- After four seasons, the game-changing, relevant and electrifying series comes to an end.
- Jeff survives Tobias' attack, and the two men meet in final battle. Jennifer returns to fight her counterpart JJ, TC finds a way to free Khalil from the kill code implanted in him to wipe out the Pierces, and Jeff and Gambi have news for the others.—Gislef
- The group family gathers at the Sanctum, and Gambi tells them that the photo of Jeff's corpse is authentic but there's no sign of where Jeff is. JJ wants to go out and kill Tobias immediately, but Gambi tells her that Tobias is baiting her and they have to work together to stop Tobias.
Gambi says that he's almost worked out where the emitter is, and Lynn tells them that the police won't interfere since Looker confessed and cleared her name. TC points out that Tobias still has shooters and DEGs, and Anissa yells that she doesn't care and Tobias is going down.
Tobias gives a speech asking the people to join him in celebrating the rebirth of Freeland, and it's time to make the city great again. At the police station, Hassan slips into Lopez's office while she's gone and finds the syringe filled with meta-booster on her desk. He takes photos of the evidence on his phone, then calls someone to say that Lopez has injected herself with the meta-nullifying booster and is tripping. Hassan then leaves.
Jeff wakes up, beaten, and discovers that he's in a buried coffin. He yells to anyone who can hear him, calling for help, but no one answers.
At the Sanctum, Gambi locates the emitter in an industrial park, that is the headquarters for Drakestone Security. Tobias owns Drakestone through shell companies, and Gambi says that Drakestone is monitoring the Tori Mausoleum. TC notices that JJ is gone. Gambi calls JJ, who as Lightning is in the ionosphere absorbing power to take on Tobias.
A cloud of energy pulls Lightning in, and Lighting flies down out of the sky. She enters the Sanctum and Lynn hugs her in relief. TC and Lynn are the only ones there, and TC tells her that the others went to take out the emitter. Lightning wavers, and Lynn worries that her daughter has absorbed too much power. Lynn goes run some tests, and Lightning tells TC that they need to hit the tunnels.
In the ionosphere, a face forms out of the energy.
In the coffin, Jeff remembers Tobias telling him that he's going to die like Alvin, and screams in rage.
Thirty Years Ago
Gambi buries a 100 gang member and tells a young Jeff to forget that it ever happened. The face of the man he killed in self-defense using his powers still haunts Jeff, and Gambi tells the teenager that Jeff reacted instinctively when the ganger drew a gun on him. Jeff says that he doesn't want his powers, and Gambi offers how to teach him to control them for good. The older man insists that Jeff and his powers can give Freeland hope, and all he needs is a code. Gambi says that together they'll find a code for Jeff.
Now
In the ionosphere, the energy forms into Jennifer, wearing her Lightning costume. She flies down to Freeland.
JJ and TC run through the tunnels, and JJ says that she loves breathing air. She clutches her head in pain, and tells TC not to call Lynn. Jennifer appears, and tells JJ that she stole her life and left her dead but she's been in her head the whole time and now she's back.
Gambi breaks into the Tori Mausoleum, and says over the comms to the others that he's in position. Blackbird throws an explosive setting a guard in fire, and Blackbird and Grace run in while Gambi breaks through a gate and goes in. Gambi bypasses the electronic lock and shoots down two approaching guards, while outside Blackbird and Grace take out more guards.
The two women run into the mausoleum, while Gambi gets past the final door to the room containing the emitter. He plants a charge on the emitter, goes out, and blows up the emitter remotely. Guards arrive and Gambi surrender, and Thunder and Wylde arrive take out the security.
JJ summons power, and Jennifer smiles and charges at her opponent. They fight hand-to-hand and while TC tries to intervene against JJ, she blasts him back. Jennifer says that JJ shouldn't have done that and renews her attack, and asks what JJ is. The entity says that she spent her whole life in the Glaze, watching the humans with bodies living and breathing. She saw Jennifer, both flesh and energy, coming into the Gaze. Then she made herself one with Jennifer, but still wasn't flesh.
When Jennifer says that JJ doesn't get to take her life, JJ says that she has Jennifer's family and memories, and won't let Jennifer take her from them. They fight, and JJ pins Jennifer and pumps energy into her body.
Jeff prays to God to protect his family, and his city, and that he is worthy to be received into Heaven. He passes out from lack of air.
