Empire (2015) s03e15 Episode Script

1 Previously on Empire LUCIOUS: You got to protect - this angel with your life.
- I will.
JAMAL: You on your way to being woke.
Make some music that means something.
This is the head of the gaming commission, Charlotte Frost.
CHARLOTTE: I did not expect this.
I'm impressed.
You and Nessa are out.
Get your men together.
We're gonna take him out.
The last track on When Cookie Met Lucious is gonna be about our mother finding happiness.
Will you marry me? COOKIE: I still have feelings for him.
I compromised the integrity of my campaign.
For you! They messed with the wrong clan.
They're going down.
(orchestral music playing) LUCIOUS: Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
DJ.
DJ, baby, right now, you're riding this like it's a rainbow.
You got to ride these quarters like you're the space shuttle trying to break through the Earth's atmosphere.
I'm-a hold it down, I promise on me But you can take a seat watching my glory Being my father, father Father I am the only I've been showing the world I've been chosen Ugh.
This arrangement is hot.
It's a thousand degrees hot.
OCTOBER: This joint's crazy.
I'm here to rise Illuminate the skies, I was meant to shine Father of the man 'Cause I caught a thing, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, father of the man The power of the sun.
Okay, stop, stop, stop.
Flag on the play.
This just ain't your track, bro.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm sorry.
Y'all, I can't, I ain't, I'm not stupid.
I literally hate this song.
Yo, Lucious.
Man, why don't you stop playing around and dip my boy in some of that sauce, man, give October some of that heat for the street? JAMAL: If this is supposed to be the last song of the album, it needs to be a better song.
That's because the last song on the album is supposed to be how I broke free from the chains of Lucious and got me a better man.
What's wrong, baby? Lucious, come in and take a five, sweetheart.
I've got to finish this album before we even think about mounting this show in Vegas.
Everything.
It's the song.
And I'm not, I'm not hearing nothing.
I'm not hearing it.
We're never gonna finish this album on time.
Oh, well, yes, the hell we are.
Let me go dig in some crates, see what kind of inspiration I can come up with for this boy, before I have to go in and choke his ass.
I'm sorry, I'm gonna take you out on this one, Tommy.
Whatever you need.
It's your track.
- I'm sorry, bro.
- No, it's all good.
We'll work it out.
LUCIOUS: It's my fault, baby, because I'm in a foul-ass mood, 'cause I'm looking in this room and I'm seeing a bunch of people I don't know, eating up my damn food.
Do I know any of y'all? If I don't know you, you got three seconds to get the hell out of here.
I'm not gonna say it again.
THIRSTY: Come on, let's get the goings going on, people.
Let's get the goings going on.
Now, you can leave that here, my friend.
- Thank you.
- WOMAN: Hey! Okay.
(humming) LUCIOUS: No, you, you, you gave everything you had in there, but it's still trying to push the square Lucious, Lucious.
Can I talk to you for a second? TOMMY: Hey, I'll see myself out.
- LUCIOUS: Thank you for understanding.
- TOMMY: Always, man.
- Much respect.
- How you doing? All right.
So, um, did you hear? About me and Angelo? Yeah, you told me.
Um, congratulations, I'm really happy for you.
No.
We broke up.
I, um, I said no.
Why? Well, because, I-I guess I finally realized that, um GIULIANA: Lucious? I think you need to come and talk to Snoop.
Cookie.
What is she doing in the studio with you? Because you said that woman was the devil.
No, that's not what I said.
That's what you said.
(sing-songy): Lucious I need you, darling.
Look, I got to go.
I'm sorry about Angelo.
You seem upset, sweetie, what's wrong? LUCIOUS: Nah, I'm good.
Hmm.
So I'm-a be honest with you, man, I'm a straight-up perfectionist, like you, and I love Tommy, but his vocals wasn't right for this track.
But you gonna be happy when it's all said and done, 'cause it's gonna mean a better return on your investment, man.
That's right, and the deal memo's being drawn up as we speak.
Ready to sign as soon as we're done here.
I ain't said yes yet.
LUCIOUS: Hey, hold on, hold on.
Think about it.
Look at it this way, man.
