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Twin Peaks
The Final Dossier
Novel
Written by Mark Frost
(Page numbers come from the hardcover 1st printing,
October 2017) |
Agent Preston submits her follow-up report
of the Cooper investigation and the events in Twin Peaks 25
years after Cooper's disappearance.
Didja Know?
The book's author is Twin Peaks
co-creator Mark Frost.
The book is mostly divided into sections based on Agent Preston's
file folders of citizens of Twin Peaks, with some divergent folders
on linked topics. I have chosen to divide this study into like
sections.
Characters appearing in this novel
FBI Field Agent Tamara Preston
FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole
The Archivist/Major Briggs (deceased)
Leo Johnson (deceased)
Albert Rosenfield
Windom Earle (missing, presumed deceased)
Shelly McCauley/Johnson/Briggs
Jean Renault (deceased)
Jacques Renault (deceased)
Bernard Renault (deceased)
Harry S. Truman (former sheriff of Twin Peaks)
Mr. McCauley (Shelly's father, divorced, whereabouts/status unknown)
Mrs. McCauley (Shelly's mother, divorced, deceased)
Bobby Briggs
Laura Palmer (deceased or missing)
Becky Briggs
Dr. Will Hayward
Pete Martell (deceased)
Andrew Packard (deceased)
Dell Mibbler (deceased)
Ben Horne
Audrey Horne
Agent Dale Cooper
Jerry Horne
Sheriff Frank Truman
Richard Horne (deceased)
Eileen Hayward (deceased)
Donna Hayward
Lana Budding Milford
Harriet Hayward
Gersten Hayward
Steven Burnett
Norma Jennings
Chad Broxford
Sylvia Horne
Johnny Horne
Charlie
Warden Dwight Murphy (deceased)
Lawrence Jacoby
Jasmin Caspari
Marty Lindstrom (deceased)
Ilsa Lindstrom (deceased)
Vivian Niles
Roland Blackburn (deceased)
Annie Blackburn
Nadine Hurley
Mrs. Gertz (Nadine's mother)
Ernie Niles (deceased)
Hank Jennings (deceased)
Josie Packard (deceased)
Agent Denise Bryson
Jean Renault (deceased)
Simon Halliwell
Douglas Milford (deceased)
Caroline Earle (deceased)
Samuel Dash (deceased)
Richard Nixon (deceased)
Diane Evans
Diane Evans tulpa (deceased)
Dwayne Milford (deceased)
Robert Jacoby (deceased)
Dr. Jost Poepjes
Ralph Nader
Big Ed
James Hurley
Leland Palmer (deceased)
Deputy Andy Brennan
Deputy Chief Hawk
Cooper doppelganger (aka Mr. C.; deceased)
William Hastings (deceased)
Ruth Davenport (deceased)
Phyllis Hastings (deceased)
Ray Monroe (deceased)
Phillip Jeffries
Judy
Duncan Todd (deceased)
Ronette Pulaski
Sarah Palmer
Mr. Novack (Sarah Palmer-nee-Novack's father)
Didja Notice?
Introduction
The half-dust-jacket fold-over on the hardcover edition of
the book has a photo of the Great Northern similar to the
one on the cover of
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks, but is a more recent photo
taken from a slightly different perspective. White Tail
Falls is flowing much less strongly than on the earlier
cover. The flow of the real world falls (Snoqualmie Falls)
varies throughout the year.
The front and back flaps of the half-dust-jacket book cover on the hardcover
edition feature an abbreviated version of FBI Field Agent
Tamara Preston's interoffice memorandum to Deputy Director
Gordon Cole found more fully on pages 1-2 of the book.
The inside of the half-dust-jacket features a panoramic shot
of what appear to be stars in space, with some kind of gas
or mist or something spread across them.
The front cover itself
features an emblem of what seems to be the proverbial "scales
of justice", with seven stars, two laurel wreaths, and a
shield symbol. The emblem is also seen on FBI documents
inside the book. I've not been able to track down this exact
emblem as belonging to the FBI (or find it anywhere else).
In
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks, the correct,
real-world FBI
emblem is seen on documents. I don't know why Frost went
from using the correct FBI emblem in the earlier book to a
seemingly-fictitious one here; reportedly, depiction of the FBI
seal in commercial media or products without permission is
illegal, so Frost may have had to make a compromise for this book. (The FBI
files provided to Cole by Preston also have this seal at the
bottom of the last page of each, encircled by the words
"Certified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal
Justice Information Services Division"; this is an actual
division of the FBI.)
The cover also has a small tetractys of the decad (a mystic symbol
used in the form of worship called Pythagoreanism) on it. The
tetractys is also a part of the triangle motif on the back
cover of the half-dust-jacket.
Hard to see in the scan, but the top right corner of the book cover
has two small rectangles impressed in, labeled "INITIAL" and
"DATE", as if it were the cover of a file folder or some
other official document cover.
The spine of the book shows a string of three diamonds, each halved
into equilateral triangles (as well as the "scales of
justice" seal). |
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Front cover |
Symbol on book spine |
Another tetractys
is found on page iii of the book. The three reddish-brown
triangles in the middle of it forms something similar to
the
emblem for signs indicating a fallout shelter in the United
States. A similarly-shaped tattoo was found behind Major
Briggs' ear in
Episode 20: "Checkmate". |
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Tetractys |
Fallout shelter sign (by Ericmetro, from Wikipedia) |
Triangular marks behind Major Briggs'
ear in
Episode 20: "Checkmate" |
Page xi, the "title page" of the book, has an image of a
blue rose (presumably blue; the photo is black and white).
The same photo appears at the end of the book.
On page 1, the interoffice memorandum to Gordon Cole from
Tamara Preston is dated September 6, 2017. This is more than
a year after the assignment date of Agent Preston's
examination into the Archivist's dossier detailed in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks. It seems
that Season Three takes place after Preston's work in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks and then she compiles
the Twin Peaks dossier we read in this book, but there is
confusion about the years in which all these take place (the
"25 years later" scenario would seem to place everything in
2014, but Season Three never quite confirms that and then we
have these two books dated as occurring in 2016 and 2017).
At the end of the memorandum, Preston signs it as Tamara
Preston, Field Agent, Blue Rose Task Force. She was inducted
into the task force in Part 12 of Season Three.
Leo Johnson
The logo of Calhoun Memorial Hospital seen
on Leo's autopsy report has also changed from that seen in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks. In the earlier book,
the logo
features a version of the Vitruvian
Man by
Leonardo Da Vinci. Here, the logo is closer to the one seen
on the Calhoun hospital sign in the original series. |
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Calhoun logo in
The Final Dossier |
Calhoun Memorial Hospital sign |
Calhoun logo in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks |
On page 4, Leo Johnson's autopsy report reveals that his
middle name is Abel.
Leo's autopsy was conducted by Albert Rosenfield on April 1,
1989.
Albert remarks that when Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal went
their separate ways, Leo's forebears took the path less
traveled. Neanderthals, of course, are an extinct species
(or possibly subspecies) of humans who co-existed with
Cro-Magnon humans for 10-15,000 years during the Stone Age
of humanity and are believed to have been driven extinct by
Cro-Magnons through competition or adaptability. The "path
less traveled" is an idiom paraphrased from the 1916 poem by
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken".
