- Lucious Lyon: [to Hakeem] You want to be king? Kill your father and sit on his throne. Shoot me so I don't have to do it to you.
- Hakeem Lyon: I took my dad out because he lost his way. But I did it for all of us. So let's just come back to Empire and be a real family again like we was before.
- Lucious Lyon: I don't know how our son turned out to be so rotten.
- Cookie Lyon: Well, maybe the apple don't fall far from the tree.