| “ | Lucifer Morningstar. Is that a stage name or something? | „ |
| — Chloe's first words to Lucifer | ||
Pilot is the first episode of the first season of Lucifer. It aired on January 25, 2016, though an advanced screening, shown at the San Diego Comic-Con.
Summary[]
"After an old acquaintance meets a violent fate, the charming Lucifer vows revenge on the perpetrators and makes an unexpected alliance." [1]
Plot[]
In the beginning... The angel Lucifer was cast out of Heaven and condemned to rule Hell for all eternity. Until he decided to take a vacation.
The year is 2016. The fallen archangel, Lucifer, is driving through Los Angeles. After losing his rebellion against God - his Father - and being banished from Heaven to rule Hell for all eternity, Lucifer has decided to take a vacation on Earth.
On Earth, he owns a nightclub called Lux. On his way there, he gets pulled over by a motorcycle cop for speeding. Lucifer offers a bribe, which the officer initially refuses, warning, "It's against the law." However, Lucifer reveals one of his most frequently used angelic powers as he asks the officer, "You break the law sometimes, don't you?" The cop uncontrollably confesses that he sometimes turns on his sirens and speeds - just to feel good and get away with something. Realizing what he's said, the cop catches himself, but Lucifer presses on, "It's okay, officer. People like to tell me things. Those deep, dark, naughty little desires that are on their minds." The officer gives in, accepts the bribe, and Lucifer drives off to Lux.
Delilah's death.
At Lux, Lucifer heads to the bar, where Mazikeen - whom he calls Maze - his most loyal demon servant, is tending bar. Maze complains that, as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer should be doing something more "significant" as she pours him another drink, but time suddenly slows. Lucifer is greeted by his archangel brother, Amenadiel, who has the power to slow down time. Amenadiel demands Lucifer return to Hell to control the demons. Lucifer refuses, saying it's not his problem. Upon Lucifer's rejection, Amenadiel warns that their Father "will not be merciful for much longer," and vanishes.
Enter Delilah, a pop star whose career Lucifer jump-started in exchange for a favor. At Lux, she vents about her drug use and her past relationship with record producer Jimmy Barnes, whom she nearly married but ultimately left. Seeing her vulnerability, Lucifer cashes in his favor, telling her to pull herself together. As they leave Lux arm in arm, Delilah promises to do just that - but they are suddenly caught in a drive-by shooting. Lucifer is unharmed, revealing his second power - immortality - but Delilah is killed. As the shooter flees, his car is t-boned by a bus. Lucifer approaches the dying man, demanding to know why he Delilah was killed. The shooter, moments from death, says it was for money - and that he merely pulled the trigger.
The Los Angeles Police Department - or the L.A.P.D. - arrive on scene. Detective Chloe Decker and Detective Daniel Espinoza (Dan), are introduced. As Chloe examines the shooter's body, Dan tells her the man was a low-level drug dealer named Eddie Deacon. He shows her drugs found on Eddie and in Delilah's purse, suggesting Delilah owed him money. Dan advises Chloe not to dig too deep, especially after "Palmetto Street." She replies that she insisted on taking the case precisely because of that very Palmetto street incident, and asks for witness statements.
One of those witnesses is Lucifer. Seated at the piano in Lux, he meets Chloe. "Lucifer Morningstar," he introduces himself. "Lucifer Morningstar? Is that a stage name or something?" Chloe asks. "God-given, I'm afraid," he replies. Lucifer explains that Delilah once worked at Lux before he introduced her to people in the music industry. "Then she became a star, and someone decided to end her life." He also tells Chloe about his brief "chat" with Eddie. Chloe remarks, "Like to play cop, do ya?" Lucifer chuckles, and responds, "I just like to play in general." When she asks how he survived the shooting, Lucifer tells her the truth - he's immortal. Chloe is unimpressed and prepares to leave. Lucifer taunts her: "What will your corrupt little organization do about this?" Chloe gets offended, and Lucifer continues, "Are you sure we haven't met? I could've sworn I've seen you naked. Have we had sex?" Chloe, disgusted, says "We're done here," and leaves.
The next day, Lucifer crashes Jimmy's wedding. The two clearly have history. Jimmy, recognizing Lucifer and his manipulative abilities in revealing desires, quickly spills the truth: Delilah dumped him for a rapper named 2Vile. With this lead, Lucifer leaves but not before ruining the wedding by seducing Jimmy's bride into admitting she doesn't want to sleep with Jimmy. The bride, the guests - and Jimmy himself - are stunned as Lucifer makes his exit.
