Line #127 WMG/TwinPeaks


1	[[WMG: Cooper returns to the Black Lodge at the end of The Return.]]
2	Throughout Twin Peaks' original run, it's made clear that time, space and matter are incredibly malleable within the Red Room. Given the breadth of the Lodge's ability to alter these things, it's plausible that when Cooper believes that he's jumped into a 'new' timeline at the end of the The Return, he has actually just reentered the Red Room without realizing it. But why? Why should the Lodge be so fixated on Cooper? Why deceive in this way with changed identities and the missing Palmers? Because, by saving Laura, he also took the blame off of BOB for the loss of all the garmonbozia someone like Laura would've produced over time. As opposed to BOB, whom it seems the Arm tried to be patient with in the past and is newly frustrated with, Cooper is a total outsider. BOB was at least the Arm's old running body/homunculus/odd rhyme enthusiast; Cooper is some uppity human trying to cut them out of a feast. Ahhh, but if Cooper thought that all his sacrifices, all his little insights and zen claptrap were totally for not and were utterly misguided to the detriment of all those around him? That might yield up oodles of garmonbozia.
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4	[[WMG: Chad wasn't eating his own lunch]]
5	Stealing from the office fridge is definitely in keeping with Chad's selfish character. It's possible every lunch break he stole from the office refrigerator and was a habitual office thief. This probably helps explain the deputies' hostile attitude toward him beyond his simply eating in an inappropriate space and then whining about it.
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7	[[WMG:Dougie Jones was manufactured by the One-Armed Man.]]
8	He did this so Cooper could have a chance rejoining human society while Killer BOB had possession of his real body. In Part 3 of "The Return", the One-Armed Man appears to be the one who has control over Dougie, as he explains the circumstances of his existence and turns him into a golden pearl. In later episodes, he is seen guiding the good Cooper back to his real body, indicating that he is on Coop's side.
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10	[[WMG: The Woodsmen are pests, and the Lodge creatures are trying to exterminate them.]]
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12	From the perspective of the Lodge creatures, the Woodsmen are bottom feeders who feast on leftover garmonbozia while spreading disease and being a general nuisance. They swarm around the Convenience store like flies over fruit but never or rarely seem to actually enter it, implying that they are unwelcome, again, much like pest bugs. The reason the old lady woodsman appears so terrified in ''Fire Walk With Me'' is because the Lodge creatures are trying to conduct a pest control operation on the Fat Trout Trailer Park and kill off every Woodsman they see to clean it up.
13	While the Woodsmen do revive BOB/Cooper, this is just another reason they are a pest to the Lodge creatures: they keep an unwanted doppelganger alive longer than needed to feed off of more garmonbozia and obstruct any action The Arm could take against BOB, making them even more of a nuisance. It's possible they are bottom-feeders and pests who have become self-conscious and are trying to avenge themselves on their exterminators.
14	* [[WMG: The series ends with the Woodsmen [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion popping heads and sickening everyone around the portals in the world]]]]
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16	[[WMG: Gordon Cole isn't actually deaf... his "disability" is that he can hear TOO well.... or, he has an autistic spectrum disorder and uses the hearing aid to handle sensory overload.]]
17	In ''The Return'', Gordon Cole turns up his hearing aid all the way and can hear everything around him at an intense volume. It's possible that this is actually closer to how he really hears things (explaining his speech patterns and volumes - he assumes everyone and everything is as loud as he is) as opposed to being "deaf". Alternately, he may have an ASD such as high functioning autism (his behavior doesn't exactly contradict this theory) and have meltdowns as a result of exposure to even minimal combinations and sounds - the hearing aids were given to him because of that reason instead of deafness (and so that he could downplay his disorder as a more visible and accepted disability issue).
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19	[[WMG: Killer BOB spent twenty years creating someone whom he could totally possess.]]
20	[[spoiler:BOB possessed Leland more than twenty years ago. In a sense -- a doubly-icky sense -- Laura Palmer was BOB's daughter. BOB was dead-set on possessing Laura, as though she was somehow different to anyone else in Twin Peaks he might possess. And Laura seemed to have a stronger connection to the Black Lodge than anyone else, save perhaps Cooper. Perhaps that connection was the result of being BOB's progeny, and it's what made her so desirable to BOB.]]
21	* Jossed. ''The Return'' makes it clear she was [[spoiler: created, or at least "chosen", by The White Lodge]].
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23	[[WMG: Had the show continued into a third season, aliens would have featured in it]]
24	It was alluded to by Major Briggs and all the Project Bluebook references in the late 2nd season. Confirmed by WordOfGod as alien sightings play an ''enormous'' role in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' book.
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26	[[WMG: Theresa Banks' ring is the only thing in the series which can counter BOB]]
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28	BOB's plan in kidnapping Laura and Ronette seems to be to torture Laura into letting him take control of her body, perhaps casting off Leland after. When MIKE throws her the ring, and she puts it on, BOB howls in frustration and murders her. This suggests that the ring can protect the wearer from being possessed by BOB somehow. Its origins and purpose are mysterious--it may be related to the White Lodge--and would likely have been explored had there been any continuation of the series beyond Fire Walk With Me. A rough theory:
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30	* Theresa Banks has possession of the ring before the start of the series. Leland singles her out in Flesh World to sleep with. BOB finding the one person in the world with the artifact that can resist him cannot be a coincidence.