Thunder, Wylde, and Gambi come out of the mausoleum, and more guards open fire on them. They shoot Thunder with their DEG, and she releases an energy wave to knock them out before the DEGs overwhelm her.
As JJ kills her, Jennifer remembers the times with her family.
Jeff remembers watching Tobias and his men kill Alvin. He finds himself on the porch of his home with Alvin, and Alvin says that he's sorry that he wasn't around for Jeff to help him deal with his death. Jeff reverts to his teen self and says that he died the same way despite his powers. Alvin tells him that Jeff feels shame and Tobias never will, and that's why Jeff is the one to stop Tobias.
Jeff says that he tried for 20 years and Tobias killed him, and he doesn't have to stop Tobias. Alvin tells him that he has to use what he never had, so Jeff should go get it and get it done.
Cabera tells Hassan that she found Lopez absorbing power from the city's main power plant. Hassan tells Cabera to grab her gun and follow him.
Jeff wakes up and realizes that he has his powers back. Underground, he can't pull electricity from anywhere. Remembering that Alvin told him to get what he never had, Jeff draws power from the promethium vein and blasts himself out of his grave and flies off.
Gambi and Grace take Anissa to the Sanctum. Anissa wakes up and says that she'll heal, but Lynn tells her that she's giving her daughter antibiotics. Black Lightning calls in and Gambi tells him that Tobias is in his office.
Hassan and the task force arrive to confront Lopez. She says that she's going to kill Lightning and refuses to stand down, and opens fire on them.
Jennifer dies, and JJ says that it's her time. Smiling, Jennifer says it isn't her time and blasts JJ away. She surrounds herself with energy, flies into JJ, and dissipates her, then goes to the unconscious TC.
Lopez surrounds herself with an energy field to protect her from the task force men firing at her with their guns. Jennifer as Lightning arrives and Lopez blasts her. Lightning blocks her and manages to knock Lopez down. Hassan thanks Lightning, who walks off.
Tobias is in his office when Black Lightning blasts in through the window. Tobias is still proof against Black Lightning's initial blast, but the hero turns up the juice. The two men fight hand-to-hand, and Black Lightning finally manages to blast Tobias down out the window and onto a flagpole where the crime boss is impaled. Tobias draws his guns and shoots at Black Lightning, who blasts him dead. Tobias age catches up to him and his body withers in moments.
At the Sanctum, TC discovers his powers are back and finds himself in Khalil's mindscape. Painkiller is ready to kill TC, and TC tells him that he has good news. He says that Tobias is dead, and he's isolated the system code for the kill order. He can free Khalil from it, but it's linked to everything Khalil knows and loves about the Pierce family. If TC breaks the kill order, Khalil won't remember the Pierces.
Painkiller doesn't care, and TC tells Khalil that there's no way around it. Khalil figures that eventually Painkiller will kill the Pierce family, and Khalil admits he will but insists that he's nobody's puppet and tells Khalil to cut the code. Khalil considers, says he'd give his life for Jennifer, and tells TC to do it.
Ion the real world, Khalil wakes up with no memory of the Pierces.
The Pierces go to Grace and Anissa's apartment to celebrate. Lynn tells Gambi that she never gave him enough credit for how much he loved Jeff and the girls over the years. Gambi says that Lynn did good, then offers champagne to Jeff. They share a toast.
TC joins Jennifer out on the patio, and she talks about how there's life in the ionosphere: the Glaze. Jennifer figures that TC has bad news, but she doesn't want to hear it right now and just wants to be there. She still surprised that no one realized anything was wrong with her except Jeff, but she understands. TC tells Jennifer that he'll be there for her, reminds her that her family inside, and goes into the loft.
Jennifer joins the others, and they apologize for not realizing JJ was an impostor. Jennifer says that it was her fault because she went up there, and tells them to all party. Jeff and Lynn come over, and Jeff announces that they are getting remarried. He explains that when he was trapped in the coffin, he had regrets and wanted to do something about them.
Jeff then says that he's turning over the fight to Freeland for Thunder, Lighting, and Wylde. Gambi agrees and says that he's retiring as well, and TC can handle him. Jeff and Gambi both admit they'll still be involved occasionally, and Jeff offers a toast to them for joy and justice... by any means necessary.
In Tobias' penthouse, Lala breaks free from the block of concrete where he was entombed: the concrete that was broken during the fight between Black Lightning and Tobias. He finds Tobias' body and chuckles.
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