>>518495>a lock that is picked open must be picked closedThis is false for the pin-tumbler lock depicted in the comic: the pins stay aligned with the shear line until you twist the plug back to the locked position, and once you do the lock is locked again.
There are even clockwork devices that twist the core through the locked position so fast the pins don't have time to reset, in case you picked the lock clockwise, but the mechanism it's attached to needs to be turned anticlockwise.
