Tonight on FOX their blockbuster drama Empire airs with an all-new Tuesday, April 7, 2020, episode and we have your Empire recap below. On tonight’s Empire season 6 episode 16 called, “We Got Us” as per the FOX synopsis, “After witnessing Andre’s breakdown, Cookie and Lucious have him committed to the same treatment facility as Leah and the guilt Cookie feels from Andre’s situation causes her to wonder how different life would be if she had not gone to prison.
Meanwhile, Becky struggles with balancing her personal and professional relationships and Hakeem and Maya find themselves in a less-than-ideal situation after a drunken night in Vegas.”
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Andre was sedated. He had to be. He lost control and he flipped out. He began breaking everything in sight. His parents were so concerned that they sedated Andre. They then moved him from the wedding venue to back to the house. Andre’s parents had moved him because they thought he would have an easier time at the house. They didn’t know what was wrong with him. Andre was suffering from split personalities and he later woke up to be confronted by Kingsley of all people. His alter ego was threatening him again. He told Andre that he would lose everything without him and Kingsley more or less took control.
He was the one that confronted Andre’s parents. Kingsley told Cookie and Lucious that Andre was gone. He said he was Kingsley and that he was in control. He also demanded the return of Teri and his son Walker. He said they belonged to him. He wanted them back and he was beginning to flip out again, but Andre’s parents stopped him. They had called in Andre’s psychiatrist. The psychiatrist came with guards and so Andre’s parents were having committed. They later had Andre taken to a mental facility where he’ll receive proper treatment. Its also where his grandmother is and so she got the chance to see him again.
Only his grandmother was smart. She was smarter than everyone else because knew from the start he wasn’t Andre. Not the real Andre, anyways. She called him the green-eyed half-breed that had taken her real grandson hostage and she then forced the real Andre to come out. Andre finally got to see the light again because of her. He came back out. He told his grandmother he was lost and that he didn’t know how to fight Kingsley. He begged for help. She told him that he needed to take his medication. She said the facility was only good for its medication and so being around his grandmother had helped Andre.
Andre can finally receive treatment now. His parents were handling everything else. His father Lucious had taken over his position at Empire. He told the crew that Andre was on an extended honeymoon and that he was just filling in while Andre was away. Lucious was, therefore, the boss. It was also his job to clean up after Hakeem now and unfortunately, that’s exactly what he had to do because Hakeem got drunk at the wedding reception. He got so drunk that he married Maya. He married her without a prenup and now its father’s mess to clean up. Lucious worked on Hakeem and Cookie worked on Maya.
It was Cookie that invited Maya around the family. She blames herself for this marriage and she wants to undo it just as much as Lucious does. Hakeem’s parents wanted to protect him from his latest mistake. They just didn’t know how to go about it. Cookie wasn’t herself since she learned her sisters were the ones to send her to prison and so she talked about it with her therapist. She discussed what would have happened if she had given up Lucious. He would have gone to prison and she would have raised the boys. Hakeem would be different if his mother was the chief influence in his life. And Andre would have been selling drugs because he would have been imitating his dad.
Cookie likes to believe she had control over everything and she doesn’t. She wouldn’t have been able to stop Andre. She wouldn’t have been able to help Jamal deal with his sexuality or his father’s reaction to it. The only one that Cookie could have directly affected would have been Hakeem. Yet, he got married on her watch. She wasn’t able to stop that and she wasn’t able to stop Andre from breaking out of the facility. He let Kingsley get into his head. Kingsley told him how the family didn’t love him and that he was just a burden. He then prodded Andre until Andre broke up because he wanted him to go look for Teri and Walker.
Both Lucious and Cookie were told about Andre’s escape. They felt powerless when they heard what was happening. They each wanted to go out and find their son themselves, but the best trackers were already on the case and so the best thing they could do was wait. They were waiting to hear from Andre as Maya was using her newfound position as Mrs. Lyon to get access to the recording studio. She was serious about her career. She wanted to make an album and she wasn’t going to let anyone get in the way of that. This even went for Hakeem. Maya was willing to use her marriage to him get what she wanted and at the same time, she wasn’t going to let him derail or her career.
Maya liked being married to Hakeem. It gave her power and so she wasn’t ready to be hit with annulment papers. She later threw them back into Hakeem’s face. She said she wasn’t going to sign them and that posed a problem between Hakeem and Tiana. Tiana hated that Hakeem married someone else. She wanted the marriage over and so did Hakeem. Except neither of them had any power of Maya. She was dragging this out as long as possible.
Meanwhile, Lucious was informed that Andre was heading to Teri’s safehouse and so he went there. He managed to stop Andre from hurting either Teri or Walker and he brought Andre back to himself. Andre pushed aside Kingsley. He also disappeared again before Lucious could stop him. Andre went to a church. He walked up to the baptismal water and he nearly drowned Kingsley in it. He didn’t kill him. He came close and then he pushed Kingsley away. Andre stopped himself from giving into the darkness and it was his grandmother’s words that helped him recover.
Andre was doing better when Lucious found him the second time and Lucious was so proud of him that he brought Andre back to the house.
Cookie had been waiting with open arms. She had spoken with her sisters and they had prayed for Andre’s safe return. And so it looks like their prayers were answered.
THE END!