Last week on Black Lightning, the Pierce family was dealt some major blows. Jefferson’s (Cress Williams) legal woes having been set up on bogus embezzlement charges by Tobias Whale (Marvin “Krondon” Jones III) resulted in Lynn (Christine Adams) being locked out of her lab and her research taken. Then, Jen/Lightning (Laura Kariuki) is nearly captured in a setup by police chief Lopez (Melissa De Sousa). And, on top of that, the metahumans soon lose their abilities mysteriously. It’s a lot, but perhaps the most difficult and unsettling moment of the episode was when Lynn was arrested and jailed on a violating civil rights charge. The scene showed Lynn subjected to a strip search and a body cavity search as part of her jail intake that can only be described as degrading and it’s a difficult scene to watch. Now, Adams is speaking out about that shocking scene.
