From: goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Thoughts UPdate (FAQ?)
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:06:20 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Originator: goldberg@vincent1.iastate.edu

THE FOLLOWING ARE MY "CONCLUSIONS TO DATE".  THEY ARE FAR FROM SET IN STONE.
I HAVE GATHERED THESE CONCLUSIONS OVER TIME BASED ON THE MOVIE/SHOW/AND
THE USERS OF THIS BOARD.
 
I think Catherine put the fish in the percolator as a prank for Pete/Josie.
 
I thought The white horse meant someone drugged, not death.  I since have
been set straight, referring to a Lynch interview, that it is a pooka,
signifying death.
 
I think Jacques told Cooper what he actually BELIEVED happened that night
at the lodge.  He and Leo argued so much, and there was So MUCH coke.  I
don't see a continuity error here.  Jacques thought Leo hit him, but
actually, BOB did.  It verifies this in the shooting script.
 
The mask that the "child" wears is an owl mask.  It has no eye holes. It
seems to be reinforced by the quote "The magician longs to see". The
"child/grandson" of "Mrs. Tresmond" (she user the name of the previous
dweller of her current residence) is her familiar.  He is a monkey. Using
these two thing, we might conclude that the familiars are the eyes of the
magicians in the real world.  [They live in the dream world.] At one point,
the monkey actually says a word, "Judy".
 
That was Annie in bed with Laura.  (Some have said it looked like Ronette).
Laura needs to write the things Annie tells her in the diary so that when
Cooper reads the diary, he can help himself and Annie.  (Maybe even prevent
Annie from ending up in the lodge, which he fails at in a big way).
 
It seems that whomever puts on the ring, dies.  There also has to be a
correlation between the ring and Laura's necklace.  Both ended up over a
pile of dirt.  I have no theories on this for TWO reasons. 1) Maddy's
death had no pile of dirt or personal article. 2) One of the scripts for
FWWM originally had a golfball on the pile of dirt and not the owl-ring.
There are 5 rings mentioned in total.  They are Donna's engagement ring,
the owl-ring, windom Earl's snake ring, Cooper's Gold Ring, and Audrey had
a ring of some kind.  If we take the part of Cooper's Bio that talks about
his mother and the gold ring into account, it seems that the ring grants
safety, or in the case of death, safe passage from BOB.  If this is true,
Mike in a way DID say Laura when he tosses the ring into the train car.
 
What happens if BOB does manage to spell out his entire name under
fingernails?  (He is spelling ROBERT, his proper name... per the
Euro-flick).  Does the placing of the "T" under Theresa Banks' fingernail
signify the END of a cycle and the "R" under Laura's fingernail signify a
new cycle beginning?
 
Mike can not PHYSICALLY stop Bob.
 
If we take what Mike tells Cooper literally, Bob was the first person
posessed.  He was a veterinarian and had some sort of run in with the OWL,
Mike's familiar.  Now Bob the vet and BOB are one and the same.  If this is
the case, it is because the vet (Bob) had no ring to protect him from BOB.
 
That was the shadow self of Leland in the lodge.  Shadow Leland says he
didn't kill Laura, which we know to be true.  The real but posessed Leland
did it.
 
Time runs backwards in the lodge (futures past).  Cooper's gunshot wound
reappears and Annie ends up in bed with Laura "before" she enters the
lodge. Cooper helps Laura in the lodge after she dies.
 
There is a theory going around that Cooper is caught in a time loop and
that the TV series references to a ring, refer to this unbroken circle of
time.  If we look at the time loop as a cirlce, starting where Cooper
enters the Black Lodge, the circumference is 25 years. If Cooper was indeed
caught in a time loop, this would explain why so many of his dreams are
accurate, he's lived them before. If the time loop theory is correct, that
could not have been the good Annie that came back out with Cooper,
otherwise she wouldn't be able to go backwards in time (in the lodge) and
end up in bed with Laura at the beginning of the loop.  This is also
reinforced by the fact that Laura told Cooper she would see him again in 25
years, indicating the length of the time loop.
 
In the last episode of the TV show, there should be up to 2 dopplegangers
of Laura (one is Maddy).  This makes it SLIGHTLY easier to follow Cooper's
path through the Lodge(s).
 
