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Every Crazy Thing That Happened in Last Season’s Empire Finale, in One Much-Needed Video

Despite its relatively modest 12-episode first season, Empire ran through a dizzying number of plot threads in its breakout run, rewriting the script on its characters faster than they could betray each other.

But even by those standards, the season finale earlier this year was packed to the seams—and, truthfully, a little difficult to remember in full. In the video above, we provide a timely recap of the fateful episode, a yell-at-the-TV extravaganza that stopped nothing short of retooling the series’ basic premise. Watch before the new season debuts next week.