In Empire‘s Spring Premiere, “Sound and Fury” we meet Bobby “Bam-Bam” King. Vernon Batchelor plays Bam-Bam. In 2011, he played John Smith in the movie What About the Children. In “Sound and Fury” Lucious Lyon identifies Bam-Bam as the snitch planning to testify against him in the Frank Gathers case.
Thirsty is getting a hot dog in the park when a woman gives him a napkin with “Frank Gathers” written on it. The message is a warning that the FBI is planning to use the Frank Gathers murder to take Lucious down.
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Thirsty tells Lucious that someone scored a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card. Lucious’ brother, Tariq convinced someone to testify to a grand jury that Lucious is the one who ordered the hit on Frank Gathers.
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Thirsty asks Lucious if he can think of anyone who would snitch. Lucious starts naming members of his old crew and realizes it has to be Bobby King aka “Bam-Bam” aka rat bastard. Lucious proclaims that he spent a bunch of money on Bobby’s daughter’s leukemia bills and she still died. Did she want to die Lucious!?
Thirsty tells Lucious that he’ll find out where Bam-Bam’s hiding. Lucious tells Thirsty to look after his mother, Leah Walker. Thirsty takes Leah and Becky on a road trip to get Bam-Bam’s mom. Becky doesn’t understand why Thirsty asked her to come along. They pick up Bam-Bam’s mother, Mrs. Gretchen, and she’s excited to see her son.
We see Bam-Bam working in a restaurant. Bam-Bam is very excited to see his mother in the window and begins to run towards her. Lucious ruins the moment and tells Bam-Bam not to speak. Lucious scares Bam-Bam into changing the story he told the feds. Lucious dodged another bullet.
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