So excited to see this cheeky little devil again.

Let’s see what naughtiness Lucifer gets up to this week in S01E02 Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil Recap

Lucifer is strolling through Los Angeles down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He comes across a street preacher, telling the passing crowds to repent, it is the end of times! The devil walks among us! With a wry smile, Lucifer approaches, “Padre you have no idea, how right you are!” “Have you seen the face of the devil?” the preacher booms. “Every morning in the mirror, pal”. The preacher asks Lucifer what his problem is, telling him he’s not sharing his tips. “Oh right”, says Lucifer, “is this a performance? Like the Spiderman and the Chewbacca down the street? But you see, what I hate more than anything is a liar, a charlatan”. “What are you going to do about it?” says the preacher. “I’m going to make you a believer” replies Lucifer and shows him his true face. Which is nowhere near as pretty as that one up there, let me tell you. “HE’S THE DEVIL, this isn’t a performance, HE’S THE DEVIL!” the preacher screams, tosses his tips into the air and runs. The crowd goes wild. “Thank you” says Lucifer “I’ll be here . . well, til the end of time actually.”

In therapist Linda’s office, Lucifer is telling her that he is the actual devil. Satan, Beelzebub, Old Scratch, but they were the old me, no it’s just plain old Lucifer. “You don’t seem too bothered by me being the Prince of Darkness” he says.  “Sometimes it’s easier to work within your metaphor” Linda replies. “It’s easier to make intimate issues about something bigger than yourself.”  “Well, there are few things bigger than myself” Lucifer says. “I’m well aware” says Linda. She cringes, and Lucifer chuckles. “Last time we spoke you were bothered about feelings of humanity.” “Oh good news, I’m healed.  I’d kick a puppy if it waltzed by, only joking, puppies don’t waltz.” Linda tells him she thinks he is having feelings of insecurity because things are changing but he doesn’t know what is causing the change. Or who?

At Lux, Chloe is hiding at a back table taking sneaky photos of Lucifer, when Maze brings over a drink, courtesy of the owner. Not so sneaky after all. “You and Lucifer seem close” Chloe says. “I followed him through the gates of hell” Maze replies. She leaves, and Lucifer begins playing his piano in the middle of the club. Chloe approaches, telling him she is in fact looking into him, and she has found out his name actually is Lucifer Morningstar, however up until five years ago, he didn’t exist. “Who were you?” she asks, “and how did you survive getting shot six times?” “Is that how you thank someone who saved your life, Detective? Investigating them?” Chloe replies “when I see something I can’t explain I investigate.” “Well, I’ve given you all the answers” says Lucifer “it’s not my fault you won’t accept it. Do you know what I think?” he goes on “I think you like me.  I think you see something that you truly desire, and you don’t know what to do with yourself.”

Chloe decides to play along and cosies up to Lucifer on his piano stool, she puts her arms around him, feeling up his chest and a bit of a grope a bit lower. Lucifer thinks he has finally cracked her, but then she says “nope! No bulletproof vest, I was wondering how you could hide it under that suit, but I had to check. I’m going to figure out your secret” she says. “It’s not a secret if I’m telling you the answer” he replies exasperated “why don’t I affect you?” “I guess we both have our mysteries” Chloe replies. “Well, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” Lucifer replies with a cheeky little grin. Chloe’s phone rings, thank gawd she says in her head, and it’s her ex Dan with some info about a case she might be interested in.

Chloe arrives on the scene of a car accident. The victim is Robbie Russell Jr, son of a movie star. He was run off the road by a paparazzo named Nick Hoffmeister. Chloe’s ex Dan is the investigating officer, and has seemingly changed into a completely different person from last week. Ah, pilots. Anyway, Dan is now Kevin Alejandro, who played Sebastian Blood on Arrow (nerd alert). Turns out Chloe is still on medical leave but the suspect is known to her from her previous life as a B-grade actress. Her most famous movie being Hot Tub High School, which is just as cheesy as it sounds, bonus feature being Chloe’s boobs. Lucifer arrives on the scene, not giving up on finding out what Chloe’s story is and why she is different: she’s now his mystery.

