Lastly, if you remember clearly, before lucious was shot, he said "so, you've gat balls now". By Evan Yana's father and Lucious's rival, Damon Cross (Wood Harris), who is persuaded that there's no romantic entanglement with Lucious, approves of the professional relationship. Portrayed by Taraji P. Henson, Cookie is one of the main characters within the series, the queen bee and the wife of former drug dealer turned hip-hop mogul, Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) who gets released from prison and strikes out to lay claim to half of their multimillion-dollar record label, which was initially funded by her drug money. The pair fight and Damon nearly manages to kill his enemy before Lucious detaches his own prosthetic leg and uses it to kill Damon. NY 10036. Fans will remember that Lucious ordered Gathers killed in prison at the beginning of this season after he threatened Cookie. Tuesdays episode of the departing Fox drama concluded with a fast-forward sequence that appeared to show Cookie getting blown to smithereens via car bomb. The character has drawn several comparisons to Alexis Carrington, the femme fatale famously played by Joan Collins on Aaron Spelling's 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty. Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) capitalized on her newfound social media fame and joined a daytime talk show, similar to The View where shes openly discussed no longer dating Lucious and doesnt get involved with Empire anymore. For whatever it's worthy, it's good to know that the creative team intended for viewers to have time to ruminate on all that before diving into everything else. The season's flash-forward mystery foreshadowed Lucious getting shot and Cookie's car exploding, and the originally planned series finale was supposed to resolve the mysteries surrounding their. In typical Empire style, the series finale did this by killing her off. Lee Daniels and Danny Strong created this Fox drama about a kingpin of hip-hop (played by Terrence Howard) and his family, who fight him for control of the empire. After being released from a 17-year prison stint, Cookie challenges her husband Lucious for half Empire Entertainment, which was initially launched with money Cookie made from selling drugs. But appearances on Empire which has a long history of playing bait-and-switch with viewers can be deceiving (see also: Andres terminal cancer diagnosis that wasnt and last seasons anti-climactic coffin reveal). Additionally, Hakeem used to have a thing for guns after he got shot. 1. And that's an ongoing question; that question isn't answered in our finale. #Empire pic.twitter.com/T433h66Jho. Obviously, there are so many other factors, but, in your ideal world, would your hope be that Jussie reappears at some point before the show ends? So, if not Tracy, Andre/Kingsley, Damon Cross, or even Yana, who could have killed Lucious? If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) is hiding from the federal government who want him on money laundering charges, so he wears a Bob Marley-like wig and glasses, and has a new girlfriend. Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, and director Rob Marshall share the tale behind making their underwater musical with a groundbreaking Disney princess. After bringing them together, why did this feel like the appropriate move? On the plus side, Brett Mahoney seemed highly confident that Empire will eventually get the intended ending that the writers had planned to wrap the series with. Also Read: 'Empire' Raises the Stakes in Battle Between Lyons, Camilla Cookie and Lucious have a big problem on their hands. Like with Lucious, we can at least rule out the candidates who died before having the chance to enact any vengeance. Kelsey). It's still in the process of being figured out. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. The result is the kind of performance that makes critics and Hollywood insiders take notice. The launch of the Empire movie also may have meant a big shift in his career and the public perception of him. Instead of Smollett as the adult Jamal (now living in London to explain his absence this season), the flashback sequence insteadsimply shows a younger actor playing Jamal as a child. She's not a doctor, lawyer, or detective, but watches a lot of them in primetime. Early in the episode, Lucious and Cookie team up professionally, ambushing and firing Pamplemousse rivals Kelly Patel (Pej Vahdat) and Giselle Barker (Nicole Ari Parker) in their corporate. // If his new love finds anything out about her father and Lyons history, she may kill him out for feeling like he used her. I was scared of Cookie," Henson explained. This might just be done intentionally by the author to remove the character from the minds of the viewers as a possible killer. ? They already have the scenes involving who killed Lucious and Cookie so hopefully they can edit it to where it makes some kind of sense. He actually offered Andre life in the end, so I think he will always live on with the Lyons. * After a two-episode absence precipitated by portrayer Bryshere Y. Grays reduced Season 6 workload,Hakeem returns just in time to attend the baptism ofAndre and Teris son Walker. Brett Mahoney doesnt know the status of a potential spin-off since hes not involved, but he imagines viewers would be something people would be interested in. Let's make some noise for that happening, Empire fans. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. She also reveals to Lucious about the affair she had with Damon Cross and leaves, while Lucious gets on the helicopter and leaves New York City. "They've given me a lot of leeway. [7], "It's this combination of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Mama Rose on crack meets Lee Daniels' sister. But a closing featuring "the Lyon family coming together, Lucious and Cookie acknowledging their love for one another, was definitely the spirit we were going to be reaching in the series finale.". So I don't think the door is closed, it's just a matter if they can come back to itand if they do come back to it, they'll come back to it in a more mature way. (He said he hasan opinion on the matter, but declined to share it. She is even not too cool with Cookie, as Cookie has been Bossing her around in her establishment, she even went ahead to tell Cookie boldly one day that "I'm a co-founder". While Cookie spent the. As an actress, because Henson is so "uninhibited," the writers tend to write her "really big." In the Season 6 premiere, it's