Seriously, though. He won. He had everything. It was all worked out... and he LEFT. He couldn't just go home to Janey-E and Sonny Jim. He couldn't go back to the FBI. He couldn't just accept well enough. But he HAD to go back. He HAD to get Laura.mtwentz wrote:there were several hints along the way something like this was going to happen. I think the last couple of episodes that were exposition heavy may have been lulled into a sense of security that we actually knew what the score wasRagnell wrote:Oh my god. He did it to us again!
I ain't even mad. They did it again.
And he lost it all. That it was Diane with him underscored it. His oldest closest friend went through the barrier... and he lost her. Compare their sexual encounter to his and Janey-E's. (Definitely intentional: Sisters, red hair/platinum blonde like Lost Highway, same position) Its meaningless. He looks like the Doppelganger during it. He was euphoric as Dougie. Janey-E looked at him and called him by the name she knew him as, she spent the night in his arms and they declared love. Diane looks away, covers his face, never calls his name and he wakes up alone, facing the edge of the bed and her note. With two names he doesn't know.
Richard and Linda. 430. 2 birds with one stone.
The clue was backwards, showed that if he tried to get those two birds he'd end up with Richard and Linda's unsatisfying night. "I understand" "You are far away"="You are nowhere near understanding."
And he's caught in this endless loop, trying to save Laura, the trouble girl. Laura is so great. She is every girl in the background of the scene where they interrupt the villain with some nameless girl. The eternal thrill seeker. You can't save a girl like Laura, only Laura can save Laura. Cooper's unable to accept that his role is cleanup, find and contain the evil afterwards. That he can't go back and save anyone after the fact, he'll just lose everything trying.
Holy cow, its nothing I wanted but it was still amazing and energizing and actually satisfying right now. Wow.