31	** As The Missing Pieces reveals, Theresa discovered that Leland was Laura's father (she was acquainted with Laura and Ronette, and perhaps carried on a sexual relationship with them), and it's implied that she tries to blackmail him with this knowledge. BOB, enraged, murders her. Theresa loses the ring, perhaps during the murder, and it winds up underneath her trailer...somehow.
32	* Chet Desmond discovers the ring beneath the trailer. It's implied that the spirits of the Black Lodge kidnap him. The Man From Another Place suggests that they can "descend from pure air" by traveling through electricity; this is also how they kidnapped Phillip Jeffries. The ring, and Chet Desmond, are now at the Black Lodge. David Bowie is aware of the ring's existence, perhaps due to his visit to the Lodge, and mentions it during his ramblings in the FBI office.
33	** The Man From Another Place and BOB seem to treat the ring with disdain. The former sarcastically offers it to BOB and says "With this ring, I thee wed," and BOB laughs.
34	* MIKE/Phillip Gerard is the next person to take physical possession of the ring, perhaps while visiting the Lodge. He later throws it to Laura to prevent BOB from possessing her.
35	** However, in a scene midway through the film, The Man From Another Place and Cooper discuss the ring. The Man From Another Place offers it to Laura, and Dale--realizing some horrible truth--tells her not to take it. Annie appears in Laura's bed during the sequence, and tells her to write about Dale in her diary. Annie is wearing the ring.
36	*** More than likely Cooper warned her not to take the ring to try and prevent her murder, possibly after or during the final events of ''The Return''. BOB planned to possess Laura after assaulting her but was unable to do so because of the ring, and killed her in a rage. Had she not had the ring she would have lived, though possessed by BOB - and Cooper has already learned how to exorcise BOB, with or without the ring to do so.
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38	I think that Laura carried the ring with her into the Black Lodge when she died, and passed it along to Annie to protect her from possession when the latter was in the Lodge. The Black Lodge exists separately from regular linear time; when Coop and The Man From Another Place discuss it, it is simultaneously happening in the past (Laura's dream) and the future (after Annie's escape from the Lodge at the end of season two). She gives it to Annie to protect her from BOB, who may have targeted her after failing to possess Laura and losing Leland. He gains control over Coop, anyway, who's probably a more useful catspaw, so the point is ultimately moot.
39	* In The Missing Pieces, the same scene between Coop and The Man From Another Place plays out, except this time, the ring is not there. Cooper notices its absence, and is told that it's in someone else's (Annie's) possession. Because of the nature of the Lodge, both versions of the scene happen simultaneously. Cooper tells Laura not to take the ring, because if she had it in the past, she wouldn't be able to give it to Annie in the future, and Annie would be vulnerable to BOB. Cooper realizes the paradox, and believes that Laura will die regardless of whether or not she takes the ring. But, if she does take it, Annie won't have it to protect herself from BOB. So he urges her to leave it where it is, knowing that events will work out anyway.
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41	Cooper and Laura are seen together at the end of the film. Perhaps Cooper's spirit AND Laura both conspire to give the ring to Annie, implying that Cooper's spirit (trapped in the Lodge by BOB) exists separately, and outside space/time, from the Cooper who enters the Lodge in pursuit of Windom Earle.
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43	* As a final note--and as more evidence that the Lodge exists outside of space/time--David Bowie angrily points to Dale and demands to know if Cole knows who he is. Perhaps David Bowie became aware of Cooper, and BOB's doppelganger, while he was in the Lodge. Coop's entrapment and subsequent possession happen AFTER David Bowie reappears in Philadelphia. Because of how disoriented he is, he doesn't realize that he's talking to the real Cooper, or even perhaps that he's traveled through time.
44	** Which makes the part in ''The Missing Pieces'' where he notices it's February 1989 even more interesting. Maybe he thought he'd actually gone ''further'' into the future, to a point where Dale was replaced by the doppelganger. But instead, he's delivering a warning too ''early'' instead, because none of the events have happened yet.
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46	[[WMG: "Judy" is the original owner of Theresa Banks' ring]]
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48	David Bowie continually refers to a "Judy" in Fire Walk With Me, but we never find out who "Judy" is. He is also aware of the ring, and the spirits of the Black Lodge.
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50	The ring is an artifact from the White Lodge, and Judy was either its creator, or original owner. Judy--or JUDY, in keeping with the capslock motif--is the White Lodge equivalent of MIKE; perhaps MIKE (who repented of his evil) was her shadow-self. She may have a familiar, akin to BOB. That MIKE has the ring before the series' timeframe could illustrate this connection.
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52	JUDY may be the angel who visited Laura and Ronette, or the angel could be her familiar, as BOB once was to MIKE.
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54	* But in The Missing Pieces, Judy is described by Philip Jeffries and the hotel staff in Buenos Aires in terms that seem to indicate she is a real person rather than a Lodge spirit, an informant for Jeffries of some kind, with a place in Seattle where he "found something" which resulted in him going to one of their meetings "above the convenience store".
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56	* Likewise, in the "Above the Convenience Store" scene, we see the "formica table" with a circle cut out of the tabletop as the Little Man From Another Place rubs his hands over it, before he says to BOB, "With this ring, I thee wed" and they both laugh. This indicates to me that the ring has a Black Lodge, not White origin. It does seem to prevent the wearer from being possessed, but it also seems to doom them to death with the resulting garmonbozia (pain and suffering) becoming the property of the Little Man From Another Place (The Arm of MIKE). When Laura puts the ring on, BOB does shout in frustration (with Leland saying "don't make me do this!"), but we see clips of the Little Man laughing hysterically, as if he has won the game.
