Theories Master List (SPOILERS)

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Part 14

- Fireman: fights fire. Margaret Lanterman's husband was a fireman. Is it him?
- Who is the dreamer? Collective dream after Woodsman put everyone to sleep in 1953? Audrey's? Cooper's? David Lynch's? (full meta mode, commentary on artistic creationj behind Cole where Monica Bellucci points to is in fact a David Lynch exhibition)
- Sarah Palmer is possessed by the "Mother"/"Experiment", and has been since Episode 29? since she ate the frog-locust in 1956? the frog-locust grew up into "Mother"? Only possessed on and off like Leland?
- Reverse: Sarah herself is the "Mother" American Girl was warning Cooper about in Part 3
- Inside Sarah: spikes/scissors. Possessed by "Experiment" (NYC glass box in Part 2)? By frog-locust? (it had a spike horn) Other spikes: masks on Jumping man and on Tremond grandson.
- Inside Sarah: white hand with ring finger black, the "spiritual" finger: relevant?
- Naido is Judy, making monkey sounds.
- Jack Rabbit's Palace is where Bobby killed a guy? (FWWM) Where Major Briggs sat on a throne in his abduction?
- James explores the basement furnace: Grand Northern's furnace? (same sound as Grand Northern hum? Josie?) Same place as the end of the European pilot where BOB was? He will find Laura? Audrey?
- The "Drunk" man in jail is Billy: Audrey had a dream about Billy with a bleeding nose and face
- "Drunk": only repeats what Naido and Chad are saying -- like Cooper/Dougie. Naido/Drunk noises similar to jail scene in the pilot where Bobby & Mike howling to James.
- Glastonberry Grove entrance with black scorched oil, Vortex in Buckhorn was black, led to Woodsmen/Black Lodge; entrance in Twin Peaks with white milk/honey, vortex was white, led to Fireman/White Lodge
- Fireman salutes with his hand, like some depictions of the devil?
- Sarah's inner self is a black abyss; Laura's inner self is pure white light
- Tulpas: "thoughtforms", autonomous creations: manufactured Dougie. Jeffries line from in FWWM/TMP: "Who do you think that is?!" about Cooper: Jeffries unstuck in time, knows Cooper will become split, puts doubt into who is real, who is a doppelganger/tulpa.
- Freddy's green glove: also isolates electricity, immune to Lodge shennaningans; super strength like the Woodsmen crush skulls; super strength for armwresling
- Andy's vision of showing Lucy something in jail: flashforward? Is she seeing Naido from later in the episode? Discovering a body? The return of Cooper?
- Andy opened the door to the White Lodge with love (holds Naido) and perfect courage
- Credited "Voice": it is the voice of Jeffries (confirmed in Twitter). Is it the same voice from the "Jeffries impersonator" from Part 2?
- Naido is Laura, or Laura's soul is in Naido
- "Nuthouse" mentioned several times: Chad in jail "Fucking nuthouse" and by the two women in the Roadhouse at the end. Relevant? Is the Nuthouse a real place a la One Eyed Jacks?
- Two girls at the end in the Roadhouse: pregnant silences, weird that twice that Tina's daughter doesn't remember twice if her uncle was there when Billy got hurt, ominous drone sound. What is going on? Part of Audrey's dream?
- Every scene relating to Billy is not real but part of Audrey's dream?
- Freddie could be Donna's son: at the end of season 2 Donna wanted to leave to study in Europe.
- Expedition to Jack Rabbit's Palace: there is a glitch on the image (similar to glitch on Cole's door when Tammy approaches in Part 12?)...
- Tina: could it be Audrey after all? Audrey's assumed identity? Schizophrenic, and Tina is one of her identities? (Charlie is trying to make her realize that when he calls Tina on the phone. Megan is her daughter and recognizes the Tina persona as her mother.) Audrey is dreaming she is Tina?
- Tina could be an assumed identity of Annie.
- Diane: what's her story? Unaware her half-sister is married to a Cooper lookalike? After Twin Peaks she met Mr. C and Mr. C met Janey-E, and Diane hasn't seen Janey-E since at least 1997? Diane has been scheming with Mr. C the whole time, she set up her half-sister to marry him, helped Mr. C manufacture Dougie?
- Diane is lying about Janey-E is her half sister, part of her plan with Mr. C. Janey-E and Sonny Jim also manufactured like Dougie?

[kimmy]

Real Life happened and I'm behind schedule! Hope to have the last one up on time, but it will be tricky.

