"All Hands on Decker" is the twenty-second episode of the third season of Lucifer.
Summary[]
When Chloe takes some time off, Lucifer is forced to work with Dan on a murder case involving a dog show. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Maze have differing ideas for Chloe's party and after a wild night, Chloe rethinks a life-changing decision.
Plot[]
The episode begins with the news that Chloe and Pierce are getting married in three weeks. A delighted Ella launches into planning a bachelorette party. Chloe however, doesn’t seem all that excited about Pierce’s enthusiastic wedding planning, but when he suggests postponing, she waves it off and accepts his suggestion that she take some vacation time to prepare.
At the penthouse, Lucifer, rails about Chloe’s “spectacularly bad” decision regarding the “overstuffed man ham.” Amenadiel suggests Lucifer be honest about his feelings, but his brother says it’s too late for that. Instead, he decides to figure out why Chloe made the choice she did.
Chloe being on leave, however, leaves him paired up with Dan for the next case, so Lucifer thinks the best way to understand Chloe is by taking the lead on the case, leaving Dan to play Lucifer's role, not what Dan was counting on. They investigate the death of Francis Hoffman, whose body is found at a dog show and his prize-winning mastiff, Miss Cornelia, is missing.
Ella is distracted by party planning, but returns a death by blunt force trauma, for the record. Francis’ partner, Frederick, worries about Miss Cornelia. Lucifer pours on the sympathy and promises they will find the murderer and the dog. Lucifer doesn’t really care, he is just channeling what he thinks Chloe would do. He even goes for the wardrobe change, ditching the three piece suit in favor of a fashionably distressed jacket and black turtleneck. He tells Dan to play the role of his handsome, unpredictable partner so he can get the full Chloe experience. He swaps Dan’s badge and gun for a fat wad of cash and shoves him into a sketchy underground gambling den alone so he can get a line on their suspect, Vince.
Dan does his best with inconsistent results, and notices a dog bite and is about to get Vince to spill about it, when Lucifer storms in with a SWAT team, assuming that’s what Chloe would have done to get him out of trouble. When Dan complains, Lucifer tells him to quit making it all about himself.
Under questioning, Vince admits that he was actually Francis’ dog show competition, having been paired with a purebred mastiff thanks to the Pups and Parolees program, but he killed no one, “I’d never murder the puppies’ maternal grandfather,” he says. “I’m not some monster!” So a new leads; Miss Cornelia is pregnant with his dog’s puppies, and their offspring will be worth a fortune.
Lucifer and Dan head to the vet clinic to question Miss Cornelia's doctor, but for the first time, Lucifer’s mojo has no effect as the vet already has everything she wants – but her assistant tells them, “I want the miracle of birth.” Dan realizes she’s talking about Miss Cornelia, and the assistant admits she found the dog after Francis’ murder and planned to return her after she’d sold the puppies. The boys take possession of the dog, and Lucifer installs the dog in the front seat, banishing Dan to the back, and wonders why Chloe’s actions are so easy to replicate but so hard to decipher. Lucifer taunts Dan for being too timid to tell Charlotte what he really wants, but Dan gives as good as he gets, and says Lucifer is afraid to ask Chloe why she is marrying Pierce.
When Frederick shows up at the precinct to claim Miss Cornelia, he says he is surprised to learn she is pregnant. Oddly, Miss Cornelia seems very reluctant to leave with him, and Dan notices while Lucifer does not. When Dan takes off, and Lucifer then pages through paperwork, he notices Frederick signed the prenatal exam, and realizes the man actually did know about the pregnancy. Dan waits for Francis to return home, and confronts him with his suspicions. Frederick pulls a gun and says Francis already put Miss Cornelia first; he couldn’t deal with the thought of six puppies outranking him too. They fought, and Francis fell and hit his head. Frederick says he just couldn’t bring himself to kill Miss Cornelia, a creature that looked at him with so much intelligence in her eyes, and then turns the gun on Dan.
At that point Lucifer arrives with backup to make the arrest. Then turns on Dan, “Typical. You leave me with the paperwork and run off alone. No thought of danger, no thought of protocol.... All I see, Daniel, is that I can't rely on you as my partner, so perhaps I should find someone steady, someone responsible, someone who can actually be there for me. Oh. I get it now.”
Meanwhile, Maze is disappointed to learn that Pierce’s mark has returned and vows to make Chloe love him again so she can follow through on the “kill Pierce, frame Lucifer, return to Hell” plan, unaware that Pierce is wearing a fake mark on his arm. So she plans the safest, most pink-festooned, alcohol-and-stripper-free, TP wedding dress agony that the guests have ever endured. Linda realizes, “Of course. Maze. It all makes sense.”
Charlotte, however, is still working with Amenadiel to clear Pierce out of Lucifer's path to Chloe and calls in a party bus to Maze's fury. She wants to make sure there are plenty of reasons for Chloe to doubt her choices, including waiving charges against the Malibu State water polo team if they appear in uniform on the bus, much to Linda and Ella's delight. Everyone but a steaming Maze gets their drunk on, and Charlotte casually mentions L.A.’s divorce rate and Chloe’s bravery in not caring about the professional optics of marrying a second guy from work. She can always marry again after Pierce.
An furious Maze finally kicks all the men off the bus, and a frustrated Linda launches herself at Maze, “He smelled like chlorine and butterscotch fudge!” With Maze and Charlotte working at cross-purposes, and Linda going postal, Ella finally orders everybody but Chloe off the bus, and the women end up bickering on the sidewalk. Ella suggests they get the party back on track with matching fake tattoos at the place Pierce told her about, which clues Maze into what the former immortal is up to. And then they all realize that Chloe has taken off in the bus, leaving them behind.
Alone and thoroughly freaked out, Chloe has a chat with the bus driver, admitting she doesn’t know why she said yes to Pierce, “Well, it just...it all happened so fast, and... everyone's wondering why I said yes, and...I'm wondering the same thing myself. I don't know, maybe I thought that marrying a safe, steady guy would... somehow... change me into a different person, and that maybe this new, spontaneous me would somehow... inspire the... the person that I still am.”
Maze arrives at the apartment to confront Pierce but is foiled when she finds Trixie asleep on the couch next to him. She leaves but threatens to kill him at some future point.
Dan knocks on a tipsy Charlotte’s door to tell her that he wants to be all in with her. She smiles and invites him in. And Chloe arrives home to tell Pierce she can’t marry him.
The next morning at the precinct, Lucifer is about to tell Chloe what he learned while trying to be her, but the absence of her engagement ring makes him think he no longer has to. Instead of telling her what he had learned, he tells his its of no consequence and follows her off on a new investigation. Pierce broodily looks on.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar
- Lauren German as Chloe Decker
- Kevin Alejandro as Dan Espinoza
- Tricia Helfer as Charlotte Richards
- D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel
- Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen
- Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez
- Scarlett Estevez as Trixie Espinoza
- Tom Welling as Marcus Pierce
- Rachael Harris as Linda Martin
Guest Starring[]
- Eric Nenninger as Frederick Hoffman
- Billy Malone as Vincent Walker
- Victoria Platt as Dr. Valerie Haynes
Co-Starring[]
- TBA
Trivia[]
- The episode's title is said by Ella.
- Linda says that she is "5 feet nothing, a coiled live wire." The Actress Rachael Harris is actually 5'1"