Lucifer season 3 episode 3 recap: Maze takes Canada

Maze is back in this Maze-centered episode that sees our favorite demon travel north. Watch out, Canada: Here’s your recap of Lucifer, “Mr. and Mrs. Mazikeen Smith.”

Lucifer’s club is full and Lucifer is having fun entertaining his guests. Maze and Dr. Linda share a drink and Linda wonders how Maze parties so hard every night. Maze says she likes to push herself because she doesn’t have a soul and so she has to live in the moment. Lucifer confirms this and says humans can learn from this. Maze has no complaints, and she’s having fun being a bounty hunter. In this case, she offered her newest bounty a coupon for Lux, and after he shows up she says she’s ready for a new challenge. Linda falls asleep and Lucifer says to keep moving.

A security guard relates the story of two teens being killed while Maze eats pudding and watches the video. Detective Herrera, organized crime, comes in and asks why she’s looking at the Ben Rivers case. She says her name and he knows her bounty working work from Homicide. She wants to go after him and Herrera says that he’s manipulative and dangerous. He warns her not to underestimate him, but this is exactly what she wants.

Chloe worries that Maze is biting off more than she can chew in Canada. As she packs, Maze assures Chloe that she can take care of herself. Trixie is hiding in one of her suitcases, telling Maze that she needs to go with her as backup. Maze reminds the Little Human that she needs to stay home and watch after Chloe, who really can’t survive without them keeping an eye on her. Trixie decides that Maze needs her stuffed alien for protection. After Maze leaves, Chloe tells Trixie that she’s not worried about Maze — she’s worried about Canada.

Maze steps out of her hotel in leather. It’s snowing and she glares as someone causes a pile of snow to fall onto her. Canada is in trouble.

Dan, dressed in a bright shirt, is headed to Hawaii. He gives Chloe an itinerary for his vacation and Lucifer teases him for his clothing choice. He finally saved up enough points for this trip and he tells Lucifer that they don’t all have money to burn, to which Lucifer says that burning money is a lot of fun. Dan leaves for his trip and Chloe shows Lucifer the map of Canada that shows various incidents that have taken place, from brawls with curlers to bear attacks, and she suspects Maze has been fighting her way through the country. Lucifer thinks she’s having lots of fun and she needs a change of pace. He thinks she has it all under control.

Maze goes into a lodge to find out if her target has been there. The clerk, Norm, can’t say if he has seen Ben Rivers or now, so she decides to torture him by crawling over the desk and straddling him. A woman snaps a picture of them and Norm confesses that Ben is in Whistler with a woman.

Maze tracks down the woman traveling with Ben and poses as a masseuse to get her secrets. She confesses that her new man is a prince who loves her more than anything, not just for Daddy’s money. Maze turns up the heat with a sensual massage, which is very appreciated.

Chloe talks to Ben’s lawyer, Athena, who won’t admit that she has been in constant communication with Ben. When she learns that a bounty hunter is coming after him, she’s alarmed, but she won’t give up her secret until Lucifer steps in and asks what she wants. It turns out that she’s in love with him.

Ben thinks he’s going to the bar to meet his lady, but the woman in the blonde wig isn’t his Muffy. It’s Maze. She’s hoping he has some really cool moves because she’s looking for a fight. She slips a set of cuffs on him and notes that he doesn’t seem upset about being caught, but he starts flirting with her. He sees a bit of himself in her and she laughs, thinking he’s trying to get inside her head. He does see through her a bit, noting that she’s running from something. Maze admits that she used Muffy to get to Ben (she’s great in bed, she notes) but now it’s time to bring him in. But Ben has slipped out of her cuffs and put them on Maze, allowing him to get away.

Intrigued, Maze remains at the bar to have another drink when Chloe calls. Maze doesn’t need Chloe checking in on her and assures her that she’s fine. She admits that Ben got away but she’s on him. Chloe says he’s emotionally dangerous, but she can’t say anything else because Lucifer hangs the phone up, reminding Chloe that Maze can take care of herself. He texts Maze Ben’s address.

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Ben is packing when he hears a noise downstairs. He finds Maze lounging in the chair, drinking wine and lamenting the lack of rock music. Ben offers to go get some new records, but Maze slips some handcuffs on him and they break out into a fight while being tethered to each other. He’s stunned at her moves, but he isn’t giving up so easily.

Herrera tells Chloe that he’s very happy with her work but he wants to finish this job personally. She’ll get the credit, but he wants to see it through. This one’s personal.

