The World Is on Fu*king Fire

**The World Is on Fu\*king Fire** is the second episode of the first season of The Power, and the second episode overall. It aired March 31, 2023.

## Synopsis

As teen girls grapple with their new abilities, parents and political leaders try to make sense of a sudden rash of fires, power outages, blown electrical grids and mysterious burn marks.

## Plot

*This section is a detailed plot of this episode. **There are major spoilers.** Click to expand.*

Margot wakes her husband on their anniversary, while Jos starts a fire in the microwave, still without a grasp on her newfound strength.
Margot is informed that emergency services have reached their budget ceiling. Fires are going up everywhere, and they are somehow always due to teenage girls.

As a doctor, Rob takes a look at marks on a teenage girl’s arms, concluding that they were caused by electrical burns. He thinks someone has been hurting her. But her mother says she’s only been in normal playground fights–with other girls.

Tunde promises to find out what happened to Ndudi, who now rests in the hospital after the shock to her head. But he then decides to upload the video of her electrocution without her consent–although there are already rumors of Ndudi being a witch.

Margot sees Tunde’s video and the comments from teenage girls claiming it’s happening to them too. She shows the video to Governor Daniel with an opinion that all the recent fires are connected to this event. He doesn’t take it seriously, but says he’ll have a team to look into quietly and divert the funding she needs. But his real advice is for her to calm down and go be with her husband.

At home, Rob and Margot finally sit down to celebrate their anniversary and talk about their days. Rob encourages Margot to let out her anger. She can’t let it brew. As a gift, he gives her a wedding present from his mother and invites her to break it. Letting the rage build over how Danden dismissed her, she throws it on the ground.

When Rob drives Jos home from school, she accidentally sends an electric shock through the car. Rob wonders if it’s the same thing she did with the microwave, but Jos simply gets out of the car and walks away. Ryan kisses Jos for the first time.

In Carpathia, authorities call the fires acts of vandalism and anarchism, stating that the young female perpetrators will face capital punishment. Tatiana, a former gymnast now married to Carpathian president Viktor Moskalev, simply smiles through it.
Tatiana tries to convince Viktor he has more important things to worry about than the pranks of teenage girls, to no avail. She remembers when she was a teenage girl and told by her mother to be quieter and humbler.

Her mother visits her in the present day to tell her of her father’s death and ask for money. But Tatiana decides to give her nothing, stating her mother never gave her anything.

Roxy tries to get her dad to find the men who killed her mom, but she doesn’t think he’s taking the matter seriously.
Later, she watches the now viral video of Ndudi. She tells Bernie she can do the same thing and other girls aren’t even as powerful as her. Taking her dad and brother to a field to show, she then shows them what she’s got.

Allie, continues her journey. She tries praying, but the voice in her head tells her God has done nothing for her. She steals money while hiding her face, wary of the news of Clyde’s death making the rounds; it’s showing Allie as the key suspect in his murder.
Eventually, she comes across a broken down car and gives it a jump start with nothing but her hands. But when she accidentally hurts a young girl in the process, the owner of the vehicle pushes her to the ground and drives away.

Sore and tired, Allie sits alone in a field to wonder why this is all happening to her. “Because the world is in need of a revolution,” her voice says. And it’s Allie who will be its voice.

In the morning, Helen calls Margot with the news - a plane has crashed in the middle of town.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Toni Collette as Margot Cleary-Lopez
* Auli'i Cravalho as Jos Cleary-Lopez
* John Leguizamo as Rob Lopez
* Halle Bush as Allie Montgomery
* Ria Zmitrowicz as Roxy Monke
* Eddie Marsan as Bernie Monke
* Toheeb Jimoh as Tunde Ojo
* Heather Agyepong as Ndudi
* Zrinka Cvitesic as Tatiana Moskalev

### Guest & Recurring cast

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* Nico Hiraga as Ryan
* Josh Charles as Governor Daniel Dandon
* Mezi Atwood as Sandra
* Edwina Findley as Helen
* Daniela Vega as Sister Maria
* Emily Kuroda as Sister Veronica
* Gerrison Machado as Matty Cleary-Lopez
* Pietra Castro as Izzy Cleary-Lopez
* Gary McDonald as Big Frank
* Chris Mulkey as Mr. Montgomery †
* Elise Robertson as Mrs. Montgomery
* Sinead Matthews as Christina †
* Little Simz as Adunola
* Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Ricky Monke
* Avital Lvova as Liat Monke
* Sam Buchanan as Terry Monke
* Juliet Cowan as Barbara Monke
* Archie Rush as Darrell Monke
* Ashley De Guzman as Yuki
* Anisa Harris as Navika
* Anissa Matlock as Cat
* Ireti Doyle as Shola Ojo
* Alexandru Bindea as Viktor Moskalev
* Rob Delaney as Tom
* Alice Eve as Kristen
* Ana Ularu as Zoia Donici
* Risteard Cooper as Declan Blease

## Trivia

Different parts of the world react differently to the new phenomenon, reflecting biases in how societies hold toward women all over the world.

The Carpathians are a mountain arc in south-eastern Central Europe, a state "Carpathia" does not exist. Countries in this region where slavonic endings of last names (like -ov, -ev) are common are e.g. Moldova, Ukraine, and Slovakia.