James T. Alfred

Lucious, eager to assert his power, releases a rap by Freda challenging Hakeem as his heir. Not to be outdone in Lucious’ eyes, Hakeem fires back at Freda with a rap battle challenge that could put Lyon Dynasty’s future in danger. Meanwhile, Cookie gets a special visit from her spitfire sister, Candace, Jamal is working on landing a major sponsorship deal and Anika receives some life changing news.

Cookie and Lucious learn the difficulties of launching an artist without Empire Entertainment’s resources, and their future with new artist Treasure is jeopardized. So when they receive two interesting offers that will launch them back into power in the music industry, they make a surprising decision. Meanwhile, Jamal decides to put his family first and move back to New York, leaving Kai with some tough decisions.

With a World Trade conference in Chicago, all members of intelligence are undercover in various protest groups to determine potential threats. Ruzek (Patrick Flueger), infiltrates the Black Grid group and befriends Sierra (guest star Lucy Blehar). When she ends up dead intelligence is suspicious of an Argentine Secretary, Fabian Sosa (guest star Gary Perez). Voight (Jason Beghe) and Olinsky (Elias Koteas) question Sosa about the death and the team enlists Mouse (guest star Caleb Hunt) to help with their tech needs in tracking Sosa. Meanwhile Halstead’s (Jesse Lee Soffer) brother, Dr. Will Halstead (guest star Nick Gehlfuss) shows up in town for an undetermined amount of time and is already stirring up trouble. Also starring Jon Seda, Sophia Bush, Marina Squerciati, LaRoyce Hawkins, Amy Morton and Brian Geraghty.

Kane grows increasingly infatuated with his new senior aide, Mona, allowing himself to get swept up in her passion for the subsidized housing project. Ben Zajac and his wife, Maggie, run the risk of alienating themselves from Kane when they take the reins of Zajac’s gubernatorial campaign.

Kane makes a professional turn to a new way of doing things when he extricates the housing project from the corruption that plagues his entire city. Kane’s young aide, Ian, has a threatening secret that he manages to hide from Kane. Kane tries to reconnect with wife, Meredith, and daughter, Emma, but his attempts at a harmonious family are disastrous.