As Albert points out in the autopsy
report, tarantulas are only mildly venomous and their bite
is not fatal to humans, so could not have caused Leo's
death. He suggests that Windom Earle's use of them against
Leo is due to spent too much time
watching Vincent Price movies and not enough studying
arachnids. Vincent Price (1911-1993) was an actor famously
known for his horror film roles.
Albert finds that it was five gunshots to
the left side of his chest that did Leo in. The murderer is
unknown; Albert assumes it was Windom Earle (he does note
that scuff marks near the cabin's door suggest the killer
set his feet bureau style), but if
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death"
is any indication, there was no time for Earle to
have returned to his cabin to kill Leo. Leo is seen still
alive after Earle enters the Black Lodge and his
soul is "taken" by BOB. So, who killed Leo? If it was a
bureau man, maybe it was Gordon, seeking to free the
beauteous Shelly from her abusive husband?! Possibly, Major
Briggs could have led him (or others) to Earle's
commandeered cabin.
Albert notes that Leo had traces of birthday cake in
his hair. Not sure why this would be (his birthday wasn't
until April 25th according to the Twin Peaks card set),
unless he had not been thoroughly bathed since his head fell
into his welcome home cake way back in
Episode 13:_"Demons".
Albert finds that the cartilage of Leo's sinus cavities were
80 percent "scorched or burned away", noting "things go
better with crystal meth." He is referring to the illegal
recreational drug methamphetamine hydrochloride (street
name, crystal meth), which is often inhaled through the nose
like cocaine, causing damage to nasal cartilage over time.
His use of "things go better with" is a reference to the
commercial slogan "Things go better with Coke" used by the
Coca-Cola company in the 1960s-70s.
On page 6, Albert mentions
Boise
and
Bishop, cities in Idaho and California.
Albert notes another bullet lodged near Leo's lower lumbar
spine from an injury a few weeks earlier. This would have
been from the gunshot fired by Shelly in
Episode 5: "Cooper's
Dreams".
On page 6, Albert refers to Twin
Peaks as East Rubesville. "Rubesville" is a term used
disparagingly to describe a small town of unsophisticated
hicks. His adding "East" to it makes it worse, as it's not
even the main district of the town.
Also on page 6, Albert says Leo's truck and house were
repossessed shortly after his death.
Page 6 reveals that Shelly's maiden name is McCauley.
Albert also refers to Shelly as Gordon's "girl I'd most like
to take to the prom". Gordon was seen to be quite smitten
with Shelly when he met her in
Episode 25:
"On the Wings of Love".
Despite the usual rave reviews for
the RR Diner (not including Vivian's review), Albert gives
it only a quarter-star.
On pages 6-7, Albert quotes William Claude Dukenfield as
saying "I'd rather be in Philadelphia." William Claude
Dukenfield was better known as W. C. Fields (1880-1946),
an American comedian and actor of both stage and screen. He
once wrote a mock epitaph for himself, "I Would Rather Be
Living in Philadelphia."
On page 7, Albert writes that Gordon is undoubtedly
luxuriating in his silk smoking jacket enjoying a fruity
French Bordeaux with one of his imported "nieces". In Season
Three, Gordon appears in a very similar scene. Since
Albert's note here was written in 1989, we must assume that
Cole has a long-established habit of womanizing!
Also on page 7, Albert writes a warning
reference to Twin Peaks that the Turk is coming and the
world is changing. "The Turk" is presumably a reference to
the Turkish Ottoman Empire which rose to encompass
significant portions of the Middle East, Europe, and Africa
from 1299-1566.
Albert also refers to the citizens of Twin Peaks as
"country volk". Volk is German for "simple people".
On page 7, Albert refers to Gordon as a "cosmopolitan
swell". "Swell" is an English term for (approximately) an
elegant person.
In the P.S. to Albert's autopsy report on Leo, he
remarks on the recent spate of criminal deaths in Twin
Peaks: "Jean Renault, Jacques Renault, Leo Johnson, and some
other dirtbag drug dealer in the woods whose melodious name
escapes me." This is presumably a reference to Bernard
Renault, killed by Leo and whose covered body is shown to
Ben Horne by Leo in the woods in
Episode 4: "The One-Armed
Man".
Shelly Johnson
Shelly's maiden name was McCauley. She was the only child of
a marriage ending in divorce, "exacerbated by alcoholism
and repeated incidents of spousal abuse." Her father left
Twin Peaks, never to be seen again, and Shelly lived with
her mother. She was a bright student, but dropped out at the
end of her junior year when she met Leo.
Shelly and Bobby had known each other since elementary
school. They were dating even before Bobby started seeing
Laura Palmer.
Shelly and Bobby were seen in public together a few weeks
after Leo's death. They married in
Reno almost a
year after Leo's death.
About Shelly and Bobby's marriage, Preston remarks, "Marry
in haste, repent in leisure."
This is a popular paraphrasing of a line that originally
appeared in William Congreve's 1693 comedic play The
Old Batchelour.
Agent Cooper said this same thing about Dougie Milford's
nearly seasonal weddings in
Episode 18: "Masked
Ball".
Seven months after their wedding,
Shelly and Bobby had their daughter, Rebecca (Becky).
Hornes and Haywards
The explosion at the Twin Peaks Savings and Loan mentioned
here occurred in
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death".
Some additional detail into Ben Horne's circumstances and
condition at the time of his head injury in
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death" is given here.
Page 20 says that after "Cooper" (really the doppelganger,
henceforth referred to as "Mr. C." in this study as he is by his criminal
cohorts in Season Three) smashed his head against the
bathroom mirror in his room at the Great Northern, Dr.
Hayward and Harry took him to Calhoun Memorial Hospital. Mr.
C. checked himself out of the hospital the next morning and
disappeared from Twin Peaks entirely within two days.
Page 21 states that Dr. Hayward spotted Mr. C. exiting
Audrey's hospital room and it was nine months later that
Audrey gave birth to Richard.
Major Briggs was declared dead after a fire at Listening
Post Alpha, identified only by a few loose teeth found in
the ashes. It is implied here that the teeth were found in
the ashes of the listening post. But, later in the book, it
is stated that
Briggs' car was found at the bottom of a canyon with a
charred, unidentified corpse inside, plus a few of Briggs'
teeth. So which location was it? In
Part 14:
"We Are Like the Dreamer",
Albert mentions Briggs' death in a fire at his facility
(though by then, Briggs's recently-deceased body had been
found just days before in Buckhorn, SD).
A few months after the events of
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death", Dr. Hayward closed his practice
in Twin Peaks and moved to
Middlebury, Vermont, leaving his family behind. Shortly
after this, Hayward and his wife filed for a mutually-agreed
divorce after 26 years of marriage. It would seem that the
revelation of Ben Horne's fathering of Donna in that episode
caused a break in the marriage (though it seemed in the
episode as if Doc already knew about it and was long
reconciled with
it, so why the sudden break-up?).
