Five Minutes Past
Locke and Key Season 3 starts with Bode following more whispers around the house, where he finds the exact key he’s looking for to open the Harlequin Chest in the basement. What are the odds, eh?
With this in hand, Kinsey brings Bode out to the Well, where they express concern about the broken bars on the window. They deduce that it must have been a demon of some kind that’s opened it. Alone, Kinsey ends up seeing Eden’s dead body at the bottom of the well.
Kinsey and her friends decide to get the police involved in their plan to free Eden from the well. They lift her out of the well and sing for her passing.
After a lovely song, the performers then unceremoniously toss her body into the water, deciding this is the best option, with the body presumably washing up on shore further down the line and launching a big police investigation anyway. Sorry, getting ahead of ourselves here! ..
Bode and Nina return to Locke House and Bode uses the Time Shift Key to go back through time to see their father. Nina refuses, believing it to be danger. Instead, she comes up with the idea of using the Head Key to conjure forth memories of his father.
Bode lashed out at his mother, claiming that everyone was moving on and that Nina didn’t care about their deceased father. ..
Nina is pretty patient with the kid and brings him out to where they experience memories of Rendell at the campfire. Nina realizes things are about to get bad so she tasks Bode with leaving hurriedly. The truth is, Nina was a big drinker and she almost caused chaos with Bode. There’s certainly a rift between Rendell and Nina thanks to the latter’s drinking, and she even misses Kinsey’s play.
Nina tells Bode that she’s been thinking about him all day and that she just can’t get him out of her head. Bode finds the Time key and is able to get Nina out of her head.
Kinsey heads into her mother’s house to confront her about her drinking. She tells her that she’s been drinking and it’s been damaging her mental health. Nina shrugs those concerns off and points out that she needs to work through this herself. So Kinsey leaves.
Gideon and his cronies are planning to steal clothes and gear from the Locke family, in order to blend in and learn more about the revolution before striking. They will also need to break into the family’s home and take old revolution weapons, as well as kill the clerk on duty if they are successful.
Tyler goes to the police station to follow up on a report that someone broke into the house. However, none of the officers who reported the break-in have any record of it. Tyler confronts Kinsey and demands to know why she’s lying. It’s painful for Kinsey to take, especially as she’s still trying to keep her promise and not reveal exactly what’s going on with the keys and the magic.
Bode uses the Time Key to travel through time. He sets a timer for 5 minutes and jumps back to a pivotal moment involving Dodge and Eden. Bode proudly proclaims how the future has already been written and they will be stopped. ..
Bode, of course, is an absolute idiot and changes the past thanks to his ignorance. The time goes off, he runs away from Dodge but when he awakens, Bode finds Dodge has followed him. She outsmarts Bode, managing to take over his body and trapping the kid outside in his ghostly form. As Hermione Granger would say “What an idiot.”
The Episode Review
Locke and Key can be frustrating to watch at times because the character decisions often lead to bad outcomes. ..
Bode jumping back through time and taunting Dodge is a bad decision. Not only has Bode been annoying this year, but his time-jumping may have caused irreversible damage to the timeline. ..
The problem with introducing time travel in this story is that it can be a difficult thing to get right. Unless you have a good writer at the helm, numerous plot holes can crop up as a result. Alas, that’s the case here.
With Nina lost in her own memories and Tyler still scrambling to piece together his own fractured memories, a lot of this season has seen busywork at the forefront as we gear up for the final fight with Gideon. But by now it’s clear to see that Locke and Key is running on fumes. Let’s hope I’ve proven wrong and the future episodes pick up the pace.