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58	[[WMG: The midget was behind it all...]]
59	Red three-piece suit? Name not revealed? He had to be Lucifer.
60	The movie-Fire Walk With Me- reveals that The Man From Another Place is actually 'the arm' of Mike, the one armed man.
61	* Oh, you mean the arm that had "been touched by the devilish one"?
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63	[[WMG: The Giant was an inhabitant of the White Lodge, stuck in the Black Lodge after the former was destroyed or absorbed by the latter.]]
64	He tries to help Cooper fight The Evil in the Woods by giving him clues.
65	* Seemingly confirmed by The Return; "The Fireman" as he's named appears in what seems to be the White Lodge, and may in fact be responsible for the creation of Laura as a counter to BOB.
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67	[[WMG: Alternatively, the Giant was giving Cooper clues to lure him to the Black Lodge so that the Evil could possess him/steal his soul]]
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69	[[WMG: Agent Cooper eventually becomes [[Series/{{Dexter}} Special Agent Frank Lundy]]]]
70	He escaped the Black Lodge and continued his work for the FBI. Notice Special Agent Lundy is chipper, upbeat, has precise unique methods and is obsessive about food. He even ends his time on Series/{{Dexter}} by saying he is going to work on a case in Portland, OR. Back to where he started . . .
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72	[[WMG: The man in the red suit and plaster mask in the Black Lodge in the film is the Log Lady's husband.]]
73	He died in a fire, and that guy's wearing a red suit. He's also holding a stick, which could serve as the link between himself and the Log Lady's log. There are several parts in the show as well as the film that hint this could be likely.
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75	[[WMG: Killer B.O.B. is Dale Cooper's shadow self.]]
76	In the episode in season two just after [[spoiler: Major Briggs is "abducted" by a strange white light just before he is about to tell Cooper about the White Lodge]] Cooper speaks with Hawk and Sheriff Truman about the White and Black Lodge. Hawk states that the White Lodge is where spirits reside. He also goes on to talk about the black lodge stating it is "the shadow-self of the White Lodge. The legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it 'The Dweller on the Threshold' ... But it is said, if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul." Tying back to the "How's Annie" ending when [[spoiler: B.O.B. invades Coopers soul]] which was setting Cooper up to face his shadow self which was/is in fact [[spoiler: B.O.B]].
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78	[[WMG: Twin Peaks is set in the [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]].]]
79	Let's see: small wholesome town with dark secrets, check. Portals to hell dimensions, check. People killing loved ones while under demonic possession, check. Prophetic dreams, check. Mystical secrets that can only be seen by the mentally ill, check. High school girls with superpowers (and in-story DawsonCasting!), check. Morally bankrupt lawyers, check. JerkAss father figures, check. So basically, Leland Palmer has at some point worked for Wolfram & Hart, BOB and Mike's convenience store was in Sunnydale, Nadine's a Slayer, and Willow really did go to the Black Lodge in "Restless".
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81	[[WMG: This series will one day undergo a Comic Book Revival.]]
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83	[[WMG: Several Mind Screws exist in one shared universe.]]
84	It all starts with HBO's Series/{{Carnivale}}. Several thousand years ago, the first avatara appeared: one an avatar of good, the other of evil. Every generation, two new avatars were born. The avatars were receiving their good/bad powers from either the white or the black lodge. Had Carnivale not been cancelled, Word of God is that it would have ended with the Trinity nuclear test, in the mid 1940s. It's also stated that Sofie is the Omega: the last of the Avatar, neither good nor evil, the one who will bring about the end. So, in the mid 40s, the avatar lines cease. The lodges, however, continue to exist.
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86	Without avatars to project their influence through, things start getting weird. Instead of only a couple of people with ties to the powers of good and evil, now the powers seem to "leak" out into the world. This brings us to Series/{{Twin Peaks}}. The black lodge has Killer BOB, the white lodge has (perhaps) the giant. The two lodges try to influence people in the real world using dreams. Windom Earl, a truly evil soul, is being contacted by the black lodge. The hope to use him as their pseudo-avatar. Likewise, agent Cooper is being contacted by the white lodge, who need a truly good soul to defeat evil. The show was cancelled before this could be resolved, and the series ends with Cooper trapped (perhaps forever) in the black lodge.
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88	As Creator/{{David Lynch}} has confirmed that Film/{{Lost Highway}} takes place in the Twin Peaks universe, and since Film/{{Mulholland Drive}} was originally meant to be a spinoff for Audrey, it can be assumed that these two movies play by the same rules. People are influenced by the two lodges, each trying to gain a foothold in reality without the use of a proper Avatar. As Mulholland Drive is revealed [[spoiler: to be mostly a dream meant to cover up the main character's murder of her lover]], this could be either the white lodge trying to make her face what she's done, or the black lodge trying to make her forget about it and join them. Similarly, many parts of Lost Highway can be explained as visions from the lodges, the Mystery Man being a creature similar to Killer BOB, etc.
