‘Empire’ Recap: Here’s how Cookie Survived in Prison

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This week, we aren’t just reflecting on Lucious’ past: We learn about Cookie’s time in prison, too. She’s been thinking about it because Lucious keeps trying to figure out what he did to each member of his family to make them hate him. He’s stuck on two particular things: the “trash can story” Hakeem alluded to about Jamal, and the mysterious (to him) reason Cookie was gone for 17 years.