 the man from another place (played by michael j. anderson) is a character from the television series twin peaks, created by david lynch and mark frost. he is an inhabitant of the black lodge, a realm of pure evil. early on in the series, the man gives agent dale cooper clues to apprehending the man's nemesis, bob. he later makes recurring appearances in relation to the black lodge.little man from another place (character) on imdb ==twin peaks== the man from another place first appears in the series' third episode, in a dream experienced by cooper. although a spirit, he appears to cooper as a dwarf in a red suit and dress shirt. in the dream, the man gives cooper a series of esoteric clues which ultimately prove helpful in determining the identity of laura palmer's killer, the man's fellow black lodge spirit, bob. one of these clues is a strange 1940s-style jazz dance, a sequence which makes repeated appearances throughout the course of the series. the series never made clear the man's reasons for wanting to help cooper, or his true identity. however, despite his linkage to mike and the enmity and struggle for garmonbozia between mike and bob, it is unlikely that the man aids agent cooper in an effort to thwart bob. there are a handful of scenes throughout the series that suggest that the man and bob are allies; this is also consistent with mike removing his arm, as typically this is an action taken when the appendage causes harm. following cooper's dream, the man appears only a few more times: once with bob, appearing to cooper following the death of josie packard, and again at the end of the series when cooper ventures into the black lodge. it is also questioned whether the man from another place is indeed mike's severed arm in human form in the black lodge. ==fire walk with me== the film twin peaks: fire walk with me expands upon the man from another place's identity and his reasons for wanting to help cooper. ===identity=== fire walk with me explains that the man from another place is connected to mike, the faceless spirit entity who possesses philip gerard, the one armed man, in the series. the script explicitly states that the man from another place is, 
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