A block, don’t forget. A body don’t lie. And Sarai? She don’t flinch.

When Maysa walks in with a video that could end everything, Sarai is forced to face a version of herself she can’t explain. A body. A weapon. A moment she doesn’t remember.

Khalon’s still close. Still watching. But his silence speaks louder than his gun ever did. And Holloway, the street where her mama died, is starting to breathe secrets Sarai was never supposed to know.

But before this episode ends, she’ll choose something dangerous: truth over protection... and revenge over love.

This is part one in our story series.

The king is dead. The streets wear black, but grief ain't pure.

When Sarai returns for her father's funeral, the past ain’t buried, it’s posted up on the corner in red bottoms. Secrets creep in from every shadow, and one name keeps rising through the heat: Khalon Dupree. The man she once rode for… and the man standing where her father used to rule.

But the will left more than a crown, it left blood on her name, and a city watching her next move.

This ain’t a homecoming. This is war.

Some characters are written to entertain. Lyric Saint was written to testify.

In this episode, we peel back the lace on a femme who don’t raise her voice—but still leaves bodies in her wake. No gimmicks. No approval-seeking. Just a woman in white who turns silence into judgment and grace into fire.

Tahari breaks down the bones of a “Femme With the Motive”... the kind of woman who gets mistaken for soft because she’s calm—and ends up rewriting the entire damn gospel.

We’re talking about:

• Writing rage that don’t scream
• How silence can be sharper than vengeance
• Building characters who lead with power and petty
• Why Lyric Saint is not a redemption arc… she’s a reckoning
• What it means to write women who don’t just survive—they sanctify

This ain’t craft tips. This is a character confession. And if you’re building your femme with the motive? You gon’ need prayer... and pen.

Listen, if you’re a writer who:

• Is tired of soft-spoken villains and wants femme characters with conviction
• Builds stories where trauma is layered, not centered
• Writes women who’ve been misunderstood, underestimated, or weaponized
• Wants to walk the line between sacred and savage

Subscribe to the fire. Because some pens don’t heal. They hunt.