Lucifer Season 4

Part Three of the “They Ruined Lucifer” series

Season 4 was awful, though it wasn’t as bad as Season 6. What made Season 4 awful?

• We didn’t get to see Chloe’s immediate reaction to Lucifer really being the devil.
• Chloe runs to the Vatican with Trixie for an entire month.
• Chloe sides with some evil priest in a scheme to send Lucifer back to Hell.
• Ella defuses a bomb while high.
• Lucifer goes back to Hell indefinitely for no real reason.
• Eve
• Linda and Amenadiel’s angel baby

There were some decent ideas in Season 4. Here’s my version.

Season 4, Episode 1 begins immediately where Season 3 ended. Chloe is saying, “It’s true. It’s all true.” Lucifer doesn’t realize what she’s talking about at first, then his hands fly to his face.
“Oh no. No, Detective, it wasn’t supposed to happen this way.”
Amenadiel arrives on the scene mere seconds before the LAPD comes storming in. He freezes time, allowing the angels to clean up all the angel wing feathers. But there’s not really a whole lot they can do about the dead bodies. Too many people had already seen the crime scene, and it’s not like they could just dump a cop’s body anywhere.
Amenadiel starts time again. Chloe, realizing that something further celestial has happened, collapses.
Lucifer is arrested for the murder of Detective Marcus Pierce. He is thrown into a holding cell with Mr. Said-Out-Bitch.
Chloe is taken to the hospital. She’s physically fine, but, emotionally and mentally, she’s just not dealing with the shock well. She’s unable to say much about what happened at the crime scene, just “it was a trap” and “it’s all real.”
Meanwhile, back at the precinct, a police lieutenant is questioning Lucifer about Pierce’s death. The lieutenant tries to intimidate Lucifer, threatening him with physical violence. Lucifer, far more concerned about the Detective seeing him as a monster, doesn’t fight back. The lieutenant is actually able to rough him up a bit. Dan comes in, pulls the lieutenant off Lucifer, and shows them the information about Pierce being the Sinnerman. The LAPD, not wanting to admit that a decorated cop was also an underworld kingpin, decides to rule Pierce’s death an act of gang violence, and leave it at that. Lucifer is free to go.
Dan and Amenadiel share a moment where Amenadiel tells Dan Charlotte is in Heaven.

Linda arrives at the hospital to pick up a still distraught Chloe.

Chloe: It’s all true. Lucifer… the Devil… it’s all true.
Linda: I know.
Chloe: No, Linda, I mean, it’s all real.
Linda: Yes, Chloe, I know. I’ve known for almost 2 years now.
Chloe: How…? How did you handle it?
Linda: Well, at first, I shut down. But then Maze – of all people – made me realize that, as frightening as that revelation was, there’s more good than bad. I got a best friend and the most fascinating patient in the world. It was difficult, but I wouldn’t change anything, not even having sex with the actual Devil.
Chloe: (startled) Right. Lucifer… I don’t know what to do about Lucifer.
Linda: Well, I guess what it all really comes down to is one simple question: Do you want him in your life, or not?
Chloe: I… Lucifer is the best partner I’ve ever had. As infuriating as he is, I know I can depend on him when it’s important. I just… this is a lot… I don’t know if I can just pretend that everything’s OK. Because it’s not, Linda, it’s… the ACTUAL devil! I just – I don’t know.

Season 4, Episode 2 includes the case from the real Season 4, Episode 1, about the beekeeper in WITSEC. Chloe decides she has to get back to work, and tells Lucifer she just wants to be friends and partners at work. That’s all she can handle right now. Lucifer doesn’t push it. Ella is having a crisis of faith – Charlotte was finally turning her life around, and then, bam! She’s dead. Dan doesn’t blame Lucifer for Charlotte’s death, but he is incredibly angry, mostly with himself, for not making the most of the time he had with Charlotte. Linda finds out that the artificial insemination worked, and she’s pregnant. Maze is fascinated by human pregnancy and birth. (Says Maze: “Demons reproduce asexually. Don’t ask for specifics. You’d rather not know.”) Amenadiel obsesses over Father’s message: “Be worthy of her sacrifice.”

Season 4, Episode 3, includes the case from the real Season 4, Episode 3, but is titled “Somebody’s Been Reading Dante’s Inferno,” because Chloe decides she needs to ask Lucifer all the questions. She’s trying to reconcile the Lucifer she knows with the Lucifer she’s reading about in various religious texts. The murder victims are all people who were turning their lives around. We meet Father Kinley, a Catholic priest who was counseling some of the victims. Dan and Maze take on the entire gang – Dan seems to have a death wish. Kinley set up the murders to expose Lucifer as the Devil, but Lucifer doesn’t take the bait. Kinley is arrested. Chloe and Lucifer argue, as Chloe isn’t sure she can accept Lucifer’s Devil face. Immediately after the argument, Lucifer heads down to the club, where he sees a familiar face – a beautiful Black woman (played by Nia Long) who has attracted many admirers. The episode ends as Lucifer says, “I never thought I’d see you again, Lilith.”

