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the adventures of three teenage ghost hunters in a London plagued by a mysterious epidemic of supernatural entities. The series centers on Lockwood & Co., a small, independent agency run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood, his resourceful assistant George Karim, and the talented Lucy Carlyle, who possesses unique psychic abilities. Together, they investigate and combat dangerous ghosts, unraveling mysteries and facing perilous situations in a world where only young people can see and fight the supernatural. The core premise of Lockwood & Co. revolves around "The Problem," a mysterious epidemic of supernatural entities that have begun appearing throughout London and beyond. These entities, known as Visitors, are dangerous and can cause death with their touch. Only young people possess the psychic abilities to perceive and combat these Visitors, leading to the rise of numerous Psychic Detection Agencies. The series follows the adventures of Lockwood & Co., an independent agency that stands out by operating without adult supervision. The agency's members, Anthony Lockwood, George Karim, and Lucy Carlyle, are driven by their unique skills and determination to solve the mysteries surrounding "The Problem". Lucy, in particular, is a "listener," someone who can hear the voices and intentions of spirits, making her a valuable asset to the agency. Throughout the series, Lockwood & Co. face various challenges, including investigating haunted houses, uncovering the secrets of the supernatural, and competing with rival agencies. They must rely on their courage, skills, and the tools of the ghost-hunting trade (magnesium flares, iron chains, salt bombs, etc.) to survive the dangers they encounter. The series explores themes of loss, friendship, and the struggle against overwhelming odds in a world transformed by the supernatural. Anthony Lockwood, often called Lockwood by others, is the head of Lockwood & Co., one of London's smallest and most ramshackle agencies. He is known for his elegant and mysterious personality, recklessness, calmness and enthusiasm during psychic investigations, good looks, gleaming smile, rapier skills, and the ability of Sight.

It has been suggested by the author of the books that he was 15 years old, a year older than Lucy Carlyle, when the two first met in the first book in the series. [1] [2] However, his age was never explicitly stated in the books.Not much is known about Lockwood's childhood in the books besides the fact that his parents, Donald Lockwood and Celia Lockwood, had passed away, as 35 Portland Row was "left" to him. The building was his childhood home, and his parents were "Researchers or collaborators of some sort", who travelled to many places. Lockwood mentioned their ghosts were the first he fought.After the death of his sister, Lockwood became an agent, training under "Gravedigger" Nigel Sykes, who gave him his first job. While working for Sykes, Lockwood competed in a rapier competition during which he beat the considerably older Quill Kipps, causing a year-long mutual dislike.His sister, Jessica Lockwood, was six years older than he was.[3] She died at the age of fifteen[3] because of an accident with one of her parent's dangerous artifacts. It is believed to be a ghost pot from Indonesia. Jessica was sorting through a crate of artifacts and the pot shattered, leaving the ghost inside free to attack her. Lockwood, when first explaining this event, lied that he hadn't been there when the ghost came. He was, actually, down by the garden door, having refused to help his sister sort through the crate she was working on. He rushed to help her but was too late.Disillusioned with the big agencies of London such as the Fittes and Rotwell agencies, Anthony Lockwood established Lockwood & Co. as an independent agency without adult supervisors. Although by no means rich, Lockwood had some money left from his parents, as well as ownership of 35 Portland Row as the only surviving member of his family. He was soon joined by George Cubbins, who was an all-rounder with a middling amount of Talent in each of the three major areas of Sight, Touch and Listening, but whose abilities at research were second-to-none. George had previously worked for the Fittes Agency, but was dismissed for expressing too much curiosity regarding sensitive matters deemed above his pay-grade. He also hired a female assistant, but quickly dismissed her,Lucy Carlyle, who had only just arrived in London that day and seen the advertisement.

