You’ve probably seen the meme that says we’re living in the wrong timeline. While this sounds like a joke, there might be some truth to it. There are some researchers who claim what happened on 9/11 was a temporal event that caused our timeline to split in two. Supposedly there is a parallel world where the Twin Towers still exist and the apocalypse is being avoided. This is not to say I think we are living in the wrong timeline, but that is something I will get into in another thread. Just know that there is still hope. Perhaps the darkest timeline is needed for some collective shadow work. However, I do think our timeline has been altered and probably more times than once. While this is not something you can really prove, there are many oddities surrounding 9/11 as well as a synchronistic pattern hidden in pop culture that seems to point to this. In the movie Back to the Future, after the protagonist accidentally activates a time machine and alters the future, the Twin Pines Mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall. Notice how the clock reads 9:11 when flipped upside down. 134 reads like hel when flipped upside too. Are we living in a bardo state like in the movie Jacob's Ladder or the show The Good Place? Was this a reference to the Mandela Effect and the Twin Towers becoming the One World Trade Center? In the second Back to the Future movie, the protagonists accidentally create a new timeline where a wealthy man named Biff takes over their town. Biff lives in a skyscraper casino and turns their town into a chaotic dystopia. According to the screenwriter Bob Gale, Biff was based on Donald Trump. This is not a political statement, I’m just saying it’s odd how things turned out. I wonder if Bob Gale knew Trump would run for president? In the Super Mario Bros. movie, a meteorite impact millions of years ago caused the universe to split into two timelines, the one we live in, and one where dinosaurs evolved into a humanoid race. President Koopa, a reptilian human hybrid, seems to be another caricature of Trump. President Koopa wants to merge his dimension with ours and attempts to rule Manhattan from the Twin Towers, which are portrayed as a gateway between worlds. The Super Mario franchise is strange when you think about shamans eating mushrooms to commune with serpent gods. Looks kind of similar, right? There are many more examples of the WTC acting as a gateway. In an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Twin Towers are used to transmit energy that propels the earth into another dimension. Take note of the sphere between the buildings, this will become relevant later. In the intro of Power Rangers: Time Force, a machine called the Time Shadow is seen standing on the towers. Take note of the moon in the background as well. This will become relevant too. During the final scene of Fringe season 1, the WTC is seen intact in a parallel universe. In the intro of Power Rangers: Time Force, a machine called the Time Shadow is seen standing on the towers. Take note of the moon in the background as well. This will become relevant too. During the final scene of Fringe season 1, the WTC is seen intact in a parallel universe. I miss cartoons. Another interesting example can be found in Star Trek. In the show, space explorers are sent back in time to stop an alien invasion in the 1940s that altered the outcome of WWII and allowed the Nazis to invade the US. Once they kill the alien leader, one of the characters tells the protagonist that the timeline has corrected itself just as an image of the Twin Towers burning passes in the background. From Star Trek: Enterprise The idea of a parallel world where the Nazis won WWII is very prominent in pop culture. But why is this? Is it possible creative people can intuitively sense other realities while absorbed in the act of creating? Philip K. Dick believed that’s what he did when he wrote The Man in the High Castle. He claimed: "I in my stories and novels sometimes write about counterfeit worlds. Semi-real worlds as well as deranged private worlds, inhabited often by just one person…. At no time did I have a theoretical or conscious explanation for my preoccupation with these pluriform pseudo-worlds, but now I think I understand. What I was sensing was the manifold of partially actualized realities lying tangent to what evidently is the most actualized one—the one that the majority of us, by consensus gentium, agree on." Coincidentally, Philip K. Dick was one of the first modern thinkers to predict the Mandela Effect. He once declared: “we are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs.” The Nazis were rumored to be in possession of a time machine known as Die Glocke, or in English, The Bell. They were supposedly taught how to build this device by extraterrestrials and the craft was said to be kept in a facility known as Der Riese, or The Giant. It sounds far fetched, but The Nazi Party was actually formed from The Thule Society, an occult group that dabbled in channeling and other magical practices. They were also known to use the Black Sun symbol, an esoteric representation of a gateway into another dimension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)) In Twin Peaks, a show about a small town caught in the midst of an interdimensional battle between good and evil, there seems to be a reference to Die Glocke. In season 8 there is a device that looks just like it, and at one point, a character called The Giant appears next to it. A conception of Die Glocke compared to the mysterious bell device in Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is full of occult symbolism. In one episode a character is given instructions to find a portal that opens 253 yards east of Jack Rabbit’s Palace at 2:53 pm on October 1st. This portal is located in Washington. However, there is another in Las Vegas. Strangely enough, on October 1st, 2017, the Las Vegas shooting occurred in a lot 253 yards away from the Luxor Hotel, a giant black pyramid with the strongest beam of light in the world shooting out of it. Victims were mostly those attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival. There's also black pyramids on the instructions. But it gets stranger. Jason Aldean was one of the headliners. If you look at his tattoos, there’s a Jack card and an Ace card underneath a black sun, which as mentioned earlier, is an occult symbol that represents a portal. This card from the Illuminati game is almost identical. A Jack is worth 10 points. An Ace is worth 1 point. This odd coincidence seems to be a reference to the date 10/1. Keep in mind this date looks like the number 101. This will become relevant too. But was the Route 91 Harvest a literal harvest of souls meant to energize a portal? This one is too much of a coincidence for me. The name Twin Peaks seems to be a reference to the Twin Pillars, a Masonic concept that originated from the Biblical idea of Boaz and Jachin, two pillars that stood on the porch of King Solomon's Temple. The Twin Pillars can be found in ancient architecture all over the world and are sometimes used in Tarot. They are said to represent a doorway into a higher realm. In this Masonic artwork, you can see the Black Sun between them. Jachin, Boaz, and the Black Sun. The Twin Pillars and the gateway in between can be represented by the number 101. In Twin Peaks, the entrance to The Black Lodge, a place that exists in another dimension, is depicted as a rabbit hole between two trees, which resembles a zero between two ones. In George Orwell’s famous novel 1984, Room 101 is a place where people’s worst fears come true. In The Matrix, Neo’s apartment number is 101. Here it’s interesting to note that he escapes the matrix by going in room 303. This year marks 303 years since Freemasonry was founded. Perhaps they will make their getaway come December? Many occult researchers claim the Twin Towers were supposed to represent the Twin Pillars. There even used to be a statue called The Sphere placed in between them, making the buildings resemble the 101 Gateway. The Black Lodge entrance from Twin Peaks and The Sphere centered between the Twin Towers. Is it possible that the WTC‘s design was intended to create an interdimensional doorway using sacred geometry? Some say the Twin Towers even acted as a tuning fork. The buildings were wrapped in aluminum alloy with a resonant hollow interior. If you look at the picture above and to the right, you can kind of see how the sides of the towers even look like one. The Colgate Clock also once faced the WTC from across the water. If you’ve read my previous threads, you’ll probably notice it’s octagonal shape. Many portals in pop culture are portrayed as being 8 sided, like CERN, the largest particle collider in the world. Many conspiracy theorists speculate CERN is actually an interdimensional doorway. Some of the scientists working there have even said this. Why is there so much symbolism? Can it all really be just a coincidence at this point? Did 9/11 really alter our timeline? The Colgate Clock compared to CERN. According to many people, 9/11 is the reason the Statue of Liberty’s torch is closed. However, this isn’t true. Lady Liberty’s torch has been closed for over 100 years. Yet, there are some people who claim to have visited it. But according to official history, this is impossible. In this reality, The Black Tom Explosion was the reason the Lady Liberty’s torch closed. The explosion occurred in 1916 and was one of the first foreign attacks on US soil prior to Pearl Harbor. The explosion was also one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever documented. The explosion was so powerful it caused the outer wall of Jersey City's city hall to crack and the Brooklyn Bridge to shake. Ironically, besides Lady Liberty’s torch, the explosion lodged shrapnel in the clock tower of The Jersey Journal building, stopping the clock at 2:12 am. It also caused windows miles away in Times Square to shatter. Perhaps the matrix was trying to tell us something. Was this a time shattering event? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d103887-r126254125-Statue_of_Liberty-New_York_City_New_York.html Some people also claim they remember the Statue of Liberty being on Ellis Island. However, it has always been on Liberty Island. Once again, this is not something I recall learning in school. I’m sure some people do, but if my theory is correct, it’s because only some people in this timeline are from the old one. However, you can still find what appears to be residue left over from the previous reality. Residue from a previous reality? There are references in pop culture that seem to hint at the connection between the Mandela Effect and Lady Liberty as well. In the video game Assassin’s Creed Unity, the protagonist must find an exit portal to get himself out of a simulation. He finds it on the statue’s torch. In the movie Men in Black II, the statue’s torch is actually a giant Neuralyzer, a handheld device that uses a bright white flash to wipe people’s minds. At the end of the movie, the torch is activated and it illuminates the sky, erasing the memory of everyone in New York City. The scenes from Assassin's Creed and Men In Black II In the Netflix series The OA, a show about people who can jump between parallel universes, the Statue of Liberty shows up a lot. It seems to play an important role that was never really explained due to the show’s sudden cancellation. Some fans have pointed out that in one scene, Lady Liberty is holding her torch in the wrong hand. Some say this was just an error while others think it may have a deeper meaning. The Statue of Liberty scene from The OA. In The OA, the protagonist searches for The Rose Window, an object she says acts like a portal to other dimensions. I find this very symbolic considering the Twin Pillar symbolism mentioned earlier. Many older cathedrals have huge rose windows centered between two tall towers. Old cathedrals with 101 Gateway symbolism built into the architecture. If you’ve read my previous threads, you might have already made the connection that the 101 Gateway is another version of the Saturn Stargate. If you’re not familiar with the theory, we live in a simulation controlled by Saturn and the Moon, and The Elite are tying to break out. Our simulated reality is sometimes represented by a cube, and some say The Kaaba is one of these symbolic structures. The Kaaba sits between two pillars underneath a clocktower with a crescent moon on top. Kaaba at Mecca. Ironically, Fritz Koenig, the artist who created The Sphere sculpture between the Twin Towers, said The Kaaba was the inspiration behind his art installation. We can see this symbolism repeated in much of our pop culture as well. In the video game Fortnite, a giant cube destroys a location called Tilted Towers then forms a portal in the sky. At another point in the game, it is revealed that the cube’s true form is a giant demon named the Storm King. His horns are reminiscent of a crescent moon. The second time you fight the Storm King its at a location called Twine Peaks lmao. But are there anymore significant Mandela Effects associated with the WTC? According to some people, Hurricane Erin never happened in their timeline. If you‘re unaware, like I was until recently, there was a massive hurricane headed right for New York on the morning of 9/11. Because of the events that occurred on 9/11, I understand how Hurricane Erin would be easy to forget. Nevertheless, the storm was strange. Hurricane Erin, which was slightly larger than Hurricane Katrina, received almost no media coverage as she charged toward New York City. On the morning of 9/11, just as the planes were about to hit, Hurricane Erin grew to her largest size, but slowed down and remained almost stationary off the East coast. But right after the WTC fell, she made a sharp right turn and headed back out to sea. Hurricane Erin on September 11th, 2001. Hurricane Erin’s name is also interesting. The name Erin originated from Ériu, a goddess typically seen by the sea playing a harp. I find this curious becau HAARP uses extremely powerful radio frequencies to heat up the ionosphere and create clouds of plasma. Not only does this affect the climate, but the electromagnetic waves produced by it could hypothetically mess with our minds, perhaps changing or even erasing our memories. se many conspiracy theorists blame HAARP for both weather manipulation and the Mandela Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89riu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program In my last thread, I talked about MH370. I believe it’s disappearance, like the events discussed in this thread, was a part of a Saturn Stargate ritual. A sacrifice to the god of time. Would it be beyond the god of the fourth dimension to grant someone access to a wormhole? Perhaps The Elite are not purposely creating Mandela Effects and branching timelines. Perhaps it is just a side effect of trying to beak the matrix. But I digress. At the end of my last thread I said I would talk more about rabbit symbolism and its association with time travel. However, before I talk about that, or the Law of One, I thought I should talk about this first. Thanks for reading. Oh yeah, in case you did read my last thread, check this out. The fact that this article was posted 2 weeks after my MH370 conspiracy post has me kind of spooked lol. https://nypost.com/2020/10/07/washed-up-debris-on-australian-beach-could-belong-to-missing-mh370/
Need advice/ help possible demonic presence at my boyfriends house?
