Jason Carlisle

"I'm not a selfish person, I was vilefied for doing what anyone in my position would do."

- Carlyle

Professor Jason Carlyle is a villain in the second season of Lucifer.

After having manufactured a horrible poison, Carlyle contacts famous people, forcing them to disfigure the body parts that made them famous - e.g. the hand for a famous surgeon - or be responsible for the death of an innoncent college student Carlyle poisoned with his drug.

Past
Carlyle was a lecturer at an university. In his past, Carlyle drove as a passenger in a car when an accident happened. After escaping from the burning car, Carlyle went back to the wreckage to save the bag containing his dissertation on which he had worked for four years. He then fled from the car, leaving the driver, college student working as an Uber driver, to die in the explosion that engulfed the car moments later. As the incident was recorded on a security cam, Carlyle was openly humiliated, lost his job and his wife enventually left him. This caused severe trauma in Carlyle, who made it his goal to prove that everyone would have acted the same as him if they were in his position.

Carlyle eventually got another job at the rival collage of the one dismissing him. At some point, Carlyle manufactured a poison which burns its victims from within, which he intended to use for his plan.

Causing chaos
While smuggling his poison into the city, some of Carlyle's phials go missing. To get them back, Carlyle hunts after several persons on the flight he believes to be responsible for the theft. To his surprise, he is eventually confronted by the thief himself who thought that what he stole was mere cocaine. After spilling one of the phials on himself, the man realized that something was not right. After the terrified man finds Carlyle, he asks Carlyle what is happening to him. Carlyle does not reply but merely strangles the thief and retrieves his drug.

After reobtaining his poison, Carlyle sends an email, which contains a video, from a hacked account to actor Johnny Kane. In the video, Carlyle at first admires Kane for being a talented and well-acclaimed actor and tells Kane that it will be interesting to see which decision he makes. He tells Kane that Kane will cut and disfigure his own face with a knife or else a young college student will die from poisoning. He gives Kane an ultimatum of twenty-four hours and after Kane does not cut his face, indeed poisons the freshman who dies in his dorm.

Carlyle later contacts Dr. Gwendolyn Scott, a renowned surgeon, sending her a similar message as the one to Kane. He gives her the choice between destroying her hand or allowing another college student to die from poisoning. This message is witnessed by Lucifer and Detective Chloe Decker, who have found the person whose mail address Carlyle uses to send his threats. Although Chloe and Lucifer find the student in time, the poison in her system is different from the one used on the first victim, making the fabricated anti-venom useless. After hearing this, Dr. Scott willingly destroys her hand to save the girl's life. After having been mailed a photo of Scott's mutilated hand, Carlyle sends a courier who delivers the anti-dote and a message in which Carlyle claims to be a man of his word.

Eventually, the police connect the murders to Carlyle, who had given flu shots to both victims. To provoke Carlyle into making a mistake, Chloe sends him an insulting email. Carlyle responds immediately, sending back a link which creates a video connection between both computers. During the conversation, Carlyle claims that Dr. Scott only mutilated her hand because she was being observed. He claims that this revelation will help him to fine-tune his experiments. He then turns the camera, revealing that he took a student and a famous sprinter captive. The sprinter's leg is lying under a guillotine which the sprinter can activate by pressing a lever. If he does so within sixty minutes, the student will receive the antidote for the poison in his veins. Before ending the video call, Carlyle tells Chloe not to bother making another antidote as every poison he uses is individual and that the only real 'antidote' is in Carlyle's head.

After linking Carlyle to the death of the drug thief in Chicago, the police check video footage from the airport and find evidence about Carlyle's location, the rival college of the one he was fired from. Arriving at the college, Decker and Lucifer are confronted by Carlyle from behind a locked, bullet-proof door. Carlyle tells Chloe that she is actually part of his experiment. He holds two phials into the air, claiming that one contains the anti-dote for the student while the other is a poisonous gas. After putting on a gas mask, Carlyle shatters the phiol containing the deadly gas and leaves the anti-dote lying around, leaving it to Chloe to sacrifice herself by entering the poisoned room or saving herself but leaving the student to die.

Carlyle leaves the college, expecting that he will not be followed. However, Lucifer convinces Chloe to go after Carlyle while he remains behing to save the student. Chloe runs after Carlyle, eventually catching up to him while he attempts to flee through the college. With his back to the wall, Carlyle claims that he knew Chloe would save herself, as this was the only choice she could make. Claiming that he is no monster, only a human, Carlyle then draws a knife and cuts his own throat, bleeding out right before Chloe.