Theories Master List (SPOILERS)

[kimmy]

It had been a while I had posted here, but I've been following closely since The Return started!

I have been compiling all the ideas, theories and speculation that have been expressed in these forums and a bit elsewhere. I know there's a Theories & Speculation thread already, this is intended more as a list than discussion.

I'm putting this out there, and I plan to update this list as new episodes are aired and discussion on each is made before the next one airs. Experiencing the series like this for the first time is a one-in-a-lifetime thing, once we know everything the discussion will be very different: we will have answers for many of our current questions, and for what we won't we will have material to discuss as to interpretations, hidden meanings, etc. So this thread will be like a snapshot of the fandom's inventive and at times crazy and out there ideas during these times that we can look back to.

I tried to be inclusive and included even ideas that seem to me completely unlikely and ridiculous. And I added a few of mine as well. Please notify me if I missed something, I haven't been able to go through the whole Parts 3 & 4 thread, that's huge.

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General

- It's all Cooper's dream in the Black Lodge!
- It all ends with Cooper again in the Black Lodge.
- "The Return": it's all about Cooper's return to Twin Peaks. Or it all ends with Laura Palmer returned from the Black Lodge to Twin Peaks.
- MacLachlan reunites with Laura Dern: Dern will play Diane, or Annie.
- It starts scattered and as the story progresses it focuses more and more on the city of Twin Peaks, with more Badalamenti music and more original series-like feeling / tone.
- Darker world, jumps in space and time: this is a fractured world, like Cooper is fractured in two, there is evil in the world, and his good side is missing from this world.
- Lynch is going to connect all his movies into one mega-universe.

Part 1

- Black & white intro: not the Red Room, different floor, lamp, tapestry, no FBI pin on Cooper; a different time and place. It's the White Lodge / true Black Lodge? It takes place after the events of the series?
- "???????" is not The Giant but a different spirit/incarnation. God?
- "it's in our house": the evil has started invading even the White Lodge? The stars have turned and presently the gateway is open for this house/Lodge ?
- "430": refers to Wally Brando's birth date (April 3 1990; but Lucy was pregnant in March 1989); or to coordinates.
- "Richard and Linda": Richard Nixon's birth & burial place is in Linda, California.
- The glass box is a gateway to the Lodges like Glastonbury Grove. It was built for this purpose, or the gateway was pre-existent and the building was purposefully built around it.
- The millionaire behind the NYC glass box: it's the Great Northern's New York client; it's Mr. C; it's Audrey Horne; it's Chester Desmond/his doppelganger.
- Otis & Buella's place: like a real-world version of the Black Lodge, with doppelgangers: Otis-Buella / Philip Gerard; Giant / hillbilly; MFAP / wheelchair man; Ray & Darya / Cooper & Laura.
- Love/sex then fear opens the gateway and attracts the monster.
- The monster out of the glass box: it is an interdimensional alien (like what Richard Nixon showed Doug Milford in TSHOTP); it is a Lodge spirit without a human vessel; it is composed of the murdered man's head + the murdered woman's body.
- Sex attracts the monster: parallels with Jack Parsons' Thelema cult working (trying to attract the Mother of Abomination) (TSHOTP).
- Tracey is a spy, she made sure the guard was missing so she could enter the glass box room.
- Bill Hastings was possessed by BOB / a Lodge Spirit and committed the Ruth Davenport murder under its influence.
- Doppelganger vs Lodge spirits: Mr. C and BOB are separate entities? BOB left Mr. C at some point after Episode 29? BOB creates dopplegangers that are autonomous? Laura has a doppelganger in the real world? ("I am dead yet I live")
- "something is missing": Laura's missing pages from her diary (the ones Annie told her to write Cooper is in the Lodge in FWWM?). The Owl Cave ring.

Part 2

- Ash ghost next to Hastings' cell: Lodge spirit having possessed Hasting, or keeping surveillance on Hastings? The same figure seen as a silhouette when Major Briggs was abducted? The electrician or the woodsman from above the convenience store in FWWM? Jerry Horne?
- Las Vegas, Mr. Todd: "she got the job": refers to Tracey and her being sent to spy on the glass box; refers to Darya and is being sent to kill Mr. C.
- The one Mr. Todd is fearing in Las Vegas: he is the millionaire behind the glass box; or he is Mr. C; or he is BOB; or he is the person impersonating Philip Jeffries on the phone with Mr. C.
- "The stars turn and a time presents itself": the gateway to the Black Lodge only opens at a specific time and under specific circumstances.
- Mr. C to Phyllis Hastings: Phyllis is not human? Possessed by Lodge spirit?
- Phyllis shot: shaky image, possibly a figure leaving her body?
- Phyllis Hastings & Ruth Davenport head shot: hole through the eye: Mr. C killed Ruth in the same M.O. modus operandi?
- Bill Hastings' secretary is called Betty: she is Betty Briggs and knows things about Project Blue Book that Mr. C wants.
- Mr. C's ace card drawing: an owl? a rabbit? a black dog? an insect?
- Mr. C is looking for coordinates of gateways to/from the Lodges. Or to Annie (all mention of which Major Briggs had removed from the TSHOTP dossier).
- Mr. C was working with Philip Jeffries (already mentally unstable), or his doppelganger.
- Who was on the phone when Mr. C was expecting Jeffries? Lodge spirit instead of human Jeffries? (why would that person hire Ray & Darya to kill Mr. C when he looks forward to Mr. C to return to the Black Lodge to be with BOB again?)
- The equipment Mr. C has is state-of-the-art, access to FBI: stolen from Major Briggs when he killed him?
- The monster out of the NYC glass box: Laura or her doppelganger, after she was summoned by the Lodge / kicked out because she warned Cooper; or The Arm's doppelganger; or a Lodge spirit responsible for keeping Cooper in check; or BOB; or Jeffries' doppelganger returning to the Lodge to be with BOB ("we missed each other in New York"); or the Venus de Milo statue.
- Cooper's passage in the glass box before Sam & Tracey are murdered: various scenes / storylines are not presented in chronological order ("is this future or is it past?").
- Laura's "meanwhile" hand sign was meant to represent a tree sapling, what became the evolution of The Arm.
- Laura takes her face off, light inside: became one with the angel at the end of FWWM; or there exists a "good doppelganger"; or shows she has a good soul; or shows that faces are like masks in the Lodge.
- The One-Armed Man is credited as "Philip Gerard", not "MIKE", and similarly Leland is credited as "Leland". Not their doppelgangers. They help Cooper: they try to atone for their sins. Or, this is indeed MIKE and helps Cooper just out of necessity in order to rein in BOB.
- The Arm tells Cooper to get out, the One-Armed Man says something is wrong, there is the sound of the gramophone when The Arm's doppelganger appears: this presence is what The Giant referred to as "it's in our house now"?
- The vision of the pale horse is an bad omen for Cooper.
- The disturbance in the Lodge is caused by the "unnatural" existence of the glass box.
- Laura exited the Lodge before Cooper; she appeared in the glass box (or close to it?) and is responsible for the guard gone missing before Tracey arrives.
- Falling faster and faster through space: a callback to Laura & Donna's conversation in FWWM.
- Jean-Michel Renault: another twin brother?
- Shelly's daughter is from her union with Bobby; Shelly is cheating Bobby with Red.
- The Arm becoming a tree: evolution of spirits, connection with presence in the woods / the Log / Josie knob / Ghostwood?
- The Arm doppelganger intervention: it prevents Cooper from switching bodies with Mr. C directly in the highway, so it works with/for Mr. C from within the Lodge?
- Hawk will find Cooper (throwback to scene in pilot).
- Repeated lines in the Red Room by Laura, Philip Gerard, The Arm: scenes take place in different points in time and are presented out of chronological order. In one instance Laura tells him he can go and he can cross the curtains; in another The Arm tells Cooper he cannot leave yet and Cooper finds he cannot cross the curtains. In one exit attempt results in things going wrong ("nonexistent"), in the other things happen right (Cooper exits in Glastonbury Grove and is found by Hawk: not yet shown, Hawk's scenes in the police department happen earlier chronologically).