After the divorce, it appears that Ben Horne
arranged for $7500 a month to be wired from the Cayman
Islands to Eileen's account.
The Cayman
Islands are
a British territory in the Pacific Ocean near Cuba and known
as a major offshore financial center recognized as one of
the top tax havens in the world.
Eileen died of pneumonia in 2009.
After graduating from high school that year (1989), Donna
moved to New York
City and became a model.
Harriet Hayward graduated from high school, then attended
University of Washington (same as her father, as told in
the 1991 Twin Peaks card set and
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks). She became a
pediatrician in
Bellevue, WA.
Donna Hayward
Page 25 states that Donna arrived in New York in 1992. But
page 21 just previously said that she left Twin Peaks right
after graduating from high school (in 1989). So where was
she for about three years before arriving in New York?
Donna attended
Hunter
College, supporting herself as a model and eventually
signing with the
Ford
Modeling Agency. Agent Preston states that Donna was in
demand as a model as an example of the fresh-faced
all-American look that was popular in the 1990s, epitomized
by Kathy Ireland. Kathy Ireland is a real world model,
actress, and businesswoman.
Donna ceased all contact with her mother
and father, speaking occasionally only to her sisters. A few
years later, she exchanged two letters with Audrey Horne,
contents unknown; since it seems that Audrey was her
half-sister, the communications may have had something to do
with that.
Donna's modeling took her around the world, including such
locales as
Paris,
Milan, and
Monaco. In her late twenties, she married a rich New
York venture capitalist with homes in athe Sutton Place and
Southampton neighborhoods of New York.
Donna bumped into Lana Budding Milford again at a New York
charity event, a photo of them appearing in the society page
of the
New York Post. Agent Preston's description of the
photo is that Lana appears to beam, but "something around
the edges of Donna's expression appears fraught with tension
and dismay." Possibly this is meant to suggest that Donna is
distraught at the thought that she may have become just like
Lana, a gold-digger.
Donna had stays at rehab for drug and
alcohol addiction, including an involuntary stay at
McLean psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts after going
missing and found in a Lower East Side crack house, possibly
triggered by the death of her estranged mother. The Lower
East Side is a borough of Manhattan.
After this, her husband divorced her and
she moved to
New Haven, Connecticut before finally
reconciling with her father, Dr. Hayward, and joining him in
Middlebury as an assistant in his medical practice and
studying for a degree as a nurse practitioner.
Gersten Hayward tested as having an above genius level IQ
and was a musical prodigy and talented mathematician,
entering
Stanford University at 16 years of age. But she suffered
a nervous/emotional breakdown in her second semester at the
university and returned to Twin Peaks to live with her mother.
She was prescribed anti-depressants, but soon turned to
illicit drugs. After her mother's death in 2009, she entered
into reckless relationships with both men and women,
including Steven Burnett, the husband of Becky Briggs.
Becky Briggs works at Norma's bakery in Twin Peaks.
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks states that Norma owns
a bakery next door to the RR Diner. The bakery is not named,
but possibly it is Wagon Wheel Bakery,
said to be the source of the donuts eaten at the Sheriff's
station in
Twin Peaks: An
Access Guide to the Town.
Gersten Hayward and Steven Burnett are both missing at this
time. They were last seen in Season Three: Part 15.
Ben and Audrey Horne
Page 31 states that Ben and Sylvia Horne had already been
living essentially separate lives for the past decade before
divorcing about two years after the Haywards.
Johnny Horne has a severe case of autism.
Audrey spent three and a half weeks in a coma after the
savings and loan explosion in
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death", retaining no memory of the
event. Audrey has not reconciled with her father, the
relationship strained by his decision to sell the family's
350-acre parcel of the Ghostwood Forest to a group that
built a privately owned and operated state prison on the
site (the Ghostwood Correctional Facility, finally opened in
2001). The concept of a prison being built in the Twin Peaks
area was first seen in
Twin Peaks: An
Access Guide to the Town.
Finding out she was pregnant, Audrey refused financial help
from her parents, raising the child herself by her own
means. She did not graduate from high school, but did obtain
her GED (General Equivalency Development, a test to
determine that one has the equivalent of a U.S. high school
education). She then attended the local community college,
obtaining a degree in economics and business administration,
after which she opened a successful beauty salon in Twin
Peaks. It's not revealed what kind of work she did while she
was completing her education; did she have savings that saw
her through?
Audrey never spoke of who was the father of her son. She
kept a framed photo of Agent Cooper in her office at the
salon.
Shortly after her son Richard's tenth birthday, Audrey
married her accountant, with seemingly no love involved. She
was rumored to have been engaged in extramarital affairs and
heavy drinking, as well as being verbally abusive to her husband. Agent
Preston states that Audrey closed her salon without warning "four
years ago", vanishing into either agoraphobic seclusion or,
according to some rumors, to a private mental health care
facility. These are essentially the two possible scenarios
of Audrey's current life presented in Season Three.
Is the accountant Audrey married the diminutive
called Charlie seen in Season Three?
Jerry Horne resides within a private wing of the Horne
mansion.
Agent Preston seems of the opinion that the Ghostwood Prison
has brought on a sharp rise in medical and criminal issues
for the Twin Peaks community.
Even Ben has gone to call the prison, built on the land he
sold, as "a blight on our land".
Dwight Murphy was the warden of Ghostwood Correctional
Facility before he was warden at Yankton Federal Prison in
Season Three.
Ghostwood Correctional Facility is built in the foothills of
Blue Pine Mountain. It is ranked in the lowest 10% of private
prisons, ignoring employee complaints.
Jerry Horne
Jerry is adept in four languages.
Jerry's legal marijuana operation may become the Horne
Corporation's most profitable venture. As stated here,
Washington voters made recreational marijuana use,
cultivation, and sales legal in the state in 2012.
Jerry graduated from
Gonzaga University in 1968. His attendance there was
also mentioned in
Twin Peaks: An
Access Guide to the Town.
Jerry attended Woodstock in his own customized
Airstream trailer. "Woodstock" is a reference to the
historic Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held near the town of
Woodstock, New York in 1969. Agent Preston also states that
Jerry briefly appeared in the Oscar-winning documentary
about the event; the film was the 1970 Woodstock.
Jerry was a member of Ken Kesey's entourage of followers
known as the Merry Pranksters. Ken Kesey (1935-2001) was a
writer and counterculture icon best known as the author of
the novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1960)
and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964). The Merry
Pranksters were followers of Kesey who, for athe most part, lived
communally with him at his California and Oregon homes.
Agent Preston states that Jerry has developed a number of
Frankenstein strains and hybrids of marijuana of alarming
potency, including three called "Whose Hands are These?",
"Collateral Damage", and "The Center Will Not Hold". There
is a real world strain of marijuana referred to as Frankenstein, so
possibly Jerry's hybrids are derived from the Frankenstein
hybrid. Jerry's strain called "Whose Hands are These?" may
be the same as, or an offshoot of, what he had partaken when
he was lost in the woods and thought his feet were not his
own in Season Three: Part 9.
