The Head and the Heart is the second episode of the second season of Locke & Key. It aired on October 22, 2021.
Summary[]
Tyler grows concerned over Jackie's memory loss, Gabe probes the Lockes for information about the keys, and Nina meets the new history teacher at her new job
Plot[]
The episode opens with Eden Hawkins luring an unsuspecting fisherman into an experiment to confirm the legitimacy of the key she and Gabe had forged. To his chagrin, the fisherman merely melts into a pile of mush and bones. Returning to their cabin, Eden is revealed to have trapped and caged Kinsey Locke's Fear, having grown tired of its frequent assaults. Gabe decides to go to Kinsey for advice on forging magic keys.
On the first day of school in the new academic year, Tyler Locke and his sister discuss memories and the Head Key, and Kinsey realizes she has never been inside Gabe's head. In class, Jackie Veda fails to recall her summer reading since it was associated with the Head Key, and blanks on a pop quiz. In the dorms, Kinsey reveals the magic keys to Abby and Scot Cavendish tells the Savini Squad about his college application. He promises to deliver on the script for the sequel to The Splattering before he potentially leaves, and Gabe grows tense, suspecting Kinsey of having unspoken affections for Scot.
While Nina Locke renovates Matheson Academy's theater hall, a new history teacher, Josh Bennett, observes and treats her methods with condescension, causing the two to part on uneasy terms. Bode Locke befriends a girl in his fifth-grade class, Jamie, and after confirming she is human, tells her about his family's adventures and the magic keys. In another awkward encounter between Josh and Nina, Jamie is revealed to be Josh's daughter.
At a dinner date, Gabe asks Kinsey about forging keys, and she tells him about Bode meeting Chamberlin Locke the previous year. At Keyhouse, Gabe shuts Kinsey down when she tries to get him to let her into his head, and she kicks him out of the house.
The next day, Jackie brings up her worries about losing her memories to Tyler, and the couple film themselves talking about their magically-shared memories to serve as a reminder. Scot has a heart-to-heart with Kinsey about the conflict between his parents' expectations and his own ambitions, but they are interrupted by Gabe. Josh apologizes to Nina about his attitude, and shares that he and Jamie moved to Matheson after the recent death of his wife. He and Nina hit it off, and agree to arrange a playdate for their kids at his apartment in the school dorm. Later, he inspects a scale model of Keyhouse in his study.
While Kinsey visits Erin Voss, Gabe goes to Keyhouse and persuades Bode to have some irresponsible fun with the keys. He talks the excited kid into letting him use the Ghost Key, and uses it to talk with Chamberlin about forging keys. Chamberlin reveals that Gabe must infuse the whisepring iron with his blood and therefore his true intentions will be known to the key. As Gabe returns to Keyhouse, an unknown figure watches him from the shadows.
At McClellan Psychiatric Hospital, Kinsey sits and talks with Erin. Looking at the situation Erin finds herself in, Kinsey suddenly remembers Ellie's remarks about finding a way to remember magic. She calls Tyler and asks him to come over and, when he arrives, she suggests that the two use the Head Key to look inside of Erin's head for a magical solution to their issue surrounding memory-loss. Inside, they find Erin's head is a desolate place, but are eventually able to find her wielding a knife. Erin is surprised to learn that Tyler and Kinsey are Rendell's children, and has been blissfully unaware that she has been trapped inside of her own head for decades. With their help, Erin is brought out of her head and reunited with her body for the first time in years.
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Trivia[]
- For allusions made in this episode, click here.
- Jackie begins forgetting magic due to her upcoming eighteenth birthday. Tyler explains that adults cannot remember magic, and the two begin creating a video blog to capture their moments together. In the comics, this phenomenon is identified as the Riffel Rule taking effect once they turn eighteen.
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