Part 3

- The space Cooper finds himself in is where Major Briggs was taken to during his abduction.
- "The magician longs to see": the blind girl is the magician.
- The blind girl is Asian: she's Josie Packard / Josie's sister Judy.
- The blind girl is disfigured: she is Audrey, after the bank explosion.
- The blond girl's deformity is related to other dead women we saw (Ruth Davenport, Ruth Hastings): hole through the eye. Mr. C put the blind girl there?
- The blind girl moves and makes sounds like scissors, she falls into space: she is the monster that appears in the glass box.
- The American Girl is Ronnette Pulaski.
- Ronnette: she is dead and was killed by Mr. C: Mr. C completed the work of Leland/BOB with the letters under the fingernails.
- The blind girl's & the American Girl's mother is knocking at the door. The mother is the same monster that came out of the glass box in NYC.
- Laura Palmer is Ronnette's "mother", as in she initiated her in the world of sin. Laura knocks at the door, then finds herself at the glass box.
- American Girl is the daughter of American Woman and both were creations of BOB/Mr. C (Mr. C's intro song is a cover of American Woman).
- 3 and 15 on the electrical socket: same font as in FWWM electric pole: house in Las Vegas and Fat Trout trailer park are portals, spirits travel through electricity.
- 3 and 15: refer to the mental age one passes through ends up with. Cooper goes through 3.
- 3 and 15 electrical socket: Mr. C is in 2015, Dougie in 2003?
- 3 and 15: Cooper would have exited through to Mr. C, but the blind woman switches the exit to Dougie.
- Blind woman world flickers back and forth in time, like AC (alternating current); she switches to DC (direct current) and time flows normally. Cooper was supposed to exit trough DC to cigarette lighter in Mr. C's car, but as he ends up exiting through AC socket in Dougie, his mind is messed up and his gold orb (soul? mind?) is filtered out.
- Cooper reappears without his FBI pin: first scene in black & white takes place in the future.
- Mr. C created Dougie Jones so that Dougie is retrieved in the Black Lodge and Mr. C remains in the real world.
- Dougie is a reincarnation of sorts of Douglas Milford?
- Dougie is Mr. C's "arm": every spirit/doppelganger can have one.
- No two Coopers in the same universe; 9-1-1 backwards; Rancho Rosa = (Blue) Rose Ranch; Sycamore Street, Lancelot/Merlin references, presence of an owl: Dougie's world is a different dimension from the one Mr. C is in; or in a completely artificial fabricated world.
- The snipers aiming at Dougie were placed there by Mr. C, to get rid of the real Cooper when he comes back; or hitmen from the people Dougie owns money to.
- Mr. C gave Dougie the Owl Cave ring, to shield him from possession from anybody else. (From BOB, if Mr. C is an autonomous entity independent from BOB.)
- The junkie mother and the child are the new Chalfonts/Tremonds.
- The junkie mother says 119 = 911 backwards: she has been touched by Lodge spirits. Connection to cop cars that arrest Bill Hastings (119 in licence plate).
- The golden orb is Cooper's soul; without it, resurrected Cooper is an empty shell, behaves aimlessly.
- The glass box monster was holding a golden orb when it appeared (!) which disappeared before it attacked: it lost its soul and behaved manically?
- Hawk's heritage: the Owl Cave Ring? access to the Lodges? it *is* about the bunny and it's related to the Native American trickster rabbit god?
- Casino hand slot machine: makes same sound as coming from the gramophone in the black & white prologue! (accelerated, transformed)
- Casino hand slot machines are "one-armed bandits": Cooper was calling the One-Armed Man for help.
- "One of you must die": doesn't refer to the doppelganger but to Laura Palmer, who has escaped to the real world. To restore balance (or to continue living), Cooper will either have to kill himself or kill Laura (or let her be killed).

Part 4

- Mr. C killed Major Briggs.
- Major Briggs is dead: how/when did Philip Jeffries (or his doppelganger/impersonator?) talk to him? Briggs lives on and can be reached in the Lodge / interdimensional space?
- Cooper sees himself in the mirror: not possessed.
- Coffee "woke" Cooper up and made him whole again.
- Military authorization for John Doe: Major Briggs? (also: in space when he says "blue rose", we only see his head and not his body; but he died 25 years ago) Philip Jeffries?
- Major Briggs didn't die in that fire 25 years ago but faked his death so as to keep the secrecy of his research on paranormal phenomena; killed only recently by Mr. C, and his body is the headless John Doe.
- FBI contact in Columbia: ?
- The person Gordon & Albert think about to identify Cooper is: Diane; Sarah Palmer ("she drinks"; had connection with Cooper in the Lodge in Episode 29).
- Jacoby's golden shovels have a Freemason connotation; or a connection to the Great Northern Hotel groundbreaking ceremony.
- Dougie's wife was the one that "got the job" by Mr. Todd: to monitor Dougie? in anticipation of Cooper's return?
- After Cooper/Dougie won all the jackpots, the Silver Mustang casino owner or the supervisor placed the hit on Dougie (via Mr. Todd in part 1).
- Cole's file on Cooper: same birthdate as Bill Hastings (1973), birthplace in Buckhorn SD: why? (incoherence?)
- Mr. C says "very" backwards to Cole (speaking backwards like a Lodge spirit): Cole understands something is wrong.
- Mr. C sounds slower and is rusty at imitating Cooper because he lost a lot of garmonbozia when throwing up.
- Mr. C wants to tell Cole all about it: BOB wants to move his spirit from C. to Cole?
- Tammy is not aware of Jeffries and other details: she will be handed the dossier (TSHOTP) in a later part in the series.

To be continued...

[derekfnord]

Thank you for compiling this. It's a great resource!

[sylvia_north]

Aces!!

[kimmy]

What a productive board! (and how much reading through the threads did I do!)
Part 6 is upon us. Here's what I gathered:

General/Additional for Parts 1-4:

- "Richard & Linda": musicians Richard and Linda Thompson?
- "The Giant"'s record player: connection with Palmers' record player? Listening to evil / channeling evil?
- "Good" Leland possession by BOB is different from how Cooper's doppelganger's possession works. "Good" possession: BOB is in control only at times, progressively consuming more and more of the "good" person. Doppelganger: the "evil" side is in full control, BOB is a "familiar" there for the ride only. FWWM: "Evil" Leland never killed anyone because he never left the Lodge, it was "good" Leland/BOB who did it.
- Mr. C has grown so powerful, has "trapped" BOB inside him, that the Lodges spirit purposefully release good Cooper in order to destroy Mr. C.
- The doppelganger is to BOB like God the Son is to God the Father: BOB's offspring, but separate entities.
- Mr & Mrs Hastings serve as hosts to Lodge spirits, commit murders, and afterwards Mr. C frames them for them, cleans up and kills the hosts.
- The glass box monster is Annie Blackburn and her reaction to the couple's sex due to her frustration and repression after her years at the convent
- Wizard of Oz homage: shoeless Cooper finding his way home ("home"); Andy (coward), Hawk and Lucy (brainless) in the roles of the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow. Bad Witch: Mr. C.
- Time warp: Cooper landed into a different time when he entered Dougie, and became a millionaire. He is the millionaire that years later sets up the glass box in NYC and arranges for Mr. C to be murdered.
- Staffed modern switchboard in a back room in the Twin Peaks Police Department: Lucy is kept in her job only as a favor to her and Andy. Lucy is showing signs of senility and dementia, not "Twin Peaks weirdness".
- Cooper/Dougie's breakfast: mirrors Cooper/LMFAP scenes in the Red Room: coffee, thick black syrup, jazzy music, chairs, smiling vs confused.
- Copper/Dougie saved from snipers, helped with little Red Room fires at casino, owl flies over him: is he being helped by someone at the Lodge(s)?
- 1-1-9 junkie and her boy are a deformed mirror image of Dougie's family
- The glass box monster was Cooper, going for the couple's coffee
- "DUGE LV 03" on Dougie's car's license plate: this is 2003! (or refers to March?) (but: Rancho Rosa looks like post-housing bubble, Jade could have been a real estate agent)
- 2003/2015 theory: Gateways to the Lodges open only once every 25 years. 2003 is middle point in 25-year cycle. Cooper got out in 2003, while he was aiming 2015.
- Philip Gerard's/MIKE's poem: "I too have been touched by the devilish one; Tattoo on the left shoulder"; and his tattoo said "mom". The blind girl's mother is this devil.
- Companionship, thumbs up: Sonny Jim is possessed by The Giant and helping Cooper, same way as Señor Droolcup (season 2 opener).
- Hawk knows of an Indian ritual on how to revive someone who has been to the Lodge, as part of his heritage. That's how Cooper will come back fully.
- The Owl Cave Ring is missing: Hawk will find something related to Teresa Banks and continue digging to Mr.C/Cooper.
- Hawk's heritage will be the Casino!
- White horse vision: connection to the Silver Mustang Casino? Casino as a real-world extension of the Lodge?
- The hitmen targeting Dougie are Jeffries' men: if Cooper/Dougie dies, Mr. C has to be pulled back to the Lodge.
- The glass box monster: holds gold orb, starts genderless, becomes woman with deformed head: similar to the creation of an artificial entity like Dougie?
- Dougie was manufactured on the basis of Chet Desmond, already similar looking to Cooper and already absorbed in the Lodges.
- Difference between being possessed and having a doppelganger? BOB has one main host and many "arms" that do his deed: Cooper doppelganger as host, and Leland, Windom Earle as secondary? (and Jeffries, and Bill Hastings...)
- Jeffries impersonator: it's Albert (Albert gets shady when close to Mr. C, Cole examines Albert closely during their conversation, electrical interference with Cole's hearing aid), at times possessed by Jeffries. It's the real Cooper himself (same way of speaking as in the very first black and white scene).
- Lucy is afraid of cellphones because they give access to everyone to electricity and expose everyone to Lodge spirits.
- Lucy & Andy have trouble adapting to the real world: Wally is an actor who was hired to play Lucy & Andy's son, in order for them to cope with the death of their real son. Wally has taken his role very seriously and become their son for real.
- 3 and 15: time zone: shift from Asia (Naido) to USA (American Girl).
- 3 and 15: 15 would have led Cooper to Mr. C's car; Naido is malevolent / working with Mr. C and diverted him to 3 and to Dougie.
- 3 and 15: one leads to Part 3, one leads to Part 15. Cooper will be given the opportunity to exit through these outlets again later in the series.
- "Naido" means no/without in Japanese: without eyes? Also means "a ruler's private property"?
- Mr. C is also good at winning jackpots, he is the NYC millionaire (and the owner of the Silver Mustang?)
- Lots of red balloons from Sonny Jim's birthday party: the Drugged-out Mother and kid had been to the party? Also for Cooper's birth day?
- Jade is Naido's incarnation in this world. Jade is a precious stone in Asia protecting the wearer. She wears golden bracelet (like golden orbs), she says "you can go out now".
- Just when Cooper is spewed out, he has a wet suit, holding something (a smartphone?), has a hole in his sock, is missing his FBI pin (and also we suppose his FBI badge and wallet?).
- The balcony in the mauve world is that world's version of the glass box, put there to attract Lodge spirits or to attract Cooper (all planned by Mr. C?).
- Time warp: Mike takes ring from Dougie, puts in on table, THEN FWWM: LMFAP picks it up, Cooper warns Laura not to put the ring on.
- "Indian Heritage" book in Ruth Davenport's apartment: relevant how?
- "something is missing": now it's Laura herself (or her spirit), Cooper has to find her again.
- "something is missing": it could be Annie (that nobody mentions, TSHOTP included: on purpose? she existed only in a parallel reality?).
- Mr. C is in fact Windom Earle, or Earle's spirit put inside Cooper's doppelganger by BOB. Mr. C's killings are cold and calculated, not like BOB's wild sensual MO, and like Earle's. Mr. C uses a similar electronics suitcase like Earle's (or stolen from Major Briggs?). Mr. C looks for coordinates, like Earle was, and looks for aces of spades, and Earle was obsessed with cards. Earle was trying to harness the Lodge's energies, and there is a bonsai (an Earle trademark) in the NYC glass box room (Mr. C/Earle is the millionaire?). (But: this diminishes the "fight against oneself" if it's not the evil half of Cooper. Maybe BOB used parts of Earle's soul and memories to create Cooper's doppelganger.)

