"Honesty can be just as brutal, if not worse, than lies," Lucifer points out. It's why he used to primarily deal in honesty. So much more hurt could be felt through the truth.

The pain from the truth was nearly impossible to shake.

But he does get where Wilhelm is coming from. Lucifer's spoken words to the kid were all true, but boy were there so many holes, things left unspoken, and the fulcrum of his actual identity missing that made it all one big manipulative story.

"More time might be a hindrance," he says. "Get listless, without direction, without a deadline."