Maze is not a happy
demon and is still kind of hanging around Chloe’s house. She runs into Lucifer
finding her acting up and trashing the place looking for a knife. Not even a
special one, a very boring knife… But when she sees Lucifer she insists on one
thing - take her home. Take her back to Hell
And Lucifer refuses…
because doing so may annoy god (wait, why? I mean putting Maze back into hell
is presumably what god would want?) and risk Chloe
Maze is super
furious, especially since Lucifer was willing to leap into hell for Pierce
(before he became so scared for Chloe) and is now afraid of daddy when
rebellion was supposed to be his thing. She makes ominous threats when
Chloe arrives… and Chloe tries to reach out to Maze, asking why she upset
Trixie, assuming a misunderstanding and trying to get Maze to stay but Maze refuses
all offers of peace and reconciliation.
And then Pierce
arrives because he and Chloe are now dating which causes More Awkwardness from
Lucifer and his jealousy and Pierce and his jealousy. And Ella trying to make
everyone feel better
So what we need is a murder case, conveniently caught on CCTV, involving a winery. Which shows Maze removing her knife from the corpse. Which looks kind of damning to say the least. The murder weapon is also Maze’s knife
And here is where
Lucifer annoys me even more than usual. Yes he’s self-centred, yes he’s
obsessed with himself. Yes he thinks everything is about him. But pushing to
have Maze arrested because he assumes she’s murdering people to try and
manipulate him into taking to Hell is gross on two levels: 1 because he assumes
everything Maze is doing and going through is completely about him and 2
because he doesn’t have her back, he’s not supporting or defending her at all:
he’s even vindictively attacking her out of his own spite. Chloe does far more
to defend Maze than Lucifer does. Yes he isn’t concerned about life in
imprisonment for Maze since she lives for a very very long time but still, Maze
deserves better from him. Even Ella has more faith in Maze than he does
Pierce isn’t ready to
believe Maze is innocent and does think that maybe Chloe is letting her
emotions take over. Dan’s also kind of not convinced that Maze is incapable of
murder. Ultimately, she’s Maze.
And she adds fuel to
the fire by turning up and confessing to murder. Chloe, again, goes all out to
try and defend her, while Lucifer obviously does not.
While imprisoned,
Chloe insists on questioning Maze and it’s quickly clear she doesn’t know
enough about the murder to have been the perpetrator. But while in custody she
uses a hug to steal Ella’s ID (should have been suspicious of Maze hugging) to
track down some more information about the man she supposedly murdered, quickly
figuring out she has been framed
She follows up with
the people who paid for her bounty, interviewing him with her own unique style
at a bowling alley (don’t condescend to Maze, it will end poorly) but loose
ends are being tied up by the real killer as well.
Convinced of Maze’s
innocence, Lucifer and Chloe are now united to try and help her - Lucifer’s
issues with Maze lost in his desire not to see the innocent punished. Or the
usually guilty but innocent in this instance anyway.
They interview many
many people Maze has caught for bounties all of which still kind of like her
because she was a decent person despite all the violence and the dead fish. But
eventually they catch up with Maze back at the winery - she caught the rich
owner’s son who died in prison and now the man’s mother has paid for a large
hit on her life. Lucifer arrives in time to bend some gun barrels - and it has
been far far far too long since we saw some demonic power from the devil and
the enemy is easily defeated
But Maze is still
angry. Her ranting about being evil feels more like how she’s genuinely hurting
over being the bad one all the time, being the demon and she absolutely refuses
to reconcile with anyone, again. Even when Chloe desperately reaches out to
her.
Aside 1:
Charlotte goes to
Linda to describe that Amenadiel caught up with her, again, and what he told
her. (Including being Lucifer’s brother despite being Black and having an
entirely different accent). Linda tries to steer her away but Charlotte is
determined because what Amenadiel said felt true - albeit incomplete
Because Amenadiel hasn’t told her any of the supernatural stuff so it still doesn’t quite make sense to her
Linda confronts
Amenadiel since “they” agreed not to tell her everything. But Amenadiel thinks
Charlotte deserves the truth and “they” didn’t agree anything. She did (as she
did about breaking up). Which Linda concedes without argument. So I’m going to
argue for her: yes she decided to break up. Breaking up is not necessarily a
mutual decision, merely a decision on side of the relationship needs to make.
And yes she made the decision about Charlotte, being a psychiatrist and
Charlotte’s psychiatrist specifically, she has far greater authority on what is
healthy for her patient.
She does ask
Amenadiel who she is doing this for - Charlotte or himself.
Charlotte has decided
to confirm Amenadiel’s words by going to Lucifer who confirms Amenadiel is his
brother. Lucifer also stumbles and calls her mum. Oops. So he tells her the
truth
All of it. All of it.
Including angels et al. I think he breaks her brain.
She asks Amenadiel
about this and is clearly confused: she knows this is complete nonsense and
can’t be true. But it feels true and would explain her experience of hell. But
if she believes it to be true then she has lost her mind. Amenadiel tries to
lie to her, it’s not convincing
So he and Lucifer go
to see her at the bar where she is getting thoroughly drunk, worrying about her
mental health and generally falling apart… and Lucifer shows her his wings
Yes it’s impressive
Yes it’s been a long
time
And yes he needs to
do this with Chloe
And finale: Pierce is
clearly not thrilled with Chloe and Lucifer being close but Dan explains
they’re pretty much a package deal now. He can’t split them up. Pierce
disagrees. Which is ominous. Chloe herself is torn: alternating between trying
to hide her relationship with Pierce and then only belatedly realising that her
wearing the bullet jewellery Lucifer gave her may be sending the wrong message
and bothering Pierce
Lucifer is much more accepting of Pierce and Chloe… but he worries that Pierce is up to no good. Which he clearly is. And I kind of hate that because there’s a lot of lessons here (like the fact Chloe can have different relationships and that’s not threatening)
Lucifer tries to make
up with Maze, apologising to her and saying she can’t go to hell because he
can’t be without her. Which is nice but it’s clear he feels this way because of
Chloe and Pierce - Chloe is far more important to Lucifer than Maze is and this
clearly hurts her
What I love about
this whole scene is through her tears we see a lot more information on Maze:
and how she just doesn’t know how to handle emotions and feelings. Because she
never has to - in Hell she tortures people. She doesn’t get tortured by
emotions which is why she wants to go home. Having friends, them hurting you,
them prioritising other people over you, the hurt of Linda and Amenadiel and
Lucifer and how none of these people make her a priority are things she just
doesn’t know how to handle
I think this is
really something huge we could have worked through with Maze because it’s a
fascinating idea. As a demon actual emotional connection is alien to her and
she doesn’t know how to handle it: hence her excessive reactions. She can’t
handle these emotions
And Maze refusing to be second in Lucifer’s life and never his priority is a thing of beauty and definitely long since needed
But all of this is
rather spoiled by Pierce then approaching her to recruit her for his nefarious
schemes. Because it’s going to make that entire previous scene look… wrong? Or
like Maze is setting off down the wrong path or just generally Doing It Wrong,
when there was a lot of complexity to explore there and a whole lot of right
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