Part 5

- Cooper as Dougie is like a newborn, discovering everything like a child, fresh, innocent: laughs and cries with his son, learns new words, ponders about existence (bronze statue). Return of old Coop will take time.
- Cooper loses his pin & shoes but finds a Great Northern key in his pocket: Cooper really was Dougie before, and went to Twin Peaks and dreamed he was Cooper, following his psychological breakdown after the death of Caroline (a la Lost Highway/Mulholland Drive personality split).
- Cooper and Dougie are family relations.
- Cooper will end up forming a family with Janey-E and Sonny Jim (who is biologically Cooper's son).
- Cooper/Dougie sees his colleague is lying: Cooper's intuitive sense is back, or is the Red Room still guiding him / giving him hints?
- Cooper/Dougie out of the lift: clock at 4:30: "The Giant"'s 430?
- Any connection between Dougie's Lucky 7 Insurance and the insurance man asking for Sheriff Truman in Part 1?
- Richard Horne introduced: this is the Richard from "The Giant"'s "Richard and Linda"? Richard has a sister called Linda, and they stay at some apartment no 430? Richard & Linda are near-siblings, one on the side of good, one on the side of evil? (one child of Mr.C/Annie, one of Cooper/Audrey)?
- Richard Horne is: Audrey's son (with JJ Wheeler - one-flight stand; or with Cooper - retcon; or with Mr. C - who deceived her after he exited the Lodge; or with Richard/Dick Tremayne?); an unknown cousin of Audrey's; Ben's secret second son (with Blackie or some Canadian hooker from One Eyed Jack's); Jerry's son (from Heba the Icelander from season 1); Johnny's son; Sylvia's son (with another man); adopted by Audrey (Annie's son?); Donna's son (who claimed the Horne name due to Ben's secret affair with Donna's mom); Lucy & Andy's son who they left for adoption (and adopted Wally instead, a la Little Nicky).
- Richard Horne is a vessel for BOB.
- Shelly's daughter Becky is credited as Becky Burnett: she's married to Steven Burnett? Not just her boyfriend as Part 2 insinuated? Or: Red is named Burnett, Steven is Red's son from another marriage, Becky is Shelly's daughter with Bobby, and Shelly is with Red now; making them step-siblings.
- Becky is the new Laura: teenager, leading parallel lives (at times smiling at times drug addict), junkie boyfriend, blond, trying to escape her life. Will be tormented (by Richard Horne?) and something bad will happen to her.
- Message from the hitmen's lady in black to the machine in Buenos Aires: "ARGENT 159 2": Argentina, 159 characters remaining in SMS, message content "2": coded message (1 yes 2 no; 1 Coop 2 Coops); the machine blinks twice.
- Hitmen's lady in black: she's the one that "got the job" from Mr. Todd?
- Junkie mother has a deck of cards and a pin on her table: related to Mr. C's pin-scratched ace card with the odd symbol?
- The headless corpse is in fact the real Dougie Jones's - Mr. C took this preexisting Dougie's wedding ring and put it in his corpse, and gave golem Dougie the Owl Cave ring?
- Major Briggs's body: recent death?
- Occurrence of Briggs's prints 16 times over 25 years: is it really Briggs, or someone (Mr. C?) can impersonate him (see also: Agent Tammy's study of Cooper & Mr. C's prints)? Mr. C has been using Briggs's severed fingers to leave prints everywhere? Briggs was hosting BOB for some time?
- Dougie's wedding ring inside Briggs's body: put there as part of the ritual to create Dougie - when Mr. C substituted the real Dougie with artificial Dougie? Put there by Mr. C so that the police finds and arrests Cooper/Dougie? Mr. C was married with Janey-E before he manufactured Dougie? BOB is still leaving his "calling card" with the ring as he was leaving the letters under the fingernails?
- Briggs fingerprints everywhere: put there purposefully by Mr. C/BOB as his new "calling card" on victims.
- Great Northern key mailed: what was missing and what Hawk is looking for. Will be received by Audrey.
- Tammy studying Cooper & Mr. C's fingerprints: they are the exact opposite of one another?
- Mr. C to BOB "You are still with me, good"; Jeffries' impersonator "and I will be with BOB": competition for BOB.
- Warden surprised at "Mr. Strawberry" reference: Mr. C/BOB can read minds? (like "just like what happened to you in Pittsburgh") Something from the warden's past? (secret of a person he killed, gay lover) The Warden is tormented by a Lodge spirit called Mr. Strawberry? Mr. Strawberry is the "man in Columbia" Albert was referring to? Mr. Strawberry is the headless corpse?
- Mr. C controls the prison's alarms: through his knowledge of the prison plans (is he in the same prison as Ray?) and via a code in the phone (phone phreaking!), or by controlling electricity as a Lodge spirit -- as a distraction to send the coded message to Buenos Aires.
- "The cow jumped over the moon": verse in a nursery rhyme. Why this activation code?
- Answering machine in Buenos Aires: definitive Mr. C / Philip Jeffries connection.
- Answering machine morphs into what? Golden orb that is the soul of Philip Jeffries? Jeffries was living in the machine? The machine itself is Jeffries? Transmutated golden nugget - alchemy/philosopher's stone?
- Coop/Dougie fixated on the statue: when young, Coop was inspired to join the FBI by a poster of "The FBI Story" hanging over his bed (James Stewart pointing a gun) - from "My Life, My Tapes".
- Cooper/Dougie will have a watershed moment when he sees/hears his name somewhere (mention of airplane hijacker D. B. Cooper?)
- 3 pink showgirls with the Mitchum brothers: represent the Greco-Roman Fates? Lodge spirits?
- "Dr. Amp": Ampere? Relation to electricity and Cooper's return from the Red Room?
- Gold symbolism: represents one's identity in dreams. Cooper is digging for his own identity in this dream world.
- Gold: Lodge spirits use electricity to travel between worlds, gold is an electricity conductor.
- Silver (Mustang) vs Gold: represent the two Lodges? Wizard of Oz references: was also a parable about the move from the gold standard to the silver standard.

To be continued...

[Mairzy]

This thread could be pretty amusing by the series end Good stuff.

[kimmy]

This thread could be pretty amusing by the series end Good stuff.

Yes, that's the point
Given how Hawk's heritage figured into things, I think it's safe to say 99% of theories completely miss the mark.

Here's what I got. I won't be able to follow the Part 7 discussions next week, so I will have a lot of reading to complete 6, do 7 and start on 8!...

General/Additional for Parts 1-5:

- Donna died in James's motorcycle accident.
- Cooper will get his FBI pin and shoes back when he fully realizes who he is (like how The Giant took and then returned his ring in season 2).
- Annie was a manufactured existence of the Lodge spirits, like Dougie. She appeared in everyone's (Norma's) memories / her backstory appeared / the universe changed when she was created (a la Pete in Lost Highway). Appearance tailored to draw Cooper in the Lodge, nobody remembers her, absent from TSHOTP (Harley Peyton said they had considered this for season 3).
- Who inherited Nixon's Cayman Islands account after Major Briggs died? (TSHOTP) Same person that is the millionaire behind the NYC glass box? Mr. C, or Betty Briggs (posing as a secretary)?
- No mention of the season 2 finale events in the dialogue (and of Annie's existence in TSHOTP): everyone's missing memories of Glastonbury Grove is what the Log Lady is saying is missing?
- Mr. C scammed by Jeffries' impersonator: Mr. C then wanted to get imprisoned so that he can draw the attention of the FBI and make them help him in fighting back against Jeffries' impersonator?
- Dougie's world is a dream world Cooper is trapped in. Jeffries was trapped in one too ("we live in a dream") and only momentarily escaped in FWWM. They are both trapped in one of these messaging boxes in Buenos Aires. Time warp: Mr. C was the one who recalled Jeffries into his box dream prison in FWWM?

