On Empire Season 2 Episode 7, the Lyons brought us an hour full of threesomes, shady business deals, Russian Roulette and a historically good song.
And that’s just the short version, people!
Picking up where last week left off, Empire Season 2 Episode 7 saw Cookie and Laz spending three days in bed without her noticing that tattoo.
Honestly, that never came up once?
When he wasn’t taking all the Cookie (in the sexual sense), he was plotting on how to take all the Cookie’s money via the mogul’s concert production.
To be continued on that front shortly.
Lucious, meanwhile, was working with his talented, raw new protege Freda Gatz and urging her to face her demons and channel them in the studio.
Jamal, with the help of Cookie, lands a spot in the esteemed living room sessions of the even more esteemed Sir Huey, which is supposedly huge.
The matriarch is pulling double duty between helping ‘Mal and running her own label, and Cookie’s cookout/fish fry/summer jam show to promote it.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from that event was that Hakeem’s girl group trio became enveloped in girl drama, putting him in a difficult position.
In the Empire boardroom, Andre pitched his idea for a proprietary independent music streaming platform to Lucious, only to be usurped by Mimi.
Why spend 4-6 just to get a beta version off the ground, she asks, when they could merge right here, right now with Jago, the founder of SwiftStream.
Lucious sides with Mimi, at least until his initial meeting with Jago, which featured some major sparring, and not just because of the boxing ring location.
When Jago called Lucious’ lyrics and music shallow, Lyon had a flashback to hiding bullets from his unstable mother, and promptly laid him the f–k out.
Oh, and then he visited Jago in the hospital, and he and Mimi increased his morphine to the point where he had his lawyer draft up a merger contract.
Is that even … who cares. Classic Empire!
“Baby, won’t you come my way!”
Determined to show he’s not blinded by her feminine charms, Hakeem takes the maligned Laura to the streets – literally – to help her find her groove.
It works, at least for the time being, and they share a kiss, which is adorable because Hakeem is happy and kind of adorable in his own way.
Then things get colossally weird, which if you watch Empire online, you’re almost expecting, as the real drama doesn’t start until about 9:45.
Mimi and Lucious, obviously, bring home a groupie to celebrate their shady SwiftStream coup. Yet as with all threesomes, things can quickly go awry.
Mimi gets a mysterious call that leaves her in shambles, and Lucious notices the groupie’s gun tattoo and is shaken to the core by this as well.
Rifling through the closet, he finds a gun – his mother’s, we’re led to believe, thanks to another flashback of her, looking for the missing bullets.
When she finds one that he missed, she plays a chilling game of Russian Roulette right in front of him as we cut back to the present day.
That song … “Boom, Boom, Boom” … hits Lucious like an epiphany and he and Freda hit the studio with reckless, gun-waving abandon.
“This is history,” declares. Is it? And what will the conclusion be? So much remains to be seen, but we can’t wait for the next chapter.
