Lucifer season 2, episode 8, “Trip to Stabby Town,” just finished airing, and this week we found out why Lucifer is so fond of Earth.
At the top of the episode, we see a random woman get brutally murdered before it switches over to Lucifer trying to figure out if his dream about Chloe has sexual connotations. Surprisingly, he’s with Linda, but perhaps a bit unsurprisingly, she’s not really paying attention.
Dr. Martin is talking to Lucifer now, which is better than last week, but she still seems afraid of him. Her questions are acting like a barrier, keeping him and his problems at arm’s length. She can’t concentrate long enough to focus on his problems, and perhaps she’s not ready to go back to how things were just yet.
When he and Chloe then arrive at the crime scene, Lucifer realizes the blade that killed the woman was Azrael’s. In human hands, the knife demands to be used to fulfill its purpose — coveting death — and magnifies hatred, making simple annoyances something worth killing over.
Returning to the grave site of Uriel, Lucifer realizes someone dug up the blade, though they left the body in place. Luci then asks Ella to help him figure it out in exchange for a favor. At first, she doesn’t want to ask for anything in return, but once she tells Luci what she wants, he’s the one who’s hesitant. Still, he agrees.
Chloe sees them working together throughout the episode and is clearly jealous. The question here, though, is whether that jealously stems from a romantic place. Is Chloe upset because her partner has found someone else to confide in (something she offered at the top of the episode, which Lucifer resisted) or because it looks like their newfound connection could be something more than platonic?
By the end of the episode, it truly does look like Chloe was jealous of the idea that Lucifer and Ella could be sleeping together. She says it’s inappropriate, but when he reassures her there’s nothing between him and the lab technician, Chloe seems to calm down.
Then, in true Lucifer fashion, he propositions her, and she rolls her eyes and walks away. Still, Luci seems pretty content with the idea that Chloe was jealous to begin with.
Ella does indeed help Lucifer, though, and it leads Lucifer to the realization that his mother was the one who suggested to several people (10 or 12, give or take) they go o the place where they could find the blade. Charlotte says she was only trying to get God’s attention because she wanted to mourn with her husband over the death of her son. (Still not buying it, lady.)
Charlotte is also angry that Lucifer cares so much about what happens to the humans here on Earth. Lucifer spends most of the episode trying to figure out why that’s the case, which involves trying to get Linda to stay focused long enough to help him through his problems.
At the end of the day, it takes holding Azrael’s blade in his hand to admit his true feelings. Lucifer says, “Hell wasn’t home and Heaven was Hell,” and that Earth was the only place he’s ever felt respected. It makes complete sense Lucifer would want to keep Earth as safe as possible, which is also why Charlotte feels like she’s found Lucifer’s weakness.
If Charlotte can make Earth unbearable for Lucifer, perhaps he will return home with her.
But the only reason why Lucifer got the blade to begin with is because Dan gave it up. When Dan was possessed by the blade’s lust for destruction, it looked like Lucifer was in some serious trouble. Except Dan was able to resist the blade, allowing Lucifer to take it back from him before any (major) damage was done. Why was Dan able to resist the call when so many other people couldn’t?
Despite Dan’s ability to give up the blade, some truth does come out regarding his feelings toward Lucifer. It seems as though the detective blames the Devil for ruining his marriage, but is strong enough to admit that, in the end, it really wasn’t Lucifer fault.
Dan feels so much better getting that off his chest, and I have to wonder now if that’ll change the dynamic between Detective Douche and Lucifer, or if they’ll fall back into their old roles of loathing each other.
The end of the episode shows us what Ella’s favor from Lucifer was — a trip to church. She feels as though Lucifer is looking for something, and Ella admits her life got back on track when she started talking to the Big Guy. Lucifer finds his own twisted reason to enter the church, but he does indeed follow through on the promise.
The Devil is in the details
? Amenadiel totally has the hots for Maze still, but is the feeling mutual?
? I’m really digging how human the celestial beings are becoming. Amenadiel in a beanie! Maze eating poptarts!
? Dan really doesn’t like it when people eat his pudding.
? But he also said he’ll be there for Chloe, even if it’s about another guy. Did he mean it?
? “Oh my God, I had sex with the Devil.” The doctor is in, ladies and gentleman.
