Yeerk behind Tom’s eyes: *brief flash of cold contempt at human weakness* Jake: Um, okay, thanks for the offer, but I’m sort of into not being in a cult, it’s this weird thing I’m trying out, sorry about that.

I’m overcome with delight, but I will take a few deep breaths and carry on.īack at Jake’s house after dinner, Tom pulls Jake aside for yet another weird talk about how Jake really ought to consider joining his friendly neighborhood youth cult, it would be cool and important and definitely more worthwhile than hanging out with Marco all the time. Like a roach motel! The roach motel was a metaphor.

Humans with free will check in, but they don’t check out again - their shiny new brain parasites do. Marco promptly reaches the same conclusion Jake already fears: the Yeerks are running some or all of the hospital, and using it as a revolving door to expand their numbers. He’s discovered that Tom keeps making phone calls to a variety of doctors at the local hospital, specifically to doctors at the “Berman Clinic,” which I imagine will be important at some point. Specifically: Jake has to bring everyone else in on his discoveries from spying on Tom. Jake agrees partly out of common sense and partly because he’s in twitterpated teen love, and then does several pages of exposition which I’m blithely skipping because we all know that Rachel is pretty, Marco is sarcastic, Tobias is a literal hawk, etc.īut then we have to settle down to serious business and moving the plot along. Jake, Jake, Jake.Įveryone’s pretty amused except Cassie, who reads Jake the riot act about testing out a new morph alone. We open up the next chapter with Jake telling the Animorphs about his Roach Adventure and how he got free: morphing back to human boy, which ended up with him half-wedged behind the fridge, wearing his morphing spandex and a roach trap stuck to his head, when his mother walked in.

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