When Black Lightning returns for season 3 next month,
it’ll be time for the Pierce sisters to step up.
The CW just debuted an extended trailer for the new season that reveals both Jefferson Pierce, a.k.a. Black Lightning (Cress Williams), and his wife, Lynn (Christine Adams), getting put into involuntary “protective custody” by Agent Odell (Bill Duke) as the Markovian war heats up. With Freeland’s first line of defense being held against his will by the government, it will mean Anissa, a.k.a. Thunder (Nafessa Williams), and Jennifer, a.k.a. Lightning (China Anne McClain), are getting promotions as the city’s new main superheroes.
“The family is probably the most disjointed we’ve ever had it,” series star Cress Williams previously told EW. “It’s the whole Markovian conflict. It’s pulled everyone in different directions because they’ve gotten a little bit divided, in the sense there are just different focuses that they have and different motivations that they have. We’re filming, I think, episode 4 right now, and [for] a lot of the family members it’s like, ‘Oh, here’s our first scene together,’ because just where the drama has taken us has really spread us out.”
As if that weren’t enough for Anissa and Jennifer to deal with while their parents are out of commission, Tobias Whale (Marvin “Krondon” Jones III) is also seen in the footage, locked up (potentially in the same government hole as Jefferson and Lynn), vowing to escape and kill everyone Black Lightning loves. Check out the new trailer above.
Black Lighting season 3 premieres Monday, Oct. 7, on the CW.
