Power Book II: Ghost is popping up the warmth forward of its season two finale. Like previous seasons, a significant character at all times will get killed off in some unspecified time in the future, and sadly, Professor Carrie Milgram (Melanie Liburd) is the unfortunate particular person getting a tragic finish this time.
In episode eight, Carrie’s internet of lies lastly catches as much as her when she foolishly places herself on the stand at Tariq’s (Michael Rainey Jr.) homicide trial rather than Lauren (Paige Hurd). Tariq convinces her to take action after she realizes she put considered one of her college students in hurt’s manner simply to cowl her personal tracks. Throughout Carrie’s cross-examination with Davis Maclean (Methodology Man), her compromising sexual historical past is revealed to the jury — which incorporates Zeke (Daniel Bellomy), Professor Jabari Reynolds (Justin McManus), Detective Kevin Whitman (Jeff Hephner), and even Davis.
After her credibility is totally destroyed in court docket, Carrie just about loses the whole lot else in her life — together with her job, profession, and fame. At this level, issues cannot get any worse for her — that’s, till Monet (Mary J. Blige) pays her an surprising go to. In spite of everything Monet’s secrets get exposed to her household and Zeke runs out on her, Monet units out on a mission to eradicate the one one that threatens to take the final little bit of household she wants to carry onto. The very last thing she says to Carrie on the finish of episode eight is, “If he nonetheless has you to return to, he’ll by no means come again to me.”
Within the episode’s final scene, a susceptible Zeke goes to see Carrie at her condominium, hoping to search out consolation. However as an alternative, he finds a physique hanging from the ceiling — presumably Carrie’s. The episode ends on that cliffhanger, so we will solely assume Monet is the perpetrator who kills Carrie.
Following episode seven, creator Courtney Kemp teased on Instagram Live that a big death was coming. “Y’all know me. What you assume I am gonna do? Come on, you recognize,” she teased. One other lifeless professor turning up within the midst of Tariq’s trial can solely harm his probabilities of beating his case, however we’ll simply have to attend and see how the rest of the season performs out for him and everybody else related to this new murder.
