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Clips from Empire - Our Dancing Days (S01E01)

"But Cookie pulled this all together."
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"She did."
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"Oh, great. All right."
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"Thank you. You're welcome."
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"But, girl, knock 'em dead."
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"♪ ♪"
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"Who is that Liberian girl over there?"
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"Uh, Camilla Marks. Brittanica Holdings"
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"Mainly invests in..."
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"Thank you."
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"I expect I will."
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"I'm extremely interested"
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"Do tell."
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"your son Hakeem is very talented"
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"and is destined for superstardom."
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"And I can see why he's so talented."
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"You're gonna make me blush."
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"I have to go. I hope to see you again."
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"Have a good night."
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"(slurring): ♪ Walk out on me ♪"
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"♪ Say so long ♪"
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"♪ And walk away ♪"
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"♪ Walk out on me ♪"
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"♪ Walk out on me... ♪"
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"♪ See you for the last time ♪"
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"♪ Walk out on me ♪"
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"♪ On me... ♪ Elle!"
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"I'm right here, man. Are you okay?"
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"We need our voice. We need our voice."
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"(bumps leg, grunts)"
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"What? Are you high?"
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"Cookie, I'm fine."
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"To Lucious, damn it!"
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"I got to go tell him that you cannot perform like this!"
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"Wasted my damn time!"
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"I can sing... Cookie, I can sing your damn song!"
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"COOKIE: Shut up talking!"
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"We got to start the show without you!"
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"(screams)"
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"(squawking)"
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"Coo-coo!"
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"Rude ass. Yo, man, quit playing."
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"JAMAL: Sit your ass down."
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"Weirdo."
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"I-I shouldn't have trusted a junkie to stay clean."
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"What happened? Elle. She's high-- she can't go on."
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"I knew this was gonna happen."
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"Yo, man!"
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"Hey. Hey. Give me the jacket. Give me my..."
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"You need to get ready; y'all up next."
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"You're in the star spot."
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"Wait, what about Elle?"
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"Forget Elle. That's the past."
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"These investors are here about the future of Empire,"
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"and that's my sons. Whatever beef y'all got"
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"going on between y'all, y'all gonna stop it."
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"Get out there and make those billionaires open up their checkbooks."
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"COOKIE: You heard your father."
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"Come on, shake hands."
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"Tonight ain't about you, Hakeem."
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"about our company, and I hope you got a chance"
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"to talk to some of the very talented heads"
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"I'm gonna ask you to put down your Empire magazine,"
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"and let them get you where you're supposed to be."
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"to two talented and wickedly gifted young men,"
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"♪ I want my ♪"
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"(chuckles)"
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"♪ Commas and zeroes ♪"
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"♪ We make it work in this ♪"
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"♪ Pockets stay polluted ♪"
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"♪ Money is dirty and we don't play clean ♪"
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"♪ Yeah, we do ♪"
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"♪ And the lion's our logo ♪"
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"♪ We're the sharks in the water ♪"
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"♪ We gotta move these color TVs... ♪"
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"♪ I'm all about my bidess ♪"
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"(hoarsely): I can't... I can't talk."
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"It's not gonna happen."
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"Okay? I know the speech."
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"I don't even need the teleprompters, okay?"
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"We're not having a conversation. Dad, it should be me out there."
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"Are you okay, Lucious?"
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"there's no problem, okay? Lucious is a showman--"
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"he's building up anticipation."
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"Look, go out there,"
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"Sir, come this way, sir. Just go out and do it."
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"And you have written this thing,"
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"but I need someone that can go and excite these people."
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"I need you to go out there and remind them"
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"that Empire is a family business"
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"built for our sons."
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"(pants) And it is gonna pass from one generation"
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"It's gonna stay in the family. Please."
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"Okay."
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"(crowd murmuring)"
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"(weakly): It's not the drugs."
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"It's not the drugs, it's ALS."
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"It's-it's... Wait a minute, take your time, baby."
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"It's not the drugs that did this to you?"
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"It's like a tremor with my hands; it will..."
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"(sighs)"
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"Uh..."
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"Child, I ain't readin'..."
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"My name is Cookie Lyon."
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"My ex-husband, Lucious, and I started this company"
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"in a little garage"
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"in one of the worst ghettos in West Philadelphia."
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"Lucious Lyon..."
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"is a musical god."
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"And he's also a crazy son of a bitch that had a dream."
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"Still has a dream--"
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"and nobody better ever try"
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"to get in between Lucious and his dreams."
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"But... do you know what the first rule of hustling is?"
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"(laughter) Hey, who said that?"
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"COOKIE: That's right, baby."
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"That's right-- you create your own customer base."
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"Give them some of that good stuff."
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"He created... a sound."
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"They call it "the Lucious Lyon sound.""
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