Gabriel believes that if it had gone on longer, Johnny would have realized what was happening. Even up till then, he'd realized that something was wrong, but he didn't know exactly what. Lucifer isn't giving him nearly enough credit.

"If it had been real," he ventures, "I wouldn't have done it that way. The asshole Lothario is the only guilty party there. Not the girls. You'd need to..." He shrugs. "Have him fall for a new boner pill that makes his dick fall off or something. He's alone. No witnesses. And if an urban legend grows out of it, that's a bonus, right? Poor dickless Joe Schmoe."