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.
It’s then revealed that it was Dodge that had called out to Sam Lesser and manipulated
him into murdering Rendell.
She then breaks Sam out of prison so he can 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 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 Black Door hidden
in the nearby 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 was all 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 arrives at Keyhouse to confront the Locke children and steal the Omega Key
in order to unlock the Black 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 Black 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 Black Door.
And thus, the Locke family was free to live happily ever after!
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 had thrown through the Black 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 Locke family moving, as it’s also revealed
that one of those demon bullets had escaped from the Black Door and possessed Eden, meaning
there were now two demonic entities to deal with.
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Now let’s get back to the recap!
In season 2 of Locke & Key, the Locke family is trying their best to live normal lives,
unaware of the danger that Gabe and Eden posed.
Nina gets a job working at Matheson Academy, where she begins a relationship with the history
teacher, Josh Bennett.
Meanwhile, Bode befriends Josh’s daughter, Jamie, who owns a dollhouse replica of Keyhouse.
Bode discovers that if he used the Small World Key, anything that happened in the dollhouse
also happened in Keyhouse.
So, for example, if a regular sized spider crawled into the dollhouse, a massive spider
would appear in Keyhouse.
Tyler is still dating Jackie, whose eighteenth birthday is fast approaching, meaning she
would soon forget about the magic of the keys.
This prompts Tyler and Kinsey to visit their father Rendell’s high school girlfriend,
Erin, who had been catatonic since her experience with the Black Door decades prior.
Using the Head Key, Tyler and Kinsey discover that Erin had been trapped inside her own
mind.
Upon freeing her, Erin regains consciousness.
Erin informs them that adults can remember magic with the use of the Memory Key.
Upon finding the Memory Key, Tyler uses it on his Uncle Duncan, who finally remembers
his magical childhood and that he had the ability to craft his own magical keys.
When Tyler offers to use the Memory Key on Jackie, she refuses, thinking it best to leave
the magic in the past and move on.
Kinsey begins to mistrust Gabe as he tries to drive a wedge in her friendship with Scot
by using the Music Box Key to manipulate them.
And she had good reason to mistrust Gabe, as he was secretly the villainous demon Dodge,
working alongside the possessed Eden.
The two villains set up a base in a cabin in the woods and begin collecting a material
known as Whispering Iron to create their own magical keys.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t possess the power to create their own keys.
Upon learning that Duncan could make keys, Gabe sets his sights on him.
As Kinsey’s suspicions of Gabe and Eden grow, she and Scot use the Head Key on Eden
where they discover that Eden was a demon and that Gabe was in fact Dodge.
The Locke children then realize that Dodge had tricked them into throwing their father’s
friend Ellie through the Black Door instead of the villainous demon.
As the Lockes try to come up with a plan to defeat Gabe, Erin takes matters into her own
hands, confronting the demon for the deaths of her high school friends.
Gabe overpowers Erin and murders her.
When the Lockes attempt to defeat Gabe, he outplays them, threatening to kill Bode to
force Duncan to craft the Demon Key.
With this new Key, Gabe could use it to turn his victims into demon slaves.
As Gabe amasses a demon army, including a possessed Jackie, Duncan helps Tyler create
the Alpha Key, which would remove the demon from a person’s soul.
Tyler uses the Key on Jackie, which dispels the demon, but ultimately kills her.
Heartbroken, Tyler becomes more resolved in his quest to defeat Gabe.
Meanwhile, history teacher Josh begins looking into his ancestor, Frederick Gideon, a British
Captain in the Revolutionary War.
In the 1700s, Gideon raided Keyhouse, which at the time was being used to build and hide
weapons for the American Army.
After killing Peter Locke, the original builder of Keyhouse, Gideon fled to the Sea Caves
where he discovered a portal to another dimension.
Both Gideon and a fellow British soldier were possessed by a demon from the portal before
being captured by the American militia and hanged for their crimes.
Another Locke ancestor, Benjamin Locke, crafted the Black Door and Omega Key to seal the portal
and contain the evil demons within.
In the present, Eden has grown tired of being Gabe’s puppet and plots to build her own
demonic army to turn against him.
She tricks Josh into obtaining the Omega Key and following her to the Black Door, under
the guise of teaching him more about his ancestor, Gideon.
As Eden and Josh reach the Black Door, Gabe arrives to stop them and uses the Crown of
Shadows to cause a cave-in.
Eden manages to escape, and Bode and Jamie arrive to rescue Josh, who soon forgets his
magical experience due to being an adult.
Unbeknownst to them, the cave-in also opened the Black Door, allowing Ellie, still looking
like Dodge, to finally escape.
As the season comes to a close, Duncan discovers that being the creator of the Demon Key gave
him the power to control the demons.
He turns the army against Gabe, who is also confronted by Tyler and Kinsey.
While Gabe and Kinsey fight, Tyler uses the Alpha Key to kill him, defeating the villainous
demon Dodge once and for all.
Following Dodge’s defeat, the original Lucas returns as an echo and is reunited with his
high school love, Ellie, who is restored to her true form.
Following their victory, Tyler departs on a road trip, choosing not to use the Memory
Key on himself in the hopes of living a normal life and forgetting his heartbreak over Jackie.
Kinsey and the Savini Squad throw a send-off party for Scot, who accepts a scholarship
to study in England.
And Bode reveals to Nina that she could remember magic by using the Memory Key.
But it’s not exactly all happy endings, as the still possessed Eden uses the Echo
Key to summon Captain Frederick Gideon.
While Eden thinks that they could work together to re-open the portal to the demon dimension,
Gideon instead betrays Eden and tosses her headfirst into the well before escaping to
pursue his own nefarious plans.