Will try to keep this short but who knows. I semi sometimes live with my boyfriend and his family as my own home life isn't the greatest. We've been dating for about 6 years I'm a 22F and he 22M. He has told me that all his life he has experienced strange things from time to time examples include having horrible dreams about hell fire and skeletons, seeing full bodied apparitions as a child, and also shadows always lurking in the corner of his bedroom. I could honestly create a whole very long post about everything he's experienced but I'd rather ask about what has been happening more recently. I noticed that about 2 years after me and him had been dating, according to him, the activity had been ramping up and becoming more common than before when he was younger. I noticed that sometimes his house gives off a creepy vibe but this was hard to detect because honestly the place is decorated and arranged very pleasantly and it's located in a beautiful part of where we live which is somewhere in the PNW. Well, especially in his bedroom is where I noticed the creepiness coming from which we think is also the center of all the activity. Actually, so, the house was built in the 60's (it's a double wide with an extended room built in after if that helps) and there used to be an older couple that lived in his bedroom and one day the wife died from natural causes in his bedroom. For awhile me and my boyfriend had the theory that the activity was being caused by the spirit of this woman who wasn't happy that a teenage/ young adult boy had been living in her room for years, oh yes by the way he has lived in this house all his life. Buuuttt that theory got debunked when his mom brought in a Catholic medium/ psychic over to the house. She said she detected a presence that was actually male, and she didn't want to say if she felt the spirit was human or.. something else, which I find odd, honestly though this women wasn't very helpful. However I do think she's right, whatever it is it has a "male" presence. I know this because one of really the only times it's ever messed with me personally was about 2 years ago. It was the morning, I didn't have anything going on that particular day so I stayed in my boyfriends bed to sleep in while he got up for work. Eventually him and his dad (the only other 2 people there that morning) went outside to get things ready for their job, they work together doing construction. So to set the scene, I'm laying in his bed somewhere between sleep and awake while him and his dad are outside, in the bedroom there is a window to the outside where they get things ready, it was closed but it allows me to hear them chatting outside sometimes. It's really, really important to note that when they were talking to each other outside their voices sound muffled and distant. Ok so, all of a sudden I hear a voice, INSIDE the room with me it's a deep male voice, and he goes "I used to be great" I kind of starting to get up and look around while still laying in bed. Now I have to say this isn't usually like me, I do kind of get scared easily but, I think because it was the morning and not night time I felt braver, and another weird thing was that.. I didn't even care which is very very strange of me, because I'm always fascinated by evidence of ghosts existing maybe it's because I was so tired on top of it, I'm not sure. Anyways, I don't think it liked that I was ignoring it for one bit because then, I feel as though something has just rushed up to my face like.. whatever this thing was got up in my face while I was laying in bed and said... something else, unfortunately I can't remember :/ but it was still in this guttural scary, deep male voice and they sounded angry and I could even feel cold air being blown into my face like as if you felt the breath of someone on your face if they/re talking really close to your face. So.. once again this is so strange of me, what did I do? I just rolled over and tried to get more sleep.. completely just trying to ignore what was going on, I guess maybe at the time I felt that was my only option. I eventually did fall asleep after a couple of minutes and when I did, I had the first and hopefully only sleep paralysis dream I've ever had. It was a typical SP set up I wake up to find that the surroundings looked just like the room I'm sleeping in except I can't move. The only different thing was that .. there was a cat on my chest, a calico cat to be specific I only stayed like this for a couple seconds because in my head I was just like fuck this and started to try to sit up and then when I did, my perception of reality started to shake and rattle like, if you were looking at things through the view finder of a camera and then you start shaking the camera .. kind of hard to explain :/ but it just looked like all of my surroundings were starting to fall apart and then the cat on my chest starting to hiss and meow and it swiped at me in the face and then I woke up laying on my back in my boyfriends room, totally normal. So yeah, other strange things happen like, for a long stretch of months in the summer to be specific, we would hear scratching everywhere in the walls, wasn't always dedicated to one particular wall or room or anything just randomly, whatever room you were in (this especially happened to me in particular) you would just hear scratching, right wherever you were like as if it was trying to be as close to you as possible. I know know, could be just animals living in the walls buuttt in the summer that makes no sense as it can get so incredibly hot in my opinion no animal would want to be living in those walls in the summer, and it would happen at all different times of the day. Another thing is that my boyfriend has 2 dogs and every so often they both freak out and bark at nothing, it also gets particularly scary when I notice that their eyes seem to be looking around at something we can't see. For example once my boyfriends vizsla was coming over to give me some love, I was sitting in the middle of the floor beckoning her to come over to me, she was exiting out of my boyfriend's parents bedroom and she had to pass by my boyfriends bedroom in order to come over to where I was. His bedroom door was open and as she passed by she looked inside, she had a stuffed animal in her mouth and when she looked over into his room she dropped it and just started starring, she became visibly more agitated and as soon as I said "Sami, what do you see in there?" she started barking like mad like, so aggressive and not like her at all as she's very gentle but protective. Her gaze starts to shift forward, now looking ahead as if whatever she was looking at in the room came up right over to the front of her face she then starts attacking the stuffed animal she dropped on the ground as if it was alive biting at it viciously and snarling at it. Her eyes are crossed in front of her like she's looking directly in front of her face and I could see this look in her eyes like she was starting to get really scared and shakes the stuffed animal around in her mouth violently and then suddenly throws it really far up in the air and against a wall almost hitting the ceiling. I know that dogs throw things around with their mouths sometimes but she had never done anything like that before, and then she came over to me with her head down looking for comfort, it was so strange. There's three more big things I need to bring up and then I can get into my theories and questions. 1.st about two months ago, and very important to note when I wasn't there, my boyfriend said that he felt something grab his ankle while he was sleeping, this is big because this is the first instance of whatever this is physically touching him. 2nd. about a week ago I had his house all to myself as him and his family went on a little get away at a casino and I stayed at their house to watch their dogs. That night I wasn't in a good mindset at all but was trying to have a good time by myself. I was hearing the scratching again and frankly just being annoyed by it, it was coming from the large pantry in his kitchen and the scratching would get louder every time I would get closer and examine the inside of the pantry. I just tried to get my mind off of it so I brought out my tarot cards ( I know probably wasn't a good idea if I'm trying to avoid activity) but the tarot cards keep my mind busy, it's a hobby I've been working on and developing my skills on for the past 7 months. I started out by arranging them in an arch shape on the table like as if you took the deck and just spread the cards out in a smooth arch all face down. Now, to be honest I partake in the devils lettuce from time to time and this night was no exception as I was not in good spirits so to sum it up it was making my awfully sleepy and it was late and I had to go to work the next day anyway so I just left my tarot cards out like that, no intention behind it whatsoever other than laziness. The next day I come to the table to find that... somehow... a card had been pulled from the arch right into the middle of it. Now you need to listen to me when I say that I DID NOT DO THIS it wasn't a situation where I figured.. well maybe I did pull a card and I forgot or something, NO, I remember being immediately freaked out but also.. excited. I figured, what's next to do other than flip the card over and see what it is. The card was.. the 5 of cups which, if you do tarot you would know that is probably in the top 5 most negative cards you can get. It is a card that signifies grief, loss and despair and abandonment, typically people get this card when they've experienced a death of a loved one or an intense break up or some other traumatic event. And the thing is that I have experienced all of those things recently. Soo if this situation wasn't coming off as too complicated, let me add that both me and my bf are actually polyamorous so I had been in a relationship while also being with him, and that person dumped me and the situation was frankly awful and I was lied to and I had felt abandoned. On top of that, this summer I experienced the loss of another guy I used to date, he died of an overdose and I'm still grieving him even though we weren't together anymore when he died I still considered him a friend. So about this card, it's strange because when I told people in my life about this they all asked me, did you feel threatened by this card being somehow magically pulled from the deck? And honestly, I didn't because I felt whatever it was was just telling me.. this is you. Now see if it was the death card, then yes I would feel threatened but this felt different like you could say the 5 of cups already represented me, so seeing that wasn't new information. I wondered if possibly the idk.. spirit or whatever of my dead ex had been the