Episode 11 of Lucifer, “St. Lucifer,” open with the Devil feeling rather good about himself, having turned down the sexual advances of an intoxicated Chloe the night before. The Evil One, in fact, finds that he gets a rush from engaging in goodness, and so Lucifer decides to indulge this foreign feeling for an episode.
Appropriately, this week’s murder mystery revolves around a slain philanthropist by the name of Tim Dunlear. Lucifer, aspiring to a “philanthropic high,” decides to become the benefactor of Dunlear’s charity. Despite his philanthropic joyride, Lucifer is reluctant to forgive Mazikeen for betraying him by colluding with Amenadiel. When Mazikeen and Amenadiel come face-to-face and Amenadiel reveals to the spurned demon that he is not as much of an angel as she thinks, the two end up copulating in the backseat of a car. Mazikeen later decides to reveal to Lucifer that she had sex with his brother, proposing a truce with her standoffish master: Mazikeen can give Lucifer the inside scoop on Amenadiel, just as she had done the opposite before. Lucifer accepts, but admonishes Mazikeen to watch her step.
The most significant aspect of “St. Lucifer” was the revelation of the source of Lucifer’s “mortality sitch.” Malcolm, the crooked cop back from Hell to do Amenadiel’s bidding, finally confronts Lucifer at gunpoint. Lucifer explains to Malcolm that Amenadiel is tricking him and that the angel, in the end, cannot save the sinner from Hell even if he wanted to. But Lucifer can. In exchange for not pulling the trigger, Lucifer offers Malcolm his “Pentecostal coin,” which, Lucifer explains, he was going to use to return to Hell; Malcolm will be able to use it to escape Hell. While Malcolm accepts and leaves Lux with the Devil’s coin, Lucifer is before long gunned down by Dunlear’s wife once he deduces that she murdered her philanthropic husband. Much to Lucifer’s surprise, his immortality appears to have been restored. The episode closes with Lucifer discovering that it is the presence of Chloe that makes him vulnerable, leaving the viewer to imagine that Lucifer will have to choose to either embrace his humanity or keep his distance from the virtuous woman he’s drawn to in order to remain the immortal Devil.
As Lucifer approaches its season finale, it is increasingly difficult to deny that season one was, all in all, a disappointment, and I say season one because it has been announced that Lucifer has been green-lit for a second. I suppose we can only hope that the creators of the show, having successfully evaded cancellation, will be emboldened to explore territory closer to the truly excellent Lucifer comics.