Mazifer Ramblings

When Lucifer was just about to follow Chloe to her confrontation with Malcolm, Maze caught up with Lucifer and wanted to come along to watch his back. He refused, insisted on going alone, and ordered her not to follow. She obeyed, but warned him not to underestimate the human.

Of course, like the idiot devil he is, he ignored her warnings and got himself shot. Needless to say, Maze is not happy about it.

In the aftermath of this mess, they have a confrontation. Maze coldly informs Lucifer that he has forced her to break her vow to protect him, and she will not allow him to do this to her again, and for that reason she is moving out, quitting work at LUX, and the only contact Lucifer will have with her from now on is an e-mail address for emergency use only. She will continue to watch his back and protect him, but from now on it will be on her terms, and her terms only.

Unfortunately for Lucifer, "on Maze's terms" means with brutal efficiency and absolutely no regard for the police cases he and the detective are trying to solve. The first time Maze intervenes, Lucifer and Chloe are about to be killed by their murder suspect and half a dozen of his henchmen. Within a few moments, all of the bad guys are taken out with extreme precision by a sniper who escapes unseen, leaving behind only his rifle. On their next case, they go to confront their suspect only to find that he has apparently committed suicide by hanging himself, after writing a suicide note where he confesses the crime. Lucifer immediately recognizes the somewhat unusual knot the man used to make a noose as Maze's handiwork.

As more and more of their cases conclude with their suspects being murdered, suffering mysterious accidents, or committing suicide, Chloe gets suspicious and Lucifer is forced to contact Maze and try to get her to stop plastering their path with corpses. Her idea of complying with his wishes is to make sure they don't find the corpses, which means that their police cases officially remain unsolved.

Lucifer once again contacts Maze, this time ordering her explicitly to leave their suspects alive and present for the law enforcement to deal with. He is deeply apprehensive of just how Maze will react to that order.

His apprehensions are more than justified. The next time he and Chloe find themselves confronted by their suspected murderer and his two accomplices, the lights go out, the sounds of three necks being broken can be heard, and when the lights go back on, the men are lying on the ground. They are still alive, but paralyzed from the neck down due to the vertebra which were broken with absolute precision.

Maze takes out the whole biker gang, including the woman. (And almost punches out Chloe, too.) Lucifer congratulates her, praising her fighting skills. She brushes him off brusquely and stalks away.

He follows her, hurt about her behavior, and she points out angrily that if his recklessness gets him killed, he will end up back in Hell (like his daddy wants), only without her there to watch his back, because she will be stranded up here on earth. She leaves him standing there, staring after her, shocked and worried as he realizes that he hadn't thought of that.

Pink plastic flamingos have started appearing mysteriously all over the city. At first they only show up outdoors, in parks, on sideways, in people's gardens. The LAPD first gets involved when some of them show up in the private, heavily secured gardens of various celebrities. Next they start appearing on roofs and balconies, and then indoors. People show up to work to find lawn flamingos in the potted plants in their office, or on their chairs or desks. The damn things are practically everywhere, including at the precinct. The cops are not happy.

Lucifer doesn't get the fuss at first, but when some of them show up in his penthouse, he becomes determined to find the cause/perpetrator and put a stop to it. He tries to get Maze to help him, but she doesn't care. Mainly because she and her roommates are unaffected. Trixie has expressed her disappointment that they haven't got a flamingo yet. Several of her classmates have had plastic birds appear in their gardens.

But then one of the things shows up in Trixie's bedroom over night, scaring the girl. Now Maze is out for blood, determined to make the responsible entity pay. Nobody is allowed to scare her best friend.

The responsible entities turn out to be a few demon kids who have found a way of sneaking out of Hell and onto the mortal plane, now that Lucifer is no longer keeping a lid on things and his angelic replacements are no match for mischievous demonic creativity. They aren't really evil, and were just having some fun, playing a harmless prank on the humans. The one who placed the flamingo in Trixie's bedroom had overheard the girl wishing for one and thought he was doing something to please Maze's small human friend.

