Charlotte is dead and
everyone is stunned, Dan bereft, Ella sad and Lucifer moved that he will never
see her again as he is never going to heaven, unlike Chloe
This episode, more
than any other, Lucifer is super open about who he is to Chloe… and she thinks
it’s all a metaphor, becoming ever more frustrated but trying to understand as
she cuts through his metaphorical language.
One surprising
element is Pierce is rather quickly exposed to the dream team. Dan, grieving,
goes to Charlotte’s apartment and realises that she was investigating him as
the Sinnerman. Lucifer confirms this - much to Dan and Chloe’s outrage because
he never told them. But they’re focusing on getting Pierce right now and are
willing to address his avoiding the answer (though he claims he did tell them a
lot - but in “metaphor” speech)
Chloe doesn’t jump on
board but when Pierce addresses the department, she knows that this level of
emotion is just alien to Pierce. She knows he’s lying. So now they have to
prove it.
Pierce is
resurrecting his Sinnerman guise, including his network of criminals and people
who owe him favours. And he’s got his best men doing something vitally
important.
Guarding Maze
Humans, guarding Maze
Despite being drugged
and chained up, Maze escapes and murders all of them - she then runs four miles
across town to traumatise one of Linda’s patients to collapse on her sofar
after being sure Linda is ok. Before she was drugged, Pierce said he had
someone pointing a gun at Linda and Maze was terrified she was going to be
killed
Maze and Linda have a
beautiful re-establishment of their friendship; with Linda awed that Maze would
carve through 12 men and run four miles to get to her side; saying that these
actions speak louder than any words. But to Maze, actions are easy but words
are hard - so she needs to say that she’s sorry. As does Linda and they hug and
are best friends forever. Maze worries that being around humans makes her weak
but Linda is clear that the emotion of people around her makes people strong
and Maze has never been stronger
This whole scene is
so perfect and bitter - bitter because this beautiful awesome scene is the last
time we will ever see these two characters. Aaargh…
Chloe et al also
realise that Pierce will have resurrected his network so decide to track down
the person Pierce is clearly framing for Charlotte’s murder (I kind of love the
scene where they find the gun and the suspect says “it’s not mine!” and they’re
all “we know, you’re being framed, pay attention.”). They’re at a charity gala
for the rich and suspicious but realise the sinnerman is so good at favours
that they need to track down the least suspicious man there.
They manage this -
and we have an awesome moment where Chloe outright acknowledges Lucifer‘s
strange, supernatural power.
Despite all this,
Pierce is still cunning. Bringing Ella into the know they use her to set up
Lucifer and Pierce having a big confrontation. And Pierce realises he’s alone
with no Chloe to make him vulnerable and he is no longer immortal. He does
confess all to Lucifer about how he tried to get his mark back by trying to
kill Amenadiel. While Lucifer explains Amenadiel’s theory of how your own
belief changes you - he now is coming to believe that Amenadiel was right. That
he gained his devil face because after his failed rebellion against god he
thought he was a monster and hated himself - so changed. While he thinks Pierce
gave up his mark because, in loving Chloe, he finally did something unselfish
and decided that he deserved to get what he wanted.
Pierce doesn’t buy
that - but he has figured out Lucifer’s weakness: wanting to be good. So when
he screams out for cops to help, Lucifer is attacking, Lucifer isn’t willing to
slaughter a bunch of cops.
Time for everyone to
gather for plan B, but first Ella and Lucifer talk faith and god and Lucifer
actually defends god, thinking they’re all far more responsible for their own
actions than they like to believe. I don’t think Ella entirely believes it,
calling her relationship with god “rocky”
Personally, as I said
with the nature of good, evil, guilt and hell, I think this makes for a very
dangerous and worrisome morality system. There are a lot of very good people
who feel guilty for being unable to do more or over minor crimes. And a whole
lot of truly reprehensible, vile, orange-tinted people who feel no guilt at
all, no matter how many pussies they grab.
They do manage to
find Pierce’s sinnerman assistant when he’s set up to kill Dan for suspecting
Pierce is responsible for Charlotte’s death. They capture him when he tries to
shoot Dan in the head and then question him: he’s very reluctant to tell them
anything but Dan calls on his dark side. He reminds us who he was before he was
a bumbling comic relief. Dan was a dirty cop. Dan was a man who hid evidence.
