I'd like to discuss with you my theories about couple of main plot threads (dougie would-be killers and the glass box) would you have the patience to follow this stream of consciousness?
I think Evil Coop, after enetering our world began putting in place some mechanisms to avoid getting back in the Lodge (which apparently was due after the famous 25 yrs)
Assuming he somehow knew exactly about the 2:53 pivotal time (which Time Zone, i guess??! ahah let's forget about that)
1) created somehow (let's not ask how) a Cooper clone (not good, nor Evil) aka Dougie Jones
2) he has set up (through the Mulholland Drive guy in Vegas) the killers to whack Dougie AFTER 2:53, when he would have already switched places with Good Coop
>> don't know how the Owl ring fits into this.. maybe it ensured Good Coop would "flow" to Dougie (??)
3) when the guys fail, another more ruthless killer is launched vs good coop (the guy with the ice-pick)
As a back-up plan I assume Evil Coop also had (with what competencies?? maybe stolen from Briggs??) the glass box created in NY.
This was possibly meant to "monitor" and maybe capture good Cooper getting out of the Lodge?
and maybe having him slashed by the "she-monster-ghost"??
Now, about the identity "she-monster" someone has pointed out this is probably the "mother" that the Ronette Pulasky actress warns Coop about seconds before his "escape"
What had escaped me until now is that the mother eventually gets out just after Coop escapes and she then appears in the black box and kills the poor boy and girl.
The non-linear storytelling had confounded me at first, but I think that's what happened..
since Coop escaped minutes after appearing in the glass box and the killing also happened around the same time.
Do you agree on this?
I was wondering why the mysterious wealthy man "behind" the glass box let everything be found by police/FBI/etc.. and I concluded that probably, now Coop's out,
the whole thing has no more value, as it was possibly meant as a death-trap for him...
well.. no more rambling for today