At this point, we know that trouble follows Tariq wherever he goes. No matter how many times he makes it out, there’s always a new problem to face, and the finale is full of them.
First, he wakes up in the hospital after being knocked out while trying to save Tasha from taking a bullet from Tommy. After he arrives, he pieces together how Tommy tracked down his mother. In his mind, Saxe, before committing the murder, told Monet where Tasha was being hidden and Monet then tipped off Tommy. Tariq then goes on the hunt for Tommy and sets out to kill Monet for trying to harm his family.
He goes to Tommy’s mother’s house, but does not come there, until he later tracks down Tommy and points a gun at him in the street. Tommy calms Tariq enough to tell him what happened after he was knocked over, informing him that Tasha did it because she didn’t want anyone to get seriously hurt. Like their mother, Tariq and Tommy resolve their differences before Tariq 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 doesn’t get any help.
Meanwhile, Tarik still has to figure out a way to keep Lauren from testifying in court against his ex, Effie, who tried to kill him in season two, as the latter tracks Tarik’s drug dealings. was being fed for. He eventually reunites with Lauren after getting Ken to bully her parents; This also gets Effy out of jail.
Tariq’s final order of business involves eliminating Monet and threatening to harm Noma’s daughter (who is hiding in an undisclosed location) in order to get her out from under his thumb. But without Braeden’s help, she is forced to team up with Diana, who is trying to find a way away from her mother. Together they plan to kill Monet in a drive-by shooting, with Tariq as the trigger man. But his plan backfires when someone else knocks him out: his mother.
It is revealed that Tasha had her own plans for revenge after Monet put her in danger, leaving Diana with no choice but to shoot at Tariq. This was always his plan from the beginning, however, so he secretly teams up with Drew to find a way to get rid of both Monet and Tariq in one fell swoop.
While Monet is in the hospital, Tariq visits his mother, who tells him that her hands are clean from Monet’s attempted murder because she shot him. But Tariq has a confession of his own: he tells his mother that he lost his trust fund in a Ponzi scheme at Brayden’s family’s investment firm. As viewers may recall, his promise to his mother in the season two finale was to gain enough money and power so he could escape life on the street once and for all and be reunited with his younger sister. But with both things even more out of reach, Tariq makes one last desperate attempt to gain his freedom.
He meets with Noma at her warehouse to make her an offer: take Monet’s place, working with Monet as she is his New York distributor. But Tejdas already told Noma that Tariq tried to kill Monet, so they all turn on him. Just before he is killed by Kane, Brayden arrives guns blazing and helps Tariq escape. Noma’s henchman Obi had given him a tip as to what was happening. Tariq and Brayden then ride off knowing that they have just started an all out street war, with no telling how it will end.
