What is Your Name?

             I recently acquired a signed copy of Mark Frost’s “Twin Peaks:The Final Dossier” ,though I have yet to indulge in reading the book.It potentially stands to be the last words on the world of Twin Peaks from the creators and I’m a little hesitant for it to end, to close the book on the world of Twin Peaks.

            It then occurred to me that I had not tried to corral my thoughts in regards to the final episode of Twin Peaks return.So before I indulge in the book I figure it to best to take one last trip to the land of cherry pie and wtf

We begin where we left off....

         Is Cooper trying yet again to rescue or remove Laura from her fate? Or is this just a “ LAST TIME ON TWIN PEAKS!” moment?

As there hasn’t been one of those moments all season, I’m leaning towards the thought that Cooper is trying again to rescue Laura but the same thing keeps occurring.

It is happening again .......

           The Bad Dale is burning up on re-entry to the Lodge.No longer a threat. A happy ending . Or is it? The residents of the Lodge are a confounding lot. We have seen them desire the fresh Garmonbozia,the creamed corn essence of ones pain and suffering .Surely the Bad Dale would be a competent generator of the G. Or is it because he wouldn’t share? or, perhaps, could the Lodges assistance to put a stop to the Bad Dale have something to do with whatever the Bad Dale wanted. It would appear that he sought Mother.For what purpose, still remain a mystery. To assist in releasing her destructive nature upon this world? Mother seemed just fine and capable under the skin of the ever suffering Sarah Palmer. Could he have sought her power for himself? Acquire her destructive skills so he could really go wild.Endangering the existence of the Lodge.Breaking apart ALL worlds?

Mike makes good on his promise to make another. And from the seed and lock of Agent Cooper’s hair, we have the return of Dougie to Janey-E and Sonny Jim. A cathartic happy ending in a world that rarely sees them

"Home"

but happy moments aren’t meant to last....

A bewildered Cooper suddenly finds himself in the chair of the red room.Much like we saw him in the beginning of this season.

         Mike sits across from him again and says his cryptic line " is is future or is it past? " Through the darkness of future past....future past....is this the future that has already past?have we returned to a point in the future that is a result of Coopers action in the past?...Cooper knows not where he is at this moment ......Is this the same time and place as the scene we witnessed in Episode 2? or is this the same scene repeating in the future with a different outcome due to Coopers failure?

         Cooper stares at the empty seat that should be taken by Laura if things progressed as in the past.She does not appear.Once again, She has been taken

         Could the earlier visual in the Lodge, where we saw Laura violently removed from the moment, be another example of Coopers failure? That he had already tried to rescue Laura back then but failed and this was the first example of Mother removing Laura from the equation.As a result, Laura’s spirit would have been removed from her post death existence, resulting in Cooper thinking that he needed to then “Find Laura” BEFORE she died if he was to not only save her but use her in the fight against the evil of Mother.

         Mike motions him to follow.

         Cooper is wearing his FBI pin in this moment. Is this to indicate the timeline is before his original escape from the Lodge? When before he lost his shoes and pin in the electrical crossover.The pin was missing from his suit from the moment he returned to our earthly plane in the position of “Dougie” but appeared again on his suit when he,Gordon,and Diane approached the mysterious door under the Great Northern. Had Gordon provided him with the symbol once more?As a welcome back to the FBI ?

        Cooper is brought before the arm who introduces himself just as he did in episode 2.Is time repeating itself , in a new timeline, due to Coopers choices?

         This time he adds a new line " Is is the story of the little girl who lived down the lane?”

Is it? The girl who .....“lived”....... Is this NOW the story of the girl who lived,not died violently by the hand of BOB?

We move down a red room hallway

Cooper is back in the chair again.

Laura enters and begins to whisper into his ear

"Huh?" even he is confused as to what the fudge is going on .What does Laura reveal? “My Mother killed me” ? “I am not Laura Palmer,my name is ...(indistinguishable) ” ? “Cooper, you screwed the pooch” ?

Once again Laura is violently removed from the picture

Cooper enters another room and finds Leland sitting alone.