You know how much money we spent in Vegas? Black people spend billions of dollars in their gambling, supporting their fights, supporting their clubs, even supporting their strip clubs.
Am I right, Thirst? Okay.
(laughing): Okay - (laughter) - THIRSTY: Little bit.
But not one time have they let us hang one flag up in there.
Well, you know, you got to understand this, Lou.
They don't really respect us.
They afraid of us.
And then that thing that happened in 1996.
And on top of it all, they're racist.
Yeah, but Inferno's gonna change all of that.
I've already laid the groundwork with the Nevada Gaming Commission, Snoop, we're good.
LUCIOUS: Look.
You know, be 100 with a brother, man.
What's up, dude? SNOOP: All right, let me keep it real with you, yo.
Now, you said Inferno was gonna be for Empire what Chronic was for Death Row, right? A to the men, man.
OCTOBER: I hear you Lucious, but where's Jamal at in this equation? I don't think it makes sense without him.
SNOOP: Yeah, you know Dre? That was my dawg.
And my dawg gonna stay my dawg.
But The Chronic wouldn't have been The Chronic if I wasn't on it.
Now, you put it out there that Inferno was gonna have Empire's biggest artists.
So to me, Jamal has to be a part of it.
All due respect, baby, you were crucial to The Chronic.
That's how crucial I am to Inferno.
I don't need no other artists.
I don't need my son, or anybody else, to make this a hot album, because it is what it is, you know what I'm saying, man? This is good business, Snoop.
SNOOP: I respect your business hand, you know that.
It's not even about that.
But I just want you to hear me out on this.
Jamal brings that other audience.
A different demographic.
So with him on the team, it ain't nothing we can't do.
Look, I don't care how you spin it, and whatever floats your boat, but you will be on Inferno.
Or what, Dad, you gonna, you gonna ground me? Come on, man, I got things to do.
What, you have work to do? At a studio, at a label that you're under contract.
Remember that.
Oh, so that's how we gonna play this.
'Cause guess what, old man, last time I checked, you are not the only CEO at this company.
This ain't about me versus your mama, man.
It's I'm offering you an opportunity.
Look, Inferno's gonna be an album like never before.
And that's why Snoop and October London, and everybody wants to be a part of it, 'cause they know that they're gonna be a part of making history.
Okay, but I'm not challenging that.
Make your history.
I'm-a make my own history.
Or I should say, I'm-a try to rewrite the history of you and your crazy-ass family.
Do Inferno.
I'm-a do When Cookie Met Lucious.
We good.
If the music make you move 'Cause you can dig the groove Then groove on Groove on Hey, Ma.
What are you doing here? Nessa said she was afraid you might do something reckless.
Nessa.
Look, Andre, I know you want to clap back at your daddy I don't know what you're talking about.
Boy, you must think I'm Boo Boo the Fool.
You want to say You know I'll burn this bitch down.
Move.
Rap on, oh, rap on.
(door opens) ANDRE: Ma, will you hold on? Mm-hmm.
Really, Andre? He betrayed me one time too many.
And he better fall back.
Vegas is mine.
Well, you must be off your meds, thinking you gonna come at your daddy like this.
Shine.
You really want to start this kind of war with Lucious? Well, apparently, I'm off my meds, too.
Yeah, apparently, you don't like to breathe, stupid ass Shape, is that you? (gasps) I heard you died.
Boy, look at you, you look good.
- B-Raw? How's your sister? - (laughing): Hey.
Oh, she good.
- She good? - You look good, too, Cookie.
Thank you, baby.
You got all of North Philly up in here.
Thought that was you when I walked in.
- What's up, Big Money? - What's good.
Good to see my God, this is great.
Okay, fellas, as you were.
Load it up.
(chuckles) Look.
I know that Giuliana woman took you for a fool I won't be taken for a fool, Ma.
She's trash, Andre, and your daddy is gonna kick her to the curb You are underestimating her.
I don't give a damn about that bitch.
Now, I know your father can be a piece of work, but just give him a minute to come to his senses, and then we can run Las Vegas like a family.
Like a family.
That doesn't help me out much, now does it? As far back as we go, Shine? You like a distant cousin.
Come on, man.
All of y'all.
This is North Philly in the house.
- Yeah.
- That's right.
Y'all are like my family.