Apparently in anticipation of widespread marijuana
legalization in the U.S., Jerry has plans to open stores and
has reserved the internet domain names "AHigherCalling.com",
"EightMilesHigh.com", and "UpUpandAway.com". The domain name
"EightMilesHigh" probably refers to the 1966 song by The
Byrds "Eight Miles High", partially about drug use. The
domain name "UpUpandAway" is a reference to the phrase used
by Superman in the 1940s radio serial to indicate to
listeners that he was taking off from the ground, into the
sky; "UpUpandAway.com" is currently already owned by
Hot Air Expeditions, a hot air balloon tour available in
the Phoenix, AZ area. Of course, all three domain names also
refer to "getting high".
Agent Preston jokes that Jerry must have by now stockpiled
high enough levels of THC in his system to preserve a wooly
mammoth. THC is tetrahydrocannabinol, a psychotropic chemical
found in cannabis.
Jerry never married, having dalliances here and there, but
being a loner by nature. His most recent paramour was Jasmin
Caspari, a Jungian tantric Rolfer from Switzerland, now
returned to her home in Lake Geneva. Rolfing, named for its
developer Ida Rolf (1896-1979) is a hands-on physical
manipulation of the body by a practitioner meant to align the
energies of the human body with those of the Earth, bringing
about healing benefits to the recipient (though the
effectiveness of this practice is disputed by most
scientific medical researchers/practitioners).
Jungian psychology (also known as analytical psychology) is
psychological therapy that emphasizes the individual and
that individual's search for their own authenticity or
conscious self, originated by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung
(1875-1961). Tantrism is part of Hindu spiritualism and
meditation, sometimes augmented with the use of
mind-altering substances.
Jerry enjoys wandering the forest for long stretches; this may
partly explain his being "lost" in the woods while high in
Season Three: Parts 7-16.
Jerry's best friend outside of his brother Ben seems to be
Lawrence Jacoby, they both having an interest in weed.
Jerry's hobbies are butterfly-collecting, bird watching,
baking, and collecting vinyl records.
Jerry is rumored to have collaborated with Neil Young on
turning two mountain cabins on the shore of a local lake
into a giant sound system. He is said to enjoy cranking the
volume up to eleven. Neil Young is a rock and roll
singer/songwriter. The term "up to eleven" originated in the
1984 mockumentary film This is Spinal Tap, where
rock guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off his amps with volume
controls that are labeled from 0 to 11 instead of the
standard 0 to 10.
On his pirate radio show, Jacoby told of a time that Jerry
blasted the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew over his
cabin speakers and caused a small avalanche. Miles Davis
(1926-1991) was a jazz trumpeter; Bitches Brew was
his best-selling 1970 album.
The Double R
No gravestone for Norma's father, Marty Lindstrom, can be found in any of Twin Peaks' three largest cemeteries.
(This is the first indication that Twin Peaks has more than
one cemetery.)
Marty worked for the
Union Pacific Railroad before opening the RR Diner and
earned a lifetime rail pass on it as a retirement perk. Such
perks were fairly standard in the railroad business at the
time. Marty used his to travel solo numerous times a year,
away from the wife and daughter (Norma), to the
Yakima
area, having an affair with Vivian Smith, manager of the
Weary Traveler motel he purchased on Highway 24. The Weary
Traveler appears to be a fictitious motel. Highway 24 refers
to Washington State Route 24, running from Yakima to
Othello.
Marty died in 1985.
Agent Preston's research states that Annie, the daughter of
Marty and Vivian, was born in 1973.
This would make her only 16 in 1989 when Agent Cooper met
and fell in love with her! She is obviously older than that
in the series, in her early to mid-twenties it would seem.
The 1973 date must be a mistake on Preston's part, as even
she acknowledges Annie graduating from high school (which
usually occurs when one is 18 or close to) prior to 1989.
Ilsa Lindstrom died in 1984.
Vivian changed her last name from Smith to Smythe (more
upscale sounding) before marrying Marty.
After Marty's death, Vivian married Roland Blackburn, with
Annie taking his last name as well. The couple shipped young
Annie off to a Catholic boarding school in
Kennewick, WA. During her senior year, three years
later, on a visit home for Christmas, there was an alleged
sexual assault by Roland, interrupted by Vivian. The drunken
Roland stormed out of the house and drove away, crashing his
Cadillac
DeVille into the Yakima River off a bridge. Roland was
declared dead on the scene. The next night, Annie attempted
suicide by taking a bottle of tranquilizers and slitting her
wrists.
Annie was rushed to a hospital and saved, but was
borderline catatonic. Vivian had her sent to a psychiatric
hospital in the western part of the state. Agent Preston
states it was the same facility where Nadine Butler (later
Hurley) and Nadine's mother had been treated years earlier
(as stated in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks). After finally being
released from there, she finished her senior year at the
boarding school and then became a postulant at the adjacent
convent for a few years.
On page 49, Agent Preston describes the romantic
machinations between Vivian and Ernie Niles as a pas de
deux. A pas de deux is a duet dance, usually
between a man and woman, in a ballet.
Annie moved in with Norma when she came to Twin Peaks and
became a waitress at her sister's diner.
Pages 50-51 largely describe the events of the M.T.
Wentz/Ernie Niles/Cooper-suspension storylines of the second
season of the TV series.
Preston says that after Norma told her stepmother to get
lost after the negative restaurant review, the two never
spoke again.
After the drug buy/hostage situation with Jean Renault at
Dead Dog Farm concluded, Ernie was free to go due to his
cooperation in the sting. He returned to his and Vivian's
home in Seattle, where she promptly served him divorce
papers. His life went downhill from there and he died penniless
and homeless in the waiting room of a
Pierce
County hospital in 2005. His ashes were scattered in
Puget Sound by a prison charity organization. (Puget
Sound is a harbor between Seattle and Tacoma.)
Vivian married one last man after
Ernie, Simon Halliwell, a well-off insurance agent.
Halliwell choked on a piece of steak and died on a cruise in
between
Athens and
Positano, leaving Vivian rich for the rest of her life.
She died of a brief illness in 2013.
Annie Blackburn
Agent Preston comments that Agent Cooper had a tendency to
try to rescue any damsel in distress, indicating his
attraction to Annie was partly a result of this "white
knight syndrome" of his. She believes this may be related to
his relationship with his mother, who herself struggled with
degrees of mental and physical suffering and a "turbulent
marriage".
The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special
Agent Dale Cooper describes Mrs. Cooper's various
ailments and hospital stays (even suggesting that she may
have some cognition of the "other world" Dale would
encounter later in his life), but I don't recall her
marriage being particularly turbulent beyond the stress
caused by these ills.
Windom Earle
Earle was a chess grandmaster at the age of 14. He was
admitted to the
University
of Pennsylvania at 16 and graduated at 18. He then
obtained his masters in criminal justice at
Penn State.
Earle was inspired to a criminal justice career after he saw
the 1951 film I Was a Communist for the FBI. This
is a real film, popular at the time of its release during
McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
Earle became a liaison between the FBI and the Air Force's
Project Blue Book, meeting Douglas Milford during this time.
