Locke and Key season 3 recap guide: All 8 episodes explained

Locke and Key season 3, episode 3 recap: Five Minutes Past

Locke and Key season 3, episode 3 is an exercise in frustration as Bode makes several foolish decisions one after the other. I know he’s a kid, but damn Bode! You should know better by now.

Given the episode’s title, “Five Minutes Past,” you would be correct in assuming this installment will revolve around the Time Shift Key, but Nina also does some exploration into her past.

The episode begins with Bode finding yet another key, the Harlequin Key, so now they will be able to move the keys to the Harlequin chest. Following up on Tyler’s Wellhouse observation, Kinsey and Bode go check out the damage. While there, Bode laments seeing Nina and Josh kiss, but Kinsey argues that it’s good their mom is finally moving on. Bode isn’t quite there yet. He doesn’t want Nina to forget their dad. Kinsey assures him that won’t happen.

On the way out, Tyler stops Kinsey to get an update on the police report. Obviously, Kinsey never contacted the police over the “robbery,” but she tells Tyler the cops came and just didn’t find anything worthwhile. Tyler leaves to meet up with his longtime friend Logan Calloway (Eric Graise) and Kinsey returns to poke around Wellhouse. She uses her flashlight to look down the well and discovers Eden’s body at the bottom.

Since Eden was a person, and a friend (sort of) at one point in time, Kinsey and her friends give her a memorial and then toss her body off the sea cliffs into the water. I guess that’s okay… I mean what happens when her body washes up ashore?

Meanwhile, Nina catches Bode snooping around for her things in search of the Time Shift Key so he can go back and see Rendell. Figuring it might be safer to take him into her old memories, Nina produces the Mind Key instead. But not long after they go back to revisit a memory of her, Rendell and Bode camping, Nina suddenly rushes Bode out before it’s even over, leaving Bode thoroughly confused.

But we see that her reasoning has to do with seeing the past version of herself drinking alcohol in the background as Bode and Rendell make s’mores. That reveal leads Nina on a journey of self-discovery as she returns to several old memories, torturing herself by looking back at how many family events she missed or ruined because of her drinking problem.

Eventually, Kinsey catches her inside her mind and asks her to stop. Nina is okay now, she got better, why is she tormenting herself? But Nina argues that she needs to work through this on her own.

In town, while hanging out with Logan, Tyler runs into Josh, who offers to take them on a tour of the historic Matheson Meeting House. Tyler agrees. He notices a mannequin sporting some of the old colonial garb, specifically a rare buckle that he recognizes from the attack at Keyhouse. Gideon was wearing it. With that knowledge, Tyler goes to the police station in the hopes of providing more info. But as we know, Kinsey never filed a report and Tyler is not happy his sister lied to him.

Back at the meeting house, Josh gets a visit from Gideon, now dressed in modern clothes stolen from a random Matheson resident. He pokes around an old cabinet, asking where the possessions (guns) once stored inside were taken. Josh tells him they’re now on display at the library, leading to Gideon, Coffey and Bolton ransacking the library for their weapons and killing the poor librarian in the process.

Tyler doesn’t hesitate to confront Kinsey regarding the police report lie, but she can’t really say much to him about it because of the promise she  made regarding his memories. Nina finds Kinsey upset in the aftermath of their argument and offers her some words of comfort. Tyler has always protected Kinsey and now it’s her turn to do the same, even if it’s painful sometimes. She also returns the Head Key, having made peace with her old self.

And here’s where Bode get’s real frustrating. He returns to his hunt for the Time Shift Key despite warnings to stay away from it and finds it in Nina’s closet. Using the key, Bode ends up back in the moment that Kinsey, Bode, Scot and Tyler set a trap for Gabe/Dodge, a scene from season 2. It’s the moment when Dodge had Bode in chains and intended to take him and Duncan to the forge.

Duncan realizes immediately that future Bode found the Time Shift Key, advising him to run as Gabe (Griffin Gluck) transforms back into Dodge (Laysla De Oliveira) and gives chase. But Dodge catches Bode’s leg just as time runs out, transporting Dodge into the present. Mistake number one.

Mistake number two is Bode thinking the Ghost Key is the right key to use, considering it leaves his body vulnerable while a demon is on the loose. In reality, Bode doesn’t fully use the key, attempting to fake out Dodge so she’ll go through the door and become a ghost and he can trap her, but Dodge sees through the tactic and instead actually pushes Bode out of the door with her.

Once they’re both ghosts, Dodge takes possession of Bode’s body and leaves his ghost trapped outside. Ugh.

Odds & Ends from Locke and Key season 3, episode 3

• Ellie follows up on Gordie’s job offer, but things don’t go very well for her at school. She overhears some of the other teachers talking about Ellie “having a breakdown” and how weird it is she’s just pretending nothing happened. Ellie confronts one of them, telling her to stop repeating that nonsensical rumor. Ellie would never have left Rufus behind.
• Tyler gets a text check-in from Carly, the cute girl from Montana. It seems a little fast for him to be moving on from Jackie, but we’ll see what happens.