He cries quietly "Find Laura" .Even Leland’s doppelganger soul still misses his daughter “Find Laura” ? Where is she hidden now?

Cooper leaves the Lodge of his own accord. In control of the door .He steps out from behind the curtains into Glastonbury Grove

Diane is waiting in the dark

Diane is not sure its Cooper.

“Is it you?Is it really you?”

“Yes, Its really me Diane”

“Is it really you?”

“Yes”

After all the Doppelganger, Tulpa terrors,they will always be unsure of each other.The damage has been done. How can they trust each other going forward with the task at hand?Even if they WANT to trust each other , they NEED to trust each other for their plan to be successful.Whatever that plan may be.

Driving in their car....they never,never want to go home...because they haven’t got one ...anymore

They have been driving all night. wearing the same clothes as before.No time to waste.Time?where we’re going we don’t need time.

Cooper brings the car to a stop. Could this destination have been the coordinates that were really sought after by the Bad Dale all along? The silhouette of the electrical wire supports look a bit like the black dot darkness that the Bad Dale had drawn on the playing card. They also look a bit like the shape of Mother.

Fire take many forms .Even in Modern electricity.Fire,Walk With Me.

Diane-”Are you sure you want to do this? You don’t know what its going to be like once we.....”

Once we ...what? We have no indication of what is going on here?Other than the “Find Laura” statement ,nothing has pointed in the direction of what has led us to this moment. While Diane and Cooper together is not odd,even after all they have both been through, the idea of her working closely with him on whatever this plan might be is curious. Yes, she has seen things,and perhaps she has seen enough of the bigger picture that she has agreed to go forward by Coopers side. As his assistant.So he doesn’t have to do this alone this time. There is not likely to be a Janey-E this time to guide him to safety

Her statement implies that even Agent Cooper is clueless as to what awaits.

Cooper-”I know that” ....sure you do,like you knew what would happen to Laura when you tried to save her.....

"Were at that point now, I can feel it .Almost exactly 430 miles"

The car they are driving is old

Diane-: “Just think about it cooper”....without hesitation he gets out of the car

Cooper walks forward unto he reaches a spot that stops him.Almost as if he walked into something. He makes note of the electricity crackle in the air from the wires up above

Diane is scared

Cooper gets back into the car .Sure that this is the place

He asks Diane to kiss him .”Once we cross it could all be different”. Is he trying to prepare Diane or himself?

They share a kiss

             All this Cooper/Diane kissing is just strange. When did this relationship flourish?I understand they have been through a lot. Individually. But when did their working relationship become something so ....friendly.Wouldn’t kissing your secretary be a definite FBI HR no-no? It is implied that Cooper has kissed Diane once before all of this Twin Peaks business ever occurred.Perhaps this is a emotional extension of that moment.What do they have to lose? But everything.

             Perhaps this is an indication of how much Cooper has changed from his experiences. The Cooper we knew from the original series never hinted at a romantic relationship with Diane( truth be told, why would he with the people of Twin Peaks) .Something seems off about his casual and repeated approach to intimacy.He’s kissed her twin in the last two scenes with her.With the implied danger and seriousness of the situation , it feels unlike Cooper to be thinking about kissing ,much less acting upon it.

The kiss is not as passionate as the previous one that took place upon Diane’s return

Diane says "Lets go".......Wouldn’t it have been awesome if she had said " Lets rock"

The car rolls slowly forward to “the spot”

Electricity flashes. Two points are seen overlapping,merging. Day and night.

.......and then they are suddenly driving fast down the road at night

On this other side, it is dark .Undefined in the distance.Is this side a dream?

They are shown pulling up to a motel . Surrounded by darkness

Cooper gets out and goes inside to get a room.

Diane sits in the car

She notices herself standing by a pillar in the distance .Watching herself.

Out of body experience? Or is Diane already losing control of who she has been placed inside on this side. Slipping away from herself.

They enter room 7.

