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"The Angel of San Bernardino" is twentieth episode of the third season of Lucifer.

Summary[]

"Lucifer and Chloe investigate a murder during which a witness claims a winged guardian angel saved her life, causing Lucifer to become paranoid about his own actions. Meanwhile, Pierce and Chloe's relationship takes an interesting turn and Lucifer discovers something that could change everything."[1]

Plot[]

The episode opens with a woman being awakened by an argument. As she goes to investigate, she hears a gunshot and is knocked down by the fleeing gunman. As she stares in terror at his drawn gun, he is suddenly distracted by an winged shadow and flees.

Meanwhile, Pierce and Chloe’s flirtation is still going strong. Lucifer is irritated by the distraction, Pierce is killing their banter. The team arrives at the crime scene, and Chloe finds Ella's enthusiasm for her thing with Pierce to be off-putting. They find a young man dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim is identified as Kevin Windstead, a member of a wealthy real estate family in New York. He was apparently the family "black sheep" and former heroin addict. The woman who had interrupted the gunman sits nearby. She tells the detectives what she heard, and of the angel who had saved her life. Lucifer is incredulous, saying his siblings would never be involved in something so trivial. Once out of earshot from Chloe, Pierce ask Lucifer if he is sure it wasn't one of his siblings.

Back at the penthouse, Amenadiel tells Lucifer that it was a bad idea to tell Charlotte Richards the truth about celestials. Lucifer is more interested in the story of the angel at the homicide. Amenadiel dismisses the idea that one of their siblings had been there. After he departs, Lucifer trips over a ceramic angel figurine on his floor.

Lucifer immediately consults Linda, bringing the figurine with him. She knows he has been stressing about Chloe and going without sleep, and asks about the possibility of Lucifer "Sleep Flying" as others might sleep walk. Lucifer is, of course, dismissive of the idea, “Clearly, I don't love them together, but I'm also not a 16-year-old crying in my bedroom with Adele on repeat.”

Chloe and Pierce, meanwhile, are spending time together when she gets a text from Lucifer and excuses herself to get back to the precinct to Pierce's obvious irritation. Upon arriving, Lucifer tells her that they need to solve the case immediately so he can prove he isn't the vigilante angel. Chloe is clearly annoyed, but sits down to go over the evidence with Lucifer. They have learned that Kevin recently checked out of an upscale rehab center where he had been in an altercation with another patient, Phil Goldstein. When they interview Goldstein, they learn he checked himself out of rehab for three hours the night before. When he then balks about telling them anything more, Lucifer threatens him as only Lucifer can. Goldstein then swears he did not kill Kevin, but was with hookers at the time of the murder. Goldstein explains that their fight was about how seriously Kevin was taking rehab. According to Goldstein the rehab clinic is a smokescreen for most of the patients, few of them really care about getting clean. He found Kevin obnoxious because he did take it seriously. He and Kevin got in an altercation over the issue and Goldstein punched Kevin.

Upon leaving, Decker tells Lucifer that the "outburst" with Goldstein was a bit over the top, and tells Lucifer he will be taking the rest of the day off. Lucifer goes home, and worries about both his need to rest and possible 'sleep flying' so handcuffs himself to his bed. When Amenadiel wakes him in the morning, his handcuffs appear to have been broken during the night. Amenadiel tells Lucifer that the "Angel of San Bernardino" saved a family of five from a fire during last night. Lucifer's bed is smudged with soot, making Lucifer think he is, in fact, the angel of San Bernadino. Amenadiel thinks that Lucifer is being punished for revealing his wings to Charlotte, and is convinced that his own punishment will be coming soon.

At the precinct, Pierce has called Chloe to set up a date. When Ella then enters, Pierce says he is concerned that Decker is holding back in the relationship. Ella assures him when Chloe falls, she'll fall hard and that when she says those three words, everything will change. He says he's counting on it.

Chloe's next interview is Mary Bell, Kevin's ex and the mother of his son. She is now married to Jeremy Bell. She tells Chloe that she ended the relationship years ago when Kevin preferred drugs to her. Once she got pregnant, he was too toxic to continue with. Chloe decides she has to track Kevin's drug history and tells Lucifer to get some sleep. He says he can't, she sarcastically suggests her doesn't then. He thinks that's a great idea and says he will never sleep again, and sets out to keep himself awake by any means possible. Chloe next sees Lucifer a week later, he is unaware how much time has elapsed, having been awake constantly. He reveals he binged all 12 seasons of Bones, and is making weird associations with the characters. She tells him she has a lead in the form of man arrested with Kevin some weeks previously, Matt Kessman, who apparently was “doing a job” in a downtown hotel.

Their suspect is the best man at a wedding and when they follow him and the groom into the parking garage, they discover Matt had been hired to befriend Kevin. That was his job, he was hired to fill rolls like best man, or wedding date, or best friend through an agency called Masquerade, Inc. Lucifer can confirm Matt is an actor since he saw him in Bones, episode 306, the “Intern in the Incinerator.” Chloe confirms his employment with the company who advertise; “"No family? No friends? No problem.... for a fee, they'll send actors to pose as family or friends at public functions for the sake of appearances.” She tells Lucifer she can't get a warrant until morning and says he should sleep. He gets upsets, obviously on the ragged edge, and tells her he can't sleep because, “My Father, he's manipulating me. He's making me do things that I would never do....Either that or Linda's right, and I'm suppressing pent-up feelings about you and Pierce.” She realizes he hates that she is with Pierce, even as he tries to pretend indifference, but when he tries to tell her the truth about her boyfriend, she gets angry, and says Pierce treats her right, then ends further discussion.