one who pulled it but, I don't know the more I think about it the more I feel like a crazy person. Lastly, this only happened about 2 days ago and is the reason I've come to the internet for some advice. I was out late but planning to arrive back to sleep at my bf house. I noticed he messaged me "where are you??" at about 11:30pm which I thought was odd because he's not very clingy and just in general lets me be me so this made me worry. I wasn't able to get back until 1 am unfortunately. When I come home I find him sleeping in the guest bedroom, he says I'm not sleeping in my bedroom tonight and when I ask why he proceeds to tell me that earlier while he was laying in his bedroom he was watching something on his phone and he was noticing shadows out of the corner of his eye but he tried to ignore it. He then felt like something was on the bed and when he lowered his phone down he full on sees a completely dark figure so like an outline of a large figure that was all black with no details standing on it's knees(?) at the end of his bed looking at him with it's arms outstretched. Lets just say, this really really bothered me because in my mind this thing is getting braver and bolder and it's behavior is escalating and me and my boyfriend don't want to wait around until.. one of us gets possessed or something!! So let me get into some leads, well just one lead: So.. the area where both me and my boyfriend live in my opinion is like the skinwalker ranch of the PNW I mean the town we live in inspired the show Twin Peaks and some of the first and much of the third season of that show was filmed here (another hint at where we live). So on top of all of this activity something else I've been noticing is that my boyfriend has a neighbor who very late into the night is always shining really really really bright lights, in fact so bright that people up to 10 miles away can see them, that's how through small town networking I had met a man who also was seeing these strange lights. He's actually like the towns little paranormal investigator and he invited me to do an interview for him to tell him what I saw. This man is older and has been around and knows a lot of history about our town and the area and he's worked very very closely with the native tribe in our town as if you live in the PNW you are almost guaranteed to be living on native land. He had told me during that interview that where my boyfriend lives is said to be an ancient burial ground for noble native people as it's located on the side of a large mountain which they thought of as sacred. He said he's heard of many strange things happened where my boyfriend lives but didn't explicitly say that it could explain what we experience within his home. This got me to thinking that perhaps this spirit is of a long dead noble indigenous man of high honor, could that explain why he told me "I used to be great." Some people I tell this story to don't think that as they don't think a native spirit wouldn't be malevolent but I'm inclined to think white people who stole your land and now live on top of your grave would maybe make someone like that pretty angry. And, frankly that's all I have for an explanation. Some questions I have would be, could this possibly be a actual demon? Or a malevolent spirit? Another thing I wonder is that, my boyfriend is always the one mainly seeing and experiencing the activity while sometimes it messes with me in really weird ways, he seems to not like me and stay away from me, why could this be? Because if demons/ bad spirits are attracted to people with trauma and baggage and depression then I should be the target as I have those in spades, while my boyfriend is a relatively happy guy all the time. Sorry this was actually really really long but please, anyone have any advice at all? And please please don't suggest saging while I have done saging rituals of my own many times I think it's too far gone in this situation and yes we have saged this house about twice now.
In P13, Dougie's colleague insurance agent Anthony Sinclair broke down and confessed everything to his boss Bushnell Mullins.
Sinclair: "And if it weren't for Dougie, I might have a murder on my hands."
Maybe he had a murder on his hands anyway. Earlier in P1, the bare bottom of Major Briggs's decapitated corpse was revealed in Ruth Davenport's bed. It had been covered under a large blue blanket. Why it had been covered was a little odd, but the blue blanket seemed to serve a specific absurd purpose connecting the Major and Detective Macklay. There might also have been another purpose why the Major was covered. In P5, when Cooper showed up in Lucky 7 office for the morning meeting, Sinclair came to talk to him him. This was the first time he made an appearance.
Sinclair: "I covered for your ass, pal."
In the context of the scene, Sinclair referred to the three days that Dougie had been missing. But once again, it probably had another meaning as well. Earlier, I have proposed that the Las Vegas storyline seems to have been edited together from multiple versions of similar but not the same events playing out, with at least two different characters in conveniently catatonic Cooper's likeness - also explaining why the story required him to be catatonic - stumbling from one hazardous situation to another, one being Cooper himself and the other Major Briggs. The reason for the Major going to Las Vegas as Cooper apparently was that in his alternate existence he was the real Dougie Jones, the body of whom was the headless corpse in Ruth's apartment, and he wanted to find a way to be back with his family, Janey-E and Sonny Jim. Assuming then that this mindlessly stumbling Cooper was in fact Major Briggs, Sinclair telling he had covered for his ass makes it sound like a tip that Sinclair's character had been in Ruth's apartment, literally pulling that blanket over what was left of the naked Major, who was now standing in front of him in a different likeness, both of them in a different story. Earlier, I also proposed that a contract killer Ike "the Spike" Stadtler was linked to what had been going on in Ruth's apartment. If both Sinclair and Ike were hinted to have been there, that might mean they were actually the same character, as two different incarnations in two different storylines. For this to make sense, Ike and Sinclair should not exist in the same version of the story. Let's have a look if their paths ever crossed. We first saw Ike in P6. He was playing dice in his motel room and appeared to be tasked with killing Cooper and some contract killer handler Lorraine when someone delivered him an envelope with Dougie's picture. Earlier in the episode, the same envelope was taken from a safe by Duncan Todd. In P7, Ike then tried killing Cooper but failed and ran away, losing his "whole palm" in the process. Before that, he had killed Lorraine for unclear reasons. In P9, Detectives Fusco arrested Ike in a motel. In P10, Brothers Mitchum were watching television about Ike being arrested. That was the last we saw or heard of him. Looking at everything that was going on with Ike, there was not a single scene in which Sinclair crossed paths directly or even indirectly with him. Both Sinclair and Ike were linked to Duncan Todd that wanted them to kill Cooper but both were tasked to do so separately, without a hint that someone else had already got the same job before. Mitchum Brothers knew both Ike and Sinclair, but they never discussed them in the same scene. There was nothing about Sinclair in any scene that mentioned Ike's attack on Cooper. So, it indeed seems that if we assumed Ike and Sinclair were ultimately the same character, there was nothing in the story that would be in unsurmountable conflict with it. It looks possible that in one version of the Las Vegas storyline, Ike was tasked with killing Cooper and in another that job went to Sinclair, both failing to get it done. Ultimately, though, it was the same character who tried to kill Cooper in both versions. Sinclair's confession was his last scene. Lynch implied that we should get ready for some trouble from the corrupt policemen that he had been scheming with, but none of them ever showed up again either. However, we got a hint how this story would really continue.
Sinclair: "I vomited blood. I can't live like this. I only want to die or change."
As one the last things he said, Sinclair wished to change, and this probably meant that his character would turn out later again as someone else. With Ike heading to jail and Sinclair telling he was vomiting blood, we got a good tip where we could find him. But more of that later. Who Ike and Sinclair then really were? Earlier, I wondered if the original Arm actor Michael J Anderson's curious fallout with Lynch and the murky smear campaign that he initiated against the director had colored Lynch's handling of the character. While Lynch has seemingly remained silent about the whole thing, more of his private reaction might have been hidden in plain sight in Bushnell's words to Sinclair.
Bushnell: "Now that you're confessing, I have to admit that my anger, my contempt for you is subsiding. -- I trusted you, Anthony. I looked at you as my friend and my number-one sales agent." Cooper: "Number-one sales agent." Sinclair: "How can I make it up to you? I'm so ashamed of what I've done."
Overall, assuming this line of thought is as intended by Lynch and followed here with at least somewhat sufficient accuracy, the Arm appears to have been present in many different storylines as numerous different characters, all played by new actors. The same seems to have been the case with several other Twin Peaks alumni, such as Audrey Horne, Nadine Hurley, Pete Martell, Laura Palmer and Major Garland Briggs. Why this was happening is something interesting to think about. When it comes to the Arm, Lynch appears to have been unable to resist hinting about this unusual storytelling device in his Rolling Stones interview in 2017 when they asked him what was going on with the Arm, also known as the Man From Another Place.
Rolling Stones: "OK, similarly, in that same final episode, the Man From Another Place – actor Michael J Anderson – says, 'When you see me again, it won’t be me.' What can you say about that?" Lynch: "That it’s more true than you think (laughs)."
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In P11, Mitchum brothers were sitting in their car, waiting for Cooper so that they could kill him. Perhaps due to a dream he had had, Bradley had started to question their plan but Rodney remained adamant.
Rodney: "Plus, he lost our 30 million, and then he takes our casino for 472 grand."
But in the previous episode, seemingly a night before, Rodney had counted their losses differently.
Rodney: "He took us ... for 30 million ... 447 thousand ... dollars."
