Charlotte Richards/Synopsis

The story of Charlotte Richards from the TV series Lucifer.
== Origin ==
Charlotte Richards was a very ambitious woman and studied law and justice to become a lawyer. 13 years before the events of Season 3 in 2018, Charlotte was an associate at Wheeler’s Law. She had only been there for a few months when her boss, named Ben Sr, arrived at her house in the middle of the night with a sports bag. He gives it to Charlotte and ask her to burn it, saying that it was for an important client, Forest King Clay, a well-known American sportsman. He added that she should not open the bag and not ask questions, and, honestly, Charlotte had no desire to. However, she noticed dried blood on the bag and therefore knows that she helped cover up a murder.
Later, Charlotte became known in the legal community and partnered with the firm, renamed Richards and Wheeler. Many of her clients were dangerous criminals whom she knowingly helped out of legal problems. She married Elliot Richards and they had two children together, Micah and Ivy. However, Charlotte is bored with her husband who has no ambition and begins an affair with Brad Wheeler, her colleague at the firm. She was so involved in their relationship that she stopped sleeping with her husband.
Before she was first murdered, she was working on a sensitive case with the FBI to bring Victor Perez's cartel down. The only other person at the firm who knew the details of the case was Liam Pickering. When Charlotte went to meet their informant Marco Sanchez at Hotel Gleam, Pickering murdered the both of them with a screwdriver in an attempt to frame Jimmy the Carpenter, Perez's hitman of record who unknown to Pickering, was already dead. Chloe and Lucifer investigated the case with Dan's and Ella's assistance.
== Stay in Hell ==
After this death, Charlotte's soul went to Hell while Goddess takes over her body on Earth. While in hell, Charlotte's hell loop has her waking up in the morning, and happily eating breakfast with her family. Only for a criminal that she kept out of prison to break in the room and shoot her family dead. During this sequence, all Charlotte does is smile, knowing that it is her fault the criminal is free. This loop repeats with a different person she has defended coming in each time. The experience left her with overwhelming guilt over her actions.
Meanwhile, Goddess passed Herself off as Charlotte and lived her life. At first, she lived Charlotte's private and professional life like the real Charlotte, but then began to ruin it. She divorced her husband and granted him custody of their childrens, then bought 30 cases of merlot (while Charlotte prefers rosé wine), bought a new apartment in downtown Los Angeles and began a romantic relationship with Daniel Espinoza.
Goddess has also accentuated Charlotte's reputation as a ruthless lawyer, if not make it worse. Charlotte thought she was a good person who paid her taxes and didn't hurt anyone. Goddess continued to defend dangerous criminals and killers, including Perry Smith, the prison director who killed John Decker, Chloé's father. She is so ruthless that Charlotte's children refuse to see her.
== Ressurection ==
Meanwhile, in order to be able to assemble the Flaming Sword, Goddess helps Lucifer and the LAPD to investigate and bring down the cartel of Bianca Ruiz, a well-known criminal. However, Bianca's son, Chet, goes to see Goddess at Charlotte's office and stabs her for revenge. By removing the knife from Charlotte's body, a ray of divine light emerges and grills Chet to death. Goddess (under the identity of Charlotte) is now wanted by the police for murder. 
At the same time, Lucifer decides to intervene and first intends to open the doors of Heaven to her so that she and God kill each other but change plans. He finds the Flaming Sword and assembles it. Meanwhile, "Charlotte" is interrogated by Chloe and Dan at the Santa Monica Pier. As Chet Ruiz's brother shoots on Goddess, time is suddenly slowed by Amenadiel so that Maze can take Linda to the hospital, mortally injured by Goddess.
Lucifer grabs his mother and they jump off the pier, landing on the beach. He bids her farewell and activates the flaming sword, Goddess understanding that he intends to eradicate her but instead, he opens a void on another world, and, on Lucifer’s suggestion, Goddess departs the Earth and Charlotte’s body for create a new world for herself in a void. As Dan rushes over to Charlotte's body, she awakens, surprising Lucifer who thought that her body would remain an empty vessel. Apparently, Goddess resurrected Charlotte when she left, but Charlotte shows no memory from the time period that Goddess controlled her body. She is then taken away by paramedics who believe her fall from the Santa Monica Pier is the reason for her confusion.
== A second chance ==
A little later after that, Dan reveals that Charlotte does not remember him or their previous relationship, devastating him. Lucifer tries to reassure Dan that Charlotte's behavior is neither his fault, nor hers.
While investigating the "murder" of a yoghurt factory chemist, Chloe and Lucifer want to see the CCTV footage, but Charlotte is in charge of defending the company, refusing to give the images as the company's pudding recipe ingredients would be revealed, benefiting their competitors.
