WiC reviews every single episode of Lucifer season 5, part 2

Season 5, Episode 15: “Is This Really How It’s Going To End!?”

Now that God is gone, Lucifer quick tries to convince his siblings that he’s the one to take over. While he thinks it’s a done deal, he realizes that not all of his siblings trust him enough for the job.

Chloe drops a bombshell on their way to a crime scene when she tells Lucifer that she’s resigning from her job so that she can be with him, but when she starts to ask questions about how things will work when he’s God, he gets nervous. Dan tries to set Ella up with one of his police friends, but she’s resistant to the idea. As soon as they get back to the precinct, Chloe announces that she’s leaving. Dan and Ella are shocked. Dan knows what it means, that she’s going to be with Lucifer, and Ella can’t believe that they’re leaving her.

Dan and Trixie are in the middle of a rousing unicorn card game when Amenadiel shows up and tells Dan that he thinks he wants to become a police officer. Dan hedges, cautioning Amenadiel against the idea. Amenadiel can’t believe that Dan doesn’t have his back and he storms out of Dan’s apartment.

Chloe and Lucifer go searching for clues and discover that the fence, a man named TJ, has developed superhuman powers. He sends Lucifer flying. Something is very, very wrong.

Maze gets Linda’s advice on her Queen of Hell costume, planning for the eventuality that Lucifer becomes God and keeps his promise to put her in charge of hell. Lucifer shows up at Linda’s house and recruits Maze’s help in finding TJ.

Lucifer pauses for a conversation with his brother, the Angel of Righteousness. In his growing frustration, he admits he’s making such a strong case for the throne because of his love for Chloe. He hopes that by becoming God he’ll finally be worthy of her love.

Dan checks out a possible lead and ends up being captured. Ella, Lucifer and Chloe realize that he’s in big trouble. Maze shows up and wants to hunt down the men who took her friend. Lucifer, knowing how dangerous the situation is, asks Maze to call in all of his favors in hopes of finding Dan as quickly as possible.

The men who kidnapped Dan think he knows where TJ is, but Dan doesn’t know anything and can’t give them any information. Amenadiel and Maze join Chloe and Lucifer at the precinct to figure out a plan. They know Dan’s time is running out.

Dan has a chance to escape and it looks like he might make it, but he’s shot on the way out.

This episode hit hard. All of the 5B episodes have been around an hour in length, but this one felt longer because it became heavier and heavier as it went along. Chloe is on the trail when she finds Dan. He’s still alive, but he’s just hanging on to deliver a clue so that she can solve the case. He wants her to give a message to Trixie because he knows he’s not going to make it.

The entire group is at the hospital, minus Trixie. They all look shell-shocked, this group of mortals and celestials. When the doctor delivers the news that Dan is gone, Chloe is on the verge of falling apart when Trixie walks in. Chloe has to tell her the news. Trixie sees Maze falling apart and she tries to reassure her because she refuses to believe her father is gone. She goes to Lucifer, knowing he’ll tell her the truth. He can’t lie to her. Dan is gone. Amenadiel is trying to make sense of everything when Lucifer tells him what Dan said when he was dying.

Caleb was the boy Amenadiel tried to save, and when he died Amenadiel put his necklace on the body. Now it all makes sense. TJ’s special powers are from the necklace and the mercenaries were trying to find it for Michael. Michael was behind it all.

After the funeral, Lucifer and Maze find and kill the mercenaries. It won’t bring Dan back, but it helps. The war with Michael is closer than ever.

The last time there was a major death on the show was when Charlotte died at the end of season 3. Dan has been with the series from the very beginning, and his loss hits the group so hard that it will likely resonate through the rest of the show. Now, there’s always the possibility that he could come back; after all, this is a show about celestials who control everything that happens between heaven and hell. But for now he’s definitely dead and buried and no one will be the same.

Dan’s loss hits Trixie very hard. Lucifer has always had the most adorable “love-hate” relationship with Chloe’s daughter; he can see the pain in her eyes and he hates it. When Lucifer talks to Linda at the end of the episode, his goal of becoming God makes sense. He doesn’t want anyone to suffer anymore. But can’t he pull off a win in the biggest battle of all?