For thirteen years I have plundered my music collection,gone deeper and deeper down the Youtube rabbit hole,and scoured the dark recesses of the bargin bins to find a yearly collection of spooky,silly, and just plain strange seasonal songs to fill your Halloween bag.
(OH! the pain....the pain!)
And once again it’s that time to dig down deep into the pumpkin bucket of treats and pull out a seasonal surprise
(PLEASE! There are ladies present!)
Tonight you will be treated to various tales from the darkside by the likes of Tom Waits, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and THE Nine Inch Nails.
The darkness of the woods of Twin Peaks makes several appearances. Most notably with the haunting vocals by Sheryl Lee. So much suffering in one scream.
Enjoy the dark poetry stylings of the Woodman.
It wouldn’t be a Halloween mix without a variation of the theme from John Carpenter’s classic movie. This years track comes from the newly recorded vinyl version that was sold at stops on John Carpenters tour, where he performed many of his soundtrack creations live.
Freddy Krueger poke his head and glove into the mix with an introduction from his serial spook show: A Nightmare on Elm Street:Freddy;s Nightmare:The Series.........the name lasted longer than the show .
At one point the sticky candy of the CD gets stuck in Depeche Mode and the listener is treated with a rare B-side that should have easily been a main album track.
There are movie trailers g(al)ore throughout as we play with Pennywise, Leatherface and Hannibal the Cannibal.
This year has seen an unfortunate loss of many a horror movie talent,and each gets a nod of admiration:
George A Romero(February 4th,1940 to July 16th,2017) ,who helped create the Living Dead genre( that keeps spreading into all media like a disease)with his Night ,Dawn,Day,Second Breakfast, Late Supper, Twilight of the Living Dead series ,passed away back in July
Tobe Hooper(January 25th,1943 to August 26th,2017 )left us for that big Texas chili cookoff in the sky.He gave us the classic with a title that just feels as if it is dripping with buckets of blood -“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” , but then delivered a distrurbing ,yet strangely, bloodless depiction of a dysfunctional family who entertains unexpected guests.What happened wasn’t real, but it sure felt like it.
William Peter Blatty (January 7th,1928 to January 12, 2017 ) ,best known as the writer of the novel The Exorcist that led to the ,as well, known film.He also wrote the fantastic novel “Legion” which became one of the few enjoyable sequels to the film series :Exorcist III. (which Blatty wrote and directed as well) .Spend some time with his “Ninth Configuration” (sometimes presented as “Twinkle,Twinkle,”Killer” Kane!”) if you want to explore madness and faith with the Astronaut that Regan said was “going to die up there” in the Exorcist.
Bill Paxton ( May 17, 1955 to February 25, 2017 ) of Aliens,Twister,Weird Science, and Near Dark is probably know more for those films and others than the fact that he directed the video for that classic song “Fish Heads” by Barnes & Barnes.Game over,man.Game Over.
Johnthan Demme ( February 22, 1944 to April 26, 2017 ) who brought from page to screen the award winning “Silence of the Lambs” and helped the Talking Heads to “Stop Making Sense”, left us this year a well.
So don’t be sad,(or superstitious), spin this disc of treats that is sure to have all favors of treats to satisfy even those people who enjoy candy corn,peeps ,or Raisenets?!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !
1)We begin with a welcoming out of the light and into a world not as brightly lit with the "Tales From the Darkside" introduction
2)This years version ofJohn Carpenter's "Halloween Theme"comes to us from the recently recorded vinyl version that Carpenter performed with his son and played on tour.
3)Sheryl Lee gives us one last Laura Palmer series shattering primal terror filled "SCREAM" as the memories come flooding back and Twin Peaks comes to an emotional end
4) THE Nine Inch Nails perform at the Roadhouse and do some screaming of their own because "She's Gone Away"
5)Depeche Mode are the "Ghost"s in your house(maybe they will leave in silence before the night is through)
6)We bid farewell this year to DirectorTobe Hooper with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"trailer.
7)Leatherface and his Texas backwoods clan know all about the pig fuckers of "The Days of Swine and Roses"as performed by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
8) The DJ’s from Mars vs Carnival (featuring James F Dini) mashup a deal with the “ Devil In My Brain”
9) The creepy piano helps one float through the screams of this trailer to the new movie based on Stephen King's"IT"
10)We don't all float down here."In All My Dreams I Drown" inside the Devil's Carnival
11)Soley sings of "Halloween", for tonight the boys dress up like dreamers and the girls like nightmares.
12)The Woodsman recites his dark sleep inducing "This is the Water" poem
13)And as you slip in to slumber, our thoughts drift to Tom Waits nosy neighbor spying question,"What's He Building In There?"
14)Bill Paxton's Severen from Near Dark explains how he is going to "Separate your head from your shoulders,if you don't mind"So polite this vampire
15)Nirvanascream of a spooky tale of getting more than their hair cut by "Floyd the Barber"
16)William Peter Blatty knew "What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism" entailed in this Exorcist clip
17)Wax Audio feels "Sad but Superstitious" in this mashup of Metallica vs Stevie Wonder
18)I wonder if Director Johnathan Demme still hears the lambs screaming in this spooky"Silence of the Lambs" trailer
19)Much like myself, Pleasant Companylike "Scary Movies" in this song from the credits of a not so scary movie called Return to Horror High.Starring "Marcia Brady" in a high point in her career and George Clooney in a low point in his.
20)Freddy Krueger pops in and warns you to "Don't Touch that Dial" and turn off the CD as he has something on his mind he wants to scare.....um, I mean share in this Freddy's Nightmares promo.And it's a nightmare of a .....
21)SPOOKY MORMAN HELL DREAM!!!!!!
22)Director George A. Romero began at Night and has now seen the dawn.We wave farewell to him with this trailer for "Dawn of the Dead"
23)"I Was a Teenage Zombie",lament the The Fleshtones
24)Family Guy's Lois tells Chris that his "Blackface" costume is racist and they he should really wear the Indian Chief costume she bought for him.But is it a SEXY Indian Chief costume?
25)The Simpson's cast are all dressed up in their sexiest whatever as it's finally time for “Grown Up Halloween”
26)Hey!Arnold's Helga knows that Halloween is all about "Scaring People so They Give You Candy"
27)The Fuzztones wish us all a "Happy Halloween"
28)You Can't Do That On Television's Lisa Ruddy is addicted to going to Rocky Horror but Kevin Kubusheskie just wants the popcorn.Their parents ,the Prevert, just want to know,"When does Julie Andrews appear?"
29)It's the spookiest part of a balanced breakfast, It's a commercial for that sugary delight of "Boo Berry and Count Chocula"cereal!
30)SNL's Will Ferrell performs as Baron Nocturnawho performs his new song "My Heart Will Go On.....A Plate"LIVE from the Prom of Doom!
31)If the The Replacements "Cruella De Vil" doesn't scare you, no evil thing will
32)You better beware, for "The Boogie Man is Coming" in this Halloween soundbite
33)But the Minstrels of Mayhem aren’t afraid for there is “(No Such Thing as the )Boogie Man”
34)Don't be aWussy, enjoy the indie rock candy of "Halloween"
35)It's time to say goodbye ...........to all of this.....and....... Helloooooooooooooooo to the "Closing credits of Tales From the Darkside" Remember,the dark side is always there, waiting for us to enter — waiting to enter us.
It has been some time since the final two episodes of the return of Twin Peaks aired.
