Lucifer Winter Finale Recap: Where the Hell Did [Spoiler] Go?! 

A desperate Lucifer returned to Hell this Monday in the Fox drama’s winter finale — but once there, what obstacle stood in the way of his return topside?

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manage to get back, what surprise did he ultimately spring on the detective?

get stuck (as I thought I saw happen) with a syringe during her scuffle with Dr. Carlisle — and that the corresponding antidote got destroyed — Lucifer and the detective set out to find Burt, the rich kid who helped the not-so-good doctor with his smuggling, but he proves to be a dead end. When Chloe’s nosebleed is accompanied by the next symptom, fainting, Lucifer checks her into a hospital against her wishes.

Dan then jumps in to help find the antidote, by helping Lucifer confront the middle man, Dave Maddox, who provided the doctor his ingredients. Dan arrives on the scene a bit hot, though, leading to the boys getting tied up, and Dan beaten — until Lucifer realizes that Detective Douche isn’t playing some “elaborate game of bloody possum,” at which point he easily frees himself and kicks all of the ass. Maddox then coughs up the ingredient list, but says that only Carlisle knew the precise formula.

While Ella works with Dan to round up the one extremely rare ingredient — leading to the reveal that she came to L.A. to watch over her hoodlum brother, Ricardo — Lucifer gets the idea from Mum to go to Hell and confront the surely damned Carlisle himself. One epic pow-wow between all the celestial beings

Dr. Linda later, Lucifer recruits Maze to kill him. Dr. Linda, meanwhile, is tasked with dusting off her med school learning from “many, many years ago” to bring him back to life 60 or so seconds later. Amenadiel’s job is to ensure that Chloe isnt moved from her hospital room, since Lucifer, in the room below, needs the proximity to his “weakness” in order to die.

As Amenadiel stands guard, it tees up (as I teased on Twitter) the Trixie scene you never knew you wanted, as the two spoke of bad and good people, and which of the groups Lucifer’s brother — Chloe’s “guardian angel” — falls into. (Later, with Trixie gone, Amenadiel gets to kick some butt of his own, fending off a team of hospital security guards.)

Once in Hell, finding and getting the information he needs from Carlisle is easy enough — though Lucifer leaves the doctor to continue suffering his damnation, re-living his morally questionable car crash decision over and over again. But when Lucifer then runs into Uriel, he himself gets caught in a guilt-triggered torturous loop, killing his brother over and over again. Uriel also taunts Lucifer about blowing off the “clue” he whispered in his ear before dying — that “the peace” (0r piece) “is here.” When Maze senses that Lucifer is trapped, Charlotte volunteers to go to Hell to rescue her son, though for a moment down there she gets keen on the idea of staying there with Uriel — so Lucifer drags her away.

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With Lucifer returned, the formula in hand, and Ella and Dan having secured the “Z13” or whatever it was called, the antidote is made and Chloe is cured. One of her first lucid thoughts is shared with Lucifer, about how this brush with death hit “pause” on what was brewing between them. Lucifer puts her off for the moment, then later has words with Mum about Father’s “long con,” putting Miss Decker in his “path” all those years ago. And having gone to such lengths to break free of such helicopter parenting, Lucifer refuses to risk being manipulated as a pawn in his folks’ feud any longer. As a result, when Chloe leaves the hospital and drives over to Lux, she soon enough realizes why Lucifer hasn’t returned any of her calls/messages — because he is gone, from Lux, from L.A…. from her.

Where do you think Lucifer has run off to? And what is your working theory on Uriel’s “The peace/piece is here” clue? (

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good to see that fox’s scheduling team still have no clue how to support a show.

FOX believes in the show, which is why it ordered nine more episodes after this season started. Those episodes are being filmed now.

We get a Lucifer recap but no Gotham!? Nothing against Lucifer just wondering.

Clearly whatever this clue is it has to do with Chloe I can understand Lucifer are not wanting to be caught between his parents games but I thought it was made clear to lose for that Chloe had no idea what was going on and was completely innocent in the whole thing so for him to just go start her after he literally risk being trapped in hell again to save her life makes zero sense

The “piece” is Chloe. There has to be some grand design at play. But a break until May? Good grief.

Nah, I think that’s too easy — “all roads lead to Chloe” etc. I think/hope it’s the seed for a future arc.

Closed captioning had the dialogue as ‘The peace is here’.

I think we are going to find Amenadial is no longer fallen due to helping Chloe and Trixe. He got his mojo back. Totally understand Lucifers decision to get away. He does not know what is real and is really tired of being manipulated by mum and dad. Linda and Maze in smocks was comedy gold for me.

I absolutely love, love, this cast! They so click as an ensemble as evidenced by their huddle. But May!? How many episodes when it comes back?

The winter finale was really good. It will be interesting to see where Lucifer went to leaving LA when the show returns in May. Gonna miss the show so much in next few months.

great episode. This show is really well put together from the cast to the music. unfortunately the same can’t be said for those responsible for scheduling what was the point of this three episode arc if your just going to have a three month hiatus after it, someone ate too many special brownies at the Christmas party me thinks. as for the Uriel clue I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with Chloe that would be trite, maybe it is something from the comics (I’m not super familiar with his solo series I just know the character from sandman comics). It is going to be a long wait. BTW I totally get why Lucifer left it is completely in line with his whole shtick of believing in free will.

When I saw the trixie and Amenadiel scene I had a creeping suspicion that MAYBE chloe was put on the earth so that trixie could be born. Would be interesting to see Amenadiel get his mojo back due to trixie seeing his goodness.

Could be all about Trixie. Dan had some power to stop himself from killing Lucifer in an episode. Maybe he and Chloe were both miracles sent to earth to make her.

And Trixie loves Lucifer for no reason. Thats another point.

I love this show and while the long break will be painful, I doubt it will have any negative effect on the ratings like it did for a lot of ABC shows.

My thoughts on the “master plan” was that maybe “Dad” put Chloe in Lucifer’s path to prove he is his favorite son by rewarding Jim with true love destined for him. Or Dad knew all along that Lucifer. Would begin to redeem himself and he placed Chloe in his path to help him get there… knowing all Along thtaLucifer would want to take a holiday.

This 3-Epi arc started slow but this winter finale was a pretty near. Perfect hour of TV.

I wonder if Mum or Amenadiel will come clean to Chloe of Lucifer’s true being. And Dr Linda can attest to their claim. Perhaps only then would Chloe change her mind and track down Lucifer before he does anything stupid or things that he would regret… The first two seasons we see Lucifer having Chloe’s back. Maybe this time it is Chloe’s turn to help him. Starting with the “peace”…

Its getting so that there are not seasons of episodes anymore. They just air a few episodes throughout the year. The time between now and this season resumes will be about the same amount of time as between when this season ends and the next begins assuming it is renewed.

Now off to Vegas and bring back Mrs. Lucifer Morningstar.

Oh no…..that would be quite cliched! Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

The first part of the finale was typical of the show, but once they all started scheming on how to cure Chloe, the show got pretty good. The Uriel do-loop was a good touch; I was wondering how they were going to ramp up the drama. I thought the last half of the show was better than the first. Though the ‘cliffhanger’ seemed to be a bit lame to me, but understandable I guess, since you really can’t top going to Hell.

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