| “ | I don't... I don't want to be a monster! | „ |
| – Lucifer's fearful realization of where having Eve in his life lead him | ||
"Devil Is as Devil Does" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of Lucifer.
Summary[]
Eve takes a more active role in her main man's professional life. Meanwhile, Lucifer gets back to basics, and Amenadiel fights for his family.
Plot[]
The police find a dead man, Sam Sofrelli, under a bridge. He was beaten, his finger badly broken postmortem, and shot, before someone tossed his body over the bridge, breaking all the rest of his bones. The evidence shows there were gold flakes in the wounds received from a pistol whipping
Lucifer arrives at the scene and asks Chloe if Eve can tag along on this case. At first, Chloe says no, but Lucifer says they will investigate separately in that case, his expression hard, and Chloe knows he means it, so she allows Eve on the case.
Meanwhile, Amenadiel is still distracting his sister, Remiel. She is shocked to discover Amenadiel is the father of the celestial being and not Lucifer. He is the one who taught her that humans and Celestials should not mingle. He says he was wrong about that, but despite his attempts to educate her, Remiel just sees inferior beings that will corrupt Amenadiel’s son. She has made up her mind to take the child back to the Silver City. Amenadiel follows Remiel and tells her he will not let her take his son. She accepts the challenge and they fight in an abandoned mall, with Remiel breaking her two headed spear in half and saying she want things to be fair. She tells her brother the boy will lose everything that is special about him if he stays on Earth. Amenadiel argues the boy is special because he is his son. Amenadiel knocks Remiel down, saying Earth hasn’t made him weak, he’s stronger because of what he has learned on Earth. Remiel is defeated and gives in, respecting Amenadiel’s wishes, but she says he will regret his decision one day.
At the lab, after Ella finds the gold flakes, Chloe says she knows of one person who carries a golden gun, Greg “Pony Boy” Grabowski (Owan Harn). When they question him, he admits, after Lucifer mojos him, that he didn’t kill Sam, but wished his boss had let him. Pony Boy then lawyers up and shuts down.
Chloe discovers that Pony Boy works for the shipping tycoon Jacob Tiernan (Jere Burns), who also happens to be Julian McCaffrey’s father. Chloe, Eve, and Lucifer then interview Tiernan at his office, but he denies knowing Pony Boy. Lucifer recalls Julian saying he may have been a monster, but Tiernan was worse, and speaking to Tiernan angers him, talking about how he allowed Julian to get away with too much. Tiernan tells them to leave, but Lucifer won't let go and manages to mangle the back of a chrome chair while trying to restrain himself, and he asks Chloe to leave so he can give Tiernan the punishment he deserves. Chloe refuses, standing on one side of Lucifer, Eve stands on the other side, encouraging him to punish Tiernan. Lucifer finally accedes to Chloe's demand to leave, but is not happy about it.
Chloe dresses down Lucifer for his "Hulking out", saying he jeopardized the case, then suggests Eve is a bad influence on him. Lucifer seems to be still angry and coldly retorts he is the devil and it’s his job to punish evil-doers like Julian and Tiernan, and that’s why he broke Julian’s back. Chloe is stunned he had taken things so far, and asks what she is supposed to do with that information. She then asks if he told her to leave so he could hurt Tiernan, and Lucifer bitterly replies he asked her to leave because she made it clear she can’t accept who he really is.
Meanwhile, Dan had noted that during the interview with the now paralyzed Julian, the fear reaction that he had seen in other suspects who had been left alone with Lucifer. Still in pain and unfairly blaming Lucifer for Charlotte's death, he sees an opportunity to make someone else hurt as well, and takes it upon himself to investigate. He bribes the cleaning crew at the McCaffrey house to let him take the trash they had collected there. Once he searches through it, he finds a cigarette butt that is the same brand that Lucifer smokes. Foolishly, Dan then goes to Tiernan to let him know that he knows who really hurt his son, but there was not enough evidence to charge him, but perhaps Tiernan can give him the punishment he deserves. Tiernan demands a name, and Dan tells him that Lucifer is the one who paralyzed Julian.
At the precinct, Ella and Chloe go over the case, but start talking about celestial justice. Chloe wonders why they are arresting people if Heaven and Hell are real. Ella, who is still in the midst of her crisis of faith says she now believes they are the only justice, that there is no God. She uses the Bible as an example, saying it’s full of contradictions; that the Devil is supposed to be evil, but he started out an angel. She points out that it makes no sense that someone can be all good and suddenly be all bad. Chloe finds another message in that example, and realizes that Lucifer is also an angel.
Chloe later leaves Linda a message saying she is worried about Lucifer. Trixie hears her and asks what’s wrong. Chloe says Lucifer is just going through something and she is concerned for her friend. Trixie points out that such times are when people need their friends the most. Chloe agrees, but thinks she might not be the friend that Lucifer needs at the moment.
At the penthouse, Lucifer appears to be rambling about the many ways he could punish Tiernan. Eve is bored talking about it, and ready to start punishing, she accuses him of stalling because of Chloe, saying Chloe is a bad influence on him. Eve wants the man he used to be back, the "best version" of him, the devil she met in the garden. She doesn't appreciate how much time has passed since then and how much growing he has done, but wants the man she used to know.
Trixie arrives, to Lucifer's amazement, and she immediately runs about commenting on how cool the penthouse is. Eve is amused, but Lucifer chases Trixie around to keep her from touching anything. Lucifer asks if her mother knows where she is and she avoids a direct answer, she says her mom told her that Lucifer needed a friend. Lucifer seems touched. Then Trixie glares daggers at Eve and demands to know if she is the kind of friend Lucifer needs.