Some old friends of mine, you know? And to be honest, I need that right now.
Okay, so I t I You know what? Y'all come over to Cookie house and I'll cook you a comfort meal.
Y'all down for some home cooking? I know y'all ready for a good home-cooked meal, right? (laughs) I got you.
I got you.
All right, I'll see y'all soon.
Have your appetites ready.
(door opens) (door closes) Baby Baby you can call me Dad, I appreciate you hearing me out on such short notice.
It's about Bella.
What about her? I deserve to have my name on the birth certificate.
I'm serious.
I can tell you're serious from the tone in your voice.
But just 'cause you serious, that don't mean you're ready for it, son.
And having your name on somebody's birth certificate don't necessarily make you a parent.
I'm a parent, Dad.
I'm ready.
You know I'm ready.
FIRE MARSHALL: Everybody out! That's it! Single file.
Let's go! Come on, people, - let's move.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Do you mind telling me what the violation is? Okay? Don't say overcrowded, 'cause I already got the head count.
This club's in violation of the fire code.
Fire code? What fire code? We're getting smoke blown up our asses, that's what's happening.
What FIREFIGHTER: The bar is shut down! - Everybody out! - THIRSTY: Excuse me.
I don't smell no fire.
Good evening.
I didn't even see him in here.
(sighs) LUCIOUS: Well, well, well.
If it isn't my brother Numpsay.
Mr.
Lyon.
Boys.
Hope you are enjoying yourselves, but please exit my club now.
Well, uh, I see you've met the-the fire marshal.
Excuse me.
Frankie, this is Mr.
Lyon.
Mr.
Lyon, Frankie.
Did you not get the memo? Frankie, you didn't give him I don't think he got the memo.
(laughs) My apologies.
Your club is closed tonight.
I get it.
Well, in that case, sorry to have interrupted you.
Please enjoy the brandy, Mr.
Mayor.
I'm-I'm sorry.
Mr.
Almost Mayor.
(Thirsty laughs) LUCIOUS: You should really work on your game.
This is pathetic.
Drinks on me.
Give them a round.
There go your fire, Frank.
What's this, man? They're comin' at us.
Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
Your boy, Angelo, can walk up inside of my club, puffing his damn chest out, and you want me to give his ass a free pass? Lucious, that's not No, no, you know damn well what he did was about you.
And you know me too well, Cookie.
I can't let that go.
I do know you, Lucious, but let's not make things worse.
Okay? (sighs) We can fix this.
Let's fix it, you and me.
ANIKA: Excuse me.
Um, sorry, don't mean to interrupt, but, uh, I'm on my way to The Peninsula.
So, I need to grab my things.
Tell me when's a good time for you to Why are you in a hotel? GIULIANA: Lucious.
Darling, I'm headed to the airport.
Um Let me say good-bye to you before you leave.
Oh, and, Anika, you know, why don't you just move back into the house? I mean, Giuliana's leaving for Vegas for a while.
- She's got business there, so - Oh.
So, she up in the mansion already? Right.
So, I-I'm busy.
I-I got to go.
(clears throat) And, um, I guess we gon' handle this, um, Angelo stuff another time.
Somebody's not happy.
Always trying to hold me back, saying I don't know what I'm doing.
Acting like somebody gave you instructions on how to be a father.
All I wanted to do was just be a father to my daughter.
My daughter.
Should I kidnap her? - Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
Bae, I feel like you ain't listening right now.
TIANA: Keem, what do you want us to say? TORY: The situation sucks.
You got no wins.
Just suck it up.
See, I told you he was gonna be jealous.
Listen, ain't nobody jealous.
This situation right here is trigonometry.
Your girl got a girl, that's two girlfriends.
So, girlfriends, can y'all come with me to my dad's and check out Bella? Just in case I snap on-on Pops.
That sounds nice, Keem.
I bet.
The car'll be there at 7:00.
Uh, we can't.
We're going to that party in Nyack.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, a party without your boy? That don't sound right.
Well, it's a girls' party.
Just girls.
Oh, so, I see.
- A little jealousy.
- (scoffs) Maybe to dream me some new chick? (laughs) TORY: Fine.
You're such a baby.
Y'all my babies.
Come here.
