She had made negative comments about him before. Like when Tariq had taken her out to try and get her to flip on Lucious, she came home all giddy talking about how she'd tricked him into TWO ice creams. That episode she'd made it known she had a dislike for him. But, agreed, it was never as vicious as the overtones in Wednesday's episode leading to her murdering him. It is kinda sad she blamed the son for the father's transgression. He never did wrong by her; was simply jealous of Lucious' relationship to their father.

I'm with you on the burgeoning relationship too. It was an "aww" moment when they finally started bonding (albeit while handing out a beatdown).

I just hope they are able to retrace his steps and find Bella.

@danithang

In the beginning I had no patients for Tariq's vendetta, but now that he's gone I'm kind of disappointed. I was starting to dig him and Luscious bonding and would have liked to see where it would go. I know mother Walker is unstable, but I felt her hatred for Tariq kind of came out of nowhere. I know she was working with Luscious to trick Tariq but I never got the impression that she hated him like she does Anika. How does everyone else feel?

First off, that ending was extremely shocking. I was sitting there just expecting Tariq to reveal baby Bella's whereabouts when all of a sudden..: Holly smokes! I was absolutely shocked.

I never really thought Leah hated Tariq that much unless her hatred got worse when Tariq tried to use Anika to bring down Lucious and Cookie. The hatred to me seemed to have come out of nowhere. I never expected her to get that far with her actions. She must have gone full blown crazy. She first of all put glass in his food which Lucious found out but that woman belongs in an asylum ASAP. Anika is lucky to have escaped her attack.

@Daijahv

I'm with you on the burdening relationship too. It was an "aww" moment when they finally started bonding (albeit while handing out a beatdown).

I didn't care too much over their bonding when they were beating that guy up. It was when Tariq came over to Lucious's house and they started talking that I really felt warm toward their bonding until crazy mama cut everything short.

I just hope they are able to retrace his steps and find Bella.

This Bella storyline seems like it will drag on for a while because it is a very good one and there are so many places they can go with it. Not to talk of the fact that it is really keeping the fans glued to the screen to see what happens. Will she be discovered? How will Mrs. Dubois hide her? Lucious could hire another detective to follow-up on that, they could use Tariq's phone to trace where his phone call was made. What if Mrs. Dubois had eyes around who found out that Tariq had found out the baby's location? They could move the baby elsewhere.

Things are heating up to electrifying levels. Next week is shaping up to be a real KNOCK OUT. I hope the Empire writers bring it