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90	It must be remembered that time moves differently in the lodges than on our plane of reality. In the Twin Peaks prequel movie, Laura is warned about events that won't happen until the series proper. With that in mind, let's take a look at events that happened in Middlesex, Virginia. The year is 1988, and Film/{{Donnie Darko}} is a troubled teenager who frequently sleepwalks. He also has vivid dreams. One day, a vision of Frank the rabbit tells him to leave his room. Donnie does so, and his bed is then destroyed by a mysterious falling airplane turbine. Donnie is told that he has 28 days to prevent the world from being destroyed. Clearly, the white lodge is using Frank as it's voice to help Donnie save the world. In the [[{{recut}} director's cut]], Donnie is often seen to "download" information, with close-ups of his eye and many numbers and images flashing by. The Word of God on this is that the information is coming from unseen beings from the future. In actual fact, this is the White Lodge giving Donnie info on future events which he needs to prevent. The story of Donnie Darko plays out over the course of about a month, before Donnie travels back in time and saves the world by letting the airplane turbine kill him instead of leaving his bed. The events that took place during most of the movie end up never happening. They were erased from existence. Of course, the two lodges still remember them, as they exist outside of normal time.
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92	The earlier mentioned Lost Highway is likely a similar story to Donnie Darko, with one or more of the lodges creating increasingly disturbing alternate realities to try and aid their pseudo-avatar on earth. It's possible that [[spoiler: the events of Mulholland Drive aren't a dream meant to influence Betty into one lodge or the other, but an alternate timeline that she destroys by traveling back and committing suicide]]. It's very probably that similar events happen very frequently. Perhaps it's one of the lodges itself that creates these alternate realities in a bid to save the world, or maybe it's the trapped agents Cooper and/or Jeffries trying to get someone to rescue them. Either way, these realities can't last too long, or the world eventually ends.
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94	What happens if one of these alternate realities is not destroyed in a fairly timely manner? ''Film/SouthlandTales'' is what happens. It's not all that obvious in the feature proper, due to half of the story being told in a tie in graphic novel (whatever idiot thought that would work should be shot), but Southland Tales can best be described as the future of Donnie Darko's tangent universe. Since Donnie sacrificed himself and closed the tangent universe, our reality was saved. However, he did not destroy the alt. universe, instead simply closing it off. Since the tangent universe can no longer effect out own, neither lodge is influencing it. This means that the white lodge isn't acting to save this world, nor it the black lodge acting to destroy or rule it.
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96	This universe begins to fall apart, starting with the discovery of the "fluid karma" that the Treer company finds while drilling of the coast of Israel. Fluid Karma is an organic compound the circles around the earth like a serpent. It can be assumed that our primary universe also has fluid karma, but it's only reachable through one of the lodges. It's likely that fluid karma is what flowed through the old avatars' blood streams (hence why their blood was blue). With no lodge to control the Southland Tales alternate universe, fluid karma leaks out into reality. Another side-effect is "Operation Dream Theory." Here's what the Southland Tales faq page on imdb has to say about that:
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98	"'Operation Dream Theory' was an experiment created by Treer. The Treer generators were slowing the rotation of Earth by .0000006 miles per hour, which caused strange effects around the world.
99	One of these was a rift created in the fourth dimension -- the fourth dimension being time itself -- at Lake Meade, which was discovered when an airplane flew through it and had all its passengers left with amnesia (bar one - Krysta Now, who gained psychic abilities from it).
100	Once it was discovered, they sent monkeys through it, which failed (Boxer claims that only a human soul could survive the trip). After much trial and error with monkies, Baron decided to send Boxer through it - chosen because of his political ties and his celebrity persona.
101	When Boxer (and Roland) traveled through the rift, it created duplicate versions of both -- one set of duplicates traveled 69 minutes back in time, while the "originals" stayed in their original time. There are now two versions of each co-existing in the same universe -- two Boxer Santaros and two Roland Taverners.
102	Boxer's original self was incinerated in a car bomb triggered by Serpentine, while the duplicate Boxer is still roaming. "
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104	Reality itself is falling apart. It becomes up to the two Roland Taverners to save (or more likely, destroy and rebuild) their crumbling, neglected universe. The tattoos of various religions and beliefs that cover Boxer's body and are "fighting to see who will will" could be seen as meaning what faith the new universe will follow after the destruction of the current one. After all, the predominant force in the "real" reality has always been the two lodges, absent from this universe. The movies ends with the Jesus tattoo bleeding, Christianity is the victor, and the new reality will follow the rules of this faith.
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106	[[WMG: The third season would have started with Cooper, Pete and Audrey having to escape from the Black Lodge.]]
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108	At the end of season two, when Andrew Packard opens the safe deposit box, triggering the bomb placed in it, we see only his glasses flying out of the blast. The reason for this is because the elderly bank clerk is actually another incarnation of the Man from Another Place/The Giant who transported both Pete and Audrey to the Black Lodge (or the place with the red curtains, depending on the fact you believe this is actually the Black Lodge or just a buffer zone between the Black and White lodges) mere seconds before the entire building exploded. With Dale Cooper having switched places with BOB, the third season would have started with all three of them trying to get out of the Black Lodge.
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110	[[WMG: Cooper actually hates/is apathetic to Twin Peaks.]]
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112	At least to begin with / the pilot. The eccentricities he shows and obsession with minutiae like the names of trees and varieties of squirrels is essentially him being condescending to the locals. Either that, or he thinks that if he keeps sweet-talking the town as much as possible, he'll end up in everyone's favor, which will help his investigation. The explanation that he is whittling because "that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down instead of speed up" could easily be interpreted as sarcasm. How he feels as things get crazier is up to speculation.
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114	[[WMG: Twin Peaks is part of The Matrix]]
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116	The inhabitants of the Black Lodge are in fact exiled programs. Dale Cooper is an Agent assigned to track down and eliminate BOB, who, in his spare time from serving as the Trainman, terrorizes the inhabitants of Twin Peaks.