(laughs) Vanilla and chocolate.
That's right, eat up, fellas.
I don't want no leftovers.
SHINE: Cookie, you should've told me you could burn like this.
Damn, somebody need to marry this woman immediately.
(laughter) You're so sweet.
Been there, did it, done that.
ANDRE: Yeah, this is nice and all, Mom, but I don't see how it solves our Vegas problem.
Here's the thing.
You know that woman your daddy's messing around with? Yeah, Giuliana.
She's dangerous.
I still think it's payback for Angelo.
Your daddy don't even realize it.
I'll give it a month before he makes her kick rocks.
And what if he doesn't? All right, now that we got our eat on, let's talk about what we came here to talk about: - Vegas.
- SHINE: Okay.
So, what's the plan? How we gonna hit him? Yeah, let's talk about Vegas 'cause you saw what we was on.
What you trying to do? Put a pin in that.
Now, y'all know Lucious.
He knows how to put on a show like nobody's business.
So, let him go up to Vegas and set up Inferno.
Let him do all the work and we reap the benefits.
And if your daddy ain't got it together by then, we'll take it from him.
How about some peach cobbler? Hey, um, you now what, um, you can head out if you want 'cause I just, uh, want to be alone, all right? TECH: Okay.
I mean, I just need some quiet.
- Okay? - Yeah.
TINASHE: Hey, what's up, Jamal? What's up, Tinashe? Cookie called me.
She said you were working on something new.
(chuckles lightly) How's it sound? It sucks.
I'm sure it doesn't suck.
I'm almost 100% certain that it does.
(chuckles) Just play me what you got so far.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
All right.
Have you thought about maybe filtering out the drums, maybe? Okay, so you think it sucks, too.
No, I just think that - the hook could have more energy.
- (laughs) Really ain't no nice way to say this, Lucious.
It's strictly business.
I got to protect myself.
Are you serious, man? THIRSTY: Damn, Snoop.
You gonna turn us down in casual wear? (laughs) THIRSTY: He didn't even dress up for this.
LUCIOUS: I just thought you was a little bigger than that, man.
This can happen.
Ain't about that, Lou, 'cause the music thing? Y'all got that on lock.
Anything you touch, it's official like a referee with a whistle, straight to the tippy.
(chuckles) But I had a conversation with my investment banker, and he told me, Vegas move, it ain't me right now.
Okay, can you do this? Introduce me to your investment banker.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let me have one conversation and I bet you by the end of it, he's gonna be begging to put his money into it.
THIRSTY: Or he's gonna move your money into it, anyway, tell you it was his idea and charge you a commission.
I mean, that's what they do, Snoop.
- (Snoop chuckles) - Bingo.
I don't think so, man.
Ezekiel's a square.
And not to be disrespectful, Lucious, but you gon' scare his ass off.
Okay, well, maybe I'll make a friend with him.
I'll make my own introduction.
What's his last name? DuBois.
But I don't think he gon' listen.
DuBois? Ain't that a little coinkydink? Thank you.
All gravy, baby.
Well, sorry it was a little bit of a burnt mission.
Nah, you were amazing.
It's me.
- We'll get it next time.
- We will.
Wasn't you, baby, it was him.
I'm so sorry we wasted your time, sweetheart.
Ma, I love working with her.
She's dope.
It's just I don't know.
- I'm sick of you.
- Sick of what, Ma? Look, I tried.
All right? She's amazing.
COOKIE: Um, let me tell you about that word, "try.
" But, Ma, you need to It's an excuse 'cause you wearing my nerve out right - I can't take it, Ma.
- Cookie, I need to talk to you.
- Uh - Now! (Cookie sighs) If it ain't one thing, it's a damn nother.
You better call that bitch ass ex-boyfriend of yours.
- Hitting us with these code violations - Okay, excuse me, you coming - down here while I'm working, talking about - and messing with bottle service - for one night, that's one thing.
- some damn club I don't have nothing to do with - and bottle service.
- No, no, no.
He's-he's pissing on our money tree.
How? The investors for Inferno walked back You know what, I'm gonna deal with his ass.
- No, no, no, no.
- Dad! Okay, wait a minute.
