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Whatever your answer, we talked to showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson about it.

cancelled by FOX, leaving it homeless and hoping for a fourth-season pickup somewhere else, fans have mobilized in a way that has been loud and persistent.

The showrunners, who are still working on trying to find a buyer for the series, joined ComicBook.com to have a quick chat about...well, every single episode of the show.

Upon leaving Hell, Lucifer Morningstar retreats to Los Angeles for a more exciting life. When the murder of a friend connects him with LAPD Detective Chloe Decker, Lucifer becomes intrigued with the idea of punishing criminals, sending the Devil himself into a struggle between good and evil.

"When we knew we had something special is the scene between Lucifer and Chloe in the driveway at 2Vile\'s house when he says, he tells her, \'I\'m the devil,\'" Modrovich told ComicBook.com. "That scene where they\'re going back and forth, and he thinks he is mojo-ing her, and she\'s faking it. We struck gold, we thought, in that moment. They struck gold in that moment, the repartee they had, the chemistry that they had together just sung in that moment."

When a movie star\'s son is killed after being chased by the paparazzi, Chloe takes a deep look into the case with a little help from Lucifer.

"That was the episode where we really figured out what the show was," Henderson told ComicBook.com. "The pilot tells you one thing and the actual series becomes another. One of the big things we realized early on is, in our end setpiece, we have a Mexican standoff. Lucifer uses Amenadiel\'s slow-down powers to save the day. So what we realized is we\'re a show with procedural elements that occasionally has fantastical step in. We also had Lucifer kick one of the bad guys in the balls while he was in slow motion, which spoke to the idea that despite everything being serious, we are still a show where people get kicked in the balls, and it\'s funny."

When a 22-year-old future superstar quarterback wakes up to find a dead girl floating in his swimming pool, he turns to his friend, Lucifer, for help. Lucifer enlists Chloe to investigate the case, which leads to the world of big money sports and people who will literally kill to be number one.

"We\'ll fess up and say that this is episode 2.5," Modrovich said. "Because actually it was written ninth or tenth actually, but early on, we were getting an edict of \'you guys are a light cop procedural, easy on the mythology\' before we aired. At around episode nine, everybody decided we had gone too far into the mythology too fast. So we had to write a standalone procedural episode that we would then move up and air before episode three. It threw us for a loop. We ended up having a lot of fun with it. [It] was kind of an interesting challenge."

"Here is the most important part of this episode," added Henderson. "Originally, we had Lucifer rap. So Lucifer thought he was pretending to be Lucifer and he had a rap. They would not let us shoot the Lucifer rap. In fact, they said, \'Remove it.\' We then delivered a second draft that baked the Lucifer rap into the entire story in case. They were like, \'Guys, what are you doing?\' So the Lucifer rap exists. It has been written. It\'s pretty awesome. I think our writer assistant, Andrea Thornton wrote it. It is a shame that that never saw the light of day. But that was when we were still finding the tone of the show."

Modrovich noted that the rap was likely co-written by Thornton and staff writer Mike Costa. This would not be the last great bit of worldbuilding Costa would create which didn\'t make it to air...!

In an effort to get over his infatuation with Chloe, Lucifer decides that he must seduce her. Meanwhile, the two team up on a missing girl case and Amenadiel confronts Maze about his concerns about Lucifer.

"This is an easy because it has actually still my favorite scene I\'ve ever...besides maybe Charlotte Richard\'s death, and when Amenadiel gets his wings in \'Quintessential Deckerstar,\'" said Modrovich. "In this scene when Lucifer is naked and he comes out because he thinks he\'s going to quote, \'woo\' Chloe by being naked because...you know, come on. How can you resist this? Of course, with any other lady that he\'s come in contact with, that does work. That it just goes from comedy and ridiculousness to when Chloe sees the scars on his back...I love that moment so much. I just love Lauren\'s tone, like what she does in that. Tom is so beautifully heartbreaking. I feel like that\'s the first moment we really saw his vulnerability in the series."

After a shooting occurs at a fashion show and a young woman is killed, Lucifer becomes intrigued by the danger of the situation and begs Chloe to get in on the case. Meanwhile, when Maze admits to Amenadiel that she wants to go back to Hell, he sets his sights on Dr. Linda.

"This was where we got to see Maze kick ass," Henderson said. "To me, that\'s one of my favorite parts was trying to discover just how much we could do with Maze and discover just how much Lesley-Ann was capable of."

Lucifer bails on Chloe when he becomes bored with her investigation into a ruthless biker gang murder. However, when he discovers something was stolen during the crime that was very personal to him, he demands that Chloe let him rejoin the case.

"I think we hit a sweet spot that we were trying to achieve was the two-parter about the wings," Modrovich said. "I feel like that\'s when we kind of hit our tonal stride. We knew we wanted to go into mythology in a deep way, but we couldn\'t do it right away. I think they would be afraid when we were trying to build a lighter procedural show. But we knew we wanted to go to these deep places. So five and six were really satisfying for us. They were not easy to get past studio and network though; the whole edict was no wings. But that\'s the whole episode. It\'s about his wings!"

In attempt to find the contents of his stolen container, Lucifer enlists the help of an unlikely ally. Meanwhile, Chloe digs deeper into the Palmetto case, uncovering a lead that might finally expose the truth.

"What studio and network and everybody was, the edict was light procedural," Modrovich said. "When we wanted to go to this dark place of these severed wings, I think they were alarmed a bit, but we knew you had to balance the light and especially because we\'re telling a story about the devil. We knew we wanted to go into the deep themes of this wayward son, and his struggle with his father. We knew we couldn\'t just dance on top of that. We had to go deep into it, or it wouldn\'t be satisfying. So it was not easy to get those two episodes past everybody. But I think we were all excited at how that came out. Tom just jumped on them and played; he was dying to do that kind of stuff and really reach deeper into the character, so he played them brilliantly. I think everybody saw the potential of where we could go. So those two were sort of seminal in that way."

When a therapist is murdered, Lucifer and Chloe enlist the help of Dr. Linda to look into possible suspects. Meanwhile, Malcolm confronts Chloe about the night he was shot, and Lucifer experiences his first bout of jealousy.

"What I loved about \'Et Tu, Doctor\' was it\'s when we started to be able to cast comedians," Henderson said. "We got Jim Rash. We got Al Madrigal. That was fun because we realized we were a show that could cast funny people and get them out of their element a little bit. Also, that\'s the first episode that Kevin Rankin was awake [after] his character\'s in a coma. Working with Kevin was such a delight. So getting to watch him chew scenery in all the best ways was incredible."

A priest seeks out Lucifer\'s help when he suspects an underground drug operation has set up shop at a neighborhood youth center. However, a problem arises when the youth counselor is found dead, and suspicion quickly falls on the priest. Meanwhile, Amenadiel meets with Malcolm to discuss the reason he brought him back from Hell. Meanwhile, Malcolm manipulates a way to keep an eye on Dan.

"That one again, because we were telling a cop procedural, we were kind of told there was too much talking; I remember that very vividly," Modrovich laughed. "We\'re like, \'Yeah, but it\'s good talking!\' The scene where Lucifer sits at the piano with the priest and they play some blues together -- again, in typical cop procedural manner, every scene has to drive that procedural story forward. That scene didn\'t. It was actually flagged to be cut. Joe and I had to fight for it as a character beat. We\'re a cop procedural, but this is also a character show. We think it could be better than just a cop procedural; we want to go to these places. I feel like that is one of the most sort of iconic moments in the show."

Despite this interview coming out after the show has been pulled from FOX\'s schedule, Modrovich was quick to note that it is not entirely fair to think of the push-and-pull between the showrunners and the studio or network as "fights."