Dan was a man who actually murdered someone. Dan, despite all the goofiness, is
not a nice person
It suitably terrifies
the man to… lead them into a trap. So not that effective
Lucifer and Chloe
walk into that trap and Chloe steps in front of Lucifer when it’s clear he’s
who Pierce is after. Pierce knows Lucifer won’t rest, Lucifer will chase him to
the ends of the Earth - and he can die now so he’d rather not have the devil
chase him down
Chloe tries to stand
in the way, appealing in the name of the love he had for her - but it’s clear
he cares more about living than Chloe. And she cares more about Lucifer than
Pierce - she shoots at him, his minions shoots at her (and hits... but she has a bullet proof vest). With everyone else pulling gun he covers her - and shields them with his
wings, yelling in pain as his wings are torn and shredded by multiple bullets
It’s an epic scene.
As the bullet smoke
clears, Lucifer vanishes with Chloe. And either she wasn’t hit or he heals her.
She’s lost and confused but he leaves her on a distant roof to return to
confront Pierce and his men
And I think the whole
angels can’t kill people is awfully… stretched… as Lucifer carves a path
through the men with his wings and confronts Pierce. Pierce has an ace held
back… he has one of Maze’s knives. And hellforged blades can kill even him.
Or could if Pierce wasn’t
human and Lucifer wasn’t the devil. They fight and Lucifer wins the upper hand
unsurprisingly (we’ve seen Lucifer throw people through walls) stabs Pierce
with a hellblade. Pierce boasts about going to heaven. Oh. No. Not happening.
Lucifer crouches next
to his dying body and reminds him of killing Charlotte. His choice. His
decision. His guilty guilty GUILTY decision. As Lucifer drives the guilt home,
his eyes turn red, his face turns devilish…. Until his full devil face is
restored and Pierce dies
And Chloe arrives.
She sees his devil face. And she says “it’s all true.”
And it ends….
And that was the last
episode of the season
And this was the last
season.
It. Ends. HERE?!
This… this has to be
one of the worst endings to a show ever?! You set everything up to be awesome,
everything we’ve wanted from this show for so long, for a season that won’t
exist
What, did Fox think
too many people had moved on from Firefly and it was time to enrage another set
of fans?
Chloe knows who
Lucifer is, Lucifer is finally moving on from his daddy issues, Dan confronting
his dark past, Amenadiel with his wings back, Chloe and Lucifer facing a whole
new relationship, Maze and Linda reconciled in awesome friendship AND YOU END
NOW?!
I am so immensely
frustrated because this is what we’ve needed all season and if we did maybe
this season wouldn’t have been so poor. And it’s been a very poor season. It’s
been poor because Lucifer himself has been so terrible which is a crying shame
because Tom Ellis is AWESOME in this role (anyone who endured the tripe that
was Miranda - who knew he could pull this off?!). But all season we’ve
had the same pattern - Lucifer gets some idea in his head (God hates hats) and
then obsesses on this (loves hat wearers, tries to make everyone wear hats) all
seasons. Crime is coincidentally solved. Other characters have far more
interesting storylines but we don’t really develop because we’re focused far
more on Lucifer and hats. But the core was always there - Lucifer was awesome
and far more so in previous seasons when we saw him at his sexy, sinister best.
Maze and her conflicts over humanity was awesome. Linda, the whole concept of
Linda, was awesome. Charlotte and her battle for redemption and her fears was
very powerful. Ella was fun. Amenadiel looking for reason could have been
awesome. Even, as we saw this episode, Dan could have been good.
All of this also
leads me to the cover of minority characters - because between Dan, Amenadiel,
Maze and Ella we had 4 main characters who were POC, we had a number of
excellent female characters. All of these characters were excellent, their
storylines were good but everything needed more but Lucifer kept getting in the
way. All of them deserved more but at the same time they couldn’t have more
without exposing how hollow Lucifer’s characterisation is
For LGBTQ
representation, Lucifer is the very essence of a blink-and-you-miss-it-portrayal. Lucifer is the only LGBTQ character
and despite having lots and lots of casual sex, despite lots and lots and lots
of flirting, despite lots and lots and lots and lots of innuendo there are, at
best, two vanishingly brief scenes that give a nod to his attraction to men.
This near-invisible form of representation is depressing because people will
try to sell the LGBTQ protagonist - but if you happen to have gone to the
bathroom or put the kettle on or sneezed at the wrong time you’d completely
miss it. We deserve representation better than can be disguised by a single
sneeze
