The Power

Roxy has seen her dad Bernie (a drug kingpin) hit other men before, and she thinks about how she’s always wanted the power to hurt people like he has. A year after Roxy’s mother’s death, Bernie tells Roxy that he and Roxy’s half-brothers (Terry, Ricky, and Darrell) are ready to get revenge on Primrose for the murder. Roxy shows them what she can do—first, by giving them a dead arm, and second, by putting her hand in her stepmother Barbara’s pond and electrocuting all of the fish in it. Bernie is pleased.

Though only 15 years old, Roxy has a lot of power—more than any other girl they can find for her to practice with. And that’s why Bernie lets Roxy come along to deal with Primrose. When they leave, Ricky gives Roxy some cocaine to clear her head. Once they arrive at a warehouse where they know Primrose is going to be, Roxy watches from upstairs through a grate in the floor while her brothers and father do the job.

When Bernie and his men start to fire their guns, twenty of Primrose’s men come out and fire back. Terry is killed. Roxy watches in horror as a shot hits Bernie in the side. Realizing she can do something, Roxy electrifies the iron walkway she’s standing on, which trails down to a set of rails that some of Primrose’s men are leaning on. Three of them cry out in fits. She then electrocutes two men who chase her.

Roxy watches as Primrose tries to escape. She runs after him, and catches up to him as he struggles against a locked door. She slides into him, grabbing his ankle and electrifying him several times. He screams. He realizes who Roxy’s mother is and apologizes that she saw it happen: he tells her that Newland said she wasn’t going to be home. He begs her to spare him. Roxy thinks of her mother begging, and she thinks of her father hitting other men. She puts her hand to Primrose’s temple and kills him.