Empire recap: Season 3, Episode 9. Empire’s midseason finale had a few twists, but nothing so major it was completely unforeseen. Cookie senses he’s lost the crowd, so she takes the mic herself. The crowd knows her and seems to trust her, so she uses her cred to vouch for Angelo: “So he went to Columbia — but he still lives in the same fifth- floor walk- up in Harlem!”She doesn’t stop there. On the spot, she decides to tell the crowd they’re turning Angelo’s Captain’s Ball fundraiser into a concert called The People’s Ball instead, to be held right there in Queens. Jamal will headline and everyone’s invited. Watch Hidden Figures Streaming. Angelo readily accepts the change and they get to planning, but Mrs.

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Du. Bois is skeptical. Well, I think maybe a grown man has his mother around just a little too much — even if she does seem to have the keys to the city. Lucious drops by as Cookie plans the event in a fever. He tells her he also wants it to be a “smashing success” and thinks it’s time for New York to have a black mayor again (but hmm.

He also takes the opportunity to warn her Jamal might not be ready to perform and she really shouldn’t be playing with her son’s health just to help a new man. Harsh. Meanwhile, Tariq finally seems to be making progress on his case at the FBI. The video of Freda rapping at Nessa’s family party has helped him fill in the identities of the mysterious “MM” and “BK” Lucious paid after Frank Gathers’ death, so now he has enough evidence for his boss to freeze Empire’s assets for 3. But in those 3. 0 days, Tariq must procure a murder indictment. And the boss has one other thing to add: “This smells personal, Agent Cousins,” he says. Lucious and Mrs. Du.

Bois circle around each other like boxers sizing up a fight, before Mrs. D finally brings up the reason she asked him here. Apparently, there’s a reporter who has something on Angelo — something with a “droplet” of truth she wants “evaporated” before it “causes a tidal wave.” Okay, thanks for the extended water metaphor, Mrs.

Lucious asks what’s in it for him if he gets the reporter to back off, and she promises to end Cookie and Angelo’s relationship. So much for all that Cookie love she apparently felt after Jamal’s song at the dinner?

Lucious gets his side done quickly: He brings the reporter to Leviticus, and gets a hard rapper to perform a song about loyalty and soldiers following orders. It’s basically designed to threaten him — I have dogs I can sic on you, that kind of thing.

The reporter seems kinda racist, so it works. There’s a problem, though. The polling data after Cookie’s Rockaway speech has finally come in and Mrs. Du. Bois learns what we all already know: PEOPLE LOVE COOKIE.

And as a result, Angelo’s numbers have gone up. They’re even calling it The Cookie Effect! D asks if there’s something else Lucious wants instead: A seat at the state dinner? Lucious is pissed but says he’ll just consider it a personal contribution to Angelo’s campaign.

She doesn’t want him to backslide, but he knows he needs to perform on that stage or Lucious will win. Cookie relents but says he must do it sober — so she throws all his different meds and pills down the drain.