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118	[[WMG: The events of the series was a back-up plan by [[VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries ZeedMillenniumon]].]]
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120	[[XanatosGambit In case his plan to conquer the omniverse was thwarted, by Ryo or ENIAC, whichever, it's not unthinkable that he'll have some way to flip off the Sovereigns and ENIAC, who were dedicated to order, peace and stability.]]
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122	[[WMG: Phillip Jeffries is Pierre Tremond / Chalfont. ]]
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124	I think Pierre, a.k.a. the grandson, a.k.a. the creamed corn kid, is really Phillip Jeffries. It's either an inhabiting spirit thing or Jeffries is reverted to child form in certain incarnations. (I lean towards the latter.) My supporting points:
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126	1. Pierre's got some David Bowie hair going on, and his little black suit is very FBI.
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128	2. The monkey, who might also be Pierre (remember the mask scene in Phillip's story), talks about Judy.
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130	3. Phillip has been to one of their meetings. I didn't see Phillip in the meeting scene, but I did see Pierre...with his black suit and David Bowie hair. "Fell a victim," he says. Could be a self-referential comment.
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132	[[WMG: Phillip Michael Gerard was a Dugpa.]]
133	Towards the end of the second season, as more is revealed about the Black Lodge, Windom Earle describes Dugpas, sorcerers would attempt entry to the Black Lodge [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten by committing evil and vile acts]]. Phillip Michael Gerard has an ambiguous relationship with MIKE, who is [[DemonicPossession possessing him]] for reasons never made very clear, and who looks like him (unlike BOB, who is often shown intercut with shots of the person he's possessing). We know that, in the Black Lodge, every visitor must be confronted by their shadow self, the Dweller On The Threshold. MIKE describes BOB as his "familiar", and mentions having cut off his arm to separate himself from the tattoo [[ArcWords "Fire Walk With Me"]]. BOB is associated with fire both metaphorically and in dialogue ("Wanna play with fire, little boy? Wanna play with BOB?"). The Man From Another Place refers to himself as "The Arm" at one point. Therefore:
134	* Phillip Michael Gerard committed vile acts to allow him access to the Black Lodge, where he was met with his doppelganger: MIKE.
135	* The "Fire Walk With Me" poem either ''is'' or merely ''describes'' the summoning incantation of BOB, conjuring him out of the Black Lodge and into the mortal world.
136	* MIKE possessed Phillip Michael Gerard and conjured up BOB in order to go about having their wicked fun.
137	* MIKE [[FaceHeelTurn "saw the face of God"]] and decided to, erm, [[LiteralMetaphor sever his ties]] with BOB and the Black Lodge, thus cutting his arm off, which became The Man From Another Place.
138	* BOB and The Man From Another Place still harbor the same connection on some level, which is why the latter demands his [[PerfectlyCromulentWord garmonbozia]] in ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe''.
139	* After MIKE "saw the face of God", it would seem Phillip Michael Gerard didn't agree with his [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dweller On The Threshhold's]] [[FaceHeelTurn new lease on life]], since he kept MIKE suppressed with anti-psychotic drugs.
140	** It's also possible that Phillip ''does'' agree with his new point of view and is instead [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan hiding MIKE's presence]] in case others from the Black Lodge come looking for him.
141	* Mrs. Chalfont/Mrs. Tremond/Grandmother is likewise a dugpa of the Black Lodge, and her "Grandson" is her Familiar, hence why/how he's able to snatch the cream corn(?) away.
142	[[WMG: In the miniseries, Audrey will be an FBI agent ]]
143	* She has a big crush on Cooper and considers him a friend and he disappears for 25 years? I think that could inspire someone to join the FBI to search for answers.
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145	[[WMG: The "Peaks" in the title refer to two peaks within the show in terms of enjoyment.]]
146	There's definitely a peak in season 1. Not sure about season 2, but if not that, then maybe the other peak will be in season 3.
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148	[[WMG: Catherine Martell planted the bomb that [[spoiler: killed Andrew Packard and her husband]]]]
149	* She made an awfully big show of making sure [[spoiler: Andrew and Pete]] knew where the key to the safety deposit box was. It is possible she took whatever had been put into Thomas Eckhart's deposit box for herself and planted a bomb in it, knowing that [[spoiler: Andrew]] would take the key and check it out himself. She may or may not have anticipated [[spoiler: Pete]] going with him.
150	** Jossed. ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' reveals the actual culprit: [[spoiler: Josie Packard]].
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152	[[WMG: Killer BOB is an avatar of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].]]
153	Possesses people? Check. Sadistic and evil? Check. Operates in dimensions + abilities outside human comprehension and what should be possible? Check.
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155	[[WMG: Agent Cooper is actually D.B. Cooper]]
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157	* Cooper's full name is actually Dale Bartholomew Cooper. While Creator/DavidLynch did this intentionally as an allusion, there could be a possibility that the two men are the same person. Also, D.B. Cooper had parachuted out of the plane he hijacked over the Pacific Northwest, so it can be assumed that maybe he landed near Twin Peaks? The report regarding the hijacking case described a man who fit a description similar to that of Agent Cooper in the series. It is also implied throughout the series that Coop has a darker side than we're shown as an audience, and had the show continued, it probably would have explored that. This is David Lynch, after all, so the possibility of the two being the same person is definitely there.
