Sometimes change is good.
Our episode begins where we left off last week.
Jace has just taken out one of the Circle members.
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Simon begs Clary to come with him to find Luke so they can sort everything out.
She forces Jace to un-glamour the Institute so Simon can see what they are really walking into.
The Institute is full of shadowhunters who train relentlessly to save mundanes from certain death.
Hes equally scared and ecstatic just like every D&D quest hes ever been on.
Leave it to Alec to ruin geeky the moment.
He warns Simon not to step on any of the runes on the ground or he will surely die.
Alec is quickly becoming the most miserable person on television.
Jace explains that the Circle is an elite group who led a revolt years ago against fellow shadowhunters.
Jaces father was killed in this war.
Everyone is forbidden to talk about it.
This doesnt stop Clary from demanding that someone talk about it.
Jace suggests they visit Hodge.
He instructs Simon to stay with Isabelle, but Clary balks.
She and Simon are a package deal.
He spends all of his time as the weapons trainer.
We can appreciate his impressive set of abs before he puts on a pesky shirt.
Clary calmly explains that her mother was kidnapped by Circle members, and Hodge laughs.
Valentine is dead, and the Circle died with him.
The minute Hodge speaks the name Valentine, a rune on his neck begins burning by itself.
Why does the Circle want her mother?
Spoiler: Jocelyn was a former Circle member!
Could she be talking about the Mortal Cup?
The most important artifact in the shadow world?
It can create more shadowhunters, but left in the wrong hands, it can also control the demons.
This is not good.
Jace finds her defiant attitude attractive, so he goes with it.
Where would Clarys mom hide the cup?
When Clary reports nothing but empty blackness, it dawns on Jace that Clarys memories have probably been erased.
The only person who can do that is a warlock.
Does she know anybody who may have accidentally released some purple sparks from his or her fingertips?
Clary can only think of one person who fits that description Dot.
I guess that demon from episode 1 didnt confiscate her skin as I originally thought.
Nothing says demon slayer like a tall pair of stiletto boots.
Bring on the forsaken!
Clary casually brings up Jaces name in conversation, and Izzy cuts to the chase.
Jace is like her brother.
Her parents took him in when he was 10, and theyve been training side-by-side ever since.
Clary adjusts her leather bustier and follows Izzy into the hall.
Jace encourages Clary to embrace her inner shadowhunter.
She was born to do this.
Its who she is.
Clary touches her mothers necklace and has a vision of Dot running into the club Pandemonium.
Simon offers to drive.
You know, unless they have a shadowhunter-mobile out back.
I absolutely love this guy.
Simon for the win.
NEXT: Thats going to leave a scar
Dot finds warlock Magnus Bane in Pandemonium.
She tells him that Jocelyn has been kidnapped and Clary is unaccounted for.
He knows that Valentine is hunting warlocks and it would be in her best interest to run with him.
Valentine cant kill what he cant find.
She wanders outside, and its clear someone is about to snatch her.
How many supposedly dead Circle members are there?
Clary is frustrated that the Scooby Gang didnt get to Dot before she was abducted.
How will she ever recover her memories now?
Jace mentions the Silent Brothers, and the Lightwood siblings freak out.
She doesnt know what shes facing!
Jace glances at Clary and asks her what she wants to do.
She wants to go see these Silent Brothers.
At this response, Clary slides up a few notches on Jaces Shes So Awesome scale.
He instructs Simon to drive them to the City of Bones.
Something tells me I wouldnt want a summer home here.
We find the Mystery Machine in a generic creepy location.
Alec seems to soften (WHAT?)
and offers to guard the perimeter.
Back in town, the Captain asks Luke about the two witnesses he was questioning before.
Turning into an animal is just one of his worries.
He babbles on about how the Silent Brothers could kill Clary if shes not strong enough.
The process to retrieve her memories will be excruciating.
Clary presses on, her flaming red hair bouncing.
Jace refrains from stopping to carve J+C one the walls of the crypt.
He grabs her hand and leads her into a circular room.
The Silent Brothers are not an attractive group.
The fact that they speak though your thoughts is straight-up unfortunate.
A few memories flitter to the surface.
Clary sees Luke trying to persuade Jocelyn to tell Clary the truth.
But what is this horrific truth?
Thats shes a shadowhunter?
That her mother has been hiding her heritage for her entire life?
That shes not a true redhead?
The big, bad secret is that Valentine is Clarys father.
Hows that for a reveal, Jace?
Do you still think shes hot knowing that the blood in her veins runs a little dark?
Over at the bad guys lair, Dot uses magic to get out of a locked cage.
She groggily crawls over to Jocelyn.
She tells her glowing friend that Clary is strong and is going to be okay.
Dot fights off one of Valentines goons but is unable to escape Valentine himself.
He picks up a seraph blade and strikes her.
Id say RIP Dot, but this chick has nine lives.
I assume shell be back eventually.
While Clary and Jace make their way above ground, Simon does a little flirting with Izzy.
Im in a band.
Izzy asks if he has any of his music on his phone?
Unlike everyone his age, Simon doesnt have his phone with him.
He left it in the van.
She demands that Simon get inside the van and lock the door.
He obliges yet puts on his headphones to cue up the track.
Like most horror movies, the sound Izzy heard was coming from INSIDE THE VAN.
A pair of hands grab Simon and pull him to the back.
Izzy frantically tells the others that she lost Simon.
They put their heads together to make a plan when a voice rings out from above.
A tiny, wisp of a girl dangles Simon by his ankles from a high bridge.
Say hello to the vampire division of the downworlders, everyone!
The young girls co-kidnapper gives the shadowhunters an ultimatum: The mundane in exchange for the Mortal Cup.
And just like that, Clarys to-do list gets a little bit longer.
