The Happy Ending Theory

Many Twin Peaks theories claim that a) it's all a dream, b) Dale Cooper's plan failed because he tried to
do too much - white knight syndrome (changing the timeline by saving Laura Palmer in 1989) and it back-
fired on him, or c) they claim that he is caught in a forever looping story that he can't escape from - or a
combination of these. This theory is different in that it claims that Dale Cooper's plan works out and that
The Experiment (the evil force) is defeated.
Some theories claim that it was an error for Dale to disturb the timeline as he created a completely differ-
ent future that he could not control (the butterfly effect) but David Lynch seems to be telling us that even
the dramatic change of saving Laura Palmer's life is really a subtle change in the big scheme of things.
This is shown 1) in the closing scene of S3E7 where many of the people in the RR Diner are suddenly re-
placed by others. It happens just as Shelly turns around and she gets a puzzled look as if she realizes
that something very odd just happened but then forgets about it and continue as if nothing happened. 2) It
is also underlined by the opening scenes from the pilot in S3E17, where everything is exactly the same
except that Pete gets to go fishing.
This signals that the change of the timeline that Dale Cooper is causing is really not changing much more
than saving Laura Palmer - and, hence, is not as problematic as many make it out to be.
Many insist that the ending of FWWM was the happy ending that Cooper has undone by saving her. But
during season 3 we see countless examples of how Twin Peaks has been in a downward spiral during
the past 25 years with sickness, drug addicts, corrupt cops, careless rednecks etc. It is important to un-
derstand that Cooper is not only saving Laura but also trying to defeat the evil that has infiltrated Twin
Peaks and the world by changing the time line. The alternative would be to let the world go to hell only for
the sake of Laura. with this angle, I think the story holds together very
well.
Anyway, this theory is different in that it claims that
Dale Cooper's plan works out and that The Experi-
ment (the evil force) is defeated.
What got me to think that there was a happy end-
ing in the first place was the dramatical structure of
episodes 17 and 18. While episode 17 reveals a
number of successes for “good” (healthy Cooper
comes back to Twin Peaks, Chads escape is pre-
vented, Mr. C is killed, BOB is “smashed”, all the
“good people” get united at the station, Naido’s
blindness is removed, Laura’s life is saved etc) but
in the final moments of the episode Laura is taken
away in an “evil” way (screaming). In opposition to
this, episode 18 is structured in the opposite way.
Everything is quite confusing to follow, Cooper
seem to loose momentum and not be so much in
1) First nuclear explosion: The world's first nu-
control. The Odessa world seem unfriendly and
clear explosion in White Sands, New Mexico, on
harsh. The long drive to Twin Peaks is dark and
July 16, 1945 at 5:30am MWT (S3E8).
seem to have no meaning. Getting to the Palmer
House is anti climactic as Sarah is not even there... This explosion created some kind of sub-atomic ef-
until the last moment when Carrie breaks character fect that opened a number of portals allowing an
with her scream and the Palmer House goes dark. evil entity (The Experiment) to spew evil spirits (in-
cluding BOB) into our world (S3E8). The most dan-
This made me think that while episode 17 is mainly
gerous element sent by The Experiment seems to
positive but has a bad ending, episode 18 is mainly
be the Frog Bug sent to earth as a kind of child of
negative, so the ending must be a positive one to
The Experiment.
mirror episode 17 - and, most importantly, to create
a surprise. And when you start looking at the show The explosion allowed for both evil and good por-
tals to appear on earth, such as The Dutchman’s,
the circle of trees at Glastonbury Grove, and the
Golden Pond by Jack Rabbit's Palace that is con-
nected to The White Lodge and The Fireman (we
see the golden liquid come through the explosion,
too).
2) The Laura Palmer orb: The Fireman is alarmed
about The Experiment's attack and sends a Laura
Palmer orb to earth to defeat the evil of The Experi-
ment. The Orb is not necessarily Laura Palmer or
the seed of Laura Palmer. It might just be the mem-
ory of Laura (represented by her high school
photo). With the plan that The Fireman came up
with, just the memory of Laura is needed to defeat
The Experiment...
