Lucifer recap: 'Til Death Do Us Part' 

We open on Lucifer menacing Pierce with a chainsaw and welding mask, all in an attempt to help the world’s oldest murderer shuffle off this mortal coil. But Pierce assures him if it were that easy, he’d already be dead, running through an amazing list of attempts: grenade down throat, acid bath, devoured by wolves, dropped into helicopter blades, jumped into volcano. (That last one was a rough half a year of healing.)

Unfortunately, Lucifer’s big plan was to stab Pierce with demon steel, but Pierce simply shrugs off the wound and leaves in disappointment. Demon steel was also Maze’s instinct, although she also recommends a variety of exotic weaponry, including one for use against anything with wings and another for anything with horns.

Maze’s suggestion to rub some of that Chloe vulnerability on Pierce encourages Lucifer to get to know Pierce better; maybe learning what makes him vulnerable will unlock the secret to dying. So Lucifer rearranges Pierce’s office furniture and dons a pair of glasses to play Dr. Linda, assuring an unnamed Pierce that this is a safe place.

Shallow side note: Lucifer with glasses is verrrrry good look.

Pierce leaves his office in a huff and bumps into Chloe, who’s thrilled that he decided to stay in L.A. Then she tries to play it cool by asking for his help with her newest case: chemistry teacher June Lee, whose body was found face down in a wood chipper in a seemingly safe L.A. suburb.

Then the formula for K Pop, the best ecstasy around, turns up on her laptop, and the police realize that June Lee was actually Sandra Jang, ecstasy cook for the Korean Power gang who stole their money before faking her death in a lab explosion three years ago. An ecstasy cook-turned-chemistry teacher? There’s a fun

Lucifer introduces Chloe to Lux’s dealer/bartender, and the two men agree that K Pop hasn’t been the same since Sandra left. Next, Chloe wants to have a chat with Korean Power’s leader, Brandon Hong, although she warns Lucifer that he can’t just charge into Brandon’s preferred karaoke spot shouting, “Hello, drug dealers!”

Lucifer says he’d never do that, then walks into the club and shouts that very thing, albeit in Korean. This prompts gang members to flood into the club’s long hallway, and Lucifer engages in a fabulous hallway fight straight out of Asian action cinema. As if that weren’t delightful enough, it’s set to “Lucifer” by K-Pop group SHINee. Just excellent work all around, show!

At the precinct, Brandon’s extremely willing to cooperate. He says Sandra was tired of looking over her shoulder and recently returned the money she stole with interest. The gang’s ecstasy profits are down since her departure, so he begged her to come back, but she declined. Now, he just wants to see her killer brought to justice.

Outside of the interrogation room, Chloe learns exactly why Brandon’s so eager to work with the police: Lucifer handed over Sandra’s K Pop recipe, and Brandon was happy to trade a few years in prison to be able to produce a superior product once again. (Of course, this means Lucifer gets to enjoy Sandra’s original-recipe K Pop, too.)

So how did Sandra afford her nice house and gang repayments on her chemistry teacher’s salary? A hidden cache of drugs and threatening notes offers a major clue: She was selling home-brew Adderall, which Lucifer immediately snorts — although he’ll only admit to being “very focused on this case.”

In order to learn who sent the death threat, someone needs to go undercover in the neighborhood. But the available house will only rent to couples, and since Chloe’s already canvassed the neighborhood, this leaves Pierce and Lucifer to team up. As you can imagine, one of them is decidedly more into this than the other one.

Okay, so usually the best undercover episodes are when the duo have some kind of romantic, will-they-or-won’t-they tension (Mulder and Scully, Tony and Ziva, Sydney and Vaughn), but even lacking this element, the Lucifer/Pierce pairing is delightful, particularly because Luci’s thrilled by the opportunity to get into Pierce’s head and Pierce would rather be literally anywhere else.

They’re both clad in suburbia-approved sweaters when new neighbors Anya and Brian arrive to welcome them to the block. “Luke” is charming and breezy at his undercover role, while “Marky Mark” grumpily guzzles wine.

Lucifer encourages the newcomers to grill his honey so he can discover Pierce’s possible vulnerabilities, and then the conversation turns to Sandra’s death. Brian says the neighborhood’s all one big family, although Anya admits that someone’s been leaving notes for people with problematic hedges and holiday decorations: “It’s like Martha Stewart and the Terminator had a baby.” Um, that just sounds like life in suburbia, TBH.

Hoping to draw out the note-leaver, Lucifer sets out to become the worst neighbor in the world. Who better than the devil, after all? He puts on an American flag banana hammock and basically stages an ’80s music video in his driveway, with women in bikinis, sprinklers, Super Soakers, and a DJ spinning music.

Lucifer welding in the garage at 4 a.m. is the last straw for Pierce, and the two stand in their open garage, loudly arguing about how to catch a killer, which doesn’t seem very covert. And they’re so wrapped up in their fight that they don’t hear Chloe, who’s running surveillance, warning them that someone’s approaching their house. This is the second episode in a row where Lucifer and Pierce have been too wrapped up in their own drama to keep an eye on the things they’re supposed to be monitoring. Again, that’s some bad policing.

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