I've only watched them both on their original air date.The want to watch them again has been a struggle.I wanted to let the thoughts that these final two episode brought forth to percolate while still wanting to go back in and revisit.I'm still not ready for this all to be finally over.
These final two episodes had me going through an excess of emotions in the moment.....and left me still going through them hours after.Art has a way of doing that to a person.
We enter moments after Diane has disappeared in a Tulpa tornado.
Gordon laments that ,when the moment came, he couldn’t bring himself to shoot this version of Diane.As if no matter how sure he may have been in her manufactured self, she was still real to him.He had doubt.
I wonder at what point did Gordon suspect that Diane might be a copy.Or if at all. Having witnessed personally the existence of an actual tulpa in his early investigations,one in particular that in fact lead to the birth of the Blue Rose chapter of his investigations,it wouldn’t be a unorthodox thought to enter his mind.Has he seen others? Or is this his first personal experience.How well did he know Diane? Was she always this foul mouthed? Or did that develop after Coopers disappearance and the Bad Dales reentry rape into her life? Did he know in the moment of her hug? What gave her self away?
Albert lightly jabs Gordon with a "You've gone soft in your old age"
But Gordon lobs back with a "Not where it counts ,buddy" Gordon, you ol dog.I suppose it's good he can keep his sense of humor even in this dark moment.
The trio share a smile and a toast to the bureau.
Then, Gordon gets serious. "Now listen, I have to tell you something............................................... ..............................................................................................................................................................(Gordon pauses at the seriousness of it all ,of what he is about to say.Prepares his words carefully) .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................and ..................................................................................................then pauses some more...........................
Gordon begins to speak and tell them something that curiously has been left absent from the conversation of the last 25 years:
"For 25 years, Ive kept something from you, Albert. Before he disappeared ,Major Briggs shared with me and Cooper his discovery of an entity .An extreme negative force called in olden times "Jowday" .Over time its become Judy. Major Briggs ,Cooper and I put together a plan that could lead us to Judy.
And then something happened to Major Briggs.
And something happened to Cooper.
Phillip Jeffries, who doesn’t really exist anymore, at least not in the normal sense, told me a long time ago he was on to this entity, and he disappeared .
Now, the last thing Cooper told me was "If I disappear, like the others, do everything you can to find me. I’m trying to kill two birds with one stone."
And now this thing of two Coopers.
And recently a paid informant named Ray Monroe sent a cryptic message indicating that the Cooper we met in prison was looking for coordinates, Coordinates from a certain Major Briggs."
This final act revelation is both intriguing and frustrating.
1) Why keep this a secret for 25 years? When Cooper went missing, wouldn’t it behoove Gordon to share this information with Albert and their investigation into the missing Cooper?Cooper asked for him to do EVERYTHING you can to find him.Wouldn’t keeping your team informed of the details be included in that everything? And "if I disappear"?? Do everything to find me. What could anyone do? If they hadn’t found Jeffries all these years, and Major Briggs had recently disappeared without a trace, where would they even start to look for a lost Cooper? Considering they have only recently learned specifics of Judy, what knowledge could they possess about the other side? Or on getting to the other side to lend a helping hand of rescue?
2)Cooper feared disappearing like Jeffries.And the others. Major Briggs was believed to have died in a fire.Not simply disappeared.And Briggs disappearance came AFTER Cooper disappeared into the Lodge and came back out the Bad Dale. The Bad Dale wouldn’t have spoken this request to Gordon. So Cooper would have had to have said this to Gordon before coming to Twin Peaks.Or at the very least,sometime after Major Briggs disappeared ,shortly, in the woods during he and Coopers camping trip.We know that Phillip Jeffries disappeared, and also Chet Desmond.Were their others in the history of the Blue Rose?
3)And just how would Gordon go about looking for Cooper? Gordon wouldn’t have known where Cooper disappeared to if he disappeared like Chet or Phillip with out any indication other than last known whereabouts? Where would he start?Other than in the town of Twin Peaks.Which it appears that the FBI pulled up stakes and abandoned the town after both Coopers and Briggs disappearance. Gordon didn’t even know that Harry was no longer acting Sheriff.Which is strange considering that his special agent disappeared while investigating in this town.Wouldn’t you want to keep tab on what is going on?On the strange happenings that Cooper had shared were going on within this town?Maybe he did at first, but after years of Cooper silence, he thought the trail cold in this town. So how could he have looked for Cooper? And where?Major Briggs clearly hadn't shared any coordinates with the FBI at the time.And it's only till this season,25 years later, that Gordon actually finds his first doorway to the other side.Cooper wouldn’t have been able to leave a trail of bread crumbs if he was taken suddenly.And they wouldn’t be anticipating looking for a double Cooper as in his own revelation ,Gordon discusses the business of the two Coopers.If Briggs,Gordon and Cooper had a plan to find Judy, why wasn’t there a plan to find a lost Cooper? Maybe Cooper had meant to have a rescue rope to pull him back for when the time came for him to go searching for Judy, but the sudden situation with Annie forced his hand and left him no time to plan.
4)At what point in the original series might Major Briggs have shared his discoveries of "Jowday" with both Gordon and Cooper? I'm thinking it may have been sometime before Cooper went on the camping trip with Garland.And then to top that off , how and WHY would they devise a plan that could,not would, lead them to Judy? Major Briggs most likely knew of some specific information that would point the three in the right direction.Could it be that Briggs had the coordinates even back then? What even would have been their plan?For what purpose would they want to find this entity?Risk exposing themselves to its darkness. How could they hope to find this negative entity ,wherever it resided? Knowing more about their plan is dependent upon knowing exactly what Major Briggs knew and shared with the the two of them. The devil is in the details, literally.
5)"Philip Jeffries who doesn't even really exist anymore,at least not in the normal sense." Ok.....how the hell does Gordon know what Jeffries is, or that he isn’t? When has Gordon paid a visit to the other side?Or has Jeffries remained in contact with him?Visited him in dreams or visions? Has Jeffries given information to Gordon via Ray? How could Gordon know that Jeffries has become so lost in his investigation of "Judy" that he has lost his humanity and became a machine.A machine that we learn later seems to be a recorder or curator of time streams.He has become non-exist-ent! Jeffries disappeared, according to him.If he disappeared, then that implies that Gordon hasn’t seen him since. And the last time we know that he saw him , Jeffries was still looking very much the David Bowie.HOW does Gordon know that Jeffries is what he is now? There is a hint later in the episode that indicates some form of communication has occurred between the two over the years.That Gordon knows even more than he is letting on in this moment. Jeffries tells Cooper to give his regards to Gordon "He'll remember the unofficial version." More on this later.....
6)Jeffries must have discussed Judy before his first disappearance.When we see Phillip reappear in the Philadelphia FBI offices in Fire Walk With Me, one of the first things he says is "We're not going to talk about Judy.In fact we are going to leave Judy out of this". Indicating that he had already discussed the subject of Judy with Gordon before, and perhaps even that before his first disappearance Jeffries was on the hunt for Judy himself.Which is why it would be something he would think to be fresh on Gordon’s mind upon his reappearance.But Phillip had a bigger revelation to share with his old partner:"We live inside a dream" I had thought at the time he was quoting one of the Lodge residents, but maybe now he was actually telling Gordon that this world that he thinks the FBI are existing in....is all but a dream. They are going on with their lives as if based in reality. But its all a construct,someones dream. But whose?
