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Season 2, Episode 13: ‘The Tameness of a Wolf’
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While last week’s resolution to the Camilla and Mimi saga carried the weight of a Shakespearean tragedy, Episode 13 advanced some plot quirks that have been plaguing us for months. We finally get the full story of how Dwight Walker became Lucious Lyon and all the lurid details of his troubled childhood. He tells it in the “Boom Boom Boom Boom” video at Cookie’s urging and screens it for the family at her surprise birthday party.
What should’ve been a tearful moment goes naturally askew in the “Empire” universe as Lucious’s sons immediately react with disbelief to the news that he would have kept his mother’s illness from his family. They should be annoyed, but having that anger outweigh the shock of the revelation that their father witnessed his mother’s suicide as a child is typical “Empire” placing the gears of the plot ahead of natural human reactions.
The “Boom” video has a few other repercussions: Andre and Lucious finally have it out, and the father finally admits that his son’s mental illness embarrasses him. This seems too hard a stance for someone whose life was forever changed by an immediate family member’s mental illness, but it also speaks to Lucious’s brackish, impulsive nature. Lucious revealing the specifics of the abuse he suffered as a child quietly endears him to Cookie, but it drives Freda Gatz away because the song’s new direction leaves her contribution on the cutting room floor. This leads her to a new allegiance with Jamal and Episode 13’s other big reveal: Cookie had no idea Freda was the daughter of her dead drug boss Frank Gathers. Lucious is cold enough to keep Freda close knowing he is her father’s killer, but the guilt seems dizzying to Cookie.
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The other ace double-dealer this week is Hakeem. He finds a way to monetize his messy habit of sleeping with everyone on the label as he teams up with Tiana and Laura for a song. Tiana seems jealous of the closeness between Hakeem and Laura, especially when he makes a very public display of proposing to her after a show. It’s understandable for Tiana to worry about how her boss’s growing relationship with her tour opener is going to affect her standing at the label, since things historically go badly for the women Hakeem dates once he moves on. It’s hard to picture her genuinely jilted over this guy, but maybe we just haven’t seen her in so long that we don’t know what she thinks. Really, it’s getting difficult to understand why this many women value Hakeem’s affection enough to weather the trouble he causes. Does Laura know her new fiancé used and destroyed Camilla with sex, casting her off when she became inconvenient from a business standpoint? If not, will she stay when she finds out?
Another Hakeem ally who should know better is Jamal. The squabbling between his parents and his belief that Lucious betrayed him to angle for an ASA Award have driven him to finish his new album with Hakeem. It’s a peculiar decision, considering the florid history of backstabbing between the two. It’s probably not wise business entrusting the fate of your potentially career-changing new album to a kid who impishly defected for a rogue rival label and vengefully leaked his own record, but no puzzling “Empire” development goes down without a shocking payoff.
Here are five killer lines from an episode full of them
● “Well that battle-ax did know fur.” Cookie can barely contain her contempt at the memorial service for Camilla that opens the episode, but style knows style, and she’ll acknowledge a good eye for fashion even if it’s the only nice thing she can find to say.
● “Even when you know you’re dealing with the devil, it still hurts.” Jamal and Freda Gatz commiserate over their cruel fathers throughout the episode, and Jamal vocalizing his struggle to love a man he knows to be a brutal, dark-hearted opportunist feels like a long time coming. One wonders how long the trust with Freda can last when Frank was killed for a threat on Cookie’s life.
● “Nothing is better for a father than when his child shines brighter than he ever did.” Hakeem is dumbstruck to learn that Laura’s father is a musician too, and very happy to see his daughter reaching an audience he never did. Growing up under a father who carefully prunes his sons’ artistic growth so they don’t outshine him, Hakeem can’t relate to the sentiment. It’s the rare moment where you feel sorry for him.
● “I did 17 years for a man whose real name I didn’t know.” Lucious is a tower of secrets, but we find out how bad it is when it is revealed that Cookie doesn’t know the hard details of his mother’s death or his change of name. Her support in getting him comfortable enough to tell the story in the “Boom” video is partially a quest to learn about herself, the man she loves, and the name she took believing it was his. It is perhaps a function of the depth of her love that she is the only one in the family who doesn’t feel personally crossed by the revelation.
● “It’ll be nice to be around someone sane for a change.” After the argument between Lucious and Andre in the wake of the disastrous “Boom” video unveiling, Rhonda vents her frustrations with the family to Anika, another woman who dedicated her life to Empire with very little to show for it. It’s disgusting how flip she is about her husband’s struggles with bipolar disorder. For a second, it feels like Lucious, even in his bullish, mercurial cruelty, is the only one in the family being totally honest. Rhonda has been fed up with her husband ever since her refusal to entertain his inkling that she was pushed when she fell down the stairs, and this growing disloyalty is driving her directly to someone who had every motive in her baby not surviving. A fall of another kind can’t be far-off.