Part 6

- Hawk found the missing pages from Laura's diary - with Annie's message? (did Harold have the secret diary by then?) With mentions of Leland's abuse, that Leland tore out? (some of which were in the train car where Laura was murdered, and could have been taken by Philip Gerard)
- Mike/Philip Gerard placed these pages in the police department toilets when he was there during season 2.
- Linda mention (Carl's neighbor's wheelchair-bound wife in Fat Trout?): the Linda from "The Giant"'s message?
- Richard Horne also lives in Fat Trout? (thereby connecting him with Linda)
- TP shots: traffic stoplights at night; electricity pole (from FWWM); traffic junction (hit and run kid, similar to Philip Gerard/Leland scene in FWWM)
- Electricity pole #6: exact same pole as in FWWM? (same 6-digit utility code) Deer Meadow is in fact in/next to Twin Peaks? "New" sign at Fat Trout: moved recently? (with the pole?! #6 pole in new Fat Trout connects to the old #6 pole? the pole itself is a Lodge manifestation moving around?)
- 6-digit code on electricity poles is the coordinates Mr. C was looking for?
- Carl Rodd's vision: the kid's soul was sucked into ghe electricity lines?
- Dougie: sleep references, "ZZ", zig-zags like sawing logs, "don't die": is Cooper in a coma and imagining all this?- Cooper/Dougie draws zig-zags and stairs: he remembers the Red Room floor and the mauve zone's stairway to the top? Symbolizing transcendence? Similar sketches to the Owl Cave map? Relation to the e-mail Duncan Dodd is writing before the red square appears on his screen? ("To understand how income statements are set up, think of them as a set of stairs.")
- Red does magic: he's the grown up Chalfont/Tremond? (Coin trick like the creamed corn trick).
- Red's odd way to move, magic: something supernatural (Lodge spirit?) or is it just that Richard is high?
- Red's designer drug is produced by the Black Lodge to put people under its control?
- Lucky 7 cases: Cooper/Dougie proved that the his coworker is running a scam against the director?
- Albert/Diane connection: were partnered to find Cooper in 1990? Had an affair/ex-husband-and-wife?
- Mr. Todd orders out two murders to Ike The Spike: the lady failed to kill Cooper/Dougie, she's targeted as well. Mr. Todd receives orders from Mr. C or Jeffries' impersonator?
- Philip Gerard sending 'waves of energy' with his hands to Cooper/Dougie: how is he helping him? Is he the one sending him clues and light flashes? Or the lights Cooper sees is a visualization of his own intuition?
- Hit and run mom (Lisa Coronado): is she Donna Hayward?
- Electric hum and electric pole reflection on Richard's windshield: possessed by a Lodge spirit?
- Red square, modulated voice, beeper answering machine: Philip Jeffries is living exclusively in electricity / Artificial intelligence?
- Diane's appearance fits with short description in Cooper's autobiography: "an interesting cross between a saint and a cabaret singer"!

[kimmy]

Catching up with the billion posts since the nuclear explosion!... Part 8 coming up soon.

Additional Parts 1-6

- Linda is Annie living in Fat Trout after a witness protection relocation program.
- Shelly wears her wedding ring in a necklace, something widowers do: Leo has died and they never married with Bobby? New husband after Leo and Bobby, and he has died? A sign that Shelly and Bobby's relationship is going through a rough patch? (also wears a ring on her middle finger)
- When Laura was expelled from the Lodge, she appears in 1989 (Pilot).
- When Laura was expelled from the Lodge, she has a similar experience to Cooper, doesn't remember who she is, and ends up becoming a Linda married to a Richard.
- Laura getting killed while wearing the ring is what protected her and allowed her to "live on" in the Red Room and not die, and eventually return from the Red Room.
- Mr. Strawberry is Red, connecting the South Dakota and Twin Peaks storylines.
- Lorraine has a cardboard box in her office (with a camera in it, watching her) similar to those in the NYC glass box room: Las Vegas commander and NYC millionaire are one and the same and it is Mr. C?
- Wheelchair Linda put the pages in the door found by Hawk: at wheelchair level, different bathroom from where Philip Gerard was.
- Red's references to "King and I": connection to Leland and his dancing. Red is Becky's daughter with Shelly and there's a history of abuse?
- Jeffries impersonator to Mr. C: recently learnt that Mr. C spoke to Major Briggs; we also see Bobby mention this in Twin Peaks. The impersonator is somebody close to Bobby, inside the TP Police?
- Diane reveal shot: behind her, a computer screen with a red graphic similar to the red square Duncan Todd receives as a message: coincidence?
- Black and white first scene with ??????? and Cooper: this is the same room as in Laura's/Chalfont's FWWM painting?
- Hank, Chip and Harvey outside of Ruth Davenport's apartment (Hank's phone conversation): shady deal, Hank and Chip get what's in the bag and Harvey doesn't get any: Lodge spirits collecting garmonbozia from Ruth's death?
- Gramophone in ???????'s black and white room: sounds of a Geiger counter?
- The numbers given by ??????? and The Arm/tree are coordinates: 430, 253 ("again and again") (119 as well?)

Part 7

- 315 key arrives in Twin Peaks: Dougie's world is not an artificial construct.
- Laura's diary pages: chronology iffy. From her normal diary (torn by Leland when he knew she knew?) From her secret diary? (given to Harold - when did she have the time to write them? who had the time to steal them?) Leland hid them? (in police station to be interviewed about Ben? for the murder of Jacques Renault? after he was arrested?) Sarah was the one who tore them out, to prevent the Palmer familty from breaking apart?
- Bad Cooper visited Diane as well? (abused/mistreated/raped/ her or deceived her in some way?) Diane was unable to recognize it was not good Coop? (MLMT: possibility Diane & Cooper spent a night together) Or they had a traumatic phone call/tape exchange? Or bad Cooper just disappeared without a word and Cole had brushed it off as nothing, and she holds a grudge against everyone.
- Cole's awkwardness at Diane's hug: a previous relationship?
- The Arm tree helping Cooper: the Arm or its doppelganger? Electrocuted Ike, burning the flesh on the gun?
- Bad Coop visited the hospital in 1989 to: find Annie's ring (TMP: from the nurse? Was the nurse Linda, put in a wheelchair after her confrontation with him? Same ring Dougie has?); rape Audrey (spawning Richard); rape Annie (spawning Linda) thus "two birds with one stone".
- The sounds in the Great Northern are: from Josie, still trapped in the wood; from the Native American figures and totems, connected to the Lodges; from the approach of Cooper; from the door to the Lodge opening again and evil creeping out (like in eps 27-29); due to the arrival of Cooper's key? (however, the hum started "sometime last week")
- "430" spotting : Andy was supposed to meet at Sparkwood & 21 at 4:30.
- Andy's meeting: was with the owner of the truck Richard was driving? Anything related to the hit and run?
- Jerry's missing car: Richard took it (making him Jerry's son?) and did the hit and run.
- Girl interviewed after fight with Ike the Spike: "Smells funny": smells of scorched engine oil?
- Charred figure in the morgue: same figure as next to Bill Hastings' cell? Figure looks different: they are the two woodsmen from the convenience store in FWWM? Still checking in on the murder of "Briggs"? Drawn to BOB's presence? Charred because they went through a portal from the Lodge to our world?
- Briggs' body not aged since 1989: time travelling? (what of the prints?) Doppelganger?
- Boxer Bushnell Mullins will mention the fight Cassius Clay-Harry Cooper to Dougie/Coop and he will wake up.
- Jerry high, missing his car, calls for help: disoriented after he visited the Lodge, or he is receiving signals from the Lodges, or he is channeling Coop/Dougie? (and losing one's car as an analogy to losing one's mind/soul)
- Jerry high: there is a little light in the forest (?), like the lights Cooper/Dougie sees.
- Harry Truman's ill health is related to the Lodge / bad Coop's plans with Coop/Dougie.
- Diary pages: If BOB/Leland put them there, he already knew of Cooper before he arrived in Twin Peaks. Why didn't he destroy the pages? Did BOB/Leland act on the knowledge that good Coop is trapped, implying a bad Coop would be out? Did (bad) Annie plant the idea in BOB's head to use bad Coop's body?
- Ten-word line Mr. C got wrong: is also a "code" for undercover agents to use?
- The girl from Ipanema (Brazilian song): just an Albert joke on the house being in Rio de Janeiro, or is there a woman Mr. C's house belongs to? (The actual building is Al Capone's residence in Miami)
- Mr. C's voice has a low pitch only through intercom, normal face to face: electricity distortion?
- Mr. Strawberry: was Warden Murphy's dog? Dog legs: Mr. C's associates each hold a different leg as more means to blackmail Murphy? With the dog's legs associated to Mr. C, Murphy's crimes are now associated to Mr. C's crimes? Dog can reassemble into a zombie dog? Dog leg like a gangster code for something else? (like the horse head in The Godfather)?
- Last shot call for Billy (and not "Bing": error in subtitles): the people in RR change: editing mistake/shots re-purposing or is there any significance? (mirroring?)
- Gordon Cole whistling: Rammstein's Engel? or Chaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers in the Nut-cracker suite? or Nino Rota's Amarcord? ("I remember")
- Beverly is part of a secret society trying to tap into the paranormal evil of Twin Peaks (connected to the NYC glass box?) and is working undercover in the Great Northern (in order to get money to cure her husband?).
- The attack on Cooper/Dougie: the FBI will find out about him either from media coverage of the event, or from prints matches (partial matches?)
- FBI airplane exterior shot: footage from a commercial on the plane, with changes: windows change from white to shaded from frame to frame: hidden coded message? http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/theories/ ... dows-code/

[kimmy]

Quite straightforward, this one!

