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Power · A Viewer's Companion

A nightclub, a drug empire, and one family standing in both doorways.

Everybody on this show answers to two names, and Power never stops to tell you which one is being used. Magenta is the St. Patricks by blood; electric blue is Tommy Egan and the street family who raised each other; mint is the law — prosecutors, feds, lawyers and one very dirty cop. Gold ties are couples, a fat blue tie is the brotherhood that isn't blood, and a crimson dash is something somebody is hiding.

The St. Patricks — blood Tommy, the Egans & the street The law & the Valdes sisters a couple (“m.” = married) parent → child brothers — no blood an affair, or a thing kept quiet works for — not family † dead before the last episode
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Kate never told himhis real father — S4 he killed Raina — and then Tariq killed him m. her mother their three children brothers — no blood the affair the whole show turns on engaged in season 6 before Keisha · S1–S3 his son his protégé — not blood ran the distribution her boyfriend sisters the same office three lawyers, three different clients opened the file on him Ghost, Tommy and Kanan came up in the same Queens buildings. Not one of them is related to another — which is the problem. Estelle Green Tasha’s mother Debbi Morgan where the grandkids go Kate Egan Tommy’s mother Patricia Kalember knew who the father was Tony Teresi † Bensonhurst mob lifer William Sadler killed by Tommy — S5 Kanan Stark † Ghost & Tommy’s mentor Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson police shootout — S5 Greg Knox † FBI · Angela’s boyfriend Andy Bean killed by the mole — S3 Angela Valdes † prosecutor · his first love Lela Loren shot by Tommy — S6 opener Paz Valdes Angela’s older sister Elizabeth Rodriguez never bought the story Tasha St. Patrick his wife · his co-founder Naturi Naughton jailed for the wrong murder James St. Patrick † “Ghost” · owns Truth Omari Hardwick shot at Truth — the finale Tommy Egan his brother — no blood Joseph Sikora the one who never leaves LaKeisha Grant † Tasha’s best friend La La Anthony shot by Tasha — S6 Holly Weaver † Tommy’s first love Lucy Walters Tommy’s own hands — S3 Cooper Saxe assistant U.S. attorney Shane Johnson six seasons, one obsession Terry Silver † Tasha’s divorce lawyer Brandon Victor Dixon her lover — Ghost killed him Joe Proctor † Ghost’s attorney & fixer Jerry Ferrara killed by Tommy — S6 Tariq St. Patrick the son · Raina’s twin Michael Rainey Jr. he pulls the trigger on Ghost Raina St. Patrick † the daughter · his twin Donshea Hopkins shot by Ray Ray — S4 YS Yasmine St. Patrick the youngest · “Yaz” Paris Morgan too small for any of it Julio Romano † ran the distribution J.R. Ramirez killed on Dre’s orders — S4 Dre Coleman † the protégé who wanted more Rotimi Akinosho killed in prison — S6 Shawn Stark † Kanan’s son · the driver Sinqua Walls shot by his own father — S2 Ray Ray † dirty cop on Dre’s payroll Marcus Callender he killed Raina — S4 Blanca Rodriguez NYPD internal affairs Monique G. Curnen the cop who can’t be sold
Read it in three neighborhoods: the St. Patricks down the left in magenta, Tommy and the street family through the middle in blue, and everybody with a badge or a bar card on the right in mint. Solid lines are blood and marriage; the fat blue tie between James and Tommy is the relationship the whole show is built on, and it is the only one on this chart that isn't real.

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Why you need this chart

Six seasons, one club, and a cast where almost nobody is related to the person they'd die for. The essentials:

One Man

Jamie, Ghost, Mr. St. Patrick

All the same person. James St. Patrick is the owner of Truth, a Manhattan nightclub he built to become legitimate; Ghost is the name he answers to as New York's biggest distributor; Jamie is what Angela has called him since high school. The show cuts between the three without warning, which is the joke and also the plot. By season six he is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York and still hasn't put the other job down.

Not Brothers

Tommy Egan shares no blood with anyone here

Kate Egan took James in as a teenager, so James and Tommy grew up as brothers and named the business after both of them — the St. Patrick–Egan organization. There is no biological link, and Tommy spends six seasons proving he doesn't need one. In season 4 he meets a Bensonhurst mobster in prison named Tony Teresi and learns Teresi is his father; a season later he finds out his father has been informing on him, and shoots him.

