{"id":48058,"date":"2018-11-30T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=48058"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:20:58","slug":"twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/11\/30\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier- A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2018Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier- A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 4)\u2019\u00a0<\/em>is now available on Audio, read by author John Bernardy, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. For just $3 a month you will have access to our full library of Audio content, plus three new uploads every week. To sign up visit our Patreon page: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/25YL<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In Part 3<\/a> of this Final Dossier<\/em> <\/a>Deep Dive series, I brought up the section from Pages 131 to the end the book where Tamara Preston experiences a reality where Dale Cooper travelled back in time to 1989 and \u201csaved\u201d Laura Palmer from the immediate events that resulted in her death. I suggest this is a hazy conclusion, and also not necessarily true. I say this:<\/p>\n And in Part 4 of this Deep Dive, I will make a case for where exactly the (likely incorrect\/malleable) details of The Final Dossier\u2019s<\/em> plot fits within a cycle from Denial to Acceptance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And here we are at Part 4.<\/p>\n Does only Twin Peaks believe Laura Palmer is a missing person rather than a murder victim? The book never clarifies. Only that Preston\u2019s head feels less messed with as her plane gets further away from Twin Peaks. I refuse to believe that Laura\u2019s timeline removal is anything more than a veil over the actual events of reality.<\/p>\n You can take the words of this book at face value if you’d like, but that\u2019ll lead you to believe that the association Tamara made about utukku is absolutely spot-on, and that Windom Earle is the one who put the birthday cake into Leo\u2019s hair. Much in the way Tamara Preston gets to the emotional truth of things rather than the factual account, you can believe for 100% that we are supposed to know Sarah and Leland Palmer were both monsters, but I believe the utukku section specifically is the unofficial version to remember, and that the official version is much less specifically plot. It’s like how every drop of UFO lore is quite specifically laid out in The Secret History of Twin Peaks<\/em><\/a> but is more likely explaining an aspect of what we can understand of the lodge denizens.<\/p>\n The truth of this book is in the philosophy, not the details. \u00a0It\u2019s about looking into the dark and through it until you find the truth. If you get caught up in the window dressing of the surface words, you\u2019ll get close, but I think we\u2019re supposed to come to our own conclusions, and like the rest of Twin Peaks<\/em>, work with what resonates and causes the shakeups in ourselves until we recognize the reality of our present and deal with the trauma within ourselves.<\/p>\n Only then do we know what we\u2019re fighting against and we\u2019re never supposed to give up. That part Tamara gets right. As far as how false \u201ctruths\u201d being introduced in Final Dossier<\/em>, I believe there are three kinds of factors in play:<\/p>\n These three factors, added together, give us more than reasonable doubt that the premise Laura Palmer Did Not Die has plausible reason for being a falsehood.<\/p>\n Purposeful disorientation of when Tamara Preston is writing about events. <\/strong><\/p>\n When I began looking into dates and time stamps, I thought I\u2019d be able to catch time discrepancies, but that\u2019s not the case. In the file named Today, Tamara writes about the Part 17 sheriff station showdown, then the next paragraph says \u201cThis happened today, Chief, just a few hours ago. Up to the minute.\u201d But she\u2019s not referring to what she just wrote, she\u2019s referring to what she will write about the Twin Peaks Post microfiche.<\/p>\n I feel like this is a form of misdirection on behalf of Mark Frost rather than Preston, to keep us off balance. In her introductory memorandum to Cole she says \u201cPursuant to your directive to me upon the completion of my investigation into \u201cThe Archivist\u2019s Dossier\u201d last year.\u201d In the Major Briggs file, she writes \u201cIt also led, weeks later [after Hastings\u2019 Buckhorn interrogation], to our discovery of Briggs\u2019 secret dossier.\u201d Then she writes about the Part 17 sheriff station showdown and immediately talks about \u201ctoday.\u201d It seems like time is moving strangely, compressing faster and faster, but it\u2019s always Tamara\u2019s point of view from when she\u2019s writing it on September 6th of 2017. Though we\u2019re off balance, because Tamara\u2019s off balance.<\/p>\n Misdirection explicitly in the text<\/strong><\/p>\n Preston begins the Double R case file with this: \u201cI\u2019ve identified a curious piece of either misdirection or misinformation in Major Briggs\u2019 dossier\u201d. In part of the Dale Cooper-written composition notebooks Briggs says he found in the Bookhouse.<\/p>\n This was written just after the Jerry Horne case file where we learn about Jerry\u2019s cabin music being so loud it could cause avalanches. At the point we hear the word misdirection, we have this on our minds: A frequency of sound so powerful that it physically affects the world. And I couldn\u2019t help but feel that we were supposed to wonder if the importance of frequency was being hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n Later on, we get information in the Major Briggs file about the all-important coordinates (that were hidden in a place that Bill Hastings and Ruth Davenport were able to hack into):<\/p>\n Briggs stashed the information in a place that would not have posed insurmountable entry barriers to amateurs like these two Buckhorn rubes, in a place where no professional would ever think to look for it. Misdirection.