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Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – What’s Buried in the Grave?

January 27, 2023

Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – What’s Buried in the Grave? first appeared on Ready Steady Cut.

This recap of the Netflix Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4 series, “Sweet Dreams,” contains spoilers.

Society, like a living being, adapts. It changes according to its circumstances. What was previously inconceivable becomes first feasible and then eventually normal. In Lockwood & Co., the specific problem is… well, “The problem”, but the way the UK government and its citizens have adapted to it and tried to solve it is reminiscent of all sorts of different real life scenarios – yes, including the recent pandemic and the various orders employed to combat it. I’m not saying this show is intentionally a metaphor for anything, but if you describe it correctly it could be a metaphor for just about anything.

Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4 Recap

I bring this up because the case in “Sweet Dreams” is mostly administrative, a bit of hard work that shows how something like The Problem would be manipulated by various interested parties, from government agencies to civilian contractors. Everyone has a finger in some sort of pie; everyone benefits in one way or another. Anthony, Lucy, and George are hired to clean up potentially unstable graves in a cemetery that feels less like a resting place than a ticket-printing operation. The unpleasantness of the work is barely considered and its potential dangers are not fully considered until it is too late.

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How can Lucy communicate with the skull?

But wait a moment. Does not have Episode 3 end on a cliffhanger? Yes, it’s true, but we don’t talk about it much at first. The boys found Lucy passed out, assumed she was asleep, and took her to bed. When she wakes up, she doesn’t mention the talking skull. Perhaps she herself is skeptical of what she has heard. After all, ghosts don’t talk, do they?

It turns out some do, and Lucy can hear them. The skull that George stole from the Fittes Agency is one of them. This makes Lucy the second person after Marissa Fittes to be able to commune with Type 3 visitors. a secret – but it’s a detail with a lot of future potential, especially if netflix decides to do more with the show, which they should.

It also goes a long way for characterization. Later in the episode, when Lucy opens up to the boys, they initially don’t believe her. But Anthony comes back pretty quickly and, more importantly, has a sudden realization of his role in everything. Although he loves the spotlight so much, maybe, he wonders, is his goal to shine the spotlight on someone else. It’s a surprisingly open admission for someone so stubborn and involved and helps to make him more likable.

What’s in the grave?

Anyway, back to the case itself. The team discovers that the unstable tomb contains an iron coffin of demonstrably immense power that actually predates the glitch. Just being in his presence severely affects Lucy and George, for example. Through a bit of detective work, George manages to deduce that the man inside is Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor of some renown with ties to the occult. This is an important development because it implies that not only were ghosts among us before the problem, but people were aware of them and were already taking action to counter them.

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This case also kicks off the MacGuffin hunt that will shape the second half of the season, as Bickerstaff’s missing mirror becomes an object of extreme importance and focus – so much so that Inspector Barnes not only puts Lockwood & Co. but also the Quill Kipps team on it. Kipps is Anthony’s bitter rival. He’s not particularly prominent here, but he’s present enough to warrant a mention, especially since their bet on who can find the mirror first – the loser must leave the industry forever – is another big figure. which shows how Anthony’s short-sighted pride and arrogance will continue to be a problem.

You Can Stream Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4, “Sweet Dreams” Exclusively on Netflix

Further reading:

  • Lockwood and Co season 1 review
  • Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 5 Recap
  • Will there be a season 2 of Lockwood and Co?

Lockwood and Co Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – What’s Buried in the Grave? first appeared on Ready Steady Cut.