Past is Prologue
Episode 5 of Locke and Key Season 2 starts with Eden and Gabe together and deciding to use the music box to control Kinsey. With Eden sitting tight for now, Gabe cycles up to Keyhouse. When he arrives, Bode happens to be sitting outside reading a letter from his friend Rufus. In the letter, Rufus tells Bode that he has been offered a job in Boston and is going to take it. This news shocks Bode as he had hoped that Rufus would stay in Keyhouse with him. ..
Gabe heads upstairs to find Kinsey acting suspicious and standoffish with him and Eden. Gabe brushes off his involvement with Eden as simple tutoring sessions, apologizing for not telling her sooner. Tyler shows though and mentions what’s happening to Duncan and his scrambled memories regarding the keys. ..
Gabe realizes that he can kill two birds with one stone and decides to help Tyler, knowing that Duncan could be the key to helping his plan come to fruition.
Bode is going to Nebraska to see Rufus for a few hours. Unfortunately, using the Anywhere Key is out the question, as Duncan hands it to Bode instead. ..
Tyler and Logan break into the school after hours and retrace the moments from Erin’s memories. This eventually leads them outside, where Tyler uses the Hercules key to lift up the bench completely and uncover the Memory Key, courtesy of the whispering.
Nina and Josh are out on a date, and while all this is going on, the subplot involving Nina and Josh continues. The pair skip dinner and go straight for dessert.
Kinsey and Jackie are at Javi’s birthday bash when they notice that Eden is not being herself. Kinsey asks her what’s wrong, and Eden tells them she’s been tutoring for school and she didn’t know it was a lie. This makes Kinsey and Jackie suspicious, as they think Eden might be lying to them about something else.
Kinsey and Scot set out to try and uncover what’s really going on in the small town of Westville.
As Bode starts to uncover more of the past, he begins to question why Rufus was so interested in him in the first place. Rufus mentions how he noticed two versions of Dodge and this immediately piques Bode’s interest. While they get talking, we cut back to Jackie’s party where Eden passes out on the bed. Just before she slips into a drunken stupor, she mutters that she’s going to kill Kinsey. So naturally, Kinsey uses the Memory Key to try and learn the truth.
Kinsley goes on a hunt to find the demon that is possessing Eden and Scot finds out that Gabe is the one who did it. With the help of Kinsley and Scot, they finally catch the demon and put an end to it.
As the truth hits hard, all the mannequins suddenly come to life and grab Kinsey and Scot. Kinsey manages to burn one of them, as the pair skip across the makeshift ladder and scramble to safety. ..
Kinsey rushes back to her family and tells them the news. While she does, Josh realizes his piece of Whispering Iron has been stolen and frantically searches around his office for clues. Interestingly, a picture of the Black Door sits on his desk.
Tyler comes to Keyhouse with the Memory Key and sits down with Duncan, promising to make him feel better. Using the key, he taps into Duncan’s subconscious, helping to descramble his memories as everything comes flooding back.
Kinsey and Gabe enter the room, breathing heavily. They soon realize that they never actually killed Dodge. So who did they throw into the Black Door? Before they can answer that, Gabe knocks at the front door.
The Episode Review
The midway point of Locke and Key sees Kinsey and the other kids learn what’s really going on. ..
It seems like the Locke’s are finally getting some answers to their questions. coupled with Duncan retrieving his memory, it looks like the second half of this show is about to step it up a gear.
Josh and Nina are growing closer and one can’t help but feel Josh is hiding something. Between the dollhouse and the Black Door, right the way through to the piece of Whispering Iron he has, there’s way too much coincidence surrounding this guy. Could he be connected to Ellie in some way?
This is definitely a step in the right direction.