Part 8

- The charred woodsmen prevented Mr. C from dying, and BOB is still inside him (Mr. C and the woodsmen are on the same "side").
- The charred woodsmen removed BOB from Mr. C, and that was "Jeffries'" plan, in order to be with BOB again? (Mr. C and the woodsmen are not on the same "side").
- The woodsmen were turning Mr. C into one of them, covering him in blood (the woodsmen themselves are covered in dried blood?)
- Mr. C will now behave like Cooper/Dougie.
- Mr. C reawakening: Coop will now occupy his "real" body, the one Mr. C was occupying. Previously Coop was in Dougie's body.
- "Empty" Cooper doppelganger will merge with Cooper/Dougie to become a complete person.
- The nuclear bomb opened a portal between worlds (cosmic-scale harvesting of suffering/garmonbozia?), and caused the birth of BOB from "Experiment" (same being as "Mother", the mother of these spirits?). The (first?) convenience store is at the site of the explosion, one of the fake nuclear test sites houses. The children of the Black Lodge feed on light (electricity, "Fire Walk With Me", "Gotta light?") [The One-armed Man from Episode 13: BOB has been with us "for nearly forty years"!]
- The woodsmen represent Earth/Gaia, scorched after mankind invented so much destruction. Gaia calls for help, and BOB/spirits come; foreseeing things might go wrong, ???????/God sends Laura.
- ??????? is us, the viewer. He looks at the camera when the alarm goes off (or looks out the window?), examining us and the destruction we just wrought. He watches the same footage we were watching in the theater. He sees something missing and creates Laura, the true soul of Twin Peaks, the same way viewers long for Laura.
- ??????? is a gathering of many souls, sending just one of them (Laura) to help.
- ???????/The Giant, and Señorita Dido's place is the White Lodge.
- ???????/The Giant, a caretaker, birthed Laura's soul to help and counteract the evil, or as a trap to lure BOB and contain him? Laura, as an "angel", is reincarnated in different time periods? Laura defeated/resisted BOB in 1989 (the future) and is "pre-incarnated" in the past to resist him again?
- The golden orbs are helping spirits/angels, not Laura herself [Original series Episode 8: The Giant sends a golden light into Cooper when he bids farewell to him!]
- Similarly, BOB's spirit/orb could have time travelled from the present after being removed from Mr. C to the time of the bomb; and prompting ???????'s reaction.
- If Laura is sent from the White Lodge, did BOB try to possess her in order to gain access to the White Lodge?
- The "Experiment"/"Mother" spewed many eggs, BOB is just one among many. Grey eggs similar to the one that hatches can be seen when she vomits.
- The 1956 egg: the egg is what the Giant sent, Laura? ("Well" poem: "water" to fight "fire") Or BOB, or another "evil" egg? Or the egg for the Jumping Man? (bird beak, frog legs for jumping) Or the first stage of The Arm's evolution (similar sound to The Arm/tree right before it enters the girl's mouth: "I am The Arm and I sound like this")
- The 1956 girl is: Sarah Palmer, swallowing the essence of future Laura; she is the Log Lady (later has supernatural visions); she is Linda (she has marks on her legs, later in need of a wheelchair; and the boy is Richard) or the future Log Lady (TSHOTP: after her abduction (but in 1947) she had "minor abrasions on both knees"); she is Mrs Tremond (she ends up above the convenience store); she and the boy are Cooper's parents; Nadine (Twin Peaks lookalikes: Nadine, Big Ed and Norma); Betty Briggs (with the boy being Garland); just BOB's first host; Judy; Shelly's mother (resemblance); the future American Girl (Part 3); Dougie's mother (making Cooper & Mr. C copies of Dougie).
- The 1956 boy is: BOB, or his first host (Bob? Robertson the future neighbor of Leland?), corrupting the girl (insisting for a kiss: marking this mouth for entry by the locust-frog); Leland Palmer (with Sarah; although TSHOTP: the Palmers moved in TP in 1914); a random boy.
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer: Laura discusses with BOB: "I'm an experiment. YES. YOU SAID THAT ONCE BEFORE."
- Naido/American Girl were victims of nuclear blasts, souls sent into non-existence in the Mauve Zone.
- Woodsman put everyone to sleep so that the locust-frogs enter everyone's mouths: the girl is not a unique case.
- If the woodsmen are evil Lodge spirits or allow the "Body Snatchers"-like infestation, then the locust-frog creature we saw is also evil, and is not Laura. Final shot: the 1956 girl is heard emitting Black Lodge-like electric buzz?
- Locust-frogs are the same Chinook Native American mythological flying frogs from the Twin Peaks Access Guide. (There exists also a Balinese flying frog winged spirit chaser.)
- The symbol on Mr. C's ace card was one of those locust-frog beings; or, "Experiment"/"Mother" (she has small ear-like horns on the top of her head)
- Dougie's "death" in the Red Room: one grey "egg" from "Mother"/"Experiment", one golden orb from ???????/The Giant: everyone is composed of these two elements?
- Ray going to "the farm": Otis & Buella's place? Area 51 (nickname)? The place where the "Farmer" is? (Part 7, the man Andy was talking to about the hit and run) The place where Dougie was manufactured/"farmed"? CIA training facility Camp Peary (nickname)?
- The woodsmen are dugpas.
- Inside the convenience store: silhouette of FWWM's Jumping Man, cans of creamed corn (or of oil - scorched engine oil)?
- Time warp: the woodsmen extracted BOB from Mr. C, canned him and served him to "Mother" in the past, who vomited him as BOB.
- Ray's coordinates will lead to Dougie. Major Briggs had given the Owl Cave ring to Dougie in the past for protection; Mr. C finds Dougie and possesses him; leading to the Dougie we see right before Good Coop exits the power socket.
- Did Laura recite the "Well" poem to Cooper (in Part 2)?
- ??????? gives birth to the Laura orb through his head (like Zeus gave birth to Athena); Laura is ejected from the Red Room (Part 2): the Red Room is inside ???????'s head?
- Naido and Dido are sisters, one with "Mother", one with "Father"?
- The "Well" poem is what comes through crackled in ???????'s gramophone?
- While Mr. C was unconscious/dead, the good Cooper was fully conscious?
- 1956 girl picks up coin, notices head: connection with Red's coin flipping? Red inhabited by a locust-frog?
- The gold ??????? spews out is his own garmonbozia?
- Mr. C checks for bullets in his gun, they are there, but it doesn't fire: set up by Warden Murphy? Or some form of Lodge magic in play? Jeffries somehow helped Ray to kill Mr. C? Ray switched the guns without Mr. C noticing? Ray can do "tricks" like Red did with the coin? Mr. C wanted this to happen, so that he can get the help of the woodsmen?
- Cooper had entered the Lodge in the past (25 years before 1989?) as well, and the Dale we know is actually the doppelganger. The "real" Cooper is Mr. C, and had been trapped in the Lodge before 1989; now they will switch again.
- Nuclear bomb: connecting USA to Japan, thus connecting Part 3's American Girl with Naido? Significance of Enola Gay being named for the mother of its pilot, relation to "Mother"?
- 2nd explosion after "Experiment", we see a gold orb before moving to the mauve zone: a different big bang for the White Lodge? Transition between worlds?
- Laura in the Red Room: does not describe herself as Laura Palmer per se: she is the orb spirit, independent from Laura Palmer, who is one of her incarnations. (Present day incarnation could be Shelly's daughter Becky.) LMFAP: "she is my cousin", both offsprings of "Mother" and ???????, making "Mother" and ??????? siblings.
- Woodsman sounds like distorted voice of the "Jeffries impersonator": is the impersonator a woodsman? Was Jeffries "consumed" by the Black Lodge?
- The Owl Cave ring might be made of trinitite - a jade-like substance the sand turns into close to ground zero of a nuclear blast.
- White Lodge spirits: feminine (Dido, American Girl, Naido, Laura), except the leader ??????? (who gives birth with female genitalia imagery). Black Lodge spirits: male (BOB, woodsmen...), except the leader "Mother" (who gives birth spewing sperm-like substances).
- Gold things represent manufactured things, which are destroyed upon completion of their purpose: gold shovels, Buenos Aires machine, gold orbs, Laura.
- The woodsmen are: the Twin Peaks woodsmen killed by the fire in early 1900s (TSHOTP) and absorbed by the Black Lodge; same entity as the Woodsman from FWWM (why was he not charred? "good" vs "bad" spirit?); the homeless inhabitants of the convenience store when the nuclear bomb killed them.
- Convenience store: the building the boy and girl walk away from in 1956 is the same building? Second story was built by the woodsmen/Lodge spirits since 1945? (1945 already has a stairway to a second floor on the right side, there already was an "above").

[kimmy]

Here goes the first half of The Return...

Additional Parts 1-8

- Richard Horne is ???????'s son (resemblance).
- The Diane we see is not the real Diane. Diane is the "Mother" from Part 3 (American Girl, her daughter, has the same hairstyle), banging on the door to draw Cooper's attention.
- The figure on Mr. C's ace card (Part 2) is an image of one of the eggs with little (owl) wings descending on Earth.
- JaneyE: Janey Evans? Sister of Diane Evans?
- The "Jeffries impersonator" was with BOB previously, so it is: "Mother"/the Experiment; Leland.
- Red the coin magician is Little Nicky.