So, shooting him is gonna solve this, right? - Dad, why you got a piece? - That makes a lot of sense.
- Huh?! - Mom, where are you going? If you don't get your hands off of me Angelo.
Angelo, we need to talk.
Angelo, please.
Look, I don't blame you for hating me, okay? You're a good man, Angelo.
I just, I just wish I was a good enough woman to be with you.
I don't belong in your world.
You destroyed my world.
It no longer exists.
I never wanted to do that.
What if I made a public statement saying that everything you said on that hot mic was just in the heat of the moment? Is that what you think I'm most upset about? I'm so sorry.
When Cookie Met Lucious.
Oh, Jamal's album.
Yes.
I can hold a fundraiser and we can tie it to the public's When Cookie met Lucious all those years ago, you set a chain of events into motion that would one day destroy generations of hard work, generations of preparation in my family.
My family.
No, I can fix this, but please, let me just try.
You got to stop firing back at Lucious because he's gonna light you up.
Don't put your hands on me! Get off of me, bitch! Oh, my.
Cookie, sweetheart, you have not seen our firepower.
Now, when my family decides to shoot, your entire family will burn to the ground.
Come, my love.
Come.
She's not welcome here.
COOKIE: Talking about when her family shoot, our family gonna burn down to the ground, like they some damn gangsters! Man, that bitch better ask about me.
JAMAL: Ma, but why even go down there, you know what I'm saying? What is picking a fight with Angelo gonna accomplish? Boy, are you not listening to me? It ain't soft-ass Angelo who wants to go to war, it's his mama.
Wait.
O-Okay.
Mr.
Dalai Lama, how do you think we need to handle this? JAMAL: Well, that's just it, the DuBois are not like our family.
- (scoffs) - Damn right, they have no idea what kind of war we bring.
And they're also not a criminal organization.
Well, we're not one either.
JAMAL: Then we, a family, should understand another family, trying to protect one of their own.
And it's y'all fault because y'all constantly have to clap back.
That's what we do.
- No, it's not.
- She came for me.
I don't want to hear that.
No, if they're going low now, though, then we can go high for once.
Oh, isn't that cute, you learned something from Michelle Obama.
JAMAL: Yes.
I sure did, yeah.
Y'all, I can make peace.
Y'all just need to tell me that I can go and talk to them.
Well, Andre, y-you, you've lived in their world.
Do you think Jamal is right? Ugh.
Thank you.
Okay.
If you can make peace with them, make peace.
I've got a casino to launch and an album to finish.
COOKIE: Okay, y'all not understanding this.
She has targets on all of Wait, where is Hakeem? Ma, this woman ain't gonna kill nobody.
- How do you know? - Because I know.
Hakeem is fine.
He's at home, I talked to him.
You need to chill.
No, you need to worry about who you trustin'.
I don't trust that damn fake-ass Clair Huxtable.
- Neither do I.
- COOKIE: You're too damn nice! You should've put him in boxing classes while I was locked up.
He too soft.
Little punk.
HAKEEM: Ha, now listen, ladies, beautiful ladies and I know you're beautiful 'cause you follow me, right? Now, I need y'all to pick which shirt I'm rocking tonight, the black or the gold? But, look, I got another option.
Now, I got this snake-skin sweater.
Now, if I wear this, I got to wear the matching pumps.
Now, listen, I told y'all the party was turned up all the way to Nyack.
And this city boy is about that city life.
But unfortunately, you know, sometimes I like to go my own way.
But it's hard, man, when I got this million-dollar view I'm looking at every day.
Shout out to Daddy.
But I 100% understand wanting to step outside your comfort zone.
You know? Testing your limits? Like I'm testing my limits having an all-girl party.
And you specially invited, baby.
NARRATOR: mother of these young cubs draws nearer to them.
(lion roars) A showdown.
Now, you know what this is? NARRATOR: The hyenas retreat.
This is family.
(lion growls) NARRATOR: The lions have successfully safeguarded their pride.
(lion roars) ANGELO: All right, you put your shoulders back, look him in the eye, and you'll be okay.
Get out of here.
(sighs) All right, Jamal, I have nothing to say to you.
Look here, I just want to apologize on behalf of my family.
Well, apologies are just words, so, I'm sorry, that's too little too late.
