![]() ![]() For all of Twin Peaks’ weirdness, it’s actually very simple. All we can do is try and be the best selves we can. Bad things will occur, lessons will often not be learned, and wondering too much will send you down gigantic rabbit holes. He can solve a crime, but he can’t heal the wounds it inflicted … are all of Agent Cooper’s efforts effectively futile? Photograph: Suzanne Tenner/ShowtimeĪll of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Whatever the true circumstances of that final journey, it’s heavily intimated by Laura/Carrie’s bloodcurdling scream that Agent Cooper’s noble efforts are effectively futile – he can solve a crime, but he can’t heal the wounds it inflicted. No explanation of Audrey’s situation is offered to us, no resolution granted to her. Sarah Palmer is left, at some unclear point in time, smashing up a photograph of her murdered daughter. ![]() The point is, we were never supposed to understand. But I believe Lynch and Frost get away with withholding answers because I’ve never witnessed a piece of television so confident in its own skin. And then … well, that’s all to discuss below the line. By this point, the old charismatic Dale is fading too – into some beige amalgam of himself and Dougie and Mr C. Another shoot-out ensues, and Cooper disarms some hoodlums by deep-frying their shotguns (obviously). The lady vanishes, Cooper wakes up in an entirely different motel, follows the coordinates to a diner called Judy’s, which is linked somehow to the ancient evil that is Jowday. Cooper and Real-Diane are revealed to be in love, travel 430 miles away, enjoy a hookup in a seedy motel that may or may not trigger troubling memories for Diane depending on what she can still remember. Having been granted our big climax, things take a turn for the baffling. Photograph: Suzanne Tenner/ShowtimeĪnd so, for reasons best known to David Lynch, Cooper remains compelled to (somehow) try and save Laura Palmer. ![]()
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