The correct answer to that is he hasn't come back - he may have been invited but there has not been any formal notification of his re-appointment as a Director.
Maybe it's a case of "once bitten twice shy". He might well be waiting for Empire to obtain some real funding (as distinct from Malcolm's phony line of credit) and not waste any more of his time.
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