Power Book III: Raising Kanan made its biggest cut yet in Season 5 Episode 7, and Marvin Thomas did not survive it. Snaps and Pop were gone by the time the credits rolled, turning the hour into a reset of the story’s balance of power and Kanan’s place inside it.
Marvin’s death felt avoidable because the episode had already shown how far Raq had pushed the family toward collapse. This season, Marvin and Lou stood up to her and told her the truth about herself, but their choice to keep protecting and following her still cost them everything.
Snaps and Pop exit
Jukebox put an end to Snaps and Pop, removing two of the franchise’s hard edges in the same hour that Marvin disappeared. The episode then gave Breeze its clearest look yet, with Breeze orchestrating the attack on Marvin and his crew and showing a willingness to turn chaos into leverage.
That sequence matters because it does more than clear the board. With Snaps, Pop, and Marvin Thomas gone, the episode leaves fewer players able to check Kanan or absorb the fallout from the family’s internal damage. The move also tightens the path from the younger Kanan to the ruthless version of Kanan Stark seen later in Power.
Marvin and Lou
Marvin and Lou finally confronted Raq this season, and the contradiction is the point: they told her the truth, kept following her anyway, and still ended up paying for her choices. Neither Marvin nor Lou died directly because of Raq, but her decisions set off the chain reaction that destroyed the Thomas family from within.
Marvin’s final words also worked like a warning label. He died after standing up to Raq, and the show used that loss to sharpen Kanan’s next steps, not soften them. Loyalty had become whatever benefited Kanan in the moment, and that shift now looks like the real engine of the season.
Kanan and Breeze
Krystal’s death was the event that truly pushed Kanan toward trying to kill Raq, and he confronted his mother about Krystal and Famous before the episode moved on. There was barely a mention of Krystal after the truth about Snaps and Pop came out, which leaves the emotional logic of the season pointed less at grief than at payoff.
50 Cent’s closing narration centered on hate and consequences, and that is the right frame for where this story is headed. By tying Kanan’s younger self to the adult who later murdered Shawn, Jukebox, and countless others without hesitation, Season 5 Episode 7 makes Breeze the character to watch and makes Marvin’s death the hour’s lasting cost.