       Diane turns on the light.Cooper tells her to turn it off.Now it's dark.She says :”What do we do now? “ Had they really no plan for what happens on this other side? Rather reckless to cross over into something without having some semblance of a plan. Especially since in situations before, Cooper and the gang had some type of contingency plan in place “If I disappear ..”

Cooper-”You come over here to me “

She does

Cooper looks at her and says "Diane"

He still knows who he and she are. Does she?

She reluctantly kisses him .Could she be recalling the Bad Dale and the rape.Does she still remember everything ?

And then.......
What the fuck?Literally.The two of them making love is just creepy even before they get full on weird

“My prayer” plays over the intercourse .With a layer of ominous music underneath.

Cooper is emotionless during the act. He just stares at Diane.Cold.Is he trying to put on his best Bad Dale look to evoke terror in Diane?Is this a ritual to call? forth what?

Diane is not enjoying the moment at all , she is in pain. She covers Coopers face because she can’t look at THAT face anymore, especially during this act. This is not the twin of the passionate sex of Janey-E and “Dougie”

What is this act ,anyway? For what purpose would they need to make love so immediately upon crossing over? To remain present within themselves?Create a strong emotional link between the two? 

Or is there some other rhythm method to this madness?

            In Mark Frost’s “Secret History of Twin Peaks” , there is a story of a dark sexual magick ritual that is attempted to summon a being (The Moonchild) at “The Parsonage” ,home of Jack Parson who was a chemist instrumental in the development of rocket fuel science. He produced “alchemical elixirs” and was a member of the English mystic Aleister Crowley‘s church/coven. After Jack Parson’s death, a science fiction writer friend of his declared (in Mark Frost’s book): “Once a magician stands between two worlds, he’s in danger of not belonging to either one of them .” This does not bode well for Coopers fate.

              Could Cooper and Diane be attempting to perform their own ritual to call forth The Mother? As we saw in one of the early episodes of this new series, the sexual act of Sam and Tracey caught the disapproving eye of Mother, who burst forth from the glass box to bite their faces off. Could this be Coopers goal? Why would they think that Mother/Judy would be on this side ? Let alone watching?Doesn’t the Fireman know that Mother was last seen staying at the Palmer house ? We saw him keeping an eye on that home.Does Cooper think the stench of Diane’s suffering and pain in this moment would be enough Garmonbozia to catch the attention of wherever Judy is hiding? And what if they HAD succeeded? What then?

The morning after, cooper wakes and call out for Diane.He still remembers her name. However, Diane is gone .Most likely, in every sense of the word.Her mind succumbing to this sides reality influence of Linda. Or could Diane, sensing that she is in danger of losing herself, have made a return to the point of electrical breach and returned home to our side of the coin?

            On the bedside table is a note that indicates she did not make it through the night and that Diane may be lost forever. Part of me thinks this was an intentional effort to write “Diane” out of the story completely.For if Twin Peaks were ever to return for a fourth season,her involvement would be integral to the overall story and would require more than a token appearance. It would be counting on a lot to rely on Laura Dern being available to return to the show for an extended involvement,many years later.The current story also dictated that Diane be somewhere else when Cooper finds Laura and tries to take her home once more.Diane would have been a third wheel in those scenes.Which begs the question,why bring her along in the first place?Why didn’t Cooper come alone or with someone who had more experience not getting lost. Diane already lost her identity once before when she was on the other side of the Lodge,hidden under the guise of Naido.What did she think would prevent this from happening again?

Dear Richard (Cooper is confused by this Richard?)

When you read this ,I'll be gone ( Goodbye Diane)

Please don't try to find me

I don't recognize you anymore

Whatever it was we had together is over.

Linda

Diane has lost to the idea of Linda .Remember Richard and Linda ,for if you forget who they REALLY are, you will forget who you really are.

Cooper exits the hotel room.He is now in a different hotel than the night before. Has the world been rewritten around him during his sleep? Is this other world becoming more whole with each passing hour? More of “Richards” world. In the light of day, there is more to this world than the dark,detail less visions of the night before.

