Power boss explains why Angela Valdes never appeared in finale after being shot by Tommy

POWER came to an end earlier this month, but fans still have plenty of unanswered questions.

The Starz crime thriller finally identified the culprit behind James ‘Ghost’ St Patrick’s (Omari Hardwick) murder as his own son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr).

However, it was his mother Tasha (Naturi Naughton) who ended up imprisoned for the crime, after she decided to take the fall so her son could go free.

While not everyone was on board with the family betrayal, there was another aspect of the final episode that some fans took issue with – the absence of Angela Valdes (Lela Loren).

The character was last seen in the season five finale, where she was shot dead by Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora).

Nonetheless, she appeared before Ghost as a hallucination on several occasions to offer support and advice.

With this in mind, many expected her to appear in the last ever episode for the sake of closure.

Kanan (50 Cent) manifested to Tariq as a vision, while Simon Stern (Victor Garber) and baby Yasmine (Amaya Carr) also popped up.

Show runner Courtney Kemp talked about the characters she wanted to reintroduce, but couldn’t, and Angela made the cut.

“I wish I had been able to have more, I guess,” she told TV Line.

“It would have been nice to have a little bit more Victor Garber because I feel like Simon is always so delicious,” she went on.

“You know, some of my favourite characters — like, Ghost didn’t get to have a cross, really, with Kate (Patricia Kalember) before he died.

“That would have been nice. Yeah, I have all these favourite characters that I didn’t get to revisit.”

Speaking specifically about Angela, she added:  “Well, she did come back for Ghost’s part of the finale, the [Episode 10] part,” she noted.

“But she didn’t have a relationship with Tariq, so it wouldn’t have really made sense.”

The comments come after Power dropped the trailer for all four spin-off series.

Power is available to stream on Netflix now.