Skye will record a song with Jamal which will be the first song on the record.
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After searching for two days, Cookie wants to head back to NY to get back to work on her concert event. But Carol makes Candace promise not to tell Cookie about a deep, dark secret that could ruin their sisterly relationship.
Once Carol is found she chooses to head back to NY with Cookie and Candace said she’ll take care of Carol’s kids until she’s clean.
According to Christian Post Cookie’s older sister Candace (Vivica A. Fox) will be making an appearance in the new episode and the two will be working on looking for their younger sister Carol (Tasha Smith) who has gone missing. Pepper, who is now a baker, says Carol is hanging out with a bad group of people. She’s the real deal, and I love the fact that she takes her craft so seriously yet she doesn’t take herself seriously… Soon after their reunion, Cookie and Candace clash. But Jamal encouraged her to live her truth and the result was “Powerful”, a song with some clear, if heavy-handed, social commentary. When Cookie leaves the table and it is revealed that Carol is hiding a secret from Cookie, which is about something she did while Cookie was in jail.
But there’s not much time for my dialogue-induced indignation, as Jamal leans in for a little mouth-to-mouth (definitely a euphemism), and Skye doesn’t look all that unreceptive. Carol clearly doesn’t want to go but once Cookie tells her that she doesn’t want to see her die because of this addiction, she agrees to go.
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“Man, if I sang my whole truth my fans would turn on me”, Skye told him. But Cookie isn’t hearing it. She double-checks the bull tattoo on Laz’s back, confirms his gang affiliation, then hands his gun to Lucious with a knowing look. For instance, Anika (Grace Gealey) is still hung up on Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray), and even goes to Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday) for more advice on what to do.
Speaking about the Lyon family’s dynamics in the upcoming episode, showrunner Ilene Chaiken told Variety, “This episode, to me, is the beginning of the trajectory toward our midseason break”. Their passionate performance leads to a kiss before the episode ends. The two have connected on a deep level by playing the song, a level so deep that the two decide to share that feeling with a hug.
Shocking and shock value are two different things, and the difference here really depends on how this particularly storyline moves forward.
Hakeem and Laura/Anika: Apparently Anika took a page from Rhonda’s book because she’s been super creepy with Laura. When his fellow Longhorns show up during Hakeem and Laura’s rehearsal session, Laz tells them to leave. Andre gets the idea to use Lucius’s songs as collateral, but Cookie has the rights to the songs with the most value.
Adam Rodriguez’s duplicitous Empire character ends this week’s episode – and possibly his run on the series – on the brink of being turned into just another Malbec stain on Cookie’s office carpet, but winds up getting upstaged by a vomiting junkie, a completely insane kiss and (not so surprisingly) the Lyon matriarch’s eye-popping new jacket (a Tom Ford for Sesame Street original, naturally). “Burn the box!” advises Jamal, whose “Ready to Go” video is being directed by Lee Daniels (in a verrry meta moment).
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Jamal is doing that with his Pepsi commercial, the one that Lucious keeps trying to influence.