Cooper steps out and looks around for the car that should be there. Then he notices a familiar vehicle across the way and head towards it .How does he know this is his car now?He catches himself and realizes both the car and the hotel are off

The above image caught my eye when watching. While likely to be just a visual coincidence, the tree reminds me of the arm while the tall slender pole with the globe light makes me think of the orb of Laura and the Fireman.All the while in the background there are electrical wires. Significant of nothing, most likely , but gave me pause. Could they be watching?

Cooper finds himself in Odessa

He passes a restaurant that catches his eye

Judy’s Coffee shop.A white horse ,children’s toy ride , sits our front.Even Cooper glances down at it.A train horn blows in the distance

Inside, Its a world of truck drivers.

Cooper sits down after taking note of the surroundings

Kristi ,the waitress pours him some coffee

He asks her if there is another waitress who works here

Kristi" Yeah, its her day off, actually its her third day off"

Cooper drinks some of the coffee , but does not have any of his characteristic responses to the java. Its emotionless, rather. Is this dream coffee?Not real?

Or is Richard influencing Cooper.Replacing Cooper?With a less enthusiastic response to coffee. Another indication that this Cooper is different.Changed by his experiences. Or now a combination or the Good and Bad Dale.

In contrast,the few other patrons in the restaurant are all keeping Kristi busy as she refills their coffee

A trio of cowboys start harassing the waitress. Cooper tells them to leave her alone. The three get up and approach the seated Cooper.One pulls a gun out. Cooper quickly disarms him in a Bad Dale move with a kick to the groin. Cooper then shoots a second in the foot and before the third can pull out his gun he calmly instructs him to take his gun out and put it on the ground.

All this behavior is not typical of FBI Dale Cooper. Its a mix of Good Dale, Bad Dale and ...potentially Richard. Is Richard this sides Bad Dale?

          Is it because Cooper knows he is in a dream world, or alternate world and none of this matters? FBI procedure is not necessary as he intends to leave as soon as he finds Laura.

Cooper tells Kristi to write the address of the other waitress down for him.

While she does this, he places the cowboys guns into the french fryer.

He’s even considerate to tell the gawking chef to move aside unless the hot oil sets off the bullets inside the guns

“Its ok, Im with the FBI”

Address in hand , Cooper exits

What the fuck just happened?

Cooper pulls up to the address.

          We see a familiar electrical pole. Had Cooper been shown this before? Did the Fireman hide Laura here when Judy attempted to interfere with Cooper’s original plan? Did the Fireman create this place? Is that how he knew about Richard and Linda and the #6 pole

         The front yard of the house is an unkempt mess. Overturned pots. Random lengths of rope. Tire parts. Dirt, no grass. Complete lifeless opposite of the lush green front yard of the Palmer house and the trees of Twin Peaks.

Cooper knocks on the door.

A blonde woman, played by Sheryl Lee cautiously approaches from inside. Who is it ?

Cooper -”FBI”

At the mention of this she opens the door instantly

“Did you find him?”

Cooper upon seeing her -”Laura “(she at first reacts to this and then says)

“You didn’t find him?”

Cooper ,again-”Laura” (she doesn’t recognize this name)

She shakes it off-”You got the wrong house mister”

“You’re saying you’re not Laura Palmer?”

“Laura who? No, I’m not her “

“What’s your name?”

“Carrie Page”(The missing page of Laura’s secret diary?? perhaps?)

“So the name Laura Palmer means nothing to you ?”

Cooper than says to her"Your fathers name was Leland” Why would he lead off with that? Does he think the mention of Leland, will evoke the memory of what he did to Laura in this version?

Carrie----(whatever mister) “OK”

This sort of seems to ring a bell-is her fathers name in this place Leland as well

“Your mothers name was Sarah”

This gets a different reaction...."S-Sarah"

Something is overcoming Carrie.She seems suddenly awash with a feeling or memory. She braces herself in the door.

Carrie-”What's going on?" Have new memories, that feel true ,seem to have emerged?