He was also a founding member of the Blue Rose task force.
Earle was an FBI investigator for the Watergate hearing,
during which time he met Caroline Wickam, a law student
working for the chief prosecutor, Samuel Dash. Windom and
Caroline were married in
Washington, D.C. on August 10,
1974.
Watergate was a scandal in 1972, in which the administration
of U.S. President Richard Nixon attempted to cover up its
involvement in a break-in at the headquarters of the
Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office
complex in Washington, D.C. Samuel Dash (1925-2004) was actually chief counsel to the
Watergate committee rather than the chief prosecutor.
President Richard Nixon resigned from office on August 9,
1974.
Windom and Caroline lived in
Pittsburgh during the early 1980s while Windom commuted
to work at the Bureau's
Philadelphia
office.
Caroline was committed to her law career, prohibiting she
and her husband from having children, which he wanted.
After a review of Agent Cooper's tapes and the transcripts
written by Diane, Agent Preston concludes that they have
been heavily redacted and modified, implying that Diane had
already been replaced by a tulpa at the time. This may
explain some of the inconsistencies in
The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special
Agent Dale Cooper and
"Diane..." The Twin
Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
from what we know in the televised episodes and
Fire Walk With Me.
A young Agent Cooper was brought in to work with Earle on a
potential serial killer investigation in the early '80s. But
The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special
Agent Dale Cooper has him first meeting Earle in
1974 at a jobs fair in Philadelphia and that they maintained
an association when Cooper joined the bureau.
Earle seemingly manipulated Cooper and Caroline into having
an affair when he realized there was an attraction between
them in order to justify the violent response he was
planning against them.
Earle spent 10 years in solitary lockdown at a maximum
security detention facility before breaking out and
vanishing. He first hid out at the abandoned Eastern State
Penitentiary in Philadelphia (shortly after which he turned
up in Twin Peaks, first seen in
Episode 21:
"Double Play").
Eastern State Penitentiary was an actual prison from
1829-1971. It was essentially an abandoned facility from its
closing until 1994 when it became a public historic site
open for tours.
Back in Twin Peaks
Earle had been in Twin Peaks for
more than a month when Annie decided to enter the Miss Twin
Peaks contest. If this is true, then Earle was in Twin Peaks
before Laura Palmer's murder and the arrival of Cooper to
investigate it! Did Earle know something was about to happen
that would bring Cooper there? Or was he only there to find
the entry to the Black Lodge? (Also note that Albert's
dialog to Cooper in
Episode 9:
"Coma"
implies that Earle escaped after Cooper was already in Twin
Peaks.)
Agent Preston remarks on Earle's kidnapping of Annie from
the Miss Twin Peaks stage, taking her to an undiscovered
location in Ghostwood National Forest (in
Episode 28:
"Miss Twin Peaks"
and
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death"). She is not inclined to credit
the hints of a supernatural angle to the incident, but does
remark that her and Cole's subsequent experiences in the
Cooper case may justify revisiting that opinion; Preston and
Cole's supernatural experiences in the Cooper case occur in
Season Three.
Pages 68-69 feature a photo of the gigantic tree stump
called Jack Rabbit Palace, seen in Season Three.
Earle is considered "missing" after kidnapping Annie.
"Cooper" (really the doppelganger) disappeared a few days
after the incident.
Annie spent one day in the hospital where she appeared to be
fine beyond having no memory of the kidnapping until the
next day when she suddenly fell into a catatonic state for
ten days, eyes open but unseeing, unresponsive to any
external stimuli. Then she was able to, with assistance, sit
up, get out of bed, and walk around, but never spoke or
acknowledged anyone's presence. Norma cared for her at her
house until, exactly one year after being found in the
woods, Annie slit her wrists again and was taken to the
hospital. The next morning she said, "I'm fine," (probably
an answer to Cooper's question in
Episode 29:_"Beyond
Life and Death", "How's Annie?"). After this,
Annie was transferred to a psychiatric hospital near
Spokane. Since then, every year on the anniversary of the
day she was found in the woods, Annie says, "I'm fine."
Preston remarks that Annie's eyes seem alive, as if "filled
by a vivid and mysterious internal life".
Miss Twin Peaks
Lana Budding Milford was the runner-up in the Miss Twin
Peaks contest and became the new Miss Twin Peaks 60 days
after Annie's descent into a twilight state.
After Douglas Milford's death in his honeymoon bed at the
Great Northern, a
Rolex
watch and a jade green ring was found on the bedside table.
(The ring must be the Owl Cave ring, though it was see later
seen on Annie's hand in
Missing Pieces; it's possible that there is more
than one ring of similar design.) The ring was supposedly
returned to his widow, Lana.
Agent Preston mentions that Lana briefly dated "a notorious
resident of a certain eponymous tower on Fifth Avenue" in
New York. This is certainly another reference to Donald
Trump, whom Lana is implied to have dated ("a
bizarrely coiffed real estate mogul") in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks. This man may also have been
wearing the Owl Cave ring in a photograph on the society
page ("an unusual green ring on his left ring finger").
Lana eventually married a business
mogul and they remained together until his death in Antigua
in 2008. Antigua is an island (part of the independent
nation of Antigua and Barbuda) in the West Indies. After the
mogul's death, Lana is said to have drifted to the south of
France.
In closing her file on Lana, Agent Preston remarks, "As my
mother used to say, trash is trash even if it's in a Tiffany
bag." She
is referring to Tiffany
& Co.,
a U.S. luxury retailer, specializing in diamond jewelry.
Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
Agent Preston refers to Dr. Jacoby
as a "free-stylin' New Age psychiatrist".
New Age is a form of spirituality that embraces both Western
and Eastern philosophies, metaphysics, and science.
Dr. Jacoby has a home in the
Hanalei Bay area of Hawaii, as implied in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks. On page 82, Preston remarks
that Hanalei Bay was also the home of Puff the Magic Dragon
and she implies that Jacoby's friendship with Jerry Horne is
based on their mutual interest in smoking marijuana; "Puff
the Magic Dragon" is a 1963 song by Peter, Paul and Mary,
long interpreted as a reference to pot smoking (though the
song writers deny it). In the song, Puff is said to live in
the land of Honalee.
After losing his license to practice psychiatry, Jacoby
began field studies with Hawaiian shamans on alternative
medicines, with a focus on the ways of the menehune, the
folkloric "little people" of native South Sea Islanders,
depicted as mischievous nature spirits. Jacoby claims in his
online writings to have even made contact with the menehune,
who told him they are not from Earth and they are here to
help steer human beings away the genetic propensity for
violence and self-destruction. The Menehune are an actual
part of Hawaiian folklore.
Jacoby also mentions UFOs and "the grays". Among UFO
enthusiasts,
the grays are said to be aliens from Zeta Reticuli, a binary
star system about 39 light-years from Earth. The
grays were mentioned by Jack Parsons in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks.
Agent Preston makes reference to "keep on truckin'". This
refers to the "Keep on Truckin'" one page comic by Robert
Crumb included in his first issue of Zap Comics in
1968. The phrase has become an iconic touchpoint of
counter-culture.