As a side point, notice how The Fireman’s “think-
ing” or “meditation” is visualized. Rather than being
a regular cloud of random ideas looking like the
stars of the universe, David Lynch chooses to show
how the stars form distinct paths that intermingle
and cross each other. To me this is a comment to
the discussion about whether Lynch just create
random expressions that the viewer should inter-
pret as they like (making all theories equal), or if he
has actually planned a (more or less) consistent
story that he wants us to figure out. By showing
The Fireman’s ideas forming these consistent
“paths” I think he may be telling us that there is a
specific story that he is trying to tell us.
3) Dreaming: The way the Laura Orb is sent to
earth seems to relate to how the notion of “dream-
ing” is used in the show. So when Philip Jeffries
claims that "We live inside a dream" (FWWM) and
Dale Cooper repeats it in S3E17 they are not say-
ing that we are fictive characters in an unreal world.
They say that our world can be seen (and to some
extend affected) by others but as a separate di-
mension, ie time is not the same. In the same way
that we can watch a movie many times, and that
the same point in time in a movie may happen
many times in our reality (once every time we
watch the movie). This is indicated by how The
Fireman sees the earth as on a movie screen, and
when he sends the Laura Orb to earth he is trans-
ferring it from his reality into the (for him seemingly)
"flat" reality of our world.
So, while some think that the whole series may be
a dream where Carrie dreams that she is Laura, I 
think David Lynch is pointing the other way. By
showing us that his Monica Bellucci dream is
something that looks a lot as real life (Monica Bel-
lucci is playing herself and they are at a cafe in
Paris where a real life gallery shows David Lynch
art), David Lynch is showing us how an actual
dream (in the sense "an unreal world with fictive
characters") looks in the Twin Peaks show.
In the end of the dream Monica Bellucci asks: “...
but who is the dreamer?”. Think about this: What
other part of the Twin Peaks show looks a lot like
real life? Yes, the Odessa reality where Dale
Cooper is not quite as hero-like as we are used to
and everything seems more dull and worn down
than in movies. Just like Bellucci played herself in
Gordon's dream, the real life owner of the Palmer
house plays the owner of the house in the "Odessa
dream". One more indication of this part being a
dream is Sarah’s voice calling “Laura!” in the dis-
tant background shortly before the end of the show.
I think this is Laura Palmer being woken up from
her dream of being Carrie Page and living in
Odessa.
4) The Experiment: The main evil force arrives on
earth as a "Frog Bug" with a number of Woodsmen
that help her to enter Sarah when she is a kid in
1956 (confirmed by The Final Dossier). Sarah
seems to also inhabit "the jumping man" as we see
her face with his pointy nose in S3E15, and as a
frog is also known for jumping, we may think of
Sarah (a possessed person), The Jumping Man (a
spirit), The Frog Bug (a physical alien life form),
and The Experiment as the manifestation of the
same thing on different planes. The white horse
that appears in Sarah’s visions is also The Experi-
ment. This is indicated by how the scene of Experi-
ment floating in black space (in S3E8) resembles
the scene of The White Horse in the black void be-
hind the curtains of The Red Room in S3E2.
5) Judy: Many think that The Experiment is also
Judy but I think Tommy Cavanagh has a very con-
vincing argument that it is really Laura who is Judy.
Most of these points are from him:
a) Cole describes Judy as an "extreme negative
force." - not “evil” or “bad”, but “negative” like an
electrical charge that can be either positive or neg-
ative.
b) Cole also says that their plan was supposed to
"lead” them to Judy - not “destroy” or “kill”. It’s more
like "Find Laura."
c) In The Secret History of Twin Peaks (TSHOTP)
we learn that if Ba’al (implied to be BOB) and Jow-
day (Judy) ever met on Earth, the consequences
would be catastrophic.
d) From The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (TS-
DOLP) and Fire Walk With Me (FWWM) we know
that BOB’s goal was to inhabit Laura. This fits right
into c) above.