I whole heartily agree with the addiction theme (that SOME of the "aliens"
are addicted to pain in suffering like Laura is addicted to cocaine).
Remember that the old lady said to Donna, "I didn't order creamed corn,
take it away".  A reference to the fact that she did not partake in the
substance.
 
Jefferies (Bowie) was definitely in "Time phase" (something to do with the
time loop).  He witnessed a meeting of the "aliens" but escaped before he
could be imprisoned in wood.  This seems to relate to the "thread" that is
hinted at by the "aliens" in the speech:
 
OAM yelled to Laura when Leland was reving the engine, honking the horn and
screaming:
:You stole the corn!  I had it canned... over the store!
:And Miss, the look on her face when it was opened.
:There was a stillness.
:Like the formica table top.
:The thread will be torn, Mr. Palmer!
:The thread will be torn!
:It's him! It's your father!!
 
Additionally, one of the FWWM scripts had two scenes in it before and after
Jefferies appeared.  The first is of Jefferies in another country (Buenos
Aries) in a hotel.  The after one is of Jefferies re-appearing in the
hotel.  In the explanation to Cole, Jefferies recalls the meeting.  The 
"aliens" talk about being being between the two worlds and of being a
lost soul.  Could this meeting place actually be limbo?   Jefferies also
says that "he found something at Judy's, then he was at the meeting."  This
leads us to believe that Jefferies disappeared the same way Desomd did and
is telling us where he and Desond dissappeared to.  They picked up what
was on the mound of dirt (a ring?) and ended up at the Meeting Place.
Jeffries was physically teleported to the bureau's office.  I think
that Jefferies (of the future, or of the lodge) possessed his own body in
the real world, in order to talk with Gordon. 
 
"Don't you know who he is?"  Jefferies says looking at Cooper.  Jefferies
of the future/lodge knows that Cooper will become BOB.
 
If we continue with the time loop theory, the loop needs to be interupted
to stop the events. If somehow this time, the loop was broken (your guess
here), time is now set straight. In which case Laura finally goes to the
white lodge (after all these loops) and this time the real Annie escapes
from the lodge instead of the evil one.  Now Cooper would be lost in time,
just like Jefferies.
 
I believe that the picture in Laura's room, the meeting room where we saw
all the "aliens", and the room above the convenience store are all the same
room.
 
Dead Dog Farm had a formica table, where cocaine was cut.  The meeting
included Hank, Jean Renault, The Canadian Mounty, and Norma's Mom's new 
husband (I forget his name).  The "aliens" had a formica table where they
had canned corn and the phrase "Black Dog Runs at Night" is still
unexplained.  Coincidence?
 
Wood is the aliens method of containment/imprisonment.
 
Now ...  Here's the best "chain of command" theory I have come up with: (I
am not buying the two Mike (one good/one doppleganger theory)
 
I think Bob, Mike's familiar (owl) turned on Mike.  This is when Mike
realized the errors of his ways and cut off his arm (LMFAP).  The happened
long before Teressa Banks' murder. He physically cut off his arm as a so he
could be sure that he would never revert back to his old ways.  See, LMFAP
seems to possess ARMS (probably the dominant one). Arms go dead, remember?
So, LMFAP can no longer control any of Mike's actions, Mike has no arm
LMFAP can possess.  LMFAP need not possess Bob's arm, Bob already does
dirty work for him.  LMFAP is the one with the addiction. I don't know
whether the LMFAP PHYSICALLY possesses the arm of his minions to insure
their obedience, but this could be true as well. * THE kink in this theory
and most others (including the time loop theory) is WHY was Mike there when
Bob gave the garbonzia to LMFAP? Was he watching LMFAP partake and wishing
he could help?  Or was he waiting for his portion?  (Even at the start of
the time loop theory, Mike already had only one arm)
 
There is also a question on how Desmond knew which trailer to look at. He
was looking at photos on the side of the refrigerator.  I thought one had
that 6 pole in it.  Then, Desmond followed that cable from the pole to the
trailer.
 
My guess is that a Blue Rose case means that the Bureau keeps no offical 
files on the case, that's why Albert was asked to leave the room when
Jefferies materialized.
 

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