7) "I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone." Cooper couldn’t have known about the possibility of his Doppelgangers escape at this point.Perhaps he meant to destroy both BOB and Judy? But how could he have known their connection? Had Major Briggs investigation revealed a connection?Had Cooper sensed that the two sprung from the same source?Understandably, he would want to stop BOB from existing and hurting others like he did Laura.But with only Major Briggs information to go on, why would he want to destroy Judy as well?Perhaps there was a revelation that drew a connection between the two.And knowing how evil BOB was,it would make the threat of the source of BOB even more serious. Did Cooper think that BOB would lead him to Judy?Could THAT have been the plan? To enter the Lodge, and let BOB take Cooper over so he would be closer to the source of Judy? Cooper may have thought he would be strong enough to control BOB’s impulses while using BOB to point him in the direction of Judy.But then the plan backfired when not only Coopers hand was forced and he had to enter the Lodge unprepared but also Coopers Doppelganger joined in on the fun.
If the plan was to kill two birds(owls?the owl like symbols we have seen throughout the Legend of the Lodges) with one stone......What act did Cooper think he would be doing that would end both BOB and Judy at the same time? Having only just discovered the two evils existence ,what did he think would destroy the two? A bullet certainly wouldn’t be enough.The fact that he already has some unfathomable plan of attack for not one but two dark entities having only just learned about both,beggars belief.How could he possible have concocted a plan that would seem reasonable to stop this ancient entity?
8)And then Cooper disappears. But not before he has left a S.O.S. to Gordon.Not the brightest of agents, our dear Dale. Two people have already disappeared looking for this Judy. And now he plans to plunge on ahead with awareness that he will suffer the same fate.If anticipated this, why attempt to take the same path? He couldn’t have had enough knowledge of the Lodges or other world where Judy might be found to make any attempt to find it a reasonable plan.
9)We also learn that Ray Monroe has been working as an informant of the Bad Dales doings.But this must only have been as recent as his time in Prison as the FBI had no known whereabouts of the Bad Dale.
10) The fact that the Bad Dale has been in search of the special coordinates is raised yet again.For what purpose has the Bad Dale been seeking these coordinates?He has never stated or even hinted at his big picture goals in the entirety of the series.For 25 years the Bad Dale has been up to no good and now suddenly he is in search of this important specific location? The coordinates we learn lead to the Fireman.Was that his goal? To find the Fireman and destroy him and his putting out of fires?Has the Fireman been disrupting the Bad Dales dark doings over the last 25 years? Cleaning up his messes or preventing others?Or does the Fireman have access to controlling time and the Bad Dale would love to be able to manipulate the whole of it all?We are shown Phillip Jeffries in his current teapot state assisting Cooper in his time traveling.And in the background of the residence of the Fireman we are shown multiple more machines that look like the one that Jeffries now resides within.Could the Bad Dale seek these as tools for his terror?
11)In a previous episode the Bad Dale demands to know who is Judy and what does she want from him? Implying that the Bad Dale is not aware of who or what Judy is. If the Bad Dale possesses memories of the Good Dale, then if the Good Dale had knowledge of Judy at this point in the story,enough to hatch a plan that could find it , then the Bad Dale would be aware as well. So this begs the question ,WHEN did Briggs tell Cooper and Gordon about his Judy discovery and why doesn’t the Bad Dale know because Cooper knew?
Gordon continues:
"This plan, Albert, I couldn’t tell you about. And I’m sorry.
And I don’t know at all if this plan is unfolding properly because we should have heard by now from our dear Dale Cooper."
And with that, the phone rings.And guess who is on the other end of the line?
Again....what exactly WAS this plan?
Back in Twin Peaks:
Benjamin Horne gets a call about Jerry whose non foot has taken him for a long walk.Jerry's OK,long way from home and naked, but OK. This is also the last we will see of Benjamin.And this leaves Benjamin Horne in a sad place.
He has to take care of his pot addled brother.
He has a grandson that is not only a murderous psychopath but is also now potentially dead( does anyone really die in Twin Peaks?).
His wife seems to want to finally divorce him.
He is tempted to return to his old ways by having an affair with his married secretary.If he does,this won't end well for him.
He has Johnny, a special needs child in the body of a man that will always be in need of special care.
And then there's Audrey,lovely Audrey. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HER? Is she locked up in some mental institution?The local nuthouse that has been mentioned by other characters in passing?Has she been in a coma all this time?Or has she slipped into a mental fantasy dream state,refusing to leave ,even though she wants to.
It appears that the Bad Dale may have indeed raped Audrey when she was in a coma after the bank explosion.Resulting in Richard. Did Audrey wake up during the offensive act, only to see the face of the man she admired and loved assaulting her in such an unforgivable violent way?
The Horne family has always had a history of mental illness and instability.Could the combination of the damage to her head from the bank explosion and her already family trait have only been complicated more by waking to he Bad Dale raping her?Causing a severe break.One that Audrey has been fighting against inside her head for the past 25 years.Could her condition have been even further exasperated by raising Richard?
Benjamin Horne may still have his Great Northern hotel, but he has very little else in his life to celebrate.
By now,The Bad Dale has finally made his way to the real coordinates.They are the same place as the Jack Rabbits Palace location.
Cautiously, he approaches the well of weird liquid.It's as if even he is unsure of what waits for him at this juncture.The last coordinates he was provided ended in violent electricity.The whirling tornado entryway opens and.....*POOF* The Bad Dale disappears
The other side is a trap. Major Briggs,who lost his body ,but managed to keep his head , silently watches on the other side over the proceedings. His presence at this point and time seems to indicate that he helped in orchestrating this plan of setting the trap for the Bad Dale.Has this been the plan all along or just luck? Provide the Bad Dale indirectly with coordinates that would then lead him to an entryway that was booby trapped? Or was this a last minute effort enacted because the Fireman could see what was on the other side about to cross over.
We find the Fireman floating up high once more.Performing one of his rituals.On his viewing screen we see that the Fireman has been keeping a close watch on the Palmer household and the current abode of Judy.Since the Fireman can send spirits to any chosen location, could this ability be something the Bad Dale had hoped to take advantage of for his wicked way?Popping in an out of times and place to commit atrocities.
Many of the machines like that which holds the essence of Phillip Jeffries can be seen in an adjacent room. Electricity crackles.What could be their purpose?Are they working to record the intensity of the moment? or rewrite this present?Are they calculating the possibilities of what could happen next?Collating and connecting the threads?There is something powerful in this specific moment that could explode in a multitude of outcomes.If what needs to happen next doesn’t go according to plan, a world of change is upon not just Twin Peaks.
Like swiping right on a app, the Fireman changes the view screen and creates a new destination for the Bad Dale. Not far away , but not at Judy’s front door anymore.However,the Bad Dale still has seen where the fireman was watching and could easily deduce that the Palmer home is a place of interest to him if he ever gets out of his cage.
The Bad Dale is then transported to outside the Sheriffs station. Where we see Andy getting a picnic basket out of a vehicle.Andy,the picture of Norman Rockwell small town innocence about to come face to face with a dark monster void of compassion. Andy spots "Cooper " and either plays along that he knows this is the bad guy, or has seemingly forgotten the vision he was shared by The Fireman not long ago.He gives no indication that he is aware of what stands before him.
I instantly felt that Andy was in grave danger and that the Bad Dale would kill him without thought.It would have not been out of character for the Bad Dale to have done this and would have been quite the shocking surprise as Andy had been set up in a previous episode as being an important player in the final confrontation.
Below the station,Naido freaks out in her cell.She knows what darkness has arrived at the Sheriffs door.