<\/p>\n No one would think to consider the structure of reality in a Jerry Horne file. Misdirection.<\/p>\n What was misdirection referring to in its appearance in the Double R file? The death of Marty Lindstrom. Instead of Norma\u2019s father dying in 1978 as suggested by Cooper\u2019s words, \u201cShe lost her father,\u201d Marty merely was forced out of his family and he moved over to his secret family (Vivian and Annie) once it was revealed to his public family (Ilsa and Norma).<\/p>\n Why such importance paid to an otherwise mundane, tedious storyline as Vivian? Misdirection as misdirection. Get used to the concept as a tool during a mundane occurrence of a main theme.<\/p>\n Margaret Coulson, through the whole dossier, delivered the paraphrased message of push back the darkness with your light. Secrets grow darkness. Truth grows the light. There is a duality there. And there is a duality of Marty Linstrom\u2019s life: he used a train to cross the threshold to his secret life with Vivian. Believe it or not, I\u2019m going to cycle back to that later as it mirrors crossing over from a world that believes Laura died into one that appears not to believe.<\/p>\n Put nothing on paper<\/strong><\/p>\n Tamara Preston was in Twin Peaks for a whole year. But it didn\u2019t get strange until near the end, after she started writing things down about Phillip Jeffries literally becoming the thing he once investigated. Once she did that, she was in a fog that didn\u2019t leave her until she left town.<\/p>\n Why was she under the fog? \u201cHastings indicated that he [Briggs] had cautioned them to put nothing on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Jeffries file, Preston writes that Cooper wrote down the part about the Jeffries dream. No one else had done it. Until she just wrote it in her file. In the Judy file later, Preston asks \u201ccan you confirm this, Chief?\u201d Again, no backup. Tamara is merely reinforcing the random oddness of Phillip Jeffries and the concept of Judy (that was mentioned in a dream and not corroborated except with an angrily carved word (Joudy) in a hotel in Buenos Ares.<\/p>\n And Tamara is putting all of this down on paper. And, as she gets further into including Briggs, the Double and then Jeffries and Judy, this is when things literally get foggy for her.<\/p>\n As she writes things down more and more concretely, she finds microfiche that says Laura Palmer is a missing person rather than a murder victim. Not any time in the year before. No, only after she began writing about Jeffries.<\/p>\n Fog<\/strong><\/p>\n Every single person Tamara asks about Laura being a missing person has a \u201cslow, measured response\u201d as if they were coming up from a fog. Every single one of them, once covered over by this fog, answered her in exactly the same wording:<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, that sounds right. That\u2019s how I remember it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Fog obscures, allows for misinformation, misdirection. It can change how people remember things. But it can\u2019t change where people are when they\u2019re doing these different events.<\/p>\n As per the final files of Final Dossier<\/em>, Ronnette still ends up on the train tracks. Leland commits suicide around the same time as he would\u2019ve died in the sheriff station. Dale still investigates even though there\u2019s only a disappearance. Audrey is in a loveless marriage with her accountant rather than being captured in a Lodge-adjacent space with Charley.<\/p>\n Just as in Secret History<\/em>, observed by Joel Bocko on Twin Peaks Unwrapped<\/em> as follows:<\/p>\n Character cores are the same in Secret History<\/em>. Alternate universe stories usually change characters entirely, but here different beginnings come to the same outcomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You could call it a lodge veil over the truth as I did in The Fireman “Brings Back Some Memories”<\/a>, projecting falsehoods over the top of true events. You could call it quantum entanglement as Eileen Mykkels and Lindsay Stamhuis suggests in The Quantum Mechanics of The Return: Copenhagen Interpretation<\/a>. There are cases to be made.<\/p>\n Why am I so interested in referring to people\u2019s altered memories as being re-tuned? Because of radio frequencies. Which is where songs play: on a radio dial. All it takes is a turn of the knob while you\u2019re sitting in the exact same space and you\u2019re experiencing a completely different mood and sound.<\/p>\n Also, this from Margaret Coulson:<\/p>\n There are forces of darkness\u2014and beings of darkness\u2014and they are real and have always been around us. They\u2019re part of the dance, just as you and I are; they\u2019re just listening to different music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jerry Horne is an audiophile. So is Albert. One is tuned to a different wavelength by marijuana. One is a Blue Rose agent. Likening that kind of wavelength with the Blue Rose Task Force, and likening music with beings of darkness like Margaret means there\u2019s something else right with us on a different part of the radio dial.<\/p>\n And this, per the Jerry Horne folder:<\/p>\n The resulting wall of sound from certain recordings is rumored to create whitecaps on the water and terrify most of the indigenous wildlife within a five-mile radius. (Dr. Jacoby was once heard to mention, on his pirate radio show, that one winter Jerry\u2019s blasting of Miles Davis\u2019 album Bitches Brew<\/em> at top volume triggered a small avalanche.