e) In Part 15, Jeffries (who was always confused
about the two Coopers) tells Mr. C that he has al-
ready met Judy.
f) Dale Cooper met Laura Palmer in her dream (in
FWWM) and in his dream (S1E2).
g) in season 3 part 17 Jeffries tells Cooper "this is
where you'll find Judy" before teleporting him right
to Laura(!).
h) The "Laura is the One" comment from the Log
Lady seems to also imply that she's not just the vic-
tim of rape but in the center of a cosmic struggle
(like Judy is).
i) When the blue monkey from FWWM whispers
“Judy” (you need captions to see it) the movie cuts
immediately to a close-up of Laura wrapped in
plastic.
So, Judy is not The Experiment but the strong force
that The Experiment (through BOB) wants to in-
habit to be able to generate a catastrophe so big
that it will generate all the garmonbozia (pain and
sorrow) that she wants.
On the other hand, Gordon Cole and the Blue
Rose Task Force needs to use Judy (Laura/The
One) to defeat The Experiment and all the evil she
has introduced to the world.
6) Project Blue Book: Project Blue Book was one
of a series of systematic studies of unidentified fly-
ing objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States
Air Force. It started in 1952, the third study of its
kind, following projects Sign (1947) and Grudge
(1949).
Douglas Milford (from Twin Peaks) became part of
the project in the 1960s (TSHOTP).
At some point the FBI realizes what is going on and
they start to investigate Blue Rose cases (at the lat-
est in 1974 when they investigate the case involv-
ing Lois Duffy who shot her dobbeltganger). At this
point Gordon Cole, Windom Earle, and Phillip Jef-
fries are also involved. Later major Garland Briggs
is sent to Twin Peaks to investigate strange signals
from inside the Ghostwood Forest. As the Dale
Cooper dobbeltganger escapes the black lodge, he
locates the listening station Alpha and kills the
major.
7) Loops and straight lines: Notice that the evil
spirits seem to be connected to looping behaviors,
such as Sarah Palmer smoking and drinking con-
stantly, or watching a looping boxing match. We
also see the woodsman repeating “Gotta Light?”
and a poem. Even Norma’s repeated creation of
franchises with Walter Lawford seems to be char-
acterized as bad (as the franchises cannot manage
to reproduce Norma’s delicious cherry pie). Another
"evil loop", of course, is Shelly who keeps falling for
bad boys even though it is always getting her into
trouble (first Leo, then Bobby, and then Red). But
the series seem to suggest that there is a way out
of this evil loop. In the end Norma breaks out of her
loop and sells off her franchises. Also, Norma and
Ed’s bad loop of things that kept making their rela-
tionship impossible (throughout all the seasons)
was finally broken (by Dr. Jacoby’s golden shovel, it
seems). This becomes important later.
Also, notice how straight lines seems to indicate
good behavior: When Nadine walks all the way to
Big Ed’s gas station it is quite demonstratively in a
straight line and both when Dale Cooper and Diane
drive across 430 and when Cooper and Carrie
Page drives to Twin Peaks they always drive com-
pletely straight, while Mr. C. is always driving in
curbs.
8) The death of Laura: When Laura Palmer was ture repeatedly).
killed, she did cheat BOB from possessing her but
12) The Jumping Man: As Dale Cooper arrives at
at the same time she also (unwillingly) caused Dale
The Dutchman's to meet Phillip Jeffries, and be
Cooper to be caught in The Black Lodge,and gave
transported to the year 1989 (S3E17), we see The
Mr. C and BOB the opportunity to contaminate the
Jumping Man (ie The Experiment) rushing down
romantic city of Twin Peaks (and the rest of the
the stairs. This may be when "she" realizes that the
world) through a continued downward spiral of evil
Fireman’s plan is to save Laura from dying. The
spawned by drugs and violence (First through peo-
Experiment is hurrying away to prepare her counter
ple like Leo and the Renault brothers, and later by
move: to kidnap Laura Palmer.
Red, Richard Horne, Chad etc).
