Caridad "Carrie" Milgram is a major character in the Power Universe, serving as a supporting antagonist in Power Book II: Ghost. She is a Stansfield University professor with a sex addiction. Carrie is portrayed by Melanie Liburd.
Carrie is a former prosecutor turned Stansfield professor with a history of workplace romances because of her sex and love addiction,Zeke Cross, to get over her obsessive ex, fellow professor Jabari Reynolds. As the minority student advisor, Carrie supports Tariq St. Patrick's stay at Stansfield despite objections from co-workers as a result of his initial failures to keep up with the rigorous Canonical Studies program, but her fondness of Tariq disintegrates after he kills Jabari and becomes the prime suspect in his murder. Carrie tries to put him away at all costs, using one of her students, Lauren Baldwin, as a pawn in the process, but she fails when she testifies in the courtroom in place of Lauren out of guilt for using her, as her relationship with Zeke and her habit of mixing pleasure with business are exposed by her former lover, Tariq's attorney Davis MacLean, ensuing the destruction of her professional life. With her life in tatters, Carrie meets her demise at the hands of Zeke's mother, Monet Tejada, who arranges her death to resemble a suicide.
which later affects her career when she starts a relationship with one of her students,Biography[]
Season 1[]
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Murders connected to Carrie[]
- Jabari Reynolds: Jabari thought Carrie was sleeping with Tariq and begun stalking Tariq. He found out that Tariq was selling drugs and was killed by Tariq and Cane for it.
Goals[]
- Get back together with Jabari (formerly)
- Get Tariq in the program (Succeeded)
- Be supportive for Zeke (Succeeded)
- Keep her relationship with Zeke a secret (Failed)
- Help Detective Santana with the pool investigation (formerly/failed)
- Find out who killed Jabari (succeeded)
- Expose Tariq for his role in Jabari's murder (failed)
- Take down Tariq and Brayden for their drug operation (failed)
Trivia[]
- Orginally a central character in season 1, she showed her true colours and turned villain when she manipulated Lauren into wearing a wire and is a big threat to Tariq in the mid-latter part of season 2.
- She is indirectly responsible for Jabari's death because he thought Tariq was sleeping with her. She is also indirectly responsible for Lauren almost being murdered as she manipulated her into wearing a wire and caught Tariq, Brayden and Cane on the wire and Effie almost killed Lauren as a results.
- She is a seen as a hypercritical person as she berates Jabari for sleeping with Melissa who was a graduate student, however after that Carrie starts sleeping with Zeke.
- As of season 2 episode 8, she is the posthumous antagonist along with Jabari and danilo.
- Her death was avenged at the end of season 4 when Monet is killed by Noma.
Appearances[]
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^ Starz's official description for Carrie mentions her having a "sex and love addiction" which shows "her penchant for vulnerable Black men" and therefore "troubling her role as the minority student advisor." This Bustle article includes this description in their write-up on the Ghost cast.