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159	[[WMG: Creator/AmandaSeyfried's character will be closely linked to Laura Palmer in some way.]]
160	Seyfried's character in ''Series/VeronicaMars'', Lilly Kane, is a pretty explicit homage to Laura Palmer: like Laura, she's the most popular girl in school whose perfect outer life is gradually revealed to hide some very grim secrets; her best friend and her boyfriend fall in love with one another while solving her murder; she frequently appears as an apparition to the show's main detective; and she was murdered [[spoiler:by a father figure who was sexually exploiting her]]. Now that Seyfried has been added to the roster of guest stars due to appear in 2017's ''Twin Peaks'' reboot, it seems like a perfect opportunity for a CastingGag that will homage the homage (which seems like something David Lynch would do). Some possible theories to get the ball rolling:
161	** She will play the version of Laura who is presumably still in the Black Lodge, since it makes sense that Laura would still appear to be roughly the age she was when she died; Sheryl Lee, meanwhile, will actually play another character altogether, possibly [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead the redheaded cousin of Laura and Maddy]] who WordOfGod has stated was to be Lee's character in Season 3.
162	** She will play a child Laura had in secret and gave up for adoption prior to the events of ''Fire Walk With Me''.
163	** She will play a new victim murdered in an identical manner to Laura, whose death will spark off the events of the new series, and who will act as a reference to both Laura and Lilly.
164	** Most likely she will play the new character introduced by Mark Frost, [[spoiler: Tamara Preston]].
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166	*** Jossed, somewhat: She is [[spoiler: Shelly's daughter, Becky, who is married to a man who abuses drugs and abuses them herself.]]
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168	[[WMG:Dale Cooper never sent any of his tapes to "Diane", because throughout his investigations, there is no Diane working back at his FBI office.]]
169	He once knew someone named Diane, possibly romantically, and/or as an actual assistant, but she is actually deceased, and his tapes are used purely for his own notes, not two-way communication. He addresses everything to Diane conversationally because he feels better doing it that way. This is why his notes include all sorts of job-irrelevant minutia about every little aspect of his daily experiences. Whether or not Dale is psychologically aware of the truth of this situation, or perhaps thinks Diane really is back at the office helping him, is unclear. Whether or not her spirit is helping him in dreams/in the various metaphysical realms he may or may not be traveling through is, also, unclear.
170	** Jossed as of Season 3, episode 6.
171
172	[[WMG:After the season 2 finale, Harry figured out that Cooper was possessed by BOB pretty much immediately.]]
173	He's encountered BOB before, knows Cooper very well (as far as we can tell, they are each other's closest friends), and Possessed!Coop is pretty clearly not himself, making poor at best attempts to act normal, at least in the few moments we see of him.
174	While it's possible that BOB will start trying to act like normal Cooper immediately after the 'how's Annie' scene ends, but Harry should be able to hear BOB laughing maniacally and repeating 'how's Annie' to himself clearly enough to realize what's going on regardless.
175
176	[[WMG: The "Twin Peaks" part of the show and town's name represents the two most important character's to the plot]]
177	Laura, whom the plot revolves around revealing her widespread influence on the town and kick starts the series with her murder, and Cooper, who guides the viewer through the story, solves the case, and introduces even more supernatural elements using unorthodox detective methods such as reliance on dreams for clues and belief in the mystical. They are the only characters with books centered around their lives and are frequently subjected to the supernatural. BOB has been tormenting Laura since her childhood, and this is implied to be the case for Cooper and his mother in ''The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes''. Not to mention [[spoiler: they are both trapped within the Black Lodge by the end of the second season]].
178
179	[[WMG: Laura's guardian angel she thought had left her was not the one that [[spoiler: appeared to her in the Black Lodge...]]]]
180	... but Cooper instead. At the end of Fire Walk With Me, [[spoiler: Cooper shows up next to Laura after her death, with a single hand placed on her shoulder.]] It was stated that once Laura found her angel again, the one meant to help her, she'd weep tears of joy (which she does [[spoiler: after meeting him again at the end of the movie]]). Who else has helped Laura the most (although postmortem) than Cooper, who solved her case, [[spoiler: warned her against taking the ring in her dream to keep her alive (granted it turns out be necessary in preventing BOB from possessing her, but Cooper still meant well)]], and [[spoiler: reassuring her in the Black Lodge, presumably guiding her to the White Lodge.]]
181
182	[[WMG: After leaving Twin Peaks, Cooper became the Mayor of [[Series/{{Portlandia}} Portland]].]]
183	I mean, both cities are in the Pacific North West, we never find out the Mayor's name (only ever referred to as Mr. Mayor or Mayor), he's a pretty kooky guy kinda like Coop and he's comfortable around eccentric townsfolk too!
184	* Alternately, he's one of Cooper's alternate personalities, a la Evil Coop and "Dougie". He'll most likely be allowed to stay as his own separate entity outside of the Black Lodge, because he isn't doing anything evil or illegal, like Coop's other doppelgängers are.
185	* If anything the end of ''The Return'' supports this. Presumably after [[spoiler: Coop changed the timeline]] he said "Fuck it" and moved to Portland, [[spoiler: and he doesn't say his name to prevent a time paradox]]. Maybe Dougie moved to Austin too.
186
187	[[WMG: Michael Cera was intentionally cast as a Schrödinger's Cat answer to the "Who was the father of Lucy's baby?" question.]]