13) Kidnapping Laura: As Dale Cooper leads
So, although FWWM had a happy ending in the
Laura (ie Judy) back to safety (which would make
sense that Laura (Judy) had to sacrifice herself to
her able to defeat The Experiment, as it was The
keep BOB from causing a catastrophe, her death
Fireman’s plan to do), she is suddenly taken away
made it impossible to ever defeat the evil of The
(by The Experiment) and somehow placed inside
Experiment, because only Judy has the power to
her own dream (ie the fake reality of Odessa)
do that.
where her memory of who she is is weakened so
9) The Plan: Originally, Gordon Cole, Major Briggs, she is no longer a threat to The Experiment. This
and Dale Cooper are working to find Judy. But they The Experiment can do without the ability to harm
are seemingly not aware that Judy is Laura, and her. She is basically just manipulating Laura’s
they are also not aware that Mr. C. is out of the dream. We have learned from The Final Dossier
lodge (to them Cooper just disappeared). that when the timeline is changed people start to
forget the original timeline - as if it was just a faint
Then, after Cooper's disappearance, for years they
dream. This seem to be what is happening to
try to find Cooper (as he had told them to do that).
Laura/Carrie.
While in the red room Cooper is told to save Laura
Some theories claim that Cooper’s plan fails be-
by preventing her death... probably by Laura her-
cause he looks back at Laura, as a retelling of the
self (I think, that's what she is whispering to him),
Orpheus myth, but it is shown very clearly that
so she (Judy/The One) can defeat The Experiment
Cooper looks back at Laura many times before she
(ie "two birds with one stone").
is kidnapped (while Orpheus killed his wife, Eury-
10) Repeating timelines: In S3E14 we see Bobby, dice, by just looking at her once). So, to me, the
Hawk, and Frank return to the Jack Rabbit’s Palace kidnapping of Laura is definitively an evil action
multiple times as if multiple timelines are repeating taken by The Experiment to weaken The Fireman’s
the same activity. This is, by some, seen as an indi- position - not something caused by Dale Cooper
cation that the plan to save Laura Palmer (and de- himself (or fate) because he did something he was
feat The Experiment) is executed over and over, not supposed to do (like Orpheus did).
with the same failed result, just like a Sisyphus task
that can never be completed. In S3E17 we also
see this suggested by Diane seeing a copy of her-
self outside the motel without even blinking. She
must have done this a number of times before.
It may seem like the events are looping forever
(and it is probably meant to have us think that) but
the ending seems to show that (just like Norma)
Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer do break out of this
evil loop, and end up in a happy straight timeline...
11) Evil power is weakened: As Laura Palmer’s
death is prevented by Dale Cooper, we see that
Sarah Palmer's (ie The Experiment’s) powers are
weakened (S3E17) - as she screams in agony and
cannot inflict harm on the picture of Laura (here we
see another “evil loop” of Sarah stabbing the pic-
14) Rescuing Laura from “Odessa”: After Laura
has been kidnapped by The Experiment, the
counter move of the Fireman is the three steps he
explained in the beginning of S3E1:
1) Drive to a specific place: “430”
2) Perform sex magic with Diane as "Richard and
Linda" to get into Laura's dream
3) "Kill two birds with one stone" - ie wake up Laura
and thereby 1) save her from the control of The Ex-
periment and 2) expel The Experiment from the
world
By doing 1 and 2, Cooper and Diane end up in the by making his own insurance on that insurance, so
"Odessa" dream world where Laura is being kept. that he would actually win even if the Mitchum
That’s why the motel and car is different the next brothers would ever cash in that first insurance.
morning. It is not surprising to Cooper. He knew That’s basically what The Fireman did. He planned
that things would be different when entering a the saving of Laura as well as how to get into her
dream - as he told Diane before they entered “430”. dream to wake her up - if she would get kidnapped
The ability to enter a person’s dream is not new to by The Experiment.
the show. The Fireman went into Cooper's dream 15) The Carrie Page House: Episode 18 shows
in season 2 (and became The Giant). He even us that Laura/Judy has grown stronger with age.
went into the Twin Peaks world (and became the The dead man inside Carrie’s house has black gar-
old waiter). What’s new is that we now see how it monbozia coming out of his stomach as if he has
happens from the perspective of the person going been possessed by BOB in the same way that Mr.
into the dream instead of the person receiving the C. and Leland was. So it seems that the rape of
visit in a dream. Laura has been continuing in her life as Carrie, too.
