Paralleling the Lockets

In this little article, we look at a number of connections between our original present three mermaids with their respective counterparts of fifty years ago.

1. Gracie found it most difficult to accept being a mermaid, and so did Cleo.
    
2. Gracie's boyfriend Max, was one of only two who learned their secret, and he faithfully kept the secret. Cleo's boyfriend Lewis was the first to learn the secret, and he has kept the secret faithfully, and been true to Cleo.
    
3. Max made the lockets for the three girls back then.
    
4. Gracie threw her locket into the moon pool, and found a way to be free of the mermaid effect. Emma found Gracie's locket and gave it to Cleo.
    
5. In 2.25 Sea Change, Gracie's granddaughter, Charlotte, stole the locket from Cleo, but was later forced to return it.
    
6. Louise is the one survivor. She is 65 years old when we first meet her, and Cleo is 15 (the other girls' ages aren't given, but presumably the same age as Cleo). There is exactly 50 years between them.
    
7. In 1.13 Shipwrecked, Emma retrieved Louise's locket from her sunken houseboat. In the picture, Louise identifies herself as being on the left, then names Julia and Gracie, presumably middle and right respectively. The episode ends with a picture of Emma, Rikki, and Cleo in the same left to right order.
    
8. Louise rescued a man in 1956; Emma rescued Zane in 2006.
    
9. In 1.23 In Too Deep, Rikki finds Julia's locket being sold as an estate piece, and tries to raise the money to buy it. Miriam buys it to spite Rikki, but the locket seems to hate Miriam. Zane manages to get it from Miriam, but not before she throws it in the cove. Emma goes after it, but Zane actually retrieves it, and gives it to Rikki. Rikki now owns Julia's locket.
    
10. Louise finally gives her locket (her "treasure") to Emma.
     
11. Julia tried telling all to her boyfriend Carl. He rejected her and then later betrayed her by trying to photograph her as a mermaid. Louise and Gracie destroyed the pictures, and nobody believed Carl. Of the four modern boyfriends who know the secret (Lewis, Ash, Zane, and Will), Zane (Rikki's boyfriend) is the least stable, and in 1.26 A Twist in the Tale, Zane was involved in a total betrayal of all three, but turned against his father and rescued them. And in 3.21 The Jewel Thief, Zane again threatened to break the secret, but later recanted.
     
12. The lockets, pictures, and identities all match. Cleo wears Gracie's locket, Rikki found and wears Julia's locket, and Emma received and wears Louise's locket.
     
13. Even hair colour lines up: Louise and Julia were both blondes, as are Emma and Rikki, and Gracie was the only brunette, like Cleo.
     
14. Gracie and Julia both had strife in their respective personal lives, whereas Louise did not. And Louise simply gave her locket to Emma. But let's retrace the history of the other two lockets, as they match their original owners.
    
    Gracie's locket sat at the bottom of the moon pool undisturbed for fifty years. Emma found it, Miriam stole it, Rikki demanded it back from Miriam, returning it to Emma, who then gave it to Cleo. Later it developed a broken hinge. Lewis brought it to Max, who fixed it, and returned it to Lewis, who returned it to Cleo. Then Charlotte stole it from Cleo, and finally Lewis recovered it from Charlotte and returned it again to Cleo. So Gracie's locket left her possession, and sat underwater for fifty years, as Gracie was free of being a mermaid. It was broken, as she broke away from Max, and Max fixed it, as Max spoke with Lewis and persuaded him to not let Cleo push him away. And it was stolen twice.
    
    Julia presumably kept her locket in her possession until she died, but it was sold as an estate piece. Rikki found it, but Miriam bought it. The chain kept tangling in Miriam's hair, as if the locket hated Miriam (it never tangled in Rikki's hair). When trying to untangle it, Miriam's friend Tiffany accidentally broke it, but was able to fix it with her bare hands. Julia had a betrayal from Carl, which she never quite got over, but after time did rebuild her relationship with Louise and Gracie. Miriam threw the locket in the cove, angry over a broken relationship with Zane, who then retrieved it for Rikki. But Zane and Rikki have had a bit of a rocky relationship.
    
    A little side note: both of these lockets were briefly handled by Miriam.
     
15. Interestingly, Emma retrieved all three lockets from underwater; (technically she went after Julia's locket in the cove, but Zane actually retrieved it).
     
16. The matches are unmistakable: Emma = Louise, Cleo = Gracie, Rikki = Julia; Lewis = Max, and Zane = Carl. (Honourable mention: Isabella = Eva, from 300 years ago.)