"They weren\'t fights, but we have to kind of push the boulder up the hill a little bit to kind of expand what people were expecting from the show," she said. "I\'m glad we did because I think it did become more than people thought it was going to be. "

Lucifer and Chloe are tasked with solving the murder of a prominent restaurateur. When they meet his son, they suspect he played a part in the death. Meanwhile, Chloe\'s mom returns home, sending Chloe\'s life into upheaval, as Lucifer learns his own dysfunctional family isn\'t nearly as unique as he thought.

"I loved [\'Pops\'] because I got to work with Manny Montana again. He was on

, which I worked on," Henderson said. "I just loved him as a human being. This was really building up the Chloe and Lucifer connection, and the sort of \'will they, won\'t they\' element of everything."

"Of course, this is Penelope Decker," Modrovich added. "This is Mama Decker which was so much fun. That was my favorite part of this episode for sure; she was so great."

When philanthropist Tim Dunlear is found dead, Lucifer explores his good side by becoming a benefactor for Tim’s glitzy, Los Angeles charity.

"St. Lucifer was where we started the Maze/Amenadiel romance," Henderson said. "Two characters at complete opposite ends, enemies for thousands of years, connecting over a bottle of wine and Amenadiel’s goat prank. This is where we really dug into the chemistry between D.B. and Lesley-Ann that we saw earlier in the season, and realized just how much we could do with their relationship."

When a woman is found dead on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - with her body twisted into the shape of a pentagram - the investigation leads Lucifer and company into the world of Satanists where, as they soon realize, evil doesn’t always live where we expect it to.

"I do enjoy the last two episodes too, even though my name is on one of them. Joe\'s is one the other," Modrovich said. "I guess I like them for the fact that we could\'ve broken the show, in a way. Doing an episode like \'#TeamLucifer,\' about a satanic cult -- we knew we wanted to do that sooner than later, because it\'s what people kind of expected. So we wanted to see if we could turn it on its head. Everything we try to do, even if it might be a cliché idea like a speed dating episode or something you\'ve seen before, we want to do it in, \'how would Lucifer do this story?\' So we knew we wanted this cult to be ridiculous."

When Lucifer is framed for murder, he and Chloe must work together to clear his name and prove the identity of the true killer.

"Then same but different in episode 13, when we went to hell," said Modrovich, comparing the season one finale to her comments about the previous episode. "When we started the show, we were like giving interviews and saying, \'We\'ll never go to Hell. We won\'t do that. We\'ll explore Lucifer on Earth, like it\'s a father-son story really at the heart of it. We\'ll never go to hell.\' Then when we\'re breaking this episode, and when the idea to actually go to Hell first came up, we all got very nervous but excited. What would that be?"

She said that throughout the first season, the show kept challenging the writing staff, and those usually turned out to be the best episodes.

"Another thing that we discovered in season one is, going to scary places or places we never said we\'d do or stories we never said we\'d do was always the most exciting," she admitted. "\'Oh that\'s cliché,\' or \'how are we going to do that?\' If we scared ourselves, it was usually a good sign. I think it turned out really well. I mean, Nathan Hope is a lot of the reason of why it looked really cool, along with our production team. And then Joe\'s awesome script."

Lucifer is distracted by his mother\'s escape from Hell, as he and Chloe investigate the murder of a stand-in actress. Meanwhile, Chloe\'s faith in Lucifer is tested by the new medical examiner, Ella. Also, Amenadiel hopes to rein in Lucifer\'s wild side, as they both deal with the absence of Maze.

"I feel like everything [in season two] was kind of an experiment," Modrovich said. "Bringing in Mom at the end of season one, we had no idea what that was, just to fess up. We were like, \'Oh, let\'s see what could be in Hell? What could have escaped?\' It could be a scary demon, the biggest, baddest damned soul ever. Then when the idea of Mom came up, and I forget where that first came up, but we were like, \'Oh, that\'s awesome. What does it mean? Who\'s Mom? I don\'t know. Let\'s do it!\' So we knew the season was going to be all about mom, but we had no idea what mom was."

"Then of course we got Tricia [Helfer]," Modrovich added. "Tricia is so good. I mean, and people say it all the time, but she\'s just a stunning actress. She has no right to be that good."

When Lucifer\'s mother, Charlotte, turns up at the scene of a grisly murder pleading innocence, Lucifer is hesitant to believe her tale. Not wanting to leave her on her own, he instructs Maze to babysit her – and not to torture her, allowing him to investigate the case with Chloe.

"That was Tricia\'s first, where we really got to explore her and introduce her as a character," Modrovich said. "I was nervous as hell. We just didn\'t know what that was going to be like. We hoped the dynamic between her and Tom would be amazing. We actually started that episode with the first scene, and it\'s like a five-minute, six-page scene in his apartment. It\'s the first time they\'re seeing each other. It\'s sentimental. It\'s funny, hopefully; it\'s dramatic. We knew they both had to go about nine different places in that scene. She just killed it; it was so good. I was giddy on set that day. I knew season two was going to be so much fun because she just came in, and just had that character down: This kind of fish out of water, this goddess in the middle of Los Angeles -- this sort of gawky gazelle in a way. Man, that was exciting. I remember that moment really well."

Lucifer and Chloe investigate a gruesome murder after a video of the crime surfaces on social media. When a second video appears, they realize they have a serial killer on their hands. Meanwhile, Lucifer\'s mom returns as Charlotte Richards. Also, Amenadiel, struggling with his loss of power, has an appointment with Linda.

"We got to sort of play with the horror tropes of the show, while still being funny because on one side you had a serial killer, and Lucifer dealing with this idea of is he blamed for everything," Henderson said. "On the other side, you had Amenadiel dealing with Mom returning and all the fun of that -- and Lucifer dealing with a mom who just wants to be around you way too much. To me, it was one of those episodes where the case and the mythology interweave really well. I was really happy with how that one turned out."

Lucifer and Chloe investigate a serial killer. After the bodies of two young L.A. transplants are found poisoned, Chloe and Lucifer hunt for the killer. Upon Maze convincing Chloe to go out for drinks, which the detective perceives as an act of friendship, but is actually part of a bet between Maze and Lucifer, the two make a shocking decision.

"\'Lady Parts\' was our girls\' night out episode," Modrovich explained. "We knew we wanted to do an episode with all of our ladies. They weren\'t really friends at this point; we knew we wanted to stick them all in one place and have them become friends. We also took it to as silly a place as we possibly could, by having this big fight in a tiki bar."

Lucifer\'s brother, Uriel, shows up. Lucifer is excited to investigate the murder of his favorite action movie hero, Wesley Cabot. Longtime rival Rolf [sic] Van Zandt initially is a suspect, but the investigation soon shifts. Meanwhile, Uriel shows up and Amenadiel is forced to come clean about his lost powers. Also, Lucifer and Uriel fight about Chloe and their mother.

"It was just too much fun," Modrovich said. "It was the introduction of Uriel, which was cool. But the whole idea of Lucifer being a fan of these movies [was fun]. Mike Costa showed up with like a four-page document about the

"We have a master doc that explains the plot of every single one of the movies and how they dovetailed," said Henderson.

"--That Mike Costa produced. We were like, \'This is the best thing so far you\'ve ever written,\'" Modrovich said. "They were so detailed, and so great. That was just a fun sidebar fantasy of all of us loving those big testosterone-laden movies; we want to make the actual

Guilty and self-destructive, Lucifer clashes with Chloe during an investigation, leading her to team up with Dan instead. Meanwhile, Amenadiel bonds with Charlotte, and Maze takes Trixie trick-or-treating.

"That is one of my favorite episodes actually," said Modrovich. "Our Halloween episode. The thing that sticks out to me in that episode are Maze\'s story with Trixie --  It was based off of the moment when Trixie walks into the bar."

