Lucifer season 5: Breaking down episode 4, It Never Ends Well for the Chicken

Lucifer season 5, episode 4, brings back a familiar face and digs into the mother of demons

Lucifer season 5 hits the pause button in episode 4 to bring to life a story about Mazikeen. Season 5, episode 4, titled “It Never Ends Well for the Chicken,” digs into the past the mother of demons, aka Maze’s mom.

Episode 4 is the much-talked-about noir episode that sees our favorite cast go back to the 1940s! When images for the episode first surfaced, we all had so many questions! What are they doing in 1946 and what’s happening?

Needless to say, when Lucifans reach episode 4, we were all ears! Let’s break down the episode.

Lucifer season 5: Why is the cast in 1946?

Episode 4 sees Trixie, Chloe Decker’s daughter, visiting Lucifer. It’s supposed to be game night, but Chloe fails to show up. It seems she’s still upset about learning she was a gift from God.

Trixie asks Lucifer for a story, but not just any story! Trixie wants to learn about Lucifer’s ring and where it comes from. Lucifer reluctantly begins to tell Trixie about the first criminal case he investigated back in 1946 in the heart of New York.

Lucifer season 5: Who’s who?

The episode focuses on Lilith, Maze’s mother, who is also portrayed by Lesley-Ann Brandt. Lauren German takes on the role of Jack Monroe, who is a male detective in Lucifer’s story, but gender-swapped after Trixie asks why there can’t be a female detective like her mother.

The best portrayal in the story is Aimee Garcia playing a New York crime boss (another gender-swap). This is the best character, Garcia has a lot of fun portraying the big-time criminal. It’s too much fun to watch!

The most emotional portrayal, though, is Tricia Helfer’s, who returns to the series as Jack’s wife. You may remember her as Charlotte. It’s great seeing her face again! She’s missed.

Lucifer season 5: The secret about Maze

It turns out Lilith, Maze’s mother, left her children with Lucifer to make them stronger. All Maze knows is that she was abandoned, but never understood why. In reality, Lilith just wanted her children to be tough, so she gave up her immortality to live on Earth.

All this time Lucifer has known this and known where Lilith is but has kept this from Maze. This isn’t good timing.

Maze is already in a bad place, so this may be what pushes her off the edge. And it’s all thanks to Michael, who told Maze about this, but she didn’t believe him so she tasked Trixie with getting the story about the ring.

Will Maze agree to team up with Michael after learning this information?

Be sure to watch Lucifer season 5 on Netflix.