They knew very well that Maze lived there and that the two humans in the apartment are under her protection, which was the reason why there were no flamingos anywhere near it. They also knew about the penthouse being Lucifer's. Putting flamingos into the Devil's own lair was done on a dare.

I love this idea. Lucifer is the only one who can truly "get" Maze, who understands enough about demons, but also about how she is no ordinary demon, to know how she thinks and feels.

And on the other side, Maze gets the darkness and rage in Lucifer, and understands that his childhood - whatever passes for that with angels - and family life was just as fucked up, dysfunctional and even abusive as her own, even if it was for different reasons.

Lucifer comes home from Vegas to find not Chloe, but Maze asleep in his bed. Drunk Linda and Chloe called her asking if she knew the combination for the wall safe when they couldn't figure it out on their own. Maze refused to give it to them, then got a neighbour to look after Trixie for a little while so she could come here and deal with "the two idiots".

By the time she got to the penthouse, the other two had called Dan and he was trying to drill open the safe, damaging the wall. Maze read them all the riot act (particularly Chloe, because Trixie was back at their apartment wondering when mommy would come home so they could celebrate her birthday like they'd planned) and threw them out. Dan drove Chloe home (or at least promised to do that), and Maze got Patrick to drive Linda. She herself stayed here because she was worried Decker might convince her ex to let her come back here, or decide to come back her on her own.

After seeing Maze run out of the restaurant in tears, Lucifer becomes worried. He has never seen his demon like that, and he has no idea what could have gotten her into such a state. Whatever it is, it must be serious.

He barely pays attention to the case, and finally leaves Chloe to handle it on her own while he goes after Maze. It takes him a while to track her down, and he finally finds her at their beach, crying. He sits down in the sand beside her and eventually gets her to tell him what happened.

Lucifer comes crashing down into Hell at his Fall, landing in a charred, severely injured heap. The only thing keeping the demons down there from attacking him on sight are his wings, because they have survived the fall relatively unscathed and they are burning with divine light. That light hurts the demons.  

But there is one particular demon who is not hurt by the divine light. Mazikeen neither fears nor hates the fallen angel. Instead, she sees him as a chance: a chance to protect herself from other demons, to hide in his light, safe from attacks, and finally be able to get some rest. If that means keeping the celestial alive for a little while, it's a price she is willing to pay. And so she approaches him and takes him to her hideout, doing her best to patch the unconscious/barely conscious figure up.

Lucifer doesn't offer Malcolm the coin and Malcolm shoots him. By the time Lucifer revives, Malcolm has left, setting out to frame Dan for the murder. Maze finds Lucifer as he revives. Together they hunt Malcolm down and when they finally catch up with him, Maze sends him back to hell.

Meanwhile, Dan managed to free himself and went to Lux to warn Lucifer. He arrives at Lux after Lucifer and Maze have left. Dan follows them, not knowing that Malcolm has already tried to kill Lucifer. As a consequence, he is a witness to Maze killing Malcolm. But he can't say anything since that would mean his own involvement in this mess would come out.

To escape the Christmas season with its incessant reminders of family drama Lucifer would prefer to forget, he and Maze go on a little vacation every year. This particular year, Lucifer has chosen a private cabin in a ski resort. Not perhaps the wisest choice, but the two of them manage to stay away from too overtly christmassy events and still have some fun.

When Chloe tells Lucifer that Pierce is hushing things up after the death of the fake Sinnerman to protect Lucifer's ass, he protests and tells her that Pierce shot the man even though he was no threat. He insists that Pierce did it to silence the Sinnerman. Chloe doesn't believe him.

After finding out that Pierce is Cain, Lucifer goes to her and tells her that Pierce is the real Sinnerman. He even shows her the photography, but once again she doesn't believe him and gets angry, saying she can't continue to work with him if he goes on lying to her.

Lucifer is injured during one of his cases with Chloe, and loses all his memories of ever coming to Earth. As a result, Chloe and everybody else gets to meet the old Lucifer. The King of Hell, the arrogant, callous, even cruel ruler who views all humans with contempt. He is horrified at the idea of having feelings for one, especially one who was sent by his father.

This Lucifer trusts and cares about only one being: Maze. That means it's up to the demon to help him recover his memories.