Across the way,Chad has a key hidden in his boot. Much like Leo used to hide things in his boots.Has Phillip Gerard been peddling his wares in town again?
Andy introduces the Bad Dale to the new Sheriff Truman. As they leave he has a recall of his vision of moving Lucy to a certain position within the Sheriffs Station.I know that Andy is a bit on the dim side, but how could he not have recalled the visions shared by the Fireman earlier?Even Andy should have been able to sense that this "Cooper" who now stands before him is wrong. Andy was shown the two Coopers.The expression of fear on his face seemed to indicate he understood the grave danger of what was going on with not only The Bad Dale, but the Mother of Abomination.Why show him the history of this nuclear darkness and its fallout, only to have him have so little recall when the time came?And so little involvement in the final act?
In Truman’s office, Andy offers Cooper a cup of coffee, which is refused. To anyone who knew the real Cooper, this would be a major red flag that something was wrong.
Andy goes to get Hawk,and passing by Lucy he points at her and says "very important,very important" but doesn’t elaborate- is she very important?She hasn't been much more than comic relief in the entire series.And her mental wonkiness has been turned up to eleven this season with the strange inability for her to comprehend cellular phones.Has Lucy been developing dementia over the last 25 years?
I wonder if Andy just told her something off screen "Lucy,Lucy! you must go to the Sheriffs office now,take my gun,its very important that you do this now......Very important.Very important"
Chad has slipped out of his cell while all eyes are on the squawking Naido. He gets into a evidence locker.Which is oddly left close to where criminals are kept and arms himself. Chad pulls his newly acquired gun on Andy who has come down to the cells to look for Hawk. Once again, good cop Andy is seconds away from tasting a bullet.
The green gloved one saves the day by punching his cell door open and into Chads face moments before he pulls the trigger on Andy.For the moment, it seems strange that the build up for Freddie was to have him placed in this town of Twin Peaks ,in this Sheriffs station, in this cell at this specific moment.......to stop Chad from shooting Andy. Considering what happens next with Freddie, I actually would have been fine if this was his crowning moment.
Because many of the original series actors have moved on,retired,passed on or burned bridges with the creators, its understandable that the show would need to introduce new characters. Even if everyone could have/would have/should have returned to the show, they could not have been all there for the final act.The inclusion of this new Freddie character is not unexpected, but he suffers from a lack of development.We get some basic exposition as to how he got the power glove and why he has come to Twin Peaks, but no real emotional connection to why he was chosen or to the people of Twin Peaks that we know from before.The fact that he crossed an ocean to come to this little town to be part of the fight ends up being just a fact without any emotional weight.
His part in the play could have been taken over by ANY former cast member. Imagine if it HAD been Andy? The simple kind hearted man taking down the evil of BOB.I could hear Andy saying something about how he wants his friends and love ones to stop being hurt by all this sadness and then punches BOB’s life out.Maybe he could have revealed that the Bad Dale/BOB had done something to Lucy before he skipped town and that is why she has struggled mentally over the years. Andy was the one who sketched the original police image of BOB from Sarah Palmer's vision, he could have recognized the face.Remembered the pain it has caused to his town and the people he loves and protects.
Upstairs the phone rings and Lucy answers.It's the real Cooper,calling ahead and asking if the coffee is hot. I'm a little surprised that they had not tried to tie this moment into Lucy’s confusion with cellular phone. Especially since she just saw a version of Cooper enter the Sheriffs Station and now there is another on the phone.This would have been a ideal moment for Lynch/Frost to do one of those extended "GET ON WITH IT!!!" moments especially since the tension was already high with the arrival of the Bad Dale.
Lucy transfers the call to the Sheriffs office.
"Harry .It's Coop"
Ahh, if only it were true. Imagine the power of this moment if old friends Harry Truman and Dale Cooper reconnected.
Upon the mention that he is actually Frank Truman, Harry’s brother, the Bad Dale knows something serious is up and takes action, but before he can get a clean shot off.......
LUCY shoots the bastard !!!
It's unexpected,it's exciting.And it's more than a little confusing. Why Lucy? She's never been associated with firearms.And her first shot is a kill shot?Andy was a character in the original series who was set up for practicing his shooting skills.A character trait that was introduced because of his involvement with Agent Cooper of all people who instructed Andy to practice every day.It would have been a nice subtle touch to the past that Agent Cooper had once given Andy instructions that would later be beneficial in stopping the Bad Dale.
Why Lucy? Was this the whole point of Andy being shown the Fireman's vision?To simply tell him to place Lucy at the right spot at the right time so she could suddenly shoot someone?Seems like a waste of opportunity.For such powerful beings who can pass back and forth between planes of existence,that this is their solution for taking down the Bad Dale,it's rather ridiculous.For this final confrontation with the Bad Dale who has been up to no good for the past 25 years while the Good Dale remained trapped inside the Lodge, only to be taken down by Lucy?
Lucy has always been a form of comic relief throughout the entire series. Then, to make her such an important part of the final act? And then have her suddenly understand cellular phones?That joke isn't funny anymore.
Andy brings Naido,Freddie and James up to Sheriff Truman's office.
What purpose does James have in this moment?There has been nothing in this entire series to involve James emotionally in this outcome.Even his connection to Laura Palmer has not been a factor in this.Unlike the original series,even Laura Palmer herself has been more like a character mentioned in passing than a driving force behind the story.James doesn't even know that this has anything to do with Laura.What little we know of James from the past 25 years is that he was in some kind of accident, a fact that is never explained , and that he is inappropriately infatuated with another mans wife.OH,And he is still singing THAT song.But he has had no visions,no conversations about helping Cooper and defeating BOB who hurt Laura all those years ago.
Moments later Cooper arrives. As he does, the Woodsmen appear and do their ritual of revival from which the angry ball of BOB emerges.
BOB first attacks Cooper, and then when the threat of Freddie is presented he then attacks him.This continues until Freddie knocks BOB to pieces.
Ok...so...*sigh*.. here is our big confrontation and we don’t even get a Bad Dale vs Good Dale?.....we don’t even get a BOB vs Good Dale? Cooper basically sits on the sidelines and watches. As far as we know,Cooper has had NOTHING to do with moving the pieces into place for this final fight. Where is Laura?Wouldn't this have been a satisfying emotional confrontation if Laura appeared in some form and SHE was the one who ended BOB?
Its this new character Freddie and his magical green glove that pummels BOB into pieces. While the idea of some supernatural force being the only thing that can destroy BOB is reasonable, the introduction of these elements loses its emotional impact. Freddie has never been a victim of BOB.Has never lost anyone to BOB .Emotionally , it would make sense to have James be the one. James has lost a lot to BOB. Laura, Maddie,even Donna, to the fallout of BOB’s actions. It would have been more satisfying if someone from the original series had a hand in BOB’s comeuppance. Even more so if it was Laura working through that someone.
Is this really BOB’s demise?After all his evil, this is how he goes out?Taken down by a gardeners glove. What does this mean in the grand scheme? What happens when one of these entities is destroyed?Would his influence be removed from all of time,he never possessing Leland,never abusing and murdering Laura?Was he destroyed?or simply beaten and broken and sent running to lick his wounds in some dark Lodge corner of the other world to return another night? Obviously BOB must be destroyed, as he could find a way to use the time manipulation of the other side and return to a place in time where he could still get to Laura or others.So this step was a necessity before any other plan could be enacted
Shouldn’t BOB’s final fight have been with him in the shape of an owl with the BOB ball as a head?
