Lucifer – Orgy Pants to Work

By starrymag | May 17, 2019

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

 

The episode starts with the aftermath of an orgy in Lucifer’s (Tom Ellis) apartment. Eve is encouraging all the passed out folks to stay hydrated and finally meets up with Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt). Maze is bummed she wasn’t invited, but when Eve (Inbar Lavi) starts showering her in compliments she warms up a little. Also, it’s been two months and it appears it’s been a non-stop party.

 

So, Lucifer has been partying so hard he’s unclear on the days of the week. He missed a mandatory meeting and nearly gives Ella (Aimee Garcia) and a rookie named Joan (Paloma Alvarez) psychedelic donuts. And even though she wants to be happy for Lucifer, the non-stop Eve talk is clearly bugging Chloe (Lauren German). This’ll be an issue at some point.

 

Maze goes home and finds Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) in full on Dad mode. He says he’s been helping Linda while Maze has been gone. He pointedly tells Maze she’s not invited to Lamaze class. After he leaves, she angrily tells Linda (Rachael Harris) that she has been off looking for the perfect baby gift and then storms out.

 

At a crime scene Dan (Kevin Alejandro) says Lucifer’s benders are a problem. You can’t party the way he does and not have the work suffer. Speaking of the devil, Lucifer shows up late and in his buttless pants, giving the whole crime scene an eyefull. Yikes.

 

Now, for the victim. Gary was thrown out of a window and skewered on a fountain. A witness says he was a hardworking, but boring guy. She says the info on his computer could’ve shut down a lot of businesses. Someone was threatening him though. The line of questioning gets interrupted by Lucifer’s phone going off. Chloe’s getting frustrated.

 

They get a lead from an artist, but Chloe first wants to lay down the law with Lucifer. Showing up to a crime scene late and in orgy pants, no less, is super disrespectful to the victim and the department. So, she says Lucifer needs to shape it or stop showing up altogether. Lucifer apologizes and promises he takes the work seriously. He silences his phone and promises no more interference.

 

Back at Lucifer’s loft Maze laments that no one needs a demon. Eve says she could use one. Outside of Lucifer, do to being in heaven for a few centuries, Eve doesn’t know many people. Eve says she’s lonely, so Maze suggests she needs to get a life. Admittedly, Eve doesn’t really know how to fly solo, which is okay because Maze is there to show her how.

 

Amenadiel is out running errands and realizes he’s being followed. It turns out it’s by none other than his little sister Remie (Vinessa Vidotta). Amenadiel’s happy to see her, but she’s not there just to say hi. She sensed another celestial for the first time in a century: a baby. Let the family drama commence.

 

At Lucifer’s apartment a concerned Linda pops by because Lucifer has blown off three appointments. She’s worried. Lucifer says he’s fine and living his #bestlife. Linda; however, says that he can’t keep doing the party boy at night caring crime solver by day routine without denying parts of himself. She says flat out if he doesn’t stop pulling himself in different directions he’ll come apart. Lucifer doesn’t take the warning seriously. He says he’s got everything he wants. But Linda points out if that were true he wouldn’t have spent the past few minutes ordering apology gifts for Eve and Chloe.

 

Remiel and Amenadiel talk about the miracle baby and some wires are crossed. Remiel assumes that Lucifer is the baby’s father. But that’s not the biggest problem. She feels that the earth is no place for the celestial and wants to take the baby and fly it up to heaven for…Well, forever.

 

At a stakeout Chloe tries to apologize to Lucifer for being hard on him. It falls flat because he falls asleep. She takes advantage of this and decides to tell the truth. His recent behavior makes her uncomfortable and she’s a little jealous. Then, there’s a possible suspect and he’s stuffing someone into a car.

 

It seems though it’s a part of an abduction survival course. Gary was auditing the company and found out Vincent (Sean Carrigan) was bribing people. He says he tried to scare Gary into keeping quiet, but he didn’t kill him. He followed him up until he lost him on the day he died. So, Vincent is a bust.

 

Lucifer decides he wants to make up for recent events by heading to the station for paperwork. The downside is in the process he blows off Eve again. She vents to Maze about how this reminds her of being with Adam. It seems Eve was Adam’s second wife and she could never quite measure up to the first, whose name was Lilith. Eve laments that he was always pining over “perfect” Lilith. The conversation takes an awkward turn when Eve remembers Lilith is Maze’s mother. She apologizes and says she forgot Lilith was her mother. It seems that Maze says Lilith did, too.

 

Sadly, the awkwardness continues. Remember the apology gifts? Lucifer sent Eve’s (something sexual) to Chloe at the station and Chloe’s (a copy machine with a personalized message) to Eve. He tries to play it off, but Chloe is not happy. Luckily for him, Ella interrupts. She’s got a clue. The killer made Gary put clothes on before killing him because he was at a nudist sanctuary.

