With Chloe having only 24 hours before she's killed by the poison, Lucifer is on a race against time to find the antidote and is willing to do anything to save her. Even go back to hell.
Tropes present in this episode include:
- Distracted by the Sexy: After complaining about the scrubs disguise, Maze caught eye on a handsome orderly.Maze: I can pull off anything.
- Exact Words: Lucifer tells the killer that he's trapped in a hell drawn from his own guilt, but that he might be able to make amends if he gives Lucifer the antidote to the poison. The killer complies and nothing changes, just as Lucifer expected; he never promised it would work.
- Flatline Plotline: Lucifer has to kill himself and go to hell in order to get the information needed to save Chloe's life. Maze can't bring herself to use the defibrillator on him, but doesn't hesitate when Mother needs to go after him.
- Foreshadowing: Trixie compliments Amenadiel's necklace when they meet. She's proven to be oddly insightful in the past, and later in the season we learn that the pendant is more than it seems.
- Foregone Conclusion: When Linda asks how Lucifer can be sure he'll go to Hell, Lucifer points out that he's been barred from Heaven so doesn't exactly have anywhere else he could go if he dies.
- Internal Reveal: Amenadiel finds out that Linda knows about Lucifer and everything else.Amenadiel: [Linda's] apparently known about for a while and kept from me.
Linda: Well turnabout's fair play! - Killed Mid-Sentence: Maze doesn't give any kind of warning before "killing" Mother.
- Liquid Courage: Both Lucifer and Maze need a swig of alcohol before going through with their insane plan.
- Magical Defibrillator: Played straight and subverted. Subverted when a defibrillator is used to stop a heart (it's the device's purpose in Real Life). Played straight is when it's used to restart it.
- Mama Bear: Despite her many, many flaws, Mother is willing to go back to Hell to save Lucifer.Mother: I have a paralyzing fear of the place, but I would face a thousand Hells to save my son!
- "Not So Different" Remark: Lucifer starts to tell Mother she's as bad as God, but concludes she's actually worse. God, at least, has never pretended to love him.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Stab-happy, violent Maze is crying when it looks like Lucifer is stuck in Hell for good. Especially when they've been estranged for the first half of season 2.
- Open Heart Dentistry: Linda has to repeatedly point out that while she does have a medical degree her field is psychiatry. She hasn't had to deal with defibrillation or reviving patients since medical school and mentions quickly reading up on these areas during the trip to the hospital.
- Race Against the Clock: Chloe has only 24 hours before the poison kills her.
- Riddle for the Ages: Lucifer has to be killed in the room below Chloe's if he's going to be vulnerable enough to die, but notes that Amenadiel has to keep Chloe in that room as there's no way to know what would happen if he became invulnerable while he's physically dead.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
- Mother doesn't want any part in Lucifer's plan to go to Hell, especially not for a human.
- Lucifer is tired of being manipulated by both his Father and his mother, so he decides to leave everyone behind and go off on his own.
- Self-Inflicted Hell:
- The killer from the previous episode is stuck in the hell of his own making, constantly relieving his moment of cowardice (leaving the Uber driver to die, while saving his life's work) and being confronted by the accusing crowd. His constant attempts to justify his actions not only fail to help him but, as Lucifer reveals, are the reason he's there in the first place. His punishment stops as soon as he accepts that he was wrong, but this isn't likely to happen.
- Lucifer then ends up in his own personal hell, which involves being forced to stab Uriel with Azrael's blade every few seconds. Only Mother's arrival allows him to break free, but this nearly causes Mother to take his place in that particular hell, as she blames herself for Uriel's death.
- Terrible Artist: The artist (and drug dealer on the side) "paintings" are... not to Lucifer's taste. Or Dan's, for that matter.Lucifer: Can [the artist] provide an eye-bath? Cause I need one after this.
- Too Much Information: Ella painted a "pretty picture" of the poisoned victims' symptoms.
- You Are Worth Hell: Quite literally, in this case.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Amenadiel may have been Brought Down to Normal, but even three of the hospital's security guards together are no match for him.