Curiously, their losses had increased by $25,000. That had been the amount Janey-E gave to the loan sharks in P6. This narrative inconsistency hinted more of the kind would follow. At 45:23, Rodney pointed us one. As the brothers were walking away from their car, Rodney's shoes made a strong sound against the sand. Right then, he turned around to look at the road and walked backwards for a while. In the line of his sight, a sizable rock had gone missing. The rock had been there earlier when we got the establishment shot of the brothers in the car, waiting for Cooper. That had been followed by Bradley talking about his dream in which Rodney's face had been healed - and indeed, the bruise under the plaster was miraculously gone. Next, the white stretched limo arrived, and the rock was back where it had been before. But as the driver opened the door, the rock was gone again. Cooper got out, carrying a large box. Then there was a cut to a wider shot. With it, the rock was back once more. In an interrupted take, Rodney hushed the driver to leave, but Bradley started talking about his dream, explaining to Rodney that if there was "this one certain thing" in the box, they shouldn't kill Cooper. All the while, the rock was visible on the ground. Then Rodney walked towards Cooper, pointing a gun at him. The rock was gone again. Bradley walked to check the box and found the cherry pie inside. The rock remained gone for the rest of the scene and didn't come back in any later shot as the brothers discovered the check for $30 million. As usual, our observations were inconvenienced a bit. The driver's long shadow conveniently went right through the location where the rock was and wasn't, and Rodney's arm hid it from sight in a few shots. Besides the rock, another inconsistency during the scene was Bradley holding the box differently in the wider shot and the closeup, implying he opened the box in both storylines and found the cherry pie inside in both. Furthermore, when Rodney's arm hid the rock from sight, it looks like the cherry pie box was used to assist sorting out the story. When Bradley put the box down and started frisking Cooper, concluding that he didn't even have a wallet, the box was in a different position than in the shot that followed with the setting sun brightly reflecting from its cover. The evening shadows in the scene were otherwise exactly the same which meant the box had been moved quickly during the same take. The shot with the sun reflecting from the box was shown to have no rock on the ground. Let's sum up and think a bit what was going on. The scene was apparently mixed together from two similar but not the same storylines as seems usual for almost all Las Vegas scenes. There was, after all, "a doubleheader in Las Vegas", like Mr C had advised us in P9, a game played twice for the same audience in the same arena. Both storylines had the brothers waiting for Cooper with ill intentions. Both times Cooper arrived carrying a box that Bradley opened and found a cherry pie inside. Both times Bradley seemed to expect it there. However, it was in one storyline only that the brothers were shown to find an envelope in Cooper's pocket and the $30 million check inside the envelope. The other storyline apparently ended with Bradley saying Cooper didn't even have a wallet. Whether that storyline nevertheless continued similarly was not shown to us. It might be tempting to conclude that the storyline that didn't have the rock on the ground was actually Bradley's dream, scrambled together with another storyline that showed him reacting to that dream. However, this doesn't seem to be the case. In both storylines, Bradley appeared to react to a dream he had had, although in the other this was only revealed by the frantic manner how he said, "Cherry pie!" after opening the box and finding the pie inside. It was emphasized Bradley didn't remember too much of the dream, only some parts of it, but there had been Cooper and a cherry pie in the box. For some reason, the pie in the box meant Cooper was their friend, even if he couldn't explain why it was so. That wasn't explained in either storyline we saw. A possible conclusion is that the dream - seen by Bradley in both storylines - was a fuzzy window to the real story that explained why Mitchum brothers were connected to Cooper and Twin Peaks in the first place. In P12, Audrey told us, "And dreams sometimes hearken a truth." Bradley's dream might even be linked to a scene in the original run, like Audrey's dance was, to a moment that had Cooper and a cherry pie.
This is the fifth and final part of me reading and sharing my thoughts on the Danganronpa Fanfic; ‘Three-Point Shot’ by RandomRex6. Here’s the last thread if you missed it, and here’s the actual story if you’re reading along. Spoilers for the canon V3 will be left unmarked, you have been warned, and it’s kind of difficult to spoiler tag the actual final case of a killing game. I’ll do my best, but I will once again implore you to go read the story yourself before reading this. On that note, if you’re someone who’s struggled to find the time to read this story you may be able to have it read to you instead. A frequent commenter of the story on AO3, Net Neutrality, has their own Youtube Channel where they’ve spent the last couple of years working on a audiobook style video series for this fanfic. It’s not finished yet but the latest update is less than a week old at the time of me posting this, so it’s worth a look in at the very least. Anyway, we’re kicking off with a big spoiler after the last chapter, so this really is your last chance to stop reading if you haven’t finished the story yourself, don’t start complaining at me if you ignore this and get spoiled …Ok, that should be long enough. So we return to the cast gathered in the hidden room of the library, having just discovered that somehow, Keebo has taken control of Motherkuma. He explains that when Kokichi sent him into the virtual world, the Supreme Leader used a flash drive (which I had completely forgotten about) he won back in chapter 2 to create a copy of Keebo’s AI. In the chapter 5 Free Time, Kokichi used a weaker EMP to disable the Nanokumas in the library whilst he placed a stronger EMP next to the door to the hidden room. The whole stand-off where both he and Maki pressed their detonators? Yeah, once of those triggered the library’s EMP, taking out the Nanokumas again and disabling the door to the hidden room (I’ve seen some comments saying this doesn’t make sense, Kokichi would still need the card key to open the door, but I think the story’s good with this one. There are electronic doors out there that actually require power to remain shut, so in the event of a power outage, they’re easy to open and nobody gets trapped inside. I can buy that this is one of those occasions.) When Kokichi fled the group using the flash bomb, he went to hidden room to plug the Keebo USB into Motherkuma, and as soon as the EMP wore off, TDR switched Motherkuma back on remotely, not knowing it was now compromised. Also, when Kokichi sent Keebo off to fight the Exisals, he snipped his antenna off. Kind of feel like that’s something that should’ve come up in the last case, but oh well. Getting all this information at once is a bit hard for the group to digest, and a lot of them have a hard time believing that Kokichi set all this up knowing that he was going to die as part of this plan. Everyone but Kaede, that is, who seems to have an easy time believing that Kokichi was trying to atone for setting Tenko and Keebo up to die. Honestly, I feel like this shouldn’t be so hard to come to terms with. Not so much the whole, “he felt he had to atone part,” but the idea that he wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice himself when these guys literally just had a trial that ended with him allowing himself to be executed to resolve the unsolvable crime he’d set up. I mean what more proof do they need after that? He literally told them he was more interested in hitting the mastermind where it hurts than his own life. Ambiguous character or not, it’s a whole other story when they were actually alive to explain this stuff to you like he was. Also, small nitpick, but how does this Keebo know all of this? My understanding is that this Keebo’s memories should end from when Kokichi made the copy, when OG Keebo entered the virtual world. Sure, he can scan Motherkuma’s databanks and learn some of the stuff he missed, but how can he know what happened whilst the EMP’s were active, surely Motherkuma can’t see that either? Anyway, Keebo’s making the preparations for his Monokuma army (dubbed Kiibokumas/Keebokumas) to detonate at one point in the End Wall to blow a hole so they can escape, but Kaede vetos that idea, worried that they have nowhere to go, no rations prepared, no ID’s and would probably just be recaptured and taken somewhere else. So instead, they send a message to the ones pulling Monokuma’s strings, telling them to make their final ultimatum, or else…they’ll just go with Keebo’s plan. Of course, the ultimatum proposed is the Danganronpa tradition; one final class trial, if they can solve all the remaining mysteries, they can go free. If they fail, Keebo goes back into his regular body and the game continues. They’re given a small bit of time to investigate, and each have some new evidence in their labs (how did the new evidence get there? Keebo has control of everything but the one Monokuma unit he’s allowing the puppet masters to speak through.) Most of the clues pertain to the canon V3 plot twists; their memories and personalities are fake, and the killing game has happened before. And after a short space of time, the group (joined by Keebo, using a modified Monokuma unit as a vessel) have their final class trial. The Monokubs are back…again…because we all want that final scrum debate at the end, I’ll give them that. And the start of the trial plays out like you’d expect; they bring up the Gopher Project plan for the first time and swiftly dismiss it as fake news. The information they have on Rantaro suggests this isn’t the first killing game, and from there they figure out that these games exist for people’s entertainment. They’re shown a video of Rantaro vowing the same things they’re now saying, that he won’t stand for this which…I guess means he failed, since the killing game is still going? …Yeah, the whole ‘Rantaro and Tsumugi are prior participants of the killing game’ thing they’ve been building up kind of ends on a down note. I mean, I know they couldn’t have beat TDR of the game is still going, but I at least thought the pair stayed behind so their friends could go free. But the video message Himiko finds shows Rantaro pleading with his future self to ‘save them,’ so it sounds like he didn’t even manage to accomplish that. Kaede explains that the clue in her lab was a flashback light, the first in the entire game if you would believe it, only Kaede opted not to watch it, not trusting Monokuma’s intentions. This turns out to have been a close call, as apparently it was supposed to reprogram Kaede’s mind and make her the game’s mastermind. And finally, we meet the game’s mastermind, the mastermind I was spoiled on from the beginning; Kaori Akamatsu, Kaede’s twin sister! She was mentioned a couple of times throughout the story, so it doesn’t come out of nowhere, and Rex left an extremely subtle hint in chapter 20 of the story that I’m not surprised none of us picked up on. And having went into this story knowing who the mastermind is, I never actually stopped to think about the merits of the decision, and ...I kind of would’ve preferred it if they just went with the teased plan of reprogramming one of the characters we already knew. I mean, the idea that TDR can literally make anyone into the game’s mastermind with their technology paints them as a truly heinous and powerful villain that must be stopped before they can ruin anymore lives…but it also strips those masterminds of their autonomy, they don’t matter. Kaori really isn’t the villain here, and honestly we really don’t know anything about her, she’s not even herself right now because they infused her with the typical mastermind/Junko personality. She’s Kaede’s sister, so we care about her by proxy, but I just feel like this would be more effective if it was a character we were invested in, one we’d really gotten to know throughout the story as opposed to a casual reference every now and then. Don’t get me wrong, she’s not bad, but she’s just sort of…Junko without the shifting personalities. The mastermind precedes to explain what’s left; who Team Danganronpa are, Keebo’s role in the killing game, they even show some comments made by the ‘show’s’ fans (which are actually comments of the story itself on AO3, which is a nice touch.) That’s basically all the mysteries solved now, so the kids have to make their choice; continue the killing game, or leave, but have their original personalities returned