"When Trixie runs away," Henderson added. "One thing to play with is, Lucifer is the eternal teenager. Chloe is the adult who skipped her teen years. Maze is sort of like a child, so we thought her connecting with Trixie made a lot of sense. This is the episode where we really followed up on that."

"We wanted to see what it would be like if they went trick-or-treating," Modrovich said. "When Maze shows her real face to Trixie, she was like, \'I\'m going to show you something.\' She expects Trixie to be scared, but the fact that Trixie\'s response was, \'Cool,\' was such a heartwarming moment between the two of them as they kind of start their little friendship."

For all the power that character beat delivered, though, there was another coming with even more long-term impact for the show.

"This is when Linda finds out Lucifer is the devil, so that moment was so fun," Modrovich said. "We knew we wanted it to be a silent moment, where Linda doesn\'t say anything. That was somewhat risky, but it really paid off. We trusted Rachel and Tom; they\'re such good actors that we knew if we just let them react and not say anything, it would be stronger than anything Linda could say. And it was."

Chloe tries to track down her father\'s killer. When the prisoner convicted of killing Chloe\'s father is murdered, new evidence suggests he was actually framed. Meanwhile, Maze tries to find a job and Lucifer shadows Dan in order to learn how to be \'normal\'.

"We had done six episodes that were focused on Lucifer," Henderson explained. "It was really really nice to focus on Chloe and really dig into her character. This was the pivot of the season, from our act one into our act two. Our act one was so much about Mom, and then at the end of this episode where Lucifer and Chloe embrace, you could see that there\'s something there. It\'s the beginning of the romance arc, which was really exciting."

After discovering that Azrael\'s blade has been stolen by a human, Lucifer quickly connects it with a string of violent stabbings revolving around a local yoga studio. While Chloe investigates the murders, Lucifer enlists Ella\'s help in locating the sword to stop the carnage.

"\'Trip to Stabby Town\' has the best physical comedy moment that we accomplished in the whole series for sure -- directed, I will say in parentheticals, by Lauren German," Modrovich revealed. "The scene was where Ella acts out the murder. She is walking it through in a yoga studio. She says, \'and then he took the knife and he stabbed. The killer fell on his knees. He stabbed like this.\' Lauren basically pulled them off to the side -- Aimee, Tom, and Lauren. Lauren is like, \'If you do it like this, if you get on your knees, like mime the knife, it\'s going to look like a handjob.\' So Aimee never looks at Tom. She directed it for comedy; Aimee is not aware of what it looks like, but Tom is. So Tom is back there smirking, fully aware of the tableau that Aimee is creating. We watched that probably five times in the writer\'s room. We were laughing our assess off. That\'s by far the best comedy in that whole episode."

Following the murder of the owner of the building in which Lux is located, Lucifer and Chloe search for the killer, while Lucifer also deals with the fact that the new owner wants to evict him and demolish the place. Lucifer goes to great lengths to protect his home, and is entirely shocked when Chloe is supportive of him. Meanwhile, Maze and Amenadiel follow Charlotte around, as she comes up with a plan to upset Lucifer enough to want to leave earth and go back to Heaven.

"Oh yeah, that\'s when the body falls from the skyscraper," recalled Modrovich.

Henderson added, "Yeah, and they\'re trying to steal looks. I mean, I love that episode....I really wanted an ice luge in this episode because I don\'t know why, but I really wanted an ice luge. Everyone was like, \'The only ice luges we could find online are basically penis ice luges or something similarly profane.\' I was like, \'Guys, come on. There\'s got to be upper class ice luge.\' Then sure enough, they came up with this amazing luxe ice luge which I wanted to own if I had a freezer big enough for it. But it\'s funny -- you just get an idea in your head. You\'re like, \'Can you guys figure it out?\' If you have the right crew, they will astound you."

Charlotte is determined to get Lucifer to leave Earth by turning Chloe against him. Meanwhile, Amenadiel has begun working as Charlotte\'s soldier, which makes Maze question his loyalty.

"Oh right, that\'s our courtroom drama. I wrote that with Julia," Modrovich recalled. "I could say that the moment that sticks out to me the most bizarrely has nothing to do with the A case and the courtroom drama of it. We knew we were making the courtroom drama episode. That was both fun and also when we actually got in there to film it, we felt a little claustrophobic. So actually, my favorite moment in that is the fight with Maze and the giant sword, where she fights the Yakuza basically. That\'s like my favorite episode of that because it\'s such an homage to great karate films. That was just fun to film. Then of course teaming up, Dan and Lucifer was really fun."

"We had an alternate version where Lucifer yells at him. He\'s like, \'Mother...\' and then shoves Dan into the wall because he was going to end with the F-word. They wouldn\'t let us go anywhere near implying that even though technically it was true because technically, Dan was sleeping with Charlotte. So instead we went with Marlotte which I thought was pretty amazing too."

After Lucifer and Chloe have an interrupted \'moment\', the tension between the two of them makes it difficult to investigate the murder of two victims, who happen to be Lucifer\'s ex-flames. Since Lucifer seems to be the only connection, interviews are conducted with his recent paramours and a surprising connection is made that helps lead them to the killer. Meanwhile, Charlotte continues to try and manipulate Chloe and Lucifer\'s impending romance and a larger threat is revealed.

"[This] is a favorite of mine. I can just chime into that one that Sheri Elwood wrote," Henderson said. "It was the episode after the near-kiss, the episode where the kiss actually happened. The episode where we had the montage of Lucifer\'s exes, which was one of I think our finest moment. That episode was just super fun because we got to see Lucifer dealing with his past come back to haunt him. All of the women he\'d been with. Chloe really started to face, the first time the idea of what would it actually be like to be with Lucifer, providing all of that with one of our best stunts that Craig Beaman shot of Lucifer racing against the jet in his car. So that one was crazy fun because it was a tricky pivot point for us to fight for because we really wanted to bring Lucifer and Chloe together. We wanted that kiss."

It didn\'t come too easy, though, as there was some pushback...but only with the show\'s best interests at heart.

"There was a lot of caution on behalf of the network to make sure we didn\'t break the show. By having them kiss, whether or not that would be the sort of thing that would sort of pull all the tension out of the show," Henderson continued. "Our pitch on it was very much no, no, no. This has to happen. This is what we\'re building to. But the question is what\'ll happen after. The fun of it is if Lucifer is the self-destructive character, what are the different things he is going to do to get in his own way and how will that affect their partnership and their relationship."

"One of the things we learned in season two was that we were going to be on the air for I think ten episodes. Then we were going to be back on the air for three, which was a super strange way to air any television show," Henderson said. "What we decided to do was okay, let\'s arc towards that. So the first ten episodes will be all about mom. Then the big swerve will be realizing at the end of episode ten that we\'re about to learn the truth about Chloe. So we learned a truth but it\'s not the truth that we were expecting to ever find out. Then 11, and 12, 13 pivoting us to this really really focused three-parter where the case was the same thing throughout all three episodes that we hadn\'t done before. But also, it\'s really about Lucifer and Chloe\'s relationship, and finally reveal why Chloe isn\'t affected by Lucifer and finally have Lucifer realize that. One of the things we really liked was weaponizing that, like someone basically learning the truth before Lucifer and using it to hurt Lucifer. So once we realized mom could come to that realization and use it, that\'s when we decided to make that our three-parter."

Lucifer and Chloe investigate a mysterious masked killer who is poisoning college students. They also try to make sense of their new relationship, after a long-awaited kiss. Meanwhile, Charlotte visits Linda for advice on a touchy subject.