Season 4, Episode 4, Lilith is back because she needs something from Lucifer – his ring. Lucifer says that giving her the ring isn’t that simple, and they arrange to meet the next day. However, Lilith’s ride share driver shoots Lucifer in the face. Lilith was on a plane from which a fabulously expensive necklace was stolen. As in the original episode, at first, Lucifer and Chloe aren’t working together because of the fight over Lucifer’s Devil face. There is a fight at the country bar, where Lucifer is hurt as Chloe enters. Maze is shocked to find Lilith at the penthouse, and immediately throws a blade at her, which Lilith deflects. They argue about where Lilith has been for the last 4,000 years. Later, Lilith goes undercover to get the necklace and find the murderer. Lilith realizes that Chloe doesn’t accept Lucifer for who he really is, and is able to convince Lucifer that she does.

About Lilith’s character: Lilith is not evil. She’s not a common demon. She’s quite refined, but she has never met a rule she couldn’t break or use to her advantage. She’s not much of a fighter, but she does have lightning quick reflexes and manages to stay a step ahead of anyone who tries to hurt her, physically.

Season 4, Episode 5 includes the case from the original Season 4, Episode 2 – the one with “The Cabin.” The case parallels Lilith’s back story, which we get to see in flashbacks. Dad makes Adam and Lilith from clay, into which he breathes the spark of creation. Lilith was created to obey Adam, but “obey” is not in her vocabulary. She defies Adam one too many times, so Dad curses Lilith. He makes Lilith a demon, and decrees that all of her children will die immediately upon birth and be cast down to Hell. Before she’s cast down, Lilith is able to get a bit of the clay from which she and Adam were created. She asks Lucifer for a favor – seduce Adam’s new wife, so Dad will have to curse her too. Lucifer is happy to comply. Lucifer tempts Eve, but Dad doesn’t curse Eve in the same way he did Lilith. Instead, he orders Adam and Eve out of the garden. When Abel gets to Hell, Lilith asks Lucifer to bring her to earth and leave her there. Lucifer reminds her that she still owes him for his last favor, and asks for her ring, which contains the clay she took from the garden. Lilith argues that she’s provided Lucifer with a demon army – her children. Lucifer counters that he didn’t ask for them, and really, most of them weren’t particularly useful, though there is that one girl… But still, Lucifer wants the ring, Lilith wants to go topside, so Lilith gives Lucifer the ring.

Maze and Lilith fight about Lilith abandoning Maze. Lilith says she abandoned her children because they were cursed to die, thus becoming demons, anyway. She believed they didn’t need her. Maze storms out.

Lucifer is caught in the cabin as it explodes, and Chloe thinks she just saw Lucifer die, but he walks out, without a scratch. They have the conversation about how Lucifer is only vulnerable when Chloe is around, including the scene with the axe. Chloe realizes she’d rather have Lucifer in her life than not. She’s able to talk to Amenadiel, and he tells her that her father is proud of her.

Ella decides that there is no God – there have been too many senseless deaths.

About one month passes between the last episode and Season 4, Episode 6. The nudist camp case remains the same, but Lilith doesn’t do orgies. Lilith also does not understand why Lucifer is so attached to his earthly job, when there is so much more fun to be had in other forms of debauchery. Lucifer is pulling himself in two different directions between Lilith and Chloe. He realizes that the job makes him want to be a better man. So, when it comes time to punish Julian (the bad guy), he decides to leave that to the authorities. But Julian kills Joan the uni. With Lilith’s urging, Lucifer goes to Julian’s and almost kills him.

Season 4, Episode 7 is the aftermath of Julian’s beating. In an effort to understand Lucifer, Lilith rides along on the case. It becomes clear that Tiernan had the victim killed because Tiernan believed that the victim beat up Julian. After talking with Tiernan, Chloe figures out that Lucifer beat Julian, and lays into him for it. Lucifer explains that he has to punish people on Earth, because when he doesn’t, bad things happen. Chloe still can’t accept all of who Lucifer is.

