The rear door on the PedoVan started acting up again, and after beating on it for a half hour or so I finally figured out what was going wrong. When the outside rear handle is pulled, it presses against a toggle, the other end of which pulls a cable that goes down to the latch mechanism to do whatever it is it does when you pull the outside handle.
This toggle was sticking, so the door was acting like the outside handle was already half-pulled.
This meant that when I tried to unlock the door, it did that usual thing that happens when you unlock the door just as someone's trying to open the handle: nothing. And since it was stuck in that position, locking and unlocking it again, the usual solution, did nothing useful.
So once I found the source of the problem I soaked it down with lithium grease and hopefully it'll never happen again. Hopefully.
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