Jacoby spent most of 1994-95 on the road with the Grateful
Dead until the death of Jerry Garcia. The Grateful Dead was
an American rock band from 1965-1995, often associated with
hippy culture. Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) was the band's
frontman.
Albert Rosenfield is a vinyl enthusiast with a huge jazz
collection.
Agent Preston speculates that Jacoby may have been with the
Dead as a "Banzai Pipeline to all manner of psychotropic
travelling." The Banzai Pipeline is a reef break used by
surfers at Ehukai Beach Park on Oahu.
Agent Preston speculates that Jacoby's fondness for loud and
colorful neckties may be due to his relationship with Jerry
Garcia. Garcia was also a painter and produced a line of
neckties based on his colorful, abstract art.
Jacoby became a member of a progressive think tank in
Amsterdam call the Zonderkop Institute, founded in 1981 by
Dr. Jost Poepjes (which translates as Dr. Little Poops).
Preston states that Zonderkop translates as "born without a
head". Zonder kop very roughly could be interpreted
as "born without a head" in Dutch; I have been unable to
confirm the translation of jost poepjes.
On page 83, Preston comments on coming across a theory that
purports to possibly explain the weird last names among the
Dutch as being a native response to the census instituted by
their French conqueror Napoleon. Possibly the theory she
refers to is the one posited in this article on Expatica
from 2011:
"Funny Dutch Names and the Story Behind Them".
Dr. Poepjes apparently believed in the apocalypse that was
alleged to occur after the Y2K crisis, retiring to a secure
and unspecified biosphere in northern Sweden. Y2K refers to
the Year 2000 problem, in which numerous computer systems
programmed in the 20th Century would not recognize the year
2000 when the rollover occurred, seeing the two-digit year 00 as 1900
instead, which was predicted to cause large-scale troubles;
in fact, very little trouble occurred.
Jacoby offered counsel to distraught Ralph Nader supporters
in 2000. In the 2000 presidential election, progressive
political activist Ralph Nader ran for president of the
United States and, after the election, some of his
supporters came to believe that their votes had taken away
from Democratic candidate Al Gore, allowing conservative
Republican candidate George W. Bush to win. Jacoby wrote a
paper terming the condition "defiant liberal denial
syndrome".
Jacoby was in New York City attending an anthropological
conference on shamanism at the
Museum of
Natural History during the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He interpreted the
attacks as karma and the "first toll of the bell striking
midnight for the American Experiment". Karma is a
spiritual principle in many Eastern religions which
stipulates simply, "what goes around, comes around". The
American Experiment is a term used to describe the idea that
the United States was created as a republic in which
immigrants from many places and walks of life could coexist
peacefully and attempt to do things differently.
Jacoby came to believe that the U.S. (and perhaps the world)
might be entering a Kali Yuga--a Hindu term for "dark age".
However, in Hinduism, the Kali Yuga started long ago, about
3102 B.C. and will last for 432,000 years.
Jacoby's mobile home (as seen in Season Three) is located
near the peak of White Tail Mountain.
Jacoby began his live internet broadcasts, the Dr. Amp
Blast in 2006. Agent Preston refers to it as a
jeremiad. A jeremiad is a work that laments the state of
society and its ills.
The Dr. Amp Blast started to gain a national
following in 2012 and Jacoby turned down offers from
mainstream media outlets.
Jacoby donates 90 percent of his Dr. Amp profits to
charitable progressive causes.
Agent Preston states that there is an air of the tarot's
Magus in Jacoby. The Magus is the magician card in a tarot
deck. A tarot card deck is used by practitioners for
divination.
Preston goes on to compare Jacoby to Prospero, "a man who
lives at one with nature...whose developed senses can now
pierce the veil of existence" and, oppositely, to King Lear.
Prospero and King Lear are both characters in Shakespeare's
works, The Tempest and King Lear,
respectively.
Preston places Jacoby's home (and thus the town of Twin
Peaks) in eastern Washington. This seems to coincide with
what we know of Twin Peaks from the original episodes,
though some sources place it (seemingly erroneously) in the
western portion of the state.
Agent Preston states that after the confession and death of
Leland Palmer, James Hurley took to the road on his
Harley with no plan to return. But, James did promise
to eventually return to Donna in
Episode 16:
"Arbitrary Law". Still, Agent Preston did not
know that and may simply be assuming (seemingly not a good
trait in an FBI agent) that James left with no plans to
return.
James encountered Evelyn Marsh outside
Portland, Oregon. Agent Preston states that James'
involvement with Evelyn and her schemes was straight out of
a James M. Cain noir novel. Cain (1892-1977) was known as a
writer of American crime novels. The James/Evelyn storyline
in the second season of Twin Peaks was inspired by
noir crime fiction.
Preston tells Cole she won't bore him with the
details of the James/Evelyn affair. This may be an
acknowledgement by Frost that this particular subplot of the
original TV series did not meet viewers expectations of the
series.
James came under a skillful attack by Evelyn's defense
attorney and James fled to Mexico before completing his
testimony in court, making him a wanted man. James told
Donna he was to testify in
Episode 23:
"The Condemned Woman".
Under his assumed identity in Baja California, Mexico, after repairing a
Lamborghini Diablo engine that had been shot up by a
Schmeisser AR-15, James came under the influence of a
Sinaloa Cartel capo from Jalisco. The Sinaloa Cartel is an
organized crime syndicate in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
Capo is Spanish for "boss". Jalisco is a state in
Mexico.
James naively accepted work at the capo's Jalisco estate and
was caught up, six months later, in an attack on the estate
by a rival cartel. James hid in the trunk of a
Rolls and survived the shootout.
James was cleared of all charges by the Mexican federales
thanks to the intervention of Sheriff Harry Truman and
FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole.
On page 88, Preston erroneously refers to Evelyn and "his"
brother. Evelyn is, of course, a woman.
Nadine opened a drapery store which has been a modest
success in town. The store is seen in Season Three, named
Run Silent, Run Drapes. Nadine was perfecting her idea for
silent drape runners in early episodes of Season One.
James returned to Twin Peaks on a
Trailways bus in 2006, having totaled his Harley in an
accident in West Virginia. The accident ended James' Kerouac
romance with the road. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an
American poet and writer, often known for his travel
dialogs.
James works both as a mechanic at Big Ed's Gas Farm and as a
security guard at the Great Northern Hotel. He drives a
Ford
Focus, practically the antithesis of a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle.
On page 89, Preston mentions Quantico.
Quantico, Virginia is
the home of the FBI's training academy.
The lumber industry has died in
the Twin Peaks area and the Packard Mill is shut down.
Norma briefly dated her franchise representative for the
Norma's diner chain. This was Walter Lawford, as seen in
Season Three.
Page 89 mentions Dr. Amp's golden shovels. These were seen
in Season Three.
Preston describes Dr. Amp as part
Amway,
part
Anthony Robbins by way of Timothy Leary, and part
Grateful Dead.
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was an American psychologist who
was known for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs in
therapy.
Rumors are that Jacoby may now be
dating Nadine Hurley.
