Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutPowers midseason premiere.

(Read our exclusive interview with Rotimi,here).

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So Ghost is 100 percent dead, right?

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The news would never get something wrong.COURTNEY KEMP:Yeah, Ghost is definitely dead [laughs].

I dont want to give you anymore than that.

Its not the same oldPoweras youve seen it.

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It will feel different.

And thats a super accurate description after having seen this first installment.

So each of these really is a companion piece to the midseason finale in a way.

Dre is the focus of this episode, but moving forward what should we expect with this new format?

By my math, we have more suspects left than episodes.

I mean, werent you happy at the end?

Absolutely, especially because I always ask you, How the hell Dre is still alive?

By 12:45 a.m., I think that is going to be out.

Im not sure theres a way to tell this story where hes still running around.

And so then he dies.

I would have had to move somewhere rural and changed my name.

You said that you felt like Dre had to go, but did you feel like hereallyhad to go?

Hence setting him on fire.

And Rotimi did a great job in the episode.

And I was really psyched that I got to work with Ami Brabson, who plays his mom.

I thought those scenes were really effective.

At the end, you leave us with Paz coming in to talk to Blanca.

And one final question, which should be an easy one: Who shot Ghost?Oh, Derek.

[Laughs] The answer to that question is me, Im the one who shot Ghost.

Ultimately, no matter which character we say their bullet landed, Im the one responsible.

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