[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Lucifer Season 6 Episode 3 “Yabba Dabba Do Me.”]
Lucifer (Tom Ellis) is still on a quest to prove that he can be God, and in “Yabba Dabba Do Me” he ultimately seems to understand everything … right before his whole world is turned upside down.
Of course, he started to care about Carol Corbett (Scott Porter). But somehow on the suggestion of Dr Linda Martin (Rachael Harris), Lucifer decides to help someone with whom there is no chance of it happening again: the first criminal he and Chloe Decker (Lauren German) have caught together, Jimmy Barnes, who killed the devil friend. He may be dead, but that makes things “almost easier,” Lucifer admits. He can just jump to hell.
Chloe insists on joining him; Amenadiel’s (DB Woodside) necklace makes her incredibly strong, which will help her survive a trip to hell. Once there, she spots Lucifer’s throne (“he looks so lonely”) and begins to look around. He prevents her from opening a door because she doesn’t want to be trapped in someone’s hellish loop, he warns: “I was there, I did that, I stabbed my brother. to death a million times. But when they find Jimmy’s, nothing can prepare them for what’s on the other side when they come alive as soon as they walk through his door.
Spot the usual cartoon antics: Lucifer on an accordion, Chloe playing as she shows off her strength, Lucifer as a true evil monster crashing down at Jimmy’s wedding, little flying devils when Lucifer is stunned and… “I am. a smoothy! ” he realizes in horror as he pulls his pants down. Plus, Lucifer has no control over the Hell Loop, so they’re trapped. They have to help Jimmy. To get him out of the cartoon, Lucifer urges Jimmy to show him his real hell, and they find themselves in the ’80s, back to normal. (But Lucifer still doesn’t have his control.)
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They follow Jimmy through a group that fires him and a girlfriend dumps him, and there’s a common line: someone says to Jimmy “you’re just holding me back” and a brief glitch where a blonde woman with a guitar replaces the loudspeaker. As they learn when Lucifer insists on going to the heart of Jimmy’s torment, this woman is his mother, who abandoned him in a motel room. Cartoons are his comfort. With this, Lucifer understands the pain behind the decisions he has made, and although he cannot get him out of hell, he brings his mother back to him.
Lucifer grew up loving Jimmy of all people, so now he knows he can care and help anyone. “Ironically, we are in hell, and finally, I am ready to be God! He said to Chloe. But before she gets home, she has to see Dan (Kevin Alejandro). There is only one problem: he is not where Lucifer kept him safe.
This is because Dan made a deal with this angel, Rory (Brianna Hildebrand), to destroy Lucifer, to come back to Earth. But as soon as he lands in Lucifer’s penthouse, he calls to warn his friend. (Lucifer and Chloe have only Hell at this point.) While they wait, Dan discovers he’s a ghost: he can’t touch anyone or anything. He tries to talk to Rory down, offering to listen to his pain, but she isn’t interested.
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Then, when Lucifer returns to his penthouse, he only has a few moments to register Dan’s presence before Rory nails him to the wall and holds his razor-sharp wings against his throat. “Finally, after all these years that I have spent hating you for what you did to me, finally I can take revenge,” she said. But who is she? “I am your daughter!” Rory tells Lucifer. Wait what ?!
Elsewhere in this episode:
- Amenadiel is starting at LAPD, and his training officer, Sonya Harris (Merrin Dungey), has a reputation for being tough. So, in an attempt to help her friend, Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt) gets arrested for vandalism (“It was horrible, I’ll never look at old people the same way again,” says an officer). Her refusal to believe “once a criminal, always a criminal” impresses Sonya after dropping Maze off at a women’s shelter for help. Thisthat’s what she wants in an intern.
- That frog that fell on Ella’s (Aimee Garcia) windshield after her date with Corbett? She keeps it because she thinks it might be related to something “that changes mind, body, and soul.”
- Linda may have found what will satisfy her: writing a book, Sympathy for the Devil: My Time with Lucifer Morningstar.
- Lucifer misses BONE just as much as us. He calls Chloe’s idea of joining him in hell “the worst I’ve heard since a genius decided to cancel BONE. … This show was the perfect combination of procedure and joke. He had at least five other seasons.
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