Lucifer nods, wondering - probably for the millionth time - what might've happened if Rory hadn't escaped her shackles when she did. If he'd been killed. If his daughter would've gone down a darker road.

So many what-ifs, and that's precisely why he made his promise. None of those what-ifs will come true, because he is preserving the time loop, exactly as it happened, as it will happen. Rory will be fine.

He shakes himself out of that thought. Focuses instead on the young woman actually sitting next to him.

"Sometimes there aren't really any good choices," he says thoughtfully. "We do the best we can in the moment. I'm sorry about Joel, though."