[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 “Is This Really How It’s Going to End?!”]
We’re going to be trustworthy: We’re a bit in denial about what occurs within the penultimate episode of Lucifer Season 5.
As Lucifer (Tom Ellis) tries to rally votes for his bid to be the subsequent God with Michael (Ellis) additionally wanting the job, Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) plans her subsequent steps, specifically, saying goodbye to the NYPD. (She’s going to be working as Lucifer’s advisor now, a part of her supporting her associate.) However the occasions that happen throughout what she sees as her final case may very properly change every thing.
Hey, not less than there’s a second of levity when a suspect’s alibi is she was doing a studying to a programming govt at Fox (the community that canceled Lucifer). “Good luck with that,” the satan quips.
Lucifer Would Be a Good God … Proper?
Sadly, his brothers and sisters don’t suppose that’s the case, even when they hate Michael (and even with the bribe of entry to a favourite chef). He’s virtually working the place already since he’s been in heaven with God in any case. “Are you significantly telling me that Michael has received your vote as a result of he’s the satan you understand?” Lucifer asks one in every of his brothers in disbelief. “Do you will have any thought how satirically infuriating that’s?”
Whereas he might start doubting if he’ll turn into God, Chloe has religion in him. “If anybody in your entire universe can persuade them, it’s you,” she assures him. Maybe he can if he’s trustworthy about why he needs to take over. He offers {that a} shot with Zadkiel. “I’m doing it for love, and it will get worse: I’m doing it for the love of a human,” he reveals. “I’m making an attempt to be God in order that I can lastly be worthy of her.”
One Final Case
As for the case, the homicide of a technician from the ME’s workplace uncovers a rip-off he had going with a psychic who claimed to search out misplaced objects from lifeless kinfolk. They offered the belongings of the households who didn’t chew on the black market, utilizing a fence, TJ.
When Chloe declares her plans to retire, Detective Dan Espinoza (Kevin Alejandro) understands, whereas forensic scientist Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia) doesn’t deal with it properly. (She additionally thinks Lucifer and Chloe are going to Alabama since they stated they might be north of Florida, the quilt story for his household enterprise’ location. Severely, somebody please inform Ella the reality already!)
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However may the LAPD achieve a well-recognized face? Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) stops by to see Dan as he’s enjoying playing cards together with his daughter Trixie (Scarlett Estevez), and the angel shares his plans to turn into a cop. Dan isn’t as supportive as Amenadiel had hoped he’d be.
It turns on the market’s a way more worrisome drawback on their palms: When Lucifer and Chloe monitor down the fence, TJ is super-strong and sends the satan flying by means of a espresso desk. Is he a celestial?
The killer appears to be after one thing he fenced, so Dan provides to assist out because it’s Chloe’s final case and monitor down TJ’s shoppers. That’s when he runs into some critical bother. After suspecting a attainable residence invasion when one of many shoppers solutions her door, Dan calls it in, solely to be taken by an armed man. However he manages to depart the others a clue: canine tags that lead again to a mercenary, Vincent Le Mec (Rob Benedict, Supernatural‘s God, sadly lacking Lucifer‘s model, performed by Dennis Haysbert, by one episode), and his group.
The demon Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt), in fact, plans to simply kill whoever’s accountable, however Lucifer wants her to as an alternative deal with discovering Dan, which suggests calling in all of the favors criminals owe him. And so they higher hurry, as a result of Dan is in some dire straits, bloody and tied to a chair. Vincent needs to know the place TJ is (Dan says he doesn’t know him) and reveals him a photograph of a grave.
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Simply because it appears like Dan has the higher hand — he frees himself and takes down Vincent’s muscle — and can escape, he’s shot from behind. When he turns, Vincent shoots him twice extra. By the point Chloe finds him, he’s bleeding out and insists on telling her a pair issues: make certain Trixie is aware of he loves her and the title Caleb. The EMTs rush over and…
Saying Goodbye
There’s nothing anybody can do. Simply because the physician delivers the heartbreaking information to Chloe on the hospital that Dan didn’t make it, Trixie walks into the ready room asking the place her dad is. She refuses to consider he’s lifeless and even begs Lucifer to inform her it’s not true since he by no means lies. (Good luck on having dry eyes throughout this scene!)
To Lucifer’s shock, Amenadiel is aware of what Caleb means: the boy he tried to assist who was killed. The angel buried him together with his necklace, the important thing to the Flaming Sword. The scammers should have taken it, and that gave TJ his super-strength. That occurred, the brothers notice, as a result of Michael should have had Gabriel retrieve Azrael’s blade from the Goddess’ (Tricia Helfer) dimension. He’s making an attempt to assemble the Sword, which means he’s gearing up for a battle, not an election.
That has Lucifer doubting himself since he doesn’t have the best monitor file on the subject of wars in heaven. He even admits to Chloe why he needs to be God, and he or she’s upset that her daughter’s rising up with out a father as a result of Lucifer nonetheless doesn’t understand how she feels about him. (Ouch.)
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At Dan’s funeral, Amenadiel has unhealthy information for Lucifer: their good friend isn’t in heaven. “Dan dealt together with his guilt. He instructed me as a lot,” Lucifer argues. It’s not fairly that easy. However when Amenadiel offers the eulogy, he says Dan’s in “a significantly better place,” letting Chloe suppose he’s in heaven.
“He taught me the right way to be a superb man as a result of he was a superb man. The unhappy factor is I feel he forgot that typically, however he was a superb, good man, all the time making an attempt to do proper by others, all the time making an attempt to do higher, although he was already the perfect of us,” the angel says.
Then, after Maze will get a location for Vincent and his males, they go to take them out — it’s terrifying and so, so good — all set to Ella and Lucifer singing “It’s So Onerous to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” on the funeral.
However whereas he made the individuals who killed Dan pay, Lucifer’s not finished but. He might have wished to be God for the improper causes earlier than, however now he is aware of he has to be God, he tells Dr. Linda Martin (Rachael Harris). And which means they’re going to battle.
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