Chloe has a conversation about celestial justice with Ella, where Ella notes that the Devil started out as an angel. Later, at home, Trixie asks why they don’t see Lucifer as much anymore. Chloe says it’s because he has a new/old friend who may not be the best influence on Lucifer. Trixie sneaks out and goes to Lucifer’s penthouse, where she questions Lilith. Lilith is not amused, and tells Trixie stories about how she would bite the heads off of babies. Trixie is not intimidated.

Apparently, Tiernan realized that Lucifer beat up Julian, too, because his hired hitman storms in. Realizing Lucifer isn’t alone, he points the gun directly at Trixie. Lucifer, of course steps right in front of the gun, and takes two shots in the chest before reaching the hitman and punching him back through a wall. After ensuring that Trixie is all right, Lucifer contacts Chloe, who rushes over. Trixie tells her mom that she wasn’t scared, because she was with Lucifer.

Trixie: That guy came in with a gun, and Lucifer just got right in front of it. And the guy shot Lucifer, and he was all like, surprised that Lucifer didn’t even fall down. Like, he totally didn’t know that Lucifer is the Devil.
Chloe: (giving Lucifer the side eye) Lucifer told you he’s the Devil?
Trixie: Duh, mom. He tells everyone he’s the Devil. It’s just that people don’t believe him because it sounds kinda crazy.
Chloe: But, you believe him?
Trixie: Not at first, but then, he kept saying it, and saying he never lied… and then, after Maze took me trick or treating that one time, I knew it had to be true. Because nobody could make their face look like that so fast, and it wasn’t a mask.
Chloe: So, you’ve known this whole time?
Trixie: DUH! Haven’t you?
Before Chloe can answer, Maze bursts in. She’s just gotten back from her latest hunt and heard about the penthouse invasion over the police scanner. She immediately lays into Lucifer for endangering Trixie.
Trixie: It’s OK, Maze. I’m fine. Lucifer got the bad guy.
Lucifer: You know there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to protect that little urchin.
Lilith appears to be uncomfortable with so much parental care flowing around the room.

Season 4, Episode 8 is a departure from the original Season 4. It’s more of a character building episode, and, instead of focusing on a case, focuses on Linda’s co-ed baby shower. We see Dan and Ella wake up together – they’ve just had a rather awkward one night stand. In an effort to hide this fact from the rest of the gang, they try to arrive at the shower separately, but each gets confused about who is supposed to be there first, so they arrive at the same time anyway. It’s painfully obvious what has happened.

Maze arrives fashionably late and explains that she was gone for so long because she was looking for the perfect baby gift – what she would have wanted when she was small. It’s a perfectly adorable teddy bear… that speaks in Lilom when you press its tummy, so it sounds terrifying. This brings up the concept of demonic possession, which Lucifer banned more than a century ago.

Amenadiel is at the shower, too. He has thrown himself into being Linda’s emotional support person. (He still has no idea how to be worthy of Charlotte’s sacrifice.) It’s clear that Linda wants some space. Lilith is conspicuously absent, but Lucifer is there, wisecracking about becoming an uncle. Chloe is far more comfortable with this incarnation of Lucifer, and her mixed signals confuse him.

Finally, Father Kinley makes another appearance. He is apparently having a meeting with his lawyer, but then the room is filled with a heavenly light. An angel – whose face we cannot see – appears and talks to Kinley about sending the Devil back to Hell. Kinley says he will help the angel do this. The angel transports Kinley out of the room.

In Season 4, Episode 9, Amenadiel finally finds his purpose. This is the case about the private school counselor who is killed. Amenadiel meets Curtis Mayfield. Caleb is a low-income student at the private school. He comes to Lucifer seeking a favor – getting a drug dealer out of his life. He finds Amenadiel instead. Amenadiel goes to help Caleb out. Caleb ends up getting arrested in a confrontation with the cops. Dan and Amenadiel have a conversation about the cops having made up their minds. Amenadiel realizes that he has to try to fix what is broken. Caleb doesn’t die in this universe. Instead, Caleb meets with Amenadiel, bringing some friends along, to tell their stories about their interactions with the police, often with the same cop that confronted Amenadiel and Caleb.

Kinley going missing is also a pressing matter. Lucifer doesn’t like the circumstances: He believes there’s a celestial involved, though Chloe isn’t sure.

Lucifer isn’t sure he wants to continue his relationship with Lilith, but she makes it clear that she’s having fun, and thinks Lucifer should just have some fun too. Because, really, who needs the headache of a true commitment? Earthly concerns are beneath these celestials. Although he’s unsure of the feelings the Detective has for him, he’s very sure of the feelings he has for her, so he definitively breaks it off with Lilith. As a token of his respect, he gives Lilith the ring.

