LUCIOUS: Previously on "Empire" The Feds are coming for Empire.
We need the evidence on Damon Cross to clear Pop's name.
You realize you have signed us a silent singer?
But you and I I just have this feeling that we are destined to be.
Hi, Daddy.
Hey, sweetheart.
You good?
(SCREAMS, GROANS)
Where's my gig?
Son of a bitch!
You're gonna k*ll who?
(BODY THUDS)
(GASPS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
LUCIOUS: When you build an empire you create lots of enemies.
And every single one of them has a reason for k*lling you.
I just did the final walk-through, Mr.
Beretti.
The house is totally empty.
No kidding.
The bankruptcy court sold everything.
Except for this.
I found it in the garage.
In our business, a gold record is the ultimate symbol of success, Beretti, so Congratulations, Billy.
BERETTI: Gives me chills.
But with a chart-topping banger like that, I'll take a check.
Or a wire transfer, whatever you do these days.
Neither.
Okay, cash.
OG style.
Who doesn't love the mean green?
Why would I pay you cash for an artist that's exclusively signed to my label?
Since when?
Since you didn't re-sign her contract and I did.
Oh, come on, Lucious.
I invested a lot of money in that girl.
I bought her new hair, new D-cups.
I got her off coke.
And then you sneak in, sign her out from under me in the middle of the night?
It's not the same thing you did with Kid Fo Fo?
Come on, Lucious.
You know I've been on hard times for a couple years.
Give me my money, help me get back on my feet.
See, that's the difference between you and me.
I genuinely care about the artists and the music, where you only care about the money.
So all you get is this plaque.
Now get the hell out of my office.
That's how you want to play it?
Isn't that how you taught me?
Oh my lawyer's gonna be so far up your ass.
(CHUCKLES)
Hang it on your wall.
It'll remind you of who schooled your greedy ass.
You ghost me for six months, then you show up at my crib talking trash?
I don't owe you a damn thing.
I have been up nights for six months because it has been haunting me, and I've been thinking about everything, everything that happened, a million times.
Nah, you owe me some damn answers.
(R&B MUSIC)
MAN: Mmm (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Doesn't he notice?
Can he read your lips?
If I were with you still I would know how to back down No And your fragile heart I'd handle with care Maintain it on display up on a shelf No, he doesn't know how to keep you near It ain't no roses, no, you can't buy love You, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh I'm saying I'm better for you Baby, I'm better for you I don't know what to call it You, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh I'm saying I'm better for you Baby, I'm better for you Look, I know we all holding drinks in our hands, but he is thirsty as hell.
Quiet, Porsha!
He's also fine.
Speaking of, where's Andre?
Ain't he hosting this little after-party?
Uh, I'm sure he's at home with his very pregnant, very beautiful wife.
Also, I'm not my boss's keeper.
Uh, when I was Cookie's assistant, if I didn't have eyes on her, you bet damn well sure somebody else did.
Well, then I guess it's great that Cookie is not CEO.
And neither is Lucious, for that matter.
Maintain it on display up on a shelf Mm-hmm, I say "amen" to that.
Uh, you need to be saying "amen" to that.
To keep you near It ain't no roses No, you can't buy love
(MUSIC FADES)
YANA: That kombucha went right through me.
I'll be quick.
Listen we get this money from Uncle Ray, and by this time tomorrow, we are drinking from coconuts, okay?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
- (THUNDER RUMBLES)
- ANDRE: (GRUNTING)
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
- Hello?
- LUCIOUS: Hey.
How'd the launch go?
Oh, strong, Pop.
Real strong.
- How's it going on your end?
- I don't know.
We're at a gas station, like, 30 miles outside of Saratoga Springs.
ANDRE: (BREATHES HEAVILY)
You sound winded, man.
You all right?
I'm just taking out the trash, Pop.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
Don't worry.
I'm good.
LUCIOUS: Were you able to confirm that this Uncle Ray is Damon's money man that the guy Yana's been talking to?
