Power Book 3: Raising Kanan

For most of the series, Scrappy appears to be the most loyal member of Raq’s crew, played by Ade Chike Torbert in Starz’s ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’, the prequel to ‘Power’.

As a result of Kanan killing Howard and Marvin not showing up on time in the season 1 finale, Raq sends Scrappy to pick Kanan up and navigate him out of the traps that the police have set up for Kanan. The second season, however, seems to have shifted Scrappy’s focus away from the people who have been his enemies for the past few seasons to people who are his new enemies. In order to deal with him permanently, Raq decides to deal with him permanently after learning that he might be a C.I.

This led to Scrappy’s shocking death as he was led to a warehouse by Lou-Lou and Marvin which was preceded by Raquel shooting him in the head. 

“I just thought about all of Scrappy’s grievances from season one, from being passed up from them giving Kanan power and me having to babysit Kanan, just really swallowing a lot of things and never fully speaking my truth,” said Abe as he reflected on the storytelling of Scrappy for this season. Scrappy has been on Raq’s side since day one and he has been central to her group.

Scrappy was there when he saw Kanan shoot Detective Howard. For the first season, Scrappy took a backside and did not stand up to anyone for the most part. But for the one time he did, it was because he witnessed what just transpired. “I think the one time you kind of really hear Scrappy stand up is the season one finale when I pick up Kanan and then I’m like, ‘Wait, Kanan shot the cop? We got to go.’ So I think feeling these even accusations that I’m possibly disloyal just made me go. Well, you know what? You want to have this conversation, then we’re going to air out all of our grievances because I got some bones I want to pick, too. So it was just an opportunity to me to approach it from a place where who is someone that doesn’t have an opportunity to fully speak up within their at their limit and finally explode,” said Abe.

Within the months between the production of the first season and the production of the second season, Abe found out that the character was going to be killed off. Abe also said that he had enough time to mourn the loss of Scrappy before they shot the pivotal scene. “I was just getting started. I’m thinking about my impact for season two and all the possibilities, but it gave me a lot of time to really just to mourn it as a because these people, they become real, they become a part of you. He’s done a hell of a job. He’s gone through a lot of things. So now I just wanted to try to honor him so that I could leave on a high note, as high as I possibly could, even on labeled as a snitch. But, you know, I try to do everything in my control to just honor the characters,” said Abe.