Page 90 states that Nadine freed her husband Ed from his
matrimonial bonds a little less than two weeks after Jacoby
noticed the golden shovel in the window of Run Silent, Run
Drapes. Ed proposed to Norma that same day. These events
occurred in episodes of Season Three, though it does not seem
that as much as two weeks have passed between those
episodes.
Preston paraphrases Vince Lombardi as saying "timing isn't
everything, it's the only thing." Lombardi (1913-1970) was
an NFL football player and coach; he is known for his quote,
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Ed and Norma were married by the Big Log near the old train
station. The log must be the one seen in the opening credits
of episodes of the original TV series, actually located in
Snoqualmie, WA.
Margaret Coulson
The Log Lady died of lung cancer. Her funeral was widely
attended and took place on the shores of Pearl Lake. Her
ashes were scattered in the Ghostwood Forest according to
her wishes.
At Margaret's funeral, Hawk reads from a page given to
him by her the day before she passed. Some quotes pertinent
to Twin Peaks follow: |
- "The answers to all our questions are in the wind
and the trees."
- "There are forces of darkness--and beings of
darkness--and they are real and have always been around
us. They're part of the dance, just as you and I are;
they're just listening to different music."
|
Margaret's log was left to Hawk. He now keeps it on his
mantel and keeps an ear open in case it should speak to him.
Sheriff Harry Truman
Agent Preston refers to Josie as a sociopath.
Harry never gave up on the search for Cooper after his
friend's disappearance.
Harry learned he was seriously ill with cancer six months
before Cole's return to Twin Peaks in Season Three.
An experienced lawman, Frank Truman agreed to fill in for
Harry in Twin Peaks for two years to help stabilize the
department with the intention of stepping down to hand the
reins to Hawk. It seems to me that Hawk is sturdy enough to
step into the role right away. Is there a reason Hawk was
not ready?
Preston implies that Harry has a high personal regard for
Cole.
Major Briggs
The Mayday protocols initiated by Major Briggs at the end of
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks required him to secure or
destroy all of the data and technology at Listening Post
Alpha. A few days later, Briggs' car was found at the bottom
of a canyon with a charred, unidentified corpse inside, plus
a few of Briggs' teeth. It's possible that Briggs staged his own
death.
Testimony on Mr. C. was gathered from William Hastings of
Buckhorn, South Dakota. This was seen in episodes of Season
Three. Buckhorn is a fictitious town.
Hastings and his mistress Ruth Davenport had a website about
their speculative esoteric/occult research called The Search
for the Zone. The website actually exists, a metacontextual
promotional site for Season Three:
The Search for the Zone.
The events involving Hastings, Davenport, and the Major
described on pages 105-106 were seen or imparted in Season
Three.
On page 106, Agent Preston speculates that Major Briggs was
hiding for the past 25 years through a portal near Twin
Peaks. This is presumably the portal near Jack Rabbit Palace
seen in Season Three. On page 107, she further speculates
that the portal(s) leads to "other space-time dimensions".
Preston recommends the Blue Rose Task Force begin referring
to the "zone" discovered by the Major and Hastings as the Black
Lodge, following the Native American legends related by
Deputy Hawk, although she also half-jokingly refers to it as
the Hotel California, in that "you can check in, but you can
never leave", at least not for 25 years. "Hotel California"
is a 1977 song by the Eagles which includes the lyrics
"You can check out any time you like, But you can never
leave."
On page 108, Preston mentions digital manipulation in the
Photoshop era.
Photoshop is an extremely popular digital image editing
application made by Adobe.
Also on page 108, Preston mentions an appearance by Cooper
in the "glass box" in a Manhattan building. Cooper's
appearance there was seen in Season Three.
Agent Preston concludes that Mr. C established
an international criminal syndicate catering to nearly every
known vice of humanity: gambling, drugs, cybercrime, human
trafficking, prostitution, murder for hire, illegal banking,
stock manipulation, extortion, blackmail, insurance
fraud through the use of shell companies and LLCs (Limited
Liability Company), and cooperation with corrupt regimes.
She estimates it will take many years to unravel it all and
that he, as the man at the top, earned billions from the
operation. He had businesses and residences all over the
world.
Preston believes Mr. C amassed his wealth and
resources in order to find something he was looking for
(possibly Judy?).
Preston's research indicates that a
tulpa is a Tibetan mystical term for an entity created
or summoned by a dark magician, not necessarily a double
(although the Diane double is referred to as a tulpa,
as is the Dougie Jones Cooper-double in Season Three). In
modern mysticism, tulpas are not necessarily
summoned by only "dark" magicians, and a tulpa can
even be a good "imaginary" friend who is somehow "real".
Preston says that occultist Madame Blavatsky
referred to the sects that made use of tulpas as
the Brothers of the Shadow. Blavatsky was a
self-professed magician and spiritualist of the late 19th
Century, and she did apply the term "Brothers of the Shadow"
to black magicians usually devoid of physical bodies, and
she also referred to them as Dugpas! A more "down-to-earth"
description of the Brothers of the Shadow found in The
Occult Glossary, a 1933 compendium of Oriental and
Theosophical terms by Gottfried de Purucker, is that they
are followers of the left-hand path (LHP), previously discussed in
The Devil's Guard
and
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks, LHP being based on
the breaking of taboos and desire for individual freedom.
Preston wonders if all these
people-doubles are being cranked out by an alternate-reality
Kinko's with some kind of Lovercraftian 3-D printer. Kinko's
was a printing and copying service from 1970-2008, now known
as
FedEx Office. Lovercraftian horror (named for its
preeminent pioneer, writer H.P. Lovecraft, b. 1890, d. 1937)
are tales of cosmic horror where humanity's material world
is just a thin veil over an abstract and alien reality
that would drive the typical person mad with the knowledge
of it.
Preston's description of events with Mr. C at
the sheriff's station and Cooper's disappearance into a
corridor in the boiler room at the Great Northern were seen
in Season Three.
Phillip Jeffries
Jeffries disappeared from
Buenos Aires,
Argentina while working undercover on an extended and highly
classified Blue Rose assignment. Agent Preston implies he
had been missing for 6 months when he unexpectedly made a
brief and bizarre appearance at the FBI's field office in
Philadelphia on February 16, 1989. This scene occurred in
Fire Walk With Me,
but took place in 1988, not '89; possibly this is just a
typo by Preston.
Another seeming error is the 6 month disappearance of
Jeffries; in Fire Walk
With Me, Cole states Jeffries has been missing for
"damn near two years".
Cole wrote in Jeffries file, "This world wasn't enough for
him." Cole confirms to Preston that Jeffries was deeply
interested in esoteric and occult subjects "including things
that one could have ripped from the ripest pages of pulp
science fiction." Preston concludes that in Buenos Aires,
Jeffries stopped investigating these things and started
living them.
Preston believes that Jeffries was in Buenos Aires since
1986, investigating an international criminal enterprise
and identified the person who was in charge of the entire
operation: Judy.
