It paid off; Michael was successfully able to steer Eleanor in Chidi’s direction, and after hours of watching the scholar’s online videos on philosophy, Eleanor took a plane to meet him in Australia.
The episode ended with the two reunited once more, and Michael seemingly content with how things were lined up.
Michael, who was simultaneously keeping tabs on everyone’s life as they lived them with Janet by his side, decided he had to save his friend from making the same mistakes that landed her in The Bad Place.
The human-loving demon went down to Earth on Eleanor’s birthday a year after the accident that almost killed her, and posed as a bartender to have a pep talk with the lapsed do-gooder, despite Eleanor having no recollection of him or their time together.