Last week’s Lucifer left us with questions. Did Malcolm kill Dan? Will Lucifer give in to his carnal desires and sleep with drunken Chloe? Will Malcolm kill Lucifer? This week we find out the answers as the devil explores his good side during the murder investigation of a dead philanthropist.
Chloe awakens naked in Lucifer’s bed. Lucifer makes her think they slept together for a few minutes, then fills her in on the much more vanilla truth. She tore off her own clothes halfway through the night because she was too hot. Lucifer says turning down Chloe gave him a rush.
Chloe and Lucifer are called to a murder scene for a notorious NBA player turned humanitarian, Tim Dunlear. When he left pro ball, he started a charity for homeless kids. A minor from Haiti, Emmett, found him. Tim was Emmett’s mentor. Emmett says a homeless man ran away when he found the body. It looks like a robbery gone wrong.
Lucifer feels connected to Tim – a bad boy with a heart of gold. Chloe says they’re nothing alike.
Malcolm handcuffs Dan to a pole in a basement. Amazingly, he’s still alive. Malcolm says he’s going to set it up to look like Dan murdered Lucifer.
Tim’s wife and her assistant, Kyle, are dismayed they have to cancel that night’s gala. Lucifer generously offers to let them hold it at his club. He doesn’t feel the same rush as when he turned Chloe down. He says he’ll have to up his game. Chloe calls him St. Lucifer.
Lucifer tells Linda about the high he gets from doing good. Linda says true good needs to come from a place of selflessness. He cares about image.
Chloe finds the homeless man from the crime scene trying to pawn Tim’s championship ring. He also has Tim’s wallet. He says Tim was already dead. He has an alibi. Chloe finds a key card in the wallet. The man says Tim would’ve given him the shirt off his back. Hilariously, Lucifer then strips down and gives him all his clothes.
Chloe comes back to question Tim’s wife, Vanessa. Vanessa’s lawyer, Fleming, stops Chloe from interrogating her. He suggests she talk to Emmett.
Emmett fought with Tim the night he died. When he came back to apologize, Tim was dead. Chloe asks him about Tim and Vanessa’s relationship. Apparently, Tim hadn’t slept at home in months. Chloe thinks maybe a mistress or Vanessa did him in.
Vanessa asks Lucifer to have lunch with the golden donors of the foundation. He and Chloe use the lunch to investigate further. A woman at their table tells Chloe that a woman hit on Tim, but he turned her down cold. Apparently, Chloe’s theory is wrong.
Chloe asks Lucifer to find out the women’s darkest secrets. He decides to sing and flirt with them instead. Kyle yells for him to stop. He’s glaringly upset about Tim’s death. He flees the room.
Kyle tells Chloe and Lucifer that he and Tim were in love. Chloe asks if they met at a hotel, hoping to explain the key card. Kyle says they only met at his apartment. Chloe asks if Vanessa knew. He says Vanessa needed the Tim Dunlear brand and kept it quiet. Confused, Kyle shows Chloe a photo Tim sent him for safekeeping. He doesn’t know what it means.
Malcolm tells Dan Hell uses what you love against you. He loves life, so Hell took away his food, people and entertainment. Seconds felt like years. Dan kicks a food container out of Malcolm’s hands. He cleverly hides the knife under his boot when Malcolm picks up the food.
Fleming comes to Chloe’s home and tells her to stay away from his grieving client. Chloe says Vanessa stands to inherit Tim’s sizeable fortune, but Fleming tells her that all the money goes back into the foundation.
Chloe asks Lucifer to use his trick to get Vanessa and Fleming to talk. He says he won’t do it at the gala. Chloe says she misses the old Lucifer who had her back.
Maze finds Amenadiel having a fancy dinner. She steals his wine and calls him boring. Amenadiel tells her that he came up with a particular story that Lucifer hates. She’s impressed and asks the waiter to leave the bottle.
Kyle looks up Tim’s phone information. There’s a text made from Port Au Prince. That’s where the key card is from. Kyle says Tim was building a school there. It should be almost finished. Chloe thinks the picture proves it was never built. The money went to someone else.
Chloe approaches Fleming and asks for help. She wants him to look into Vanessa’s financial records. Tim found the outgoing wire transfers and flew to Port Au Prince on the sly to check for himself. He then confronted Vanessa and she killed him.
Dan uses the knife to loosen the zip ties on his wrists. In a tense moment, he breaks them and then busts down the cellar door and escapes.
Malcolm shows up at Lucifer’s loft. Lucifer offers him money in exchange for his life. Malcolm turns him down and tells him that Amenadiel sent him. Lucifer explains that when Malcolm dies, he’ll still go to Hell. He offers Malcolm his Pentecostal coin to get him out of Hell when he ends up there. Malcolm takes the coin and leaves.
Vanessa comes upstairs to bring Lucifer to the party. She says she’s leaving for Buenos Aires in the morning. Lucifer notes there’s no extradition treaties there and knows instinctively that she killed Tim. Vanessa pulls out a gun and shoots Lucifer in the chest.
In the next nail-biting scene, Dan rushes upstairs to Lucifer’s flat. He’s dead but suddenly pulls in a deep breath. Dan tells him about Malcolm. Lucifer tells him he took care of it. He heads for the gala to punish the wicked.
Lucifer joins Vanessa onstage. She’s shocked to see him. Chloe steps up and fills everyone in on the embezzlement. Fleming says they have proof. Under Lucifer’s thrall, Vanessa admits to killing her husband. Lucifer gets a rush from doing good.
Lucifer asks Maze about her bedhead. She says she became Lucifer’s inside woman by sleeping with Amenadiel. He says that will be handy since Amenadiel tried to kill him. He tells Maze about the shooting.
Lucifer goes to Chloe’s to test a theory. In a touching scene, Chloe suggests their relationship goes beyond work and sex. He makes her vulnerable. Lucifer cuts his palm with a knife and bleeds. He tells her she makes him vulnerable, too.
See the promo for episode 11 below: