St. Lucifer is the eleventh episode of the first season of Lucifer. It aired on April 11, 2016.
Summary[]
When philanthropist Tim Dunlear is found dead, Lucifer explores his good side by becoming a benefactor for Tim’s glitzy, Los Angeles charity.
Plot[]
This episode picks up the morning after the previous episode - Chloe wakes up to find herself naked in Lucifer's bed. She is horrified, and he winds her up, "I'm pretty sure we made Rosemary's baby!" before admitting that they did not have sex, "you mean you don't remember the part where you passed out, woke up again, shouted at me, 'It's too hot in this five-story hellhole,' I believe it was, then tore your clothes off and proceeded to hog the bed?" Chloe says that last night never happened, and stalks out, leaving Lucifer feeling on a strange high. He decides it must be a buzz from doing good and decides to explore this further.
Called to a case, he discovers the victim is well-regarded philanthropist Tim Dunlear, who Chloe describes as having been a notorious playboy, into drugs, gambling, women; something Lucifer comments is a typical Wednesday for him. Dunlear then turned his life around and dedicated himself to philanthropy.
Bent on demonstrating his own newfound altruism, Lucifer takes it upon himself to host the foundation’s charity gala at Lux, causing Chloe to tease him about becoming Saint Lucifer. Lucifer likes this idea and tells Linda about it. She agrees that good deeds can make you feel good but warns him it is not something to just play with. He assures her it is the way he's going to do it.
When they trace the homeless man who had stolen the victim's wallet and watch, Lucifer proves he's as generous as Dunlear by handing him the clothes off his back, leaving himself naked again, but finds that the high is not nearly as noticeable as before.
Lucifer and Chloe interview key people in the case, leading to them attending a lunch with donors for the foundation. Lucifer refuses to use his mojo on the women, as it does not fit with his new image, but does start singing, leading a young man, Kyle, to burst into tears - it turns out he was Dunlear's lover. Vanessa, his wife, had gone along with the affair to keep up his image. Kyle shows them a photo of a bare field that Dunlear had sent him as proof, but of what he doesn't know.
Malcolm, meanwhile, has captured Dan and handcuffed him to a post. He brings Dan some food, gloating over his plan to kill Lucifer and frame Dan for it.
Chloe talks to Will Flemming, the lawyer for the Dunlear Foundation, who is upset that Chloe has been questioning Vanessa. She points out that he now has control of the estate, and he tells her to back off.
Lucifer has prepared Lux for the gala event for the Dunlear Foundation. He again refuses to agree to work his mojo, intent on protecting his new-found saintliness. He heads upstairs to get changed. Chloe is upset and tells him she misses the old Lucifer - at least he had her back.
Amenadiel is enjoying a steak dinner. Maze turns up to taunt and annoy him. To convince her that he can be fun and spontaneous, he tells her he is the one who started the rumors that connected Lucifer with a goat.
Chloe visits Kyle, and they work on the case, investigating Dunlear's last movements - he had visited Haiti. They realize that the Foundation was supposed to be building a school there, but the photo showed that the school was not being built. Chloe visits Flemming again and talks to him about the discovery. They look into Vanessa.
Dan manages to break free from his captivity, and breaks out of the room. He heads out to Lux to save Lucifer from Malcolm. In the penthouse, Lucifer is getting ready for the gala when Malcolm turns up and points a gun at him. Mindful of his new vulnerability, and unaware how it works, Lucifer convinces him into not shooting, pointing out that Amenadiel isn't allowed to kill him, and he can trade him his pentecostal coin, a subway token out of Hell if he doesn't shoot. Malcolm takes the coin and departs.
Vanessa then arrives at the penthouse, to find a shaken Lucifer. She tells him she is leaving tomorrow, for her ranch in Argentina. Lucifer chats with her and realizes that she was the one who murdered her husband. He tells her that the detective will figure out her motives. She pulls out a gun, much to Lucifer's disgust, and shoots Lucifer three times in the chest, before leaving.
Dan arrives in Lux and frantically searches for Lucifer. He enters the penthouse, to find Lucifer lying on the floor looking dead. Lucifer sits up with a start and is surprised to find himself still alive. He leaves Dan to get a drink, telling him he looks terrible, and heads downstairs. Vanessa is about to start her speech, apologizing for the absence of Lucifer, but he turns up, to her shock, and announces that the best way to honor Dunlear's memory is to unmask his killer. He is about to turn his mojo on Vanessa, but Chloe turns up and says she already knows. Vanessa declares that she deserved the money and her husband was going to ruin everything. She is arrested, and again Lucifer feels that rush, as Chloe takes her away.
At the end of the evening, Maze tells Lucifer that she has slept with Amenadiel and will now be working as Lucifer's inside woman rather than Amenadiel's. Lucifer says that might be useful since his brother just tried to have him killed, and muses on how he is still alive despite being shot. A thought occurs and he heads off, a knife in his hand.
He visits Chloe, who tells him "I can let my guard down with you. I don't do that with anyone else. You make me vulnerable. And... maybe that's okay." He runs the knife blade over his hand behind his back, sees that it did indeed cut him, and tells her that she appears to make him vulnerable too.
Cast[]
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Featured Music[]
- "Emotional Rescue" - The Rolling Stones
- Devil May Care - Frank Sinatra (by Tom Ellis)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Chloe is the one who says the title name in the episode.
- Lucifer's decision not to sleep with Chloe without sober consent shows a more noble side to himself.
- He's feeling "good feels good" ecstasy.
- When Chloe asks Lucifer if they slept together he answers that they "made Rosemary's Baby" as a reference to the film of the same name.
- The fact that Mazikeen had sex with Amenadiel may reference another Vertigo comic, Preacher, where the protagonist Jesse Custer gains a power called "Genesis" - the offspring of an angel and a demon.
- There is, in fact, a St. Lucifer, Lucifer of Cagliari, a bishop from the 4th century.
- Lucifer tells Chloe that she is the first human to give the Devil blue balls.
- Lucifer technically didn't lie.
- It would takes years, but Our Mojo "moves that made the devil blush" and The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar "Rosemary's baby" proved the statements true.
- This is the episode in which Lucifer learns he is only vulnerable when Chloe is near. Since bleeding from the shot in "Manly Whatnots" Lucifer has thought he had become vulnerable in general.
- Michael Welch, who plays Kyle Erikson in this episode, previously played the character of Guy in an episode of the 2002-2003 show Birds of Prey, specifically playing the character at 14 years old as the character aged from a baby into an old man during the events of the episode. The 2019-2020 crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths establishes that the events of both shows take place in different universes to each other, with Lucifer being on Earth-666 and Birds of Prey being on Earth-203.
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