To Lockwood's delight, Lucy proved to be exactly the applicant he had been seeking. She conclusively demonstrated her power, using the ability of Touch to sense the psychic residues on the objects he presented to her. Furthermore, she did not lie like certain of the other candidates when presented with an object that had no psychic residue and showed fortitude when presented with the agency's most mysterious and dangerous object: the Skull. Following this incident, Lockwood placed an advertisement in the local papers describing Lockwood & Co. as being a "well-known Psychical Investigations agency" and stating that they needed a new Junior Field Operative, with duties to include on-site analysis of reported hauntings and containment of same. The advertisement was a lie in that Lockwood & Co. was anything but well-known, but Lockwood was desperate to find a new agent. At first, it seemed as though it might lead to nothing, as the applicants were by and large time-wasters. Lockwood was just about to end a long day of interviews when he and George were met with the arrival of an unexpected applicant: Lucy Joan Carlyle is an agent with an amazing Talent for Listening, interconnected with Touch. She went to London in search of a notable career, instead she found herself joining the smallest agency in the city, Lockwood & Co. Despite this, she would soon find herself in events that would help to unravel the deepest mysteries of the Problem of ghosts plaguing the United KingdomLucy knew from the start she had a Talent. Though Talent runs in her family's blood, none of the other family members were agency material. Lucy's mother could see ghosts in her youth, while two of her sisters worked in the night watch in the city of Newcastle. However, Lucy was noticeably special; with unusual sensitivity for matters relating to the Problem. The earliest incident known where Lucy used her talent is The Murton Colliery Horror when she was five, in which she observed some of the Visitors passing by her house. Another incident happened a year later while she was playing in the meadows with her sister, Mary. They were late going home and Lucy saw and heard a Visitor calling and coming toward themLucy Joan Carlyle was born during the fourth official decade of the Problem, in a rural north England town. She was born into a family of nine: her mother, father, and her six sisters. Her father was a porter at the railway station in the town and an alcoholic. He died when Lucy was five years old, after an accident that caused him to fall under a train. Her mother is a launderer who washed laundry at the town's two small hotels, and a distant figure; what active maternal affection she possessed had largely been eroded by work and weariness, and she had little energy to spare for her brood of girls, of whom Lucy was the seventh and the last, so Lucy was left to her own devices and her sisters' care.[1]George Cubbins, known as George Casper Karim in the Lockwood & Co. television series, is a ghost-hunter and the deputy of Lockwood & Co., one of London's smallest psychical detection agencies. As the brains of the agency and the team's primary researcher, he prefers to have preparation time to plan carefully before cases.George quickly settles into life working for Lockwood & Co., living there as an on-site psychical investigation agent and historical researcher into ghostly phenomena. He witnesses the coming and going of two other members of staff who do not prove ideal, leading the company to place an advertisement for a new agent. He oversees the interviews for the new agents along with Anthony Lockwood, company head. The new candidates prove less than promising. When it seems as though the interviews are done for the day, George answers a summons from the doorbell, believing it to be a delivery person with donuts from the nearby shop. It is instead an unexpected applicant, a girl named Lucy Carlyle.He was raised in an average home with no significant or dramatic death attached to his life. In the television series he mentions that he has never been outside London. It is unknown if George had another job before joining the Fittes Agency before being fired six months later for insubordination, and joining A.J. Lockwood & Co. at least a year before Lucy Carlyle joined, as he mentions that he had lived at 35 Portland Row for a year during Lucy's interview.