Empire season 3 finale spoilers: Cookie – Lucious drama hits its peak

With the Empire season 3 finale coming to Fox on Wednesday night, you better be prepared for many different things to escalate. At the center of all of them, though, is the Cookie – Lucious relationship. This is the cornerstone to everything, and it is as challenging a relationship as they come. No matter what seems to happen in this world, somehow Lucious finds a way to destroy Cookie’s happiness. Is that going to happen yet again?

In the video below, showrunner Ilene Chaiken opens up about some of the stories that are being planned in this episode, with the one between these two characters of course being the peak of everything.

With that said, Chaiken also sets up a number of other story threads set to unfold over the course of the episode…

Andre – Remember that this is a guy with designs of killing Lucious and starting to take more things for his own. This is going to come to a head in the finale, but what you have to wonder is this: How does he ever come back from this? If he kills Lucious, he kills Lucious and the family’s split at the seams. If he doesn’t, but the rest of the Lyon clan finds out about his plan, the same thing happens and maybe the tables turn on him.

Hakeem – After his child is taken, Hakeem becomes his own version of Liam Neeson and he is driven by more purpose than he arguably been at any point on the show. Hakeem’s always been a little scattershot, so imagine the guy when he starts to focus in on something. This is going to be intense for him and then some.

Anika – Something big is coming for her, which makes sense given that she could only be gone from some of the chaos for so long. Whatever it is, this could change the foundation of the show and the relationships between her and some other characters.

Given that this is Empire, the biggest thing that can be effectively assured at this point is that one way or another, there will be a big cliffhanger leading into season 4.

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