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Object type	Anomaly polarity-reversing machine
Creator	Connor Temple
Owner	Anomaly Research Centre
Appearances	See full list below

The Anomaly Locking Mechanism is a device invented by Connor Temple which is used by the Anomaly Research Centre to lock Anomalies so that creatures cannot come through.

PropertiesEdit

The Locking Mechanism works by reversing an Anomaly's polarity, which locks the Anomaly and renders it unable to allow anything to pass through. The device can also reverse the process and unlock locked Anomalies.

The original Locking Mechanisms used by the ARC before it was suspended consisted of a transmitter to transmit the locking signal into an Anomaly, which was connected to a case containing the controls for activating and controlling the Mechanism.

There were two different types of the new Locking Mechanisms which the ARC used after its revival, both of which were more portable than the original version. The first was a Mechanism transmitter on a stand, and the second was a Locking Mechanism transmitter and controls contained in a briefcase-like box.

At some point in the near Future, the ARC began using a new type of Locking Mechanism. This one was in a very large briefcase-like container, the transmitter had five prongs instead of the studded ball transmitter (seen in all others), and the whole mechanism folds up and down on pivoting arms to aim at an Anomaly. This model take longer to set up than the first two portable versions.

HistoryEdit

Episode 3.4Edit

After Connor Temple discovered that electrical currents could lock Anomalies, he began working on a device (the Anomaly Locking Mechanism) which could use this property of the Anomalies to render them incapable of allowing any creatures to come through. After the prototype Anomaly Locking Mechanism was finished, Connor took it to an Anomaly site at an airport to test it on the Anomaly there. When Connor first tested the Mechanism, it short-circuited and failed to lock the Anomaly.

The second time Connor tested the Locking Mechanism, it successfully locked the Anomaly. Connor later used the Mechanism to unlock the Anomaly (so that Danny Quinn could lure a Giganotosaurus back through), and then locked the Anomaly again after Danny came back through, to stop a herd of more Giganotosaurus from coming through the Anomaly.

Following the prototype Anomaly Locking Mechanism's successful use on the airport Anomaly, more Locking Mechanisms were produced and regularly used by the ARC at Anomaly sites to lock Anomalies so that creatures could not come through.

Episode 3.7Edit

After the ARC team located an Anomaly at a junkyard, an Anomaly Locking Mechanism was used to lock the Anomaly. Sarah Page later had the guard guarding the Anomaly unlock it so that she could go through to the Medieval ages, then lock it again behind her for exactly an hour. After this hour ended, the ARC guard used the Locking Mechanism to unlock the Anomaly, and Sarah then returned through to the Present.

Episode 3.8Edit

After the ARC located an Anomaly at a Race Circuit, Sarah locked the Anomaly so that no more Megopterans came through. The next day, Jack Maitland, while trying to escape a Megopteran in a sportscar, accidentally ran over the Locking Mechanism at the race circuit, unlocking the Anomaly.

When the ARC team went into the Future through the Anomaly to rescue Jack, Sarah took a backup Locking Mechanism to replace the run-over one, and quickly learned how to work it by testing it on the Anomaly. When a Megopteran hatchling landed on the Locking Mechanism's control box, the Mechanism locked the Anomaly.

After Sarah contained the Megopteran, she then used the Locking Mechanism to unlock the Anomaly so that the team could return through, and Connor then re-locked the Anomaly behind them to stop the Megopterans from following them through.

Episode 3.10Edit

Danny, Connor and Abby Maitland unlocked the Race Circuit Anomaly so that they could go through into the Future on their mission to stop Helen Cutter. Danny then had Sarah use the Anomaly Locking Mechanism to lock the Anomaly behind the trio, and to unlock it in two hours.

Episode 4.1Edit

After Connor and Abby returned to the Present after a year marooned in the Cretaceous, the ARC used an Anomaly Locking Mechanism to lock the Anomaly they had come through.

Episode 4.3Edit

Becker had an Anomaly at a theatre locked with an Anomaly Locking Mechanism, then later had it unlocked when he realised that Matt Anderson was on the other side. The Anomaly was subsequently locked again after Matt returned through.

Episode 4.4Edit

After locating an Anomaly at McKinnon School, Becker used a Locking Mechanism to lock the Anomaly.

Episode 4.6Edit

When Connor and Abby located an Anomaly at a Stately Home, they locked it with an Anomaly Locking Mechanism. Connor later unlocked the Anomaly to return several Hyaenodon pups through, but two adults then came through before Connor could lock the Anomaly again. According to Abby, the Anomaly was locked again after the Hyaenodons were returned through.

Episode 4.7Edit

When the ARC team located an Anomaly at a prison, Connor locked it with an Anomaly Locking Mechanism. But as the Anomaly was actually two Anomalies that had opened on the exact same spot, the merged Anomalies kept unlocking whenever the ARC team tried to lock them.

Connor subsequently checked the Locking Mechanism for any faults, but found none and had a replacement Mechanism sent by Jess Parker to the prison. When Connor and Abby used two Locking Mechanisms on the merged Anomalies at once, the two Anomalies separated and locked. Patrick Quinn later used one of the Locking Mechanisms to unlock one of the Anomalies so that he could escape through.

Episode 5.2Edit

Connor brought an Anomaly Locking Mechanism with him and the ARC team onto a Nuclear Submarine, and placed it inside a torpedo. The team later had the torpedo fired through an Anomaly in the North Sea, and the Locking Mechanism inside the torpedo locked the Anomaly as it passed through into the Jurassic.

Episode 5.3Edit

Abby used an Anomaly Locking Mechanism to lock an Anomaly at an Art Museum. When the team discovered that there was a Raptor on the loose in 1868 on the other side of the Anomaly, Abby unlocked it so that Matt could go through and bring the Raptor back to the Present. The Anomaly was presumably locked again after Matt and Emily Merchant returned through with the Raptor.

Episode 5.5Edit

When numerous ARC teams and squads were sent to deal with the numerous Anomalies that had opened for Convergence, many Anomaly Locking Mechanisms were sent to the teams to lock the Anomalies with. Becker and Abby used one Locking Mechanism to lock an Anomaly at an Infant School.

The Sound of Thunder: Part 2 (New World Episode 1.13)Edit

In the near Future, after the ARC team chased an Albertosaurus back through an Anomaly, they tried to use a Locking Mechanism to lock it.

AppearancesEdit

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