“It’s difficult to explain”

“As strange as it sounds I think you are a girl named Laura Palmer”

“I want to take you to your mothers home.You’re home at one time.Its very important”

(Mother’s home, interesting way of saying that, not take you home, or parents home, or the home you grew up in, but mother’s home-as if it is significant or on his mind The Mother...of abomination)

Carrie gives us a little indication of what her life is like on this side of the coin " Normally when someone like you came to my door I would tell them to fuck off and this door would be slammed in their face. But I need to get out of dodge real fast so riding with the FBI might save my ass"

“Where we going?”

“Twin Peaks, Washington”

“DC?”

“No.State Washington State”

“Is it a long way?”

Its a ways away “ (depending on which version we are talking about, this side, or back to our reality.Does Cooper plan to drive through the entry point with this version of Laura?)

Carrie lets Cooper inside. While she gathers her things Cooper looks around the room and notices the dead body on the couch. The back of it’s head blown off. The gun on the floor.It could be a self inflicted wound. The bodys hand is frozen in rigor at about the position where the trigger would have been if the gun was still in his lap.There is something that looks like vomit on his shirt. Could it be that same kind of vomit we saw the Bad Dale give up? Flies buzz around. The body is not new

Cooper does not comment or really react to the body as if he was FBI in this world. This body doesn’t matter.None of this does.

Cooper makes note of the white horse in front of the blue plate (blue plate special?)

There are frozen meal packets all over the room. Is that frozen corn?

A phone begins to ring. Carrie makes no notice of it.

As she leaves she gives the body one last glaring look and then shuts the door on her past

As they drive out , Carrie makes the statement "At least we are getting out of this fucking town of Odessa" This made me think that Carrie Page has never been outside the border of this town.Perhaps there is no outside to this town in her eyes.The original Laura Palmer probably had misgivings about her home town of Twin Peaks.

As they do leave town ,it quickly becomes night. And except for the road in the headlights its black on the borders.Unfilled in dream space?

They drive in silence .An occasional car passes. For a long while, another cars headlights can be seen behind them....Carrie makes note of this .Suspicious that someone is following them.Her past on this side seems to lead her to suspicion.Who would she think would be following her?That someone is coming for her?That “Him” that she thought the FBI might have found? Was that “him” friend or foe?

 After some time, it eventually passes.

“I tried to keep a clean house .....keep everything organized” Clearly she is not referring to the actual house she just left. Did this”Laura” also try to do good, only to have her efforts fail?She and Cooper have a lot in common.

“It’s a long way”

“In those days, I was too young to know any better” This is true of our Laura.How could a young girl being abused by a monster hiding under the guise of her father know how to deal with all that?let alone the bigger picture of the struggle.Sounds like this version of Laura suffered the same inevitable fates. That despite doing good it always came out wrong .Tainted.By her touch. Could this be a result of Laura,though sent down from the Fireman to stop evil such as BOB, her birth was itself tainted by the fact that she was conceived by Leland while he was under the influence of BOB.

They drive for a long time.Does Cooper ever cross over the electrical breach?Or do they stay in this version of reality?

We see them stopping for gas. A lone station surrounded by black. The world is not built around this place.3 similar looking cars drive by. Police cars? the Same something is on their roof

They pull into Twin Peaks. Oddly, we do not see them pass the town sign at night. Things are different in this version of existence.Who dreamed this world up? They do pass the Double R diner. Its closed. How late is this? We’ve seen the RR open late into the night in previous episodes.Late,as in , after the Bang Bang Bar closing time of night. Also , in this version, there is no “RR to GO” on the side of the building. Neither Cooper or the memory of Laura would be aware of this advancement in the RRs life. Is this another indication that we are still in an alternate ‘verse? Inside a dream,perhaps? or alternate timeline? One created by Laura not dying by BOB’s hand?

Cooper pulls up to the Palmer residence. Carrie Page still doesn’t recognize anything. Maybe if he had spoke to her about Laura’s life.Kept trying to trigger memories with conversation of her past(He has read her secret diary).But the car ride is suspiciously silent from both sides.

        They step out of the car.Cooper offers his hand and they both walk up the front steps towards what was the Palmer home.Cooper looks around for some type of sign.Nothing gives

Carrie looks around , seemingly lost in a haze. Of foggy memory? Is something stirring?

