Jos Cleary-Lopez

**Jos Cleary-Lopez** is a main character in the Amazon Prime series, *The Power*.

## Biography

### Season One

#### A Better Future Is in Your Hands

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Jos scrolls through her mother’s social media feed. Later at school, she accidentally gives her crush a static shock through the lockers. Feeling something off about herself, she keeps rubbing her neck, until her classmate Kat notices, telling her she had the same power for two weeks now, and shows Jos how to manipulate it to her will. In the process of learning, Jos shuts down all the lights in the surrounding area.

#### The World Is on Fu\*king Fire

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Margot wakes her husband on their anniversary, while Jos starts a fire in the microwave, still without a grasp on her newfound strength.

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.

#### A New Organ

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On Jos’ way to school, the bus driver denies her admittance into his school bus. Today he’s not driving girls. At school, people are talking about the girls who have “it.”

Classes get suspended due to a directive from the governor to address the rumor that some girls are experiencing discharges of electricity. Jos’ teacher asks girls who have it to identify themselves. The girls who have it are being escorted out. And Jos’ friend outs both her and Kat as having the power.

Rob calls Margot to give her news about Jos. They go to her school to find girls trapped in clear cages at the school. They pick up Jos, who tells them about how her powers work. She can’t control it like other girls. It doesn’t happen when she expects it too. They see this firsthand when, in a fight with her brother over the remote, Jos accidentally sends a shock to Matty’s head.

Matty’s injury will be okay, but will lead to scarring. Margot tries to comfort Jos, but she doesn’t want any of it. She thinks Margot only cares about her family when her job is on the line.

They then take Jos in for an MRI, and the reading shows that her power is coming from her collarbone, not her hands. It’s a new organ that generates electricity. Tash thinks it could have always been dormant and now has turned on for survival. Teenage girls have developed it out of necessity.

#### Scarlet Minnow

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At night, Margot checks in on Jos once Rob is sleeping. She apologizes for not being there for her enough. The mother and daughter smoke marijuana outside together, and Margot asks what Jos thinks about her recent decision to go public with information about EOD. Jos tells Margot that she’s stuck in the mindset she had growing up. She thinks girls need more protection now. But in reality, getting the power means being able to live without constant fear. Margot asks Jos to give the power to her. When Jos sends an electrical jolt to her, she understands what Jos meant. It feels incredible.

#### Sparklefingers

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Jos uses her powers in an intimate scenario with Ryan, and it seems to make him uncomfortable. When she doesn’t stop after he tells her to, he pushes her away, causing her to injure her lip. Blaming him, she runs off.

Jos later apologizes to Ryan, but he reveals it’s not her power that freaks him out. He didn’t want to have sex because he hadn’t yet told her that he was born intersex, with both genitalia. So because he has higher levels of estrogen, he gained the power when she accidentally shocked him before they started dating. Jos is angry that he never told her, but Ryan reminds her it’s his body, and he doesn’t owe her anything.

That night, Margot and Jos smoke together again. Jos says she supports her mom. The two of them agree to keep Margot’s EOD a secret, even from Rob, until the election.

#### Baptism

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Jos has to go to school with bodyguards ever since the suicide that was committed during Margot’s campaign announcement. At home, she watches Roxy’s instructional videos online and harnesses her hatred of the man who committed suicide to prompt her own powers.

She’s interrupted by Ryan standing outside her window to apologize. He lights up a heart with his own power and tells Jos that they’re on the same side. He realizes that the people who want to hurt her want to hurt him too. When they kiss, the heart goes up in sparks. From the window, Matty films it all.

## Personality

Jos is the teenage foil to her uptight Mayor mother. Frustrated with the workings of public life, she struggles between the spotlight on her family and feeling invisible everywhere else. She feels powerless and resentful, that is, until she discovers her power. As her mother becomes the political face of the Power, Jos discovers that supporting her mother’s political climb will come at a high price.

## Powers and abilities

* Bio-Electrokinesis or EOD/Electric Organ Discharge
	+ Electric Shocks
	+ Electric Blasts
	+ Electric Strikes
	+ Electrical Power Transferal

## Relationships

### Family

* Margot Cleary-Lopez (mother)
* Rob Lopez (father)
* Izzy Cleary-Lopez (sister)
* Matty Clearly-Lopez (brother)

## Appearances

### Season 1

* A Better Future Is in Your Hands
* The World Is on Fu\*king Fire
* A New Organ
* Scarlet Minnow
* Sparklefingers
* Baptism
* Just a Girl
* The Shape of Power

## Name

* Jos appears as a name in many cultures, primarily as a boy's name. As a girl's name it is a French name meaning *"Lord"* or *"Little Goths"*

## References

1. ↑ Prime Video: The Power
2. ↑ French Girl's Name Jos