[1] In the Lockwood & Co. television series, he tells Lucy that he has three siblings who are all engineers and complains to Lockwood about the possibility of telling his parents he "lost another job" due to Lockwood's reckless actions."Is he dead? Yay! Oh.. No, he's hanging on to the shutters. Shame. Still, this is definitely the funniest thing I've ever seen. You three really are incompetence on a stick." -The skull reveling at Lockwood & Co.'s difficulties on a job. The skull was the name given to a particularly pernicious male Type Three ghost, whose Source is a skull. After being fished out of the sewers by the Fittes Agency, the skull is encased within a silver-glass jar. Stolen from the Fittes Agency by George Cubbins, the skull came into the possession of the Lockwood & Co. agency. There, it underwent torturous experiments at the hands of Cubbins before revealing itself by talking to Lucy Carlyle, a new agent for the company. The skull sometimes provided useful information to the group, but also had a habit of being perverse, revealing dangerous secrets, making witty commentsand nonchalantly suggesting casual murder as a solution to problems. The jar containing it was silver glass, made by the Sunrise Corporation.Little is known of the skull's past history prior to entering ghosthood, though it is known he was alive during the mid-late Victorian times. It is believed that he was for a time, prior to death, a disciple of Dr. Edmund Bickerstaff, a man obsessed with the secrets of death who created a dangerous relic known as the bone glass.[1]He was extremely proud of being his servant, and even during his ghosthood, attempts to help him. The Whispering Skull, Lucy discovers that George Cubbins and Quill Kipps have been kidnapped by Albert Joplin (Researcher obsessed by the ghost of Edmund Bickerstaff and his Bone Glass). The skull describes him as 'a great man, a visionary, a pioneer that came to a sad end.After death, this individual became a Type Three ghost. The rarest and most unusual of spirits, Type Threes had the power to communicate directly with those possessing the proper Talent. At one point the skull said that what made him different was that he wanted to come back. This detail might give us a clue to how the skull came back as a ghost. Though it was unknown when he died, his skull was found in the Lambeth sewers, and the spirit mentioned that he came to a bad end. Lockwood, in book 5, mentioned that the youth had been dead for 60 years, before being trapped within a sealed jar and claimed by the Fittes Agency. They claimed the relic would be disposed of in its furnaces, but actually took it away for its own studies. The ghost remained in that jar for another 50 years, before it was stolen by George Cubbins, shortly following his dismissal as an agent with the company.[1]Lucy found she had a connection with the ghost jar.Montagu U. Barnes is the operational director of DEPRAC and known for strictly abiding by the rules. He shows irritation towards Lockwood & Co. members since they do not follow DEPRAC guidelines too closely, but nevertheless at times provides them with valuable aid and useful advice.Barnes had warned Lockwood & Co. about his hunch of conspiracy he had been noticing. Although, he had been irritated by the team, especially by George Cubbins, he showed genuine concern. He had observed that somehow Fittes and every department/corporation who benefited from the Problem had been eliminating small agencies by absorbing them, or tearing them through grim methods. Also, Barnes admitted that even DEPRAC had been infested over the years with too many Fittes people that he himself, the leader of DEPRAC, had lost control over the department."This was classic Lockwood. Friendly, considerate, empathetic. My personal impulse would have been to slap the girl soundly round the face and boot her moaning backside out into the night. Which is why he’s the leader, and I’m not. Also why I have no female friends." —Lucy Carlyle about Lockwood, The Whispering Skull Lockwood is charismatic by nature. He is commonly seen with a smile on his face and will be the first to diffuse a situation or meeting the quickest way possible. When working, he is tireless, passionate, and driven by a level of ambition which isn't fully understood as of yet. With a quick wit and even quicker reflexes, Lockwood takes on the position of leader easily. It's been noted that his calm and confident demeanor has the ability to assure even those most fearful around him. Despite this, he's also equally flighty, prone to changing subjects he finds uncomfortable, and is even described by Lucy as having no other joy or hobbies outside of his work, usually found listlessly laying about or reading gossip magazines during days off.