Back in Canada Ben tells Maze that he used to work for Herrera, too, but then he quit and Herrera framed him for murder. He’ll do the same to Maze. She doesn’t care about his story, but they’re interrupted by room service. When the food rolls in, Maze realizes that the waitress is the woman who took her picture when she was with Norm. The woman pulls out a gun and starts shooting at them and they have to run for cover.

Chloe suspects that something is very wrong and she tries to call Maze, who is in the middle of a firefight. When she doesn’t answer she makes another call.

As the assassin reloads, she asks if everyone is dead. She starts shooting again but the wood table isn’t going to hold much longer. Maze grabs her knife and tosses it over her head without looking, connecting with her target. The woman flees, but Maze realizes that Ben has been shot.

Lucifer tells Dr. Linda that Chloe is worried about Maze, and Linda wonders why Lucifer isn’t concerned. He says that he has known Maze for so long that he knows she won’t falter. Linda suspects that this trip might be more of a personal quest for the demon, but Lucifer brushes her off. Maze calls Linda for a video chat and Lucifer is delighted to see that Ben has been shot. Maze needs to keep him alive so she tells Dr. Linda to tell her everything she needs to do to save him. Maze even sticks her finger inside the wound to see if the bullet is still in there. It is. Lucifer smiles proudly. Linda tells her to stitch up the wound with the hotel sewing kit. She’ll also need alcohol, which Maze drinks. She knocks him out with a punch, then she fluffs his hair, which amazes Linda and Lucifer as she hangs up on them. Lucifer says he broke his Maze.

Ben wakes up with Trixie’s alien stuffed animal to find the wound stitched up, complete with a little button. She tells him he’s all fixed and it’s time to collect her bounty, but he insists that he will be killed. He insists that he refused to kill the kids because they were teens, and he didn’t want to lose his soul by killing them. There’s a knock at the door and Maze throws her knife at the door as Dan comes in. He says Chloe asked him to check up on her because she thinks something is weird about the case. Maze asks if it’s about the lieutenant, which Dan confirms. She realizes that this is what Ben was talking about, but when she turns to ask she sees that he’s gone.

Dan calls home and fills in Chloe to tell her about the lying security guard. Dan tells Maze he things Ben is a con man, but Maze believes the story. If she believes it, then it’s worth looking into. She wants to go after the woman with the gun but Dan reveals that he doesn’t have his gun with him. He suggests that they turn the case over to the local police and she agrees, but when he goes to make the call he finds that she is gone.

Back home, Lucifer finds Chloe at work and tells her she might have been right about Maze, but now Chloe thinks he might be right. She doesn’t believe the story about the security guard being forced to pin the blame on Ben. Lucifer says Maze is trying to clear his name so they should go to Canada, but Chloe says that Dan is there. She thinks that they should investigate the security guard so that they can see if Ben is lying.

Maze tracks the blood in the snow. She is on Ben’s trail.

When Chloe and Lucifer interview the security guard, Peter, he says he did see Ben shoot the kids, but then his story starts falling apart compared to his testimony. The security guard thinks he’s supposed to tell them what they want to hear because they’re working with Herrera, which tips off Chloe that there is a bigger problem at hand.

Maze finds Ben at the same time that the woman with the guns find them. She says Maze saved them a trip because she needs to kill Maze too. She even brought three men to help her. Dan rushes in and they start fighting, and Ben steps in to save Maze. The police are on their way so Dan tells them to leave before they find Ben there.

Back in LA, Lucifer waits for Herrera to get back to his office before telling him that the game is up. When Herrera tries to feign ignorance Chloe comes in and tells him about the security guard’s testimony and that the assassin implicated him in everything. They put him under arrest.

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Maze thanks Chloe for her help. Ben’s a free man, and though he has a shady past it looks like he’s the kind of guy who wants to put all of this behind him. He offers Maze a chance to disappear with him. He thinks they’re both the kind of people who like to keep moving, never setting up roots, flying under the radar. Maze seems to like what he’s selling….

….But in the end, Maze is happiest with her friends back home. Just when it looks like she’s on a couch with Ben, we see that she’s home with Dr. Linda, Chloe, and Lucifer and they’re all happy to have their Maze back home

Lucifer airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

Lucifer season 3, episode 3 recap: Maze takes Canada

By Sarabeth Pollock | Oct 20, 2017

Maze is back in this Maze-centered episode that sees our favorite demon travel north. Watch out, Canada: Here’s your recap of Lucifer, “Mr. and Mrs. Mazikeen Smith.”