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(Warning: This post contains major spoilers through the Season 1 finale of Netflix\u2019s \u201cLocke & Key.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n For the better part of the first season of \u201cLocke & Key,\u201d the Locke children \u2014 Bode (Jackson Robert Scott), Tyler (Connor Jessup) and Kinsey (Emilia Jones) \u2014 know they have one very serious enemy: the demon Dodge, played by Laysla De Oliveira.<\/p>\n More than halfway through the season, the siblings make the shocking discovery that enemy is actually two in one: an echo of the deceased Lucas (Felix Mallard), who uses the Identity Key to shift into the form of the alluring young woman they know as Dodge (or Well Lady, as Bode dubs her at first).<\/p>\n But come the finale, titled \u201cCrown of Shadows,\u201d the viewers are hit with an even bigger twist about Dodge\u2019s identity that the Locke kids don\u2019t know: not only is she Lucas, but she is also Kinsey\u2019s boyfriend, Gabe (Griffin Gluck) \u2014 and has been this entire time.<\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong> Every Key in Netflix’s ‘Locke and Key’ and What It Does<\/p>\n And while it took you 10 episodes to get to that revelation, De Oliveira tells TheWrap she\u2019s known about Dodge\u2019s multiple personalities from Day 1.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was so funny because I think they were going to surprise all of us with that, but [co-showrunner Meredith Averill] was so excited, and on the first night \u2014 after the table read and we had this little cocktail party so we could meet everybody \u2014 she totally spilled the beans,\u201d De Oliveira told us. \u201cSo we all knew. So I definitely knew where it was going. But the exciting thing about Dodge is because there are so many forms of her or him, it\u2019s so cool getting to explore what that form means in terms of what body she\u2019s embodying, because Lucas and Gabe are so different.\u201d<\/p>\n But the identity twists don\u2019t stop there! Also revealed at the end of the finale was the fact that Dodge had tricked the Locke kids and their friends into thinking they had thrown her through the Black Door. Dodge used the Identity Key to make Rufus\u2019 (Coby Bird) mother, Ellie (Sherri Saum), look just like her and then left Ellie\u2019s knocked out body for the Locke siblings to find.<\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong> Netflix in February: Here’s Everything Coming and Going<\/p>\n And just before she\u2019s sent through the mysterious portal down in the sea caves, Ellie (who looks like Dodge!) wakes up. De Oliveira had to play a terrified Ellie in a way that didn\u2019t reveal her identity, as she shouts at Tyler in an attempt to get him to realize who she really is before it\u2019s too late. (As you fans know, the real Dodge was there with the group, looking like Gabe, as Ellie screamed for help.)<\/p>\n \u201cI think when I was doing that I had to think as much as I could as a mother who is essentially being thrown away and she\u2019s never going to see her son again,\u201d the Netflix star said. \u201cAnd she knows these kids who are doing that and she doesn\u2019t realize what\u2019s going on. She\u2019s waking up from this thing and just trying to get out of there. So I was just focusing on loss and terror because we have no idea what\u2019s on that other side, and there\u2019s that flashback episode before the finale where you get to see a little bit what Ellie\u2019s been through with that door.\u201d<\/p>\n So given that the Locke kids think they\u2019ve defeated Dodge and that Dodge is currently in the form of Gabe \u2014 who probably needs to keep up the ruse that she was defeated \u2014 will De Oliveira be returning to \u201cLocke & Key,\u201d if the show gets renewed for a second season?<\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong> ‘Locke & Key’ Trailer: Locke Kids Move Into a House Filled With Magical Keys and a ‘Crazy Evil Thing’ (Video)<\/p>\n \u201cAhh, that\u2019s the big question. I don\u2019t know! I don\u2019t know! We\u2019ll have to see,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the big one I think a lot of people will be asking me. All I can say is, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n Showrunners Averill and Carlton Cuse tell TheWrap they have begun writing Season 2 \u2014 though it hasn\u2019t gotten the official pickup from Netflix just yet \u2014 so hopefully we\u2019ll find out the answer to that question soon.<\/p>\n As for playing Dodge \u2014 and we do mean Dodge, not Lucas or Gabe or Ellie \u2014 De Oliveira says she tried to lend a \u201csexiness and ominous feeling\u201d to the Big Bad.<\/p>\n \u201cI was, like, let\u2019s just put everybody in a trance and really use women power, which was so nice,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it\u2019s changing, but it\u2019s hard to find roles where women are unapologetic for what they are doing, and Dodge is that. Like, she just does not care, she just does what she wants to do. So it was very liberating playing that.\u201d<\/p>\n