Clary has just seen
Jace transform from the Owl and chases after him to fight… and how does she
even stand against him for five minutes? He’s supposed to be the bestest of
best Shadowhunters ever while she has been training for like 10 minutes?
Inevitably he does
win after drawing it out way too long and rather than just stab and murder her
already, he decides to drop her off a building. He protests he loves her and is
in there really but he drops her anyway. I guess this is what happens when you
know Clary but don’t have the bizarre, inexplicable affection for her.
She lands on a car
and may die
Instead she manages
to pull out her phone and call Simon - and hey, someone invested in acting
classes here so she’s almost believable. But I’m more annoyed that the screen
on my phone is cracked by a damn tiled floor but she can fall off a building
and still make calls
Simon zooms in and rescues her back to the Institute where she’s all well again
And belatedly telling
everyone about Lillith, the wish, Ithuriel et al. Bad Clary, these people
needed to know this. Being Shadowhunters they all decide that the fate of
humanity is way way way less important than Jace and Clary and agree to keep on
keeping her secret. And is their focus “shit the mother of all demons is in the
city up to evil!!?”? No, no it’s not. It’s “oh our precious Jace woe!” I mean
even Luke. Does Luke even know who Jace is?!
While Magnus is all
moping because he went and gave a potion to Lillith and it’s ALL HIS FAULT.
This over the top guilt and moping is a desperate attempt to get
Also Magnus swore to
give up all his power if he had to. Shadowhunters if you decide to drain
Magnus/strip him of his immortality for the sake of Jace I will break things
He an Alec share a
very strained hug because these actors are unused to being less than three feet
apart.
After doing some
research, Izzy, the new weapon’s master (because everyone over the age of 30 is
dead) advises them of some top secret demon cage in Alicante they could go steal.
So it’s off to Alicante. To warn the Clave that the mother of all demons is
about? Hah, nope. To steal the cage of course! What, are you putting the fate
of the world above our precious golden Jace again? Fie and shame! Fie and Shame
on you all!
First they have to
see big boss Shadowhunter lady, Jace’s granny, because there’s super security
now and thumb prints are needed on account of Valentine converting like a third
of the Clave. Being a Shadowhunter, she also decides Jace is way more important
than humanity and devotes her efforts to helping them steal the cage and dodge
the Inquisitor. Of course she does.
Also this has been
enough time for Clary to figure out a way to make Jace’s possession all about
her - she’s decided this totally wouldn’t have happened if he’d never met her,
woe, angst, make me feel better, waaaah.
Jace coincidentally
(HA) also goes to Alicante because Lillith wants chunks of Valentine’s body for
cocktails and secret burger sauce recipes. This means cutting bits off his granny
to get past security which I’m sure in three episodes time no-one will care
about but Jace will be super angsty about it
Which means everyone
meets at the graveyard and they imprison Jace. But the Clave is coming - quick,
Clary, make a portal so we can all escape to Magnus’s living room!!!
Or you can make a
portal and everyone else can escape but you while you pointlessly martyr
yourself to ensure we’ll have more storylines about you. Ok, hon, you do you.
So next hot mess… oh
yes, Luke is confronted by Ollie’s extremely angry girlfriend Sam who is pissed
at Ollie being missing (and murdering her mother) and slaps him. With all due
guilt he decides to go investigate Lillith’s culty place (apparently there’s a
lot of vacant looking people hanging around in an area which could just be a
bar or a drug den or a republican convention but hey, detective work). He
decides to invite Simon along since he’s basically invulnerable with his shiny
mark but rather belatedly remember that Lillith’s deciples are innocent humans
and I’m sure that won’t be a - oh shit turned them all to dust. Oopsie. Mah
bad.
Ollie isn’t dead but
Luke decides to try and bring her back to reality by telling her about Sam, the
woman she loves. For those not paying attention (and who can blame you),
Lillith’s disciples are driven to kill the people they love. Is Luke trying to
get Sam murdered here?
Anyways, vapourising
several cultists has kiboshed Lillith’s resurrection plans for Simon. She’s
also not mad thrilled that Simon is a daylighter
I think Lillith was
out getting coffee or something while Simon and Luke raided her lair. Lady
needs her caffein, damn it
What we need now is a
side drama. So, Kyle, Simon’s Praetor Lupus keeper/bodyguard/fake friend turns
out to be Maia’s ex. The man who turned her. She is not amused. Simon is not
amused. I am very much amused. I mean doesn’t the Praetor do ANY kind of
research at all?! Didn’t Kyle think “hey hanging around with the supernatural
here may be a problem”? Really?
So we have some
flashbacks to Maia and Kyle’s past which is kinda sweet and nice in parts but
also clear that she begins to grow up and plan for the future while he wants to
just travel and surf so rifts were beginning. And then he gets bit by a
werewolf and, in a jealous rage because of her having dinner with someone else,
turns and attacks her
Lo, the story of how
Maia turned and the betrayal of it
Kyle angsts and plans
to leave, giving Maia a letter but she stops that and decides to explain things
to him. She’s not actually annoyed he lost control and attacked her - she’s a
werewolf after all. She’s lost control. She’s attacked people. She’s annoyed he
didn’t trust her enough to tell her what was happening to him. And she’s pissed
he abandoned her. When she attacked someone by mistake she went back and
checked on them, worked with Luke to make sure she was ok
Kyle just abandoned
her and she’s not over it. But she refuses to let him abandon Simon, because we
need more awkwardness, yay.
