Lucifer season 1, episode 10, “Pops,” just finished airing, and we found out what happens when you put the Devil at the dinner table.
Just when you think Lucifer gained some humanity, he makes someone else’s tragedy all about himself. Oh wait, he does that every week!
Chef Javier has dropped dead of a suspected poisoning, and Lucifer is devastated he won’t taste another one of his culinary creations again. Javier supposedly had a temper, but his staff all looked at “Pops” as a father figure.
But when Lucifer speaks to Javier’s actual son, he sees a little bit of himself in Junior. They both worked so hard to follow in their father’s footsteps, but when that proved impossible, they each went out of their way to rebel. It looks like Javier Jr. may be the number one suspect until Lucifer works his mojo and the son admits all he wanted was one more meal with the father. Is this how Lucifer feels, too?
Lucifer and Chloe then visit Anne, who was Javier’s protégé. She had all the opportunity in the world, and she wanted to surpass her teacher. The parallels between the suspects and Lucifer just keep growing. But then Anne throws up blood and it’s clear she’s been poisoned, too.
A mixture of mercury and heroin was found in Javier’s bloodstream, so the duo visits a former employee who has a drug problem, but all the signs keep pointing toward Junior. Lucifer pays him a late night visit, wanting to know if the world feels a little brighter knowing his father is out of the picture. But Junior is devastated. It’s clear he didn’t kill Javier. Lucifer is maybe a little let down.
Meanwhile, Penelope Decker is in town, and Lucifer is easily smitten. But Chloe has a lot of pent up feelings about her mother. Mostly, she felt suffocated by her, having been forced into going to auditions even when she didn’t want to. When Chloe gets a call that her babysitter has been given the day off, she rushes home to find her mother dressing Trixie up for an audition.
The two fight while Trixie slips out the door, hails an Uber, and heads to Lux. She’s looking for Luci, but she makes friends with Maze. Yes, she actually makes friends with the demon, who just earlier walked out of Linda’s office, scoffing at the very concept. Trixie: 1, Chloe: 0. Maze still doesn’t like her.
Everyone convenes at Chloe’s house, where Lucifer and Junior make dinner for the family and the Devil airs everyone else’s grievances. But Junior just laughs. He used to fight with his father like Chloe and Penelope are fighting now, but then he realized his father made him who he is today.
Are you listening, Lucifer? This is the part where you should be paying attention.
In the end, Chloe realizes Junior is truly innocent and it was, in fact, Anne who killed Javier. Except Anne never meant to kill her mentor; she wanted to kill Junior instead because his father was giving him the restaurant and she didn’t think he had truly changed.
Anne tries to escape by setting a fire, but Lucifer gets Chloe out of there, being burned in the process. Once again Chloe is in close proximity when Lucifer is hurt, but this time she wasn’t the one hurting him. Does this mean he’s mortal because he decided to stay on Earth, or does it still have something to do with Chloe? These are questions I need answered as soon as possible.
More importantly, Junior sees the burning restaurant and decides he will rebuild it and make it his own. Lucifer looks baffled, and a little panicked, at his choices, but I think it would be an excellent decision for Lucifer to make, too. He currently does the right thing on accident more often than not, so imagine if he started trying. It would be a disaster.
Maze asks Linda to be her friend and Penelope apologizes to her daughter. Chloe decides to listen to her mom and take a leap, but when she reaches out to Dan, he breaks up with her over the phone. Or, well, Malcolm does, since he just knocked the other cop unconscious for pulling a gun on him. It turns out Dan agrees Lucifer is insane, but he doesn’t think the man should die because of it.
Chloe shows up at Lucifer’s place absolutely drunk and comes onto him, but in the most shocking of scenes on Lucifer to date, he refuses! It’s clear to us, even if it isn’t clear to him, that he wants whatever is between them to be real, not induced by alcohol. He holds Chloe close to comfort her, and she falls asleep on his shoulder. He cries out to his father because he’s clearly pulling a Junior here, despite every intention not to.
By next week it looks like Lucifer is embracing his newfound role, but maybe not in the most publicly decent way. Points for effort?
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