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Recap / Lucifer (2016) S04E01 "Everything's Okay"

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While investigating a beekeeper's murder with Lucifer, Chloe insists that she's completely fine with his devilish revelation, thank you very much.


Tropes present in the episode include:

  • Ambiguous Situation: Why is Chloe crying in anguish? Is it out of guilt for deceiving Lucifer and Maze? Or is it because she has to pretend to be okay with who/what they are when she actually wants nothing to do with them anymore?
  • Bait-and-Switch: At one point in the episode, it seems Lucifer is revealing the truth about him being the devil to Ella. Not only does he not use his devil face, but he uses it to show Chloe how fun it is to not be Locked Out of the Loop like the rest of the precinct anymore.
  • Black Speech: Maze gives an example of her mother tongue, Lilim. It sounds ridiculously sinister. note 
  • Brick Joke: When Lucifer and Chloe are at the pool party, Lucifer takes a (quite big) pot of honey and starts eating from it, licking it off his fingers as a Funny Background Event. Later, when Lucifer and Chloe are back at the police office, he nonchalantly hands over the now empty jar to Ella— having eaten all of the honey in what can't be more than a few hours.
  • Call-Back: Linda mentions that she has experience with exactly what Chloe is going through, undoubtedly referring to when she herself found out in "Monster"
  • Consummate Liar: It is somewhat shocking to see how good of a liar Chloe actually is. She manages to convince two demons that she's none worse for wear after knowing the truth. Eventually becomes subverted when her lies are shown to be easily capable of being torn apart, with her daughter unraveling one and the other one falling apart because she really isn't in the right state of mind to be with Lucifer.
  • Curse Cut Short: Lucifer gets interrupted by his own title card after he first tries to confront Chloe about how she feels about the ending of Season 3.
    Lucifer: B-But how does it make you feel? Afraid, terrified? D'you wanna yell at me? Punch me in the face? Run away again?
    Chloe: I... I think I just wanna get back to work.
    Lucifer: <after a long pause> ...what the fu-<theme music>
  • Going Commando: When Lucifer pulls down his pants, it turns out he's not wearing underwear.
  • Hollywood Density: The opening scene with Lee Garner culminates in Lucifer deciding to give him an armful of bundles of cash... and at least half a dozen gold bars the size of housebricks, which should weigh around sixty or seventy pounds apiece. This adds up to considerably more than an Olympic weightlifter can hoist, but Lee doesn't seem to be overly strained.
  • Karmic Death: The killer, a US Marshal working in the Witness Protection Program, tries to set these up. In the past, he’s simply revealed the location of the victims to people from their past lives who would kill them, or let current significant others find out they were lied to and commit the murder themselves. When neither of those attempts worked in this case, the Marshall just killed the guy himself.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Dan says that for a strange reason he believes Amenadiel when he says that Charlotte is in heaven. Did Amenadiel actually being an angel influence him, or was it just the conviction with which he said his words?
  • Not What It Looks Like: To Amenadiel, In-Universe. He walks in on Linda punching Maze in the face, so he assumes they're still mad at each other and even that they're fighting over him. Turns out Linda had actually asked Maze to fight, in an effort to better understand her, and that Linda and Maze have reconciled and are friends again.
  • Noodle Incident: When Linda suggests doing a role-play with Lucifer as part of his therapy, he answers "Role play? It's been a while, doctor. We don't have the clown masks now but I'm still game." Considering that Lucifer and Linda not only have a therapist-client relationship but also had sex with each other in the past, this can be interpreted multiple ways...
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: This is the killer's main motivation for his crimes. He's frustrated that ex-convicts are seemingly being rewarded for their past crimes.
  • Pet the Dog: Lucifer's kind and generous side shows itself once again, when he gives "Mr. Said Out Bitch" more than enough riches to get himself out of debt and pay his men.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: As usual, Lucifer's eyes glow red when he's getting angry.
  • Rhetorical Question Blunder: When the U.S. Marshal who was assigned to protect Bob says he failed at that because Bob was murdered, Lucifer answers a with a blunt yes.
    Marshall: I kept tabs on Bob to make sure he was safe. Well I certainly failed at that, right?
  • Soft Reboot: To mark the series' acquisition by Netflix.
    • Dan is back to his jerkish characterization.
    • Amenadiel is in the same garb as he was in Season 1, even returning from Heaven the same manner.
    • Lucifer is randomly showing his Devil identity to criminals.
  • Spanner in the Works: Downplayed but Trixie is this to Chloe, when she reveals that she has long since forgiven Maze for her actions in Season 3. Previously Chloe was using Trixie's anger at Maze as an excuse to keep Maze away from her daughter, but thanks to Trixie meeting and forgiving Maze, Maze has now caught on that Chloe was lying for some reason.
  • Super-Strength: Once again, Lucifer gets to show off that devilish strength of his when he not only completely stops a car from driving off by grabbing onto it, but also by lifting it into the air. He also bends Lee Garner's Desert Eagle, a rather large and heavy Hand Cannon, in half with one hand.
  • Time Skip: Takes place one month after the events of Devil Of My Word.
  • Wham Shot: Right after she makes amends with Lucifer, Chloe ends up crying in a church with a priest seemingly telling her that whatever she's doing, difficult as it is, is the best for the world.

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