Lucifer flies back to Hell and releases Abel's soul, hoping that him dying of natural causes will be the key to undoing Cain's curse. Unfortunately, Abel ends up in the body of a young woman instead of an elderly man.
Tropes present in this episode include:
- Antiquated Linguistics: Abel's English is excellent, albeit a few centuries out of date.
- Asshole Victim: Pierce points out that Abel was an "asshat". Pierce/Cain was just the one who was lucky enough to win their final fight. Him ending up as the first soul in Hell supports the idea that he wasn't a good person. When he's revived in Bree's body he proves to be self-centered and has a terrible attitude towards women which takes some of the sting off him dying again at the end of the episode.
- Back from the Dead: Abel's soul is brought back from Hell to inhabit a new body.
- Black Comedy: Pierce and Abel bury the hatchet, and are actually quite civil, and as Abel strolls off to start a new life, Pierce tells Lucifer that he's fine with him breaking their deal, because while Abel is alive, he has hope. Cue Abel getting flattened by an ambulance.
- Brick Joke: Of the Black Comedy variety. After he's resurrected, Abel is nearly run over by a car when he carelessly tries to cross the road. At the episode's end, it almost happens again— and then he's run over by an ambulance.
- Butch Lesbian: Abel, a womanizer now inhabiting a woman's body, ends up coming across as this when he's hitting on women.
- Cain and Abel: Naturally, we get to see the brothers interact with each other, although it doesn't end with Abel dying by Cain's hand.
- Casanova Wannabe: Abel loves the ladies; unfortunately for him, the sentiment isn't mutual.
- Chekhov's Skill: Or rather, Chekhov's lack of skill. Abel doesn't look before trying to cross a street.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: After Abel sees he's now in a woman's body, he spends some time fondling his newly-acquired assets.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: As Maze is telling Lucifer and Pierce about how she and the other demons would change Abel's "loops" out of boredom, Lucifer realizes that finding "Bree" may not be as easy as he'd thought it would be:Lucifer: So what you're saying is, Hell made him multi-lingual and completely adaptable?
Pierce: And we put him in the body of a young woman.
Maze: Smooth move, boys. - Failed a Spot Check: Abel goes for hours without noticing that he's now a woman, and actually needs to be shown before realization sinks in.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Abel's speech patterns are antiquated and he walks out into traffic due to not knowing what cars are.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Chloe isn't happy that Pierce "stole" her partner away from her.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: Discussed by Pierce and Lucifer. Abel is often portrayed in The Bible and religious texts as a gentle, pious man who was killed by a jealous Cain. In reality, he was just as selfish, lustful and aggressive as his brother.Cain: Do you know how many times I've tried to tell people Abel is the asshat?
- Irony: Abel is run over by an ambulance.
- Loophole Abuse: Basically how Lucifer intended to try and break Cain's curse; by bringing Abel back to life in a newly-deceased body, he assumed that this would essentially invalidate Cain's status as the first murderer as his victim was now alive again.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: It takes Amenadiel holding up a reflective silver tray for Abel to notice this, but once he does, he immediately examines his new body (complete with breast fondling). Abel then says that he understands now why he's been getting so much male attention and so little female attention recently.Abel: Oh, are those bosoms mine?
- Mythology Gag: Mazikeen reveals that Abel's experience in Hell was him being repeatedly killed by his brother Cain, only to come back and be killed again later. This was also what Abel experienced in The Sandman, though this occured in the Dreaming instead of Hell, and it is left vague if they were the real Cain and Abel or just the idea of them that existed in the Dreaming.
- No Delays for the Wicked: Amenadiel isn't exactly "wicked" but he tried to convince Abel to commit suicide because he thought (with no evidence whatsoever) that it would please God, so he wasn't at his most moral in this episode. There was no explanation given for how he found out Lucifer brought Abel back from hell, or how he found him before Lucifer and Cain, or where he got a gun.
- Not So Above It All: After Lucifer informs Pierce of the plan to bring Abel back, Pierce rifles through a list of murder victims and gleefully suggests bodies his brother could now inhabit.
- Omniglot: Maze admits that she and the other demons gave Abel the ability to speak multiple languages so they could come up with new scenarios to torture him.
- Rule of Three: Abel getting honked at three times because he tries to cross the street without looking. He survives the first two times.
- Spanner in the Works:
- Bree happened to die just as Lucifer was bringing Abel's soul back from Hell; therefore, as she was the most recently deceased person in the ICU, Abel's soul went to her body instead of the old man they intended to use.
- Twofold. Amenadiel shows up at the pool party with a gun, trying to convince Abel to break out of this "Hell loop" by killing himself, but a Bolivian hitman arrives and interrupts them.
- Tempting Fate: Cain says he still has hope of lifting his curse as long as Abel is alive. Cue Abel wandering out into the road and being killed by an ambulance.
- Terrible Artist: Lucifer's drawings on the whiteboard leave much to be desired.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Amenadiel calls Maze out for her selfishness regarding his relationship with Linda (considering that Maze dumped him). He also tells her off for breaking Linda's heart.