Cooper knocks.

A woman answers( the actual owner of the real Palmer house,btw)

Cooper introduces himself as FBI ,and asks if Sarah Palmer is here

The woman informs him there is no one here by that name

And that she doesn’t know her

Cooper asks whom they bought the house from

The woman asks her husband off screen.

"Chalfont, a Mrs Chalfont"

Cooper asks who owned it before Mrs Chalfont. They do not know.

What is your Name? He asks.

“Alice Tremond”

               
         Both the names Chalfont and Tremond have been a part of Twin Peaks lore since the original series. Often connected to the old woman and her magician grandson,who are Lodge members. They work in mysterious ways. Not out right evil it would seem, but certainly associated with danger.We see the two of them in attendance at a meeting with BOB and other Lodge spirits, where there is talk of murder.Do they participate in this fate? What purpose did they hope to fulfill by placing the photo of the room in Laura’s hand for her to hang on her wall? Did this photo operate as a portal? To let Laura over to the other side, or something over to hers? Within the new series the Woodsmen are shown to be residents of this dilapidated filthy wallpapered room. And their presence is not a good thing. For what purpose would the GrandMOTHER(of abomination?) and the grandson want to prevent Laura’s murder?The grandson is even the one who utters the line “Fell a victim” to BOB . Do they have a bet with BOB as to whether he will be able to take Laura and are trying to trip him up? Or are they trying to steal the Garmonbozia he has created? One of the versions of Chalfont/Tremond do lead Donna to Laura’s secret diary by directing her to Harold place across the way.While this results in Harold’s death(more pain and suffering generated on his part) it also leads closer to revealing BOB’s hiding place in Leland. Do they do this intentionally to stop the reckless nature of BOB whose actions are likely to be disrupting the order of their own existence?

                Unsuccessful, Cooper walks away from the Palmer house .Confused.”How did I fail this time?” he seems to be saying to himself, “what did I do wrong? “ “Where is Mother?” What did Cooper hope to accomplish by bringing Laura home? From his attempts to remove Laura from her fate of death as a teenager to this returning of someone who looks almost exactly like Laura Palmer to a home she never grew up in, his goal seems to have been to bring “Laura” home. If Laura had not been violently removed from his hand in the woods during his first attempt, would he have taken Laura directly home to her front door then? Laura would want nothing with being inside that house with her BOB infested Father.Let alone left there for another night. And at the time, Sarah Palmer would not have been infected with Mother.So there would have been no confrontation between the two forces.Would Cooper have confronted Leland/BOB in front of Laura.Force him to reveal himself?It’s not like Cooper could have stopped BOB in that moment, he couldn’t and didn’t even do anything to stop BOB without the help of a green gardeners glove in the hand of another. Just stood by and watched while someone else did the fighting.

                 Would Cooper have taken the Laura from before to the Lodge and use its time traveling skills to emerge 25 years later to take Laura home to confront the new terror of her Mother infested Mother? Again,to what purpose?Laura would not know of any special power she had within her to stop this new threat.She was an emotionally, psychologically damaged, drug addicted teenager.Laura couldn’t even stop BOB. Did Cooper really think it would just work itself out?We never see him provide Carrie or Laura with any form of guidance. Or would he teach her in transit while traveling in the Lodge,spend 25 years guiding her and preparing her to emerge in the future when he takes her home? For all her purpose, Laura seems like a strange unreliable choice of weapon to fight this evil. While Laura may be imbued with the spirit of goodness thanks to the Fireman, she is still a tainted soul. Her own conception is the result of the very thing she was meant to destroy. BOB was inside Leland when Leland was inside Sarah in that moment that resulted in her conception. Laura is, as a result, part BOB.

                 Carrie Page, meanwhile, seems to be remembering something.She stares at the house and then back to Cooper, who makes some type of motion as if trying to open a unseen door or curtain.Carrie Page must be thinking , what the hell is wrong with this guy and why did I let him drive me all this way?

Cooper says to himself..."What year is this?

This seems to trigger something in Carrie.