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
I couldn't get his last name, but I think so.
Word is this Ray is extra cautious.
Runs Damon's entire operation on an air-gapped laptop.
Every client, account, and amount.
That laptop is what you need to clear your name.
LUCIOUS: Great.
You talk to your mama?
I mean, anything from her?
(PANTS)
No, nothing yet.
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOFTLY SINGING INDISTINCTLY)
(BREATHY VOCALIZATIONS)
That was so much better, Lala!
That was really great!
Yeah, I could almost hear you at - Don't don't look at her.
- That time.
Can I talk to you for a minute outside, please?
- Uh, to me?
- Yeah.
Come on, you're gonna scare her!
Girl, you know what?
Yo, you trying to scare her?
We have been trying to get Lala to sing all day and all night, for that matter.
You need to just face it, your Internet phenom is just not phenomenal.
Okay.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis probably felt the same way the first night they worked with Janet.
She don't do nothing but whisper on all them songs but they be hits, right?
You just got to give her time!
Time is something we do not have.
After all that money we spent signing Ms.
Lalaland, we don't have any more money to sign anybody else.
We might as well just cut our losses.
No, no, no, no, no.
Look, look, look, look - Let's just - No, no, no, no, no, no.
We are not cutting our losses right now, okay?
Okay, but I'm shaking.
I finally sat you down and made you listen to her.
I know you heard what I heard.
She is special, okay?
She's gonna be a major hit-maker for us.
You can see that.
I know, but what we need right now is a home run to stay afloat, and she's not even getting us over the ten-yard line.
You're mixing your metaphors!
Okay, you're sleepy.
Yes!
(QUIETLY)
It's all in me
- GISELLE: (SIGHS)
- BECKY: I know you're tired.
Look, I am so tired.
I cannot listen to her anymore.
Can we just fix her tomorrow, please?
I'm every woman It's all in me I think I know how to fix her before breakfast.
And also, I need to get a drink in you because I Ugh!
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
Oh, God, no.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Come on, baby, wake up.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
WOMAN: 911 operator, what's your emergency?
(STAMMERS)
My wife, she's she's bleeding.
She's unresponsive.
She's eight months pregnant.
I need help now, please.
She's not breathing.
All right.
Come on, baby.
Come on, baby.
Come on.
- (THUNDER RUMBLING)
- Come on!
Don't you die on me, come on!
Come on, baby!
Come on, baby!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Andre!
Andre.
Where's my mom?
Is she okay?
She stopped breathing.
They were able to get her heart going again in the ambulance.
- What, she d*ed?
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Quincy, your mother's strong, brother, she's strong.
What's going on?
Is she okay?
She's still unconscious.
She may have hit her head when she fell.
What about the baby?
Teri's lost a lot of blood, and the baby's heart rate is abnormal, a sign of fetal distress.
We think it's best to move forward with an emergency C-section.
Anything you have to do to save them, Doctor, you do it.
Well, that's the thing, Mr.
Lyon.
Teri has developed late-term preeclampsia, and her blood pressure is still spiking.
If we do the C-section right away, there's a good chance we can save the baby but Teri is at risk of further hemorrhaging.
No, you can't let my mother die!
We do the most good where we can and what we know right now is we can save the baby, but if we wait, they both remain at risk possibly grave risk.
You're gonna have to make a choice and make it soon.
Thank you, Doctor.
(GROWLS)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Quincy.
No, you can't let them k*ll my mother, man!
I'm Teri's husband, okay?
I have final say on decisions about her and the baby.
- I got this, brother
- For six months!
For six months, you've been her husband.
But you and I have known each other a lot longer, haven't we?
Look, you saved my life, but this is different.
Quincy Brother, hear me.
I love your mother just as much as you do, brother.
I love her.
We're gonna save her, too.
You got my word on that, man.
(SOBS)
We're gonna save her, too.
COOKIE: You're stalling, Damon.
So I'm watching this TV show you on, and, um
(CHUCKLES)
One queen can't class up a barn full of heifers.
