It looks like Chloe and Lucifer are finally dealing with the U of the UST... until it's revealed that this is just Chloe's dream. Maze is kind of sad that her friend is getting some "action" only in dreams and advises Chloe to loosen up a bit. Which, in turn, makes things weird between her and an uncharacteristically hesitant Lucifer. All this makes the newest investigation on a psychotic serial killer that much more difficult.
Tropes present in this episode include:
- All Just a Dream: Chloe and Lucifer finally working out their UST, much to Chloe's disappointment... and Maze's amusement.
- Awful Truth: Learning that Chloe coming into his life was just another of his Father's plans devastates Lucifer.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Lucifer finding out Chloe has been poisoned.
- Deadly Nosebleed: This is the poison's first symptom. The poor college students are all exhibiting this, as is Chloe in the finale.
- Driven to Suicide: The killer Jason Carlisle slit his own throat because, in his own words, he doesn't have a choice.
- Fingore: The surgeon inflicts this on herself to meet Carlisle's demand and get the antidote for his second victim.
- First Kiss: Chloe and Lucifer share their first kiss on the beach.
- Headbutt of Love: Chloe and Lucifer, when they realize that what they have is the real deal and not a fling.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Carlisle was a doctor who was vilified for saving his computer which contains his work instead of saving his uber driver.
- The cardiothoracic surgeon mutilated her hand because she just couldn't let the college girl die. Though Lucifer called her out on it, saying the killer could force her to mutilate herself further.
- Internal Reveal: Lucifer learns that Chloe's birth was the result of a miracle.
- LOL, 69: The e-mail account the killer uses to send his threats, which belongs to a grad student and part-time library worker named Matthew Hoffing (whom Chloe and Lucifer catch watching porn at work), is apparently "dman69".Lucifer: That's a very clever play on words, by the way. Was "nevergetslaidno1" taken?
- Moment Killer: Lucifer went to confront Chloe about what he found out, only to find that Chloe has been poisoned.
- Moving the Goalposts: When the detectives try to convince Carlisle to stop by arguing that the surgeon did mutilate her hand to save a stranger's life, Carlisle vows to continue his efforts by arguing that the detectives changed the variable by setting up a scenario where the surgeon was being observed making her choice, rather than just accepting that not everyone will make the choice he made.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Johnny Kane, when he learns that Cormier died because he couldn't cut off his own face.
- Never My Fault: The killer.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Chloe is trying to follow Maze's advice and loosen up, only to freak out Lucifer because she's acting so strangely.
- In turn, Chloe herself is a little troubled—and more than a little disappointed—that Lucifer hasn't made any moves to consumate their relationship yet, despite trying to get her in bed since the day they met.
- Pass the Popcorn: Maze rushes in Chloe's room because she heard a scream and is worried about her friend. When she realizes what kind of dream Chloe was having, she just grabs a huge bag of popcorn and makes herself comfortable.
- Recursive Crossdressing: Johnny Kane is famous for a role in which he played a woman playing a man.
- Sadistic Choice: Carlisle presents his victims with one: either they mutilate themselves in some way or he kills an innocent college student. Even worse with a prominent cardiothoracic surgeon, who he demands must mutilate her hand to save a student. He basically puts her between a choice of saving one person now vs. potentially saving countless other lives with that hand. His sole justification is to see whether or not his victims would make the same choice he did, where he saved his research over the life of an innocent college student when both were endangered by a car crash.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: After being vilified (see I Did What I Had to Do), and lost his job and family, Carlisle became a killer.
