"Til Death Do Us Part" is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Lucifer.
Summary[]
"When an ecstasy cook-turned-chemistry-teacher is found murdered in a cozy Los Angeles suburb, Lucifer and Pierce must go undercover to help track down the killer. Meanwhile, Maze has a newfound attraction for someone that she used to despise and Charlotte has a revelation."[1]
Plot[]
Lucifer throws himself into the idea of killing Cain, and asks him to visit the penthouse. Lucifer suggests a chainsaw option, but Cain has tried that, and forestalls Lucifer by also listing eaten by wolves, dropped in helicopter blades, swallowing a grenade, and jumping into a volcano, and as options tried. Lucifer finds even a demon blade from Hell doesn’t do the trick. Cain wearily gives up and leaves.
Lucifer asks Maze for advice, she can’t believe her demon blades don’t work on Cain, and suggests Lucifer figure out why Chloe makes him vulnerable, and apply that to Cain, reminding him his Dad is all about “mind games and loopholes.” Lucifer takes Maze’s advice and decides to get inside Cain’s head. He tries using what he’s learned from Linda to analyze Cain, explaining he has to understand Cain to kill him, sure that everyone has their kryptonite. Cain refuses to play along.
Meanwhile, Chloe and Dan respond to a crime scene in a suburban neighborhood. There is a dead chemistry teacher, June Lee, in a wood chipper, but the neighbors claim everyone loved June. Chloe discovers June isn’t really June; she’s actually Sandra Jang who supposedly died three years ago. Pierce has them pull the death certificate, pointing out that people who fake their deaths are usually running from something. As it happens, Sandra had a rap sheet for possession and distribution, and an association with the gang, Korean Power. She was their chemist, in whose computer was found a recipe for an ecstasy called Kpop, which is still on the market. According to Lucifer, “It’s wonderful stuff. It makes your skin feel like a baby chinchilla.” He sets up a meeting between the police and a dealer at Lux.
At the club, Lucifer is disappointed when Chloe arrives without Pierce. Lucifer’s bartender is the dealer and he tells Chloe the KPop from the Korean Power used to be the best there was, but they lost their genius cook “she pilfered right from under [Brandon Hong's] nose....but her lab blew up before they could get to her.” Their product hasn't been the same since. The bartender tells her where to find the boss; at a local karaoke parlor. Lucifer is all for a run over to see Hong, but Chloe tells him they need to verify and get a warrant, reminding Lucifer they can’t just drop in yelling, “Hello, drug dealers!” Of course, that’s exactly what Lucifer does, only he says it in Korean. Lucifer asks for the boss, strolls through armed minions, taking them down effortlessly, all without even disturbing his pocket square. Once he finds the Hong, he reveals he is there to help, “I'm a giver, dammit!”
Hong arrives at the precinct, happy to cooperate with their investigation, and spills everything he knows about Sandra, while at the same time confesses his gang specializes in drug dealing and extortion. He says they didn’t kill Sandra, and that he actually believed she had died, but she had called him recently to pay back the money she had stolen, with interest. She was the best cook they had ever had and his profits have gone down 40% since she left. He said his whole organization will aid the police in bringing Sandra's killer to justice.
Leaving the interrogation room, Chloe asks Lucifer what he had done to Hong. He says he made a deal; he gave Brandon the KPop recipe in Sandra's computer in exchange for his cooperation. Lucifer reminds her no one wants inferior product on the streets, “a few years in prison is just a small price to pay for doubling your profits with a superior product.”
The next step is to follow the money, how did Sandra come up with the funds to pay back Brandon, and live in a pricey suburb? They discover a threatening note and “sort of a homebrew Adderall. It's very smooth.” Chloe suggests someone in the neighborhood knew she was dealing and killed her for it. Pierce wants her and Lucifer to go undercover, renting a house in the neighborhood, but she has already canvassed the the area and they know she's a cop. And since the landlord will only rent to couples, Lucifer has an idea - he and Pierce will pose as the required couple. Lucifer plans on using the operation as a way to get to know Piercen, “This is my chance to really get to know you, Pierce. I'm taking it seriously, and so should you for our cause and for the case, obviously. So, let's just get in there and put on a good show.”
Their first day in the house, neighbors Anya and Brian are invited in for a meet and greet. Lucifer reveals he and 'Marc' met through his Father, “my Father would definitely disapprove of this.” Cain and Lucifer ask about the neighborhood and are told about the Neighborhood Watchdog, “Someone has been writing notes and terrorizing the block, 'Trim your hedges, or else.' 'Stop using nonorganic weed killer, or I'll make you drink it'...It's like Martha Stewart and the Terminator had a baby.”
Meanwhile, Maze runs into Charlotte and is unusually attracted to her, considering she hated her when the Goddess was in residence. It isn't until she hears that Charlotte had been to Hell that she understood that the scent of Hell on her was the pull, “I thought it was you I was attracted to, but turns out, it's just my old life.”