Some interpret Cooper's cold attitude during the But this time, she did not let herself be killed (as
sex scene as an aggressive attribute of Mr. C. But I she did in FWWM). Instead she seems to have
don't think there is any evil Cooper at play here. killed her rapist. This supports the idea that she is
This attitude is more likely caused by Cooper trying now strong enough to be able to defeat the evil
to concentrate to keep an erection during what is powers of The Experiment.
obviously a very unpleasant activity where Diane is
reminded of how Mr. C. raped her. Later, when
Cooper seems disinterested in coffee and careless
about the safety of the people in Judy's Diner he is
probably just aware of it being a dream and people
therefore not really being "real".
Also, notice how Dale doesn't change into Richard
the way Diane seem to change into Linda. I think
Dale somehow can "remember the un-official story"
(as Phillip Jeffries said it), in the same way Gordon
can. He has the ability to stay aware of multiple
timelines - and thereby remaining the same person
across dimensions.
This idea of having a counter move ready before 16) The Palmer House: The Palmer house was
even going into the first plan was already described always a place of great evil with the threatening
by Bushnell in S3E1. stairs and the spinning ventilator, and of course, the
Remember, he told Dougie about the 30 million repeated rape of Laura Palmer in her bedroom.
payout for the Mitchum brothers? When he made In season 3 Sarah Palmer seems to be living there
the original insurance he already “doubled down”
as a host for the evil spirit, The Experiment, watch- 18) Happy ending: Instead, the memory of who
ing violent TV, drinking Bloody Marys, and smok- she is (the memory that The Fireman sent out as
ing. an orb in 1945) is waking Laura up of her dream
prison, as we hear Sarah’s voice from 1989 calling
As Cooper finds Laura Palmer in Odessa (within
her name in the background. The final seconds of
her own dream) she cannot remember her identity
S3E18 show that, at that exact moment Laura (The
but she kind of remembers the name Sarah (but
One/Judy) realizes who she is and lets out an im-
not really - her memory is fading after having been
mense scream that blows out all electricity in the
moved to a different timeline). In an effort to make
Palmer house - and there by defeats The Experi-
her remember, he brings her back to the Palmer
ment. Can we be sure that the electricity blowing
house in Twin Peaks. Here The Experiment con-
out means that The Experiment is defeated? I think
fuses Cooper by having mrs Tremond answering
that there are a few things that point in that direc-
the door (in season 1 we saw a Black Lodge resi-
tion:
dent go by that name living with her grandson next
door to Harold Smith). The confusion rises even 1) First there is the dramatic structure that I men-
more as she tells Cooper that the previous owner tioned in the beginning. Episode 17 has an upbeat
was mrs Chalfont, as the same Black Lodge resi- tone but ends bad with the kidnapping of Laura,
dent seems to have lived by the name Chalfont at while episode 18 has a very low down tone of
The Fat Trout Trailer Park (in FWWM). The confu- hopelessness, until a sudden unexpected event
sion about this and the fact that Tremond is being (the blowing out of the lights in the Palmer House).
younger while Laura is being older makes Cooper This structure alone indicates that any surprising
question his plan and ask "What year is this?". twist in the end is most likely a change to the unex-
pected, ie a happy ending.
When watching S3E17 and S3E18 together side-
by-side (you can find a combined video of the two 2) A more direct clue is that throughout the series
episodes on YouTube) we also see how Sarah we have learned that electricity is how the spirits
screams in despair as she realize that Laura's enter our world, so blowing out the electricity of the
death is being undone. She tries to kill her picture Palmer House eliminates The Black Lodge’s ability
with a broken bottle but the picture is unaffected, to act in our world.
and as she gives up the fight (in S3E17) Laura
3) A third indication that the evil spirits (and The Ex-
starts remembering her real identity (in S3E18) and
periment) have been defeated is that the final
lets out a terrifying scream that blows out all elec-
Lynch/Frost logo, that always ended each episode
tricity in the Palmer house... and defeats The Ex-
with an aggressive buzzing of electricity, is now
periment!
silent for the first time ever!