to them. Kaede doesn’t know what to do, and in a moment that was very DR2-esque ends up in a black void, talking not with her love interest or any of the deceased students, but her pre-game self. I love this idea, these kids confronting their past selves, the versions of them that saw no value in their lives, and threw them away to participate in the killing game. It’s essentially their past selves’ fault that they’ve been put through this mess, so it’s a confrontation that has a lot of potential. Kind of wish the two of them didn’t get along so well though. Past Kaede gives present Kaede some sass before helping her to make a decision. In the end, Kaede decides they need to take the option to leave and get their old personalities back. She argues they’ve come too far to turn back now, even if this moment doesn’t won’t end Danganronpa, it will plant a seed of doubt in the hearts of those that enjoy the show (which is admittedly a more realistic approach to how TDR would have to be dealt with than the game took. One bad season probably isn’t going to cut it.) We get the customary final challenge of the MC convincing everyone else to join them; Ryoma joins because if his past trauma is fake, he may have something more meaningful waiting for him out there. Himiko joins to honour Angie and Tenko’s memories (even though Angie didn’t really do much at all for Himiko in this story?) Keebo joins to show he’s a strong, independent robot who don’t need no creator. Maki joins both for the sake of honouring Kaito’s memory, but also to payback TDR for turning her into a weapon through her backstory (kind of the best reason of the lot, imo) and Shuichi joins because he can’t keep hiding away from the truth anymore (even though this Shuichi has already embraced the idea of being a detective as a coping mechanism for his depression) Kaori tries to argue that once their personalities are back, they won’t want this decision anymore, but Shuichi disagrees, citing the post-trial aftermath of chapter 4, where Miu continued to call Keebo ‘Idabashi’, suggesting that they’ll maintain some of their in-game personas even with their old personalities back, and they’ll just have to take that risk (Like I said, very DR2-esque ending.) They win the scrum debate with the Monokubs, Kaori admits defeat and takes them to the flashback light terminal to begin work on returning their original personalities. Keebo explains that he’s going to try and hack into TDR’s main servers, and upload his AI into the net, since his physical body can’t leave the academy, he may find freedom there instead. And Kaede and Shuichi kiss (I really feel like this should’ve been the first time they did that, but I forgot to mention they did this in the Free Time chapter of the last section, so whoops.) And the army of Monokumas and the five Kubs self-destruct by the end wall to let the kids re-join the outside world. The epilogue takes place quite a long time later, 4 years in fact. The kids are now adults, Kaede and Maki are meeting for lunch and MAKI HAS A CHILD! KAITO GOT MAKI PREGGERS DURING THE LOVE HOTEL SCENE AND NOW SHE HAS A LITTLE BABY GIRL CALLED ANZU! I FUCKING LOVE IT! SHE’S ADORABLE, SHE SAYS KAITO’S CATCHPHRASE IN BABY TALK! I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED THIS SO BADLY! I’VE KNOWN THIS CHILD FOR 5 SECONDS AND I’D ALREADY SLAUGHTER EVERYONE IN TDR FOR HER SAKE! Ahem, sorry about that. Anyway, the kids have sort of become figure heads in a protest movement against the show. Their whole gamble about regaining their old personalities paid off about as conveniently as it did for the DR2 cast. They’re pretty much exactly who they were in the game, but they just also have some fond memories of watching the show. Kaori’s seeing a shrink, since they’re struggling to get that Junko personality out of her brain (Can’t help but think this may just be an attempt to dodge having to give Kaori a personality of her own.) Ryoma’s enjoying his new freedom, travelling around the world as a tennis coach. Himiko’s on tour holding magic shows whilst trying to raise awareness of how wrong the killing games are (Kind of feel like that message is kind of diluted when you’re still making use of the talent and personality they gave her as part of the show.) Shuichi’s receiving medication for his depression and I believe is still dating Kaede. And the pair of them overhear that auditions for the next season of the show will be starting soon, but the cast size has shrunk again, since they’re struggling to find participants, and something (Keebo) is making it difficult to access the website. I love this idea of giving us a small peak into the characters adult lives. Sometimes, you just need something a little more concrete than simply hoping that the characters had a good life once the killing game was over. I’m torn on how they dealt with TDR, I know I said it’s a more realistic approach and it is, but it’s a shame that 3/4 more groups of kids have to participate and die before the show gets shut down. And, that’s it. My journey through Three-Point Shot is completed, and I’m now obliged to give my final thoughts on the story as a whole. Before I talk about the story itself, I just want to acknowledge how insanely difficult the format of Danganronpa even is to write for;
16 characters, do you know how few stories out there try to have as many as 16 new, reasonably fleshed out characters with each instalment? Yeah, some characters matter more than others, but they all have a personality, background, dynamics with each other. Most stories opt for no more than 8 or 10 characters at best, so it’s no wonder how much of a struggle it is to try and pull it off with 16 of them.
Then you have to be brutal and try and parcel down all those backstories and potential character arcs you’ve come up with to the bare essentials, the cream of the crop, because you’re killing off, on average, two of these characters every chapter. You will never have enough time to flesh out all of them. So, you’ve got to pick and choose which ones matter most for the story you want to tell.
But let’s not forget, those characters that die aren’t simply being killed off, it’s a murder mystery! So you’ve got to devise clever schemes that manage to strike the right balance between not being too obvious whilst also making enough sense to create a satisfying conclusion. You have to spend more valuable time foreshadowing this stuff, without it ruining the pacing.
And then, if all that wasn’t bad enough, you have to try and wrap this all up together. You have to come up with an overarching story, a mastermind who’s motivations justify this whole charade, and build towards a satisfying final confrontation between them and the rest of the cast.
When you really break Danganronpa down into those four components, you realise how much of a miracle it is that this series is even a fraction of coherent as it actually is. Most sensible writers wouldn’t touch this idea, they’d tell you it just wouldn’t work. So no matter what I have to say about this, or any other fanfic I read in the future, they all have my upmost respect for even attempting this challenge and having the guts to put their work out there. (Also, I don’t go over everything that happened in these threads. I say it all the time, I want you to read this stories for yourselves before reading these threads. You should never let someone else’s opinion act as a substitute for your own.) Telling a story is a two-part process; both coming up with your ideas and then conveying those ideas to your audience. Three Point Shot’s greatest strength was the ideas it came up with. I loved the creativity behind the motives, and the cases. I thought the casino party in chapter 2 and the use of honey in case 3 were great ways to make new use of V3’s already established locations. I loved V3, but my favourite parts of this story were when Rex let their creativity go unrestricted by what the canon dictated. Kokichi blackmailing Maki, only 1 murder in chapter 3, Shuichi’s depression, Angie not knowing whether her thoughts were hers or Atua’s, Keebo wanting a surname, the split vote idea. When the story attempted something new, or injected its own take on the V3 canon, I was generally all for it. And inversely, when the story repeated something that happened in V3 just for the sake of it, it generally wasn’t received so well by me; night time training in chapter 2, Himiko’s relationships with Tenko and Angie, the way Rantaro’s storyline just sort of ended. The problem isn’t replicating events from the canon, I had no problem with Kokichi’s antics and the student council, but it’s when the story replicates something without considering if what this story’s already changed affects it. I loved the romances. I’m a sucker for a good romance, but I don’t turn to Danganronpa all that often to get it. Saimatsu and…(checks Google) Harukaito (Really? That’s what we call it?) just felt really genuine in this story. It felt like teenagers falling in love, being awkward about it at times because they’re only teenagers and they don’t know what they’re doing. Just very wholesome, genuine teen romance. However, one of the issues I brought up quite often towards the end was how the story handled its supporting cast. Kaede, Shuichi, Kaito, Maki and Kokichi were all used to reasonably good effect across their lengthy screen time, but all the other characters kind of suffered for it. This isn’t exactly unexpected, I did say a while ago that it’s impossible to flesh out all 16 characters in Danganronpa, and you have to prioritise the most important ones for your story. It’s just kind of a shame that they went with the characters that already received a lot of screen time and development from the canon. The only characters that made it to this story’s chapter 5, that didn’t make it that far in the canon, were Kaede and Ryoma. I never really got the sense that anyone here was this story’s equivalent to Fuyuhiko, or canon Himiko, someone who initially didn’t seem like much, but develops in such a way where you can’t imagine them not surviving. It’s not for a lack of trying. Each chapter had three instances when the group split up (when they’re expanding the school, the Free Time chapter, and the investigation) and it consistently tried to give each character some sort of scene in each of these sections, but they kind of gave me a Ultimate Talent Development Plan vibe; they were fun interactions but they didn’t actually build much character. I think that’s partially because the story kept trying to mix and match different people together, so instead of really developing one strong bond with another person, we got several soft bonds with several people. I can see some debate over which approach is better, but I personally prefer the former, consistent interactions with a smaller portion of the group. My favourite interactions was when Gonta showed Angie around his lab, because that was an interaction the story kept up with, but the little three-way dynamic between Himiko, Ryoma and Keebo was also pretty consistent. I think RandomRex6 showcased that they’re more than competent as a writer. You have to bear in mind that this was just supposed a simple 1-chapter project that exploded into a full-game rewrite and from start to end, the project took just under a year to complete. They came up with some great ideas, and whilst I found faults in the execution at times, there was always some element that made me want to keep going, and Rex was their own harshest critic, never letting themselves of easy after disappointing their audience with Korekiyo at the beginning, and that fuelled them for the rest of the story. Whilst I think the fanfic peaked with chapter 3, I don’t think it ever dipped significantly after that. And that’s about all I have to say. I’m not gonna type up my thoughts on the characters again, because honestly what I said in the last thread for each of them still stands. I suppose Kaede stepped up more as a leader in this finale. It might be a couple of weeks before I start another fanfic series like this, and I think it’s time to move away from the V3 related ones for a while, just to give the rest of the franchise a chance.
In P6, some Mickey wanted to hitch a ride on Carl's van to town from the trailer park.
Mickey: "Can I get a ride with you into town? I - I gotta pick up Linda's mail at the P.O."
Riding the van, the two had a small chat that we listened with heightened anticipation as the unseen Linda had been established as a major mystery in season's opening episode. As usual, Lynch delivered another seemingly disconnected character that resisted ordinary attempts to place her anywhere in the story.
Carl: "How's Linda?" Mickey: "She's doing a lot better. Got the government agencies to finally get one of them electric wheelchairs." Carl: "Fuckin' war. So the government's taking care of you, huh?" Mickey: "Not hardly. Took us about six months to get this wheelchair for her."
