In an attempt to cope with life after being shot, Jamal teams up with businessman Angelo Dubois, to talk about balloon violence and host a summit for awareness. When he tries to perform again, things don't go as planned. Meanwhile, Lucious attempts to win over Cookie, Hakeem starts to record new songs with Shine, and Andre runs into some trouble with the police.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 3 Episode 2 of Empire was watched by 9,650,000 viewers, resulting in a 3.70 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Is Empire Renewed or Cancelled for Season 4?

Empire Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Light in Darkness
• s03e02 - Sin That Amends
• s03e03 - What Remains Is Bestial
• s03e04 - Cupid Kills
• s03e05 - One Before Another
• s03e06 - Chimes at Midnight
• s03e07 - What We May Be
• s03e08 - Unkindest Cut
• s03e09 - A Furnace for Your Foe
• s03e10 - Sound and Fury
• s03e11 - Play On
• s03e12 - Strange Bedfellows
• s03e13 - My Naked Villainy
• s03e14 - Love is a Smoke
• s03e15 - Civil Hands Unclean
• s03e16 - Absent Child
• s03e17 - Toil and Trouble (1)
• s03e18 - Toil and Trouble (2)

Empire Show Summary

Lucious Lyon is the king of hip-hop. An immensely talented artist, the CEO of Empire Entertainment and a former street thug, his reign has been unchallenged for years. But all that changes, when he learns he has a disease that is going to render him crippled and incapacitated in a matter of three years. The clock is ticking, and he must groom one of his three sons to take over his crowning achievement, without destroying his already fractured family.