He sees her watching Nick and says, “well I think I may have just found my answer, who is that?” He quickly works out they have a past, and Chloe calls Nick a cockroach and that he’ll find a way to wriggle out of this. Lucifer tells her to go and question him, stuff the rules! He goes over to the car, “hello” he says and pulls Nick out. “You finally did it” Chloe says to Nick “you wanted a photo so bad you finally killed someone.” He quickly confesses and tells her it was all his fault and he should be punished. Okay says Lucifer, maybe less cockroach, more dung beetle? Lucifer tries his Jedi mind trick, but all Nick wants is to confess and set things right. He’s done so many terrible things “it’s my chance to . . . “”what?” says Chloe. “If I tell you” says Nick “he’s just gonna . . . “”who?” asks Chloe. Jesus woman, stop interrupting! Dan comes over and tells them to leave, neither one is supposed to be there. “Alright, temper temper” says Lucifer. Chloe swears that someone else killed Robbie, and she’s going to find out who.

Chloe talks to Dan about what she thinks about Nick covering for someone else, the Nick she knows would never confess to anything. Dan tells her he’ll look into it, but right now she needs to take her weird, club owning sidekick with her before he arrests him for smoking pot on his crime scene. Chloe turns and there’s Lucifer leaning up against Nick’s car smoking a joint. “What are you doing?” says Chloe. “Smoking pot he says, want a hit?” She takes it from him and grinds it out.

“You brought pot to a crime scene!” she accuses. “I certainly did not” he says “I found it here, in the dung beetles car.” “You smoked evidence!” “It would have gone to waste, otherwise!” “Any evidence he had recently smoked it?” asks Chloe. “There was a roach from another joint in the car, freshly smoked” says Lucifer. “Where’s the roach?” she asks. “I added it to mine, he says, that’s the best bit.” Chloe can’t believe her ears and leaves him there.

At Lucifer’s loft, it is morning and he arises from bed careful not to wake the woman and man already there. He fixes a breakfast whiskey and bloody hell, here’s Amenadiel and there goes time again. “I’m disappointed in you brother” he says. “What?” replies Lucifer “it’s called a devil’s threesome for a reason.” Amenadiel has come to lecture him again and get him to return. Lucifer tells him to hurry up, he’s still sober and it takes ages to pour a drink when Amenadiel’s around. Amenadiel blathers on, and Lucifer eventually tells him to take his ultimatum and shove it up his feathered hole. Ye-ouch. Amenadiel tells him his time on earth is affecting him, he just can’t see it. Usually Lucifer is the one controlling any change in his life, this time he’s not.

At Chloe’s, she and Trixie are getting ready for Dan to pick her up for a visit. Lucifer arrives and says “I thought I had the wrong address. Do you really live here, how do you afford this place? Do you take bribes?” Trixie races out to greet Lucifer “hello small human, is this your toy?” He throws it across the room “fetch! There’s a good child.” “You’re funny” she tells him. Chloe shoos her out to finish getting ready. “Did Hot Tub High School make you this much?” “No it didn’t she says, and keep it down, Trixie doesn’t know.” “What she doesn’t know her mum was a giant star, why not? Not ’cause of the old” *hands to chest, trumpets playing a fanfare noise*.

She tells him her mother was also an actress, starring in many B-grade sci-fi movies back in the day, and it’s her house. “You’re part of a family dynasty” he says “no wonder we get on so well. What did you do to rebel? Did you kiss a girl, did you like it? Two girls? An Eiffel Tower?” “What’s an Eiffel Tower?” Chloe asks. “Oh, it’s marvellous, it’s when two chaps high five at the top while the young lady . . . “okay, she cuts him off and drags him out the door. She shuts it in his face and locks it.