"That\'s just fun because we got to choose. It became a big discussion on choosing what kind of porn Lucifer would have," Modrovich said. "We actually have a poster that we made. It wasn\'t just about how they looked, but how they could be grabbed, like handles" -- "if you will," Henderson interjects" -- "because that\'s the whole point is that in this fantasy sequence where Chloe dreams that she\'s having sex with Lucifer, she reaches up and grabs his horns. In choosing the style of porn, it was very important to get the right grasp. So that\'s really the most memorable of a moment to me. But it was really really fun to see them actually passionately hook up if you will. Even though it was a fantasy, it was really fun to actually see it play out."

Lucifer must find the antidote to the Professor\'s poison before it kills Chloe. He travels to Hell to find the Professor\'s soul and get him to turn over the antidote. While he\'s there, he is forced to confront his guilt about Uriel\'s death. Mom heads to Hell to get Lucifer back, but Lucifer still feels betrayed by his parents because of something he discovers.

This, of course, was the finale to the "three-parter" described above, and gave Lucifer the answer as to why Chloe is special.

"I think we kind of landed on that pretty early on. When I came into the project, sort of in the pilot, Chloe was immune to his charms," Modrovich said. "Then why? Yet. So when Joe and I, the team got together, we really had to figure that out pretty quickly. So we\'re like, "Oh, well, God put her there then." God put her there as a pest for Lucifer. Can he have a real relationship with somebody without his celestial power? Let\'s put this woman in front of him who\'s immune to his charms and just see what he does with it."

"I would even argue, I think this is the fun of what God\'s thinking is it\'s a testament to gift," Henderson added. "It\'s a father basically saying, \'Son, you have it too easy. Here\'s someone who will challenge you. I think you might like that. I think this might be what you need.\' But can you appreciate it? Can you understand what this really is? One of the nice things is Lucifer will always misinterpret everything God does as being manipulative. He\'s not wrong per se, but it\'s all about intent. Is he doing it because he\'s God and because he likes to manipulate things, because it makes him feel powerful or is he father looking down on his son and giving him the thing that he thinks he needs?"

"We also really really liked irony of even though he, God, quote \'Manipulated the situation\' by putting Chloe in his path, it\'s actually the opposite of manipulation," sdaid Modrovich. "It\'s he\'s giving this woman and Lucifer complete free will. He\'s taking any powers or magic or celestial whatever, advantage out of the situation and going, \'Let\'s see when not manipulated, what happens.\' This was free will. So that\'s the irony of it because of course, Lucifer took it as complete manipulation."

"That\'s the fun of our show is if God is this person that we all reflect different instincts on, so of course as kids do the same thing," Henderson said. "To externalize that into the idea of the distant father, who everyone is trying to figure out what he\'s really doing, to take the big celestial idea and turn into a family relationship, that was fun for us because you can always take this big crazy idea, God works in mysterious ways and go, \'Well, my dad kind of always did too.\' If my dad was a distant figure, did I ever really understand what he was really up to or what he really intended?"

Two weeks after Chloe\'s near-death, Lucifer has gone off the grid, cutting off all contact from his family and the police department. He materializes just in time to help solve an up-and-coming guitarist\'s murder and introduces the department to a ditzy stripper named Candy... a new mystery woman in his life. While Lucifer\'s mom desperately tries to contact her son, Chloe tries to push him away. Lucifer must find a way to prove himself in order to be invited back onto the team. Lucifer\'s mom realizes she may have found a way to finally get them back to Heaven.

"I\'m pretty sure this is a Sheri Ellwood special where basically, we were trying to figure out how to come back, how to reset," Modrovich said. "We thought, \'Oh, well, what if Lucifer\'s married? He goes to Vegas and gets married to a hooker basically.\' Then it became a stripper. Then it became a lounge singer. But yeah, I\'m pretty sure that\'s a Sheri pitch. But my favorite moment is when Lucifer sings Eternal Flame. I think it\'s just probably my favorite musical moment from him. It\'s so tongue and cheek, but it\'s so romantic. It\'s so 80s movie romantic."

Modrovich added that her band from the \'90s makes a small appearance in the episode.

"The Heavy Woolies is the name of it," Henderson added. "That\'s very important."

When it is discovered that the flaming sword is the only hope for the family returning home safely, the pressure is on for Lucifer to control what he has never been able to control before – his emotions – in order to ignite it. Meanwhile, Chloe wants to air some emotions of her own, but when a therapist and head of admissions at a prestigious private school turns up dead, the team must get to the bottom of it.

"This is where we lampooned the high school school system. We got a note from our producers that it was too broad and absurd," Henderson admitted. "Then we got a note from another producer saying, \'Actually not only is this stuff true but they\'ve shown remarkable restraint because it\'s even weirder than this.\' So that was kind of fun because it turns out I mean, it is actually much sillier than we even showed."

When a grisly murder takes place at an insane asylum, the prime suspect calls himself God. After realizing that this man could actually be his father, Lucifer struggles with his feelings towards him and tries to find the truth, all while trying to discover who the real killer is.

"I really liked God Johnson. I had a fun time doing God Johnson, just because it was a great, it was a fun chance to explore just head on the father-son relationship we\'re talking about and casting the amazing Tim Omundson," Modrovich said. "We were like chopping at the bits of this one. As soon as we cast him, we\'re like, \'Oh my god, it\'s going to be perfect.\'...That episode was fun for a lot of reasons. It was wanted to do sort of a self-contained, almost a bottle episode in a psych ward. That was a fun kind of challenge. But to have or really believe that this was his dad, and to be able to actually maybe even come to a point of slight reconciliation only to have it pulled out apart was really fun. The moment when his dad saying the things he always wanted him to say. When they\'re on this, the gurneys at the end, and God is saying, basically apologizing. Lucifer has just wanted to hear those words his whole life for millennia, and then he gets them. It\'s just heartbreaking to see when you find out that it\'s not his actual dad. I love that moment."

"And then him realizing that he\'ll never hear those words," Henderson added. "I remember when we were breaking the episode when we realized that there\'s a wonderful value to ending the episode with him being angrier than before because he actually got to feel that for a moment. Now, he knows what it feels like. Now that he knows he\'ll never actually feel that for real, he\'s doubly angry at his father."

Modrovich also praised the episode\'s director, Sherwin Shilati, who would come back for a later episode and has also since helmed an episode of 

," she said. "He was like, \'I am going to make the best episode of

you\'ve ever seen.\' It\'s all encapsulated in one sequence which is when they escape from the asylum. They kind of caused the inmates to go crazy. Well, to embrace their desire, to embrace like, \'What do you want to do? Most, what\'s your true desire?\' One is like, \'I want to set things in fire.\' They all have all their own little obsessive things they want to do or grand things they want to do. The sequence in slow motion where God, well God Johnson and Lucifer are sort of walking through the multi-purpose room in the asylum and everyone is just kind of go crazy in this beautiful, beautiful off-radic kind of scene. That was all Sherwin. That was all Sherwin and our amazing stunt coordinator, Rob Hayter, who like choreographed that down to just, they\'d really choreographed the hell out of that. When we saw the premise of it, we were like, \'Holy shit. Sherwin\'s a genius.\' But no, he really had a vision. And he has vision for everything he does. He\'d just won us over on that episode, plus he\'s just lovely guy."

When the man who had the final piece of the Flaming Sword is murdered and the piece goes missing, Mom joins Chloe and Lucifer on the case to track down the killer. But when Lucifer gets sidelined, Maze recruits him to help save Dr. Linda\'s endangered career and confronts him about the secrets he\'s been keeping.