Maze decides to try dating, with hilariously painful results. Dan notices and gives Maze all kinds of shit for it. He’s drunk, and he picks a fight with Maze because he thinks he needs to be hurt, physically, to take away his psychological pain. However, Maze doesn’t want to hurt Dan as much as she wants to hurt Lilith, who thinks her daughter is weak to want to belong to another person. Of course, Maze doesn’t take kindly to being called “weak” and a fight ensues. Although Maze is clearly the better fighter, somehow Lilith is always able to stay a step ahead.

At this point, we diverge almost completely from what happened in the original Season 4. There are three more episodes.

Season 4, Episode 10

Kinley is talking with the still unseen angel. Kinley wants to go straight up against the Devil, but the angel convinces him to go after a lesser demon first. The angel gives Kinley a vial, which he says contains a substance that will subdue a demon. Kinley follows Linda to a coffee date with Maze, where he’s able to pour the substance in her coffee (labeled “Mary”). Linda and Maze part – Linda going to her support groups for single mothers-to-be, Maze not really sure where she’s going. Kinley accosts Maze in an alleyway. Maze easily repels Kinley’s attack, and tosses him into a dumpster, where he’s impaled on a large, metal, light-up cross. The angel arrives and tells Kinley: “When you get to Hell, tell the demons that Lucifer needs their help.”

As Kinley dies, we see Linda at her support group meeting. We hear the tail end of her sharing her worries with the group – she’s at 40 weeks and due any minute now. Then we hear a familiar voice talking about how excited she is to have her first baby. It’s Lilith, with pregnancy padding wearing a name tag that reads “Eve.” She and Linda are quite buddy-buddy.

Amenadiel has arranged a peaceful march from Caleb’s community to the police station, calling for the police to fire the cop who has been blatantly racist. He convinced Lucifer to come along. We hear shots fired, and Lucifer yells, “Detective!” Amenadiel slows time as Lucifer takes the bullets meant for Chloe. Amenadiel wants to take Lucifer beyond the Detective’s influence, but Lucifer won’t leave the Detective unguarded. Amenadiel is able to get Chloe and Lucifer out of sight, behind a wall, at least. Time marches on. Chloe sees Lucifer bleeding badly. Lucifer tells Amenadiel to make sure the kids are all right, as Ella tries to stop Lucifer from bleeding. Together, Dan and Amenadiel are able to organize some of the chaos, and an ambulance gets through. Confident that Chloe will be safe with Amenadiel, Lucifer is carted off, with Ella accompanying him. Forgetting that she doesn’t believe in God, she begins to pray. Lucifer begins to heal immediately. Ella’s faith is restored.

Maze meets Lucifer at the hospital (where EMTs are confused by how two slugs to the gut can somehow repair themselves). She tells Lucifer what happened with Kinley. Maze takes Lucifer back to Lux, where they are greeted by… Father Kinley.

Season 4, Episode 11

Maze and Lucifer are shocked that Kinley is in Lux, but soon “Kinley” reveals himself to be Dromos, a demon loyal to Lord Lucifer. Dromos notes that two more demons have also possessed human bodies. The dead Kinley told them that Lucifer needed their help, so here they are. Lucifer scoffs at the idea that he needs help. He orders the demons to go back home. Dromos asks when Lucifer will be coming back.

Lucifer: “How about the 12th of never?”
Dromos: But, we don’t have a leader. We need you my lord.

Lucifer tries to make Dromos King of Hell, but they all realize that only an angel can rule Hell. Lucifer says they’ll just have to muddle through without him. He has a life here on earth. Lucifer once again orders the demons to go back to Hell. The demons promise to go after they’re done with their drinks – the booze in Hell doesn’t taste as good. (“Fine. I’m nothing if not a benevolent Devil. Finish your drinks and go home.”)

Amenadiel has been detained at the station with many of the protestors.

Meanwhile, Linda is with her new BFF “Eve.” “Eve” (that is, Lilith) has invited Linda to come with her to her home to get this custom made tea that is supposed to naturally control the pain of contractions. “Eve” serves some to Linda, and Linda is immediately knocked out.

In flashback, we see Lilith talk to Abel in Hell. Eve was able to have children who lived their lives out on earth. Lilith finds out that Adam and Eve had 56 children in all, many of whom seem bound for the Silver City. Indeed, Adam and Eve are in the Silver City themselves. Furious, Lilith decides to ask Lucifer to go live on earth, where (unbeknownst to him) she makes it her mission to send Adam and Eve’s remaining children to Hell. Obviously, she can’t kill Cain, though she does try every so often. We see a memory in present day – a courier finds Lilith and gives her a letter addressed, “to Lilith, to be opened in the unlikely event of my death.” Cain informs Lilith that she can make a child from the clay that she and Adam were made of if she has the spark of creation. The spark of creation can be found in any human woman at the moment she gives birth. Theoretically, Lilith can steal the spark if she kills the woman at that time. We see Lilith follow Maze to a coffee date with Linda. Linda is giving Maze advice – motherly advice. Lilith decides that she’s going to steal the spark from Linda.