But I get it.
You had to do something to forget about us.
(LAUGHS)
You think I want you?
Are you out your rabid-ass mind?
You here, ain't you?
Okay, so I tip you off about the damn Feds, and to save your own ass, you sic that thirsty bitch Conway on Lucious instead.
- It's called survival.
- No, that's called betrayal.
So the man who opened his heart to me about his daughter's cancer, who held my hand when Andre was touch and go, where did he go?
Because we've been through a lot, and I'm trying to understand why you would do me so dirty.
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
Who dat?
Lucious?
Trying to tell you how to play me, huh?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
That's exactly what that's about.
I don't need instructions from him or from you.
You see, I'm a queen.
And queens can never be anybody's pawn.
Now answer my damn question.
(JIMI HENDRIX'S "THE WIND CRIES MARY")
You know what I was thinking?
What?
Eleuthera.
Yeah.
I always wanted to go there.
I've never been, but I hear they have 100 little islands that are all filled with white sand and clear water.
Yeah, I could build a nice house on the beach for us, dig a well, go fishing every day.
And that makes you what, CEO of the beach?
Lucious, that's not freedom.
That is a responsibility.
I want to protect you.
I want to take care of you.
- That's what I do.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let me be me, come on!
- (LAUGHS)
That's how I built Empire, you know?
You built Empire so that you could take care of people?
I mean, that had something to do with it.
Lucious, if you don't stop You built Empire so that you could be the king.
The wind, it cries Don't you get tired of wearing that crown?
I think you should just imagine how free you'd be if you just took it off.
It's easy to talk about freedom when you got a daddy that's bankrolling you and keeping you afloat, you know?
Lucious, you need to let it go.
You got to let go of all of that responsibility and all that obligation.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
I don't want our island to be an Empire.
Empires fall.
I want it to be forever.
Downstream 'Cause the life they lived Well, we're here.
And the wind screams Mary PASTOR BROWN: Andre.
Pastor Brown.
I came as soon as I heard.
The doctors want to take the baby as soon as possible.
Now, Teri, she she I understand.
I understand, brother.
I-I don't I don't know what to do.
H-He's doing it again.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Oh, He's just doing it again, man.
- Andre.
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
Teri has shared with me everything you've been through.
God gets her through all of that.
It never stops, this God!
Oh, God, He (CHUCKLES)
God is pushing me, man.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, He's pushing me.
- He's not pushing you.
- He's pushing me.
- He's building.
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
You know, you remind me of Abraham.
Oh, Abraham.
You've tried to be obedient, but God keeps challenging your faith.
He has a higher calling for you, Andre.
All you have to do is let go and let God This is not about me, Pastor.
It's not about me.
It's about Teri.
We keep this about Teri.
Then let's pray for Teri.
Heavenly Father, we come to You praying that You pour Your anointed grace over this family.
(GROANS QUIETLY)
Andre is a good man, a family man, a God-fearing man deserving of God's grace.
Help him tonight, dear Lord.
(SHOUTS, GAGS)
PASTOR BROWN: What's the matter?
(GRUNTS)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
God can't help me.
- But you have to have faith.
- I do have faith.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
Faith that I love my wife.
Faith that I love my child more than I can ever love anything in this world but I will not have faith in a God who would rather push me than protect my family.
No.
You can't control this, Andre.
Thanks for coming out, Pastor.
I appreciate it, I do.
I'll make the decision myself, okay?
(SIGHS)
YANA: Uncle Ray's isn't far.
I'll be back soon.
It's all right.
I'll go with you.
No one else can go to Uncle Ray's.
I shouldn't have let you come this far as it is.
Look, I'll just sit in the car and wait.
I mean, it's dangerous out here, you know?
I am fine.
I don't make a lot of promises to my father, but this one I can't break.
I'll be back.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
(ENGINE TURNING OVER)
- Hey.
- Yeah?
You know what?
I forgot to tell you something.
What?
Thank you.
Thank you for what?
For everything.
