SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Lucifer Season 6, now streaming on Netflix.
At the end of Lucifer's Season 5b, the Detective, aka Chloe Decker, told Lucifer that she would retire from the L.A.P.D. in order to help him with his new heavenly role as God. However, Season 6 walks back that decision for Chloe for a very important reason. Once she realizes that the L.A.P.D. hasn't treated Black citizens and its Black officers with respect nor justice, she decides to go back to work to help fight racist, systemic corruption from within the force.
When discussing this change for her character with Lucifer co-showrunner Joe Henderson (Shadecraft), CBR asked why this choice was important for Chloe, and, the show as a whole.
During Season 6 of Lucifer, Amenadiel is, at first, overjoyed at joining the L.A.P.D. to be an officer fighting for justice on the streets. However, after he sees how fellow detectives are close-minded in cases involving Black citizens, he realizes that Earth's justice system isn't very just. He brings this up to Chloe and, in part, is what fuels her decision to return to work.
While bringing up this decision to Henderson, he shared, "I know it was important to us. We were writing this in the summer of the George Floyd murder and looking at our place in the role and propaganda, and looking at our place in looking the other way. We -- well, Ildy and I, the white people in the room -- put a lot of us into Chloe. It showed us a lot of the things that we looked away from, or thought we knew but never really dug deep enough to explore."
Further, he added that having Chloe show up to face a problem she was in denial about was essential to her journey. "It was important for us to take one of our main characters, and put her on that journey so that people like us -- who might not have had a similar reaction during that summer -- might think a little bit about where they are, where they've been, and maybe look again at the structural systemic problems around them. To us, Chloe Decker is awesome. You can be awesome and also have a lot of blind spots. It's just the question of, "What do you do when you find them?"
All six seasons of Lucifer are streaming now on Netflix.