Lucifer recap: 'Orange Is the New Maze' 

Maze and Lucifer both battle their feelings in the middle of a more-forgettable-than-usual murder of the week. But who needs a compelling crime when Chloe’s smack in the middle of all of that angst?

Before we get to the crime, let’s check in with Charlotte, who tells Linda about her strange conversation with the tall, serious black man from the coffee shop. When Linda confirms that he was bald “in a very sexy way,” she tries to convince Charlotte to ignore him, but Charlotte instead decides to dig into his story.

She does this by telling Lucifer that she met his brother Amenadiel and demands the truth. Lucifer, being Lucifer, complies: He’s the devil, Amenadiel’s a former angel, Charlotte died, and her soul went to Hell while her body served as a vessel for his real mother, the goddess of all creation, whom he sent to another dimension when her divinity started leaking out, allowing Charlotte’s soul to return.

“If you have any follow up questions, please feel free to ask Amenadiel,” Lucifer concludes. She does, and Amenadiel tells her that her husband’s name was “God…frey. Godfrey.” All of the new information sends her to Lux, where she’s drinking alone and preparing to check herself in for psychiatric treatment when Lucifer and Amenadiel find her and Lucifer unfurls his wings.

At first, she’s stunned, and then she cries in relief that it’s all real. As far as endings go, this one seems pretty happy for Charlotte — for now.

Okay, now to the main story line. Lucifer finds Maze ransacking Chloe’s place in search of her knife — one forged in China rather than Hell — before giving up and taking a 12-pack of coconut water instead. Then she orders Lucifer to bust out his wings and take her back to Hell.

But he refuses because Chloe got hurt the last time he served as a celestial Uber. This makes an angry Maze even angrier; after all, Lucifer went to Hell for Pierce, whom he doesn’t even like. Then Chloe comes in looking all relaxed and casual and offers Maze the chance to apologize for hurting Trixie’s feelings, but Maze just slams out the door.

When Pierce strolls in with a cooler, Chloe stammers out an excuse about a weekend beach murder, and Lucifer exits. She apologizes to Pierce for the deception, and he assures her that he’s totally cool with everybody at work knowing that they’re dating. But what about us?

Then a real murder on the beach happens, and Ella offers Lucifer a consolation hug when he realizes Chloe lied about the first one. She also continues to insist that Chloe and Pierce have more explosive chemistry than a Fourth of July fireworks show, and Lucifer continues to be the “This is fine” dog.

Then everybody gets distracted when the security camera shows Maze removing a knife from the chest of the dead man, one of her active bounties. Lucifer sets out to prove her guilt as punishment for attempting to manipulate him into taking her home, while Pierce reminds Chloe not to let the investigation get too personal.

Mike, the victim, worked at a winery up the coast, so Lucifer insists that he and Chloe check it out. As they cruise along in his convertible, he turns the conversation to her Pierce date, and Chloe somehow ends up announcing, “We’re not even sleeping tog — you know, we’re not…we’re not…” before trailing off, flustered. It’s awful for all of us.

The winery owner, Margo Channing, claims she and Mike’s supervisor, Zach, didn’t know about Mike’s criminal record, although someone did come looking for him recently. Lucifer asks if it was a hot angry lady in black leather, while Chloe, intent on proving Maze’s innocence, counters that it could have been a fat, happy dude. Zack confirms Lucifer’s version, and in Mike’s former quarters, they find an empty can of coconut water.

Back at the precinct, Ella’s swooning over Chloe and Pierce touching hands is interrupted when Maze walks in and confesses to Mike’s murder. Chloe frets that this isn’t like Maze at all, while Pierce wants to know why she’s wearing Lucifer’s bullet necklace. Chloe tries to explain the penetration joke and denies having had sex with Lucifer, which should definitely satisfy her quota of awkward conversations for the day.

In interrogation, Maze insists she was just living up to her evil reputation, although she can’t say for sure how many times she stabbed Mike or what she had to drink while she was at the winery. And sure enough, the coconut water only has Chloe’s fingerprints on it, indicating that someone stole it from her trash along with Maze’s knife as part of a frame job.

Then everyone scrambles at the news that Ella visited Maze in lockup and Maze asked for a hug because, you guessed it, Maze swiped Ella’s ID so she could rifle through files.