I mean, for your honesty, for the money, and giving me a new chance at life.
- Mm.
- I'm ready.
I love you, Lucious.
Write a song for me while I'm gone.
(KEYS CLACKING)
(COMPUTER BEEPS RHYTHMICALLY)
There's been no change in Teri's condition or the baby's.
We're still concerned about her elevated blood Did she wake up?
No.
I've made a decision.
You're gonna save them both.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
I'm sorry, Mr.
Lyon.
I can't guarantee that Okay, I understand all that, but the fact still remains, okay?
I don't care what you have to do.
Get two sets of surgeons in there, one for the baby, one for my wife.
I don't care how many doctors it takes, and I don't care how much it costs.
Mr.
Lyon, it doesn't work like that.
You are gonna save them both, do you understand me?
COOKIE: Look me in the eye.
Tell me you didn't tell the Feds about Lucious.
I swear to you, Cookie, I ain't never snitched a day in my life.
Till now.
(CHUCKLES)
Okay, when the Feds came down on Lucious, it wasn't just him.
They hit me and my sons hard.
Like, why would you do that to me?
I did it for you.
I did it to make him let go of you, Cookie.
(LAUGHS)
So you did that so that you could free me from Lucious.
- Yeah.
- What?
You don't think you worth it?
Damon you did it because you thought I'd come running to you.
I did it to free you from the hold the man has had on you your whole life.
I'm talking about a hold he got on you from behind bars, from across boardrooms, from wherever he is hiding now.
He does not deserve you.
If that make me a snitch, so be it.
I can live with it.
You don't get to tell me who I can and cannot love.
So you need to stay in your damn lane.
You know what?
If the reason why you came over here was to help him, that don't have to be the reason why you stay.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
You a grown-ass woman, Cookie.
You deserve some love from a grown-ass man.
(KHALID'S "TALK")
Can't we just talk?
Can't we just talk?
Hey!
(LAUGHS)
The kickoff party was lit, and so is this after-party!
Hey!
Is there any doubt that Empire is not all the way back?
I've never felt like this before Oh, my God.
I hope everything's okay.
Listen, I'm sending out my love and my prayers to Teri and Andre.
God's got you.
To all my people watching this live, please put them and their baby in your prayers, because all life is precious.
All right, y'all, I'm out.
Thank y'all for coming, man.
Appreciate it.
You look nice.
- Hey, stranger.
- What's up, T?
Can we talk?
You ever get that feeling like the music's just not where you want it to be?
All the time.
I mean, I feel like it's just a part of the process.
But then I just got to re-center myself, remember what I'm trying to say and put in the work to change it.
I just feel like I should've said something when I had the chance to, you know?
It's like every song on my album every song sounds the same.
Look, Lucious wanted me to be Rihanna.
Eddie wanted me to be Beyoncé.
But it it took me a while to realize that they got Tiana.
(CHUCKLES)
- And I'm everything, okay?
- (LAUGHS)
You got to take charge, or you gonna be caught in somebody else's game forever.
So you want me to walk over to Andre and be like, "Run it up, dog.
I need all of my music back.
" I mean, it's your music.
It's your career.
Now I'm on the way You don't know your own power.
So stop thinking 'bout it
(SNAPS FINGERS)
Hello?
- You coming?
- Where we going?
You said it all sounds the same, so let's go change it.
Studio 3 is open, and it's now or ever.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
sh*ts!
- (CHUCKLES)
- BECKY: Oh, my God.
Porsha, what are you doing here?
Working, scouting talent.
What y'all doing here, crossing enemy lines and whatnot?
We are here to prove that a little karaoke and tequila will bring the Sasha Fierce out of anybody, right?
Now drink up, everybody.
Clink, clink, clink.
Think you can give us a little Chaka Khan?
BECKY: Uh, just a little, just a little bit, just for the table.
I-I don't I don't know, maybe.
Come on, we are here supporting you, okay?
We got you.
Please, Lord, just a little sound.
