Lucifer recap: 'City of Angels?' 

 looks backward with a deeply satisfying episode that explores how our favorite devil’s time in L.A. began.

We open on Lucifer strutting down the street in a white leisure suit, wings out. A startled human reminds him to tuck away his feathers, and then a comely young lass scoffs at his threads, which were the height of fashion during his last visit to Earth.

Faster than you can say “what a sexy devil,” Lucifer’s upgraded his wardrobe and located a coterie of pretty young things, and the proceedings have reached an appropriately hedonistic level when grumpy ol’ Amenadiel shows up in his familiar sleeveless robe to drag Lucifer back to Hell.

As the strongest of God’s children, it’s Amenadiel’s job to keep Lucifer from exposing humanity to too much divinity. Lucifer objects to Amenadiel’s claim that he’s the strongest, and he also urges his brother not to sit on the couch because there’s divinity

Feeling magnanimous, Amenadiel gives Lucifer ten minutes to make his goodbyes. (Said goodbyes begin with Lucifer unbuttoning his shirt, for the record.) When Amen steps outside, a man jogging by compliments him on his dress before rounding the corner. Then gunshots ring out, and a man in a mask shoots Amenadiel and disappears with his necklace.

An agitated Amenadiel bursts into Lucifer’s busy bedroom, discarding his bullet-riddled dress — er, robe — and grabbing random clothes from the floor. He orders Lucifer to stay put and heads to the nearest police department, where he reports the necklace theft to none other than a uniformed Chloe Decker.

here as he officiously announces that he respects the rule of human law and declares his necklace “priceless beyond measure” because it’s not of this Earth. “I’ll just put down $40,” an unimpressed Chloe tells Amenadiel, who’s clad in Hawaiian-print board shorts, a sassy T-shirt, cockeyed ball cap, and bejeweled sunglasses. Then Chloe takes a call from Dan, who’s investigating the jogger’s murder. When Chloe realizes it’s the same location where Amenadiel reported his mugging, she turns to question him, but he’s already gone.

At the crime scene, she discovers a blood-spattered key fob, then spurns Dan’s attempts to kiss her, wisely wishing to avoid romantic shenanigans at work. Dan rather patronizingly encourages her to follow her hunch that the muggings of these two swole dudes weren’t random.

Meanwhile, Amenadiel swallows his pride and asks for Lucifer’s help since his brother’s spent more time with humanity. Sure, it’s mostly naked time, but Lucifer’s glad to be of assistance.

They head to an ocean-view bar, where Lucifer’s excited to see a man playing the piano, as the only music they have in Hell is used for torture. (Recently, it’s been Bieber-heavy, and “oh, you should hear the screams!”) Lucifer bribes the pianist to take a hike so he can tickle the ivories himself.

Just as Amenadiel gets annoyed that Lucifer’s obviously delaying his return to Hell, he spots a news broadcast about the death of MMA fighter Aiden Scott — a.k.a. the jogger he spoke with. Lucifer uses this new information to strike a deal: He’ll help untangle this murder mystery in exchange for a favor from Amenadiel to be named later.

The shot of Aiden on the news cropped out the woman standing next to him, but Lucifer recognized the décolletage as belonging to porn star Misty Canyons. He and Amenadiel head to a car dealership, where Lucifer acquires his signature wheels (which he immediately backs into a wall) to drive them to a porn shoot.

Apparently, porn stars don’t generally end up in Hell — Lucifer says it’s because of all the good works they do on Earth — and he’s thrilled to find himself in such pneumatic company. Misty Canyons agrees that if you want to rebel, you move to L.A. Then, in a totally predictable but nevertheless delightful turn of events, a PA mistakes Amenadiel for a performer and dresses him as a window washer, complete with cutoff denim overalls.

As the camera rolls, Amenadiel asks Misty about his lost necklace: a long, hard, unbreakable rod (and not a pearl necklace, as she gamely improvises, bless her heart). When she learns that Aiden’s dead, she tells the angels that Aiden refused a request to throw tomorrow’s MMA fight for a ton of money.

Chloe’s investigation takes a similar path when the key fob directs her to Aiden’s gym. The owner, Gil, tells Chloe that Aiden recently got into it with fight promoter Tio Sorrento and one of his tattooed goons.

This creates a collision course as Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Chloe all show up to Rico’s, the fight venue. Although Chloe and Lucifer don’t speak to one another, Lucifer’s awareness of her proximity pulls his attention away from the women wrestling on the mat in the center ring. But the moment passes when Chloe pursues the tattooed goon and Lucifer approaches Tio, who assumes he represents Amenadiel the fighter.

The brothers share an amusing moment when Luci says they’re from “down south” and Amenadiel claims they’re from “up north.” When Tio tries to have them bounced and Amenadiel knocks out a former heavyweight champ with one punch, Tio suddenly has a fighter to replace Aiden.

And then we cut to an amazing training montage in which Lucifer tells Amenadiel that although he’s Silver City’s greatest fighter, he can’t use his angel strength on humans, so Lucifer makes him drag weights around the gym, work a punching bag, and chase a chicken — no stopping of time allowed!

In the end, Lucifer’s eating chicken wings (ha!) when Tio approaches and offers money for Amenadiel to take a fall. Realizing they’ve found their man, Lucifer knocks him out.