Before the film starts, Hakeem performs a rap celebrating the family's position at the top, mentioning various family members as flashbacks play. I think what's interesting is if they do come back together, they will be coming back together with their eyes wide open and knowing how difficult it will be. I'm not sure yet; we will see as we start things next season how things play out. Jamal tries to rally the family . Given Cookies jittery, guilty-as-hell energy as she exited her house and made her way to her TNT-rigged automobile, the show clearly wants us to think that Cookie murdered Lucious before running straight into the Grim Reapers clutches herself. "Wewant to be able to film the intended finale we came up with and think we owe it to the fans to do that. What he tells us is that he's going to disappear for a while so he can find out what exactly Damon and the federal prosecutor have against him. In another look to the future, Cookie was seen rushing out of the mansion after Lucious was shot. Things got too real when a do-rag-wearing Lucious Lyon . The show dropped clues here and there about who might have done it, but Empire moves so quickly and Lucious creates so many enemies for himself that it's difficult to narrow down the list unless characters are killed off. Giselle and Patel were still alive and with serious bones to pick with Lucious. She climbed into her car, found a note, and then was seemingly blown up in her car. Henson said "I make a conscious effort to sit on it" because if she always played it big, Cookie becomes a "stereotype and no one cares. In the Season 5 finale, Lucious has to temporarily leave New York City since he is wanted by the FBI. Still, Giselle and Patel have every reason to be as furious with Cookie as with Lucious, and Giselle especially might see Cookie as the reason why everything went wrong for her in the second half of Empire Season 6. The reveal that Kingsley was in the coffin comes as the futures of the other Lyon sons looked direr, considering Andre was previously seen flatlining in a flash-forward and Jamal actor Jussie Smollett has been embroiled in controversy, and upon renewing the series, Fox said there are "no plans" for him to return. So, if not Tracy, Andre/Kingsley, Damon Cross, or even Yana, who could have killed Lucious? this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. We don't know when production will start again. In other words, Kelly is a strong man. For the character, when Cookie first comes out of prison, "she is a bit dated" in her fashion sense, according to Henson. In the Season 5 premiere, it has been revealed that two years has passed since Cookie and Lucious lost Empire to Teddy Barker which is then turned over to Jeff Kingsley after Teddy unexpectedly dies. It's hard to imagine. Here, I will be giving you likely killers and reasons why they are termed "likely" but I will also like you to give your opinion in the comment section. "This man has been manipulating her since she was a child and now she's an adult with three grown children and she still can't free herself from his pull," Henson explained. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, "[18] Henson referred to Cookie as "an animal" out for what belongs to her, and stated that her love of fur and leopard prints relates to that theme. Even Yana couldn't snap and kill Cookie in a jealous rage due to her own unexpected death. Throughout Empire's Season 1 finale, Lucious Lyon seems hellbent on reinforcing the damning assessment of his life and in particular, his parenting skills made last week by his ex-wife Co