That was it. We got a devastating glimpse to the quickly abandoned story of some unseen Linda who apparently was a disabled veteran of some of the many wars the US had been waging. Maybe she was paralyzed or had had her legs blown off, but now she had finally got an electric wheelchair. While Mickey lived in the trailer park, it didn't look like Linda stayed there as slipping a wheelchair unnoticed past Carl sounded unlikely. After Mickey had given us what we needed to know about him and Linda, they both disappeared from the story. Again, let's work with what we got, even if it probably wasn't what many people wish they should have got. That seems to be the constant throughout Return, with Lynch relying on all sort of experimental devices to deliver countless twists and turns in an already hugely complicated story, unbothered what anyone thinks about his unconventional approach. So, it looks like we got three clues to work with to make sense of Linda. Each seemed to find a reference elsewhere in the story. Clue number 1: a victim of war. In P8, Lynch probably burnt half of his CGI budget to recreate a spectacular nuclear experiment. Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima was playing in the background. Whatever the nuclear explosion stood there for, it was followed by several Woodsmen appearing in the mysterious convenience store and the fittingly named Experiment vomiting a large mass, including BOB. Clue number 2: waiting for a wheelchair. In the episode following the nuclear blast, P9, the deputies were visiting Bobby's mother, Betty Briggs. Unexpectedly, she was already prepared for Bobby and the deputies coming to ask about Agent Cooper.
Betty: "Come with me. This is the chair. I can't believe this day has come."
Her saying, "this is the chair" looked like a subtle throwback to Mulholland Drive that turned another seemingly mundane phrase, "this is the girl" into a key plot point. There had been nothing about any chair earlier, yet Betty underlined that this was the chair. And she had been waiting for this day. Her exact same words might just as well have been said between Mickey and Linda when the wheelchair arrived. Clue number 3: waiting for six months. In P10 - again an episode forward - there was Janey-E having a monologue while Doctor Ben who was examining Cooper.
Janey-E: "Anyway, as I told you, Doctor Ben, it started last week when Dougie disappeared for three days. He missed Sonny Jim's birthday party, which we'd been planning for six months, and then he shows up straight from the casino. You know about his gambling problems and then the drinking, and the drinking feeds the gambling and vice versa, and the whole thing is just a downward spiral."
Linda had been waiting for her wheelchair for six months, and Janey-E had been planning Sonny Jim's birthday for another six months. So, we got to three different ladies in three consecutive episodes - the Experiment, Betty and Janey-E. Each time, the context included their son - BOB, Bobby and Sonny Jim. Separately, their links to Linda looked enormously vague but together like a pattern. Having done my homework earlier, I have already proposed that ultimately these three - the Experiment, Betty and Janey-E - were the samecharacter, just in three different worlds. Furthermore, I have also proposed that their sons BOB, Bobby and Sonny Jim were the same character, each in his own alternate reality, respectively. And while BOB having a father is something to think about, I have also proposed that Sonny Jim's father Douglas Jones was another Garland Briggs who elsewhere was Betty's husband and Bobby's father. This would then imply also Linda was the same character as the Experiment, Betty and Janey-E, just in yet another world, revealing a fundamental piece in this very unusual telling of her very unusual story. If so, then none of those other women existed in Linda's world as that place was already taken by her. And if there was no Betty, much of the story in that Twin Peaks must have gone differently. Nothing in the scene between Mickey and Carl was in conflict with this possibility. Ramifications elsewhere would of course be significant. We'll have a look at those later. While the Experiment existed at the top of otherworldliness, it seems that Linda was at the other end where Twin Peaks met the ground level. This fits Lynch's private belief of us being born again and again into different lives. As he himself put it in an interview:
"It’s not so much a circle as like a spiral that comes around, the next loop a little bit higher than the one that precedes it.”
And if you go to the opposite direction, then Janey-E told us just what it would be.
Janey-E: "-- and the whole thing is just a downward spiral."
We were also hinted about this approach to life in Eddie Vedder's song Out of Sand that Lynch had got him to perform for Return in P16:
"There's another us somewhereWith much better lives"
With this said about Linda, from what we got to know about Mickey, we should be able to sort out his story accordingly.
Recommended if you like: Pythius, State Of Mind, Rido You know what we haven’t had in a long time? Remixes! Ten years after the initial release on his Virus album debut, it is time for a remix package of Audio’s Genesis Device album. Originally the plan was to premiere these four remixes of some of his most well-known classics during the 10 years of Genesis Device Virus takeover in the legendary venue that is Fabric in London. As you might have guessed, they instead pivoted to a livestream with most of the acts booked for that event, including Black Sun Empire, a classic Matrix set and the neurofunk godfathers themselves, Ed Rush & Optical. The remixes were premiered during Audio’s own set and just 2 very long months later, here they are! For this milestone, the ungoogleable producer got together with four of the best neurofunk producers the scene has to offer. First off, we have Black Sun Empire who took the titular Genesis Device and turned up the hype factor to 11. I’m going to be honest with you, a 4x4 type beat during the buildup gets me hyped like nothing else. It worked for Enei’s Sinking or the mega collab that is Sidewinder by Camo & Krooked & Mefjus, it worked for this. What follows isn’t any less ridiculous though, that drop just screams energy. Next, Redpill. On his Emissions Remix, Redpill took the “newschool”-techy route that he is known for from tracks like Flesh & Blood or his Rido collab Time. Compared to the first remix a bit of a vibe switch for sure, but I think we needed that. He even sneaked in a cheeky voice sample from the executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program in there at the end. The third remix is Agressor Bunx’s take on the frog-croaking classic Jibba Jabba. Even though they didn’t stray too far off the original, the changes they did certainly succeeded in updating it to the current “modern” neurofunk sound. Finally, we have Prolix on remix duties for Scanners. The TrendKill label boss managed to transform the original fast-paced neuro roller into one of the biggest bangers of this year. Absolute monster of a remix. Hide your shoes somewhere safe.
2. Current Value - Time Gap [Blackout]
Recommended if you like: Machine Code, Underhill, Curry Value Why don’t we stay in the neuro spectrum for a little while longer? Let’s talk about one of DnB’s most productive producers of our time: Current Value. Seriously, just scroll through his releases on Spotify. It takes a while. After releasing two albums last year (just let that sink in), PUER on Souped Up and Senex on Methlab, the Berlin-based personification of prolificness returns once again to Black Sun Empire’s Blackout with a four-track EP with some of his work to date. He opens the EP with the titular Time Gap, a track that sums up his appeal in just 4 minutes. Strange vocals, cyberfunk-esque atmosphere and a drop that is just straight up weird. But good weird. Chaotic weird. The follow-up Operator reminds me of the more stepper-y tunes on his Methlab album Senex. How he keeps finding this strange sounds is a mystery to me. Planar is an endless barrage of noises coming straight for your ears, but arranged in such a way that you still end up enjoying it. The EP closer Deadspot sounds a bit like my neighbours banging on my door to keep the noise down. What I’m saying is, this EP might not be for everyone. But it certainly is for me. If you like strange and unique drum and bass, you’ll be in heaven.
3. Various Artists - Modern Soul LP 5 [Vandal Ltd]
Recommended if you like: GLXY, Redeyes, Halogenix I think we all deserve a break after the madness we just witnessed. Good thing Vandal Ltd just released their fifth installment in their Modern Soul compilation series! Founded in 2014 by SKS and Redeyes, the sister label of Toulouse-based Vandal Records has since then become one of the finest places to find soulful and deep liquid. The Modern Soul series perfectly encapsulates what the label is all about. Regularly featuring genre legends like Lenzman, Monty or GLXY, mixed in with contributions by some of the best up-and-coming liquid producers, it is always worth checking out. And this installment is no exception. While the big name tracks on this release by Monty, Invadhertz, Amoss and Mark Dinimal (also known as MD or one part of Data 3) are all just excellent, the relatively lesser known producers also put in their work. Arp XP’s provides such a chill vibe that it made me want to check out more of their back catalogue, Rizzle is once again on fire, Vandal regular Forum’s contribution is also very much something to look out for and Arcatype delivers not just one, but two great vibes. Last but definitely not least we got some delightful tracks by Phase and LaMeduza, legendary french producer Peyo, polish hidden gem In-Deed and Metalheadz regular Adred. Perfect lovely vibes for a chill sunday.
4. DKN - Auf Den Start / The Peak [Subtitles Music]
Recommended if you like: Survey, GROUND, Grey Code It’s time. For what? Do you really have to ask? For the Underrated Track Of The Week™ of course! This week’s pick might not fit in completely, because I’m sure the creator will become way more famous in no time. I mean, the A side was even played by Dimension in his DJ Mag livestream on saturday. Oh well, still worth talking about. I’m of course talking about DKN’s debut release Auf Den Start / The Peak on Teebee & K’s label Subtitles Music. If you listen to the double single you will understand why I believe that this man will blow up very very soon. The Brightonian DKN rose through the ranks with his mixing abilities, winning the Data Transmission DJ Competition in 2015 and eventually catching the attention of TeeBee. Soon enough he was featured on Subtitle Music’s Podcast The Sub Club, culminating in this debut release on that same label. Both Auf Den Start and The Peak bring a lot of raw and deep energy to the table. Both use great vocal samples that are stuck in my head for hours after listening to them. In conclusion: Both are bangers. My favorite has to be The Peak though, just because of that fast-paced high-pitched instrument (wish there was a shazam for instruments) that comes in half-way through the rolling drop. If this is just the debut release, imagine what else he has in store. Other Hidden Gems this week:
Speksi - Beg / Veil (hooooly Magnetude vibes)
Drumsik - Noise In My Mind (was already released on Beatport previous, but it’s really really good and I missed it before)
Thoughts on the Pilot and episodes 2&3 Episode 4: That was an interesting episode. I have so many new questions now. Hawk seems like a cool character and I’m curious to see what’s in store for him. The funeral scene made me feel all types of way haha. Bobby’s meltdown was amazingly depressing, then Leland sprawling on the casket was oddly comedic. I’m still not sure if Leland and Sarah are supposed to be tragic characters or comedic (or both?) but I really liked it. I wonder how we’re going to get the full story of the night of Laura’s murder (if at all) - by a flashback? By a dream? Also, the scene at the coffee house was great, I like how they make meta comments like “Twin Peaks is different”. It really is different. Episode 5: It just gets more and more confusing! I feel like everyone is hiding something. Everyone knows something. Now we know Leo and Ben are connected, Josie and Hank know each other. And what’s the deal with Maddy? I have so many questions! Also, no matter what happens, Lucy better stay her innocent-sweet-little self. I love her! Episode 6: Okay wow. It only gets more and more complicated but also more interesting. I loved the scene with the log lady. There were some beautiful shots this episode and the closeups of the bird were so creepy. Apparently Ben is actually in cahoots with Josie? And I wanna know what’s going on in Audrey’s head, she’s so mysterious. So much going on! Episode 7: Great episode. The scenes at the casino were great. The last 20 minutes really had me at the edge of my seat. Seems like there are so many plot lines. Is everything gonna be connected at the end? Is anything gonna be resolved by the end of the season? Episode 8: THAT CLIFFHANGER. Wow. Such an incredible episode and what a way to end the season. Half of the characters’ fate is unknown. Jacques was killed by Leland. Leo was shot (I’m guessing not dead) by Hank. Dr. Jacoby had a heart attack. Shelly and Catherine are lost in the fire. Pete as well. I’m thinking Shelly and Catherine will come out and discover that Pete went after them and died. Nadine committed suicide. Cooper was shot (bulletproof vest?). Lucy is pregnant 😍 I also can’t wait to see Ben’s reaction to Audrey. Loved every minute of this episode. I cannot believe I waited so long to watch this show. It is SO good, I don’t even have words to say how pleasantly surprised I am. I love how it’s not trying to be a crime show or a mystery show or anything else. It’s just... Twin Peaks. The characters are phenomenal, each of them so unique and thought out. The plot is quite complicated at times but is told in such an interesting way. I have to admit I kinda thought the show would be a little weirder and that there would be more of that dream scene (maybe there will be later?) but I’m definitely not complaining, I enjoyed every second. So excited to keep watching!
