Hes just perfecting hisWhiplashimpression when Cookie drops by and orders him to stop avoiding his mother.
He hasnt been home to see Leah in three nights, ever since she brandished that knife at him.
(It seems death-by-cake wasnt Luciouss fate after all,Matildafans will sadly note.)
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Lets just say she takes to it less favorably than ASA voters.
Andre visits with Leah, who turns her little old lady act up to 11 for him.
Back at Empire HQ, Anika tracks down Rhonda and asks her why shes been so distant recently.
(Can we all agree: Anika is truly awful at attempted murder.
She badgers her victim for attention, and she didnt throw out her murder outfit!
Thats like Manslaughter 101!)
Those two arent the only ones quarreling.
So…yay feminism?
She says shes cool with playing the sidekick, but that act has to wear thin eventually.
Cookie tries to suss out Tariqs motives, and they exchange a few verbal jabs.
But Tariq goes for the KO when he informs his old friend that Lucious killed her cousin Bunkie.
She busts out a bunch of hurtful insults, including accusing Cookie of riding Lucious coattails her whole career.
That is, until Lucious accidentally walks in on them.
Jamal tries to explain its not like that with them, but Lucious wont hear it.
But Andre was right last week when he said Jamal has grown stronger in the face of Lucious homophobia.
With that, Jamal leaves the studio and goes to find Cookie.
Jamal doesnt care because the FBI is only interested in Lucious.
With this investigation going on, if Freda ever found out, no one in their family is safe.
Now is not the time for internal conflict.
Thats what you get for ruining someones juice cleanse!
She flashes back to all the good times they shared as young lovers and says yes.
(Why isEmpirere-treading this relationship for the hundredth time?
The only time watching Cookie is not enjoyable is when shes making mistakes shes too smart to make.)
Furious, Cookie banishes her.
On her way out, Carol stumbles into Freda and gets into yet another heated tiff.
Freda is stunned but only for a moment.
In a fit of rage, she grabs a security guards gun and goes for Lucious.
The episode ends just as shes about to reveal Lucious secret to the world.