Anthony Lockwood is also very secretive about his parents and his past, often cutting conversations short and even leaving a room should the subjects be brought to his attention. He is smart and works to rid the city of ghosts, not bothering to try to understand them (which he considers to be a waste of time). His goal is to become the owner of one of the three best agencies of London, and his competitive spirit is shown frequently when proposed a challenge. Cool, polite, and kind in almost every situation, he is described as "dashing" and "a bit reckless". However, he often gets in trouble, despite his good intentions. Though the well-being of his team is always his top priority, sometimes his drive to complete a task blinds him to the potential dangers involved.Lockwood is tall and slim and is almost always seen wearing a long coat, and business-casual attire underneath. Both Lucy and Flo have also noted his preference for slightly too-tight suits As an agent, he is usually seen carrying a rapier by his at his side.

Lockwood is described as pale and has dark eyes. One of his most often mentioned and distinctive features is his smile, which he often uses to his advantage when attempting to gain information, or soothe a crowd. It is implied that he can easily modify his smile according to the situation, for example using a slightly less intense version to reassure frightened clients[4] and positively beaming at other times.Personality Lucy is brave and, at some times, reckless; doing things before thinking it through. She is stubborn and tends to be judgmental towards strangers; though her loyalty to her friends is unwavering. She tends to be cranky due to lack of sleep, and like George, she tends to be snappy when talking; which is the reason why they leave all the talking to Lockwood.

Though being an agent makes her feel more confident and dignified, she seems to have qualms about her physical appearance, and at times feels out of place compared to other females. She also hates being on the spotlight, refusing to talk to journalists and appear on papers or TV and prefers to keep a low profile.

One of Lucy's most prominent traits, despite her slightly prejudiced nature, is her empathy; which is either an undertone of her personality or a drawback from her Talent. During the events of The Screaming Staircase, she formed an unusual connection with the ghost of Annabel Ward. After experiencing what it was like to be Annabel Ward upon her death through the ability of Touch, Lucy felt a rush of pity and insisted on giving the dead girl the justice she deserved.

While George tends to base his decisions on research and logic, Lucy follows her inner instincts, which are nearly always right. She is a good artist, often using drawing as a distraction. Lucy also tends to be easily flustered every time Lockwood compliments her, and is frustrated at her friend's secretive nature.

Lucy was the only survivor of the Wythburn Mill disaster (all her fellow agents died horribly at the hands of a powerful Type 2 - a Changer that deceived the agents by at first appearing to be a minor Type 1 apparition); this experience has hardened her to the rigours of ghost hunting, but sometimes makes her doubt herself.

Physical appearance "You look terrific, Luce. You might have been born to this." --Lockwood to Lucy in The Whispering Skull Lucy mentioned that she was growing into a tall girl with strong features--thicker set than she liked.[2] She had large eyes, heavy eyebrows, an over-long nose and sulky lips. Her dark hair was cut into a muti purpose, ectoplasm avoiding bob. She believed herself to be not pretty though, like her mother said, prettiness wasn't her profession.

Lucy wore a dark blue, knee-length dress with a scooped neck to Penelope Fittes's party, along with a diamond necklace, given to her by Lockwood. She thought it made her arms look fat and her feet to big, and she wasn't convinced about the way it clung to her stomach, but other than that she thought it was perfect. Lockwood told her that she looked delightful.[3]Lucy has extremely powerful Hearing, which is often interconnected with her Touch. She has passable Sight, but Hearing and Touch are her strong side. Lucy is the only person aside from Marissa Fittes who has been able to fully converse with a Type Three. Not only that, Lucy is capable of communicating with all Types of Visitors, empathising with them and seeking to find their motivation to returning to this world. She has intense emotional connections with them, a connection ground-breaking but risky. Lucy's power is so great it attracts Visitors, and they focus their attention on her whenever encountering the agents. This is extremely dangerous, because Lucy is a highly emotional teen who often has bursts of anger, frustration or sadness, which makes the Visitor stronger.Abilities Sight Lockwood has exceptionally good Sight, being able to visually detect death-glows, residual energies, and so far, all Types of Ghosts. Despite his older age, his talent has yet to diminish.

Fencing Lockwood is a well-seasoned and highly skilled fencer; as he made it to the finals during the fencing championships when at a very young age. He able to defeats Quill Kipps, but subsequently losing in the final to another competitor. It is later revealed that that competitor was Florence Bonnard.[citation needed]

Charisma Lucy would say his charisma is a super-power of its own.George has the wondrous Talent of Touch,[citation needed] although perhaps not as good as Lucy Carlyle. He also has Sight (inferior to Anthony Lockwood's ability), but has little talent for Listening. He is considered to be a general all-rounder, not greatly skilled in any particular area, but of some talent in all. He is also a skilled researcher, able to spend hours scouring obscure archives and articles to discover crucial pieces of historical information. He also has the ability to consume much unhealthy foods...