188	Wally definitely looks way more like Andy, but has some of Dick's weird tics, like developing a fake accent. Since Dick Tremaine is most likely not coming back, the official answer will not ever be resolved, so it's up to fans to come to their own conclusion. (Besides, Andy was the man who raised him, and that's ultimately what really matters, right?)
189	* Though there is the possibility - however slim - that while traveling through the country he sought out Dick, having heard of the weird love triangle that precipitated his own birth (small towns do tend to gossip). Besides which, Lucy is not the deceptive type and would have been happy to tell young Wally about his "Uncle Dick" if asked.
190
191	[[WMG: In the Revival series, Richard and Linda are the twin children of Audrey Horne fathered by Doppel Coop]]
192	Wouldn't this be a terribly dark take on FanPreferredCouple and BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor?? The Giant (or ????? as the credits call him) tells Cooper to remember the names Richard and Linda. We've already met Richard Horne in episode 5 of ''The Return'' and he spent his first appearance letting the audience know what a sociopathic rapist he is not unlike what you'd expect BOB!Cooper's offspring to be like. The way Richard grabs and gropes the girl in his booth is similar to the scene of Coopelganger and Dorya. Despite being gently rejected from Cooper, the original series made it clear that Audrey always carried a torch for the Agent so why not unknowingly give in to the seduction of his Doppelganger? As of now we don't know exactly what Richard's relationship to the rest of the Horne's is but he seems to be in his mid-twenties.... Given that Audrey was recovering from the bank explosion after Season 2 and Mr.C vanished from Twin Peaks not long after taking Cooper's place there's a chance that this isn't the case. Unless Richard is actually Audrey and John Wheeler's son. Either way please be wrong, please be wrong, please be wrong, please be wrong.
193	* [[spoiler:Confirmed in Richard's case.]]
194
195	[[WMG: BOB will assume direct control of Mr. C when Cooper fully returns]]
196	* [[spoiler:Jossed, as it seems BOB spent a large part of the 25 years inside Mr. C, quietly observing his evil deeds and feeding on the suffering they caused.]]
197
198	[[WMG: In Part 18, Dougie is the real Agent Cooper - and the one travelling with Diane is the tulpa]]
199	Consider this: the new tulpa!Cooper is created and then Dougie arrives "home" in Las Vegas before Coop exits into Glastonbury Grove. This would be Coop's essential retirement, in Las Vegas - he found what he was looking for, so he decided to defer the FBI stuff to the tulpa. Meanwhile, the distinctive demeanor shift as Diane and Cooper travelled that 430 miles may well be a side effect of this simply being tulpa!Cooper (or would that be tulpa!Richard?). It never is shown in the show, but considering this is David Lynch we're talking about it's not completely off the table.
200
201	[[WMG: The Black Lodge creatures never intended to help Cooper.]]
202	Throughout the first and second season the various figures that come to Coop offer messages that are either too cryptic to decipher initially ("That gum you like is going to come back in style") or come too late ("It is happening again"). This can be interpreted as the product of non-human beings, living in a non-human state of existence, trying their best to communicate in human terms. Then, in ''Fire Walk With Me'', it's explicitly shown that it's not only BOB who feeds on "Garmonbozia", or pain and suffering - it's '''all''' of the inhabitants of the Black Lodge, including MIKE and The Arm. Which leads to the disturbing idea that The Arm, MIKE, The Giant and others...might not actually be trying to help Cooper, or Laura. They might be deliberately being cryptic, or even ''un''helpful, because to see Cooper and the others try and fail, over and over, is just a different flavour of Garmonbozia. A kind they prefer.
203	** Then in ''The Return'' we find the "origin story" of Twin Peaks is both "The Experiment"/BOB and "The Fireman" reacting to the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico - arguably the beginning of one of the most heinous atrocities ever committed by human beings against one another - and converging on that point. To fight one another, or to compete for food?
204	** Furthermore, it's implied that the Fireman and Senorita Dido specifically sent Laura Palmer to Earth. To be the ChosenOne? Or to be such a beloved and desired figure that those who knew her couldn't help but suffer at her untimely death?
205	** [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/ Certain readings]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuous loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
206
207	[[WMG: Parts 1-17 are set ''after'' the end of Part 17.]]
208	Cooper's valiant attempt to save Laura by travelling back in time backfired when something - likely Judy - spirited Laura out of his hands and out of reality. In ''The Final Dossier'', Tammy confirms that the current state of the new reality is that Laura's case is marked as a disappearance rather than a murder and the engagement by law enforcement (including Cooper) was minimal after no leads were returned. As her report finishes, Tammy further notes that her own memories are seemingly fading and changing.
209	* Episode 8 - and Margaret Lanterman's exchanges with Hawk - cemented Laura as the ChosenOne sent by the benign influence of the Fireman and Senorita Dido to counterbalance, or perhaps defeat, the evil influence of BOB. Even in dying, her presence on Earth has a Christ-like effect, influencing the innocent people of Twin Peaks (and spiralling out into the world) to listen to the better angels of their nature.
210	* In a world where Laura disappeared, her murder cannot have that effect. The scales are tipped in the favour of BOB, Judy and anything else that hungers for garmonbozia (pain and suffering). Throughout "The Return", each time the focus shifts to Twin Peaks itself we find an unsettling current of aggression, cruelty, and unrest. Gunplay, drug abuse and angry episodes are a daily occurrence.
