Cookie gets picked up by AUSA Conway, while Lucious is visited by his past. Becky, Hakeem and Andre devise a plan to save Empire by putting on a show with special guests Sevyn Streeter and Ty Dolla $ign. Meanwhile, Andre helps Empire by getting help from the last person the Lyons expect, and Cookie may never forgive Lucious for what he's done.
s05e01 - Steal From the Thief
s05e02 - Pay for Their Presumptions
s05e03 - Pride
s05e04 - Love All, Trust a Few
s05e05 - The Depth of Grief
s05e06 - What is Done
s05e07 - Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils
s05e08 - Master of What is Mine Own
s05e09 - Had It From My Father
s05e10 - My Fault Is Past
s05e11 - In Loving Virtue
s05e12 - Shift and Save Yourself
s05e13 - Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds
s05e14 - Without All Remedy
s05e15 - A Wise Father That Knows His Own Child
s05e16 - Never Doubt I Love
s05e17 - My Fate Cries Out
s05e18 - The Roughest Day
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.