He winds up passing and gaining access to the accelerated study program. Milgram argues that he deserves another shot, and he gets it. Tariq shows up late and unprepared for the test, which he fails. Tariq wants into a rigorous program called canonical studies - which will allow him to graduate early (and maybe just let him get his hands on that trust money more quickly) - but first he’s got to pass an oral entrance exam on Albert Camus’ The Stranger. We also meet some of Tariq’s classmates, including a lovely lady named Lauren and ‘Riq’s old Choate roommate Brayden, as well as his adviser, Caridad Milgram (played by This Is Us alum Melanie Liburd).
Or, as Simon Stern blithely puts it: “Zeke doesn’t play, you don’t stay.”
He’s going to room with one of the school’s star basketball players, a student named Ezekiel, and tutor him in all subjects in order to keep his grade point average in a range that will allow him to stay on the team. “$500k, liquid, upfront,” Davis tells him, essentially writing off the teen.īack at Stansfield University, Tariq is made aware of the terms of his admission there. Tameika advises Tariq to find his mom legal counsel “who doesn’t need the truth to win,” so pretty soon he’s begging a super-smooth lawyer named Davis Maclean (played by Clifford “Method Man” Smith) to take Tasha’s case. She later fires Tameika when the lawyer starts to suspect that Tariq was involved in Ghost’s death. But the judge isn’t buying Tameika’s claims that Ghost was a “smiling sociopath ” Tasha is remanded to custody, no bail. Patricks, Tasha is on her way to her arraignment, where her lawyer - Tameika Robinson, aka Angela’s old boss - tells her that self-defense is her only defense. BRAND-NEW GAME | When we meet up with the St.