Cookie attempts to help Angelo appeal to the masses and win the mayoral bid, by hosting a free park concert. Meanwhile, the FBI continues to investigate Lucious and freezes all of Empire's assets, which has major repercussions.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 3 Episode 9 of Empire was watched by 7,580,000 viewers, resulting in a 2.70 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.