It is an interesting question that could indicate what may have happened to lead us to this final moment. One question that comes to mind is not so much “when” are we , but “where” are we? We are not shown the entire journey from Carrie Pages front door to Laura Palmer’s old front door. So time is in question even before Cooper poses the query.

    
 1)If we are still in this “430” alternate timestream/universe?whatever this is . Then this is not the Palmer house of old and it raises the question again as to what purpose or why Cooper would bring this version of Laura here? This is not the time and place where the big bad is hiding.Cooper must know this.The Fireman was watching the Palmer home.He knew.Even showed Andy who was shown Laura Palmers hiding place in his vision during his visit to the Firemans side. Is it believed that the evil exists in all versions of time and place at the same time? That one can confront it and hurt it in this world as well as in all the others.

             Its interesting to note that outside of Odessa, now its dark. Only around the bubble of what was Carrie Page/hidden Laura’s hometown were things in light,detailed.This is where she lived,Shelly! Once that threshold was passed everything is in shadows and distance is undefined in blackness.As if this version of “Laura’s” world was only defined by what she needed to see. She never left Odessa in this lifetime.Even Twin Peaks is dark and clouded by what the two may or may not remember.

2) What if during their travels outside of Odessa, Cooper crossed back over the 430 threshold .What if when he did that, they emerged at a different time. 25 years further into the future, perhaps? Time enough for Sarah Palmer to have moved away from Twin Peaks.Or even died under the cancerous influence of Mother. Mother moving on to a new host.The Palmer house could have known several owners since then. The Double R could have closed down.They missed the mark.Klatu Baradda......necktie *cough cough*

3) What if the time crossed was backwards ,not forwards? And either in this side of the coin or back over the 430 mark, Cooper and Carrie are in a time before the Palmers.

4) Cooper and Diane immediately traveled to the 430 mark after Coopers failed attempt to rescue Laura from BOB. They left in the night without stopping after he emerged from the Red Room. No time to waste.They might not have seen the immediate resulting changes of Coopers influential failed actions. What if by Laura’s removal from that iconic murderous moment resulted in the creation of a new alternate timeline where Laura was now a missing girl and not a murdered girl. The whole series of events of the series now forever changed. In effect ,David Lynch and Mark Frost having created a second Twin Peaks playing out and existing on top of the original. Twining Twin Peaks. A world where events play out in the town completely different. This would still not explain the discrepancies found in Mark Frosts book “The Secret History of Twin Peaks” as those events occurred long before the murder of Laura. Is it possible the “Secret History” book is to be found in Carrie Pages world of events?

It is mentioned by Phillip Jeffries that Gordon Cole will remember the unofficial version of events. Does this mean that this new version of Twin Peaks ,with its missing Palmer’s and dark Double R are what people believe to be the real version of events? Could Audrey be one who also remembers the unofficial events? And that moment when Cooper fails and Laura now becomes a “missing girl” , the time stream changes abruptly. And she is present in this moment. Shocked to find her world and memories now two parts of one.

               Carrie hears the faint sounds of Sarah Palmer calling "Laura" . It sounds like the same "Laura" that was called out in the pilot. When Sarah was calling up the stairs to have Laura come down for breakfast before school on the morning of her murder. A sleepily heard version of her name being called out.

               Could this be an indicate that Cooper is inside Laura’s dream? And the impending moment is where Laura Palmer wakes the morning after.Alive and well,wrapped in her warm bed sheets and not in cold plastic? Ready to start the last 25 years over. Hence Cooper thinking what year is this ,as to him, he is 25 years older from that moment while Laura is about to wake a young girl 25 years in the past.

                Could the 430 point be a way to enter a persons dreams? A place where someone else has control of events and you can easily get lost in the shuffle of dream thoughts if you don’t maintain control of your own?

               Carrie Page lets out one of Sheryl Lees beautiful and terrifying screams.Is “Laura” awakening inside? Instant recalling every single second of horror that this house holds in her stored memories?Is she feeling all that pain,suffering, and fear in one solitary moment?Does she see the evil hidden under the glamor over the house?Over this version of the world?