Part 15

- Big Ed & Norma: happy ending? Shots fired at Big Ed's (referenced in Part 11) haven't happened yet!
- Above the convenience store: the Diamond Motel from FWWM. A Lodge replica? A parallel world superimposed on the "real" motel?
- The Dutchman's is the convenience store? Who is the Dutchman? (The Giant's actor Carl Strucken?)
- FWWM scene with Jeffries: "Who do you think that is?": Cooper is in fact Cooper's doppelganger? Jeffries is moving back and forth in time and has met Mr. C and thinks good Coop is Mr. C?
- Who is Judy? Major Briggs? (Judy Garland - but Judy is a "she") Betty Briggs? Sarah Palmer? Laura Plamer? (TMP: Judy is "young lady") The keyholder credited as Bosomy Woman above the convenience store? (Mr. C literally just met her; is she Beula?) Naido, or American Girl?
- Jumping Man flashes at the entrance of the convenience store: blended with images of Sarah Palmer. Sarah is possessed by the Jumping Man?
- Date bug: FWWM scene set in 1988 but happened in 1989? (original FWWM script: 1988)
- Jeffries impersonator: Albert? He called Mr. C in Part 2, and is conspiring (with Harry Truman?) to bring down Cooper's doppelganger?
- Jeffries impersonator: Leland? "I will be with BOB again".
- Mr. C sent the SMS about Las Vegas in this Part; Diane received it in Part 12. Timeline mixed up.
- Steve with Gretchen: What has Steve done? Becky is dead? Suicide? Overdose? Steve has killed Becky (offscreen), has remorse? Steve is in that situation because he is high on Sparkle, that Becky gave him? Because Becky was the one who was mistreating Steve and not the other way around? Steve rubs his numb leg, like Jerry Horne. "I'm a high school graduate": just refers to his age, or that he has achieved something remarkable? He uses the word "rhinoceros": code word like penguin and zebra from junkie girls in the Roadhouse (Part 9)? He uses the word "turquoise": like the Red Room formica table? He talks about "going up": like Major Briggs floated upwards?
- Audrey trapped in wood like Josie?
- Charlie uses the word "threshold": connection with the Dweller on the Threshold?
- James' fight with Chuck over Renee: James had planned this? Convinced to do this after his encounter with the hum at the Great Northern's basement?
- Renee's husband Chuck: same Chuck with Audrey's story about the truck and Billy?
- Sarah Palmer will join Naido, "Drunk" (a woodsman?) and Freddie in the jail for a White/Black Lodges faceoff or jailbreak?
- Ruby at the end at the Roadhouse: synchronized scene with Cooper/Dougie: forking the power socket, electrical surge and darkness vs screams. Relevant connection? More evidence that Cooper is the dreamer of all things in Twin Peaks?
- Ruby is Laura? Similar screams to Laura's in FWWM.
- Cooper/Dougie electrocuted: Cooper finally wakes up? Cooper dies, sending him with the Fireman from the opening of Part 1? Cooper disappears via the socket just as he appeared through one?
- Final shot in the end credits: lone figure in the dark. The keyholder Bosomy Woman? Judy? Laura's doppelganger?

[kimmy]

This is it, last round!
For this one in particular I've added speculations on how it might wrap up at the end, and I'm sure I've missed things.
Merry finale everyone and see you on Wednesday (for me)!

Part 16

- 3 sources, 2 sets of coordinates. Sources: Diane (via text, obtained from Ruth's body shown by Albert); Ray (via paper in his pocket, directly obtained from Ruth); Jeffries (smoke signals in the FWWM motel room above the convenience store). 2 sources led to the trap where Richard was fried (if Mr. C did tell the truth there and didn't send him purposefully in a trap): those by Diane and Jeffries, working against Mr. C? those by Diane and Ray, coming from the same source (Ruth)? Did Diane send the coordinates after all when she pinpointed them to Twin Peaks, or did she only send them when she received the ":-) ALL" text? Numbers of Ruth's and Jeffries' coordinates are the same.
- Mr. C to Richard: "I'm 25 years your senior": impossible, Cooper was not 25 in the original series. Script goof?
- The convenience store appears and disappears in various places: that's why they call it the Dutchman's, in connection to the Flying Dutchman?
- Richard is not dead but is now trapped in the Lodge for 25 years
- Mr. C sends his text at night and Diane receives it in the afternoon (with different time stamps in different shots! 16:31, 15:55...): Diane received it only when Mr. C got network coverage, or is something more going on with the timelines and time jumps? As with previous text, punctuation marks are different.
- Richard was fried on top of a big stone: connection to the Fireman's line "two birds with one stone"?