The Ex

The prosecutor used to be his girlfriend

Angela Valdes and James were high-school sweethearts in Queens. She comes back into his life as an assistant U.S. attorney chasing a distributor she knows only as “Ghost” — the show's central engine, and the reason the magenta and the mint keep touching. Her sister Paz and her FBI boyfriend Greg Knox are the two people who see it coming. Greg is murdered by his own colleague Mike Sandoval, and James is arrested for it.

The Children

What happens to the kids

Tariq and Raina are twins; Yasmine is the baby. In season 4, a crooked cop called Ray Ray comes for Tariq and shoots Raina instead — and Tariq hunts Ray Ray down and kills him. It never gets better after that. In the series finale, Tariq is the one who shoots his father off the balcony at Truth, and Tasha is arrested for the murder in his place.

The Mentor

Kanan is not a friend

Kanan Stark ran the corner James and Tommy came up on and taught them the trade; James put him in prison for a decade to take the top spot, which Kanan comes back to collect on. His son Shawn is Ghost's driver — and, quietly, Tasha's lover. Kanan shoots Shawn himself in season 2, and dies in a police shootout in season 5, moments after saving Tariq.

Counsel

Three lawyers, three sides

Joe Proctor is Ghost's attorney and fixer, the mob-adjacent one who knows everything. Terry Silver is Tasha's divorce lawyer, and then rather more than that. Cooper Saxe is the assistant U.S. attorney who spends the entire series unable to let go. Ghost strangles Silver; Tommy kills Proctor; only Saxe is still standing at the end.

Names people mix up

Nicknames, street names and government names, all in play at once. Keep these straight:

Ghost vs. Kanan vs. Dre

Three generations of the same corner. Kanan taught Ghost; Ghost brought up Dre. None of them are related, and each one wants the job the last one has.

Tasha vs. LaKeisha

Tasha is Ghost's wife and business partner. LaKeisha Grant is her best friend from the neighborhood, who runs a salon and later takes up with Tommy. Their friendship is the thing season 6 breaks.

Angela vs. Paz

The Valdes sisters. Angela is the federal prosecutor and Ghost's first love; Paz is the older sister who never liked him and turns out to be right about everything.

Tariq vs. Raina vs. Yasmine

Tariq and Raina are twins — the same age, opposite temperaments. Yasmine (“Yaz”) is the little one, mostly kept off-screen and out of it.

Kate Egan vs. Tony Teresi

Kate is Tommy's chaotic mother, who also raised James. Teresi is the mobster Tommy meets in prison in season 4. They had Tommy together; Kate never told either of them.

Shawn vs. Julio vs. 2-Bit

Three men who work for the organization and are not in the family. Shawn drives Ghost, Julio runs distribution, 2-Bit is Tommy's soldier — the only one of the three still around at the end.

Proctor vs. Saxe vs. Sandoval

Everyone here has a law degree and a different boss. Proctor works for Ghost, Saxe prosecutes him, Sandoval supervises Angela. Sandoval is the cartel's man inside the office.

Truth vs. the laundromat vs. the corner

Truth is the legitimate club and the front; the Wash N' Folds laundromats are Tommy's; the street product moves through crews you meet by nickname only. When someone says “the club,” they mean Truth.

Not family — but always in the room

Rashad Tate as seen in the show, played by Larenz Tate

Rashad Tate

Larenz Tate

The New York councilman who adopts James as his path to higher office, then spends three seasons trying to work out what to do with what he learns.

Felipe Lobos as seen in the show, played by Enrique Murciano

Felipe Lobos

Enrique Murciano

The Mexican connect at the top of the supply chain in the early seasons — the man Ghost and Tommy both work for, and the case Angela is actually building.

Mike Sandoval as seen in the show, played by David Fumero

Mike Sandoval

David Fumero

Angela's supervisor at the U.S. Attorney's office. He is the leak: the man feeding Lobos from inside the prosecution, and Greg Knox's killer.

2-Bit as seen in the show, played by Michael J. Ferguson

2-Bit

Michael J. Ferguson

Francis “2-Bit” Johnson, Tommy's most reliable soldier and the closest thing this show has to a survivor. Promoted to the main cast for the final season.

Chart covers all six seasons of the original Power (Starz, 2014–2020, 63 episodes, created by Courtney A. Kemp), so spoilers run through the series finale, “Exactly How We Planned.” Details were checked against the Power wiki rather than memory; portraits are stills from that wiki, cropped and served from this site. Yasmine has no portrait anywhere on the wiki, so she gets her initials. The spin-offs — Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan and Power Book IV: Force — carry several of these people much further and are not charted here.