Okay.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
I'm every woman It's all in me
ALL: Anything You want done, baby I'll do it natu - Hi.
- Oh, hey.
That song is too high in your register.
Wow, excuse you.
I think that we will be the judge of that.
Honey, if little Chaka could, Chaka would, but clearly, baby, Chaka can't.
Okay.
Besides, she wants to sing on my stage, she'll sing what I give her.
Name?
Lala.
All right, Lala, you're up next.
Keep those vocals warm.
If you can find a vocal.
Okay, so, she actually wasn't wrong.
- But you told her.
- Mm, I did, I did!
She got the message.
- Oh, did she really?
- Yeah GISELLE: Okay, so this is what we're gonna do.
Get ready to meet your son.
(MONITOR BEEPING)
Hey, little man!
He's not breathing.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
(ECHOING)
Get this baby on a respirator!
MALE DOCTOR: Can I get vitals on the baby?
What?
W-what do you mean he's not breathing?
- DOCTOR: She's hemorrhaging!
- DOCTOR 2: Get her stabilized.
Get him out of here.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Lyon, but you have to leave.
You can't!
I'm not leaving my son!
DOCTOR: Get the cart.
I'm not leaving my son!
Mr.
Lyon, you have to leave.
DOCTOR: She's losing a lot of blood!
Help my wife!
Help her, please!
- DOCTOR: What are her vitals?
- DOCTOR 2: She's hypotensive.
DOCTOR: More pads?
She's bleeding out!
ANDRE: (SIGHS HEAVILY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Something went wrong, didn't it?
I'm sorry, Quincy.
Um (SNIFFLES)
My mom trusted you to take care of her, and so did I!
If she dies it's on you!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SNORING SOFTLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
Oh, my God.
Everything's all set.
He'll have the money in the morning.
The morning?
Yeah, he's probably go to go to the bank or something.
It's a bit more than what I usually ask for.
All righty, then.
You're having second thoughts?
It's just, like, I ain't never met nobody like you.
You got me thinking I'm this close to being free from everything.
Yeah.
You're afraid.
You are afraid of who you might be if you're not Lucious Lyon.
Let me tell you something, little lady.
I ain't afraid of a damn thing.
I'm the baddest man in the whole damn land.
The baddest, huh?
Lucious, you have a beautiful family that you've told me about.
And you built a whole empire.
(CHUCKLES)
That's quite a legacy.
It's just weird thinking about leaving it all behind, you know?
When I had cancer, I was sure I was gonna die in that bed.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC)
But that was not the end of my story, just like this is not the end of yours.
It's not.
You're right.
(CHUCKLES)
We could write new chapters
- Yes?
- Together.
(CHUCKLING)
(SIGHS)
- BECKY: Center yourself.
- GISELLE: And go.
BECKY: You got it, you got it, you got it.
Fly little birdy, fly!
This was a good idea, Becky.
I think I'm gonna go up right after her.
- (LAUGHS)
- No.
- I'm every woman
- No, no, no, no.
BECKY: I'm gonna commandeer that, thank you.
Come here, girl.
Don't be nervous.
You can sing, you're just not placing your voice right.
- Okay.
- Okay?
I want you to stay on top of your breath.
Make it come from your diaphragm, so sing from down here.
- Diaphragm.
- Not up here.
- Not up here.
- Okay?
Pull your shoulders back, okay?
Your song has got to come from your heart, baby, not your head.
- Okay.
- Okay?
You got this.
(EXHALES NERVOUSLY)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(CHAKA KHAN'S "SWEET THING" PLAYING)
I will love you any way Even if you cannot stay I think you are the one for me Here is where you ought to be I just want to satisfy ya Though you're not mine, I can't deny ya Don't you hear me talking, baby?
Love me now, or I'll go crazy Oh, oh, sweet thing Don't you know you're my everything?
Oh, oh, sweet thing Don't you know you're my everything?
Yes, you are I can work with this!
Yes.
I told you.
I know talent when I see it.
Give me that love I like the bridge but that's about it.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's hot.