Angelo, look, man, I'm-I'm sad and disappointed just like you are.
I wanted this for my mom so bad.
But you got through to her.
I know you did, and that's what scared her.
(chuckles) She told me, she told me when we met, she said that we're from different worlds.
Should've listened to her.
I guess when somebody tells you who they are, you need to listen.
Wait, wait, look We can't make up for the damage that's done but let us make restitution.
This is $5 million.
Yes.
I don't need this.
I don't want this.
It's not for you.
It's for the WOKE scholarship fund.
Every single kid is gonna get a free ride to the college of their choice.
Oh, come on, man, what, is this so Lucious "The King" Lyon can exploit my program, and then spin it so that he's the generous one? - No, not at all.
- 'Cause, then The Lyon family will stay completely anonymous.
Man, look at the check.
Please.
The scholarship is already endowed to Diana DuBois, so she, you, the DuBois family, you're the only ones associated with it.
Don't you want to make something good out of the day that you met Cookie? Take the check.
(quietly): Damn it.
NICKY MO: I think we were really just finding it now.
LUCIOUS: Yeah, it felt like we were finding something, but it's not that something that I'm looking for, it's It's a closed session, Mal.
Dad, ain't nobody worried about your wack music.
Look, we'll-we'll hook up on the next one, man.
- Oh.
- Make something better happen.
Later, Nicky.
- Yo, we good with Angelo.
- How generous of him to take my $5 million.
He didn't want to at first, but talked him into seeing the wisdom of it.
He's a crooked politician, son, he always thinks of money.
Probably.
Yeah, you were right about Angelo, though.
So thank you.
(music plays through speakers) Yo, you and the social media guys up on Hakeem? What about him? He's been live-streaming from his apartment all day, saying he found the meaning to life.
(phone clatters on desk) Is he all right? Mm-hmm.
Says he saw a sign.
He was watching TV, saw some lions.
Like, real lions from Africa.
And it was gonna make him a better father to Bella.
He's on right now? Yeah.
It's really sweet, actually.
Makes me know that even if you and mom are lost ones, my brother? He will come to the light.
(speaks in tongues) (sighs) It's the way how that mama lion was protecting her baby lion.
The connection was just so deep, y'all.
She's ready to sacrifice her whole life for her lion baby life.
Lion baby.
W-What's the name of that, y'all? What, lion pups? Nah, whatever.
Point being is that she wasn't thinking about whose name was on the birth certificate.
She would've ran up to 100 hyenas, like, "What's up?" And she didn't care, she just stepped up.
Like nothing else mattered.
That moment, them two, her family, above everybody else.
Rising above it all.
Rising.
Elevated.
Chicken, forget the party.
Come over right now, we got some work to do.
(somber piano music) No matter if you family by blood or circumstances, you prove that by elevating, every single chance you get.
- See, my pappy - (chuckles) he trying to teach me - (piano music stops) - how to be a father.
He want to see if I'm gonna be a father for the rest of my life.
And then my mom's telling me what I should and should not do for my baby girl, Bella.
All lessons I need to teach you right now, baby.
'Cause one day, you're gonna be doing your own thing, without me.
But right now, you need me, little girl.
(chuckles) And I need you, too.
So, Bella, I'm giving you my life.
Because being your daddy makes me a better me, makes me a better man.
Doesn't matter whose name is on that birth certificate.
You mine.
I love you.
Trust me, I kid you not, if you stick with it And you can read charts then you got no limits I don't need a gimmick.
(piano intro plays) Ha It's been a while But we finally on You should already know what time we on I leveled up, had to get this money up Yeah, they thought that I was done, I just elevated Ooh, ah The streets know I got it right now Just gave my girl the keys to the Bentley right now Yeah.
Aye, I leveled up, had to put my city on Yeah, they thought that I was done, I just elevated Whoo, uh The doors lift, they just levitated Levitated Heh, you had your shot But you hesitated, uh Uh I got the keys, yeah, I got the keys Got the keys Put on for my daughter till the death of me - WOMAN: Yeah.
- Elevatin' on 'em like I'm Bron-Bron You are not around when it's prime time Go, Hakeem.
