How It All Goes Down
The Serpent's Tooth
- While Clary and Luke drink coffee, Maia, who recovered from demon poison faster than most people recover from too much Taco Bell, sneaks out.
- In a nearby alley, she bumps into her brother, Daniel. Clarification: her dead brother, Daniel.
- Of course, it's not Daniel, it's Agramon, the fear demon, and Valentine is right behind it.
- Valentine captures Maia.
- Back at the Institute, the Inquisitor puts Jace inside a Malachi Configuration, which is basically a magic cage.
- She plans to contact Valentine and offer him a trade: his son for the Mortal Instruments.
- Jace knows that Valentine would choose the Mortal Instruments over him, but the Inquisitor doesn't believe him.
- It seems that she holds Valentine responsible for the death of her own son and she's so mad about it, she wouldn't mind killing Jace just to get Valentine back.
- At Luke's house, Luke discovers Maia left. She left a note, "Gone to make amends" (3.15.124).
- Clary assumes Maia went to Simon's, so she calls Simon.
- While on the phone with Simon, he hears someone try to break into his house.
- We switch POV back to the Institute, where Alec visits Jace inside his cage.
- Alec says he only pretended to be on the Inquisitor's side. That way she wouldn't be watching him all the time.
- Jace asks Alec to get Isabelle's phone to text Clary to ask Luke (did you follow all that?) about the Inquisitor's son. Maybe Luke has information Jace could use.
- Luke and Clary rush to Simon's house.
- Clary calls Simon on the way, but Simon doesn't answer. Valentine does!
- He says he has Simon, but hasn't done anything him… "Yet" (3.15.234).
- Alec returns to Jace's cage with an apple for him to eat.
- He also slides him an unlocking rune, which doesn't dispel the cage, but unlocks Jace's wrist shackles.
- Unfortunately, Alec wasn't able to text Clary. Isabelle won't let him in her room.
- However, Alec suggests that maybe Jace has powers he never knew he had. Maybe he can just jump right out of the cage, like a hunky kangaroo.
- So Jace jumps.