So, I'm coming to the end of Twin Peaks: The Return (please no spoilers for the last two episodes) and I have to ask about the whole Las Vegas thing. Ever since Dougie wandered into that casino, I found it incredibly bizarre that this is the first place he ends up after leaving the Black Lodge. I mean the episode literally started with him falling through space. Out of all the cities in America, why was it Las Vegas that he ended up?? My curiosity peaked in Part 11 when Dougie was on his way to meet the Mitchim Brother and there was a scene of him riding down the strip in the back of a limousine. The scene was accompanied by a cheesy pop cover of Viva Las Vegas and shots of the different casinos and billboards along the way, and the whole thing felt like it was straight out of an advert or one of those tacky hotel welcome videos. I am convinced there is something that the creators are trying to express in this scene, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. Any thoughts?
Watching for the first time: Thoughts on Season 3 - The Return (Parts 9-12)
Thoughts on season 1 , season 2, Fire Walk With me & The Missing Pieces Season 3 (The Return): Parts 1-4 and parts 5-8 Part 9 (This Is the Chair): The song at the end was beautiful. The musical choices overall are perfect. William’s interrogation scene was super interesting. Finally some things begin to unfold (kind of). I feel like it was a more down-to-earth episode, probably to balance the last one lol. But still a great one. Lucy and Andy are the sweetest couple ever. I almost cried when Lucy purchased the red chair for Andy. And I wonder what’s up with Jerry and if he’s important. The scene with him and his foot talking to him was so random and weird. Gordon is one of the best characters and his lines are executed perfectly and overall he’s just so fun to watch. Lynch is truly talented. Part 10 (Laura Is the One): I hate Richard. God, I hate him so much. And Chad too. He’s an asshole. I’m kinda starting to give up hope on seeing Audrey again :( even though we kinda got confirmation that Richard is her son. I don’t know, there’s so much Horne action but not one mention of her. The musical choices just keep getting better and better. The song at the end of this one was pure classic Twin Peaks. Janey and Dougie’s sex scene was so uncomfortable to watch. Not sure what I think about it. Seems like nothing important really happened, except for the new information on Diane’s involvement with Bad Cooper and the texts. Not a bad episode, but probably the weakest of the season for me, though the ending was so beautiful to me. Part 11 (There's Fire Where You Are Going): I liked this one. Dougie is the cutest and the old lady from the casino thanking him was so heartwarming. I loved that scene. The scene with William being killed and that small portal tornado in the sky was great and scary. That “Gotta light?” man gives me the creeps. Seems like Gordon has some connection to the black lodge. First seeing Laura, now being affected by that portal. Also, What the fuck was wrong with that kid in the honking car?! It was so disturbing, why didn’t Bobby do anything? That kid wasn’t sick, they were possessed! Part 12 (Let's Rock): YEEEESSSS AUDREY. Finally. Ok so even though I’m obviously ecstatic about seeing Audrey, I’m so fucking confused and I’m not sure how this new storyline fits into the story. So there was this guy in an earlier episode asking at the diner if anyone had seen Billy. And I’m guessing it somehow has to do with Richard. I really had a hard time following that scene and the new characters so I hope it will all come clear later. That first scene when Albert recruited Tammy to the Blue Rose project was in a red room, and it seems very fitting that Diane entered through a RED CURTAIN. Does it mean anything or am I reaching? Also, I LOVED the scenes with Sarah. I was thinking maybe Sarah is actually the girl from Part 8 (the one that had the winged toad get into her mouth). Maybe that ball with Laura’s face is actually the egg, the toad came out of the egg (being Laura) and inserted himself into Sarah to be born in the future. I don’t know I’m just so lost about that episode, I’m trying to make sense of it somehow 😂 I also like that we are shown random people at the bar, like that girl with the armpits rash. It widens the world of Twin Peaks and makes it even more interesting getting to know other characters and stories occurring in that same world. I have only 6 more episodes to go now which makes me really sad. I’m thinking of taking a break for a couple of days, or maybe instead of watching every day I’ll watch every other day, but still not sure. I just wanna savor this experience for as long as I can. It will also give me time to think and digest everything.
(All) Much ado about a horse's shoe: following footprints from Vegas to Odessa
The logo of the horseshoe outside the Silver Mustang casino is very interesting because, in a show with a famously slapdash approach, it's addition to the scene is both intentional and unnecessary. That sign does not exist in reality, and it did not need to be there for the scene to be effective, but was pasted in in post-production anyways. Coupling Lynch's artisanal proclivities and attention to small visual details with the fact that the show really had a very modest budget for its size and the sign becomes, dare I say it, a little mysterious. This kind of thing doesn't just get added for no reason because these things cost time and money. Why did Lynch want this particular image? The Vegas horseshoe is 'turned up', which of course is exactly what we would expect of a casino logo, as the 'turned up' horseshoe is a classic symbol of good luck. In season 3, the Vegas horseshoe is literally mirrored in Odessa by Carrie Paige's 'turned-down' horseshoe necklace (turned down being a symbol for bad luck). This necklace, when you consider the weight behind seeing Laura/Carrie's first truly new scene in 25 years, is obviously another very intentional choice by the show. Lynch & Frost must have cared quite a bit about what Carrie was going to look like in this scene, and they chose a classic symbol of bad luck. Throughout season 3, there's a sense that Vegas is 'attuned' to goodness (and that Odessa is the opposite). Thinking of Cooper, to me the message in this light/dark contrast is clear; in Vegas, before Cooper goes off to try and save Laura, things had already turned out for the good. The world was very far from perfect, but the scales were tipped towards the light. Cooper miraculously escaping death, winning his family money, stabilizing the Jones household, building a relationship with Sonny-Jim despite everything, succeeding in work, saving his co-workers moral soul, defeating Bob etc. etc.). Odessa is the opposite, where even your regular diner-folk carry guns and threaten waitresses, where Carrie has nooses in her garden (go check, they're there), where night never seems to end, where random car headlights in the night feel like insidious eyes, etc. etc. "There are some things that will change". By sacrificing the 'Vegas' timeline for the Odessa timeline, without us ever really seeing or understanding why, Cooper fundamentally shifted the world towards evil. Again, this is not to say that Twin Peaks was all roses; look at Sarah Palmer, the drug issues in the town, the dead kid, the sick kid -- this is not a great place to be either. And yet, not great and Odessa are very far apart. To me the difference between Twin Peaks and Odessa could not be greater. Twin Peaks feels like a good place being infected with evil; Odessa feels like the heart of darkness. Odessa is stifling, with the darkness all around -- we can see this in how Cooper seems deeply suspicious of basically everything after passing the '430' portal. Of course, this light/dark contrast is triply true of Vegas. Vegas is a classically evil, dire, garmonbozia-filled place, yet by season's end it is shifted towards a more happy go lucky, classic Twin Peaks vibes kind of place. Goodness is winning... until Cooper changes the past. We aren't given all the pieces of this jigsaw, but we everything we need to see that changing the past was a serious, serious mistake. Cooper blew it; all he had to do was... nothing and it would have been a net win for the good guys. He should have listened to Rebecca; if you do go back to that place where it all began, there will be no stars.
In P8, The Experiment vomited BOB in to the world, among other things. Let's consider this as BOB being born. Earlier, I proposed that in another existence, the Experiment was the same as Janey-E who had a son, Sonny Jim, maybe some 10 years old or so. Furthermore, I proposed that the Dougie Jones who was Sonny Jim's real father was Major Garland Briggs. Then, back in Twin Peaks, Major Garland Briggs had a son, Bobby. Now, all this seems to come around to realization that Bobby was the same as Sonny Jim who was the same as BOB. Thus, Bobby himself would have been BOB, too. In Lynch's universe, people apparently existed in several parallel realities where they may or may not have looked the same. For the most part but not always, they seem to have remained unaware of their parallel or past lives in other worlds. But whichever life one lived, the same things seemed to be following him. When death occurred, it resonated through various versions of the same person across different realities and gave all sort of opportunities for those who knew how to use them. Some individuals also existed in the supernatural. Pete Martell seems to have been the Fireman and Audrey Horne his companion, Senorita Dido. It seems that the supernatural versions had overall knowledge and even oversight of their more secular lives. On the darker side, as it seems, Janey-E had her terrifying supernatural counterpart in the Experiment and her son Sonny Jim in BOB, who ultimately then seems to have been the same as Bobby. BOB being Bobby would not have been a fresh twist but goes back to the very beginning of Twin Peaks. Originally, there was some idea to link Bobby and his friend Mike - the nasty small town bullies - to the even nastier spirit BOB and his former murderous partner MIKE. This idea wasn't developed further, and more mainstream, clearcut division between human characters and otherworldly entities prevailed as the series continued under ABC network's watchful eye. At least until season 3. Having free hands after successfully fending off any attempt to rein him in, it looks like that the ever-stubborn Lynch went back to this idea and restored BOB as Bobby's evil existence in the supernatural, just as he initially had it imagined. So, when the Twin Peaks pilot got going, Bobby had been dating Laura, but his other existence as BOB - through possession of Laura's father - had been raping her, dreaming of possessing her and eventually killing her. During the original run, Bobby's father Major Briggs had almost no contact with his son, and everything he tried to improve that seemed to be in vain. Then, as season 2 got started, the Major experienced a sudden vision that was a game changer for him. With his faith in the future restored, he recalled his vision to his son. I copy the long monologue here in full as it was in E8, directed by Lynch.