learned that six months has passed since Cookie and Lucious separated. #Empire pic.twitter.com/9sB7RiPNFf. He staged the coup with Gizelle but failed, how has Kelly managed to own those many shares for a very long time is still a mystery as the Lyons would normally have tried a lot of times to get it from him, but yet failed. He was on a journey with where he was with his faith and his belief in God and what he thought he could have in his life, and what I think he learned through this season was that beyond Rhonda, beyond losing his kid, there may be hope for him in the future. Before the success of Empire Entertainment, Cookie was a drug dealer who helped Lucious's career become successful. Cookie seems to want to permanently set ablaze to the relationship when she says that she slept with Damon. Becky may be just a suspect, but permit me to surprise you, Season 6 has showed becky as a successful yet highly insecure, self-loathing, empty feeling, emotionally unstable drug dependent person, who yes, has a lot of complaints about a lot of things, but doesn't know how to confront the person, this has been shown by her conversations with gizelle where it seems her views doesn't matter and that one way or the other Gizelle always has her way around her. I'm not sure yet; we will see as we start things next season how things play out. Just introduced this season, Lucious' illegitimate son tried to find his way into the family, but his mother and abandonment issues pushed him too far, eventually killing himself and leaving his heart to go to an ailing Andre (Trai Byers). by Anna Rose Iovine. The show hasn't even wrapped yet but Cookie's legacy as one of TV's most unforgettable characters has already been cemented. Could the stresses of that job push him too far again, or had he learned how to handle it? (Viewers don't see how that happened, suggesting a scene that hadn't been filmed. So, they getting killed did not come as a surprise to the viewers as "He who kills by the sword, must surely die by the sword" but their many enemies makes it difficult for one to guess who their executioner would be. In Season 4, Cookie is the CEO of Empire while Lucious is receiving 'help' from Nurse Claudia after the devastating explosion. Now, Empire didn't go nearly as far to confirm Cookie's death as it did Lucious after he was shot, since he looked pretty definitively dead in that particular flash-forward. 2023 TVLine Media, LLC. New York, We're open to turning it upside-down and seeing what falls out in terms of what new stuff, what new twists and turns we can come up with to make it exciting. Henson described Cookie as "every actor's dream. Henson admitted that she often has to "rein [Cookie] in" to keep from becoming "over the top" in her portrayal. Yana realizes that Lucious' heart is still with Cookie and the pair break-up in amicable terms with a friendly hug. Spoiler alert: This story contains major details from Tuesday's series finale of "Empire.". Andre (Trai Byers), still recovering from his heart transplant, is the permanent CEO of Empire and secured deals with Fox Sports and more, with a son on the way. There were episodes where I felt like big things were happening and people were like, "But who's in the coffin?" As has been the case, Empires penultimate episode wouldve included a twist that wouldve segued right into the original series finale. Cookie and Lucious were married before Empire Entertainment was founded. Lucious isn't the only one who may have died in the Empire Season 6 flash-forwards. ), Cookie arrives on the scene, fearing Lucious is dead, before he utters, "It's over. This time, its Lucious on the other side, as Season 6 started with a flash-forward of someone shooting the Empire owner several times in the chest. ? Who killed Lucious Lyon and why? Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Damon already did shoot Cookie but had moved on to focus his fury on Lucious, leading to his demise. A good chunk of this season will see Cookie continually receiving professional help from her therapist (Keesha Sharp) as she attempts to break free of that vicious cycle with Lucious and finally start taking proper care of herself. Things got too real when a do-rag-wearing Lucious Lyon . "I was blown away like the car," Taraji P. Henson told TV Guide of her initial reaction to the flash-forward. However, "You'll get to see her grow, not only in her art, but also in her style. He's locked Leah away after she killed Tariq, whose body is sitting in the tub at his mansion. Making a splash: A deep dive into the live-action, Jussie Smollett has been embroiled in controversy. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, [4] Henson said in an interview with TV Guide, that Cookie is the "hood version of Mama Rose from Gypsy. Cookie also made an enemy from the head of the ASAs when she refused to cancel BossyFest. We don't know what lead her to this moment or if she's still behind the wheel when her car goes up in flames. In another look to the future, Cookie was seen rushing out of the mansion after Lucious was shot. Anyone hoping to see Empire become a full-on franchise have another big question, too: what about that Cookie spin-off? From this speech, it is obvious the killer may be a female or someone considered less a man because he lacks balls(mind), the statement might also mean the person has had a failed attempt of which either ways, Freda Gatz fits the description. ??? Yet again, Jamal's ex - lover swore to end the family and that was all the author has talked about him up till now. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. "He's been doing so well putting a guilt trip on her. He has taken down a lot of people in the past, yes, he told Cookie that and so he want to get back at Coocious for putting him out of business. Hes also working on a new documentary about the company, starring his younger brother Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Viewers don't see a father-son reunion, likely due to the shooting schedule cut short, but the suggestion of one is there. Offers may be subject to change without notice. [7], The character of Cookie has been well received, and Henson was immediately praised for her portrayal. Enter youngest Lyon brother Hakeem (Bryshere Y. The woman you and your family killed. Middle sonJamalis mentioned during Hakeem's rap, but the accompanyingflashback sequence doesn't showactor Jussie Smollett, who was written out of the show last seasonafter allegations he staged a hate-crime attackin Chicago, where "Empire" filmed.