We return to the present. Linda wakes up. Lilith has locked Linda in a room without windows and just one door. Lilith informs Linda that she’s going into labor… now…

Maze is freaking out over the fact that Linda isn’t home. She plays detective and figures out that Lilith has kidnapped Linda. She uses her bounty hunter skills to find Lilith. She arrives at the location, but is unable to get inside. Maze tries to call Amenadiel, but his cell phone has been confiscated. Maze tries to talk to Lilith through the door. Lilith tells Maze how much she’s always wanted to be a mother. She even tried adopting human children, but mortal children die relatively quickly, which hurt Lilith terribly. A child made with the same clay Dad used to make Adam and Eve would live as long as they did – about 900 years. During their conversation, Maze expresses how much she’s hurt that Lilith would spend an eternity trying to create the perfect child when Lilith had her, Dromos, and so many other demon children. Maze convinces Lilith to let her in and tell her to her face that she wasn’t good enough for Lilith. Lilith does let Maze in, and, of course, Maze attacks Lilith. But Lilith, as usual, is one step ahead. Lilith tells Maze that she has a unique ability – she can see about 30 seconds into the future. (“It’s really only useful in fights and at traffic lights.”) Maze quickly realizes that she has to do the opposite of what she would normally do.

At this point, Dan checks Amenadiel’s confiscated phone and sees the messages from Maze. Dan gets Amenadiel out of the station. Amenadiel goes to get Lucifer. All this time, Lucifer has been with Chloe. She’s trying to hash out how she feels about him, while he agonizes about not being worthy of her. Of course, just as they’re about to kiss, Amenadiel flies in and takes Lucifer to Lilith.

Maze’s opposite strategy confuses Lilith enough that, by the time Lucifer and Amenadiel show up, Maze has battered Lilith badly. The angels subdue Lilith as Maze helps brings Linda’s son into the world. Linda names him Charlie, in honor of Charlotte Richards.

Lilith collapses in sobs as Lucifer takes back the ring.

Back at Lux, we see that Dromos, Squee, and the unnamed third demon have finished a significant number of drinks. They decide to tell their brothers and sisters to come topside – if Lucifer doesn’t have to stay in Hell, why do they?

Season 4, Episode 12 (Season Finale)

Linda and Charlie are safe at home, with Maze and Amenadiel keeping watch (and driving Linda more than a little crazy in the process). Chloe and Lucifer get an odd case of a rapper seemingly killed on video, his body disappearing from the crime scene. The rapper is then implicated in the death of another, but that body disappears too. Lucifer realizes what’s happening – the demons are coming to earth by killing and possessing humans. Indeed, Dromos has raised a small army in Los Angeles, and there are reports of odd deaths in Las Vegas, Rome, Amsterdam, and Montpelier, VT. Dromos decides to kidnap Chloe as insurance – if Lucifer tries to stop him, or send him home, he’ll kill her. Maze knows that one person can get to Dromos: Lilith. Like Maze, Dromos has tons of mommy issues. If Lilith can get in with Dromos, Amenadiel can get Chloe, and Lucifer can control the demon army. Unfortunately, Lilith refuses to play. She doesn’t believe that she has anything to offer her demon children. Lucifer explains to her that her children don’t need perfection. They just need her to try. In explaining how Lilith can be worthy to her children, Lucifer realizes that many of the same principles apply to his relationship with the detective. Lilith agrees to give it a try. Lilith shows up at Dromos’s headquarters. As Maze predicted, Lilith is able to talk her way in pretty quickly. Dromos is angry at first, but soon starts talking about all of the things he missed not having a mother. Soon, Lilith’s other children join in. Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Maze are able to sneak in and almost rescue Chloe. But Squee, because nobody likes him, is not a part of the Lilith reunion and notices. A fight breaks out. Lucifer, realizing that he must be the King of Hell again, turns into his full Devil form. The demons bow to him and obey his orders to go back to Hell.

Now, although LA is demon-free, there are demons possessing humans all over the world. Maze and Lilith team up to find them and send them back. Lucifer must be physically in Hell to ensure that everyone comes back and stays in line. He’s not sure how long he’ll be gone, but Chloe should know: “I love you, Detective. It’s always been you.”