Lucifer season 1, episode 12, “#TeamLucifer,” just finished airing, and we found out how Luci reacted to finding out Chloe makes him vulnerable.
The episode opens on Maze and Lucifer doing their second favorite activity on Earth: Lucifer is cheating death and Maze is being violent. Sex is probably their favorite activity, let’s be real.
Turns out Lucifer is invulnerable to everything she throws at him (literally) except for demon daggers forged in Hell. They’ll definitely do some damage. As will Italian marble, though that last one is only because Chloe shows up to get him to help on a case. He begrudgingly agrees.
The case is this: Rose Davis has been killed and “Hail Lucifer” has been carved into her back. It looks like the killer is a satanist, which upsets Lucifer because he never asked for anything like this to be done in his name. He punishes evil; he doesn’t encourage it.
All the while Lucifer is keeping his distance from Chloe, and she’s definitely noticing. She thinks it’s her fault because she opened up to him and it freaked him out, but that’s obviously the least of Lucifer’s worries. After infiltrating the cult Rose belonged to, Lucifer has an epiphany. Only an angel can hurt another angel, and now we’re left wondering if Chloe is an angel in disguise.
But Chloe does not have any scars on her back, meaning she doesn’t have any wings. Or perhaps her wings have just not been cut from her back? It’s unclear, but it’s also doubtful that Chloe is like Lucifer and Amenadiel. If her powers to make Lucifer vulnerable are angelic in nature, she probably has no idea how she got them. I’m finding myself more interested in Chloe than ever before. We’ve met her mother, who’s clearly no angel, but we don’t know anything about her father. Could the good detective be half human and half angel? What does that mean for Trixie? And what does that mean for Lucifer?
At the next crime scene, the detectives find Rose’s boyfriend, who was their number one suspect in her murder case. He’s been strung up and Morningstar has been written out in red paint. Someone is trying to get his attention, but are they worshiping him or setting him up?
Either way, Lucifer is not happy right now. He goes to Linda to seek advice and discovers that he doesn’t want to stay away from Chloe, no matter how vulnerable she makes him. On top of that, he continues to be upset about the innocent lives that have been taken in his name. He just wanted free will and a life he could live for himself, not for people to sacrifice others on an alter dedicated to the Devil.
It all comes to a head when Lucifer is caught threatening Father Williams, a street preacher who knows who he is. Malcolm saves him from truly indicting himself, and they head into Lucifer’s club. It doesn’t take long for Malcolm to reveal himself, however. Red paint on his hands shows that he is the one who has been committing these murders. He’s also the one who planted the preacher’s cufflink at the crime scene. He did it all for Lucifer, in his honor. Lucifer is appalled, and it’s clear that Malcolm is truly and completely insane.
A punch or two is thrown, but before anything else happens, Amenadiel shows up to confront Lucifer about Maze. The angel and the demon have been sleeping together for the last few weeks, and she just tried to kill him with a demon dagger. Or so he thinks. She was clearly hesitating as she held it above him, and when he caught her in the act, he left without realizing that perhaps she cares about him as much as he cares about her.
They start attacking each other, trading blows and drawing blood, but it’s only when Maze appears that they take pause. She reminds them they each took advantage of her and used her as a pawn in their own game. She leaves a pair of demon daggers for them to use on each other and walks away. You go, Maze!
Amenadiel leaves, and it begs the question what he truly wants now. He could have grabbed the dagger and killed Lucifer, but he didn’t. At this point, he’s done some pretty terrible things. He’s said he doesn’t want to return to his father a failure, but if he does indeed succeed, will God even forgive him for the crimes he’s committed?
Luci is left to nurse a drink all by himself before Chloe shows up to ask what happened. Before everything can be explained, however, she discovers the body of the preacher on the other side of the bar, much to Lucifer’s astonishment. She pulls her gun on him and puts him under arrest.
With only one more episode left to go, we wonder how much of this story they can wrap up and explain before we wait for Lucifer to return to our screens in season 2.
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