I been gettin' dough, stacking wonton They don't really want to see me win, but it's my time Yeah Time is money and my time is everything Yeah, that's right.
Don't you see the drama all this money bring Uh, wrist litty Thomas Edison Talk to them Yeah It ain't no rapper I ain't better than Talk to them Got to feed my kid Word to Bella Hov Diamonds in the bezel Rocafella, know you see it What's up? (crowd cheering, whooping) Hey! (applause and cheering) I just elevated! (cheering) Hit.
(cheering continues) I know I'm the best situation Got a lot of real dedication Now.
(music winds to a stop) (Cookie sighs) I'm just done.
I'm just gonna go and sing background for Lucious.
Be careful what you say out your mouth, boy.
Ma, seriously, though.
With the you and Angelo thing, and the Inferno in Vegas, and Andre whatever, it's-it's too much.
What are we even doing? I need you to grow up; life happens, okay? And, right now, get your head back in the game, and deliver these two songs.
'Cause what we do know is that When Cookie Met Lucious has to beat Inferno, right? Get your head back in the game, boy.
Find what you're looking for and finish the damn song, or you will be singing backup for your father.
(dramatic orchestration playing) Becky, who is that? It's dope, right? - Scorching.
- (chuckles) Uh, I'll be right back.
Um - Jamal.
- JAMAL: Yeah? Come here.
Come here, boy.
I need you to hear something, come on.
Where were we going? Just shut up and come on.
Where we going? (same music playing) (chuckles) What is that? That's dope, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Becky, who made that beat? I want it.
Actually LUCIOUS: yeah, no, they already in there.
Just hop right into the booth, all right? Y'all need something? Is it his? - You know it is.
- Never mind.
- Come on, boy.
- Sorry.
(somber piano melody) All right, Harry, just riff off of this, all right? (vocalizing) Yeah, you're right around the pocket.
Why don't you try it with this bass on it? Hey, hit him with that bass, baby.
(deep, slow bass line begins) JAMAL: This is our moment Ain't no holding us back, time to own it Shining bright like the morning It won't be long for the glory is coming Come up and rise I can feel the fire Burning up inside You know I am the one The Father and the Sun.
(music stops) I think you just found what you're looking for.
Um, Harry, uh, I'm gonna make sure you're covered for everything today, and we gonna figure out something else, man.
What's up, Harry? What's up? I been, uh, searching for the damn song, and what you know about that? You are a dirty, rotten buzzard.
Did you hear that? I mean, your melody with my arrangement.
That's what's beautiful.
Yeah.
It was, uh - It's kind of cool.
- (door opens) Uh, what's going on in here? Look, Ma, before you say anything, just Hey, play that back over the speakers.
Loud.
Turn it up.
JAMAL: Just listen.
The Sun appears to be far away It's been always right here Even though it's in the distance Saw you move the Earth with your hands Now I know it's getting hard I'm first to assist ya And when you're old and gray Remember I'll take care of ya Labors of a virtue I'll do what I have to We gotta let nature Take its place This is our moment Ain't no holding us back, time to own it Yeah Shining bright like the morning It won't be long for the glory is coming Yeah Come up and rise I can feel the fire burning up inside You know I am the one The Father and the Sun Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, Father and the Sun Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, Father and the Sun.
Whoo, that's it, Jamal.
Hold on, hold on.
I just heard something.
I mean, regardless of what the DuBois tried to do, all their shenanigans, Snoop is still down to invest in Inferno, as long as Big J is on it.
Okay, great.
It'll be on both albums.
And we will also be on that stage with you in Vegas.
It'll be Inferno and When Cookie Met Lucious.
Nah, that's not gonna work for Giuliana.
I don't give a damn what's gonna work for that woman.
Okay, well, what about what I want? Is that a is that a thing? Jamal, I was making a deal for us.
But boy, what do you want? I want for the Lyon family to work together.
(chuckling) Is this a Kumbaya moment? JAMAL: Okay, you know what? I'm sorry.
We've been down this path before, and y'all can clown me all you want, but it's real.
Dad, you could make a conscious effort to be a better man, to lead your family the right way.
- (scoffs) - Mom, we could put the past in the past and just make good music.
Look, in view of the kismet, fortuitous, whatever you want to call it that just happened I'm down.