"The second to last [episode of the season], the game was let\'s mix and match," said Henderson, who wrote the episode. "Let\'s play fun pairs, weird duos. Let\'s have a little bit of fun before our big crazy epic. So it was putting Lucifer and Maze back together which isn\'t normally a weird duo but they were separated throughout the season. So paying off that separation, putting them back together, but putting them on a collision course for each other because Maze realizes that Lucifer\'s had this big plan. He hasn\'t actually let her in on it. So Lucifer takes her for granted. She sort of realizes it. Also, in the end, Lucifer realizes that and makes the very small gesture but one that feels very large to Maze because it\'s a gesture he hasn\'t made which is an apology.

"Then putting Charlotte and Chloe together, we knew that Charlotte\'s time or at least mom\'s time was nearing an end. We hadn\'t really played those two characters together. They\'ve been pretty much just antagonists the entire time. So it was really fun to explore the two of them finding mutual ground especially since they\'re both mothers who fiercely protect their children, like when we found that very simple common ground, we realized there was a lot to explore with the two of them. So that was really exciting.

"Then bringing Dan and Amenadiel together, that was super fun because those were again, two characters who we hadn\'t brought together and the two characters who could potentially have sort of a similar energy. So you wanted to really find a way to either lean into that or make them feel very different. Having those two characters connect, we evenly discovered a friendship between the two, those that we didn\'t know existed. That\'s why we ended up keeping at play with in season three. So that was really exciting to find. Really the big fun of it was we\'re about to have a big crazy episode. Let\'s have a little bit of a, a little romp beforehand."

After Charlotte accidentally charbroils a man to death in self-defense, Lucifer must try and keep Chloe from figuring out the truth. Lucifer puts Maze in charge of finding Charlotte and Amenadiel, who have both gone missing in light of recent circumstances, while he finds a permanent solution for the ticking-time-bomb he calls Mom.

"There is that whole improv thing in there where Amenadiel comes to Dan\'s improv class because he feels like, \'Oh that helped Dan, maybe that can help me,\'" Modrovich explained.

"And realizing that they could connect over improv in 17 and then actually use it, and actually getting to see him do improv in the finale was so wildly satisfying especially because the network had been hesitant about the improv," Henderson said. "Then when they saw it was coming back, they were so happy. So they went from \'We\'re not sure\' to \'Yes, more.\'"

This next bit can really only be communicated as the conversation unfolded...

Modrovich: The sweet spot, the sweet spot of Amenadiel misinterpreting and using it\'s like okay, if this is supposed to help you work through things, Dan, then I\'m going to use it to work through my issues with my father. So he just taking improv, this comedy improv and making it just a vehicle for his own therapy, and then he\'s just going to talk about his dad. He\'s so earnest. It was so so much fun. So that was fun. The last episode was, if I can put myself back in that place, I remember it was, we really just wanted a satisfying ending for mom.

We went back to where we started with the metaphor of the bitter person in the divorce who didn\'t get the house and didn\'t get the kids, and didn\'t get anything. She can\'t let go. The whole thing was she couldn\'t let go of it. She wanted to go backwards. She wanted to somehow assemble it again and steal it away from God, and we realized that the most satisfying place to end would be to have her move on, not to forget her children. There\'s no way you can, but to move onto maybe create her own new world, and let go of her bitterness and her anger towards God.

That felt the most kind of enlightened version of Mom. It felt the most satisfying. So that\'s kind of what the whole episode was built around.

So at the same time, we\'re trying to figure out a happy ending for mom. We knew she was also going to almost kill Linda. So it was tricky in some ways because we wanted to show the length to which she\'d go. We wanted to push her to the most desperate place where she would kill a human, kill one of our favorite people basically, Linda, and then put Chloe in danger. There was no limit to how far she would go to get her family back. Then too in the same episode, have her let go was I guess the meat of that episode.

Henderson: Well, as long as we made sure the audience understood that everything came from a position of a mother trying to be with her family, that even if she did terrible things, we at least could understand why. So that was really the important thing was she hurts all the characters we love most. We know she\'s wrong, but we also understand why she\'s doing it. That was the tricky line that we really tried to walk so that she was still the hero of her own story even if we knew she\'d gone too far.

Modrovich: Yeah. The other fun thing, I just remember being in the room. Joe, do you remember the moment when we\'re like, "Oh my god, this is when Amenadiel gets his powers back?"

Oh my gosh. That was such a...because we didn\'t know. We didn\'t know how. We knew we wanted to give her her own universe, basically the space vagina, we like to call it, where Lucifer puts the store together and cuts a whole in the universe. But we didn\'t know how that was all going to go down. So when all the pieces came together, like Tetris when we realized Amenadiel could get his powers back in this moment because it\'s ... It relates to where we eventually got to in season three. But because his motivation was so selfless in that moment, that\'s why he got his powers back. He wanted to save Linda.

Henderson: Yeah. What would happen is we had written ourselves a new corner where we had this thing where we had to save Linda and this thing where mom was basically a walking time bomb. I love writing ourselves into corners because that\'s where inspirations comes. So we had these two stories that we just couldn\'t figure out what to do with, how to have them collide. Then I forgot who, someone. The room just started riffing.

All of a sudden, it was like, "Well, wait if Amenadiel has his powers back, we\'d never actually seen how the rest of the world reacts." We\'ve always just been in that scene, but the rest of the world would freeze too. So what if that happens at the best possible moment. So once we found that, all of a sudden, and there\'s nothing more satisfying than you banging your head against the wall for two hours. You know there\'s nothing there and then all of a sudden, it\'s like [choir singing].

Modrovich: Oh my god, the sky parts, yeah. So that\'s that one. That was my first finale I had written so that was fun.

After a confused Lucifer wakes up in the middle of the desert with his wings back, he recruits the help of Chloe to help figure out what happened to him and why. Upon doing their own research, they come across a crime scene that could be tied to Lucifer\'s kidnapping. When the Lancaster Police Department get involved, newcomer Lieutenant Marcus Pierce fails to make a great impression on everyone with his stern demeanor. The investigation goes awry when Lucifer finds himself in another compromising situation and something much darker is revealed.

"The one thing I can say about \'They\'re Back, Aren\'t They?\' was the challenge was to end with this because we\'re opening with this giant reveal, right, of where we\'ve left season two with Lucifer and his wings back. But we also knew that we didn\'t want to get into too serious a tone right off the bat. The solution was Jeremy Birkett, otherwise known as Lee who was in the first episode after the pilot as the thief. We knew we wanted to bring him back because he\'s so damn funny. There\'s nothing like him running through the desert in his chonies to reset a lighter tone. So it was just fun to bring him back. It helped us set things off on a lighter tone," explained Modrovich. "The moment that really stands out in that episode or the moment that stands out to me the most I guess is when Lucifer sits down to tell Chloe, just show her that he\'s the devil and he can\'t. I love that moment because he\'s so brave. Then he\'s going to keep his word that where he leads season two and that I\'m going to show her. And then he can\'t. The reaction from Lauren is so great because she\'s really hurt by it, by the fact that he\'s yanking her chain again."

After Lucifer removes his wings yet again, Linda becomes concerned that he is too focused on tracking down the Sinnerman and neglecting his own well-being. Tensions continue to rise between Lucifer and Chloe, but they realize they must put their differences aside to solve a case in which Lucifer takes a sudden interest. Once Detective Pierce\'s past is revealed though, everyone realizes that the Sinnerman is much more dangerous than they thought.

"We had Lucifer shoot a guy with a puppet," Henderson said. "I mean, I can\'t believe we got away with the absurdity of that episode. I loved writing it because this is one of the hardest episodes I\'ve had to write because when you enter the world of comedy, people either have to be funny or unintentionally unfunny. Both are very difficult to do. So I probably wouldn\'t do it again but I loved writing it because it was an incredible challenge. I was really happy with how it turned out."

Modrovich reminded him that he also had to rewrite a part of the episode...

