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1Jennifer is narrowly saved from her powers killing her. Meanwhile Tobias incites a city-wide riot all to draw Black Lightning for one final confrontation.
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3* AchillesHeel: Tobias has correctly deduced that Black Lightning draws his powers from the city's electric grid. If the city doesn't have any powers, neither does Black Lightning (though Gambi has given him a battery in his suit to draw from should the power go out).
4* AgentProvocateur: Tobias sends members of the 100 to incite riots in response to the "Cape Guy" shooting.
5* BittersweetEnding: Tobias is finally captured, but the Markovians are slowly making their way to Freeland to declare war on the city's metahuman populace.
6* CrazyPrepared:
7** If Lala somehow managed to learn how to resist Tobias' trigger phrase to control him, Tobias had another one designed to paralyze him if he ever went rogue.
8** As is expected, Gambi has batteries Jefferson and (presumably the others) can draw from should the power grid go out. It only has so much power, however.
9* CurbStompBattle:
10** Lynn gives Dr. Jace an absolutely '''''brutal''''' beating.
11** Tobias doesn't last too long against Black Lightning and Jennifer, either.
12* DisneyDeath:
13** Turns out, Reverend Holt wasn't killed by Cutter's poison, instead just being put into a coma, from which he's now awakened.
14** Khalil's presence in a pod suggests that he's not actually dead.
15* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with. Cutter is audibly disgusted when she hears the DA won't press charges on the Cape Guy shooting, but also has no problem with Tobias taking advantage of the situation.
16* ExtranormalPrison: Tobias is put in one after being captured by Black Lightning and Lightning. When Tobias demands to see a lawyer, he's told in no uncertain terms that he's been classified as a dangerous metahuman threat and normal civil protections don't apply to him. The prison seems to use {{Force Field Door}}s to keep the prisoners from escaping.
17* InadvertentEntranceCue: When Anissa wants to go out to stop the riot, Jennifer mentions that Gambi still needed help. He then enters the room and says, "Least of your worries."
18* InternalReveal:
19** Black Lightning finds out that Tobias was the one who kidnapped the pod kids, ''not'' Markovia.
20** Agent Odell reveals that he knows that the Pierce family are metahumans.
21* LaserGuidedKarma:
22** Dr. Jace meets a well-deserved fate when she's captured by a Markovia bounty hunter; she should've stayed with the ASA when she had the chance.
23** After two seasons of being a KarmaHoudini Tobias is finally taken down and taken into an illegal black site prison because of his metahuman strength.
24* LeftHanging: Most of the season's subplots are wrapped up neatly but there are still two that are noticeably left hanging.
25** We never find out who put the hit on Gambi.
26** Anissa still hasn't found Grace.
27* MoodWhiplash: A happy dinner at the Pierce family is interrupted by Agent Odell.
28* NotQuiteDead: Rev. Holt somehow survived Cutter's poisoning attempt. He chalks it up to a miracle from God.
29* OhCrap: Dr. Jace when she realizes that Markovia has sent a bounty hunter after her.
30* PowerNullifier: When put in the ExtranormalPrison, Tobias is fitted with a special collar that negates his SuperStrength.
31* ShoutOut: Thunder compares Gambi to Batman, due to both being CrazyPrepared.
32* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Tobias grabbing Cutter by the neck in fit of anger makes her decide that she's had enough, and she leaves him and Freeland.
33* SequelHook: The episode ends with Agent Odell revealing he knows about the Pierce family's secret and trying to deputize them so they can help the ASA nullify Markovia's attempts to start a metahuman war.
34* StormingTheCastle: Lala, Jennifer/Lightning, and Black Lightning all end up assaulting Tobias in his penthouse.
35* TriggerPhrase: Since his second resurrection, Lala is no longer under the influence of the control phrase "The Devil deals the cards". However, Tobias turns out to have given him another trigger, "E pluribus, unum", which causes all his tattoos to come out at once.
36* VillainousBreakdown: When Black Lighting and Thunder take out his metahuman hit squad and his city-wide riots fail to become as extensive as he'd planned, Tobias completely loses the MaskOfSanity he's been operating under, unleashing all the pod kids at once just to spite the heroes and nearly killing Cutter when she tries to stop him.
37-->'''Tobias Whale:''' The power's back on. Police aren't overreacting like they're supposed to. My riot is dyin' out. It's that damn Black Lightning. It's always Black Lightning. Thinks he can take my chaos. Wait till I put 12 dazed and enraged meta-humans on his punk ass.

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