Power Book III: Raising Kanan turned savage in Season 5 Episode 7, ending with the deaths of Snaps, Pop, and Marvin Thomas. The hour did not just clear the board; it reset the show’s balance of power with one brutal sweep, and Marvin’s exit landed as the sharpest blow because his final words carried the weight of everything that had brought him there.
That is why viewers are searching for Raising Kanan now. The season has been building toward the moment when Kanan Stark becomes the version of him audiences already know from Power, and this episode pushed him closer by forcing him to prove his loyalty through blood. It also set up a finale that now has to deal with the aftermath of three deaths at once, including Marvin’s.
Jukebox put an end to Snaps and Pop, while Breeze orchestrated the attack on Marvin and his crew. The mechanism mattered: this was not chaos for its own sake, but a coordinated strike that stripped away the people who had still been standing between the family and collapse. By the time the dust settled, the episode had taken out three major players and left Kanan holding the consequences.
Marvin’s death carries extra sting because he and Lou had finally stood up to Raq this season, only to discover that protecting her had cost them everything. That contradiction sits at the center of the episode’s pain. The same loyalty that once looked like strength became the thing that trapped them, and Marvin’s last words now read like a warning about the man Kanan would become years later. The show has spent the season asking what turned Kanan Stark into one of television’s most feared criminals, and Raq’s influence has been shown shaping every step of that descent.
The hour also links younger Kanan to the adult version who later killed Shawn, Jukebox, and countless others without hesitation. Krystal’s death is the turning point that pushed him toward trying to kill Raq, and this episode keeps that arc moving in the same direction. At the end, 50 Cent’s closing narration about hate and consequences made the point plain: the damage is no longer theoretical, and the finale now begins from a world where Marvin Thomas is gone and Kanan has crossed another line he cannot uncross.
The next episode has to answer how far that new version of Kanan will go now that the family structure has been torn open. For Marvin, the answer has already been written, and it ends with the final words that framed his death as more than another casualty.