Judy
Agent Preston's research finds that Joudy is the name of an
ancient Sumerian mythological entity dating back to at least
3000 BC, a wandering demon generically known as an
utukku. The utukku are an actual part of
Sumerian mythology, but Joudy is fictitious as far as I have
been able to
tell. In the book Conversations With Mark Frost by
David Bushman, Frost says that while he was trying to find a
way to incorporate the Judy reference in Fire Walk
With Me (which Lynch had put in the movie as
something that just came to him, he had no idea what it
meant) into the overarching TP narrative, he had been going
through a list of Sumerian or Babylonian deities and demons
and came across the name Joudy.
Preston seems to imply that Ba'al was the
male form of an utukku (Joudy being the female
form) in Sumerian mythology. However, Ba'al is a Semitic
term, not scholastically considered Sumerian. In Semitic
languages, Ba'al meant "lord" or even "God". Later Christian
and Islamic doctrines began to use the term for a demon or
the Devil, in their usual castigation of the gods of older
religions into false gods or demons. The name Ba'al also
became synonymous with Beelzebub, another name used in
Christian doctrines for the Devil (previously used as the
name of a Canaanite god).
In the Twin Peaks mythology, it may be that
Joudy is Judy and Ba'al (Beelzebub) is BOB. Agent Preston's
research into ancient texts states that if Joudy and Ba'al,
both extremely dangerous on their own, were to unite while
on Earth, the marriage would result in the end of the world
as we know it. This may be what Mr. C,
housing BOB's essence, was searching for...Judy. The union
of Joudy-Ba'al/Judy-BOB would bring about a world cataclysm.
Ray Monroe
Ray Monroe was reportedly working undercover in Mr. C's organization for the Blue Rose Task Force.
It's not clear who he reported to there, but Preston
speculated it was Phillip Jeffries, even though Jeffries
disappeared in the 1980s. Mr. C may have sprung
Monroe from prison (in Season Three) because he wanted Monroe to lead him to
Jeffries.
Preston remarks that Monroe used a burner found at the
Montana site where his body was found to make a phone call
to someone. A burner is a prepaid cell phone designed to be
used for only a brief time and then discarded in order for
the user to maintain anonymity and prevent tracking.
Eyewitnesses place Jeffries back at his Buenos Aires hotel
essentially immediately after he disappeared from the Philadelphia
office at 10:15 a.m. in 1989, shortly after which he
vanished altogether. His appearance and disappearance in
Philadelphia was seen in Fire Walk
With Me and his reappearance in Buenos Aires in
Missing Pieces.
A matchbook from the Dutchman's Lodge
motel in Montana was found in Monroe's pocket when his body
was recovered. The address on the matchbook leads to a
vacant lot, but records show that a motel by that name was
built on that location in the early 1930s by Horace "the
Dutchman" Vandersant and demolished in 1967. This is a
fictitious motel and seems to be the motel where Mr. C met with the Phillip Jeffries "machine" near
the end of Season Three. The shooting location for the
Dutchman's Lodge was the Mt. Si Motel in North Bend, WA, the
same location used for the Red Diamond City Motel in Fire Walk
With Me and
Missing Pieces.
Preston states that the site of the motel is between
Missoula, MT and Twin Peaks. This would tend to suggest
that the Dutchman's Lodge is/was located along Interstate
90.
Preston states that rumor has it that John Dillinger
once spent a week at the motel while on the lam. Dillinger
was an infamous gangster and bank robber during the
Depression.
Today
Agent Preston mentions the "oddball Cockney kid with the
green glove". This is Freddie Sykes, seen in Season Three.
Preston states that after Cooper walked into the strange
corridor in the boiler room of the Great Northern, Cole was
left standing there with the Horne brothers. But, in the
Season Three episode (Part 17), the Hornes were not present
at all. Preston's description of what happened to Diane
during this event is also different from what was aired.
It's possible Frost wrote it in the book the way it was in
the original episode script, but Lynch altered it during
filming of the series.
As Preston completed her final research into the incidents
in Twin Peaks, she found many inconsistencies with the
original Laura Palmer investigation and even with her own
memory and the memory of the townsfolk, seeming to reveal
that Laura was not found murdered back in 1989...she simply
disappeared and the case remained unsolved! Also, Leland
Palmer committed suicide on the one-year anniversary of his
daughter's disappearance.
In the altered timeline of Laura's
"disappearance", Ronette Pulaski was still found wandering
along the railroad trestle the day after Laura's
disappearance and she said that Laura "wandered off into the
woods" before she, Leo, and Jacques entered the railroad
car. But in Fire Walk
With Me, it is seen (and also implied in the
original TV series) that Leo and Jacques had nothing to do
with the railroad car in the first place...they had never
been there! It was Leland as BOB who took Laura and Ronette
to the railroad car (from Jacques' cabin in the woods where
he and Leo had been having sex with them).
Also, even in the altered timeline of Laura's
"disappearance", Cooper took Laura away with him and then she
suddenly vanished on Blue Pine Mountain, so it doesn't seem
as if she was ever with the trio of Ronette, Leo, and
Jacques that night.
Sarah's full name is revealed as Sarah Judith Novack Palmer.
Her Novack maiden name was first revealed in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks. It is interesting to
note that her middle name is Judith, which is often paired
with the nickname "Judy", and it is heavily implied that the
Judy utukku was inside Sarah in Season Three.
Sarah was born in Bellevue, WA,
but grew up outside Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father was a
Defense Department employee who played a small role in the
Manhattan Project and the Trinity nuclear bomb test at White
Sands on July 15, 1945. Los Alamos is an actual town in New
Mexico, known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
Preston states that less than a month after the Trinity
test, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan to end WWII. This is true.
The double-page photo spread on pages 134-135 is of the
Trinity nuclear explosion at White Sands from Part 8 of
Season Three.
The night of the radio station attack on 1956 (seen in Part
8 of Season Three), people reported hearing strange
"electrical or mechanical word sounds" over their radios,
pets and livestock were disturbed, and a number of people
listening lost consciousness, including Sarah Novack. Sarah
recovered on the way to the hospital and doctors found
nothing wrong with her. Those who lost consciousness later
had no memory of the event.
On page 137, Preston writes that her own thoughts about the
Twin Peaks events are starting to get fuzzy and indistinct.
The double-page photo spread on pages 138-139 is the
exterior of radio station KPJK from Part 8 of Season Three.
This appears to be a fictitious station.
Final Thoughts
On the plane out of Spokane, Agent Preston writes that the
penumbra that had fallen over her hasn't left but is fading
as she travels father east. This may indicate that the wiped
memory effect is largely confined to the Twin Peaks/Eastern
Washington area and she may be able to retain her memories
of the Laura Palmer murder investigation and the events
afterwards. Or maybe the penumbra will catch up to her and
everyone eventually.
Unanswered Questions
Many questions and discrepancies from
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks left unanswered there
and in the Season Three episodes are still left unanswered
here in this book. In interviews, Mark Frost has
acknowledged that he put intentional errors/discrepancies in
The Secret
History of Twin Peaks to indicate
that the documents within it were written by different
people who may not have all the facts or who have their own
agendas. Possibly, some of these errors are also clues as to
the writer was, who may not be the writer assumed on the
surface.
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