HOW ...how did Cooper know about Freddy? And his part in this major plan?It stands to reason the Fireman informed him.However, why place the glove on the hand of someone who was clear across the ocean,far away from Twin Peaks? Is it because if the person was in Twin Peaks the evil entity of Judy or some other force would have discovered its presence, and the weapon of choice needed to remain distant until the time was ready ?
Cooper approaches the fallen doppelganger body. No longer revived by the power of BOB.He places the owl cave ring on the finger of his fallen twin. Bad Dales body smokes and then disappears. The owl cave ring returns and bounces to the floor of the red room once again.
So this is IT?? No big personal confrontation between the Good Dale and the Bad Dale? No merging of the two, with both fighting to control or destroy the other? No dramatic special effect of two bodies merging and bending and pulling at each other like taffy?Not even a physical fight?Such as Freddie being able to remove the glove and give to Cooper who fights both BOB and the Bad Dale? Just... *BANG*... a simple bullet from Lucy’s surprisingly good aim and that’s it? Coopers a gawking observer to his own war.
Cooper then immediately asks Truman if he has the key to the Great Northern hotel.Room 315. Major Briggs told him that Sheriff Truman would have it. Why would this key hold special powers? Could it because it has spent as much time inside the world of the Lodge along with Cooper? How could the key have transferred over with the Good Dale, but his shoes and his FBI button wouldn’t? Nothing has hinted that this key would be more important than an old memory of Cooper in that room showing up in the present day.The key was sent from Las Vegas , but it never connected anyone from Twin Peaks or the FBI to Las Vegas to help Cooper recall his memory.
How could Major Briggs know about this?Any of this?Did he know this before or after his physical death? He must have seen a vision of the future from the Fireman. And then relayed it all to Cooper, hence Coopers knowledge of Freddy and other events.But which came first, the chicken or the egg? Did Briggs have a vision of what could happen thanks to the many Phillip Jeffries-esque time turning tea pots? Or did he see the future events as they had unfolded and then because of Lodge time traveling was able to report back what did happen so to ensure it would happen.
Side note: I secretly like to imagine that Major Briggs has been communicating with his wife via her computer. Having conversations through electronic messaging means.
Outside ,finally the FBI arrives .The gangs all here.We'll,what seems to be our gang for this return:The FBI with Gordon.Albert and the new Blue Rose investigator,Tammy. The Mitchum Brothers,new to us.Harry Truman's brother,Frank.Hawk.Andy and Lucy.James.Freddie.Naido.Eventually even Bobby shows up.A strange mix of characters for this final moment.These people had very little impact on Coopers life when he first came to this town 25 years ago.
I think it would have been an emotionally strong addition to the scene if Hawk had relayed a message to Cooper from the Log Lady.Something she had said in private during one of their late night conversations.
Inside Cooper,moves to the stand on the spot where the doppelganger body recently lay to address the group.He spots Naido,reacts,but does he see her for who she really is?
In that moment of recognition Coopers face becomes superimposed over the rest of the scene.And remains so for the rest of the scene.
What does this indicate? Does seeing her here in this moment tell him he has failed? His expression is not one of happiness, but concern....almost fear.
Cooper closes his eyes briefly and turns.....
.....into a vision?Are we seeing him having a vision in this moment of eye to Naido non eye contact? what may be for a second for him, is minutes for the viewer.Does everything that follow consist of the vision?Is he remembering something?
Bobby walk in and asks nonchalantly what is going on around here? Cooper tells him that his father was well aware of whats going on here today.Why even have Bobby here at this moment if he was not part of the final fight?
"Many years ago information your father gathered brought him together with Director Gordon Cole ,who is here right on time "
Is this a reference to the secret history of Twin Peaks as well as Briggs knowledge of Judy?
And for WHAT purpose did Gordon Cole need to be here ?? To just stand around and observe? Even Albert doesn’t get off one of his famous one liner observations. After 25 years of absence , where are the hugs? Where are the "whats the hell is going on"? Questions? And why wont they cross the threshold into the room? why is everyone still standing OUTSIDE the room?
"And that’s what brought us to where we are today"
and just WHERE is that? Cooper?? How does Briggs factor into leading to BOB and your doppelganger? Briggs didn’t know about BOB being inside Leland, the father of his daughter girlfriend? As far as we know,Briggs gathered some information, presumably about the negative entity of Judy, and the dark history of Twin Peaks and perhaps how the two may be connected.Somehow Coopers investigation of Laura Palmer led him to Twin Peaks which in turn led him to Major Briggs who then shared his information.The events that followed led Cooper to the Lodge from which he had to escape.But Briggs didn’t lead them to the Lodge or even Judy for that matter.Not even Coopers actions led them to where they are today as he has been missing from their lives for the past 25 years.They went on living while he was lost. Only Major Briggs influence on Bobby led to some of them being here. Bobby’s knowledge of Jack Rabbits Palace led them to Naido and the Fireman.Which explains why Naido is here. Seems like this could all of this be the result of Gordon Cole responding to what Major Briggs shared.And Gordon’s pushing agents after agent until they disappear in effort to investigate Blue Rose cases.
"Now, there are some things that will change."
Cooper looks at Hawk who gives a slight nod in understanding ??? what?what "some things" will change?why so vague? Does Cooper know what is about to happen? Or will happen due to his actions?
"The past dictates the future "
Has Cooper already decided to change the past to prevent this future?
Cooper turns to Frank. "Give my regards to Harry".
REALLY??? that’s all you have to say in this moment towards Harry?You know about Freddy, BOB and being here at this time and place and yet you have no knowledge of Frank?Does Cooper even know there is something wrong with Harry?Not even a simple question of his whereabouts?
Does Cooper know that things are going to change soon?quickly?Suddenly?
This line seems to elicit a response out of Naido as well ,as she starts chirping and chattering and tries to move forward.Does Naido understand what Coopers statement mean?
James and Freddy direct her to Cooper
Their hands touch and its as if something is transferred.
Naido begins to melt like a Tulpa...hidden inside a tulpa
From inside emerges Diane,with a little help from the Red Room to a very pleased Cooper.
What the hell?We know that the Bad Dale took the real Diane to the convenience store to have a tupla made out of her. He left her most likely on the other side while taking the tulpa back outside with him.But he couldn't leave Diane as herself on the other side. She might escape.Or she might be used by another who knows of her connection to the Bad Dales real self.Couldn't let Cooper find Diane.Maybe the Bad Dale hid Diane inside another body.And made sure she couldn't be communicated with or speak of her own accord.Did Naido have control and Diane was a passenger?Or was Diane inside and tried to communicate but her form prevented it?Cooper didn't seem to be aware of Naido or what lay within.Maybe ,at one time, one of the other Fireman friendly Lodge residents discovered Diane hidden in a dark corner of the Woodsmen's world and brought her to the Fireman’s purple floating tower for safe keeping.
Diane and Coop share a passionate kiss.
"Cooper, the one and only." she replies to the kiss.
