Lucifer is struggling to win the swing votes over Michael for the election to become God. Chloe announces her intention to retire from the LAPD. In the meantime, the LAPD is investigating the death of a tech in a medical examiner's office connected to a foreign mercenary group.
- Actually Pretty Funny: When Lucifer cracks a joke about a murder victim having been forced to drink wine for several hours having been "water Bordeaux", Dan chuckles and says that that was actually a good one.
- Casting Gag: Vincent, the French mercenary who kidnaps Dan, is played by a certain someone who starred as God in another well-known series about the Supernatural.
- Chekhov's Gun: At the end, it is revealed that the plot of the episode is kicked off because Michael was after Amenadiel's necklace that he put on the body of Caleb Mayfield, the black teen he befriended in "Super Bad Boyfriend".
- Continuity Nod: While considering what she'll wear as Queen of Hell, Maze considers a white half-mask previously worn by the alternate universe version of her seen in "Once Upon A Time".
- Cruel Mercy: The leader of the foreign mercenaries, Vincent, is left alive by Lucifer and Maze after the latter has killed all of his lackeys and the former showed him his devil face.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dan dies in Chloe's arms.
- Dumb Muscle: Jophiel, the first of the swing votes that Lucifer seeks, is, next to Amenadiel, one of the tallest and muscular angels, but is easily distracted by simple pleasures like women and alcohol. Saraqael outright calls him an idiot.
- Easily Impressed: Lucifer is impressed by the obvious phony medium's vague answers.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When Chloe quits to "help Lucifer", Ella thinks that they are moving to Florida. And when Chloe says the place is somewhere "north", she assumes that they are going to Alabama.
- Hope Spot: Dan actually manages to free himself from his gag and kills Sayeed, only to get fatally shot by Vincent while he is running away.
- Hypocritical Humor: Saraqael's defense of being above mortal desires crumbles not even five seconds later when she gets awed by a popular chef that Lucifer invited to bribe her.
- It's Personal: After finding out that Dan's death was orchestrated by Michael, Lucifer declares that if the latter wants a war, then he will gladly participate.
- Killed Off for Real: Dan, who is shot several times by Vincent in the back and bleeds to death in Chloe's arms.
- The Matchmaker: Dan tries to play matchmaker with Ella and Carol Corbett, a new officer in town. Ella initially brushes it off, but after his death, seems to give it a go by approaching him.
- Meaningful Funeral: Dan is given a police funeral, attended by his friends and family.
- Motivational Lie: Amenadiel says at Dan's funeral that Dan is in a better place. By this point, he has verified with one hundred percent certainty that Dan is suffering in Hell.
- Neck Snap: Dan kills Sayeed this way.
- Parting-Words Regret: Amenadiel regrets that in his last conversation with Dan, he stormed out when the latter did not seem to support his dream to become a cop.
- Phony Psychic: Odetta the psychic, a possible reference to Oda Mae from Ghost.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Lucifer embarks on an epic rant at Linda about how unfair reality itself is; that good people with past sins can die with their guilt sending them to an undeserved Hell, while leaving behind family to grieve and suffer. Linda tells him that this is just the way reality works, and Lucifer can't change it— it's this moment that makes him realize that he needs to become God to fix the system he sees as fundamentally broken.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After the funeral, Maze and Lucifer find Dan's killer and destroy his entire gang. And unlike most examples in this series, they kill everyone.
- Self-Inflicted Hell: Dan goes to Hell after his death, because he is still tortured with the guilt of his crimes as a Dirty Cop. When Lucifer asks why he had to receive that fate despite being a good man now, Amenadiel replies that guilt is something much more complicated than that.
- Shirtless Scene: Jophiel wears an open robe that shows his muscular build.
- Special Edition Title: The title card is set with mournful BGM instead of "Being Evil Has a Price". Towards the end of the episode, we learn that the reason is not just because of Chloe's retirement, but also Dan's death.
- Take That!: A jab at the show's former network appears when Lucifer and Chloe are interrogating a psychic.Chloe: Where were you last night at 8 PM?
Odetta: Giving a reading to a programming exec at Fox.
Lucifer: Good luck with that. - This Means War!:Lucifer: I no longer want to be God, I have to be. If it means going to war with Michael, then so be it!
- Together in Death: Sadly averted. Amenadiel tells Lucifer that he came to Heaven immediately after Dan's death, but did not find him anywhere, meaning he is in Hell and not with his beloved Charlotte.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It turns out that when Amenadiel chose to bury his necklace with Caleb Mayfield's body, it gave Michael an opportunity to steal it.
- Wham Line:Amenadiel: Dan isn't in Heaven.
- Wham Episode: Dan is shot and killed by the suspects in the current investigation.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Trixie demands that Lucifer tell her what happened to her father because she knows he doesn't lie. Lucifer regretfully has to tell her that Dan really is dead.
