Maybe we’ve just been hanging out in the Powerverse for too long, but way more characters survived the series finale than we expected. Like, a lot more.
But was Tariq St. Patrick one of them? Read on for a recap of the final episode, “Ghost in the Machine,” to find out what became of Tasha and Ghost’s son (and then make sure to let us know what you thought of the hour).
ROCK, MEET HARD PLACE | After Monet’s death, Noma is MIA and Tariq is stuck figuring out to do with Carter, whom he still has tied to a chair in an undisclosed location. The crooked cop doesn’t seem worried about his current situation. After all, if Tariq & Co. kill him, the video of them killing Zion will go public, and their lives are over. And if they continue to hold him hostage, the NYPD will be all over them eventually. “It’s just a matter of time,” he says. “Either way, you’re f–ked.
But what Carter doesn’t know is that Effie and Brayden have taken his key and are in his house, rifling through his laptop in an attempt to erase the sole existing copy of the Zion footage. They realize they can’t destroy a file from his work computer via his home one, but they also realize that he’s been looking at Kamaal Tate’s murder file a lot lately. And when Davis comes through with some other files that link Carter’s service weapon to the gun that killed Det. Tate, Tariq and his friends have the advantage.
Tariq makes a deal with Carter: They’ll both sit on what they know about the other — as well as the evidence to prove it — and go their separate ways. Carter agrees. Do any of us think that this is going to hold for long? No, we do not. So, Dru goes to the precinct and uses a thumbdrive to run a program (courtesy of Effie) on Carter’s laptop that wipes it clean of everything, including the Zion footage. While he’s there, he also has a conversation with Nico — and that will become important to remember later.
NOMA SPINS OUT | Chinedu warns Noma that she has to leave the country, and quickly, because the Tejada kids surely will come for her for killing Monet. So she makes a plan to fly herself and Anya to Nigeria. Only problem: Anya says she’s not going. They argue, and Noma finally admits to her daughter that the drug business is hers, not Mecca’s. It gets ugly; at one point, Noma yells, “Your father died because he got in my way!” With nothing resolved, Noma leaves to get some fake papers for both of them, and she warns Anya to stay put while she’s gone.
