Hi !
I love each episode from season 3. It is like a dreaaam. My personal theory concerning Dougie so far : maybe the thing that is "missing" has to do with... relatives.
In
Fire walk with me, the "uncle" was missing in Gordon Cole's sentence :
And, in the original serie, the "cousin" was a leitmotiv, from the MFAP, to Maddy... :
So, how do we explain that Dougie Jones looks like Cooper, so everyone just think that he has lost weight ? Maybe Cooper has a "cousin", named Dougie Jones. Bob, since he possess Cooper, knows that, and uses that cousin to trap Good Dale. But Bob/Mister C. plan fails, Cooper is not killed by the snipers and now, Cooper has taken place of his cousin. So, there is now two Cooper on earth.
But no more Dougie - he has disappeared in the Lodge. Maybe that is why Cooper is crying seeing the child : is he thinking of his dead father ?
So, the Message from the Log wouldn't be about Indian Heritage, but an heritage from a relative. Hawk has to think about Cooper's relatives to find Coop/Dougie. Maybe the insurance man in episode 1 was here to see Sherif Truman about his testament, and maybe Hawk will heritate ?
So, to conclude :
- Harry Truman dies
- Hawk get an heritage
- Hawk realize that the Log message was about relatives of Cooper and find the Jones family
Or :
- the link is the insurance company, maybe the insurance guy from episode 1 works for Lucky 7 as Dougie/Cooper.
Well, my theory is not clear in my head! The two Truman brothers make me also think about relatives, and Harry health issues about heritage - as Margaret Lanterman, too. And the next episode is called "Don't Die"...
Well, it is all pure theory. Maybe Dougie was juste a lookalike of Coop', but not a relative. Or maybe it is all pure surrealism !