Be True
This week’s episode of Empire was SCANDALOUS. We’re going to get into the good parts of the episode.
Charges Dropped
As the episode opens, we see Lucious and the Empire popping bottles and getting turnt at a party celebrating the case against him being dropped. With the body of the prosecuting attorney’s eyewitness popping up in her passenger seat, they had no case against Lucious.
Jamal Catches Boyfriend Cheating
Jamal contemplated over letting his boyfriend, Micheal, go on tour with him and Ne-Yo. Mixing business and pleasure isn’t an easy thing to do, but Jamal was going to stick by his man. That is until he caught him engaging in sexual activity with the photographer who shot his Rolling Stone cover last episode. And to think Micheal was the one worried about Janal cheating. The photographer had no shame in his game as he had just tried to come on to Jamal earlier in the episode.
Empire vs Lyon Dynasty
Tiana got jacked for her bag after two robbers posed as fans and tried to take a picture with her. Cookie and her new security walk in on two robbers trying to steal from their Lyon Dynasty office. We find out that Thirsty, Lucious’ low down dirty assistant, was behind all of this. Empire is playing dirty when it comes to trying to ruin the Dynasty.
Cookie’s New Love Interest
Cookie may have herself a new man. She held interviews to find security for her and her staff and she meets a concert promoter named Laz. The two help fight the robbers that tried to steal from the Dynasty and they flirt their way through the episode. In the preview for next week’s episode, we see things get hot and steamy as they kiss. Will Cookie’s new love interest make it through the rest of season 2?
Andre Gets Baptized
Andre made the decision to get baptized and he invites his entire family. As he invited each family member, he made some interesting confessions. He told his brothers that he was the one who set up the robbery against Jamal in season one. The robbery that turned Jamal against Hakeem and almost got Jamal killed. He told Lucious that he wanted Empire to be his. Lucious forgave him but didn’t seem to fond about going to his baptism.
The entire family shows up at church to support Andre, even the devil himself, Lucious. As Andre gets dunked in the water, Lucious has flashbacks of a time where his bipolar mother used to place him a bathtub of water and try to drown him. He gets up and leaves from the church. I notice Andre’s wife keep holding her stomach. For some reason I doubt she’s even pregnant. Andre might reach his breaking point when he finds out she lied to keep him around longer.
Who Kidnapped Hakeem?
As the episode ends we see Hakeem’s morning run interrupted by men who place a black cloth over his head and kidnap him. We don’t know who or why he was kidnapped but one would think Lucious or Thirsty had something to do with it, from everything else they’ve done in this episode. It could just be someone trying to extort the Lyon Family for money, but we’re going to have to wait until next episode to find out.
You can catch Empire every Wednesday night at 9 pm eastern.