The Chi Season 7 Premiere: Alicia Kills [Spoiler] In Vengeful Attack — But Did She Get The Right Man? Plus, Grade It!
If you take away anything from The Chi's Season 7 premiere, it should be this: Whatever else you do in life, do not cross Alicia.
Rob's mom is out for blood in the season opener, and she gets it: She personally kills the man she believes is responsible for murdering her son. But did she get the right guy? Read on for the highlights of "Black Friday."
Nuck is sleeping in his bedroom when Alicia wakes him, gun drawn. "Did you kill my son and leave his body on my doorstep?" she demands. He lies and says Zay killed Rob, and that he left Rob's body where he did because he wanted Alicia to be able to bury him properly. Shaad doesn't buy the story when Alicia relates it to him, but he acknowledges that Zay is capable of such a thing, so she orders Shaad to bring Zay to her. Then they deal with the next super-sad order of business: telling Tiff that her man is dead. Tiffany collapses in Alicia's arms, sobbing, when she hears the news.
Meanwhile, Zay is annoyed because he essentially got demoted when Nuck officially brought Bakari on board. Kenya counsels him to keep quiet about it for now, but Zay doesn't listen: Nuck won't kill him, he reasons, because they're cousins.
Nuck addresses the men of Douda's organization, who are now the men of his organization, threatening to kill anyone who disrespects him. "Now let's stay humble and keep a low profile," he says. When he and Bakari are alone afterward, Nuck reassures the teen that he's cool with Bakari writing his book — as long as it's a novel, not a memoir. Just then, Zay shows up and states that he wants to be Nuck's partner, not his employee. "You either can work for me, or you can leave," Nuck counters. And when Zay doesn't go, that's that... for now. The way Zay seethes, though, indicates this situation is far from settled.
Fatima hears the news of Rob's death and decides that she and Victor should move from Chicago, which she feels is too violent. "People around you keep dying," she points out, and she's not wrong! Later, Victor sees Jake with a black eye and busted lip and gets him to confess that Zay beat him up when he went to pay back a debt. So Victor visits Zay and threatens him at gunpoint, warning him to leave Jake alone. When Fatima gets wind of that incident, she's out: She makes Victor choose between her or Chicago, and the Windy City wins!
Victor needn't have worried, though: Toward the end of the episode, Alicia confronts Zay. The grieving mother won't listen when Zay swears he didn't kill Rob. But before he can say who did, she shoots him seven times (!) in the chest. Bianca and Shaad, who are watching, are horrified, but Alicia is unrepentant. "The last time I hesitated," she says, "somebody else took my glory. Nobody's gonna avenge the death of my son but me."
In other Chicago-area news:
* A despondent Tiff asks Kiesha if she and Emmett could watch EJ for the foreseeable future, because she's overwhelmed, nauseous and not feeling like herself. And if your TV-watching intuition sparked when she said "nauseous," you were right: At the end of the episode, she takes a pregnancy test, and it's positive.
* When Bakari tells Prof. Gardner he has nowhere to live after Lynae kicked him out, Gardner suggests that Bakari enroll at the college and live on campus. Despite Bakari's not having graduated high school, Gardner has his wife pull some strings with Alicia, who funds a generous annual scholarship. Alicia meets with the teen, learns he's killed someone, and decides he's a good person to have in her debt; she awards him the scholarship.
* Nuck tells Bakari that Zay is dead, which means the only other people who know Nuck killed Rob are Bakari and Kenya*. (Gulp.)
*Thanks to reader TXHappyWife for the reminder!
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