"That\'s right. I couldn\'t say micropenis," Henderson laughed. "I think I said it 17 times and I had to whittle down my micropenises by five."

"And then the fun thing is that Lucifer actually says, \'Look at that big cock,\'" Modrovich said. "We actually got away with that because he\'s referring to a giant chicken."

After talking to Lucifer and Linda, Maze realizes that she is looking for more out of life and decides to head to Canada for a tricky case. Chloe however, becomes concerned when she feels that Maze is being deceived by a scheming conman. Upon further investigation, Lucifer and Chloe make a stunning realization when they find that their target may be much closer than they thought.

In discussing this episode, which was a hangover from season two, the pair got into a broader discussion about the stand-alones.

"The Maze episode showed that we could do a little bit of a James Bond-y sort of thing and a flashback showed that we could just go whenever we wanted if we felt there was a story worth telling," said Henderson.

"They were really sort of the bane of our existence, the four stand-alones," Modrovich said. "But also like Joe was saying, we got the chance with these stories we never would\'ve done. It did open up the scope of this kind of stories we could tell. So that was really fun. I guess the only reason they were difficult is because we had to shuffle them into the next season kind of side and scene."

When a youth counselor is found murdered, Lucifer and Chloe venture into the world of high-end reform programs to find the killer. Meanwhile, Amenadiel adjusts his lifestyle in an attempt to help Lucifer, and Chloe questions Lt. Pierce\'s feelings towards her.

"I just really that has my favorite joke in it of all time," Modrovich said. "Which is when Lucifer rides in, stoned, on a horse. Chloe says, \'Where\'d you get that horse?\' He goes, \'What horse?\' It\'s just my favorite joke. It really is."

When a food chemist is found dead, Lucifer and Chloe\'s investigation pits them against an unexpected face - criminal defense attorney Charlotte Richards. Everyone is caught off guard when they see her back in the precinct. As Lucifer tries to understand her return, he makes a shocking discovery that helps solve the case.

"We loved working with Tricia so much that we brought her back as an entirely different character in the same body," Henderson said. "It was so wonderful to see Tricia finding a way to play the character in a way that was completely different but that people wouldn\'t necessarily feel like she was a different person. It was great to have an episode that really focused on her as a lead."

When Lucifer discovers his ex-fake-wife, Candy, has gone missing, he hightails it to Las Vegas with Ella in tow. Together, the two of them work to find her, but interesting secrets are revealed along the way that could compromise the investigation. Meanwhile, Chloe is upset that Lucifer left on her birthday, so Linda tries to lift her spirits.

"So at the beginning, we knew we needed to set up this giant seam of identity for Lucifer. We wanted him to when he wakes up in the desert with his wings back, he\'s like, \'Who am I? What am I?\'" Mordrovich explained. "Then he finds out his devil face is gone. Of course, he thinks God is behind it. This is kind of this large, this big idea of Lucifer exploring, \'Who am I?\' Then we\'re like, \'Eh, now, we\'re going to go to Vegas!\' That\'s exact, you know. It was tough. So we knew all the episodes around those four episodes had to be kind of straight, almost their own stand-alones too in terms of mythology. We couldn\'t get so deep into this. We had to have a regular case of the week so that we didn\'t get whiplash."

She also provided some behind-the-scenes insight into the why of Vegas in specific.

"I think it\'s funny because that was the very last episode that we did season two. So we actually filmed the last thing up. We came up with it because we wanted to score a free trip to Vegas at the end of the season for the staff and the cast," Modrovich admitted. "We were all like, \'Oh my gosh. Let\'s film in Vegas. We\'ll only be out there like three days or three nights, but then we can get everybody out there. It can be like a big end of the season treat and party in Vegas.\' That was the reason why we came up with that episode. Then of course, we had to film it in Vancouver. So that absolutely backfire, but I just think it\'s funny that that\'s why we came up with it because we wanted a big party, and that\'s what we didn\'t get. But that was probably the most fantasy episode I\'ve been able to do, just in doing this giant Vegas dance number. I remember when I saw the rehearsal of the dance number, \'Luck be a Lady,\' that we were in this huge empty stage. I cried with happiness. They finished, I was like, \'Oh my god. I can\'t believe we get to do this big stupid Vegas number in this show. How weird is that?\'"

A reporter seeks revenge after he discovers that Lucifer has been sleeping with his estranged wife. However, when it\'s revealed that Linda is the reporter\'s estranged wife, things get messy. Lucifer\'s reputation and safety are on the line, especially when a serial killer from the past resurfaces.

"In both this and \'Vegas,\' we set up huge story elements. In \'Vegas,\' we introduced Chloe\'s necklace. Then we really sort of wrapped up Candy Morningstar. Then \'Off the Record,\' we introduced the fact that Linda had an ex-husband," Henderson said. "One of the things we really wanted to explore was Linda. Linda hadn\'t been so much the person that Lucifer talked to and the person who was our sounding board. We wanted to tear her apart a little bit. She had found out the truth about Lucifer. She had sort of gotten away unscathed until Mom came around. But we liked that it had the choose, you know, sometimes therapists are the ones who least realize they need therapy. So she\'s hiding from that. Then this other thing hits her in the sense of, \'Oh God, is all this happening to me because I know this truth?\' Is the truth of the world worth it in a certain sense?"

"Yes, it\'s funny, the episode that she found out Lucifer was really the devil, it never really affected her personally until Reese," Modrovich said. "Well, until she got fried by mom. Then she sort of buried that a bit. Then when Reese was killed, I think just the knowledge of knowing there is really a hell and there is really a heaven, just finally hit her. So it was fun to see her contend with that in the next episode, \'Chloe Does Lucifer.\' Because even though that was kind of a light romp, the ace story was slightly lighter with the speed dating, we got to really start our Linda story which was also to be honest, a little bit tail-wagging the dove because we didn\'t have Maze. We didn\'t have Lesley-Ann because she was having a baby. So we\'re like, \'Who is the therapist going to get therapy from?\' It can\'t be Lucifer. I mean, that\'s the only other one who knows about, who\'s in the know. If it\'s not Maze, then oh my gosh, we should use our fake therapist, Amenadiel. He\'s to do when he is Mr. Fake Doctor, Canaan. We\'re like, \'Let\'s have him come in and be a real therapist to Linda.\' It all of a sudden opened up. We\'re like, \'Oh my god, love triangle. Angel-demon-human love triangle.\' How crazy is that? When Maze comes back and she sees that her ex-boyfriend basically and her best friend are close, that\'s going to really bother her. So it gave us all juicy kinds of story. But it was also because we thought the combination of Amenadiel and Linda really made sense because he\'s trying to get close to her or she doesn\'t even know that he needs to understand humanity. That\'s his lesson I guess is to try to bridge the gap between being this pious, up on his pedestal angel, and thinking that humanity is beneath him. So that\'s kind of his whole life lesson. He, in getting close to Linda, he understands that humanity is just as complicated and just as celestial beings. They\'re just as deep, multifaceted. So that was fun."

When a murder is connected to a celebrity dating app, Lucifer and Chloe question all they know about the world of social media in order to solve the case. Meanwhile, Ella tries to avoid Charlotte, and Amenadiel helps Linda deal with the death of her ex-husband.

"Well, really really my favorite part of this was the Monopoly runner," Modrovich said. "The whole point I guess, I guess again in choosing sort of a somewhat cliché world of speed dating, we knew we wanted it to matter personally for Lucifer. So if he was going on this what connotates boring and interesting. In this world of speed dating, that\'s the whole struggle of it, right? You\'re trying to invent yourself and show who you are in three minutes which is impossible.

