Shadowhunters is based on The Mortal Instruments book series. It follows 18 year old Clary Fray as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime. We meet Clary on her 18th birthday, as she is applying for the Brooklyn Academy of Art. She shows them her drawings and is accepted. She celebrates with her best friend, Simon and goes home to tell her mother. She plans on going to a club with Simon after watching his band play a gig.
While at a club, Clary runs into Jace Wayland who is surprised that she can see him. Clary follows Jace as he disappears in the club. She walks in on what looks to be Jace murdering a young woman. Clary intervenes and a fight ensues. Jace and his fellow shadowhunters, Alec and Isabelle, fight a group of demons. Clary ends up in the middle of the fight and gets one of their weapons, a seraph blade, which lights up in her hand. Jace protects her during the fight and Clary runs away.
Clary is followed home by mysterious men. When Clary finds her mom, Jocelyn, she tells her what happened. Jocelyn tries to tell Clary that she's a shadowhunter and that she angered a very powerful man so she has been in hiding. Jocelyn is warned by Dot the witch who lives downstairs that she has been found. Jocelyn gives a confused and frantic Clary a necklace and tells her to find Luke, that he is the only one she can trust. Jocelyn tells her to trust her instincts and that she is more powerful then she knows. Jocelyn pushes Clary through a portal and she ends up at the police station where Luke works. She's told he is in a meeting and too wait for him, but she eavesdrops on the meeting. Clary witnesses Luke talking to some mysterious men and saying that Jocelyn means nothing to him and he could care less about her.
Meanwhile, Jocelyn is attacked and she fights back like a badass. She burns Clary's room so now one will be able to fight her. The men steal all of the cups from her apartment, as they are looking for an ancient relic called The Mortal Cup. They believe Jocelyn stole it and hid it. When Jocelyn realizes she can't win, she drinks a potion Dot gave her which seems to put her in a magical coma. Dot is killed and the men take Jocelyn to their leader Valentine, who is in love with her.
Clary returns home, panicking and looking for her mother. She hears something and sees Dot so she runs to her. Dot questions her about "the mortal cup" and Clary insists she has no idea what she is talking about and Dot tries to attack her. Clary struggles and knocks her down. Dot transforms into a creepy demon that goes after her. It's claws get her and she is backed against the wall when Jace kills the demon. He promises Clary that it will be ok, and he takes her unconscious body to The Institute, where he and the others live and train.
Clary wakes up to Isabelle watching over her. She's confused and Isabelle says she had to see the mundane that had Jace so distracted. Jace and Alec come in, and Jace informs them that she's not a mundane (ordinary human), she's a shadowhunter and he knows this because the seraph blade lit up in her hand. Alec seems particularly annoyed about this fact and even more so when Jace asks to be alone with Clary. Alec is even more upset and Isabelle calls him on it.
Jace talks with Clary and tells her that she was unconcious because of the demon poison, but she should be ok now.He realizes she has no idea about what she is or their world. He sums it up by telling her that all of the legends are true. Clary is freaking out and tells him that she doesn't care and she doesn't want any part of it, all she wants is to find her mother. Jace tells her that he's the only one who can help her with that. Clary's phone rings and it's her best friend Simon who has frantically been looking for her since she disappeared from the club 2 days ago. He tracked her phone to an abandoned church where The Institute is hidden. She tells him she'll be down when she gets dressed and asks Jace what happened to her clothes. He tells her he burned them because of the demon poison, but Isabelle left her something to wear.
Clary gets dressed and finds a reddish "tattoo" on her neck. She questions Jace about it, and he informs her that it is a rune and she wouldn't have lived if he hadn't of used it on her. Runes are powerful markings that the hunters draw on themselves with their stele so they can use it's power. Clary meets up with Simon and is annoyed that Jace is using a glamour rune so he is invisible to Simon. Simon is deeply concerned for Clary and she freaks out as she watches Jace kill someone. Jace tells her it was a Circle member who followed Simon here and was after Clary. He removes the glamour so Simon can see him, and Simon is obviously confused. Both men try to persuade Clary to go with them. Jace tells her that he has to protect her and he promises to help her find her mom. Simon tells her they will figure it out together and they need to find Luke. Clary says he can't be trusted.
The way Jace was instantly so protective over Jace, was so hot. As he carried her to The Institute, he promised her that he's got her and later on her promises her that he will find her mom. He confesses that he has to protect her- not want, but has to. I love that. Even Isabelle can't believe how distracted he is by her. It's as if his whole world shifted, and now he just has to protect her and do anything he can to help her.
Tune into Freeform next Tuesday at 9 for episode 2.
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