At Chloe’s house, Dan arrives to pick up Trixie. He asks Chloe about the case, and is told that Tiernan is the murderer, his motive was revenge. Dan realizes how foolish he has been, he gave a murderer Lucifer's name. Chloe checks on Trixie and finds a note saying that she has gone to Lucifer’s. Her parents rush out of the house to find her.
The friend he needs
At the penthouse, Trixie is interrogating Eve, doing a decent job a channeling her mother. Pony Boy and his partner then step off the elevator, guns drawn. He shrugs saying he didn't think anyone else would be there, but there can be no witnesses, and pointed his gun at Trixie. Eve pushes the child behind her, and Lucifer emerges from the bedroom through the stained glass divider and takes out Pony Boy's partner and then goes after Pony Boy, collecting three bullets. He puts Pony Boy down, but before he can begin any punishment, Dan and Chloe arrive. Once the scene is processed, and the suspects taken away, Chloe approaches Lucifer on the balcony. He tells her that he would do anything to protect Trixie. She says knows that, and she also knows what Lucifer wants to do to Tiernan. Lucifer asks if Chloe doesn't want to punish Tiernan too, especially after what just happened. She says does, but she wants to punish him the right way because she believes in right and wrong, and believes Lucifer does too. He is the devil, but he was also an angel. Lucifer says isn’t sure he’s an angel anymore, that after he killed Cain, he didn't check to see if his wings were still there. Chloe tells him to look.
Eve interrupts and Chloe thanks her for protecting Trixie. After Chloe leaves, Eve asks if Lucifer is going to punish Tiernan. He says he is and he has to go alone. Eve says she only wants Lucifer to be happy. In his office, Tiernan informs his bodyguard that it’s time to leave town. Lucifer, however, arrives before they can escape. He flashes his devil eyes at Tiernan and says it’s time to get the punishment he deserves.
Back at the precinct, Chloe and Dan question Pony Boy about who murdered Sam. He tells them that Julian owed Sam a lot of money and Tiernan wouldn’t help him, so he had to give Sam stuff to make up the debt including family heirlooms, like a ring with the family crest engraved in it. The night Sam died, Tiernan asked Pony Boy for his gun. Later, when Tiernan found out that Lucifer paralyzed Julian, not Sam, he sent him to kill Lucifer. Chloe asks why Tiernan thought Lucifer hurt Julian. Pony Boy looks at Dan and says he doesn’t know.
Chloe, Dan, and Ella are going over the evidence again, looking for evidence that Sam had Julian’s ring. They find a picture on social media, that proves he did have the ring the day before he died, and as they ready to head out to arrest Tiernan, Lucifer arrives at the police station with Tiernan in tow. He quietly tells Chloe he happened to be walking past Tiernan’s office and heard him talking about leaving town. He thought it was his civic duty to bring him in. As he turns to leave, Chloe asks if he looked for his wings, he stops and says he did. Chloe says he did the right thing.
Chloe had been ignoring calls from the former priest Kinley for weeks, but her concern for Lucifer finally has her go to see him. He says he needs to tell her something. Kinley wants her to hear the prophecy; he thought it was about Chloe, but he was wrong, and he recites the prophecy: When the Devil walks the Earth and finds his first love, evil shall be released. By her reaction, Kinley knows she knows who the first love might be.
Meanwhile, Linda has received a text from Lucifer desperate enough to get her to go to the penthouse immediately. Linda arrives and he is sitting in the dark, his voice on the edge of panic, frightening Linda. He tells her he doesn't want to be a monster, but when he looked for his wings and they are still there, but the wings are different. Lucifer's beautiful wings had morphed into bat-like classic devil's wings.
Cast[]
Starring[]
Guest Starring[]
Co-Starring[]
- Jere Burns as Jacob Tiernan
Featured Music[]
- "We love it" - Outasight
- "Caught in the Fire" - Klergy - when Lucifer reveals his devil wings to Linda
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Notes and Trivia[]
- Lucifer is the one who says the title name in the episode.
- This episode marks the final appearance of Scarlett Estevez as a series regular, although she's still credited throughout the season.
- In Ella's lab, in response to finding that Pony Boy used a golden gun, Lucifer say "Stay gold indeed" - a reference to the novel, The Outsiders, in which the protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, is told to "stay gold" by his dying best friend, Johnny.
- When Lucifer confronts Ponyboy, he refers to him as my little Pony boy which is a reference to the TV-Show My Little Pony.
- Chloe questions the point of her job if people just go to Heaven or hell depending on their own actions.
- When Lucifer confronts Mr. Tiernan, Eve is standing by his left and Chloe by his right, like the little angel and demon on his shoulder, Chloe trying to stop him and Eve pushing him forward.
- Chloe says Lucifer "hulked out" as a reference to Bruce Banner who turns into a out of control violent monster when angry.
- In this episode nothing good come out of self-made justice.
- Lucifer's punishment on Julian caused Sam Sofrelli's murder.
- Ironically while Dan is mad at Lucifer's self-justice, he will do the same to punish Lucifer, eventually putting Trixie in danger.
- When Lucifer pulls the goon through the window in the penthouse, a roar is heard.
- Lucifer is shown being far more afraid of how he is changing than when Goddess escaped hell; he is visibly trembling, unlike how he was stunned silent in the previous moment.
- It would not be normal for Father Kinley to be extradited to Rome given that he was excommunicated from the church and the murders he orchestrated were in California.
- It can be argued that this is where Daniel had his guilt by putting Trixie in danger thus him thinking being a bad parent to her.
- Ella started to think to believe again but was interrupted by Daniel.
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