We’re taking another look at Locke and Key, what does the head key mean for the Locke siblings and their mother, well, let’s take a look.
Head space
Tyler and Kinsey follow Bode into his head, an arcade. And a
lot of Spyro the Dragon around. I really tried to like it but I found it… meh…
Maybe I’m too old for it. Inside a jack-in-a-box, they find a memory, a memory
of Rendell telling Bode a story one night. Bode fell asleep before the story
ended, whilst Kinsey and Tyler disagree on the nature of the ending.
Bode explains the head key but neither Kinsey nor Tyler
fancy the idea of the others rooting around in their heads, the also suspect
the keys may be dangerous, given what happened with the mirror key so Tyler
tries to take both of them, Kinsey and Bode object leading to Bode revealing
that, I’ll just call her Dodge since that’s the moniker she’ll eventually take
on, Dodge has the anywhere key.
Not sure whether Kinsey or Tyler believe him, I say rolling
my eyes, but they compromise on Tyler and Kinsey each having one of the keys.
Meanwhile, Dodge searches for a guy named Mark Cho on someone’s laptop, she
finds the house rather easily and heads there, only to find he’s the guy from
the opening who burnt down his house, with him inside it.
There are some kids outside, one of whom is wearing a key
around his neck, the inferno key, I believe it’s called, the one that started
the fire. Dodge convinces the kid to get close enough for her to grab the key,
then toss him through a door opened with the anywhere key right onto some train
tracks, he does not survive.
To thank her for her help, Scot has given her a ticket to a
cover of a band called ‘band of horses’ it wouldn’t be a full outing with the
Savini squad though, just the two of them, like a date… Or not, as Scot
desperately tries to back out. Kinsey
gives him a maybe, which he takes well.
It’s a hockey match and they lose by 6 and Tyler’s annoyed
he didn’t get more time on the court. Tyler again tries his luck with Jackie,
it’s interrupted as a douchebag whose name I don’t remember hitting on Kinsey,
Jackie told him he’d tried similar tactics on her and another friend earlier.
Tyler’s buttons are pushed and it soon becomes a fight, a fight Tyler easily
wins, shoving away Kinsey when she tries to stop him. Part of that is down to
Tyler’s PTSD, he’s seeing Sam’s face when he’s punching.
Ridgeway separates them but is at least somewhat sympathetic
to Tyler’s plight, agreeing to talk down the punishment to a few weeks’
suspension from the Hockey Team. Tyler has a flashback with Sam, admitting his
frustrations with his father, even making a joke about killing fathers, one he
very much regrets now.
Logan, guy with prosthetic legs stops by, saying he knows a
thing or two about anger and warns Tyler not to let it destroy him. The next
morning, Kinsey can’t bring herself to reply to a message from Scot. Kinsey
tells Tyler she wants to go inside her head, she needs to see for herself what
it’s like, Tyler says he’s coming along for moral support.
They enter her head, a mall where gravity alters on every
floor. They head to a ‘store’ called Dad memories. They see Kinsey’s happy
ending version of the story, still not the version Tyler remembers. Young Tyler
brings her whale but that also changes the memory, this time to her version of
Tyler beating on… whoever that was.
There they see a scary figure, if briefly. The memory
changes again, this time to what Kinsey and Bode were doing during Sam’s
attack. She reveals to Tyler her regrets as the figure attacks Tyler, Kinsey
uses the poker she regrets not using against Sam against the figure, making it
back off, but Tyler remains injured outside of the head.
He goes to his favourite pastime, stalking Jackie on social
media. He begins remembering his version of the story, and true to his word it
has a dark ending. Nina and Ellie are having dinner, and this point Nina
mentions Bode’s friend in the wellhouse, which immediately sparks worry in
Ellie. Nina reveals she’s been sober for the last 6 years.
Back at Keyhouse, Bode hears whispering, finding a key
hidden in a portrait. He finds a door with a similar symbol on it to the key
and opens it, he steps through it but he becomes ethereal whilst his physical
body falls to the floor. He can’t be seen by physical beings, but enjoys using
ghost flight to fly around the grounds. He flies to a cemetery and is greeted
by a man named Chamberlin Locke.
Bode asks if that means his father’s ghost is here but only
those who have died at the house stay in ghost form and most have decided to
move to the afterlife. He did know Rendell, revealing that both he and Duncan
used the keys at some point. He somehow is able to hear his mother coming home
and is about to fly home, when she sees Ellie coming into the Wellhouse and
calling down the well for ‘Lucas.’
