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Jordan Calloway’s character Painkiller from the CW’s Black Lightning is getting a backdoor pilot this season.

The episode will air as the seventh episode of Black Lightning’s fourth season, in February 202. In the episode, Khalil is riddled with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where as super-enhanced killing machine Painkiller he was a member of Tobias Whale’s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA. After attempting to bury Painkiller, Khalil moves to Akashic valley to find peace as his history clashes with a new beginning and he is forced back into action to bring justice.

Salim Akil, will write, executive produce and direct the pilot.