*BOOM!*

The Palmer house goes black as every thing shorts out and there is FLASH as all of the lights come on bright as day and then all is black.

What ...the ....actual....fuck...just....happened????

                Did the power of Laura just shut down/short out this world with its electricity? Overload it with energy till the circuit broke that kept it running? What does this mean for the fate of Cooper and Carrie/Laura/Diane who are still in this world when it went down and potentially ceased to exist?

How is ....THIS..... how they choose to end Twin Peaks? 25years, 18hours later and BOOM, out go the lights.Don’t get me wrong.I LOVE the ending. As frustrating and confounding as every last second of it is. I LOVE IT!

                As the credits roll ,we are not treated with one last Roadhouse gig,but rather ,Cooper sitting in the Red Room chair with Laura whispering something silently and surprising into his ear. Is this her telling him what went wrong?Where he is in time and place? Is he back where he started from?Surprised to be here again so suddenly?Like Audrey’s sudden emergence from her perceived reality.Has a whole new third Twin Peaks timeline been created because of Coopers actions in Carrie Pages reality? Is this future or is this past?What year is this?

               How did we get to this point?This doesn’t quite feel earned. Why are we here? Why end it like this? I’m not opposed to a cliffhanger,both Season one and two ended with a question mark. Both dramatic.So it is no surprise that they chose to end on another dramatic “Tune in next week .Same Peaks time ,Same Peaks Channel!”

              But now? When there are no more next weeks ,or even a real potential for them?A fact they knew well in advance.

              No offense meant, Lynch is old.He will make art till he dies.But making a show as intricate like this(with long and late hours into the night) is a lot of hard work, it will take many years (It took five years for this series to be written to completed)for another season to be written and then find finance for it to be potentially produced,let alone filmed. More of the cast will have passed on and or retired.We’ve lost many major players as it were.Many of the original cast weren’t even parts of this story.

            When there is no real hope of a fourth season or even second movie?Why end it with a hour of a whole new can of unfamiliar cherries to digest?I never expected it to be all tied up in a perfect cherry stem knot.That’s what the previous episode felt as if it meant to accomplish.

             I am not disappointed there is not closure of any kind. Rather,I’m left confused as to why they would explore a whole new verse of events in this last hour. An impressive accomplishment, lets be honest, I’m grateful for the new mysteries.I applaud the choice to add a scoop of ice cream to the already previous tasty 17 slices of pie. But where is the lead in to this? Some semblance of the purpose. Cooper first tries to rescue Laura in the past.Forces conspire to make that not work. So Cooper now tries to find her in a alternate reality? Only to...fail again? There is nothing in the previous 17 episodes that indicates what the plan in this episode is meant to be?Or why Cooper and Diane are suddenly so unnervingly intimate with each other .Its understood that they must “Find Laura” ,no matter what the cost. She is important to the defeat of whatever this great and powerful Mother evil intends.But why and how did they find Laura hidden in another reality? Who hid her there ? Has she been there since she was taken violently from the woods ?Plucked out of one reality and dropped into another. Or is this an entirely new manifestation of the spirit of Laura?

             When we saw Laura once again plucked out from time and space in the Red Room in the earliest episode of the season ,was this someone punishing her for telling Cooper how he had failed ? So the moment we witness at the end of the series is the same moment we saw in the first episode.Circling back to the beginning.

             Personally, I hoped it would have circled back into a moment we had seen before.That final moment when Laura finally gets to see her Angel.Show it in a new light.Ideally, I would have loved for it to end with Cooper “Finding Laura” like he did in the end of Fire Walk With Me. Circling the stories back into each other and ending once again on that point and time.Showing us the viewers what led up to that Fire Walk With Me moment in the last hour of the series . Showing us Cooper freeing Laura from the Lodge.Laura weeping with joyful release as she finally sees her Angel return to help her. Giving her a second chance to "live". Fade to the Roadhouse, cue Julee Cruise singing “Falling” . 

“Don’t let your self be hurt this time”

The Past Dictates the Future

        

            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?