So,
now we got like a dozen different storylines which somehow all converge on one
restaurant where people are having dinner supposedly with Maryse to make he
feel better about her new non-shadowhunterness but instead everyone gets
involved in her own issues because everyone is self-absorbed and terrible
Anyway
rewind - Maryse goes back to the institute without her marks - she’s been
excommunicated. Originally the guards won’t even let her in but Alec nixes that
idea. Maryse is very much putting on a brave face insisting that everything’s
fine and she’s enjoying her new life but when Izzy pushes her it’s clear she’s
feeling more lost. She doesn’t know how not to be a Shadowhunter and is focused
on her kids instead - hence the big family dinner where everyone shows up to
try and make her feel better while all so involved in other things they can
barely give her five damn minutes.
So
let’s start with Simon. Heidi catches up with him, explains that he’s her sire
and how she’s totally obsessed with him in a deeply unhealthy way. And Simon is
deeply sympathetic about what she’s gone through and very guilty about his role
in it and very sad about the fact she’s faced so much abuse all her life that
even someone being marginally less abusive seems like kindness. But she’s also
creepy and disturbing.
When
she tries to kiss him he tells her he has a girlfriend. And she asks her name
with a gleaming “SO I CAN EAT HER SKIN!” look in her eyes. Simon decides to
hide pass and run away
Simon
testing his deadly mark with Ryan (and showing how vampire speed is rather
faster than werewolves speed was much more fun than this.
Simone
tries to get hold of Raphael to see if he can take over looking after Heidi
which obviously doesn’t work. So instead he hovers over Maia (including at the
bar where everyone goes and she works) to protect her from marauding stalkers.
But
instead Heidi sees him give advice to Izzy on how to help her mother (he has
experience with supporting his mother through difficult times since his mother has
alcohol issues) and Izzy kisses him for being such a good friend
So Heidi attacks her, which doesn’t go well since Izzy is an experienced shadowhunter. But Simon pleads for her, despite Izzy pointing out she has killed humans, though Simon does point out fledglings have issues with their hunger and she had no support - which he totally will provide now. Izzy backs off
And
Simon hands Heidi over to the Praetor Lupus, despite her objections and needing
to be drugged. And… I can respect this decision despite the drugging. Simon is
in no way in a place to take on someone as troubled as Heidi. And her issues
with him mean even if he were in a better place I don’t think he’d be the
appropriate person anyway, aside from her putting everyone woman he looks at in
danger. It’s a terrible, awful situation but this may be the best way to deal
with it
Oh
it also looks like Ryan is avoiding Maia so I’m going to say now they have Bad
History.
Magnus
and Alec are all tense because Alec is confronting the whole fact some day he’s
going to be a momento in Magnus’s box of dead lovers. He also moans that one
day he will be old and feeble and Magnus all young and sexy still. Alec, have
you not seen the Institute? I don’t think even a quarter of Shadowhunters make
it to 40; it’s the only explanation for why the kids are always in charge.
Magnus suggests that Alec’s insecurity is due to Magnus himself being his first
ever relationship so he’s unused to relationship drama, which Alec pouts over
and takes to mean Magnus is calling him a child. So Magnus calls him childish.
So he has a tantrum and stamps away from the table. And lo folks, 5 episodes we
had without their relationship being torpedoed
This
leads to Alec getting super drunk at his mother’s dinner so he has to bail
rather than be a supportive son, supported by Underhill who is definitely flirting
with him
Alas
we must look to Clary because of course we do. So she wants to tell the Clave
they have a big angel killing demon in town but Luke points out they’d have to
reveal the whole “I wasted mankind’s one wish on fecking Jace” think so they
decide not to do that because the self-absorption is epic here. Instead she
frets that Jace is acting all weird and asks Magnus about it who remembers the
big scary loveless potion he sold Illith.
Logical
leap later and they’ve decided this was used on Jace and not that, say, he’s
just so sick of Clary. Honestly Magnus has met Clary (though I’m not buying the
investment in her) he should realise this is a possibility. They decide to get
some secret books from Brother Jeremiah a very different Silent Brother who has
history with Magnus
This
raises the spectre of an Infernal Devices tv series as well.
I
feel threatened.
Anyway
he also reveals that Jace hasn’t actually attended to have mental health
treatment as he claimed and really people should have been more suspicious
about his miraculous recovery
Evil!Jace
(a mild improvement over moping Jace) has been instructed to hunt down one more
good person so they can kill their loved one and become another sacrifice. So
while Jace is also at the really packed restaurant he’s looking out for people
with good auras. He starts with Izzy’s new boyfriend but eventually settles on
Ollie, Lucian’s partner who is in the Restaurant for REASONS
Lucian
is there to talk to Maryse and offer support since he knows what it’s like to
be excommunicated from the Shadowhunters, which is kind of nice since she was
unpleasant to him when he had his runes stripped after becoming a werewolf. But
also because everyone has to be at this restaurant.
Jace
chases Ollie in his owl demon form - only to be stopped by Clary and Lucian who
shoot him - and remove his disguise. Yes the big bad is Jace - and he escapes
Ollie
is possessed and neither Clary or Lucian even seem to notice. Shadowhunters
if you actually have Ollie kill her partner and throw in a dead lesbian dead at
the hands of her lover that will be Really Bad.