Back at the op, Pierce asks how they go about drawing out the Watchdog, and Lucifer assures him, “don't you worry about that, detective. Trust me, no one's a worse neighbor than the Devil.” He starts with a front yard filled with bikini babes, loud music, and late night power tools. Pierce stops him from his noise campaign at 4 a.m., and Lucifer accuses him of not being involved. Outside, Chloe spots someone putting a note in their mailbox - it’s Brian. Under questioning he insists, “It's not illegal to hold people up to our community standards.” When he is accused of killing June Lee he admits he and half the block were buying her homebrew Adderall, and he lost 40 pounds, learned Manderin, and built his deck on the drug. His is also not the handwriting on the note threatening June, so the next step becomes getting samples of the neighbors' handwriting.
Pierce and Lucifer invite them all to a housewarming party so they can sign a guestbook. When Lucifer becomes frustrated that Pierce isn't helping him in any way in his quest to kill him, Pierce says Lucifer has “no idea what you're doing.... You say you're a man of your word, but you're not.” Lucifer is highly affronted and walks out. Chloe catches up to him and says that he has to keep working, that Pierce may not care about what he cares about but he does know he can't solve the case without Lucifer. Lucifer goes back to the party and tells Pierce that, “I made you a promise, and I am a man of my word, no matter what you may think.” The neighbors watch as the men apologize to each other, and applaud when Lucifer kisses a clearly uncomfortable Pierce.
Cover restored, Lucifer asks Anya to sign the guestbook, but Brian stops her, knowing what they’re looking for. Chloe intervenes when Brian grabs pruning shears to hold them off. Anya had been convinced her husband had an affair with June, but when June denied it she shoved her; she didn’t mean to kill her, she just didn’t want Brian to leave her. Lucifer tells her that June was his drug dealer, not his mistress. Both of them were then taken into custody.
Back at the precinct, Chloe invites Pierce to join a group going out for drinks and he tells her that he isn't relationship material. She points out that they had a moment together in the surveillance van, which he confirms, but he that is why he is stopping things before they get started.
Later, at the penthouse, Lucifer tells Pierce he understands him now, “You’re terrified of letting someone get close to you, because you know they’ll eventually leave you; you’ll outlive them. You want to die, because you don’t want to be alone anymore.” Pierce returns with, “I don't think you've been spending time with me trying to figure out how to kill me. I think you want to spend time with someone who's been screwed by your Dad as much as you've been. You are the one that doesn't want to be alone.” They tentatively suggest they may now be friends, and they agree to work together. Pierce then tiredly agrees to let Lucifer try the chainsaw.
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 (credit only)
- Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen
- Aimee Garcia (credit only)
- Scarlett Estevez (credit only)
- Tom Welling as Marcus Pierce
- Rachael Harris (credit only)
Guest Starring[]
- Paul Fitzgerald as Brian
- Audrey Moore as Anya
- Steve Suh as Brandon Hong
- Marcus Anderson as bartender
Co-Starring[]
- Brody Allen as T.K.
- Chris Bensinger as Terry
- Jessica Jones as Marcie
- Michael Lehr as goon
- Wesley Mann as bondsman
- Gracy Yoo as karaoke singer
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Trivia[]
- The episode's title is said by Lucifer.
- Considering the fact that Lucifer didn't throw the Demon Dagger in a way that would inflict a lethal blow to Pierce, it didn't clarify whether the dagger would indeed kill him before the events of The Angel of San Bernardino, where Pierce loses his curse.
- Lucifer has been paying attention during his therapy sessions with Linda, as he was able to emulate a therapist quite well.
- Lucifer mentions that he wants to find Marcus Pierce's "Kryptonite". This is a likely reference to Tom Welling's previous role as Clark Kent (Superman) in the television series Smallville.
- Ironically, Both are featured in Crisis of Infinite Earths. In which Lucifer was introduced before the series starts while, Marcus Pierce is a farmer who has no powers.
- When Lucifer and Marcus Pierce are undercover as a couple, their pseudonyms are Luke and Marc, respectively.
- Even undercover, Lucifer does not lie; he merely chooses more obscure words and phrasing.
- Lucifer wears the same blue "Kiss the Cook" apron as he did while preparing dinner in Pops, meaning it's either his or that it was Chloe's and that he stole it from her kitchen. Given that Maze wears a matching white version to make breakfast for Chloe in Deceptive Little Parasite, it's likely the latter.
- In a sense of irony, from the information about the murder, it could have been prevented if the drug dealer had explained more thoroughly to the mistaken wife that she wasn't having an affair with her husband, but was supplying him weight loss drugs.
- "Lucifer," a 2010 electro-pop hit by the Korean boy band SHINee, was played during Lucifer's fight with Korean drug gang.