’s secret will not blow over nicely when Tariq finally learns the reality, “As a result of he does a lot of the mendacity,” he notes.
“That is positively going to mess him up in a whole lot of methods.”
“So when he is instructed a lie, he is like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. I am the one mendacity right here. Do not be mendacity to me,'” Rainey Jr. provides. “However that is positively going to mess him up in a whole lot of methods. That is not going to be proper in any respect.”
So far as what else viewers can anticipate from “Energy Guide II” season three, Mahoney notes that the present’s plot continues to be following Tariq’s “coming-of-age story.” “What’s Tariq’s subsequent alternative? What’s his subsequent path as he goes on this journey to find out does should grow to be his father? Are there different alternatives that he can pursue? Is there another person he can grow to be?” the showrunner asks. “It is kind of like once you’re in that sophomore yr in faculty and you make the choices to your future. That is how we checked out it for Tariq.”
He continues, “We’ll see as we go into season three and past, totally different individuals are pulling him in several instructions, and he is received to decide on what path is greatest for him as a person.”
New episodes of “Energy Guide II: Ghost” air each Friday on Starz.
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