While Lexington's baby sitting, for Xantos and Fox, the 'Manhattan Clan's' ancestral home is attacked, and baby Alex is abducted! The kidnapper's demands are simple: Xanatos must surrender a Gargoyle - in exchange, for their son's safe return... Feeling guilty, Lexington sets off (on his own) to find baby Alex and the abductors; Goliath, and his daughter, Angela, witness the human ritual, known as 'politics' - and, stumble upon a horrifying secret...