At the beginning of the episode, we learn that dear old Mum wasn’t holding a knife–it was an ice pick. It also seems that she doesn’t blame Lucifer for her uncomfortable stay in Hell–or so she says. She explains how she got there, and in that body…and he assumes she’s lying. He’s going to go find out himself.
He has Mother take him to where she came from. We learn that it’s a multiple murder scene, where the dead body she’s inhabiting was laying with that ice pick in the back of it’s neck, and the body of a younger man in the next room. They leave and quickly head back to Lux. Lucifer knows its time to find out more via the police.
He leaves Maze to babysit Mom. Maze, at first is disturbingly gleeful at the prospect of Mother being in a human body because they’re so easily hurt. She’s considerably less gleeful when she’s told she’s not allowed to harm Mother.
Lucifer heads to the precinct to find out if Chloe has any murders, mayhem, or other evidence of his Mother’s presence. Instead, he walks in on Chloe interrogating Trixie about the re-modeling job she’s done on her doll. Basically, Trixie wants a new doll. So she’s destroyed the old one to convince her mother she needs a new one. Lucifer finds this an admirable strategy, but Chloe is less impressed.
Lucifer then of course expresses more of his Mommy issues by telling Chloe she’s a bad mother if she ignores her child’s needs. He doesn’t understand when Chloe explains that sometimes what’s best for a kid is to not get what they want.
Of course he doesn’t get it, he’s the king of indulgence, and the world revolves around him and his expensive tastes.
We love him anyway.
The case develops as they end up back at the scene of Mother’s resurrection, and we follow it through to its inevitable ending. Of course, Mother didn’t do any of the killing. It seems most of what she said was true.
While they’re out and about, though, we see Mother headbutt Maze and escape with the dead woman’s corporate credit card.
Throughout all of this, Lucifer keeps praying to try and call Amenadiel to him. It seems, however, that the old angel phone ain’t working. Uh oh.
We find out why as we also follow Amenadiel. He’s having a major crisis of conscience, as he realizes that his fading powers may have something to do with all the crooked stuff he’s pulled during his stay on Earth. He apologizes to Dr. Linda, and has a heart to heart. He’s been researching, and it looks as though he’s coming to a conclusion he fears. He’s reading about fallen angels. He sees a single feather floating in the air, and it’s definite foreshadowing. Later in the episode, it’s revealed that yes, he’s fallen. He spreads his wings, obviously afraid of what he’ll see–and they look burnt. Feathers have fallen out, they look singed and raw in places. No way he’s flying anywhere.
So is he stuck on Earth, too? What is losing his time-stopping powers going to do?
Near the end of solving the case, Lucifer finds Mother, and brings her back to Lux.
Mother tries to have a bonding moment, emulating what she saw on TV earlier, and baking (burning) mac and cheese for him. She assures him that she doesn’t blame him, she blames God. She also tells Lucifer that his being cast into Hell wasn’t God’s idea, but hers. He was going to destroy Lucifer (or so she says) and she wanted him to at least survive. Are we really going to keep taking what she says at face value?
It almost looks like Chloe’s words sunk in (even though he tried to buy Trixie the doll anyway. How cute is that?), as he looks like maybe he’s going to accept what she’s telling him. She looks pretty sincere, but as he turns away, she looks up at the sky, and the look on her face says that oh, no…she’s not here for reuniting with her son. There’s something bigger in play.
Mom’s free, and I have a feeling there’s going to be serious Hell to pay.
Tricia Helfer was a great choice for a goddess of creation who’s probably bent on a little destruction. She’s had a lot of roles as someone with serious secrets and ulterior motives, and she plays wonderfully to the camera with subtle expressions. This season should be amusing.
The only thing that bothers me is Ella, the new Forensics person. She’s having a lot of superficial little bits with throwaway lines, but we’re not really seeing anything behind this character. There’s got to be something more there. I really hope that we’re going to see that in future episodes, and the role isn’t an odd little cameo. There’s been enough small hints dropped in the previous episode that I think she’s going to prove to be more than another background character–I just hope they get to it soon, or her scenes may begin to feel a bit sprinkled in.
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