Empire

- Previously on Empire... - I will start grooming someone.

And it can only be one of you.

It's my $400,000 that started this bitch,

and I want half my company back.

One day Empire's gonna be all yours, Hakeem.

- Don't do this... - Andre, put your heart into this company.

Which makes me the most qualified to run the company, Dad.

- We got to call the police. - No, no, no-- babe, I'm pregnant.

Your sexuality-- that's a choice.

Do you want Empire or don't you?

I need to know that you got that monster

in you that does what he has to do.

The songs that I'm writing will only further prove that

I'm you, but on steroids.

The empire is yours, Jamal.

For 17 years you kept your mouth shut

about what Frank Gathers did.

Help us make sure he never gets out.

Teddy McNally left that rose, Jamal.

- I'm gonna get at him for you. - They call him "Tricky" Trichter

'cause he's the best at hostile takeovers.

We got to stick together if we gonna do this.

Sometimes you gotta be willing to sacrifice your queen.

You made a deal-- you let her back in the company.

That was before your mother tried to murder me.

Jamal, that's not what it looks like.

Lucious Lyon, you're under arrest

for the murder of Bunkie Williams.

You did this to me?

No, I swear!

Game time, bitches.

Did you know there are 1.68 million black men

being held under mass incarceration

in America's prison system today, right now.

Just like my brother Lucious Lyon has been for three months,

held without bail.

Free Lucious!

- What you say? - Free Lucious!

What's wrong with you, boy?

So we out there frontin'.

You know and I do-- he killed Bunkie.

Shut up!

You're just mad 'cause he chose Jamal over you.

That's not why.

Mom, you got us here doing a "Free Lucious" concert

when we should be performing for the brothers and sisters

that are innocent.

You think I don't know that, stupid?

This is about us taking the Empire.

- Stay focused. - Jamal not gonna like us

doing this hostile takeover.

He's gonna think it's us against him.

Jamal will understand.

I am doing this for y'all.

Look...

you're right.

Your father is a tampon.

He is a egomaniac.

But today is all about impressing

that investor lady Mimi Whiteman.

Now, come on, boy,

we got to get her $250 million so we can get our Empire.

Jamal.

- You see this crowd out here? - Yeah, I see the crowd.

They gonna have to give Dad a new bail hearing after this.

Bill Clinton is out there.

Yeah, he needs to be,

if he wants his wife to get elected.

Look, what you want, boy? I got stuff to do.

I just felt... felt bad and stupid

for thinking that you could ever sell Dad out.

I ain't no snitch.

You need to go visit that man.

Did y'all bother to tell him that to him that

when I was rottin' away?

All right, Ma.

Mrs. Lyon, they're asking for you.

Hah!

How much longer?

How much longer

are they gonna treat us like animals?

The American correctional system is built

on the backs of our brothers,

our fathers, and our sons.

How much longer?

It is a system that must be dismantled

piece by piece,

if we are to live up to those words

that we recite with our hands on our hearts--

justice for all.

Not justice for some.

But justice for all!

How much longer? Say it!

How much longer?

How much longer?

- How much longer? - How much longer?

How much longer?

How much longer?!

How much longer?

Porsha, get me out of this thing.

- What's the head count? - Uh, I don't know yet.

Cookie, Andre needs to see you.

Okay. Tell him I'll be there.

I loved it, Cookie. I really loved it.

Mass incarceration is such an important issue.

- I love you, Reverend Al Sharpton. - Love you. Love you.

- Can you help me with Lucious? - Lucious? Word in the street

is he ain't right on this.

I can't get involved in nothing wrong.

- He's not right... - Thanks for coming, Al.

Andre! Oh, my God, you made it.

Miss Thing, what is this drag you have on?

Tom Ford.

Gucci.

Last season.

- And you said Anna Wintour was coming. - Shut up.

- Cookie? - Uh, hold on. Excuse you.

- I want an interview with Cookie. - No, I'm not feeling what

you did out there in Peterson, so the short answer is no.

- Peterson? What are you talking about? - It's Ferguson, brain-dead.

I got this-- Don, I'm-a take care of you, but I have to look

- for my artists, okay? - Thank you, Cookie.

- And you did good in Ferguson, brother. - Thank you.

- He did all right. - Yes, you did good.

But he did mess up that "N" word with...

Lucious... hey, Lucious, I gotta holla at you.

- We good? - That's Cookie cousin.

Yo, Frank Gathers is getting shipped here.

So? I ain't got no beef with Gathers.

No, but something went down, so we got to handle business,

- 'cause Cookie-- she... - Look, wrong name, brother.

Gathers might come after me because of Cookie.

Look, whatever problem that nightmare

done got you involved with, it's your business.

- Go on. - My business? Lucious? Lucious?

Not up in here, man!

So, this is the woman who's trying to get my money.

Hey.

Tricky, you sexy devil.

And this must be Ms. Whiteman.

- Call me Mimi. - And I love your drag, Mimi.

It's screaming, "I'm dripping with money,"

and I know how to spend it.

- Easy, Mom. - Don't you "Easy, Mom" me, boy.

- I know what I'm doing. - Okay.

And so do Tricky and Mimi.

And let me take y'all to the stage.

Get you up close to your future investments.

Lucious! Lucious!

Lucious. The reason we're here.

I hope that's not the only reason why you're here, Mimi.

You in that dress, Cookie?

I can think of all kinds of reasons.