Lucifer then visits 2Vile's mansion to ask about Delilah. 2Vile is hostile and threatens him, prompting Lucifer to dangle him over a balcony. Panicked, 2Vile confesses that Delilah was involved with a wealthy married man and had visited a Beverly Hills therapist named Linda under the alias "Penny Lane." Lucifer spares him. Chloe then bursts in after checking Eddie's phone records lead her to 2Vile, announcing herself as L.A.P.D. as she confronts 2Vile. As Chloe demands everybody drop their guns, Lucifer recognizes Chloe as the actress from Hot Tub High School, embarrassing her, but she Chloe ignores him and tries to question 2Vile, only for Lucifer to reveal that he's already gotten everything she needs through threatening 2Vile's life. "Isn't that illegal?" 2Vile complains. Chloe agrees, cuffs Lucifer, and takes him down to her car.
At the car, Chloe explains Lucifer's arrest upon him questioning her, "You're interfering with a police investigation. You've broken - I can't even count how many laws - and you piss me off." She then tells him to get in the car, but Lucifer says that that would be "boring" and offers to help her instead. He claims he has "the ability to draw out people's forbidden desires. The more simple the human the easier it is, the more complex the more challenging and exciting..." Lucifer then proceeds to ask Chloe what she desires whilst looking into her eyes just as he had done with the cop and Jimmy's bride. However, it seems like Chloe is somehow immune to Lucifer's charms as she tells him to "shut up and get in the damn car." Intrigued, Lucifer tries traditional persuasion: he points out that he reached 2Vile first, has a key lead, and admits him feeling guilty that Delilah might still be alive if he hadn't meddled in her career. Chloe begrudgingly agrees.
Lucifer's bloody Devil eyes are revealed for the first time.
In the car, Lucifer's leads on one Dr. Linda and a Penny Lane pan out. However, en route to Linda's office, Chloe has to pick up her daughter from school after she got in a fight.
At the school, Chloe tells Lucifer to wait in the car. He agrees, grumbling that he despises children but gets bored and walks in the school anyways. On a bench, he meets a girl and tries to light a cigarette. She tells him he can't smoke and says her mom's a cop who'll arrest him. Lucifer realizes that the girl is Chloe's daughter, and that learns her name is Beatrice - or just Trixie. Lucifer remarks that "Trixie" is a "hooker's name", and when Trixie asks back what a hooker is, he tells her to ask her mom. Trixie then points out the "mean girl" she fought. Lucifer walks up to her and warns there's a special place in Hell for bullies - then flashes his devil eyes.
Chloe, Lucifer, and Trixie exit the school and run into Dan, who's come to pick up Trixie. It's revealed Dan is Trixie's father and Chloe's estranged husband. Trixie asks Chloe what a hooker is, and Chloe glares at Lucifer and before telling her, "Ask your dad." Dan then leaves with Trixie. Before Chloe and Lucifer go, she says Trixie seems to like him. "Of course she does," Lucifer replies, "What's not to like?"
Outside Dr. Linda Martin's office, Lucifer tells Chloe he finds Trixie somewhat tolerable for a child. Chloe asks if he realizes how "dickish" he sounds. Lucifer responds with a no and asks back whilst staring into her, trying his charms on her again, "speaking of dicks, why was that ex-husband of yours to close the case?" Chloe brushes it off, and Lucifer again, finds it incredibly strange that his powers have zero effect on the detective.
Inside Linda's office , Lucifer uses his charm - successfully, this time - to seduce Linda into revealing who Delilah was seeing, in exchange for a favor. The man turns out to be movie star Grey Cooper. Although Linda is being affected by Lucifer's charms, she is still able to note that Lucifer is deeply disturbed by Chloe's indifference to them. After getting what they came for, Lucifer promises Linda he'll uphold his end of the deal - "a trip to pound town" - once he returns.
Chloe and Lucifer then arrive at a film shoot where Grey - who is wearing the same watch the shooter wore - and his wife Amanda are present. Under Lucifer's influence, Grey confesses to cheating on Amanda with Delilah. A fight ensues, and the scene cuts to a memorial for Delilah under Lux.
Later that evening in Lux, Chloe and Lucifer talk. Chloe gets a call confirming that Grey and Amanda aren't connected to the shooting. Still, the identical watch bothers her. The two soon start talking on a more personal level. Chloe reveals that her mother was an actress and her father was a detective. She tried the acting path, didn't work, and that now she's a detective, following in her father's footsteps. Chloe then tells Lucifer about a case on Palmetto street which lead to her to be ostracized. The case involved a cop who was shot, and she explains that she saw the case differently than every single person in the department - including her ex-husband Dan. As they talk, a news report on TV shows that Delilah's album sales are skyrocketing. Chloe makes a connection, and she leaves with Lucifer.