What is with the kissing?While this kiss calls back to the tulpa explaining how she,in a built in Diane memory, knew that the Bad Dale was not her Cooper,now the actual Diane knows this Cooper is the real deal. Diane and Cooper were not known for having a romantic relationship in the original series.It was never even a hint. Even according to Diane’s tulpa they only had kissed once before. If that had been romantic, that implies that Cooper was more of a jerk than the good guy we thought him to be. Before Twin Peaks, Cooper became involved with Windom Earles wife,resulting in her death.Shortly later ,Cooper is sent to Twin Peaks, meets Audrey and indirectly flirts with this underage girl. Then he meets Annie and becomes involved with her,resulting in her kidnapping and who knows what other fate. All the while Cooper sends recorded taped messages to Diane throughout the days.While he may have shied away from going into details about Caroline,the truth eventually came out.Cooper did speak of his feelings towards Annie on tape and I believe hinted at Audrey’s romantic feelings for himself.Was their first kiss something that happened early in their working relationship?One late night while Cooper poured through evidence and cup after cup of Diane perfect coffee did she take to heart Coopers natural complimentary nature and kiss him?
Cooper asks her "Do you remember everything?" As in ,do you remember your rape from the Bad Dale? Or do you remember the next part of the plan and your necessary involvement?
She says "Yes"....and then her attention is drawn to the clock on the wall...stuck in a moment in time 2:52, unable to move forward to 2:53. Almost there.Stay on target
Cooper takes Diane’s hand and the superimposed face speaks in a slowed, almost Bad Dale tenor "We live inside a dream" .Who can hear this? Is this superimposed Cooper revealing something to the awake gathered group in the present 2:52 Twin Peaks time that is frozen because Cooper is now inside his trance like dream seeing all of this? Or that the 2:53 of Twin Peaks will not happen because Coopers planned next steps will cancel it out?
While inside this "dream" time, Cooper and the rest move at a normal pace while the superimposed face barely moves at all.Not paused, but not emoting.
Cooper turns to everyone and says " I hope I see all of you again.Every one of you"
Where is he going?He just got here.Where are they going?What is meant to happen next?
Before Cooper can tell us more,the room starts to grow dark.Everyone notices this.Cooper yells "Gordon!"
Was this anticipated to happen?This darkness didn’t seem expected at this moment. Is Cooper telling Gordon,once again, if I disappear, come find me. Is this the official timeline fading away because of what Cooper does next?Is this someone turning the light out on this timeline and the superimposed Cooper will continue with the next step?Is this Judy interfering?They did just possibly destroy her bouncing baby boy BOB.
With Coopers face still superimposed over the proceedings, from the new darkness we see Cooper,Diane and Gordon emerge.Cooper was holding Diane’s hand at the time the darkness fell.And Gordon is one who remembers the unofficial versions of events. Is that why he is still here?
We find ourselves in the basement of the Great Northern, the humming from Benjamin Hornes office can be heard
As the camera pans to the door where the humming was also heard by James( who isn't present in this moment, nor even shares this information with Cooper), the face fades.There is nothing said or any action that sparks this disappearance of Coopers face.
Rounding the corner the three approach the door.
Cooper is now wearing his FBI button.Did Gordon give him a pin off screen?A ceremonial welcome back to the fold Coop presentation.
Cooper approaches the humming door and inserts the old style Great Northern key to his room and turns it ,unlocking the door.How does this door factor into all this Lodge business?Why the Great Northern basement?
Before opening it he turns to Diane and Gordon and says "I’m going through this door, don’t try to follow me. Either of you."
Cooper and Diane share a hug.Gordon a handshake
As Cooper opens the door the volume of the humming grows. He turns to Diane
and says "See you at the curtain call" and enters the darkness on the other side. Will this weirdness EVER end?
Cooper steps out of the dark.
Mike does as well, and he recites the familiar "Fire Walk With Me" poem, but not in backwards speak .Is this poem a invocation? Or a comment on what Cooper is attempting or wanting to do next?Coop....you are playing with fire.
An electrical moment occurs, cutting back and forth between Cooper and Mike.Are they transporting like energy to a place? Then,the image cuts away to the backs of the two walking down the dark hallway towards the stairwell that lead to Phillip Jeffries.
Ascending the stairs the two are joined by The Jumping Man as he runs down the steps.Is he agitated by what is going on?Is Cooper not supposed to be here asking for what he will ask? IS the Jumping Man leaping off to tell Mother?
The two emerge in the parking lot of the hotel that keeps Jeffries. No Woodsmen or man in a drag await either.
In Phillips room Cooper and Mike approach.Cooper speaks to the circular white ring of smoke :"Phillip?"
Jeffries asks Cooper to :"Please,be specific".
Do people come to this version of Phillip Jeffries to make requests like this normally that this is his first response? Is this his new relegated role on this side?
Cooper replies "The Date:February 23, 1989"
(not that specific,if you ask me....am?pm?Eastern?Central?)Mike seems to shake his head in slight disapproval
"I'll find it for you
Its slippery in here"
Time streams tend to be that way.So many currents,waves gyres,and eddies.
Phillip says its good to see him again and to say hello to Gordon if(not when) you see him
"He'll remember the unofficial version"
Unofficial version?Is what Cooper planing to do next going to erase a whole known time stream?That doesn’t sound like a good idea.This can't end well.
"This...is where you'll find Judy" Not how, but where? Ummm, Doesn't the Fireman already know where Judy is currently residing? He was watching the Palmer house in the present timeline. How can going to this "specific" point in time help him find Judy. As far as we know Judy didn't come to Twin Peaks till AFTER it crossed over from the other side in New York back at the beginning of this series.Sarah Palmer has not always been host to Judy.
"There may be someone...." someone what? someone else? Someone watching?someone where?Someone who could stop/help Cooper?Someone answer me!?
"Did you ask me this?" Is Phillip responding to a question that was asked by another version of
"
Cooper" in a similar scenario? What was it that Cooper supposedly asked Phillip?
"Is there someone trying to stop me from doing this?""Is there someone interfering?""Is there someone who can help me stop Judy?"
What does Phillip think he was asked?
Has Cooper tried to do this before and failed and keeps returning till it goes the way he wants?Is Phillip confusing his previous conversation with the Bad Dale? or has this moment already happened before and no one remembers?
In the smoke of the Jeffreis communication we see the Owl cave petroglyph
It forms into a figure 8 or the symbol of infinity
A small dot in the lower right can be seen.(the point in time in question?)
The symbol turns around
The dot ,now on the opposite side, returns to its placement on the left.( a fixed point in time?
"There it is ,
you can go in now."
"Cooper,remember" Remember what? Remember what you have already tried before? Remember what you know about this point and time to better focus your entry point?
Mike speaks "Electricity"
Cooper closes his eyes and the screen goes black and white
We are in the timeline of "Fire Walk With Me".It is the night Laura Palmer died
We are viewing the scene between James and Laura,moments before Laura runs off into the woods alone and distraught.
The scene plays out as before but a new element is introduced.A scream that Laura gave before that had occurred out of the blue is now attributed to her catching a glimpse of Cooper hiding in the woods,watching.
As before, at the intersection of Sparkwood and 21,Laura runs off from James into the nearby woods. Where Cooper is waiting.
Through her tears,Laura recognizes him. Remembering seeing him in a dream. Somehow this comforts her.
She takes his offered hand.
As she does,we see Laura's body as we first saw it years ago,wrapped in plastic at the base of the large log near the Martell's home.The body wrapped in pastic suddenly gets erased from this moment.
Back in the woods of Feb 23rd,1989, the screen becomes flush with color as Laura asks where are we going?
