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The delicious soap found Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) revealing he’s not dying of ALS; he was misdiagnosed, and he proceeded to dole out a jet to Hakeem, a foundation to Dre and his empire to Jamal, before getting arrested for Bunkie’s murder.

And then suddenly Papa Lyon is flashing back to his own childhood, as his mother sings “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and gets spaced out by the halfway mark – though what her deal is is hard to tell. What’s wrong with adding another Latina in the group?

Unaware, Andre sets off on his own path back to Empire, delivering the episode’s most tender moment as he delicately begs Cookie to let him leave.

The season two premiere shows Lucious in prison following his murder of Cookie’s cousin Bunkie. Cookie and Anika put their differences aside to arrange a hostile takeover of Empire Entertainment.

The forensic crime drama starring Morris Chestnut managed to self-start and hold its own to tie the return of “Survivor” in the hour – that’s despite the show receiving some of the harshest reviews of the new fall crop, averaging only 37 out of 100 on...