Later, Charlotte shows up at Lucifer's apartment, making him briefly believe that his mother has returned, only to be horrified as Charlotte kisses him. Lucifer explains to her that they are not nor will they ever be lovers but admits that they do have a complicated history. Finally broken and more than confused, she confides in Lucifer about her worry that she is going insane. By putting together pieces of what she remembers, she guesses that she went to Hell, even though she believes she's a good person. Lucifer then hands her a glass of whiskey, promising her that sh's absolutely not crazy.
Following Lucifer's suggestion and accepting his help, she cooperates with the LAPD by giving them video footage of the murder under investigation, not having done it at the beginning because she thought that all the ingredients of the company's recipe would be revealed if this video became public. However, thanks to Ella, they learn that the company's two main pudding ingredients are deadly in the long run if mixed together. Lucifer, Chloe, Dan, Ella and Charlotte construct several theories, then Charlotte realizes that the firm is defending the 2 companies that want to merge in order to make more profits, as well as their fixer. She therefore decides to call a meeting at the Pudding factory. Upon the realization that her actions while representing criminals led to her damnation, she decides to hold her client's hostage at gunpoint to uncover the murderer. Under the pressure of being shot, they reveal most of the plan. Lucifer, who had meanwhile called Charlotte's office and was made aware of the appointment, arrives. He said that Simon, their victim, killed himself as a way to expose the company for its crimes. Charlotte says that there are no loopholes in avoiding sin and states that her clients are guilty of poisoning their customers with their tainted pudding. In her hysterical state, she wants to shoot them, but Lucifer calms her down. Assured of Lucifer's trust, Charlotte gives him her gun, and Lucifer tells her that he took Chloe and the LAPD with him and that they recorded all of Charlotte's conversation with her clients, and that they now have enough incriminating evidence to take them behind bares.
Later, Charlotte apologizes to Dan for her behavior towards him, and then she departs with Lucifer. At her apartment, she asks Lucifer what she was like during her lost time, to which he replies she was "Quite the handful…intense, jealous, hair-trigger emotions, and prone to making cosmically epic mistakes. But everything that [she] did came from a place of love." But he's excited to know the real Charlotte and say her welcome back. 
== Leaving Richards and Wheeler ==
After all her revelations and realizing that she was not acting well and that Ella told her that she only sees darkness in Charlotte, Charlotte decides once and for all to change and act well. Initially, she goes to Ella and asks her for advice, explaining that she wants to fix her "darkness" problem. Ella explains to her that kindness can be learned. Later the same day, Charlotte catches up with Ella who was trying to escape through the elevator and lies to her, telling her that she has been accepted into a science training program and therefore Ella will be her teacher. Charlotte hopes to be able to observe Ella and understand her method. 
But still later, just as Chloe and Lucifer are leaving to interrogate a woman suspected of a crime of passion, Ella rushes into the lab and watches through the glass door as Charlotte walks towards her. She therefore goes to hide behind the table and when Charlotte finds her, she justifies herself by saying that she is cleaning the floor.
In her good resolutions, and embarrassed to have lied to Ella, Charlotte steals a file to help the LAPD and thanks to this file, there are able to find the murderer. Ella congratulates Charlotte, but she reveals that she stole this file, and not that she appealed to a source. Ella is shocked, but tells Charlotte that this steal was for a good reason and it's a good start. 
While the LAPD is investigating a victim of the Sinnerman, and Ella exposes the evidence to Dan, Chloe and Lucifer, Charlotte arrives and apologizes for her delay. Disconcerted, they ask her what she is doing and she explains to them that she got a job at the Los Angeles prosecutor's office that she accepted and she decided to leave her law firm, and now, she is on their side. 
Charlotte will therefore delve into many cases and investigate several notorious criminals on the wild in order to put them in prison.
== Starting a new relationship with Dan ==
Charlotte meets Dan and her daughter Trixie in a cafe. Trixie finds Charlotte very funny and she offers Dan who is looking for someone to keep Trixie since her school is closed today, that it is Charlotte who takes care of it. She accepts. Trixie is initially bored, but she and Charlotte will become close and they do a lot of activities in the office. Trixie even caps Charlotte in the same way as her, two buns on her head. They have fun and Trixie even tells Charlotte, when she confess to her that her childrens refuse to see her, that she is the boss and not her children. Dan arrives and thanks Charlotte, who, as they left, calls her husband and insists that she has the right to see her childrens and that she is their mother.
== Investigating on The Sinnerman and Marcus Pierce ==
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== Her second death ==
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== Legacy ==
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== Short return ==
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