Down at the police station, Lucifer talks his way past the desk clerk to get in to see Nick in his holding cell. He tells him he’s not interested in the case, just Chloe Decker. “You’re going to tell me everything” he explains his power and that it works on everyone, just not Chloe. He wants to know everything Nick knows about her from his time as a pap when she was acting. “Chloe doesn’t have any sordid secrets” says Nick. “I’ve seen the hatred in her eyes when she looks at you” replies Lucifer “come on, you must have something.” Nick tells him that just after the movie came out, her father died. He turned up at the funeral to get the shot of the grieving family, and Chloe flipped, punching his camera so hard she broke the lens. “But I made so much money off that photo! But at what cost to my soul, right? But that would be for someone else to decide.” “Humph” says Lucifer “that someone else happens to be sitting right across from you and it’s not looking good.” “After that” says Nick “I just tried to stop others from making the same mistakes I did, that’s why I . . .” “why what?” asks Lucifer. Lucifer tries to discover who he is protecting but Nick refuses to look him in the eyes and yells at him to get away. Lucifer leaves in a huff and a flash, leaving Nick shocked to find an empty room, even checking to see if he’s under the table.

Chloe tracks Lucifer down at Lux, demanding to know how he got in Nick’s holding cell. “By asking very nicely of course” says Lucifer. “Did you learn something at least?” she asks. “Yes, our dung beetle is protecting someone who is following in his footsteps, a protege perhaps.” Chloe tells him someone has been uploading photos from the crime scene, one less than an hour ago from a party that’s still happening. “Are you coming or what?” Chloe says. “Oh sorry” he replies “I thought this was the part where you leave me behind and say Lucifer, stay. Good devil.”

People are arriving at a party amidst paparazzi. They check out the paps, seeing if they recognise anyone from earlier. They spot someone, Lucifer quite pleased that he actually looks spectacularly creepy, but he sees he’s been caught out and yells, that’s Chloe Decker! The paparazzi turn to Chloe and start snapping pics, one yells out to show them her boobs! She turns ready to swing, and Lucifer tells her to punch him, punch them all! That’s not me anymore, Chloe says, “well it’s very much me” replies Lucifer. They push through the crowd to see the suspect leaving in his car. They later run the plates, and it comes back as belonging to a Nick, a company car. But it has been lately driven by a Josh Brandt, who freelances for Nick.

Here’s Josh in his car with a long lens, taking an up-skirt pic of a lady having lunch. Charming. “Hello! Sorry to ruin your creepy moment” says Lucifer.  Josh gets out of the car “I am so happy to see you” he says to Chloe. “I feel terrible about last night, I’m a huge fan.” Well we’re really not interested in your formative spank bank years, alright? They tell him they’ve been trying to find him, they want to get justice for Robbie Russell Jr. What is it you want Josh? “To be first” he tells Lucifer. “I’m just doing what Nick would have done, always be first. Just a second” he says and grabs his camera. Just in time to get a pic of up-skirt lady being hit upside the head by another woman. He gets the perfect shot. “Good timing on that photo” says Chloe. “Just lucky, I guess” he answers and leaves.

Back at Lux, they go through Josh’s photos and quickly surmise his photos are all setups, and he’s escalated from fights, to overdoses, to suicides. And now murder. Josh must have convinced Nick to take the fall for Robbie, but why? “Who cares?” says Lucifer “let’s punish him! I could add an ironic twist like I used to when I ran hell.” “You don’t decide who gets punished and how” says Chloe. “That’s exactly what I do” Lucifer replies. Chloe leaves, and Lucifer and Maze decide to go and deliver some punishment of their own.

Chloe interviews Nick and she tells him about all the set ups. Nick saved Josh as a runaway and taught him everything he knew. Tried to teach him to not cross any lines. Josh called him after the accident and Nick agreed to cover it up, to try and save Josh. Now he’s discovered that it was a set up to begin with and Josh is just letting him take the fall. Chloe tells him for what it’s worth, she forgives him, but it’s not about them, if they don’t stop him, he’ll do it again. Chloe leaves the room to take a call from Dan and is told that Josh is missing. When she gets back to the holding room, Nick is also gone. She asks the desk clerk where he is, and she tells her that tall, handsome British fellow collected him. Don’t be too hard on yourself, lady. I would have no hope around that voice. Those eyes. That hurr. Huh? Oh right, sorry.