All right, Dad.
You know you're shaking hands with the devil.
I believe him.
You know you do, too.
I'll be right here to pick up the pieces of your heart when he shatters it.
- You the one breaking hearts.
- COOKIE: Shut up! (door shuts) I heard something.
What if I tried it with this melody? HAKEEM: It's nasty.
LUCIOUS: It's not.
Try it.
JAMAL: Hey yo, brother.
Jamal, give your brother one of those snails.
- Let him try.
- COOKIE: nobody gonna eat that dirt but you, devil, 'cause you live in it.
COOKIE: He ain't developed no taste buds for nothing like that.
LUCIOUS: Thirsty, will you stop flirting with my mama? All right, all right, all right, all right, y'all, listen.
Um, as, um, a pride of Lyons go, we are pretty blessed.
I mean, Tariq and the Feds are completely out of our lives, thanks to Anika.
And the DuBois family seems to be neatly tucked away, thanks to Jamal's cleverness.
Inferno is a go in Vegas, thanks to Also thanks to Jamal.
- LUCIOUS: Oh, okay.
- Mm-hmm.
LUCIOUS: With that said, I think Anika deserves her independence.
Open it.
Divorce papers? Thank you, Jesus.
Mama - What? - (Cookie laughing) Will you be nice, please? If you read on, um, it's a $25 million settlement agreement.
That is, of course, if you're not planning on contesting it.
That's more than you ever offered me.
I gave you half of my company.
No, I worked my ass off for my half.
Well, I'm sorry if that's not enough for your greedy little ass.
I got something for your Ooh.
ANDRE: I understand that you and Lucious are working on a song together, Jamal.
Oh, yeah, and that song is the reason why your daddy is set up in Vegas.
Mm-hmm.
COOKIE: That's okay, Andre.
All we have to do is step up - our efforts on the business.
- Thank you.
Can you feel me? - Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
I also have something for my youngest.
That little podcast you did the other day it moved me.
You mean my live stream? Whatever, um It let me know that you have reached a level of maturity.
So we're gonna give you back your XStream channel.
Cool.
You are just like your mama.
What you mean by that? (chuckling) Nothing.
Uh, Thirst There you go.
Turn it over, boy.
The state of New York seems to have found your real parents.
(laughter) Don't laugh at him.
Is this real? Very real.
You deserve to have your name on your daughter's birth certificate.
Thanks, Dad.
Proud of you.
Mr.
Lyon, there's someone at the gate.
I don't care, I'm eating lunch.
Sir, I think you should come.
Excuse me.
Are y'all finished eating these worms and these snails? Grass? Can you tell Juanita bring some more wine and peach cobbler, please? LUCIOUS: Juanita, get her something.
Hold on, hold on, what Who are you, and why are you in my house? Sir, I'm from OCSF New York.
Child Protective Services.
LUCIOUS: I don't give a damn where you're from, I didn't invite you.
Juanita, how - Get the hell out of my house.
- Sir, we have received reports of child endangerment at this residence.
I have an order to temporarily remove the child until an inves I don't care what you got.
You don't have the right to be in my house.
- Sir, I have an order - We can have the conversation outside.
- Get out of my house! - Move in! Dad! (overlapping shouting) Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Get out of my way! You ain't taking nothing! Stop, stop, stop, stop.
- Hands on your head.
- COOKIE: Don't touch my son! Stop.
Stop.
I'm not gonna tell you again.
Back the hell up now.
THIRSTY: Cookie, get the baby.
We'll take care of this in court.
You see all these cameras? We gonna have every one of y'all asses fired! Shame on you.
(voices echo, fade) (Anika crying echoes) It's all right.
It's okay.
You're just gonna go away for a little bit.
.
You're gonna take a nice little ride.
Just for a minute.
(sobbing) You think I don't know who's behind this? It's the DuBois.
You work for 'em? No, sir.
- THIRSTY: Shame on you.
- It's okay, baby, - we'll get you back.
- It's all right.
Give her to me now, sir.
- We really don't want a problem here.
- It's all right, it's okay.
LUCIOUS: Say good-bye to your pension, lady.
We're coming out now.
We're good.
Over and out.
AGENT (over radio): Roger that.
(sobbing)