Black Lightning/Painkiller

Painkiller
Season 4, Episode 7
Airdate	April 12, 2021
Production Number	T43.10157
Written by	Salim Akil
Directed by	Bille Woodruff
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Black Lightning — Season Four

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Painkiller is the seventh episode of the fourth season of Black Lightning, and the fifty-second episode overall.

Starring: Cress Williams (Jefferson Pierce / Black Lightning) (credit only), Nafessa Williams (Anissa Pierce / Thunder), Christine Adams (Lynn Stewart) (credit only), Marvin "Krondon" Jones III (Tobias Whale) (credit only), Jordan Calloway (Khalil Payne / Painkiller), Chantal Thuy (Grace Choi)

and James Remar (Peter Gambi) (credit only)

Guest Starring: Bill Duke (Agent Percy Odell), Alexander Hodge (Philky), James Roch (Cousin Donald), Sibongile Mlambo (Maya Odell), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (Wo Man)

Co-Starring: Christopher Marquez (Nick), Kaja Brielle (Imani), Fantastic Negrito (Himself), Jef Holbrook (Party Pic Guy), Alec Back (Bad Guy), Bruce Blackshear (Guard)

Plot Overview

Khalil Payne is a young man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller, he was both a member of Tobias Whale's gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA. After attempting to bury the darker, devastatingly lethal Painkiller part of his persona, Khalil has distanced himself away from everyone he knows and loves in a new city, Akashic Valley, in order to find peace but peace never comes easy for men with pasts like Khalil Payne and Painkiller. As his violent, destructive history crashes his idyllic new beginning, Khalil is thrusted back into action with a new mission - bring justice where he once gave out punishment - but to do that, he will first have to deal with and harness his darker side, Painkiller.