211	* While many people remember that Laura was murdered and allude to that event, the unsettling nature of the changed reality is also encroaching on them - and it doesn't help that the current sheriff Truman wasn't around when the investigation happened. Notice that when Bobby sees her, although he bursts into tears and her theme plays, he doesn't specifically mention her being killed at all.
212	* Even "Doctor Amp" is subconsciously aware that something is terribly wrong ("We're all in the shit!"), and recognises that the colour gold is related to salvation ("Dig yourself out with a golden shovel!"). And it appears the people who fall for his grift recognise a grain of truth in it - Nadine is inspired to do the right thing and set Ed free.
213	* Meanwhile, in the Black Lodge in Part 2, Cooper meets someone who ''looks'' like Laura but aludes to the last time we met Laura's double ("I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back"), someone who is both alive and dead, identified on-set as Carrie Page. After she disappears, Cooper has a couple of encounters, one of which is with Leland - a clear-eyed, non-doppelganger Leland - who pleads with him to "Find Laura". Laura is missing. Cooper's own future self has, unintentionally, caused her to stop existing.
214	* This is another narrative convenience of the "Dougie Jones" storyline - if a clear-headed Cooper returned to Twin Peaks any time before Part 17, not only would he realise that something was wrong, he might not have gone back in time, thus creating a paradox.
215	* The events of Part 18 are inspired by Cooper's attempt to put right what he has done wrong and restore Laura to the prime timeline from the alternate world in which Judy attempted to contain her (as symbolised by the diner that Carrie Page works at being called "Judy's" - while a familiar setting, its cleared-away tables makes it look hollow, showing that like the universe, it was created to trap Laura). He's "trying to kill two birds with one stone" by preventing both the world where Laura dies ''and'' the one where she disappears.
216	* Carrie's scream at the end of the story is a scream of realisation as this false reality collapses around them - and possibly as she experiences the sensation of an entirely different life's worth of memories awakening inside her head.
217
218	[[WMG: At least one of Gordon Cole's many, many affairs has led to a love-child about whom he may or may not know.]]
219	* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]], who got a job with the government in the vain hope of winning his long-lost father's affections.
220
221	[[WMG: The Black Lodge is somewhere within the realm of TheFairFolk]]
222
223	Peculiar magick? Check.
224
225	Beings who are powerful enough where you do ''not'' want to fuck around with them if you know what's good for you? Check.
226
227	Realm entrance in a forest? Check - it even has astronomical requirements and is a particular growth in a ring formation.
228
229	Malleability of time and space? Check.
230
231	Arcane linguistics with obfuscating riddles? ?̵̖̅í̸͓s̸̹̀ ̷̬̓i̴͔͂t̷̫̋ ̷̡̃ẗ̶̗́h̵̛̫e̵̖̓ ̵͔́ö̴͙́n̴͖̕ĕ̵̼ ̶͛ͅa̸̰̚ḇ̶̈́o̷̭͠ṳ̶͝t̷͍̒ ̴̹͝t̵̖̉ḩ̸͌ě̸͎ ̷͍̾l̵̼̂i̴̟͋ṫ̶͍t̸̠͊ḽ̴́é̷͈ ̷̫̈́g̸̰̈́i̴̦̐r̸̨͘l̵̨͆ ̴͚̑d̴̠̂ȍ̸̭w̷̰̾ǹ̷͇ ̶̰̔t̵͍́h̵̡̍è̴͓ ̶̰̒l̷͚̄a̸̖͘ņ̴̚E̵̳̋ ̷͖̓ ̵̲͝
232
233	Surreal geography? Weird room layouts - close enough.
234
235	Doppelgangers and tulpas? There are your changelings.
236
237	Clearly, the denizens of the Black Lodge are fairies.
238
239	[[WMG: Jeffries planted the idea of Judy in Cooper's head, as a trap]]
240	Phillip Jeffries is clearly experiencing some sort of time travel, he knows something about Judy, and he knows what will eventually happen to Cooper, judging by his outburst where he demands to know who he is. But the ''first'' thing he says to Cooper is to refuse to talk about Judy. And in The Missing Pieces he notices the date and reacts with shock.
241
242	So...what if the reason that whole conversation is so disjointed is that for Jeffries it's all happening ''in a different order''. Due to him hopping around time, the way he experiences it is A) demanding to know if he's talking to the real Cooper or the Doppelganger B) noticing the date and realizing this must be the real Cooper because the events of the series haven't happened yet, and C) mentioning Judy.
243
244	But why? Because he realized he's got a shot to lead the eventual Mr. C into a trap. C's quest for Judy is what winds up with him being defeated. But Mr. C ''is'' Cooper, albeit an evil version - they have all the same memories. It's entirely possible that C and BOB wouldn't even know about her...except that Phillip deliberately brought her up in front of Cooper, knowing that Mr. C would inherit the memory. When BOB eventually wound up in the Doppelganger, he was surprised to find a memory about Judy and decided to look into it, ultimately sealing his fate. That whole disjointed conversation was actually a very clever maneuver, possibly orchestrated by the Fireman, who set the other wheels in motion that would lead to BOB's defeat (Laura, Freddie, etc).
245
246	[[WMG: Doppelcooper knew that Richard Horne was his son, and that he needed killing]]
247
248	It's already demonstrated that the Lodge can influence events in our world to a certain extent, so it seems foregone that Doppelcooper could use that influence to draw his own son to him - and in fact, knew very well that Richard Horne was breaking the rules in the first place. It is not to mention that Richard, because he was born of Doppelcooper, is connected to the Lodge.
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