Tyler discovers Bode’s physical body and nearly has a panic
attack, fortunately Bode’s ethereal form re-enters his body at this point. Kinsey’s
still trapped in her own head about going, but Nina convinces her to try,
instead she chooses to try something rather drastic. She heads into the woods
as uses the head-key on herself.
Nina looks through a yearbook, finding the omega symbol
drawn all over it, the same tattoo Sam had on him. Kinsey drags out the
creature in her head, the manifestation of her fear and buries it in the woods.
Dodge is watching from the trees; now seemingly aware they have the Head Key.
It’s a solid effort, though the introduction of another new
key doesn’t carry much weight, it’s barely a footnote in this story whilst the
focus is on the head key. The pacing is still quite slow, as time is dedicated
to the school subplot with barely a reason to care about it, particularly with
Tyler’s friends.
Rating 7/10
The Keepers of the Keys
I’ve noticed the shortened the opening credits after the
first few episodes. Anyway, now Kinsey has buried her fear in the woods, she’s
giving herself a new look and making everyone breakfast. Though the first
negative comes pretty quickly with a remark made to Nina’s face about her being
disorganised. Tyler immediately cotton’s on that something isn’t quite right.
Tyler eventually gets Kinsey to admit what she’s done and
he’s rightfully concerned about it, though she brushes him off as she goes to
show the Savini squad a poster for their film she created. She apologises to
Scot for not saying anything, offering to make it up to him, inviting him to
Keyhouse after school.
Ellie and Nina have coffee and Nina asks about trying to get
in touch with some of Rendell’s other friends, except Erin is confined to a
psychiatric hospital after some sort of episode, potentially a stroke, and of
course Marc died in a fire, meaning that Ellie is the last of the crew left
alive or at least functionally.
We actually see Erin in the psychiatric hospital as Dodge
pays her a visit, but even telling her that two of her friends have died
recently isn’t enough to snap her out of her trance. Tyler gets a
quasi-motivational speech from Mr Ridgeway, about trying something new.
Bode returns home and talks to Rufus, asking who Lucas was
to Ellie. Her first love, apparently, who died. There’s also a bit about a tie
to the house and the revolutionary war which will be relevant next season.
Rufus tries to read up but sees Dodge in the picture of the wellhouse, not sure
what key she’s using to do that.
Mr Ridgeway appears to have hinted to Jackie that Tyler
wants to sign up for a fun-run charity event, and she wants to meet with him to
talk about getting sponsors, this involves her getting his number, which in one
call or text will mean he has her number too. One thing he finds out from her
is that she loves England.
This gives Tyler an awful idea, using the head key to insert
things into his head. Time for Nina to have a flashback about Rendell.
Celebrating her 1st year of sobriety with a mug that says ‘ray of
f*cking sunshine.’
Tyler and Jackie are out looking for sponsors and Tyler
tries to use his newfound England trivia but ends up coming short when Jane
Austin comes up as a topic. Scot and Kinsey arrive at Keyhouse, Scot
nonchalantly mentions a sea-cave where a kid drowned back in the day, he’d
apparently done a lot of local research by offering free ice cream. How do you
even have a job doing that?
Anyway, up to the bedroom. Kinsey decides to show Scot the
head key and they enter her mind, he initially doesn’t believe her but her
showing off one of her memories, one of her dad taking her to the aquarium for
her birthday, Scot is excited, but Kinsey realises she blocked Nina out of the
memory, discovering in the viewing that she was there too. Scot cheers her up
and the two kiss.
Tyler is picking out a copy of Sanditon, the Jane Austin
novel Jackie found so fascinating, Jackie meets him there and the two agree to
go out for Clam Chowder. It goes well. Tyler later apologises to Kinsey, and
admits his own hypocrisy regarding the head key, but as that happens Dodge is busy
shutting every door in the house with the power of… power of something, I don’t
know.
Dodge uses the matchstick key to light the gas burners on
fire, with Nina being completely oblivious. As Tyler and Kinsey go to help with
the fire, Dodge grabs Bode, and interrogates him in a ring of fire. In doing
so, however, she lets slip that she can’t physically take the keys, at least
not from the Lockes, they have to give it to her. When Bode refuses, she takes
her leave, coming up with another plan, as she does so the fire dissipates.
Kinsey and Nina have a little heart to heart, ending their
conflict that was barely a thing in this episode as Dodge reveals her plan,
giving Sam the matchstick key. Her emotional manipulation is front and centre
here, she clearly has her grip on Sam.
This episode didn’t really get going until the last 10
minutes or so, Jackie needs some more screentime to make me care about her, the
Kinsey romance is better but Scot is yet to be dragged into the main story.
