Middle son Jamal Lyon ended up taking a bullet for his father during the Season 2 penultimate episode He is already recovering in a wheelchair during the Season 2 finale but his slow recovery process will have an impact on him in the upcoming third season, disclosed Chaiken.
Also in the upcoming Season 3, Andre Lyon, played by Trai Byers, the eldest son of the Lyons, will feel bad with the possible death of one of the women who were both connected to him in some way.
Chaiken said that Andre is about to go on a huge journey in Season 3 and he is going to come to grips with some things that he has battled in his own nature, which Rhonda set him up and challenge him for it.
“Empire” is the story of a Lucious Lyon, a former drug dealer-turned-hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire Entertainment, who learned that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. He realized that it was his past sins coming back to haunt him.
So he went on to groom one of his three sons – Andre, Jamal, and Hakeem – to take over the family business. But their father’s decision pits them against each other and it gets complicated by the return of their mother Cookie, the ex-wife of Lucious, who has just served a 17-year prison sentence.