Part 9

- Everything in the same timeline: Hastings signed 9/29 (not 9/20?) and Sheriff Truman says 10/1 is two days from now; Mr. C calls Duncan Todd in Las Vegas re: killing Dougie, and sends a text message to Diane.
- Jerry Horne: possessed foot: like the arms possessed by Lodge spirits (Episode 27-28)?
- Major Briggs's note: Lodges open on 10/1 and close on 10/2? Cooper/Dougie will re-enter the Lodge and re-exit on 10/1 or 10/2 as he was initially supposed to? (That's what we saw with Hawk at Glastonbury Grove in Part 2?). Part 3: American Girl's watch reads SA 10 1 2:53: Cooper went back in time when he entered the power plug? (Note: October 1st was a Saturday in 2016)
- Major Briggs's note: a symbol like the one on Mr. C's ace on top of one of the peaks: Owl Cave symbol, or something else? Coordinates for entering the Lodges are key. 253 yards, time 2:53: "253 again and again".
- Major Briggs's note: "Cooper/Cooper/Co": 3rd "Cooper" cut short, perhaps because Dougie has been annihilated? Many "Cooper"s repeated in the original season 2 episode?
- Cooper focuses on US flag, red shoes: memories of Diane in Philadelphia FBI office? (present-day Diane has red flat shoes) Of Audrey's shoes? (famously red heeled shoes) Remembering he lost his own shoes when he passed through the electric socket? Wizard of Oz reference? Callback to Lil from FWWM?
- Johnny Horne injured/dead: odd that Ben behaves as usual: due to moving scenes around in editing? Hornes divorced and living far apart?
- Johnny Horne panicking: sensed that hum in the Grand Northern walls, or saw Josie? (He hit his head on a photo of the Grand Northern.) He learned that he is not Ben's son either? Golden light flash when he hits his head: connection to his soul departing, or guardian angel intervening?
- Johnny Horne had a Cooper/Dougie experience in the past and never found himself again.
- Johnny became a new host of BOB after BOB left Mr. C and couldn't handle it. Now BOB is trying to possess Jerry.
- Jerry is wandering somewhere close to Jack Rabbit's Palace and has become entangled in Lodge magic.
- Hastings' secretary killed in a car explosion: Jack did it (organized in Parts 1-2), and recovered the coordinates and gave them to Ray? (Ray did it? Philip Jeffries did it?) If the secretary also had the coordinates, why did Mr. C and Ray focus on Ruth? Laura's orb/soul is somehow involved with the secretary, and Mr. C couldn't approach her directly without the secretary recognizing him? If Ruth had the coordinates and Hastings doesn't know them, why did Hastings' secretary have them? Whoever killed Ruth could have recovered the coordinates written on her hand (and her body is missing): who killed her then? One was killed by "team Mr. C" and one by "team Jeffries", each looking for the coordinates and trying to trump the other's plans? Hank (from Part 1) killed Ruth and stole her hand (in his bag)? Betty was working for Jeffries and was killed by Mr. C's associates?
- Hastings' description: "they" asked for his wife's name: why? They meant Ruth and mistook her for his wife? Relevance to Mr. C telling Phyllis Hastings she "follow[s] human nature perfectly"? Who were "they", Woodsmen? (hole in Ruth's head, similar to how Woodsmen crush skulls?)
- "Around the dinner table the conversation is lively": refers to the convenience store scene from FWWM, with LMFAP & BOB around bowls of garmonbozia?
- Ella & Chloe at the end (high on Red's drug Sparkle?), refer to zebras and penguins: talking in codes? black and white animals, drug gives glimpses of Black & White Lodges? Jerry also high on the same thing? Code names meaning police? Penguin stands for nun: refer to Annie?
- Bobby scratches himself: same Sparkle rash as Ella & Chloe? Due to Chad being around?
- Ella at the end: Elle->L->Linda? Also, Audrey's daughter? (an Audrey lookalike)
- Bushnell curling fist in front of the policemen: thinks that Dougie's shady colleague Anthony put the hit on Dougie? Reference to Lil in FWWM: uncooperative local law enforcement?
- "This is the chair", Betty Briggs's chair: same chair Cooper was on in the black & white intro to Part 1? (certainly same texture)
- Diane gets text message from Mr. C: she is working with him?! Mr. C found her number somehow and is stalking her/blackmailing her?
- Text message: Mr. C sends it in lowercase, Diane receives it in capitals: was there an intermediary, like the machine in Buenos Aires? Due to old mobile phone being used? (also: second message has a comma and a full stop. Goof?)
- Who else is in the Zone Hastings visited and who killed Ruth? Same as the Lodges or a different world? Our own dimension, where "Twin Peaks" is a work of fiction?
- Hastings' description of Major Briggs's head floating up: similar to the charred woodsman next to Hastings' cell. Connection between the two? Briggs has become a woodsman spirit?
- Hastings' description of Briggs' ascension, similar to ???????'s ascension in Part 8: Briggs was possessed by/was an avatar of ??????? somehow?
- Great Northern hum: similar to Major Briggs's device. Another device hidden inside the walls?
- Jack Rabbit's Palace: it *was* about the bunny! (Relation to Inland Empire's Jack Rabbit?)
- Connection junkie's kid/Chantal/Sonny Jim: junkie's kid has a red "1" on him; Chantal the same "1" and white stars on blue; Sonny Jim has a blanket with white stars on blue. Somewhere someone will sport a "9" to complete "1-1-9"?
- Mr. C's "double header" in Las Vegas for Chantal and Hutch: Cooper/Dougie and Duncan Todd?
- Duncan Todd having double allegiance to Mr. C and Philip Jeffries? Duncan Todd received a red square to hire Ike while Mr. C was in prison: how was he contacted? Machine in Buenos Aires fully automated without Mr. C's involvement? Machine is Jeffries? Mr. C's call while in prison to the machine was to destroy it, as he didn't want Jeffries to trace it and use it, or because he didn't have any more use of it?
- Who is "JT" that Ike called on the phone? A middle name with "T" in James Hurley? Judy?
- Ike's bandaged arm: a wailing/sighing sound is heard when we zoom in on it? Relation to James Hurley's friend with a big green lizard glove (Part 2)?
- Callback to Major Briggs and Bobby's discussion in season 2: Bobby appears in the Major's house and they embrace: does that imply that Bobby will die and join the Major in the Lodges/Mauve zone?
- TheSearchForTheZone.com: Coordinates: 44°30'44.8"N 103°49'14.6"W: a random place in South Dakota? Connection with solar eclipse visible from there, coming on August 21 2017? (right after Part 15 airs) Lots of links to real and apocryphal physics on quantum theory, parallel universes and dimensions, manipulating electricity, radio wave frequencies, recordings of experiments (with sounds similar to those while Cooper is travelling across dimensions, to the Woodsmen)...

[kimmy]

I continue my merry way to gather these for the future -- most of the theories expressed are way, way off mark, or trying to find one-to-one connections (everyone is a Lodge spirit! everyone is the 1956 girl!) when the connections should be taken as more abstract. But some interesting theories do pop up!...

Additional Parts 1-9

- Part 9: Mr. C's text message to Diane: Mr. C is impersonating somebody Diane knows in order to manipulate her into doing something for him.
- Part 1: Hastings to his wife: "I know about George, and maybe somebody else too": was that somebody else Mr. C, getting close to Hastings to get to the coordinates?
- Hawk is possessed by a (good) White Logde spirit?
- Bobby is possessed by BOB, and is abusing his daughter Betty, which is why she is doing drugs.
- Part 8: "Mother"/Experiment's hands are reversed: connecting her to "Laura": "sometimes my arms bend back"
- Sonny Jim: that's the name in "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a character that is an imaginary construct of a couple; is Dougie's & Janey-E's Sonny Jim an imagined character? Is Dougie's whole family artificially created, like him? Is Janey-E a projection of Cooper's feminine side?
- Andy wearing a Rolex: a sign he is corrupt and in on the drug trade with Chad? Chad bought his silence but Andy is unaware of Chad's doings?
- Mr. C is communicating with everyone else via electronics routed through that machine in Buenos Aires: this is because Mr. C's timeline is shifted in time and the machine sends messages back in time, to Duncan Todd, to Lorraine. Cooper/Dougie takes place some 10 days earlier than Mr.C & South Dakota timeline; or Mr. C is time travelling back and forth.
- Cooper came out in Dougie some 10 days earlier, but his consciousness stayed stuck in the Mauve Zone on Oct-01. He will wake up when time finally reaches Oct-01; or when he gets his shoes back from the Mauve Zone ("something is missing"), which will be obtained by Hawk or Cole when either of them enter the zone through their respective coordinates. In the NYC glass box: Cooper moves forward/backward or inside/outside across 10 frames = 10 days shift. American Girl: "When you get there, you will already be there", Sat Oct-01 on her watch; Naido "stuck" the Mauve room to that date, before it was moving back and forth in time. https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comm ... rple_room/ & https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comm ... 53_theory/
- Part 7: Date on Andy's watch: "10": October? October 10? Andy/Richard Horne story takes place days after everything else?

Part 10

- Miriam's letter: letter writes "Miriam Hodges", credits show her as "Miriam Sullivan": goof? Chad got the wrong letter?
- Chad getting Miriam's letter: mailman delivered it in the same day Miriam sent it? Wrong letter? Scene taking place the day after, despite quick editing?
- Part 6: Red was going to get drugs at Mary Ann's: her and Miriam are the same?
- Diane's reply to Mr. C: Diane really in league with Mr. C? Or Albert planting false information? (hid the fact he had been in contact with Jeffries to Cole) Or is it Tammy? (Albert says "according to Tammy") Diane believes she is talking to somebody else whose identity Mr. C has usurped? (like Judy?) Not the real Diane? Diane is working with Mr. C in the hope that he will release Good Cooper?
- Two teams: Mr. C & Diane vs Philip Jeffries & Albert? Good Coop & Cole caught in the middle.
- Diane's reply to Mr. C: Hastings will lead the FBI to "the site" at the same time Twin Peaks people will reach the place next to Jack Rabbit's Palace.
- Mr. C's message to Diane: routed via a server in Mexico: Chantal's/Mr. C's cell phone somehow rerouted via Mexico? Jeffries is involved via Mexico? (One of) Diane's boyfriend(s) is also involved? Intermediary in Mexico rewrote the message? (explains differences in punctuation) Relation to Jerry not getting reception on his mobile phone?
- Richard's parentage narrowed down: could still be either Audrey, or Johnny (or Donna? but Sylvia wouldn't be his grandmother. Or adopted?) (! Swedish subtitles correspond to mother's mother !)
- Photo of Mr. C in the NYC glass box room: Mr. C is the millionaire behind the NYC glass box? Or Mr. C blackmailed Duncan Todd to finance that?
- Photo of Mr. C in the NYC glass box room: with another man: A monk meditating and levitating? Philip Jeffries? Sam Stanley? (glasses, trenchcoat) Heinrich Viegel? (Hastings' collaborator according to TheSearchForTheZone.com - thus manipulating Hastings by proxy?) A third man behind the second one, or is it tubing? (looks like Bowie/Jeffries?)
- Glitch on the door when Tammy is about to open Cole's door: Laura's presence? Indication that something is wrong with Tammy?
- Laura at Cole's door: similar to the hum in the Great Northern, Laura is haunting the place?
- Candie talking to Anthony: is she playing dumb? Is she on Duncan Todd's side? Does she know Dougie and tries to protect him? (was she in Dougie's car accident in the past with him?) Was she seeing the little Red Room visions Cooper/Dougie had seen? Was she the one Duncan Todd was referring to when he said "she got the job" and not Lorraine? (Part 1)
- Cole's drawing of a horn with large horns: referencing Buckhorn?
- Did Richard also kill the owner of the truck he used for the hit and run, the farmer who missed his appointment with Andy? (ominous shot of open door in Part 7)
- Cooper/Dougie is missing his stab wound (Windom Earle) and his gunshot wound (Josie - although he was wearing a bulletproof vest): his body was regenerated when he crossed the Lodges? Manufactured body same as Dougie?
- The "two-header in Las Vegas" for Hutch and Chantal from Mr. C is the Mitchum brothers (enemies of Duncan Todd).
- Richard, the offspring of Cooper's bad doppelganger, will enter the Lodge and meet his own doppelganger - a good Richard. The good will exit, the bad will stay trapped (episode 29 reversed).
- Johnny's teddy bear's head is the remainder of Laura's gold orb.
- Richard is driving a Saturn: related to the Lodges? (Saturn sign on Own Cave map) Also, an electrical socket-like thing in the front of his car: relevant? Conductor for Lodge spirits?
- Richard has been busted before but he keeps getting freed out of jail by Ben Horne.