Cooper replies... "Were going home"
Ok, full confession here:Even though I knew in my heart that this was not a good thing and that nothing good could actually come from what Cooper was trying to do,but From the moment I saw Cooper in the Fire Walk With Me Scenes, I began to cry.And by the time we got to this moment, I was struggling with the sobs. My heart was full that Laura had finally been saved. I had visions from the start of this series that the show would end something like this.That Cooper would find Laura,and free her from her pain.Though my vision was that this version of Cooper would find Laura's tortured soul that was still trapped somewhere in the Lodge.He would free her by showing her that the Angels really had not gone away and were there to help her.And as Laura weeps in happiness the show would fade to the Roadhouse once more where we would find Julee Cruise singing "Falling".
We are shown Twin Peaks, the first day,in the past. Pete gets to finally go fishing.Will THAT fish end up in a percolator?
What does this mean for Laura? Is she really removed from this fate of dying at her Father's BOB possessed hand? Does she now simply become a missing person?A believed runaway?Not a murder victim? James says she ran off into the woods and was never seen again?
Does the missing Laura, not the murdered Laura,now become the official version of events?
All these thoughts,emotions and more were floating through my head...and then those fuckers Lynch and Frost pulled the rug out from under me and smacked me upside the head with it.
The past may dictate the future, but you cant change the past that has dictated the future already
We are given the impression that Cooper is leading Laura to the Jack Rabbits Palace coordinates
In the present, Sarah Palmer is not happy. Nothing has changed for her?? She is still alone.Her place is a mess,dark and brooding.
Sarah moans and cries out in her pain and suffering.Is this now a version of Sarah who weeps for her missing,not dead daughter?Still A perfect little Garmonbozia generator that would attract a hungry Judy
Sarah enters the frame and grabs the iconic framed prom picture of Laura. She begins to stab it over and over with a broken bottle, until the footage reverses and goes back and forward again and again with repeated stabs.Fluctuating time?Trying to reverse the past?Judy needs Laura to die.The glass in the frame breaks, but the photo never is damaged.This time the Mother is trying to stab and murder her daughter ,not the Father
Laura is too strong for that
Meanwhile......
Sarah Palmer's Judy possessed vessel doesn't like this rewriting of history. Does Judy use a little magic of its own to resets the balance and yank Laura out of her rescue
Girl can't catch a break
I imagine that Laura is returned to that exact moment where BOB kills her.Just as his weapon plunges down for the first time
Laura can be heard screaming long into the distance,the fluttering of cloth and wind can be heard.This could still be the screams that the Log Lady heard in the woods the night Laura Palmer was murdered.
Is Laura placed back into her fate? Is this time resetting itself?Could Laura Palmer’s murder be too much of a fixed point connected to too many threads in time to be ever changed?
With no body to be found, Laura Palmer could be still be believed to be dead, but yet she lives.Might her being removed from this moment be someone placing her far away elsewhere in another time and place.In a new life?Safekeeping her? or hiding her so those who wish to use her can't find her?
The woods become silent again.
Then the sounds of Julee Cruise singing "The World Spins"
How does this all fit into the ending of Fire Walk With Me? Now, Laura never sees her Angels and continues to be a lost soul.Tortured by the whims of Lodge and FBI
"Falling through this night alone.....
.....love......don’t go away
......come back and stay
........forever
This song originally played after the scene where Maddie was killed by Leland/BOB and the giant appeared : It is happening again
Why would Cooper choose this specific moment and time to "save" Laura? Is it because it is one of the few moments where he knew exactly where she was and at what time? Phillip Jeffries said be specific. That moment with James was something that was specifically known down to the minute as a time and place of Laura’s life and whereabouts. But there certainly could have been others..Why not choose her birth? remove her from the hospital BEFORE she has a lifetime of abuse.Why save her at the end? Unless the point wasn’t to SAVE Laura.....but to "FIND" her.
Maybe Coopers intention was never to save Laura from being murdered. Being killed is terrible, but wouldn’t it be better to save her from a lifetime of systematic abuse from a monster under the guise of her father? Save her from going down a dark path of trying to numb her pain with drugs and a constant fight to give in to darkness when your every thought is that you are not worth the good
Maybe Cooper just needed Laura .Or rather , the spiritual force of good within her sent down by the Fireman. Intriguing thought that Laura spent years believing that she was no good. That every good thing she tried to do would be tainted because it came from her. And all along she was the actual embodiment of spiritual goodness.Doubt that thought would bring her much comfort at the moment, though.
So maybe Cooper was trying to retrieve her at this point and time to assist in the fight with Judy. But Judy wasn't having any of that. Through some dark magic, Sarah/Judy was able to remove Laura from Cooper's attempts to take Laura away from her predestined death.
Where is Cooper actually taking her?
To Glastonbury Grove's Red Room entrance? Wouldn’t that be dangerous as there would be potential for Laura's doppelganger to interfere? BOB is still alive in this point in time. His death in the future wouldn’t remove him from the past. So he could be waiting for them to enter the Lodge if Cooper intended to bring her inside.
Is he leading her to the Jack Rabbits Palace coordinates?This seems more likely. The Jack Rabbits Palace entrance would lead to the Fireman who has been shown, in the past ,sending the spirit of Laura to our world in the first place.In likelihood to be a counter-defense to the BOB seed of evil that has been released upon the world.
This would be a safe place.
Leading her home? As in with her Mom.....and Dad, who is still possessed by BOB for all we know.Unless BOB’s destruction in the future removes him from all of time.This seems unlikely.As a whole past of events lead to BOB being here in the present at the moment of his demise.
But what would be the result of this action? By doing this, the real Laura would be alive .Never meeting Leo,Ronette,and Jacque and end up in a compromised position that would make her still at the mercy of BOB.
It would also dramatically change the history of the town. Laura's death feels like what is often referred to as a fixed point in time in works of time travel. A moment so influential that its tendrils reach out far and wide and its removal would cause a tremendous tear in the fabric of reality( to use an overused statement).
Laura’s death led to the reveal of a world of secrets just in this town alone.
It revealed BOB.If Laura lives,Leland's possession would not be revealed.BOB would go on raping and killing.Laura would never be safe in her home as long as BOB existed inside Leland.So Cooper couldn't have been referring to the Palmer "home" at that point and time.If BOB didn’t get to kill her that evening, he would get to her the next. Eventually, he might have even pushed the fragile Laura to the point that she let BOB inside and he would then have a new host with which to play. A beautiful young woman who the world seemed to love and let get away with murder.....except, this time, she would actually begin to commit murder.
Why didn't Cooper go after BOB? Before the moment he killed Laura? Remove the evil from the equation, not the good? Have the Fireman fashion Cooper his own green glove now that its been shown to work and beat BOB back in the past.
If Cooper removed Laura from the timeline of her murder.Which it appears that he may have. Then that changes a whole host of events that followed her death. One of then being that fact that her death is what brought Cooper to Twin Peaks in the first place and eventually placed him in the danger of the Doppelganger and the Red Room Lodge.The place where he found himself trapped for the last 25 years. It would remove the release of the Bad Dale with the side of BOB from the Lodge and all his evil work of the past 25 years as well.
Does the original series now become the unofficial version?
And what of Laura’s Parents? If Laura is removed from the time and place of her potential murder then she never comes home on the day she was suppose to die. She would now be a missing person, not a murdered victim of a serial killer.Would their grief result in them moving away?Following some last clue found in Laura's diary of where she might have fled.Who might BOB have sought out after he lost Laura? BOB would continue to make Leland do terrible things.He could have continued to do those terrible things to Sarah like he probably did in the past before Laura was born.Maybe driving Sarah to the edge of her sanity or suicide.This could also have resulted in Leland and Sarah divorcing.She becoming more aware of his cheating.Maybe she would blame Leland for Laura's disappearance.BOB would have surely tormented Sarah in his loss of Laura.What had Sarah sensed or known about Leland and her daughter over the years? Would she have eventually come to realize there was something wrong inside her husband?