17) Failed Plan ending:  The Experiment’s hope
... and then there is:
must be that Laura never realizes that she is Laura,
and that Dale gives up his mission to save Laura
and start believing that he is Richard. This would
leave them both in eternal misery inside the
“Odessa reality”. If this was David Lynch’s intention
he would have stopped the final episode here with
Cooper in a desperate situation with no knowledge
of how to resolve it. But that is not what happens...

19) The real ending: As the end credits of the final

episode 18 roll over the screen we see Laura whis-
pering to Cooper. Some see this as an indication
that Cooper and Laura are caught in an endless
time loop. To me it looks like an indication that the
same scene in episode 2 is to be understood as
the real ending (ie that scene really happens after
Carrie Page has defeated The Experiment/Sarah
outside The Palmer House). What follows in the
longer scene of episode 2 is that Laura is pulled out
of The Red Room, screaming. She may very well
be screaming because she doesn’t know what is
going on - it does not necessarily mean that it is a
bad thing. So, if we see it as a continuation of Car-
rie Page blowing out the electricity of The Palmer
House it might indicate that Laura is actually freed
from The Red Room. Notice how that scene is not
unlike the scene where Cooper gets out of The
Red Room. In both cases the camera is shaking vi-
olently - although Cooper falls through the floor
while Laura is pulled up into the air.
What is even more important is that the next thing
we see is that the red drapes blow away (ie The
Red Room is disappearing) and the white horse is
seen alone in the dark, positioned to the right - just
as we see The Experiment in episode 8 (indicating
that The Experiment and The White Horse are one
and the same). To me, this shows that The Experi-
ment’s connection to earth has been cut, and she
will have to wait in the emptiness of space - until
the people of the world may make another interdi-
mensional portal by messing with technology that
they don’t understand.
After that the picture fades to black! This is basi-
cally the end of the show! Laura has escaped The
Red Room, The Red Room has been blown away,
and The Experiment is left alone in the darkness of
space!
Next we are back in The Red Room with MIKE
asking “Is it future or is it past”(!). This sequence
from episode 2 that I have just been describing
(Laura enters the red room, she whispers to
Cooper, she is pulled out of the red room, the cur-
tain blows away, the white horse is alone in the
dark, fade to black) both begins and ends with the
clip of MIKE saying “Is it future or is it past”. This in-
dicates that that sequence may be shown out of
chronological order. I think that sequence takes
place after episode 18 (indicated by Laura whisper-
ing to Cooper during the end credits) so this part of
episode 2 is the real ending of the show.
Another indication of the chronological misplace-
ment of that scene is that Laura says “You can go
out now” BEFORE Cooper is told by The Evolution
Of The Arm that he cannot come out before his
dobbeltganger has come back in. That must be be-
cause the scene where Laura tells Cooper that he
can go must take place some time AFTER
Cooper’s dobbeltganger has been defeated and
has “come back in” (episode 17).
This also reveals what Laura is probably whisper-
ing to Cooper. If she is whispering that he should
go back in time and save her, and that idea is caus-
ing him to actually do it, then that would be the
point in time where she cannot be in The Red
Room (as she was never killed). So she is causing
her own removal from The Red Room by asking
Cooper to change the timeline. Matt Murray (from
Corn Pone Flicks) even noticed that after MIKE
asked “Is it future or is it past?” the first time, he
continued with “Someone is here” (meaning
Laura). When he repeats the question at the end of
the scene he doesn’t say “Someone is here” be-
cause Laura no longer is there!
And there is one more thing pointing to this scene
being the ending of season 3:
20) Tea and cookies: Hawk’s wandering the
Ghostwood forest at night while speaking to Marg-
eret (The Log Lady) initially seems out of place.