Lucifer and Nick are driving through LA in Lucifer’s uh-mazing car. They arrive back at the crime scene, and find Maze standing beside her own vehicle. “Maze, did you bring me a gift?’ asks Lucifer. She rolls a tied up Josh out of the trunk of the car and drags him over. “Right, both of you have committed terrible acts and deserve punishment. Unfortunately you won’t receive punishment when you die, my fault really, sorry! But, we’re here to fix that right now” says Lucifer. “You both get a gun, let’s see who shoots who first.” Lucifer tells Josh that Nick’s about to rat him out, and tells Nick that Josh tricked him into taking the fall for murder. Discuss.

Josh ends up picking up the gun and after Nick tells him he thinks of him as a son, Josh pulls the trigger. Empty. “Oh Maze, you fiend! Even I didn’t see that one coming” laughs Lucifer. “You really would have shot me” says Nick, and picks up his gun. Chloe arrives, having worked out what Lucifer is up to and tries to convince Nick to put down the gun. “You tried to change and that’s what is important” she tells him. “Ugh humans” says Maze. “Yes, fascinating aren’t they?” sighs Lucifer. Perhaps they’re on to something.

Lucifer closes his eyes, puts his hands together and begins to pray. Nick fires, just as Amenadiel appears and time slows. “I’m surprised to hear from you” he says. “Not as surprised as I was” Lucifer replies “but you were right and I was wrong.” He picks the slow moving bullet out of the air and puts it in his pocket. “So you’ll return to hell” says Amenadiel. “No! That’s absurd” he says while kicking Josh fair in the nuts. “You’re right that I’ve changed in my time here, not being in control feels positively thrilling!” “You asked me here to tell me that” says Amenadiel. “No, no, I asked you here to remedy as situation I mishandled and to annoy you in the process. Kill two birds with one prayer as it were.”

Amenadiel huffs off back to heaven, and time restarts. Josh drops like a rock, wondering how the hell his testicles ended up in his throat. Chloe and Nick look around to see what has happened, and Chloe jumps as Lucifer appears behind her. “You were just over there, that’s not possible.” Lucifer smiles. “I saw Nick pull the trigger” Chloe says “I heard the gunshot. Was this all staged?” “Well, that probably is more plausible to you than my angelic brother slowing time while I pluck a bullet out of thin air.” “You were right in front of me, I blinked and you were there behind me” she says. “Is there a question there, Detective?” “You know what I’m asking” Chloe says.  “And you know exactly what I’ll answer” Lucifer replies. “It’s quite fun, all this police malarkey isn’t it?” he says, producing the spent bullet from his pocket.

Lucifer and Linda are in bed, and she says “I hear the devil did a good deed today?” “No need to call it that” he replies “I enjoyed every minute of it!” “You know what I mean” Linda laughs. He tells her how exciting it feels to not be in control, and how much he is enjoying it. “I think you were right” he says, “there is a who, who is changing me. But that begs the question, what do I do with her?”

Chloe enters a mental hospital and goes to see Jimmy Barnes, the man who shot her. Lucifer did not kill him, just scared the living shite out of him it seems. She asks him what happened with Lucifer. He begins to panic “Lucifer, is he here? I can’t get away from him!” “You’re safe here” Chloe tells him “he’s just a man.” “I’m not safe!!” he screams “he’s the DEVIL!” Jimmy starts banging his forehead against the glass until blood starts to flow, and several orderlies come in to restrain and sedate him. Chloe watches in shock, and you can see the beginnings of realisation cross her face. Is Lucifer really the devil as he says?

Next weeks promo;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hctPVOCP7mQ&noredirect=1