Empire Season 2 Premiere Pictures: Cookie Lyon Is Ready to Roar

Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) puts on a benefit concert for Lucious in the Sept. 23 premiere.

Hakeem (Bryshere Gray) performs at the concert.

Jamal (Jussie Smollett) gets his turn at the mic.

Cookie rocks that cage.

Porsha (Ta'Rhonda Jones) is still being the sassiest assistant ever.

Cookie visits Lucious (Terrence Howard) in prison.

Lucious's orange jumpsuit is a definite sartorial downgrade.

Looks like he figures out how to be on top on the inside, though.

Here's an indication that he'll be getting out pretty quickly.

Andre (Trai Byers) and Cookie share a mother-son moment.

Andre, Hakeem, and Becky (Gabourey Sidibe) sit in the audience.

Jamal and Cookie are there too.

Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday) had revealed her pregnancy on the season one finale.

Are these two going to be new parents soon?

The brothers raise a glass.

Can you even believe this family photo?! I die.