But if you see it as connected to the Red Room
scene shown right after this scene (the scene
where the Red Room is blown away) then Hawk's
scene is actually leading up to the ending of the
show.
Hawk is claiming that “something is supposed to
happen tonight” and the Log Lady is inviting him
over for tea and cookies afterwards. As we know,
the Log Lady usually knows what is REALLY going
on, so this scene is suggesting that the big “show-
down” is at this point and that it will end well, so we
can have tea and cookies after Laura (The
One/Judy) has defeated The Experiment and ex-
pelled her from earth...
THE END!
... Come to think of it, those blowing curtains were
there in the opening sequence of every episode of
season 3, hinting that that scene in episode 2 is the
key to the entire show!
21) The turkey prediction: Sarah/The Experiment
may even have sensed that she was going to loose
when she saw the turkey jerky in the grocery store.
Turkeys (that are also shown on Hawk’s “living
map”) are usually a symbol of coming together and
caring for each other. “Is it smoked?” she asked -
maybe to know if it could be evil turkey, such as the
black (evil) fire that Hawk describes on his map.
“Men are coming!” she also says. That could be a
reference to Dale Cooper bringing Laura Palmer
home to defeat The Experiment...
Some other thoughts:
A) THE WHITE LODGE: Why is the Fireman help-
ing Twin Peaks at all? Well, Hawk described The
Black Lodge as an evil place and The White Lodge
as a good place back in season 2. But I don't think
The White Lodge should be compared to some-
thing like Heaven. I think that both places are much
less "rich" and beautiful than earth. As an example
it seems that neither the white nor the black lodge
have colors or nature, like we do. Looking at The
Fireman and Seniorita Dido and their furnishing, it
seems that they are very much inspired by how the
earth looked about 100 years ago. Even the music
that plays (from something that looks like an an-
cient record player) is from around the same time.
That could indicate that the physical distance to
The White Lodge may be around 100 light years.
Anyway, this shows how both the White Lodge and
the Black Lodge love and envy us here on earth.
We can imagine why BOB wanted to taste and
smell the world through Laura Palmer's senses.
But while the Black Lodge wants to over use and
wear down our paradise on earth (represented by
the smell of scorched engine oil), The White Lodge
wants to preserve the beauty of the earth by de-
feating The Black Lodge's presence on earth.
B) INCONSISTENCE: Many think that Twin Peaks
is deliberately confusing and inconsistent to allow
each viewer to make what they want of it - ie that
every theory is correct. I think that David Lynch
may address this question in a few simple scenes
that seem inconsistent at first but then make sense
as you get the “full picture”. In that way David
Lynch may be telling us that even though the story
may seem confusing at first, if only we pay atten-
tion, it really does make sense.
One example of this is the three boys throwing a
ball back and forth in the begining of episode 11.
The scene is filmed in a way that at first it looks like
two boys throwing a ball but one of them transform-
ing into a different person. As the camera pulls
back, and we get the full picture of what is going
on, we realize that there are actually three boys
and one is some times throwing the ball over the
second boy to the third boy.
The same type of situation is shown as we see
Sarah shopping at the grocery store in episode 12.
The scene opens with a boy at the register but as
Sarah gets to the register the boy has been re-
placed by a girl. Only if we pay attention to the de-
tails in the background, we can see that the boy
from the beginning is actually standing at a different
register - behind the girl.
C) FREDDIE’S MISSION: Freddie, with the green
gardening glove, tells James that he feels that he
has been sent to Twin Peaks on a mission. We
have all assumed that his mission was to kill BOB
but if The Fireman’s plan was to kill Mr. C and BOB
on that electrocuted rock (two birds with one
stone), then Freddie’s original mission could have
been to save Andy (and probably Naido) from
being killed by Chad. It was just a lucky coinci-
dence that that plan turned out to make it possible
to kill BOB in Twin Peaks after Mr. C. avoided the
trap on the rock.
By Marc de Oliveira
[This is version 22 of the Happy Ending theory]