It’s our final look at Locke and Key, as both sides converge on the Black Door, who will prevail? Let’s find out.
Echoes
6 months ago, Ellie, serving as a track teacher, brings back
her students before receiving the news herself that Rendel Locke had been shot,
she calls Mark saying what happened is all her fault, and the events lead to
Mark killing himself and destroying his house with the matchstick key.
3 months ago, Ellie receives a knock at the door, from Lucas,
saying he needs her help. We see her let herself into key house and begin
searching, she finds something in the rafters, a crown of sorts. This is what
she was really doing when Nina caught her that time. Unfortunately, without the
key, the crown doesn’t serve much of a purpose. And now we find out why
Ridgeway had to go, he managed to get a picture of Ellie and Lucas together.
Ellie had hoped to just talk the phone off him but Lucas
decides to kill him, and leave Ellie there with the body, she manages to run
back. She then unloads a full round of bullets into Lucas, but it does
absolutely nothing. Lucas is now threatening Rufus if Ellie doesn’t do as he
says.
Bode comes in, having found the matchstick key, yeah, he
just found it outside, strange. They finally decide to let Bode in on the
memory jars and he holds the final piece of making things make sense, he sees
Lucas from the memory and recognises him as the guy at Rufus’ house. Lucas
instructs Ellie to find the Omega key in the ashes.
Bode skips school to pay Rufus a visit and explains to him
about Lucas. Rufus in turn shows him the crown, missing a key with an insignia
Bode says he recognises. Eden gets a fright from Kinsey’s fear, and confronts
Kinsey about it, but Kinsey is more concerned with getting answers out of
Ellie, she doesn’t get much.
Nina takes what’s left of the alcohol and pours it down the
sink. As Tyler and Kinsey discuss letting other people help against dodge, Eden
comes back for another round, Kinsey has no idea what she’s talking about until
her fear attacks again. She and Logan help fend it off.
Ellie arrives at Keyhouse, eyeing the urn but decides to
turn around and head home. With Dodge away, they’re packing to leave but Rufus
shows his worth by revealing he’s secretly gathered the keys, he’s the one who
left the matchstick key for Bode to find.
Revealing the truth comes with consequences, Eden takes it
in stride, somehow, but Jackie is less than enthused. Gabe and Scot arrive to
check up and Kinsey decides to be honest with both of them. Basically, she
wants to not have to choose between them, and I think Scot is somewhat
offended. It’s interrupted by a call from Ellie, who asks to meet at Keyhouse.
Nina stops by a church, intending to attend an AA-meeting, but decides she
really isn’t in the right mindset.
Ellie explains the truth. After graduation, the gang had a
sleepover where they went down to the caves, Rendel had become obsessed with
opening the Black Door. When they did, blue bullets came out and Lucas was hit.
He seemed fine at first, but she has opened her mind with the head key to show
them the rest. Lucas starts threatening the others for the omega key, killing
Jet and Kim before Rendel can kill him with a hammer like they saw in Duncan’s
memory.
They use the head key to remove his memories of the incident
and other memories. They throw the bodies into the sea to create the cover of
them drowning in the sea cave, they split the keys with each of them holding
one or two of the keys, whilst the rest were split up around the house. Ellie
spent most of the following years grieving for her lost love, and a year ago
finally hit her breaking point, using the echo key on the wellhouse door to try
and bring Lucas back, but it wasn’t Lucas who came back, it the was the entity
that possessed him, now free of the limitations of the human body.
Meanwhile, Body finally remembers where he saw the key to the Crown
of Shadows, and Ellie rather stupidly decides to take that key with her to get
the crown. Naturally Lucas is there, knocks out Rufus and gets the key, and
uses it to activate the crown.
The pieces finally start to come together, but man allowing
her to take the key with her to get the crown is the dumbest idea.
Rating 7.5/10
Crown of Shadows
Ellie and the detective have coffee together, so she can be
out of the action for today’s episode. The Locke siblings are confronted by
Dodge and her shadow army, shadows that easily make into the house in the dark.
But they disappear the moment that the lights are on, so it becomes a quest to
turn on all the lights in the house. Unfortunately, Dodge’s creatures also know
that and the room soon turns dark. Kinsey goes to trip the breaker and has to
fight off more shadows.
Bode uses the matchstick key against the shadow monsters and
it seemingly knocks her out, though the crown of shadows is missing. They can’t
put Dodge back in the wellhouse without the Echo Key, their next best bet is
sending her back to the shadow dimension using the black door and the omega
key. To help Jackie, Eden, Scot and Gabe have arrived, with Jackie apologising
for her reaction to all this.
Lucky for them, it’s just past low tide, so it’s safe to
bring her through. Bode goes to see Rufus, and finds him unconscious, Ellie
nowhere to be seen. The cave is dry enough for them to just walk through.
Kinsey is beginning to show worry uncharacteristic for someone without fear.
Kinsey gives fair warning to everyone about what they’re about to do, she then
opens the door with the key and the gang all open the door.
Dodge wakes up and grabs Tyler as they force her through, he
manages to free himself just in time, more glowing bullets fire out as the
close the door. They get back to the house and Scot rejects Kinsey’s
double-date proposal. The police answer the call regarding Rufus, Rufus is
taken to the hospital but gives Bode back the head key, still no sign on Ellie
at this stage.
Bode asks the others but they’re certain it was Dodge they
brought back. The next morning Ellie is still missing and Rufus is likely to be
staying with his aunt and uncle in Nebraska. Nina gives a family meeting about
how she’s realised that it was a mistake taking them here and offers them the
chance to go home. The house has been done up enough to sell.
None of the others want to leave and Nina ultimately relents
on the issue, group hug. Bode writes a postcard to Rufus as everyone’s trying
to figure out what happened to her. Bode, Tyler and Kinsey are officially the
keepers of the keys. The family say their final goodbye as they chuck Rendel’s
ashes off the cliff into ocean, like his former friends, that’s sweet, I guess.
Kinsey has turned down art school to hang out with Gabe over
the summer and suddenly our viewpoint switches to him. Lots of scenes of him subtly manipulating Kinsey and time for the first big bombshell, Gabe is
another form of dodge. She also used the identity key to make Ellie into a copy
of Dodge, that she can use as a decoy. It was actually Ellie they threw into
the void. And just to make matters worse, we see one of the demon bullets hit
Eden in the arm, something Gabe/Dodge took notice of and has taken of as a new
partner.
The finale portion of this finale feels over with way too
quickly, with the larger chunk of the episode dedicated to setting up the next
season. This is happening way too often and is not a pattern I’ve come to
appreciate.
Rating 7/10
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