If you've stopped watching empire (like we did cuz it was getting too slow if you know what we mean) Now is the time to catch up on what's going on in the world of empire.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead, if you have not watched “Empire” season 2, episode 17, titled “Rise By Sin,” which aired on May 11.
“Empire” went out with a bang — and it’s not even the finale.
As teased in promos for this week’s episode, a Lyon would be shot down. Even with the warning, the final moment came as a shock when Jamal (Jussie Smollett) was shot by Freda Gatz (Bre-Z) at the ASA Awards and left in critical condition.
Rewind to the beginning of the episode and Lucious (Terrence Howard) was rehearsing for his ASAs performance. Over the course of the season, competitive drama has been heating up between Lucious and Jamal, as the father and son are going head-to-head at the big award show.
Meanwhile, while Jamal was in the studio, he and the closeted gay producer D-Major — who he hooked up with last week — were getting close again, until Lucious walked in, causing D-Major to pretend like Jamal was the one who made a pass at him. Seeing the situation prompted Lucious back into his homophobic rage and he reacted worse than ever before going as far to tell his son, “The day you die from AIDS, I’m going to celebrate.”
Fast forward back to the ASAs where the Lyon family was walking the red carpet before the big show. Freda, who was also walking the carpet, got tipped off by a very drunk and intrusive Carol (Tasha Smith) who said that Lucious had close ties with her father (played by Chris Rock earlier in the season) who was killed at the beginning of the season. Freda put the pieces together and realized that Lucious killed her father so she grabbed a gun from a security guard and pulled the trigger — though she was aiming for Lucious, Jamal stepped in front of his dad and took the bullet for him.
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