[kimmy]

Here comes the next one. Don't hesitate to point out other theories that are on this list, especially since I don't follow much non-Dugpa discussions!

Additional Parts 1-10

- The hum in the Great Northern is Cooper: he should have returned to Twin Peaks but because of the Dougie business only his body-less mind returned.
- Astrological symbols on Owl Cave map. Black Lodge = Saturn (statue of planet Saturn on table next to Cooper in Episode 29); White Lodge = Jupiter (cloud-like pattern on floor in black & white sequences in Parts 1 & 8 )
- Diane is the Jeffries impersonator that called Mr. C (Part 2).
- Mr. C's house in Brazil, machine in Buenos Aires, routed messages via Mexico: connection to John Justice Wheeler's business partner that got killed in South America? Audrey is in South America?
- Richard is Donna (and James's) son, adopted into the Horne family.
- If Dougie's world is an artificial construct in Cooper's mind trying to cope with his return to reality, then Jany-E is Audrey and Sonny Jim is Richard.
- Diane smoking: connection with "Gotta light?": Diane is evil. Part 10: Diane smoking with Cole: a way for Cole to test Diane and see her for what she is.
- Ruth Davenport was Annie hiding for her protection, protected by Albert & Cole, but Mr. C found out about her.
- Red dice on the offices Lorraine and the Silver Mustang Casino manager: both work for the Mitchums? Mr. C and Duncan Todd used Lorraine (for the murder of Dougie) also to point suspicions for the murder to the Mitchums and frame them?

Part 11

- Portals: Glastonbury Grove leads to the Red Room, South Dakota leads to the Woodsmen's realm (Convenience store?), Jack Rabbit's Palace will lead to the White Lodge or to "Mother"'s place?
- Cole's vision of the Woodsmen: is itthe convenience store? Wallpaper: similar to the wallpaper of the Chalfonts' (Laura's painting in FWWM)
- Photo of arm with coordinates: first two digits look photoshopped ("48"), in order to mislead Diane on purpose and see what she does with the info? (Albert & Cole's odd talk of the cat and the dream)
- Coordinates: 4855142 117263458 --> 48°55'14.2"N 117°26'34.58"W. Lead to Washington state just a south of the Canadian border, just west of the state line: Twin Peaks!
- Ruth Davenport credited as Mary Stofle, same actor as for "Experiment Model" i.e. "Mother": relevant?
- Gordon Cole's arm was shaking after he exited the vortex, like the Twin Peaks inhabitants' when the Lodge was about to open (Episodes 27-28).
- Why did the woodsmen kill Hastings now and not all the previous times they had the chance?
- Is Cole seeing more things than Albert due to his hearing device, conducting electricity?
- The shot where Diane sees the Woodsman is the exact reverse of the shot where Cole sees him; reverse points to doppelganger: is Diane a doppelganger?
- Diane and the Woodsmen are working with Philip Jeffries against Mr. C.
- MIKE/Philip Gerrard also planted the dream in the Belushi Mitchum? Also responsible for somehow manipulating reality/time and healing the Kepper Mitchum's wound? Wound healed by Candie, whose presence is somehow supernatural?
- Mitchum's wound healed: we are all living in a dream world, all we see of the series is an imaginary construct (of David Lynch - breaking the fourth wall).
- Candie is also maufactured for a purpose like Dougie? Candie is Laura who exited the Lodge like Cooper did? (or Annie?)
- Bushnell squeezes and massages Cooper/Dougie's face and says "knock'em dead" (Coop repeats "dead") in the same way Mr. C massaged Jack's face (Part 2) and Jack ended up dead offscreen: foreshadowing/relevance?
- Deputy Jessie asking "want to come see my new car?": simply comic relief? parody of a commercial break in conventional TV? or a code for something else?
- Hawk: Oct-01 is still two days ahead; while time has passed in other storylines. Storylines not aligned/synchronous? Parts 9-10-11 mixed up scenes for flowing/stylistic reasons?
- As soon as Red appears, all hell breaks loose: Red's presence is supernatural and awakens Lodge spirits (is he the Chalfont grandson?)
- Shooting at RR, zombie kid: paranormal events announcing the opening of the Lodges soon.
- Sick zombie kid: on Sparkle?
- Kid that shot RR staring at Bobby: trying to tell him something, like domestic abuse?
- Gretchen Hayward with Steven: the implication is they have a sexual relationship (age difference, but Gretchen is too young to be his mother). How did Gretchen end up like this? Was Donna killed in James's bike accident (referenced by Shelly in Part 2), this Gretchen lots her moral compass and destroyed the Hayward family?
- Gretchen Hayward and Darya wear very similar clothes: relevant?
- Piano music at the end ("Heartbreaking"): captures Cooper/Dougie's attention. Melody similar to "Laura Palmer's Theme" (first 3 notes, last 2 notes); or to "Sycamore Trees" (chord structure); or to the hum in the Great Northern (D#). Cooper reacts to non-diegetic music: aware of the music of "Twin Peaks" same way as the viewer, breaking the fourth wall?
- Cooper/Dougie has gone through all the phases of childhood/teen development and has matured into an adult (sex, alcohol): he is ready to snap back into Cooper.
- Breaking Bad trip: Big Ed is leading the Sparkle drug trade, with Norma doing the money laundering, Red the distributing, and involving deputies Chad and Jessie; Harry Truman found out about it and Big Ed poisoned him.

[kimmy]

Theorizing is a way of life. Some people can't help it.

Additional Parts 1-11

- Diane and Sarah are heavy drinkers: like Philip Gerard, taking drugs, to numb the body and prevent possession by Lodge spirits? Or, conversely, alcohol as enabler for possession?
- [trailer shot] Mr. C will change his appearance to look like the good Coop / look like an FBI agent, and arrive at Twin Peaks.