While this event of a missing person would still be terrible, it might not have the same impact as Laura's violent murder. No FBI would come to town to investigate a single missing girl. Only local police would look into the matter.But they wouldn’t get far. Question the parents as to the last time they saw her.Question her friends,boyfriends.Would Jacoby come forward with the fact that she was seeing him for help? Ronette would have gone home from her evening with Leo and Jacque but she could never reveal where she was or that Laura was suppose to be part of the party that last night.
Might BOB have killed Ronette in anger of losing Laura that night?Her murder wouldn’t have been as sensational as Laura's. It might have revealed some of the same secrets, but could not have the same impact.Could a murder of Ronette AND Laura's disappearance on the same night draw the interest of the FBI?The letter now under the fingernail of Ronette could still have been found by a visiting Cooper. Might there have been a line drawn to connect people from Ronette to Laura?Would people in town consider the idea that Laura was Ronette’s murderer?Or that her body had just not been found?
How did BOB find Laura in the first place, in the cabin?Could he sense where she was? Leland couldn't have been following James and Laura who were riding around on James motorcycle the whole night.It was at night and his car would have drawn attention to either one of them. James and Laura took off on the bike while Leland was still inside the house , so he wouldn't have been able to rush right out the door after them.Unless he had already drugged Sarah for the night ,once again, in anticipation of taking Laura in her bed once more.And his anger,in part, was because he wanted to rape her that evening and her running off with another boy robbed him of the opportunity.When Laura ran off into the woods he couldn't have been close.Nor could he have been nearby when Laura met Leo and the gang on a back road.
We see Laura’s body disappear from the moment where it was found by the water. Why would Coopers actions remove Laura from here? If she was never murdered, then she would never have been wrapped in plastic to get to this point in time.Why show the body disappear from that spot? They could have simply shown Pete's morning fishing go uninterrupted. Is it because of the iconic status of that wrapped in plastic picture? The phrase that started it all"She's dead.Wrapped in plastic"
We have seen Laura's terrified removal from a place once before in an earlier episode of this season.That time was in the Red Room.That appeared to take place 25 years from the time of her murder.
Moments after we see her body disappear from its fate we are shown the future home of the Palmer’s.Inside the fan atop the stairs spins on overdrive, there is still something terribly wrong.How could this be?If Laura never died, how could Sarah still end up alone here with the Mother of Abominations (Judy) inside her 25 years later?Wouldn't the act of Cooper changing history in this moment of Laura's fate immediately change the future of Sarah Palmer?
Cooper says the past dictates the future, but in this moment it seems like the future is dictating the past as the Abomination inside Sarah senses the change in events. That Laura has not been removed from the playing field by BOB.She is still a threat.
Does the Mother of Abomination then intercept Coopers attempts to rescue Laura and return her to the point and path to her murder?We hear the same scratching noise in the background of the Palmer house,same as we hear it when Laura disappears from Coopers hand,only much more distorted and intense.
The sadness of this moment would have broken any last resolve of Laura for survival.Having been steps away from being saved from a unavoidable fate that she has seem coming at her for years, she then suddenly finds herself back on the same path of destruction to Leo,Jacque and Ronette.Fulfilling her dream.Falling through space,faster and faster.Her Angels never helping her.
Or is this simply just the universe righting a wrong. Cooper can not save the dead.No matter now many times he tries ,Laura has to die. To live.
Laura Palmer's death opened up the proverbial Pandora’s box of secrets in this town.
Her death indirectly revealed Benjamin Hornes plans to change the town of Twin Peaks with the Ghostwood Estates.Revealed a connection between the perfume counter of his department store to the girls of One Eyed Jacks.
Led Audrey to explore life in a new direction that resulted in her being damaged seemingly irreparably from the bank explosion and potential heroin addiction.
Donna could have still revealed her love to James in their mutual grief of the loss of Laura from their lives.But would they have come together as quickly without the dramatic death of their friend? For all they knew, she could still be alive and return home at any time.
Maddy would not come to town for the funeral and meet Donna,James, or BOB.She might visit the Palmer’s, but would she stay as long as he did with Laura's death?Long enough for BOB to want to hurt her?Would BOB try to influence Maddy to stay ,"For Sarah’s sake", so he could do the dirty deed like he did with Laura?
Leo's drug connection to the town would still be preserved.Unless Ronette was murdered.Leo would continue peddling his product to the local glue sniffing brigade and beating his wife,Shelly.
Shelly would still secretly see Bobby, but without Leo being the suspect in a murder or wanted for selling drugs or arson, he would still be around to beat her with a sock full of soap over and over.Until maybe Norma eventually saw something that convinced her that Shelly needed help. Even if Leo was arrested for domestic abuse, would be be convicted?
Bobby would still see Shelly, but there would be no emotional turmoil for him to cause personal change.He would just go on seeing Shelly in secret till they got caught and Leo beat him up or shot him.Bobby had already killed a guy once before.Maybe he would have continued down a path of disrespect and danger without the dramatic shock of Laura's death. Something that for which he blamed himself,along with the entire town, for having a hand in. A path that could have him kill Leo after one of his Shelly punching matches.
Nadine,Big Ed, and Norma might still be in the same place.Close but worlds apart.Without the sadness of the loss of "innocence" in Laura. There would be the absent of that reminder in Big Ed and Nadine’s lives that life is getting shorter and time for the two of them to be together is running out. They would remain stagnant.
The Log Lady would remain the same.Her visions would change.Might she see what Laura's new fate would become?
Catherine and Pete would likely to have split up after Catherine would have successfully concluded her dealings with Benjamin Horne. Josie would be lost in the shuffle, and not in the drawer handle.
Could the moment that Cooper tries to remove Laura from her timeline result in that sudden breaking moment when Audrey finds herself staring into her reflection on the white room?That moment happens at the exact moment that Cooper loses his hold on Laura? Altering the entire future of the people in Twin Peaks whose life he had originally intersected?Audrey suddenly,instantly blinks into this new world but somehow manages to remember the "unofficial" version?
Even without this potential change of events, so many potential histories of characters remain a mystery.
What of Harry Truman?Did seeing Cooper disappear into the Lodge and his subsequent return as something evil be what made Harry sick? Sick to his heart. This happening so close to his emotional loss of Josie? Could this have broken poor Harry, that all the goodness left from his world?That he failed to protect the ones he loved or cared about in such dramatic ways.That he was confronted with the dark within the woods.
It's interesting that so many other characters were not given any type of continuing story information, yet Harry was given an update outside of the main story.But so little regard from Cooper when Harry's good friend finally returns to town.Cooper doesn't even return to the Double R,order a slice of cherry pie and ask Norma "How's Annie?"
We know nothing of Donna,Catherine,and Annie and little of James,Audrey,and Sarah.Even the Secret History Of Twin Peaks does little to clear up their 25 year later fates.
How could removing Laura Palmer from her moment of death change the actual known past of characters lives that happened before Laura was born, as read in the Secret History of Twin Peaks? The series is one episode away from completion and there has been no indication for the discrepancies between the original series statement of events and the book.What will the ,as yet unreleased book,Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier add to the mystery?Will it clarify what timeline is now the official one?
So much would be changed in the town of Twin Peaks by the Laura Palmer not being murdered turn of events.But how far back would it reach?