It's just the track is way too overproduced.
But what I'm really trying to figure out is what's up with these lyrics?
What you mean?
I mean, you up in here talking about wining and dining some girl to play house with you?
(SIGHS)
Don't nobody want to play house.
(CHUCKLES)
You're a whole comedian today, huh?
(LAUGHS)
No, I'm sorry.
But for real though, like
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Where's the passion?
You know?
Is this really what you want to say?
(INHALES DEEPLY)
I don't know anymore, T.
It's like I I haven't been inspired Since you and me stopped talking, really.
Make you feel good, baby, I'm stuck on you I was just trying to give you space.
Staying celibate to finish your album hey, I respect that.
Baby my album's done.
I need it like that morning coffee This feeling, it don't come by often But I got you now, promise won't let you down I've been struck by you Ain't nobody over there.
I'm glad I found you I know exactly what you need to find some new inspiration.
And it's what I need, too.
Baby, I'm stuck on you Make you feel good, make you feel good Make you feel good, baby, I'm stuck on you Make you feel good, make you feel good
- I just wanna
- Make you feel good 'Cause, baby, I'm stuck on you Make you feel good
(THUNDER BOOMS)
I want to make you feel so good, baby
(MUSIC FADES)
(THUNDER BOOMS)
(MONITORS BEEPING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(THUNDER CRACKS)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
What do You want from me?
What do You want from me?
- (EXHALES DEEPLY)
- (THUNDER RUMBLES)
That what You want, huh?
You want a sacrifice?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I'll give you back your heart if you save my wife and my child.
Save my family.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I'll give you your heart.
Save 'em.
Take me.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
- Andre!
- Come on!
- Andre, what the - Take me!
Andre, what the hell are you doing in here?
(GASPS)
Andre!
Drop it!
Let it go!
It's my fault, Ma.
What?
What are you talking about?
- God's making this happen.
- Why would God do that?
Because I k*lled a man.
- What?
- (THUNDER CRACKS)
I k*lled a man, Ma.
God can take this heart back.
If He just let Teri and the baby live, He can have it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Someone once told me, baby, that God doesn't keep a scorecard.
You don't you don't know that.
Even if He does, He doesn't show us, because you know why?
None of us are that damn important.
Look, when I was locked away from you and your brothers, all those years, do you know how many times I tried to bargain with God?
(CHUCKLES)
It didn't make a damn bit of difference, baby.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
This man that you k*lled what did he do?
- It doesn't matter.
- No, what did he do, Andre?
- He threatened my family, Ma.
- Okay, okay, baby.
- He threatened my family.
- Okay, okay, okay, baby.
So you had no choice.
Look at me.
God is not going to punish you for choosing to protect your wife and your child.
Not the God I know.
Okay?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, baby?
Let it go, let it go.
Hey, baby, let it go.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Just let 'em live.
- Come on, baby.
- (SOBBING)
- Just let them live!
- (SCALPEL CLATTERS)
Okay, baby.
Just let them live.
- I know.
- (THUNDER RUMBLES)
- Just let them live, Ma.
- I know, I know.
- (SOBBING)
- I know, I know.
Shh, I know.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
I've wanted you for a long time.
And I've wanted you, too.
You want some more?
(GROANS)
We have to finish this song first.
Okay, okay, okay.
- You want to know how I feel?
- How?
I feel fulfilled complete.
Complete Babe, I got it!
I Mmm, I got it, listen.
- What?
- Press playback for me.
- Okay.
- (BUTTON CLICKS)
(R&B MUSIC PLAYING)
- When I come home
- When I come home
- You know what I'm gonna do
- What I'm gonna do Let me take it off, yeah Just so I can put it on you Oh 'Cause, baby, it's a warning I can make it last long
- Oh, give me that water
- Drip it on me Yeah, you know we both grown In here
- All night touching you
- Gonna touch you, babe
- I'll make you feel good
- Mm-hmm Inside It's about you You got me stuck like glue When I make love to you Make you feel good, make you feel good Baby, I'ma make you Make you feel good, scream if it's good to you Make you feel good, make you feel good 'Cause I know where to kiss her Make you feel good when I make love to you Make you feel good, make you feel good Make you feel good Make you feel good when I make love to you Yeah, make you feel good Girl, I just want to make you feel good Yeah
(SIRENS WAILING IN THE DISTANCE)
Fight, son.