- Diane's tulpa disappears in the same way Laura disappears from the Red Room in Part 2: was she a tulpa? (ambiguity on whether Red Room Laura is the real Laura) Is the North Dakota setting actually inside the Lodges?
- Everyone is a tulpa, manufactured by the Lodges with golden seeds.
- Diane tulpa has all the memories of the real one, thought she was the real Diane until the end. Where is the real Diane? Killed by Mr. C? Trapped in the Lodge? Is she in the same place where Audrey is? Is she Naido in the Sheriff's office? (Diane in reverse is Naid, ending in -o for pronunciation in Japanese; and in the original series Diane was a voiceless receiver of Cooper's tapes) However, since Cole & Albert recognized her, that means that Diane's tulpa has the same appearance as the original Diane.
- Who created the Diane tulpa? Mr. C most obvious answer. Could it be the good Cooper from the future, setting up this unfolding of events? Or the real Diane, the thoughtform/tulpa being created as a result of the shock of being raped by Mr. C?
- ":-) ALL" text: a kind of trigger for Diane. Gave order to kill them all? But the order is so antithetical to Diane's nature that it tears her apart and she is unable to complete her purpose?
- "Two birds, one stone": the stone is a golden seed with which tulpas are created. Diane is/was Linda?
- Other Diane anagrams: Linda - Dian-L; Candie - Diane-C; Andie/Andy.

- Where is Audrey? In a hospital? Trapped in the White Lodge? (bright white light, backwards Audrey's Dance during end crtedits) Abducted by aliens? Is she seeing herself for the first time after 25 years? Is the Audrey in the Roadhouse a tulpa, and the real Audrey just realized it? (right before the cut to the mirror, she is directly facing Charlie: is Charlie a splinter or a reflection of herself?)
- What is real and what is imaginary/dream? All of Audrey's scenes are a dream? All the Roadhouse scenes? All of Twin Peaks scenes are a dream? All of TP:TR is a dream? Audrey dreaming part of this or is receiving real-world information feeding her dreams? she started dreaming only recently?
- Diane was raped and is a tulpa; Audrey was raped, is she a tulpa?
- Roadhouse fight over someone's wife Monique: parallels to Part 14's fight between James and Chuck over Renee.
- Audrey's Dance in the original series: connected to the line "Isn't it too dreamy?"
- Roadhouse fight over Monique involves a Barney? Barney in Part 1 is the missing manager of Ruth's apartment that Marjorie describes as "he's in the hospital, not the regular hospital". "Nuthouse" references in Part 14. Characters connected to Audrey are crazy or in a mental institution?

- Ringing noise right before Cooper wakes up that takes Bushnell out of the room: same noise as in the Great Northern. Lodge activity.
- Cooper to create another tulpa of himself to replace Dougie Jones.
- Candy is Laura reborn: Laura said "When you see me again it won't be me"; same age; detached stare; able to see "hearts of gold"; connection with Cooper/Dougie.

Endings

- Laura returns among the living.
- Cooper will save Laura this time, and they will become friends for the rest of their life.
- Cooper will sacrifice his life or return to be trapped in the Lodges, in order to save Laura returned, or to entrap Mr. C.
- Mr. C wins.
- "Good" and "bad" Cooper fuse into one.
- Cooper takes over MIKE or joins the Fireman as some kind of overseeing Lodge spirit.
- Annie will be addressed.
- Big showdown in the Sheriff's station: Naido, James, Freddie, Drunk, Chad; to be joined by Cole, Albert, Tammy, and by Mr. C, and by Cooper, Mitchums, Candie.
- Series ends with new tulpa Cooper/Dougie going home to Janey-E; or with the real Cooper returning to Janey-E & Sonny Jim and leaving the tulpa to return in service at the FBI; or it's left ambiguous which Cooper returns where (and dead Mr. C is officially described as an FBI agent gone rogue and takes the blame for whatever "Cooper" did).
- TP:TR is a collective dream of Cooper and Audrey, or of all the protagonists (or a collective imagination of people in a mental institution).
- TP:TR is a dream of a random person (Judy?).
- TP:TR is literally the dream of David Lynch.
- Everyone is a doppelganger or a tulpa, including Cooper.
- "Richard and Linda": TP:TR concerned with Richard; Linda is being saved for season 4, in which Richard will be the new BOB.
- Nothing is explained; or, everything is explained with infodumps to Tammy.
- The timeline jumps across scenes and settings will be clarified.