 

The sanctuary’s got rules. Strip down or come back with a warrant. Chloe’s ready to get the warrant, but Ella and Lucifer are willing to get in the nudist spirit. They go inside and ask around. Apparently Gary was really well liked. When questioning a couple, they find out Gary did have a fight with Julian (Erik Stocklin). Julian’s the son of the sanctuary’s founder and he’s not like his mother.

 

The couple tell Lucifer and Ella the bad news about Julian. Curious, they decide to question him…in the hot tub. Julian claims they fought because Gary was inappropriate with a few women in the community. He starts to walk away and is stopped by Chloe. Julian’s the same size as the suit Gary was found in.

 

At LUX we see Amenadiel and Remiel talk. Amenadiel’s trying to get his sister to see the merits of humanity, but she’s not receptive. She says she doesn’t get how Lucifer could even procreate with a human. Humans, she says, are selfish and foolish among other things. But Amenadiel says they’re more than just greed.

 

Julian is pretty chill for a guy facing a murder charge and here’s why. He might use his mother’s last name, but his father Jacob is rich and well connected. His father always bails him out of trouble.

 

Lucifer goes home and has to apologize to Eve. She says she’s not angry, anymore, because she used to be just like him. She explains she spent most of her life trying to be Adam’s ideal woman, but not only could she never measure up it made her miserable. Eve tells Lucifer she spent so much time trying to be who Adam wanted she never considered who she wanted to be until Lucifer. According to Eve, Lucifer set her free and now she wants to do that for him. She believes he’s pretending to be something he’s not, which gives him an epiphany about the case. He runs off.

 

So why does the son of a successful businessman run his late mother’s hippy nudist retreat? No one trusts him to do anything else. Jacob cut off Julian, but whenever Julian inevitably has brushes with the law he sends in the lawyers. But why did Julian kill Gary? Lucifer’s got the answer. At the nudist retreat someone slipped a note into his pocket. It says Marigold, but Ella realizes that’s not the name of a woman. It’s the name of one of Jacob’s boats.

 

On a stakeout Lucifer is trying to figure out who the real him is. At work Lucifer feels like he wants to be a better man, but with Eve he feels accepted, bad behavior and all. Chloe says people are constantly changing and growing. Pointing to her own experiences, Chloe reminds Lucifer that 15 years ago she was a Hollywood teen queen. Now, she’s a mom and a detective. She never would’ve pictured that, but it works. She tells Lucifer that if what he’s doing feels right and it’s real. And then things get dark.

 

Julian is using his father’s shipping company for human trafficking. Gary must’ve found out and threatened to expose him and gotten thrown out of a window for his trouble. Chloe and Lucifer call for backup and pursue Julian, but he runs. Lucifer chases and catches him. He berates him for his horrible behavior, but decides to let the law punish him and lets him go.

 

Remember Joan? The nice rookie from earlier? Julian had a gun. He shoots her and it’s fatal. Lucifer holds her body shocked. On the scene Dan blames Lucifer for letting Julian go. Worse, Lucifer blames himself.

 

When he goes home and decides to take back his earlier promise to let the law punish Julian with a little help from Maze. Eve tries to comfort him, but Lucifer explains he’s been trying to be something he’s not and a bad man got away and good person died. Eve says it’s the bad man’s fault and they can’t let him get away with what he’s done. Lucifer wonders if he “has it” in him anymore. Eve tells him he’s the devil, he’ll always have it in him.

 

Time to come clean on the Amenadiel part. After some prodding he admits he’s the half-angel baby’s father. Remiel is shocked and disappointed. Amenadiel is the one who taught her that humans were totally inconsequential. At any rate, Remiel promises not to hurt the mother, but she still wants to take the baby. Amenadiel says he’ll protect both mom and baby, so no cutting.

 

Speaking of Linda she with trepidation opens Maze’s gift. It’s not knives or a severed head, but a baby blanket. It seems Lilith did some damage. Maze explains she just wanted to give the baby something she wishes she’d had. She knows she’s not the mother or partner. Linda interrupts and says she’s Auntie Maze, which makes her family.

 

With punishment in mind, Lucifer and Eve go to see Julian who’s about to get out of town. Julian pulls out a gun and Lucifer wonders how many lives he’s ruined. Julian shows no remorse and says the girls were all “broken dolls” before they got on the ships. He claims he did them a favor. Lucifer says now he knows what Julian’s punishment will be. Using his devil strength he kicks Julian through a window and breaks his back.

 

As Julian lies on the ground Lucifer says he’s the devil and that feels right.