Locke & Key follows the titular Locke family, whose patriarch Rendell is
murdered by the teenaged Sam Lesser. Rendell’s wife, Nina, and their children Tyler, Kinsey,
and Bode relocate to the old Locke home, known as Keyhouse, in the small town of Matheson.
The children soon discover that the house is filled with hidden, magical keys that each possess
their own unique powers and that adults, including their mother Nina and Uncle Duncan,
can’t seem to remember the magic after witnessing it. Some of the notable keys
include the Anywhere Key, which allows you to travel to any destination you’ve seen before,
the Head Key, which allows you to go inside your own mind to access memories,
and the Identity Key, which allows the user to change their appearance.
Bode first uses the keys to free a mysterious woman named Echo trapped in a wellhouse,
but quickly discovers that he’s been tricked. Echo is actually a villainous character known
as Dodge who wants to collect all of the keys for a sinister plan.
And so Bode tasks himself with finding and protecting the various keys around Keyhouse.
Tyler supports Bode’s mission to protect the keys,
and mostly stays away from using them himself. Instead, he focuses on adjusting to his new
small town social life and strikes up a relationship with his crush, Jackie.
Kinsey becomes friends with a group of filmmakers known as the Savini squad,
and quickly finds herself in a love triangle between the good natured Scot,
and fellow new kid Gabe, who encourages her to use the various keys’ magic for her own benefit.
Kinsey uses the Head Key to remove her own fear, personified as a rabid version of herself,
and buries it. She also uses the Music Box Key to humiliate her rival, Eden.
As the Locke children uncover more secrets about the keys and their father, Dodge is out in the
world orchestrating her villainous plan. She is unable to take the keys from the Locke’s herself,
so she needs a willing partner to help her. We find out that it was Dodge that had called out
to Sam Lesser and manipulated him into murdering Rendell. Then she breaks Sam out of prison so he
could go to Keyhouse and retrieve the Head Key. He holds the Locke family at gunpoint,
just as he had done before, but this time Tyler is able to get through to him and
make him question Dodge’s manipulative ways. And that’s when Dodge shows up to stab Sam and steal
the Head Key from him. Before Sam succumbs to his stab wound, he accidentally uses the
Ghost Key and has his ethereal form separated from his body, unbeknownst to everyone else.
Dodge also manipulates Rendell’s old friend Ellie, by posing as her deceased boyfriend Lucas.
Dodge kills Tyler’s teacher, Joe Ridgeway, who also taught Rendell and his friends when
they were in high school, when he discovers Dodge using Lucas’ body. Dodge then forces
Ellie to befriend Nina so she can steal the mysterious Crown of Shadows from Keyhouse.
When the Locke children confront Ellie about her involvement with Dodge, a guilt ridden
Ellie reveals everything. When they were younger, Rendell and his friends had opened the mysterious
Omega Door hidden in the sea caves. Upon opening it, several demonic bullets flew out of the door,
with one striking and possessing Lucas. Lucas then killed two of their friends before Rendell
killed him. Rendell, Ellie, and their remaining friends staged the deaths as accidental drownings
and split up the keys to be hidden and never used again. And that all was going well until
a few months ago when a still grieving Ellie used the Echo Key to try to bring back Lucas.
What she ended up bringing back was Dodge, the evil spirit that had possessed Lucas,
and that was the decision that set in motion the events of the series.
Dodge then shows up to Ellie’s house, knocks out her son Rufus, and steals the Crown of Shadows.
Dodge then arrives at Keyhouse to confront the Locke children and steal the Omega Key
in order to unlock the Omega Door. Using the crown, Dodge summons an army of shadows that
the Locke children must defeat. After Bode uses the Matchstick Key to destroy Dodge’s shadow,
the Locke children find her unconscious body. And since Dodge was a demonic spirit that came
from the Omega Door, it only made sense that that was where they needed to take
her to be rid of her for good. And so, the Locke kids, alongside their friends Scot,
Gabe, Jackie, and Eden, take Dodge’s body down to the Sea Caves to throw it through the Omega Door.
And thus, the Locke family was free to live happily ever after! They spread Rendell’s ashes
and it seems like they’re finally in a place where they can move on. Annnnd then comes the twist.
Ellie hasn’t been seen since Dodge’s attack, and her son Rufus is sent off to live with his
aunt and uncle. It turns out that Dodge had used the Identity Key on Ellie to look like Dodge and
planted her unconscious body in Keyhouse for the Locke children to find. And so it was actually
Ellie that they threw through the Omega Door. And Dodge? Well, it’s also revealed that she
has secretly been posing as Gabe all season long, and now that Gabe was dating Kinsey, Dodge had an
even firmer manipulative grasp on the Lockes. And Dodge won’t be the only problem for the
Lockes in season 2, as it’s also revealed that one of those demon bullets had escaped from the
Omega Door and possessed Eden, meaning there were now two demonic entities to deal with.
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