Part 12

- Cole & Albert will pick up Cooper/Dougie in Las Vegas, everyone will converge in Twin Peaks.
- If Albert & Cole are trying to scam Diane (and Mr. C) with wrong coordinates and these point to Twin Peaks (in order to push Mr. C back to the Black Lodge?), where do the real coordinates point to? Rey (and so Phillip Jeffries) presumably have the real coordinates.
- Cole's French girl actually provides a coded message (like Lil in FWWM). "a friend of her mother whose daughter has gone missing" similar to Lil's dialogue.
- Cole's girl: "a friend of her mother whose daughter has gone missing" who has a turnip farm: a farmer: Darya is the girl gone missing and Buella is her mother in "The Farm" (implied in Part ?
- Mr. C is trying to pull the FBI in Vegas so that they mistake Cooper/Dougie for him, and let him free to continue with his plans.
- Diane: "Co-or-di-nates + 2": mnemonic device to recall the numbers (assigning each number to a letter in the word "coordinates", 2 letters left for a total of 13)
- Diane: emerges from red curtains, says "Let's Rock!" (a LMFAP line), ominous music: she's evil / a Lodge spirit herself / a doppelganger / possessed by BOB (started receiving messages after BOB was removed from Mr. C by the woodsmen, communicates with Mr. C again via SMS) / possessed by The Arm / possessed by MIKE (leading FBI to thwart BOB's plans?). Why the sign with her two fingers? We see Diane vs Diane's doppelganger depending on her change of clothes?
- Diane is possessed by MIKE, Sarah is possessed by BOB?
- The woodsmen are trying to find a new host for BOB after they extracted him from Mr. C. Candidates: Diane; Sarah Palmer.
- Ending scene at the Roadhouse: Trick nearly hit by a car: Mr. C arriving in Twin Peaks? Richard again?
- Who is in Sarah Palmer's kitchen? The supermarket delivery employee? (Sarah inhabited by BOB and this is the first victim?) Laura returned from the Lodge? A white horse? "Mother"/"The Experiment" trying to break through into our world? The coordinates actually lead to the Palmer house? The "15" socket in the Mauve Zone leads to the Palmer house?
- Audrey's Charlie: the same person in the photo with Mr. C in front of the NYC glass box? Is Charlie financing the NYC glass box?
- Jacoby and Nadine are actually dead and are living in their own personal heavens, re-living over and over again what they perceive as enjoyable for them.
- FWWM: Laura refers to herself as a turkey: relation with Sarah's obsession with Turkey Jerky?
- Sarah questioning whatever changes in the supermarket: reality changing/fluctuating in Twin Peaks?
- Sarah inhabited by a spirit? Similar to her possession in Episode 29? Possessed by BOB? (similar grimace)
- Sarah: "men are coming": woodsmen? "your room seems different": is she speaking to Laura?
- Miriam Sullivan vs Miriam Hodges on the letter (Part 10): Ben says "I forget her last name": still a possibility of quid-pro-quo? a meta-joke on viewers?
- Miriam: The police know about the Miriam-Richard connection via Miriam herself, Lucy will make the connection with Chad and the letter; this leads to police to Richard, Red and Sparkle.
- Dr. Amp: the world is filled with "monstrous vermin": a description of the bug Gregor Samsa turned into in Kafka's "Metamorphosis"; bugs in Part 8, Kafka's portrait in Cole's office: relevant?
- Ben: Richard "didn't have a father": reinforces theory that Mr. C is the absent father; mother could be Audrey, estranged from the Hornes or in a coma, or Donna, estranged from the Haywards, and Sylvia (and Ben?) were his guardians.
- Crystal ball: Charlie says he doesn't have one, but there is one on his desk (crystal ball-like snow globe paperweight). Also, crystal ball on Diane's fingernail. Connection with gold orbs?
- Audrey's scene mirrors Beverly's scene: similar lighting, unhappy marriage, somehow physically challenged husband.
- Audrey is not in Twin Peaks, the Roadhouse they refer to is a different place.
- Audrey & Charlie: "break our contract", neither wear wedding rings: this is an arranged marriage of convenience. Audrey is estranged from the Hornes and Charlie is a rich benefactor that paid for her medical bills (coma life-support)?
- Audrey is in a coma; or dreaming; or she is in a mental facility and is delirious (and Charlie is her psychiatrist). Hints: neither Audrey or Charlie move an inch throughout 10 minutes, as if they were dolls in a dollhouse (Johnny played with dollhouses in the original series); Audrey mentions having a dream, Charlie mentions several times he is tired and would like to sleep; Charlie is standing in front of the only door visible, as if he's blocking Audrey's way, and has endless paperwork; scene cuts to Audrey right after Dr. Amp mentions "Ninth Circle of Hell"; the sand in the hourglass doesn't change throughout the scene, it's "stuck in time"; time and reality-related books in the bookshelfs (T.S. Eliot's "Four Quarters" about time and the divine; the titles "Happy Times" and "Pronto").
- Audrey's scene: stairway behind curtain: she is trapped above the convenience store?
- The Audrey/Charlie dialogue is Audrey trying to process in her head real-world information that is coming her way, things suppressed into her subconscious: "Chuck told you Tina was the last person to see Billy?” equivalent to 'Mr. C told Audrey and Diane he was the last person to see good Coop'; her rape would explain why we still don't know who Richard's parents are. We might be experiencing not just her scene but the whole of The Return through her eyes: Dougie/Janey-E are the perfect life, Sonny Jim is the idealized son Richard never was, Tammy is the FBI agent Audrey never became (and her competitors for Cooper are either traitorous bitches (Diane) or not mentioned (Annie)). She is in purgatory (with Charlie), and her memories of good times (the 315 Great Northern key) is her desire for honesty, transiting via her father, a fatherly figure she is missing.
- Charlie's phonecall: He learnt about Richard's hit-and-run, or he talked to the mother of the hit-and-run kid. Audrey is about to learn that her son (Richard) killed her lover (Billy)?
- Charlie's phonecall: Billy (Audrey's lover) is the same man that owns the truck that Chuck stole and Richard used for his traffic and hit-and-run. Billy didn't show up to meet Andy at 4:30, ominous shot at Billy's trailer, and Riley is looking for Billy (end of Part 7; this person is credited as "Farmer").
- Audrey and Diane are doppelgangers: Evil Cooper's visits were to put doppelgangers in key places.
- Chronology: Parts 1-8/9 in clear chronological order (approximately one day per Part, up to the reveal that 10/1 taking place in two days); Parts 9/10-12 very confusing (within same couple of days, backs and forths): disorientation, time folding in on itself as the Lodge opening is approaching, time cutting back and forth like with Naido in the Mauve Zone?
- Chronology: Diane interrogating Mr. C and Diane saying "Let's rock!" and SMS exchange on Las Vegas in same day (red clothes) (Sep-28?). Dr. Amp's show in Part 5 and Part 12 is the same one (Sep-29?). Despite editing, Jerry must have spent 1-2 days tops in the woods (Sep-29-30?). Diane in Buckhorn debriefing and in hotel bar remembering coordinates in the same day (green clothes) (Sep-30?). Becky & Steve's scenes reversed: Becky first took Shelly's car and shot on Gersten's door, and later Becky and Steven argue in their trailer ("I know what you did"). Richard timeline more confusing: date on Andy's watch when he is to meet the farmer at 4:30 is "10" (Sep? Oct?); date on monitor at Miriam in hospital Sep-24; Sheriff Truman and Ben discuss Richard (and 315 key) probably Sep-29.
- Chronology: moon phases. Lodge opening related to an astronomical event: a 'dark moon' (2nd new moon in the same month) that really happened in Sep-30-2016, i.e. in the night to Oct-01 (2:53am?) Warden Murphy shot: moon in last quarter. Audrey's scene: there is a new moon (so some days later).

[JohnPalSki]

I'm loving this thread.. just stopped by for the first time. I am rewatching parts 1-4 and have a teensy morsel to add:
Part 2, at about 43:44, in the Red Room, after Cooper sees Leland, Leland says "find Laura" (or something to that effect) and Cooper turns and takes a few steps toward the curtains, I CLEARLY hear that same sound that the record player makes after "?????" Says "Agent Cooper, listen to the sounds"....
I have to wonder if we actually DO see some of this as it happens, with Coop going from the "Slow 30's Room" with "?????" to the Red Room....
I'm not sure what that means, but this seemed like the best place to get some feedback.....


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[kimmy]

Part 2, at about 43:44, in the Red Room, after Cooper sees Leland, Leland says "find Laura" (or something to that effect) and Cooper turns and takes a few steps toward the curtains, I CLEARLY hear that same sound that the record player makes after "?????" Says "Agent Cooper, listen to the sounds"....

Is that the same moment when Cooper attempts to exit the curtains but can't? Like something has gone wrong, like a needle has jumped a groove in a gramophone?
I think in this thread you will find people that have done some sound track analyses: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3551&start=720

On to:

Part 13

- Powerful Mr. C: BOB is still in Mr. C?
- Lots of characters stuck in a loop: repetition of Dr. Amp scenes, looped boxing match at Sarah Palmer's TV (restarting with a buzz of electricity!), Audrey can't seem to be able to move from her house, James is still singing the same song, Ed is stuck with his want of Nadine... Are we seeing a subjective point of view of characters trapped in hell/limbo/Lodge magick?
- Stuck characters, backs and forths in time, stuttering Naido, frantic Woodsmen at 1947 explosion: Lynch & Frost are DJing with the timeline?
- Bobby: found father's thing "today" (happened in Part 9); Becky doesn't know where Stephen is (she hasn't left the trailer yet, scene happens before Steven abusing her in Part 10?): more evidence the timeline is mixed up. (Or is it? Shelly has bruises from falling from the car, Steven is probably still with Gersten...)
- Audrey: Ghostwood mention, Audrey seems afraid of it. Ghostwood was why Audrey tied herself to the bank in Episode 29; Ben Horne really made the Ghostwood development and destroyed her dreams, or is it the last thing she remembers before she went into a coma she is still in?
- Audrey to Charlie: "The story of the girl down the lane": refers to Laura? refers to "Baa Baa Back Sheep" kids song? (reminiscent of Mr. C's "The Cown Jumped Over the Moon"?) refers to the 1976 film of that name?
- Charlie to Audrey: "Do you want me to end your story, too?": more evidence that this is an artificial reality, or that Audrey is living in a dream/coma. Audrey explicitly says "I feel like I’m somewhere else.", "Like I’m somewhere else and I’m somebody else".
- Audrey is stuck somewhere between worlds; her soul has been used to manufacture Janey-E (and Mr. C had visited her to the hospital to harvest her soul) -- making Sonny Jim Richard's opposite, in the sense that the soul of Audrey and the good piece of Dale Cooper created the antithesis of Richard.
- Mr. C has Ray wear the Owl Cave ring: to harvest his garmonbozia? to give a message to MIKE/Jeffries/Jeffries impersonator that they have failed to kill him?
- Sonny Jim's gym set: round spotlight playing around: ominous callback to Episode 14 Leland/Maddie spotlight?
- Final scene with Big Ed: for a short instant, his reflection on the window is not synchronous to his body (body still, reflection sips from cup): production goof, or relevant? A doppelganger/possessed? (echoes 1990s writers' interviews on the direction the doppelganger mythology would have taken, that everyone has a double that exists just seconds removed from our timeline, a "shadow self", like Cooper still being on the CCTV and Jeffries passes by him in FWWM) (or simply editing artifact mixing foreground/background takes?)
- Big Ed: a lot of suffering, plays with fire/matches, eat creamed corn (?): ripe for corruption by Lodge spirits? (Episode 10: Leland quoting BOB: "You wanna play with fire, little boy?") suicidal?
- Candie is Annie and good Coop's daughter (Linda?)
- How did Richard get at "The Farm", and why? Did he recognize Mr. C on the giant TV? (previous indications: did the hit-and-run take place several days before, circa Sep-24, and Richard has been at the Farm it's been several days; Mr. C arrives on Sep-29).
- Mr. C was still looking for the coordinates: is Diane working with him or not? Could Diane be working with Jeffries? Could Diane be the Jeffries impersonator?
- The Jeffries impersonator is MIKE: his objective is to defeat BOB and force Mr. C's return. If he wants to "be with BOB again", it's for malevolent reasons.
- Jacoby & Nadine: last met at supermarket, 7 years ago, during a storm: significant? Last time Lodge opened? Above the convenience store?
- Ray says Jeffries is at The Dutchman: relation to the Flying Dutchman ghost ship? Jeffries is shifting between various places of existence? (atop that bell structure flying in space in the Mauve zone?) Is Jeffries possessing somebody like a Lodge spirit, and that person is a Dutch man? The Dutchman will be some kind of extradimensional hotel in Buenos Aires?
- Dougie has coffee and cherry pie: he will only "wake up" when he tastes the authentic recipe of Nadine.
- Annie is elsewhere, managing these Double R clones.

[Novalis]

Loving how concise and succinct these are, far more than I can ever manage. Also packed with detail.

Some really good work here.