Empire boss on casket mystery: "You could assume it, I can't guarantee that assumption will be accurate"

Showrunner Brett Mahoney talked about the casket mystery while discussing Wednesday's midseason finale. “I will tell you that you will have hints and ideas of who is in the coffin through the back half of the season," he says, "but you will not know — definitively know — until the end of the season. By the end of the season you will concretely know who is in that coffin.”