"A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloguing of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being. Wandering about, I was happy that the house had been immaculately maintained. There had been added a number of additional rooms, but in a way it blended so seamlessly with the original construction, one would never detect any difference. Returning to the house's grand foyer, there came a knock at the door. My son was standing there. He was happy and care-free, clearly living a life of deep harmony and joy. We embraced - a warm and loving embrace, nothing withheld. We were in this moment one. My vision ended. I awoke with a tremendous of optimism and confidence in you and your future. That was my vision; it was of you. I'm so glad to have had this opportunity to share it with you. I wish you nothing but the very best, always."
In hindsight, this vision seems to have been a mix of several scenes featuring the Major in season 3 - either as a supernatural head in the Fireman's tower or as having returned in Cooper's likeness to his Las Vegas family. He embraced his son Sonny Jim when he had woken from a coma in the hospital in P16. Later in the same episode, the family embraced again in the Silver Mustang Casino. Then there was the final reunion of the Joneses in P18 when it was Major Briggs - now permanently in Cooper's likeness - who was back for good at the Lancelot Court house and they all shared a group hug at the door. But all this was with Sonny Jim, apparently the Bobby of the Las Vegas universe. Something else was going on in Twin Peaks with the other incarnation of Bobby, like Betty Briggs told him in P9:
Betty Briggs: "Somehow, he knew that it would all turn out well. He saw this life for you. Your father never lost faith in you."
Throughout season 3, the Bobby that we saw had very little in common with the Bobby of the earlier two seasons. This wasn't played as him having somehow redeemed himself. Not once was there a single throwback to any of the troubles he had caused before. Neither was there any mention of anything having initiated such a thorough change in him. He was just different, like something was missing, and it looked as if we needed to figure out what had happened. Let's then figure it out, continuing what has been expressed above. This new Bobby was first introduced in P4 but chronologically he probably entered the story in P17. During the fight that ended in BOB being smashed to pieces, he was nowhere to be seen and nobody even mentioned his name, but as soon as that was over, he walked casually in, looking slightly confused.
Bobby: "What's going on around here?"
To make sense of this new Bobby that had lost all his bad traits, it seems that the underlying evil BOB was already excised and gone in every scene that featured him. When BOB was destroyed, Bobby was free to become a better person and have the life that his father had seen for him. And so his story changed and the world changed to accommodate it. Bobby turned into a deputy, having now lived through an entirely different life than before. Thus, if this new Bobby came about in P17, then the story apparently looped back to P4 and continued from there. With this new round, the story wasn't about BOB any more but about something else. Earlier, I proposed that ultimately the Blue Rose was Major Briggs's attempt to salvage his son. We could assume that the Major had somehow figured out how all this worked and realized what the connection between his son and BOB was. With that, he probably came to the inevitable conclusion that there was nothing he could do unless he first destroyed BOB. But to make that happen, he also needed to find BOB's mother and get some help from the FBI.
In P7, Janey-E kept nagging to Cooper as they walked out of Lucky 7's office building.
Janey-E: "Now, with this car business, yes, there's gonna be some insurance money. I don't know how much, but, Dougie, just think. If you hadn't blown that money gambling ... twenty-five thousand plus the insurance ... We could have gotten you a great new car. Now who knows what we'll get?"
Like she predicted, who knew what they'd get, as in P13 Silver Mustang Casino delivered them a brand new 2015 BMW M4 convertible, courtesy of Mitchum brothers. A little thing to pay attention to took place when the man credited as Head Mover was waiting for Janey-E to come answer the door. He turned to look straight at the camera and shouted at the other movers who were unloading Sonny Jim's new gym set that was delivered together with the new car.
Head Mover: "Hold on just a minute!"
Let's hold on just a minute then. What was there to notice? Back in P5, as Cooper was doing his "homework" - or rather, drawing "childish scribbles" on insurance papers that Bushnell somehow successfully made sense of in P6, the episode of the hit and run - he seemed to connect a set of letters into a request to "seek him". The person to be sought was probably shown in a blink of an eye as Bushnell later in P6 - the episode of the hit and run - browsed through the same documents: a picture of a silver-haired man who had a folder of papers in his hand, examining a new-looking sports car that had been in an accident. Neither the man nor the car in the picture seem to have been anywhere in season 3. So, we probably were not meant to look for the exact same person or the exact same car, in line with Lynch being generally unwilling to provide any exact answers but leaving a disquieting fog over most conclusions. Here then, at Jones's door, there was a silver-haired man, holding a folder of papers and bringing Dougie a new sports car. He wasn't the same man and it wasn't the same car - but it was a similar man, a similar car and the situation was similar, not forgetting how Dougie had earlier been in a car accident and how he now needed a new one since his old car had been in yet another accident. One car was a new one, one car had been in an accident. In P11, Hawk advised the Sheriff (and us) how these things worked. They had been plotting their next move in the station's meeting room, and Hawk was explaining his map that was "always current".
Hawk: "If you put these two symbols together, you get this."
We would get back to this scene in a minute but before that, if we were meant to connect these two ideas, there would have been a new car that was in an accident. If this was meant to be a revelation, then that accident was likely the hit and run of 1997, the alternate version of the 2016 accident that was caused by Richard Horne. Bushnell concluded, having realized (on our behalf) what to expect:
Bushnell: "This is disturbing."
That sounded like sorting this riddle out would lead to some upsetting twists in the story. For now, at least, let's try to get the first one straightened. Earlier, I proposed that the driver of the 1997 accident was an alternate Garland Briggs, as a young man a resident in an alternate Twin Peaks, who then went on the run and settled down in Las Vegas under a false identity of Douglas Jones. The car that he killed the little boy with was probably a Dodge - apparently then a Dodge that he had just bought. I also proposed that the name of this Garland Briggs was Jesse Holcomb who was a deputy in this alternate Twin Peaks in 1997. Thus, this Garland Briggs was Douglas Jones in Las Vegas but originally he had been Jesse in Twin Peaks. And indeed, just like Dougie, also Jesse got a new car. Going back to the scene that had Hawk talking about putting two symbols together, there was Jesse knocking on the meeting room door. The Sheriff walked past his MacBook Air and opened the door.
Sheriff Truman: "What is it, Jesse?" Jesse: "Sheriff Truman, are you interested in seeing my new car? It's a two-thousand --" Sheriff Truman: "Jesse. I'm in a meeting. Can I look at your new car tomorrow?" Jesse: "Okay. Thank you, Sh - Sheriff Truman."
That was it for Jesse's new car. That was it also for Jesse himself who was not seen again, apparently having now delivered what he got for the story. The Sheriff's MacBook Air dated the scene to 2008 at the earliest. But watching carefully, the flow of the scene was discontinued by inconsistent acting and set, as seems usual throughout Return. After there had been a cut to Hawk rolling his eyes at this interruption, Jesse who had been leaning towards the Sheriff wasn't leaning any more, and his left hand was behind his back, and now it was the Sheriff who was leaning towards Jesse. Also a chair in the front had been moved to the right, just enough to make a difference. Right then, Jesse continued, "two thousand --" before getting hushed away by the Sheriff. It looks like there were two alternate storylines, similar but not the same, edited together as if there was just one storyline, part of both played one after the other. But if we were looking for a driver for the 1997 accident, neither storyline looked suitable. The first had the Sheriff's MacBook Air and the other some new car from 2000 at the earliest. Neither storyline could have been from 1997. Here Janey-E comes to our rescue. When she was talking to Cooper about the new car they could have bought, she also mentioned how much money they could have had to spend on it: at least twenty-five thousand dollars. How much money would a young deputy spend on his new car that probably was second-hand? And so, it seems that as Jesse said, "two thousand --" that was not about the year of the car but about its price, with the preceding dialog going differently than in the other storyline, yet being about his new car as well, like the Sheriff was kind to repeat for us. This other Jesse could have been saying, "It cost two thousand dollars", or perhaps he started exactly the same as the other Jesse: "It's a two-thousand dollar Dodge." That way, the second storyline may have been from 1997, with a suitably old-school analog phone next to the Sheriff. If so, then in that Twin Peaks of 1997 the Sheriff seems to have been Frank Truman like it was in the other Twin Peaks of 2016. Also in that Twin Peaks there was a deputy Jesse Holcomb who probably was the young Garland Briggs of that world, apparently having just got himself a Dodge - in line with the riddle about a new car in an accident - that he soon hit and killed a little boy with, then fleeing Twin Peaks for Las Vegas. It is also something not to miss how Richard's 2016 hit and run accident happened after his failed attempt to bond with Red who was his superior in drug distribution while other gang members watched on his humiliation. Here, Jesse failed to bond with the Sheriff who was his superior while Hawk watched on him getting embarrassed and hushed away. But like Bushnell warned us, between the accident and Jesse exhausting his options, this story was likely to have become "disturbing" and probably what Sarah Palmer dubbed as "a goddamn bad story". Eventually, Lynch saw it best to have this man's head cut off for what he had done. While it seems that Betty / Janey-E had the Experiment as her alternate self and Bobby / Sonny Jim was ultimately tied to BOB, the third monster in this multiverse family drama was probably very human, a mirror image of his other incarnation, Major Garland Briggs, who worked hard to get all the wrongs made right.
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