Hello Multiversity readers, and welcome to Matheson, Massachusetts. We get a different response from the Locke kids on fighting Gabe and a profound history lesson on the keys in this episode. Now that the season is getting closer to an end we’ll just see how much damage Gabe can do and the kids can prevent.
1. Best Offense Is a Good Defense
The last episode had the Locke kids with a plan and trapped, ready to be set. This time they’re on the defense after it all went wrong. Gabe now has a key that can turn people into demons and get severely outnumbered and outpowered. Kinsey and Tyler Locke decide to go to school but tell and test their friends because everyone they know and care about could be in danger. It’s both a serious and comedic moment in the episode as everyone has to try and take a key from the Locke’s to prove they aren’t demons. The only real strategy either of them has to tell their friends is to grab the heaviest thing and start swinging for their heads, and oh yeah, they have supernatural strength. Now with a limited amount of keys at their disposal, it’s understandable not to have MUCH of a strategy but going with a “zombie” strategy with “go for their heads” seems a little short-sighted, especially given the fact they’re demons. The better approach would be to swing and run to get some distance, but we’ll see if some revisions come later on.
2. Historical Context
The episode flashes back to 1775, and we see British soldiers during the Revolutionary War led by Captain Frederick Gideon. At the beginning of this season, we were shown Gideon at the portal behind the Black Door getting hit with a Whispering Iron and becoming possessed but with no background or context for it. This episode gives the background that he killed an ancestor of the Locke’s, and his diary was the one that Mr. Bennett has been reading throughout the season. There are many points that this flashback gives the audience and helps me understand not only how the Black Door was made but also how the other keys began to be created. Long story short, the son of the Locke, who died now, started to delve into the magic and wanted to protect the town’s people from preventing any more demons from escaping. It felt good to finally understand Gideon because before this is it just seemed like a super old school flashback because of the history of Massachusetts.
3. Bode To The Rescue
Little Bode Locke proves himself once again and how valuable he is to the older kids. The older Locke kids tried to keep him out of the mix of fighting off the demons because they ran out of keys and felt like he was safer at his elementary school. However, once he gets some messages in their group chat about the demons showing back up on campus, he decides to bail from his school and uses their version of “Find my Friends” for an exact location of Kinsley. Luckily he does because Gabe has both her and Scot captured and ready to be turned into some more soldiers in his army. Without a key, Bode is smart enough to know he can’t take on a room full of demons, plus Gabe, he pulls the fire alarm, which gives the two of them time to escape unharmed. The disrespect Bode gets is entirely uncalled for. He ran most of season one and continues to find the keys throughout the house, yet continuously underestimated in his creativity to fight against Gabe.
4. Always Researching
Every time the show flashbacked to the modern-day, we saw Mr. Bennett continuously going back and forth between the ledger that Nina gave him and the other history books based on the town. It seems like he’s getting closer to finding the Black Door, and his curiosity may be leading him down a path he didn’t intentionally want. Still bitter about Gabe ditching her, Eden decides to prey on Mr. Bennett’s hunger for history and says she can lead him to the portal, but first, he needs to get the Omega Key from Key House. Now he has done some questionable stuff throughout the season and is one of the shadiest characters when it comes to his true motivations, but would he go as far as lie to Nina just to get the key? I definitely think so. Eden needs a move that’ll screw over the Locke’s and Gabe, so she’s going to make sure she gets Bennett to do whatever she wants if it means he’ll get a sneak peek at the portal.
5. Tyler’s New Mission
The downfall of Bode’s fire alarm trick is that it separated everyone, including Tyler’s girlfriend Jackie and his friend Logan, they were waiting for a meet-up with Tyler to get to a safe spot, but Tyler showed up too late. Gabe gets to the two of them first and turns Jackie into one of his demon soldiers. Heartbroken but hell-bent, Tyler decides he will need to make a new key that can save Jackie and the others back to normal without having to kill them. Now, how exactly is he going to do that without Whispering Iron? It turns out Rendell Locke’s clues come through once again, and he had one stashed away in his old favorite hat. Duncan agrees to help walk him through the process. Now I felt pretty excited about this because Tyler’s motive this whole season has been solely focused on Jackie, so it’s cool to see the new skills he has to learn to keep her safe. I will say it is a little messed up that the idea of trying to save people without just killing them only came into his, and the other Locke kids, head after it affected someone he cares about. It’s definitely on the more selfish side of all the characters despite being spilled far out of Key House and putting other kids in danger.
