After an insight with Linda, Lucifer, who feels no luck after helping Carol, decides that he also has to help someone that he hates. Picking the very first case he had with Chloe, he descends to Hell alongside Chloe to help Jimmy Barnes, the record producer who killed his former employee Delilah, only to find that it's rather complicated. At the same time, after he is carried back to Earth, Dan tries to backstab the female angel, but finds out that nobody can see him now that he is a ghost. Meanwhile, Amenadiel is working on his first day as a police officer under the watch of the frosty Sonya Harris, and Maze decides to help him.
Tropes present in the episode include:
- Art Shift: Jimmy's initial hell loop is rendered in wacky animation. It's later revealed that it was because he was watching an animated show when he was taken by child protective services, which he considered the worst day of his life.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: In Jimmy's animated hell loop, Lucifer has no genitalia, and Chloe learns that she doesn't have any, either.
- Big Red Devil: Lucifer appears in Jimmy's hell loop as a huge, cartoonish red devil with horns and a pitchfork.
- The Bus Came Back: Jimmy Barnes, who becomes the case of the week.
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: Thanks to Jimmy's cartoonish Hell Loop not permitting profanity; complete with mouth-blocking stickers appearing on Lucifer's mouth.Lucifer: Apple juice?! Well, this place can go —— itself! ——ing apple juice instead of whiskey?! Even if it's a cartoon, it should have ——ing whiskey!
- Four-Fingered Hands: Everyone in the animated portion has these.
- Freudian Excuse: Jimmy was abandoned by his mother as a child, then fired by a band as a young man. This caused him to reject from connecting with everyone his whole life. This makes Lucifer stop hating him and feel sorry for him.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Lucifer however still says that Jimmy's abandonment from his mother doesn't excuse his crimes.
- Genre Deconstruction: Through an Internal Deconstruction, the show deconstructs the basic plotline of an episode of Lucifer and other police procedurals. Harris shows to Amenadiel that the main job of a police officer is not to catch criminals, but help people which is why instead of sending the vandal she captured (unknowingly, Maze) into a jail, she sends her to a women's shelter. This deconstructs how most police procedurals focus more on finding the killer than helping the victim. Meanwhile Lucifer's and Chloe's plotline deconstructs the one dimensional criminal of the week they often deal with, by showing the sort of circumstances that lead people to commit crimes. While Lucifer is right in saying that Jimmy's past doesn't excuse his actions, he does acknowledge that he now understands his pain and why he turned out the way he did.
- Intangibility: As a ghost, Dan cannot touch anything or anyone.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: As a ghost on Earth, Dan wears the same clothes that he had on when he died.
- Killed Offscreen: Jimmy Barnes died a year ago in a mental hospital and went to Hell.
- Parent Never Came Back from the Store: Jimmy's mother promised that she would be back after leaving him in a motel, but she never did. A horrified Chloe wonders how long Jimmy was there before child protective services showed up.
- Social Services Does Not Exist: Averted as Child Protective Services did eventually come for Jimmy after his mother abandoned him at the motel, although it appears to have taken a while for them to arrive.
- Sympathy for the Devil: In the form of sympathy from the devil. While acknowledging that it didn't justify anything Jimmy did as an adult, Lucifer couldn't help but feel for the little boy Jimmy used to be getting cruelly abandoned by his mother.
- Toon Physics: Or as Lucifer calls it "bloody cartoon logic".
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Ella has adopted the frog that she found in the previous episode as a pet.
- Wham Line: Courtesy of the female angel, to Lucifer:"I'm your daughter!"