Come on, fight.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
(MONITOR BEEPING)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
God I'm sorry.
I have sinned against You whom I should love above all things.
I intend to sin no more.
You're bigger than me.
I leave my son's life and my wife's life in Your hands.
(SNIFFLES)
We're at Your mercy.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
It's Teri.
(MONITOR BEEPING)
Andre.
- Oh, thank God.
- How is our baby?
He's as beautiful as his mama.
- Ma?
- Praise God.
Ma, you okay?
Oh.
Teri's lost a lot of blood, but she's stabilized, and the brain scan came back clear.
What about the baby?
He's breathing on his own.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
Thank you.
(HEARTENING MUSIC)
It's a miracle, Andre!
(LAUGHS)
(SIGHS)
Go be with your wife, baby.
Your family needs you.
- I love you, Ma.
- I love you, son.
Oh.
It's gonna be fine.
It's all right.
- (THUNDER RUMBLES)
- TERI: Yeah.
(INSECTS CHIRPING, THUNDER RUMBLES)
Why is Damon's money man hiding out here in the boonies?
(CHUCKLES)
I enjoy nature.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
Plus, it helps me keep me away from a certain criminal element.
I need that little magic laptop you got.
Afraid I can't do that.
Nice dreadlocks, Lucious.
When you told Yana that she had to wait till morning to get her money, you was stalling.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
How long before Damon arrives?
Hour, maybe less.
Well, you got less than a second to make one of two choices.
Either you give me that laptop, or I'm gonna k*ll you right where you're sitting.
Perhaps.
But if I was to comply with that, then I'd have to contend with brother Damon.
I'll admit, that's two negative outcomes.
But there's always a third alternative, right?
You and me we just got to get real creative about it.
You give me the laptop, I'ma give you a head start on Damon.
Now, an hour on a man like Damon ain't much, but for a cat like you, Ray, I know you're gonna make the best of it, so where's the safe?
(THUNDER BOOMS)
Lucious?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(THUNDER CRACKS)
DAMON: Ray, where you at?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(KEYPAD BEEPS)
Snitch bitch, snitchin'-ass bitch Snitch bitch, snitchin'-ass bitch
(SCREAMS)
Damn!
- And you know it - And I know it And you know I know it
ANDRE: How's my boy?
You made it, baby boy.
You a real Lyon.
- God saved you.
- (BABY FUSSES)
I know.
(CHUCKLES)
I promise you, whatever it takes, I'm gonna honor the deal I made with Him.
I'm gonna protect you and your mother.
(THUNDER BOOMING)
And I'm gonna be by your side the whole way, okay?
(MAN LAUGHING)
Hey, little brother.
(GASPS)
I couldn't let the Lord take all the credit.
Oh, the expression on your face is priceless, Andre.
I-I don't understand.
Oh, it's not complicated.
It was me, bro.
I answered your prayers.
No, God answered my prayers.
You Oh, just don't go there.
Why would He listen to you?
Hmm?
You're a cold-blooded k*ller, Andre.
(THUNDER BOOMS)
I saved your little family and I'm just looking for a little gratitude.
Damon!
You're my weakness, Cookie.
Get the hell out of my house!
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
I'ma stick around a bit, 'cause now you owe me, bitch!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
06x02 - Got on My Knees to Pray
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Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment receives a medical diagnosis predicting he will be incapacitated within three years, prompting the sharks to circle. Without further damaging his family, he must decide which of his three sons will take over...
Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment receives a medical diagnosis predicting he will be incapacitated within three years, prompting the sharks to circle. Without further damaging his family, he must decide which of his three sons will take over...