[Twin Peaks] Chapter 23: Hour Fourteen "We Are Like The Dreamer"
A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition
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TPTR = Twin Peaks The Return (2017)
FWWM = Fire Walk With Me (1992)
RRL = The Red Room Dream Layer
TVL = The Version Layer
MPL = Missing Page Layer
TFM = The Fireman’s Mansion
Twin Peaks = The entire franchise
Chapters 1-9 are free to read.
INTRO14
Part 14: Scene 1
(0:00:00-0:01:40) Local (12:26:18-12:27:58) Global Time
1m40s
E23
Part 14: Scene 2
The Version Layer: Buckhorn, SD | Twin Peaks, WA
(0:01:40-0:14:35) Local (12:27:58-12:40:53) Global Time
12m55s
PN: Blue Rose Investigation
SN: Hawk’s Investigation | Something is Wrong in Twin Peaks | Mystery | White Lodge Plan | Black Lodge Plan
Gordon Cole calls the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station. Lucy answers, and they recognize each other. Lucy tells Gordon she and Andy went to Bora Bora on vacation one year in response when he asks her if she’s been there all through the years. Cole seems to be scanning her for the intention (the kind of fire) behind her response.
We learn Frank Truman called Cole, who thinks Frank is Harry, when Cole calls him back. Frank tells Cole that Harry is sick, and Cole is sorry to hear this.
Frank tells Cole that Hawk found the missing pages from Laura’s diary that indicate two Coopers. Cole says he can’t comment on the information but appreciates it. This conveys to Frank that what he told him matters a great deal without giving away details.
They hang up, but Frank looks at the phone, concerned.
Albert and Tammy sit in a makeshift command center in the hotel. Their laptops are open. A “Security System Online” message disappears from a screen behind Tammy.
Albert tells Tammy about the first Blue Rose case.
In 1975, two young field agents investigated a murder in a hotel room in Olympia, Washington. They arrived at the motel to arrest a suspect named Lois Duffy.
They hear a gunshot inside her hotel room and kick the door in. They find two women inside. One of the women is dying on the floor from a bullet wound to the abdomen.
The other woman drops a gun and backs away when the agents enter the room.
The agents recognize the wounded woman as Lois Duffy. They realize the woman holding the gun is also Lois Duffy. She did not have a twin sister. The dying Lois spoke these last words to the agents, “I’m like the blue rose.” She smiled, died, and then disappeared before their eyes.
The other Lois Duffy hung herself while on trial for murder that she swore she swore she didn’t commit on a body that no longer existed. The two arresting officers were Gordon Cole and Phillip Jeffries.
Albert asks Tammy the one question she should ask, and she says, “What’s the significance of the Blue Rose?”
Albert nods and asks for her answer.
Tammy says, “Blue rose does not occur in nature. It’s not a natural thing. The dying woman was not natural. Conjured. A tulpa.”
Albert says, “Good.”
Gordon enters with a thumbs-up and says, “Coffee time!”
A squeegee man hurts Gordon’s ears with shrieking feedback that lasts too long to be insignificant.
Diane enters after knocking.
Tammy gives her coffee, and she lights a cigarette.
Gordon asks Diane if Cooper mentioned Major Briggs on the last night she saw him, long ago.
Diane doesn’t want to talk about that night, but Gordon persists. It’s important.
She says, “Yes.”
Albert tells her they’ve been investigating an old case with Cooper and Briggs and that Briggs did not die in the fire 25 years ago but did die in Buckhorn a few days ago.
Cole shows Diane the ring taken from the stomach of Major Briggs. He reads the inscription out loud to the room, “To Dougie, with love. Janey-E.”
Diane is visibly struck by this news. Gordon asks her what the problem is.
Diane says her half-sister is named Jane and married to Douglas Jones, but everyone calls him “Dougie.” Her half-sister’s nickname is “Janey-E.” Diane says they last lived in Las Vegas. She also says they’re estranged and that she hates her sister and hasn’t talked to her in years.
Gordon asks Tammy to get the Las Vegas FBI office on the line.
Cut to the Las Vegas FBI field office, where two agents fret over Cole’s call.
Cole asks for everything they have on Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jones because they are wanted in connection with double murder and may be armed and dangerous. Cole tells the officers, “Put caution in the shotgun seat.” It’s a high priority, and to get back to him ASAP.
We learn that there are twenty-three Douglas Joneses in the Vegas Metro area. The agent behind the desk starts screaming irrationally and strangely, “WILSON! THIS IS WHAT WE DO IN THE FBI!”
Cut back to Gordon thanking Diane, who says, while leaving, “Yeah, okay.”
Gordon tells Albert and Tammy that he was on the phone with Frank Truman, whose investigation has revealed from Laura Palmer’s diary that there are two Coopers.
At this moment of revelation about two Coopers in the dream, Gordon stops, reflects, and announces that he had another Monica Belluci dream last night.
Albert says, “Oh boy.”
In his dream, Gordon was in Paris on a case. Monica Belluci called and asked to meet at a particular cafe. She said she needed to talk to him. Cooper was there when they met at the café, but Gordon couldn’t see his face. We also cannot see his face, but we do see his familiar frame, and he is wearing the proper suit with the FBI lapel pin.
Monica brought friends, and they were pleasant together, drinking coffee.
Monica starts to cry, then says, “The ancient phrase: We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream.”
Gordon told her he understood. Then she asks, “But who is the dreamer?”
A powerful, uneasy feeling came over Cole, and Monica looked at him, at something behind him in the dream.
Cole turns to look backward in time. We are watching the scene in Fire Walk With Me where Cooper announces the date and time and that he has entered a dream.
Phillip Jeffries runs into the room, manic and frantic. Jeffries calls doubt on the identity of Cooper, asking Cole, “Who do you think that is there?”
Remembering this early revelation about two Coopers, Cole says, “Damn, I hadn’t remembered that. Now this is something really interesting to think about.”
Albert says, “Yes, I’m beginning to remember that too.”
This entire scene completes a loop of revelation that two Coopers are active in this world of The Version Layer. Consider the ridiculousness of a secret message scrolled into a mystery tube that opens at the proper sound vibration, hidden inside a rocking chair in an old woman’s home. That message was passed through secret knowledge given long ago from father to son in a place of mystery and wonder.
Here is that secret:
From the universe's creative force, life expresses itself through multiplicity to reveal the secret to a mystery: that all of our existence is rooted in a unified divine cell. All that is transitory is but a reference to that magnificence.
Zooming into the art at hand, at this point in the narration, I want to reinforce my position that there are multiple layers of fictional narrative happening parallel and sometimes overlapping within the overall framework of Twin Peaks The Return, where we spend most of our time in the narrative of Cooper’s dream within a dream. When truths are revealed here in this dream, they travel between characters and sub-narratives, which represent the organs of Cooper’s body in conflict with one another now that an invasive psycho-parasitic force has invaded this most secret space like terrorist gut bacteria, focused on driving the organism (Cooper) to self-destruction while harming others.
Why do good people turn evil? This question is the mystery that lies at the heart of Twin Peaks The Return, and the answers vary by the viewer. Twin Peaks is a moral test.
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