Having stabbed Cain,
Lucifer now has a drink with him because he’s healing. Dying still sucks for
Cain because he still suffers and then heals quite slowly
Cain does admit to
dumping Lucifer in the middle of the desert - but the whole wings and devil
face thing is nothing to do with him. Yes the Sinnerman was also his minion but
apparently went “rogue” so he had to kill him. Rogue? We’re just going to let that
nonsense drop and skip over this entirely disposed of character? Really? Back
up and fill this in please.
Cain leaves and the
best threat Lucifer can come up with is “I’ll tell everyone you’re Cain”.
Uh-huh, as Cain points out, he’s been telling everyone that he’s Lucifer and
no-one believes him.
Meanwhile Chloe is
pissed at Lucifer. She expresses this by being annoyed with Maze for engaging
in knife throwing around the home (which is kind of a legitimate complaint) but
Maze pegs the real reason. She tells Chloe that she cannot expect Lucifer to
change - he will always be selfish and self absorbed.
Chloe maintains this
anger with Lucifer all through the murder plot this week (which doesn’t really
add anything: Dan can surf and some lady wants to make a public beach private
and is willing to strangled strapping surfers to make it so. I’m sure at some
point it was explained how this lady managed to physically strangle a man three
times her size but it’s not super relevant and we can just exchange strangling
for machine guns)
Lucifer talks to
Linda about Chloe’s anger and Linda, again, tries to get Lucifer to realise
some basic empathy and see that Chloe actually has feelings and Lucifer should
respect that. While Lucifer takes this to mean if he focuses on Chloe for a
while he can bribe her to help him investigate Pierce’s shenanigans
Chloe sees right
through him and remains angry in the face of Lucifer’s largely inept help and
keeps trying to push him out. One possible last straw could be Lucifer trying
to reorganise Chloe’s desk -most ineptly. Chloe insists that she absolutely
won’t help him - but he no longer needs her help. She realises that, despite
his usual habit and how he probably wouldn’t even see it himself, he’s helping
Chloe (however ineptly) because it’s important to her. He seems to have
learned. A little.
What Chloe hasn’t
learned is that one moment of almost humanity is not sufficient. Lucifer and
Chloe need to get out of this pattern of secrecy, him, being an arsehole and
then Chloe being ok with it after a minor gesture of niceness. It has happened
too often now - Lucifer needs to turn this round.
But why does Lucifer
no longer need her help? He confronts Pierce and, at his insistence, used the
desire power on him. Cain revealed his greatest desire is to die. Because life
as Cain sucks and immortality is not fun. And he only got rid of Lucifer so he
could be alone with Chloe
Because he’s here for
Chloe. Because he heard that Chloe’s presence made Lucifer vulnerable so he
hoped that this would be a whole supernatural death aura thing. He even set up
the scene where he was shot (Lucifer is Not Amused since this put Chloe at risk
- though he’s not nearly angry about this reality). But didn’t kill him. So
he’s given up hope and plans to leave town
Lucifer manages to
make this about him anyway - because God gave him back his wings and took his
devil face so he would hurry back from the Desert and not leave Cain and Chloe
alone. Lucifer realises that Cain dying is against god’s will so of course
Lucifer wants to help him. He is, after all, the eternal rebel with extra
petulence. He promises Cain to help him die if he stays - and Cain accepts.
He’s had a run in with god and it didn’t go well, so now he’s after a deal with
the devil.
In other news, Ella
is all upset because Pierce yelled at her. Charlotte notices and a) gives Ella
an awesome speech on how she needs to stand up for herself because no-one else
will, how she needs a thicker skin and how she will always find people telling
her what to be or do and she should just ignore them. And b) Charlotte laces
into Pierce. I am here for Charlotte championing Ella. Pierce is duly told and
apologises to Ella.
There’s another
storyline: which has Amenadiel being diagnosed with chlamydia (it’s a false
positive, so no we’re not having an angelic STD storyline) which causes some
more issues with him and Linda. But she wants to break up - not because of the
chlamydia - but because she feels terrible about lying to Maze
Honestly I feel that
discussing with Maze the issues of her jealousy and possessiveness need to step
back. Especially since she sees Linda kissing Amenadiel and starts playing with
knives… which is worrisome.
So I’m interested in
seeing Cain joining the show as a long running character - and it definitely
opens up the mythology and supernatural more.
I’m less impressed by
Amenadiel/Maze/Linda storyline - I mean I want them to have more of a
storyline but this could go to a lot of terrible places
What I want way way
way more now, though, is Chloe to hear the truth. Because with all these
supernatural storylines moving in, Chloe is likely to be sidlined. She cannot
be involved in a Lucifer which focuses more on the angels and the demons
and immortal first murderers if she is not in the loop: already we’re seeing
her being less relevant as the murders do and we’ve seen Dan pretty much drop
to the same level as Ella or Charlotte. This is a supernatural show - there’s
only so much the non-supernatural involved can do or be involved in