"So we knew we wanted the whole theme to be \'are you a shoe or are you a top hat?\' A shoe is apparently bad and boring but actually no. Shoes are, they stay with you. They have soul -- listen to that one! That\'s a pun, pun right there! -- I liked the heart of that episode and the themes of it."

"Also, I think it had the Amenadiel-Linda scene which I thought was just absolutely lovely," Henderson added. "They were just wonderful in it."

Lucifer is worried when he realizes that recipients of his favors start to turn up dead. After he and Chloe investigate, they are finally brought face-to-face with the Sinnerman. Meanwhile, Detective Pierce returns to work after taking a bullet, Charlotte finds a new career and Amenadiel has a new love interest.

"What I loved is having an episode where it seems like we caught our villain, and then he\'s literally popped his own eyes out like again going to a nice big horror beat of you think you got your guy just where you want him," Henderson said. "Then Lucifer the whole time, all he wants to do is look into this guy\'s eyes. So he\'s willing to take his eyes away to beat the devil. That was just really satisfying for me."

With the Sinnerman in custody, Lucifer is prepared to go to any length to get his devil face back. But, with another victim\'s life on the line, will Lucifer\'s conscience hinder or help? Meanwhile, Trixie is introduced to Charlotte and questions the relationship she has with her father.

"One of my favorite things -- Ildy, you supervised this episode -- was that scene where Lucifer finally stabs Pierce," Henderson said. :We just stay on that shot for way too long in the best way. We\'re like waiting. Did Lucifer just kill a dude? I love that. I came to the ending, Ildy was playing with it too like, \'Check this out.\' I just loved the like nope, nope, longer, longer, longer, longer, okay, out now! That was awesome."

"When we first saw the cut, Sheri and I were in there," Modrovich recalled. "We\'re like, \'Let\'s get as uncomfortable as we can possibly get in this moment.\' So we went to the uncomfortable place. They were like, \'No, longer, longer. Past uncomfortable.\' That was really fun. What was I going to say about that episode? I loved the Sinnerman. It was again, taking a risk or hopefully it felt like we were taking a risk in taking this incredibly serious scene between the Sinnerman and Lucifer. Drawing eyeballs on his bandage, we were like, \'Oh my gosh. We might have amused ourselves too much by doing that.\' When we got into ending, we\'re like, \'Oh no. Wait. This is maybe a little too funny.\' It\'s really undermining the drama of it, so we actually had to stay off that for a lot of that scene as we were finding ourselves giggling too much. But yeah, that was a good one."

"We feel like what the strength of our show is putting the absurd into very not absurd situations," Henderson added. "Then in doing so, making it feel more real because we got a dude with no eyes. I would believe that someone would probably draw some eyes on there. It\'s a crazy stupid idea. It\'s this thing that only we could do and sort of make unstupid, which unstupid is definitely a word now."

In a flashback episode that takes place when Lucifer first came to LA, Amenadiel comes to retrieve his fallen brother, but is shocked when he is mugged. Amenadiel enlists Lucifer\'s help to track down the mugger and Lucifer, in turn, offers his assistance - but only in exchange for a favor. Meanwhile, Chloe and Dan - who are still married - investigate the murder of an MMA fighter, Aidan Scott, at the hands of the same killer who mugged Amenadiel.

"The moment that sticks out to me is the end where we actually see Maze cut off [Lucifer\'s] wings," Modrovich said. "It\'s such a visceral moment. To be able to go from the opening where Lucifer is in a white

suit and just the stupidity of that to this real, real moment. I love that we can, we have the ability to go to these two opposite polar places."

After Lt. Pierce\'s true identity is revealed, Lucifer tries to figure out his motives. In order to earn Chloe\'s assistance in his investigation of Pierce, Lucifer goes above and beyond to help her solve the murder of a professional surfer. Meanwhile, Amenadiel deals with a personal health issue.

"\'All About Her,\' we built the case around the fact that we learned that Kevin [Alejandro] can surf," Henderson admitted. "So it was super fun. We had moved to LA, and so it was super fun to be able to actually have a cast member who could do that and be able to shoot him actually surfing in it. It was also episode where we really leaned into the comedy of Amenadiel by giving him chlamydia or at least having him think he had chlamydia. Which is a big point."

When an ecstasy cook-turned-chemistry-teacher is found murdered in a cozy Los Angeles suburb, Lucifer and Pierce must go undercover to help track down the killer. Meanwhile, Maze has a newfound attraction for someone that she used to despise and Charlotte has a revelation.

where Mulder and Scully go undercover in a suburban baited community," said Modrovich. "We knew we just wanted to do something. We knew we wanted to do that but in our way. Then when it became Pierce and Lucifer being the couple, and with star-spangled Speedos, we knew we had fun on our hands."

Since this was another Sherwin Shilati-directed episode, here\'s a continuation of those thoughts from "God Johnson."

"What I love about Sherwin is like he goes for it," Modrovich said. "He has crazy pitches. Then he\'ll usually protect himself by getting something that\'s also a little bit more standard. For instance, in \'Til Death Do Us Part,\' I know we\'re jumping around, but when Lucifer and Pierce kiss, he had this whole thing. God bless him, it did not end up in the cut. But he did it in slow motion. He had these two kids behind Lucifer and Pierce with Super Soakers. They crossed streams behind Lucifer and Pierce as they kissed in like a weird, sort of Vegas fountain way. It was hilarious. It was too over the top, but I loved him for going for it. He just will go for it and have fun. He just has fun. You can see it in the episode."

When Chloe and Lucifer\'s investigation into the murder of a diamond thief points to one of Ella\'s brothers as the main suspect, Ella is driven to prove her brother\'s innocence and recruits an unlikely ally. Meanwhile, Linda is upset when Charlotte comes to her for help and Detective Pierce hashes out his issues with Amenadiel.

"We loved digging into Ella," Henderson said. "We loved giving her more to do. But we also loved the idea of exploring the true polar opposites of the show, Maze and Ella, and trying to find common ground between them. The two of them just has such a awesome chemistry. I kind of want to watch a buddy cop show with the two of them."

When a best-selling novelist is murdered, Lucifer and Chloe discover that her books are based on real people from her past, and must infiltrate her high school reunion in order to catch her killer. Meanwhile, Amenadiel and Linda struggle with making their relationship public.

"I just loved Poppycock as my favorite opening of all time, which is the dream sequence where Chloe falls off the balcony," Modrovich said. "Lucifer\'s wings, and he flies after. Lucifer flies after her and tries to save her in sort of a Superman-esque moment. But then his wings, he can\'t control them. They open up and he can\'t reach Chloe. Chloe splats on the pavement and he wakes up. I love that opening. I also love that dance at the end, the prom dance because I\'m a sap."

When a murder investigation reveals the dark side of Hollywood, Chloe puts her life on the line to protect an innocent victim. Then, Lucifer comes up with a hell-raising scheme to help Cain, but when Amenadiel and Maze get involved, things don\'t quite go as planned.

"This is another one that the room pitched to us and with the title \'Raising Abel,\' which we absolutely loved," Henderson said. "We just came in from post and they had just gone crazy with this idea. Then being able to cast Lauren Lapkus was fantastic because we needed a comedienne to be able to walk that fine line between old school Barbarian and a plausible woman wandering around Los Angeles."

When a superstar singer\'s life is threatened, the team is thrust into the world of big-ticket stadium shows, crazed fans and divas, giving Lucifer a run for his money. Meanwhile, Charlotte tries to help Linda and Maze repair their friendship.

The pair admitted that there was a moment where they worried about finding someone who could sing and act in the ways they wanted for the show, but quickly dismissed that when they found Skye Townsend, who was able to both act -- and provide songs for her character, a pop star.

