This episode’s theme was distraction. Lucifer’s mistaken lesson from this session with Dr. Linda was that distraction from problems made you not worry about them as much. He was trying to avoid thinking about his deal with his Father, as he–so far–hasn’t lived up to his side of the bargain by sending Mother back to Hell.
Another distraction immediately presents itself in a case. Chloe and Lucifer meet Dan at the crime scene. A young woman was found off the road in a wooded area, dead from poisoning. Once they determine the Uber driver who was the last person she saw didn’t kill her, they move on. The victim had a weird club stamp on her wrist, but they have trouble determining which club it came from. They do find out, however, that the victim’s roommate was also a victim, and also sporting the same stamp.
Back at Lux, Lucifer spots Amenadiel drinking alone. This gives us another great line: Lucifer makes fun of Amenadiel drinking Cosmopolitans, and Amenadiel–obviously tipsy–whines that “But Cosmos are yummy!” He gets him started on bourbon instead. Hoo boy. Lucifer also sees that Chloe is pretty wrapped up in the case, and in general just pretty tightly wrapped. He makes a bet with Maze to get Maze to take Chloe out and get her drunk. Maze arranges it so that her and Dr. Linda go out with Chloe for a ‘girls night’. They run into Ella at Lux, and immediately go to a tiki bar for ‘bonding’. Chloe spots a guy at the bar with the weird club stamp, and while talking to him, the guy’s girlfriend thinks she’s trying to pick up her boyfriend and starts an epic bar fight.
Chloe comes to work the case the next day looking like a mile of bad road. She catches Lucifer texting Maze, and catches on that the ‘girls night out’ wasn’t an act of friendship (since Maze is still practicing at making friends) but the result of the bet. She’s pretty hurt and pissed, and naturally, Lucifer has no idea why.
Amenadiel returns a book to Dr. Linda, and she immediately picks up on something being wrong. He very circumspectly talks about his wings, but she thinks he’s talking about impotence. Awkward. He lets it go.
Throughout the episode, Lucifer is also trying to distract himself by finding Chloe a new place to live, as she’s decided she doesn’t want to live in her Mother’s house anymore. A more notable suggestion is that she look at either the victim’s or killer’s places, as they’ll obviously be vacant soon.
When Chloe had talked to the guy at the bar, she’d found out that the stamps were for a pop-up sex club. She also found out that women weren’t allowed unless they were working the club–so naturally, she has Lucifer and Dan go. Yeah, that can’t *possibly* end up in trouble…
Lucifer decides he needs to bring the gloomy Amenadiel along, as he obviously needs some more distraction. He’s pretty plastered already. He nearly blows everyone’s cover by getting a bit…rowdy.
They spot the bartender who’d made the victims drinks, but he’s just another link in the chain. He leads them to a balding Russian dude (amusingly played by Robert Picardo) who turns out to be another victim, as he’d finished half of one of the girls’ drink. He’d been poisoned too, just not as much. He gets to live, and gives them the last big clue: There was a third girl.
Looking at pictures, this leads them back to the neighbor of the victims. After a tense moment where she holds a box cutter to Chloe’s throat, we find out that she thought she was putting roofies in the girls’ drinks (they’d tried to back out of the encounter with the Russian). Instead, Mandrake is a poison.
Back at Lux, Amenadiel has a serious talk with Lucifer. We also find out that while she was drunk, Chloe had agreed to renting a place with Maze, and they kind of make up as Chloe realizes Maze is just really crap at making friends.
As Amenadiel talks to Lucifer, he points out Lucifer’s monumental mistake in reneging on a deal with Father, as the thing he bartered with Father for was Chloe’s life. Since Lucifer didn’t come through, Father might take it back.
Lucifer bursts out with wondering why Amenadiel didn’t just take Mother back to Hell, then, and Amenadiel is forced to admit that he can’t. Of course he doesn’t explain *why* quite yet. That’ll be interesting when Lucifer finds out.
The last scene we see is Chloe driving along, and another car drives right into hers. Is Father taking back his part of the deal?
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