Or maybe shes just excited about the chocolate cake Dans holding.
Lucifer didnt hire Officer Snake Hips; it was Ella!
Lucifer says hes in L.A. and hasnt seen Candy for several months.
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When they arrive in Vegas, Ella inhales deeply.
That is pleather, cigars, and vomit.
Then Candy takes her torch-singing performance off the stage and into the audience, draping herself all over Lucifer.
There, he finds her arguing with dirtbag loan shark Louie Pagliani.
In the present, they head to Paglianis home.
Theres a huge gunshot hole through Paglianis crotch in a hideous portrait of him and his wife.
So maybe Roxie Pagliani thought her man was stepping out with Candy and murdered them both?
Linda offers to go with Chloe to see if Lucifers in his penthouse.
Hes not, so they decide to stay and celebrate Chloes birthday there.
(Hes got a gorgeous view and great booze, after all.)
Cut to what looks like anamazingdrunken birthday celebration.
He cancels his therapy appointment because hes in Vegas, and then exclaims, You look ravishing!
when Ella arrives all glammed up in a sequined gown.
Not that she cares, of course, because shes totally past any romantic feelings.
Linda suggests that Lucifers absence may be stirring up emotions that Chloe hasnt dealt with.
But then they forget everything else when Chloe knocks a painting off the wall and discovers a hidden safe.
But all that does is damage Lucifers ancient Assyrian wall.
Linda says spackle will fix it right up, which sends Chloe into a melancholy, tear-stained tailspin.
(Next page: Lucifer presents a typically devilish birthday gift)
All right, back to Vegas.
Lucifer doesnt lie, but hedoesbluff, which he says is totally different.
They end up at the blackjack table, where Ellas win gets them a private meeting with Roxie.
Why, you ask?
Turns out Ella is a notorious card-counter whos already been banned from the casino.
Then we get another flashback of the Luci/Candy relationship.
Lucifer doesnt buy the waterworks for a second, so she drops the act but insists the storys true.
Lucifer suggests a mutual solution: Hell pay off her debt if shell bluff him through the Chloe mess.
Then, clad in a red Snuggie, he gets down on one knee and proposes.
As he wraps up his story, a woman in a dark wig taps his shoulder.
The dead woman in her apartment is a look-alike friend who was staying with Candy after a bad breakup.
However, as Candys widower, Lucifer would inherit Fletchers.
He has gambling debts and wanted to sell the club.
This lets Ella creep up and get the drop on him.
He lays a hand on her back, then notices the exposed safe.
Chloe sits up to see him present her with the safes sole contents: her birthday gift.
Its a necklace made from the bullet thatshe shot him within the warehouse way back in season 1.
He says since hell likely never penetrate her, he wanted to celebrate her penetrating him.
