Power Book II Season 3 Final Recap: Ghost

At this point, we know that trouble follows Tariq wherever he goes. No matter how many times he survives unscathed, there’s always a new problem waiting around the corner, and the finale is full of them.

First, he wakes up in the hospital after being knocked unconscious while trying to save Tasha from taking a bullet from Tommy. After he comes to, he finds out how Tommy tracked down his mother. In his mind, Saxe, before being killed, told Monet where Tasha was being hidden and Monet tipped off Tommy. Tariq then goes on a hunt for Tommy and sets out to kill Monet for trying to harm her family.

He heads to Tommy’s mother’s house but falls short, until he later tracks down Tommy and pulls a gun on him in the street. Tommy calms Tariq down enough to tell him what happened after he was knocked out, informing him that Tasha did it because she didn’t want anyone to get seriously hurt. Like his mother, Tariq and Tommy also resolve their differences, before the former asks his uncle to support him in his plan to get rid of Monet. Tommy warns him of the consequences before reminding Tariq that, technically, in New York, he’s already dead anyway (he faked his death in season one), so he’s no help.

Meanwhile, Tariq has yet to find a way to stop Lauren from testifying in court against her ex Effie, who tried to kill her in season two, as the latter is being goaded by the feds into outing Tariq’s drug activities. He finally convinces Lauren to back down on her after Cane threatens her parents; this also gets Effie out of jail.

Tariq’s last order of business is to eliminate Monet and threaten to harm Noma’s daughter (who is hiding in an unknown location) in order to escape his thumbs. But without Brayden’s help, he is forced to team up with Diana, who has also been trying to find a way to get away from her mother. Together, the two conjure up a plan to kill Monet in a drive-by shooting, with Tariq as the trigger. But his plan goes haywire when someone else beats him to it: his mother.

It turns out that Tasha had revenge plans of her own after Monet put her in danger, leaving Diana with no choice but to blame Tariq for the shooting. However, that was always her plan from the beginning, as she secretly teamed up with Dru and found a way to get rid of Monet and Tariq in one fell swoop.

While Monet is in the hospital, Tariq catches up with his mother, who tells him that her hands are clean from the attempted murder of Monet because she shot him. But Tariq has his own confession from him: he tells his mother that he lost his trust fund in a Ponzi scheme at the Brayden family’s investment firm. As viewers will recall, the promise he made to his mother in season two finale it was getting enough money and power to be able to join her and her little sister, escaping life on the streets once and for all. But with both further out of his grasp, Tariq makes one last desperate attempt to win her freedom.

He meets Noma in her warehouse to offer her a proposition: take Monet’s place by working alongside her as his dealer in New York. But the Tejadas have already let Noma know that Tariq tried to kill Monet, so they all turn on him. Just before Cane kills him, Brayden shows up shooting guns and helps Tariq escape. Noma’s henchman Obi had given him a clue as to what was going on. Tariq and Brayden then leave knowing that they have just started an all-out street war, with no telling how it will end.