Lucifer tries to hurry the case along, and pays a visit to Jeremy Bell after visiting Masquerade, Inc. on his own, “where a most cooperative employee helped me connect the dots.” Jeremy used to be an actor employed by Masquerade, “Your so-called wife, worried she'd no longer fit in with the classes after she broke it off with her deadbeat baby daddy, hired you to play husband and father. Murdering to keep the gig? That seems a tad method, don't you think?”

Jeremy gloats over how he actually got Mary to fall for him, and how he wasn't going to let Kevin weasel his way back into her life, nor was he going to let Lucifer mess things up. Lucifer appreciated the confession, the attempted murder less so, than demanded to know if he had been the angel at the murder. Jeremy told him, that the so-called angel was just a shadow from the woman's figurines. Then Lucifer realizes just as Jeremy kept Kevin distracted by hiring someone to keep the party going and driving him to self-destruction to keep him out of the way, that was exactly what was happening to him.

Lucifer leaves Jeremy to the police and rushes back to the penthouse, where he finds Maze, “Pierce has been gaslighting me; he's been tricking me into thinking I've been doing good deeds in my sleep.... to keep me away from the detective so he can pursue her. He must be back to thinking that she's the key to lifting his bloody curse.” Then Maze tells him the idea had been hers, that she was helping Pierce. As she taunts him, he realizes she is stalling him, and rushes to Chloe's place.

At Chloe's, Pierce is pressing his end game, telling her how much he likes being with her. When she responds, “I really like spending time with you, and I know why, because, Pierce, I -” He stops her saying anything more, says he is not worth it, and stumbles out of the apartment, leaving a stunned Chloe. Lucifer arrives moments later and Trixie shows him the weeping Chloe before he heads back out to find Pierce. He attacks on sight, “Why?! Why did you hurt her? Why?!” Pierce admits he has had a change of heart, he almost had what he wanted, but then found he could not hurt her like that. Lucifer promises to hurt him plenty. As Lucifer throws another punch, he gets a look at Pierce’s arm... the mark is gone.

Cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

  • Lidia Porto as Rosie Hernandez
  • Brandon Barash as Jeremy Bell
  • Katherine Boecher as Mary Bell
  • Jason E. Kelley as Phil Goldstein
  • Anthony Pierre Christopher as Raymond
  • Wayne Hill as Manager
  • Rane Jameson as Kevin Winstead
  • Lidia Porto as Rosie Hernandez
  • Scott Rinker as Matt Kessman

Co-Starring[]

  • Caroline Kwan as Woman
  • Kue Lawrence as Jackson Bell
  • Abhi Trivedi as Kirby

Trivia[]

  • The episode's title is said by Lucifer.
  • Lucifer is shown to need sleep, at least as long as he is on Earth.
    • He is also shown to be susceptible to becoming confused and start cracking up from prolonged lack of sleep just like a human, although it did take him an entire week to reach a level of fatigue that would only take a human a little more than a day to reach.
  • FOX's TV series, Bones, is referenced in this episode. During Lucifer's attempt to avoid sleep, he binge-watched the entire series Bones. Clips from Bones are also shown.
  • Lucifer mistakes "Matt" for the killer, as he recognizes him from the Bones episode "Intern in the Incinerator." Scott Rinker, who plays Matt, did in fact play the killer in that episode.
  • Pierce loses his mark in this episode, breaking his curse and rendering him mortal.

Quotes[]

Lucifer: No offense, brother, but on the list of things I'd like to wake up to, your face falls somewhere after a horse's head and Coldplay tickets.
Lucifer: So what have we got, Booth?
Chloe: Booth?
Lucifer: Yes, the FBI agent on Bones.
Chloe: The TV show?
Lucifer: Uh-huh. Watched all 12 seasons. It's riveting stuff. It's like watching a documentary of us. Actually, you're clearly Booth. I'm Bones, obviously.
Chloe: Obviously.
Lucifer: Kevin's autopsy report. Good. Now, I've been thinking, perhaps there was a slight depression on the occipital, or slight fractures to the femur? Did you know there were 206 bones in a human body? Each of them a clue, sometimes twice. And the coccyx is not what it sounds.
Chloe: No coccyx.
Lucifer:Don't even try lying to me. I know you killed Kevin Winstead. And I know you killed that intern at the hospital. Yeah. Burned her body. Only her cranium was left in the smoldering, smoldering ashes.
Chloe: Lucifer, Lucifer. Are you talking about an episode of Bones?
Lucifer: Oh, yes, no, I suppose I am, actually. Yes, episode 306. "The Intern in the Incinerator". Yes, of course. You were quite good.
Matt Kessman: Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, that wasn't an easy role.

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