'Empire' Recap: Oh, How the Tables Have Turned
The hip-hop series seemingly killed off two of its characters Wednesday night.
— -- On this week's episode of "Empire," Hakeem introduced members of the family to the media as he announced the new leadership of Empire Records.
When a reporter asked him, “Where’s Lucious?” he responded with, “Who?”
During a concert later that night, Hakeem unveiled the new company logo and it’s his face on the insignia and not Lucious’ anymore.
Meanwhile, Andre asked Rhonda to come back to church with him. She agreed, only to be later accused of cheating on him -- in front of his spiritual leader. Rhonda brushed it off knowing his temperament and paranoia before his bipolar breaks.
A flash mob bum-rushed Jamal and Becky outside doing a take on "Drip Drop" but re-titling it "Flip Flop" with some lyrics about Jamal letting the gay community down. They threw multicolored flip-flop slippers in the air and walked off in a dramatic fashion, leaving Jamal bewildered.
Jamal confided in Jameson about the incident and he revealed to Jamal that Lucious is the one boasting around about Jamal and Sky having a relationship.
Rhonda overheard Camilla on the phone with Mimi, who doesn’t trust her and makes accusations about her cheating. She told Cookie the little nugget of information.
Cookie hatched a scheme for Tiana’s tour to happen, along with Mirage A Trios as the opening act. Camilla yielded to the offer after realizing that it will keep Laura away for a long time.
Jameson is back on board to support Jamal with the gay community. Jamal performed a bold and brazen song about the devil being a hater and a dirty manipulator -- the song is clearly about Lucious. At the end of the song, he revealed to the public that Lucious Lyon isn’t even his real name.
Hakeem secretly filmed him having sex with Camilla and had it sent to Mimi’s hotel.
In reaction to the betrayal, Mimi dumped all of her Empire stock and Andre made a move to buy up all the shares he legally could -- even using his dead son’s trust fund. He had a near-psychotic break as his family rushed to his aid. The brothers took him and Cookie down to the studio to play a special song they wrote for him.
Lucious caught Camilla staging Mimi’s murder to look like a suicide after she poisoned her. Lucious told Camilla that Hakeem is the one that sent the video to her, not him. At gunpoint, he convinced her into offing herself; swallowing the poison as he stormed out, telling her to “rot in hell.”
A new episode of "Empire" airs next Wednesday on FOX.