Rating 7/10
Family Tree
Time for someone other than Bode to hear a whisper, as this
time its Tyler that hears a key, he follows the sound, Kinsey can hear it also
and the find the key in the piano. Guess the piano’s now out of key, get it…
Bode hears it also and has an idea of what the key could be
for, taking down a musical box. Now they’re all aware of Dodge, they decide to
split the keys between them. Kinsey now gets the music box key, Bode gets the
mirror key and the ghost key, and Tyler keeps the head key. They soon discover
what the music box can do, the person who uses the key can command others to
their will.
It’s been 2 weeks since the fire, and despite having
multiple look at the burner where the fire started, no-one can point out
anything wrong with it.
Eden decides to be a bully, so guess who’s going to be the
target for the Music Box key. Tyler is busy folding shirts with Jackie and
Logan, Jackie invites them to her house to finish off, and Tyler convinces
Logan to come up with an excuse not to be there, he’s cool with it, thinking
that Jackie may appreciate it too.
Kinsey is angry at Eden, and has stupidly taken the music
box to school with her, much to Tyler’s chagrin. Kinsey decides to show Scot
the music box key and she uses it to get Eden to fall over. Gabe is coming up
the stairs and takes notice of this. She actually takes it in stride, making it
seem like a performance and earning ovation. Gabe catches on quick and there’s
a good reason for that, but more on Gabe later. Gabe uses the music box on
Eden, getting her to lie on the table and make a snow-angel.
People start recording and taking photos of her predicament,
much to her embarrassment. It gets worse for Eden who starts coating herself in
smoothie and mayonnaise. Scot is no longer amused by it, and thinks that’s
enough though Gabe, for his own reasons and Kinsey, because she lacks fear,
that part of your brain that tells you when to stop, want to continue. Scot
storms off.
Nina pays Ridgeway a visit and finds out about the run
Tyler’s a part of, something Tyler had neglected to mention to her, just after
she gets a call from the elementary school Bode was enrolled in, revealing he
brought a blacksmith hammer to school. Tyler and Jackie have another chit-chat
that borders on the flirtatious. But that’s interrupted by a video of Eden
lapdancing a statue.
Nina returns home with Bode but finds that they’re not the
only ones there, Ellie had let herself into the house, pretending that it was
to find one of Rufus’ soldiers. Nina notices a keyhole imprint on her chest,
something that Rendell had also. Ellie claims she fell of her bike, but Nina is
sceptic.
Gabe goes for a walk in the woods with Kinsey, and begins
asking questions about the keys. Gabe reveals he’s been brought to boarding
school whilst his parents are in the middle of a divorce. Kinsey returns home
to rightfully livid Tyler. He chastises her and demands the key but she doesn’t
have any fear of him or anything else she bites back.
Duncan arrives as Tyler is storming off. Duncan tries to
talk to Bode but of course, Bode knows he can’t remember magic so he chooses
not to tell him anything. Nina decides to pay Ridgeway a visit, enquiring about
the scar, or what happened in Matheson that Rendell was so unwilling to talk
about. She reveals that a reason she came here in the first place is because
Sam talked about it when threatening Rendell. Ridgeway promises to help in what
ways he can but warns about her losing herself over this.
Jackie and Tyler are busy folding t-shirts, and her comforting
leads to a kiss. Speaking of romance, Scot decides that rather than be pissy
about the incident with Eden, maybe they can use the keys to spruce up their
movie a bit. He notices the photo of Rendell and his friends, revealing that 3
of them are the 3 that died in the sea caves, having seen an almost identical
photo in the newspaper from that era.
Nina decides to pay Ellie a visit, but Rufus is the one to
answer, Ellie isn’t there. Nina asks about the troop left at the house, for
which Rufus replies that he didn’t leave one, further fuelling Nina’s
suspicions. She was left a voicemail from Ridgeway, saying he had something he
needed to show her, calling back she gets voicemail.
Tyler returns home just as Kinsey hears the whisper of
another key, it’s at the gravesite. Kinsey finds it and makes a few good points
about why they should use I, she uses it and out of the ground come a
considerable number of jars. The memories as they find out belong to Duncan,
finding out about a key that can change the way they look. Tyler is
pre-occupied with another memory, one of Rendell attacking Lucas.
Nina returns to Ridgeway’s house, but finds him dead. She
immediately calls the police who apparently have officers in the vicinity. She
investigates a noise she heard but finds nothing. But we see Ellie is hidden
nearby.
This episode begins stirring the pot of intrigue, even
without Dodge around the pieces begin to move along the board providing more
interesting things than the past couple of episodes. Not much in actual plot
progression mind you, but the drama’s starting to pick up too and it won’t be
long before one gets entangled in the other.
Rating 7.5/10
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