"What was great is we actually got to hire the best actress for the role," Modrovich said. "And she could sing on top of it. She was just amazing. I feel like she\'s a star in the making. That was her music, and she gave this read that was just amazing in her audition. We\'re like, \'there she is.\' Love that when that happens."

As Chloe and Lucifer go on the hunt for a serial killer targeting couples in love, Pierce realizes the case is connected to a murder he previously solved...in 1958. Then, Lucifer becomes upset when Pierce has a change of heart about an important decision.

"So Pierce was named after Guy Pearce. We templated him off of a character from

because we saw him as sort of this timeless figure. So when we started talking about going into Pierce\'s past, we realized, well, why don\'t we go into the era of

itself and embrace that sort of old noir feel? It\'s also the kind of era that Tom Welling fit in so well. It looks like he\'s from that time. So that was super fun."

When Maze is the prime suspect in a murder, Lucifer and Chloe enter the world of bounty hunting to investigate. Maze decides she wants to go back to Hell, but after Lucifer refuses, she turns to Pierce for help. Meanwhile, Charlotte\'s sanity is questioned when she makes a big discovery and Chloe admits she\'s dating someone.

"That was really fun. I feel like that might be Lesley-Ann\'s strongest episode," Modrovich said. "She had so many just incredible performances. I feel like the scene at the end of the episode where she realizes that she\'s always going to be sloppy seconds for Lucifer, that she\'s always put him first but he\'s never put her first is such a beautiful heartbreaking moment. That\'s one of my favorite Lesley-Ann moments for sure."

Lucifer and Chloe investigate a murder during which a witness claims a winged guardian angel saved her life, causing Lucifer to become paranoid about his own actions. Meanwhile, Pierce and Chloe\'s relationship takes an interesting turn and Lucifer discovers something that could change everything.

"It was something that I sort of came into the room and I just literally pitched the idea that Lucifer, that someone has spotted an angel," Henderson said. "Lucifer worries that it\'s him, so he doesn\'t go to sleep. That was all I had. But I also had the name \'Angel of San Bernardino.\' I didn\'t even know where San Bernardino actually was. I just thought it was a cool-sounding thing."

"Then the episode became something incredibly episode because then we added

to it," Henderson added. "I don\'t remember whose ideas that was. But we just grew obsessed with like well, of course, if he has to stay up, he has to watch

, was more work than it probably should\'ve been worth to anyone other than our room because every single person was in on it. Our line producer\'s assistant found the actor who played a villain [on

] who was also available to play our would-be killer. Everyone chipped in. That was just a really really fun episode because you got a lot of really big weighty ideas, and then a montage at the end with Lucifer watching 

When a prima ballerina is brutally murdered, Lucifer helps Chloe solve the case and attempts to keep her focus away from Pierce. Amenadiel begs Charlotte to help him with an important plan, and Maze remains devoted to a task from which Pierce asked her to back away. Then, Chloe confronts Lucifer about his meddling in her life, but as he\'s about to make a huge confession, he finds out something that changes everything.

"This is when Pierce proposes; it ends with Pierce proposing to Lucifer," Modrovich said. "My favorite moment for sure in this episode is between Linda, Dr. Linda and Lucifer because Dr. Linda finally says so many things that we\'ve been dying to say to Lucifer, the audience has been dying to say to Lucifer. Lucifer finally says something we\'ve been dying for him to say which was, \'I want her to choose me.\' So the entire season as Pierce, as our love triangle has been kind of heating up, he hasn\'t been honest with himself. That\'s key to Lucifer, is he\'s honest with everybody but himself. In this moment when he finally says, \'I want her to choose me,\' and Dr. Linda gets it out of him, it\'s just like, \'Oh I love you.\' Then Pierce proposes."

When Chloe takes some time off, Lucifer is forced to work with Dan on a murder case involving a dog show. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Maze have differing ideas for Chloe\'s party and after a wild night, Chloe rethinks a life-changing decision.

"\'All Hands on Decker,\' this is our spiritual sequel to two of our favorite episodes from season two, Ladies Night and Douchifer," said Henderson. "The idea was taking those and pushing them in different directions. So in season two, Ladies Night brings all of our women together. In this season, it tears them all apart. Just having all those actresses together was just so much fun and getting them to sort of have all of their characters unravel all on a party bus felt right."

When Lucifer and Chloe investigate the death of a woman, they discover that they may be pursuing the wrong suspect. Then, Charlotte risks her safety when she decides to take matters into her own hands, and just as Lucifer makes a huge confession, he gets a tragic phone call that changes everything.

"I do feel like episodes 23 and 24 felt right together as sort of a two-parter because it was really the Amenadiel-Charlotte episode," Modrovich said. "We knew we wanted to do something just worthy, a last farewell love letter to Trisha and all that she could do. So that\'s what the episode became is saying goodbye to a character and an actress that we just love. So it felt really emotional from the get-go. I mean, I remember at the readthrough, we all cried because we were saying goodbye to Trisha too. It was just probably the most emotional moment, emotional episode I\'ve ever worked on of Lucifer and just has a special place in my heart for sure."

"I had so much fun being a part of Charlotte\'s story where she eventually finds redemption. That was fun to write, and building up to it was fun to write. Ildy wrote the second to last episode where she died, and that just broke my heart. Breaking it was heartbreaking, reading it was devastating, and then seeing Tricia Helfer bring it to life ... I wanted to make sure we earned that," Henderson said. "So would we maybe have moved it up more? I\'d say probably yes, because we probably would have tried to find a different ending for the finale, and probably move that up a bit more. My hope is that it\'s in the exact right spot, because this was one of the things that helps us demand a season four."

Shocked by Charlotte\'s death, Chloe, Lucifer and the rest of the team work together to investigate and take down the killer. Then, Lucifer has an epiphany, Maze decides to mend a broken friendship and Chloe finally sees the truth.

"I think that\'s the best episode of television I\'ve ever made, just full stop," Henderson said. "I love it. I got to write a mixture of a play and an action movie. I thought the entire cast just brought it. The only regret I have about the episode is that DB and Tricia aren\'t in it. The incredible of the work they do in 19 that Ildy wrote, I just wish I could have some of that but it\'s also the stuff they do in there is so wonderful. And them not being also gave us room to play with Ella and her fate, Dan and his breaking point, as well as our main characters, not that they aren\'t our main characters, as well as the Lucifers and Chloes of the world."

The episode sees Lucifer and his team investigating the murder of a child psychiatrist while Ella is thinking about a childhood secret she’s been hiding. And there\'s a special friend from Ella’s past who may actually be a ghost.

"Boo Normal is close to my heart because it was kind of inspired by my daughter," Modrovich said. "Should I say that? She is 11. But she\'s a unique quirky kid, my daughter. I think we just wanted to, I just really wanted to explore those themes and in telling an Ella story, I don\'t know. Ella feels like the character that is almost like my spirit animal. So it just became a really personal episode for me in that exploring Ella, this joyful character, but that she has this secret that she\'s ashamed of was really ... It was really satisfying and we got a lot of ... It was a challenge because Ella is our joyful character. We didn\'t want to break her. We didn\'t want to spoil her and darken her too much. But we just wanted to give her more depth. I think we succeeded."

You can check out out some of Henderson\'s thoughts on the bonus episodes here, here, and here.

God creates an alternate dimension where Lucifer and Chloe never met and Lucifer is granted his freedom of choice.

"It\'s one of those episodes that like snuck up on me in terms of being one of my favorites," Modrovich admitted. "I guess it\'s because it\'s a stand-alone. You almost have to get completely invested in a completely other world in the episode. It\'s like all the characters are the same but different. It was just a fantasy. It was a fantasy. It scratched a fantasy. It showed just how can absolutely every character be different but the same. It just was fun. That was just pure fun."

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