Lucifer recap: 'The One With the Baby Carrot’ 

Another murder, another chance for Lucifer to over-identify with the participants. But this week’s case leads him to a breakthrough that could send the show off in a delicious direction. Also, here’s a fun bit of trivia that we learn in the show’s opening minutes: When Lucifer’s in the presence of an attractive, topless brunette, his pesky wings pop out.

“I don’t usually suffer from premature unfurling,” he tells his date. But rather than continue with what she thinks is high-quality angel cosplay, Lucifer kicks her out to do some painful manscaping.

When he meets Dr. Linda the next day, she’s concerned about this level of self-harm, while he worries that she may have rushed her return to work. No, she’s trained to deal with the trauma, she assures him.

Then he turns his attention to the Sinnerman, whom he accuses of copycatting; the Sinnerman doles out favors in return for a price to be named later, which Lucifer invented. At first, Linda scoffs at this idea and then, realizing whom she’s talking to, acknowledges that he probably 

At the precinct, Chloe tells Lucifer that a man named Alonzo confessed to killing Sam in last week’s premiere, which officially closes the case and ends the conversation on the Sinnerman. In fact, she forbids Lucifer from talking about the Sinnerman at all because that name is nothing but an urban legend to criminals, like a felonious bogeyman.

The Sam killing solved, the team embarks on its next case: the shooting death of standup comedian J.D. Woodstock. Happily, this gives Lucifer the chance to bedevil (ha!) Dan about his secret improv career, which Dan assures him is quite different from standup.

Turns out, the dead man had posted a video the day before he died, accusing a more successful comedian, Bobby Lowe, of joke theft, but he died before he could provide any proof. Ella fangirls out over the Bobby Lowe connection, while Lucifer immediately sides with dead J.D., who had his life’s work co-opted so someone else could make a living. *CoughSinnermanCough*

Ah, Lucifer. May you never stop over-identifying with the case of the week in a dashingly self-absorbed way.

Lucifer and Chloe agree to bring a starstruck Ella with them to interview Bobby on the set of his sitcom, which features puppets as his imaginary friends. Bobby turns out to be a total monster (no eye contact, no green Skittles, that kind of thing). When he dismisses J.D. as a jealous failure, Lucifer growls, “How dare you.” Ha!

The crime-fighting trio stick around to watch the filming, including warmup comedian Shelia working the crowd, but Lucifer doesn’t make it long before storming the stage mid-filming to accuse Bobby of stealing a dead man’s life. When Lucifer grabs a discarded puppet from a storage box to taunt Bobby with, he accidentally discharges the gun hidden there, grazing Bobby’s arm. Even better, he does it all while using a bizarre voice for the puppet. It may be the weirdest scene this show has ever done.

The gun isn’t the murder weapon, and Bobby admits that he hid it because he’d been getting emailed death threats from a man accusing him of making fun of him in his comedy. Further, Bobby confesses that he

steal the jokes from J.D., which means J.D. was the one making fun of the angry emailer.

Ella’s furious to have her fandom betrayed like that, while Lucifer gets Bobby to admit that what he really desires is to quit the show, but he won’t because he likes the money too much.

The threat emails to Bobby stopped after J.D. posted his video, which tells Chloe that the emailer realized that J.D. was the original joke-teller. In fact, the original joke that Bobby stole from J.D. wasn’t even in his sitcom; it was cut to keep it family friendly. That’s because the joke was about a friend’s insecurity regarding his micropenis. And if you think Chloe would be reluctant to tell Lucifer all of this, well, you’re correct. Lucifer immediately unleashes a barrage of “needle in a penis-stack”-type jokes, which even the straightlaced Chloe appreciates a little.

When they realize that the emails all came from a comedy club at the same day and time, they set up a sting and put Dan on stage with a killer set of micropenis jokes, hoping he’ll rile up the emailer.

Instead, Dan bombs and Lucifer heckles him, throwing out micropenis jokes under the guise of defending the medical condition. (He also pelts poor Dan with tomatoes he brought specifically for this purpose.) Chloe allows all of it, hoping that the emailer will come over and thank Lucifer for the defense.

Sure enough, a man approaches Lucifer and thanks him for his kind words, jokingly agreeing that micropenis jokes make him want to commit murder.

Once they pull him into interrogation and confirm that he is, in fact, packing a baby carrot, he explains that he and J.D. were both aspiring standups, and once he realized that it was J.D. and not Bobby mocking him, it was all cool. The only thing he had a problem with was a rich guy like Bobby punching down. Then he drops the clue they need to solve the case: J.D. said he was  meeting with a warmup comedian named Sheila about a possible job.

So off they go to the Bobby Lowe set to arrest his warmup comedian for the murder of J.D. After hours, the costumes and props are downright spooky (Chloe does

appreciate Lucifer scaring her with a devil mask), and Chloe finds Bobby having been pistol-whipped by Sheila following an argument about him wanting to quit.

Lucifer discovers Sheila on the catwalk, where she says it was all about keeping the show going, and she didn’t care about any joke theft. In fact, everybody has the same jokes; it’s what you do with the material that matters. Chloe distracts Sheila so Lucifer can knock her out. Case closed.

(Next page: Dr. Linda learns the art of wing disposal)

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