
When he bursts his stitches, he returns to her, and she calls him out as she tends to his shoulder wound. Teddy remains drawn to Parissa’s cold, erotic calculus. Unfortunately for Franklin, after his long stay at Parissa’s house, Teddy is especially irritable. He also tells Franklin to pull his real-estate business out of a high-profile deal to minimize their risk of exposure, but Franklin resists.

After discovering that Cissy has returned from Cuba and that “somebody on the inside” was responsible for the shooting that injured him, Teddy declares that Franklin has grown “sloppy as hell” and asserts that he is no longer allowed to bring security to their drops, for which he will set all future meets. After paging Franklin’s phone nonstop, Teddy meets up with Franklin and lays down the law (literally!). After all, on Snowfall, it goes first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Teddy with a CIA-backed ultimatum. The engagement of South Central’s premier couple aside, this episode is far from a reprieve.

(I am so excited to see both of their crazy asses get married!) Shocked and affirmed, Louie gets choked up as she accepts the proposal. Getting down on his knees, he proposes to Louie with passion and clarity. He tells her not to worry but that he needs to “make some changes” and “reconnect back with my shit.” Sure, that means his goals of building out his business, but it also means marrying his sweetheart. “If I was on the needle and I saw Franklin kill Rob, I’d be making my exit plan too,” she says before switching the subject to Jerome’s wellness. Making an effort to empathize with Jerome’s friend, Louie notes the precarious situation he must have been in. When he looks at a man with a needle in his arm, he sheds a single tear.Īs Jerome’s better half, Louie knows how much Peaches meant to him. Jerome grows silent, his eyes wandering across the room. Oakley says Peaches went to Thailand, but another man in the house says Peaches has fled to Burma. In the plot to take Franklin’s money and aid Kane, Oakley hints at the distance Peaches likely traveled to evade being caught. “I am the game.” Oakley cowers but maintains his story: Peaches was an addict and frequented this spot. “You think I don’t know when someone’s running game on me?” he says. Feeling misled, Jerome puts a gun to Oakley’s head. As he looks around, Jerome discovers an assortment of substance abusers who inhabit the home. Later, when Oakley takes Jerome to the house, there is no answer after several knocks, and the two decide to enter as Jerome closes the door behind them. Oakley is emphatic that he saw Peaches just a week ago and that “He’s probably with Curtis - they served together.” After talking to the doctor, who doesn’t give him any info, Jerome runs into Oakley, a white veteran who remembers meeting him at a party with Peaches years ago. Visiting the local Veterans Center, Jerome pays off the front desk to disclose that Peaches (whose government name is Dejaun Hill) had visited the center just a week before to see a Dr. Stolen money and a sudden disappearance give the group a clear answer on Peaches’s betrayal and alliance with Kane.ĭespite Franklin telling him that he has hired a hunter to find Peaches, Jerome sets out to uncover the mystery of his heartbreak. When the succession of hits on the crew took place during Peaches’s day off, all but Jerome wondered aloud about his potential involvement. This season, while Jerome’s relationship with his partner, Louie, has remained steady, his friendship with military veteran turned bodyguard Peaches has suffered a mighty blow. A lover and a fighter of the highest order, Franklin’s uncle Jerome has, from the show’s pilot episode, established himself as a man deft in the art of managing complex relationships.

Propelled by their love for one another, whether it be familial, platonic, or romantic, Franklin and his crew have had their bonds tested time and again by the influences of power, reprisal, and profit. In the Wild Wild West, trying their hardest and doing their best, the fearsome “Family” of Snowfall have soldiered on in times of war.