They confront Jimmy at his studio. Chloe accuses him of hiring Eddie and giving him the watch as payment. Jimmy, cornered, pulls a gun and takes a band member hostage. Unfazed, Lucifer approaches him. Before Jimmy can fire though, Chloe does first. Lucifer is angered by Chloe shooting him, and complains that she let him off too easy and that he needs to suffer for what he did. As they argue, a dying Jimmy shoots Chloe on the shoulder and she collapses to the ground. Lucifer assures Chloe that he won't let her die just yet, and as Chloe loses blood and consciousness, she hazily watches Lucifer get shot six times by Jimmy, and lift Jimmy up with one hand unfazed before passing out. Lucifer then takes Jimmy to a mirror, terrorizing him by revealing his Devil face.
Later in the hospital, at Chloe's bedside, she wakes to find Lucifer watching over her. When she asks how he's unharmed, he says again: immortality. Slightly annoyed at his answer, she thanks him regardless for saving her. He tells her she's too interesting to let die, that "this could be the beginning of a beautiful partnership" considering how Chloe is a pariah in the department, and that he's glad she's alive.
Outside Lux, time slows. Amenadiel appears again and expressing his displeasure - Lucifer is showing mercy and restraint. He then warns that balance must be maintained. But again, Lucifer refuses to return to Hell, and Amenadiel flies off.
Inside Lux, Maze tells Lucifer that humans are rubbing off on him, and that he needs to stop caring - he is, after all, the Devil. "Yes, I am," Lucifer replies. He then visits Linda to fulfill his end of their deal - "a trip to pound town" - and to ask for therapy...
Cast[]
Main[] |
Guest Starring[]
Co-Starring[]
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Featured Music[]
- Devils Haircut - Beck
- Bad Man - Blues Saraceno
- Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant
- Always Something - Cage The Elephant
- Take Me Away - Clooney
- Fame - David Bowie
- Confident - Demi Lovato
- Paper Doll - David Kos Rolfe
- Point Blank - Donna Missal
- Uh - Fujiya et Miyagi
- Big Bad Wolf - Warner/Chappell Productions
- Devil's Stomp - Warner/Chappell Productions
- I'm Gonna Do My Thing - Royal Deluxe
- Howlin' For You - The Black Keys
- Sinister Kid - The Black Keys
- Street Signs & Brake Lights - The Delta Riggs
- Burial (feat. Pusha T, Moody Good, TrollPhace) - Yogi & Skrillex
Quotes[]
- Chloe: "Lucifer Morningstar. Is that a stage name or something?"
- Lucifer: "God-given I'm afraid. You look familiar, have we met before?"
- Chloe: "Yeah, five minutes ago, and I'm asking the questions."
- Chloe: "Did you know the shooter?"
- Lucifer: "No. But we did have an interesting little chat just before he kicked off. I asked him why he did it.
- Chloe: "Hm. Like to play cop, do ya?"
- Lucifer: "No, I just like to play in general, Detective."
- Lucifer: "I have the ability to draw out people's forbidden desires. The more simple the human the easier it is, the more complex the more challenging and exciting really."
- Lucifer: "My word is my bond."
- Lucifer: "Well, look who's back"
- Chloe: "How long have I been out?"
- Lucifer: "Three years"
- Chloe: "What?... You're such an ass."
Trivia[]
- The events of this episode takes place between January 25th 2016 to January 27th 2016.
- Lucifer drives a 1962 Corvette with the license plate - "FALL1N1."
- The episode marks the first time Chloe and Lucifer meets and their first scene.
- The episode marks the first time the audience sees Lucifer's Devil face and eyes.
- Several scenes of this episode will be referenced to in the first and final episode of the final season.
- There are two versions of the pilot, the original pilot was aired at the San Diego Comic-Con. The two most significant difference were:
- Dan Espinoza was played by Nicholas Gonzalez, but would go on to be played by Kevin Alejandro instead in the revised pilot, and all subsequent episodes.
- Chloe Decker's name is Chloe Dancer, in which an allusion to this original pilot would be the center around the third episode of the fifth season - "¡Diablo!"
- On the 10th of June 2021, the main cast and show creators did a table read of the original script of this episode for Netflix's Geek Week. [2]
- Dennis Haysbert and Inbar Lavi read parts for the cast members who were not present.
- Lauren German and Tom Ellis briefly switches roles during the table read, with Lauren reading Lucifer's parts and Tom reading Chloe's parts during the scene in which Chloe takes Lucifer down from 2Vile's mansion and speaks with him at her car.
- Towards the end of the episode, in two very rare moments in the show, Lucifer calls Chloe "Chloe" instead of "Detective".
- In a deleted scene of the original pilot aired in San Diego, Dan - who is played by Nicholas Gonzalez - is seen visiting Chloe in the hospital with Trixie.
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References[]
- ↑ Lucifer, Netflix
- ↑ Lucifer Table Read | Season 1 Episode 1 | #GeekedWeek, YouTube
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