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This shows a purely physical response to an intangible sound frequency. Putting something big like that in Jerry Horne\u2019s file? \u201cInformation where you\u2019d never think to look for it. Misdirection\u201d Put it in plain sight for us to understand, for even normal folks like us can get it.<\/p>\n More possible signs of altered reality<\/strong><\/p>\n Much like the Part 7 diner patrons seating rearrangement, could the mention of Diane\u2019s tampering with the redacted Cooper tapes be a reference to a change that took place\u2026a veil coming over the town that Preston isn\u2019t even aware of? Is it fixing the continuity within Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes<\/em> that take it out of the canon since Fire Walk With Me<\/em> disagreed with it, or is it a \u201ccorrection\u201d\/change just like the microfiche? And Tamara noticed this before her hypothesis was formed and therefore it didn\u2019t register with her then?<\/p>\n Notable erasures from moments we see in Season 3 as deaths: In Part 15 Steven shoots his gun in a heavily implied suicide, yet in this book he is ruled as missing.\u00a0 Also ruled as missing in this book (though much more reasonably so) is Richard Horne. Windom Earle is also declared missing in this book but we know per Episode 29 that he died in the Lodge at the hands of BOB.<\/p>\n The corridor in the dark Cole went to with Cooper after the sheriff station showdown disappeared, revealing a boiler room and the Horne brothers. Was this a veil lifting like the fog? Was this a supernatural reality separating from a physical reality?<\/p>\n Third Rail<\/strong><\/p>\n Third Rail is a train term Preston uses near the end of the book. In her Final Thoughts, she writes:<\/p>\n I feel like I laid my hand on a third rail that should be a concern to all of us: that a core fundamental of human existence is wonder\u2014and its analogue is fear. You can\u2019t have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Preston is talking about Darkness and Light with her comments, but in this case she uses a train term, third rail, and I can\u2019t help but think of Marty Lindstrom. He took the train to visit Vivian and Annie before the secret was out. He stayed with Vivian after his secret was revealed. Wonder is on Norma\u2019s side of the tracks, and Fear is on Vivian\u2019s side. Do the Lindstrom’s move over to a different frequency after the secret\u2019s out? One that is, or feels like, an alternate reality? One where Norma\u2019s mom isn\u2019t even Vivian anymore, she has to be a stepmother. And Annie can\u2019t be a real sister, she has to be born in that darkness. It\u2019s the only thing that could explain the emotional devastation each family member felt at the time, or so it feels to many of them. Though you don\u2019t have to, you CAN go there keeping in mind other details in Final Dossier<\/em>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to try to answer any of these questions here\u2014I\u2019ve got my Electricity Nexus column<\/a> for that\u2014but I AM making the case that all of this is an illusion in some capacity. I don\u2019t have to prove exactly how or what, just that it\u2019s reasonable enough to say there can be a veil of some sort.<\/p>\n Back to the term Third Rail, what does it actually mean? It\u2019s a method of providing power to trains through a conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.<\/p>\n The fact that it\u2019s direct current, that its return current feeds back into one or both of the running rails, feeds well into my actual theory on how I think reality is constructed, so I\u2019m all aboard this third rail metaphor. Suffice to say that Preston is between choosing which to believe: the truth of what she already knew (that Laura had died), or all the misinformation in the fog.<\/p>\n The third rail is in between the two running rails. Tamara is between choosing truth or the darkness. She is physically between Twin Peaks and Philadelphia. I could go on all day.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a world not written about, that Tamara is tuning into.<\/p>\n In the last bit of possible misdirection, Tamara goes to the thesis statement of the book that I express in Part 2<\/a> of this Deep Dive series as the fog is lifting, rather than showing the possible changed details as her fog lifts.<\/p>\n The story keeps moving, beyond this closing statement. By now, others have noted how the trap door ending of that lifting fog could prove anything.<\/p>\n We do not experience:<\/p>\n If Gordon gets back to Tamara with information that corroborates what I\u2019m calling the Unofficial Version, that\u2019s one thing. But as it stands, there is room for doubt that Laura Did Not Die.<\/p>\n Just as there was room in the original series to believe Leland killed her on his own and needed the BOB delusion for it to make sense, or there\u2019s a demon inhabiting a father who was forced to kill his daughter, there are grades of belief in play.<\/p>\n You can believe there\u2019s an altering reality. You can believe there\u2019s a mask over reality hiding the truth of Laura\u2019s death as the delusion looks away. You can believe a number of things.<\/p>\n You can believe in the push and pull between Light and Darkness in however a concrete or metaphorical way as you want. There\u2019s too much textual evidence. But you do not have to believe the plot points at the end.<\/p>\n You can show the white of your eyes to evil, you can look away from it, but if you maintain eye contact with it, you can see through it. As Tamara says, \u201ccan the simple, impossible act of persisting to look at what\u2019s in front of us pierce the blackness and reward us with a glimpse of something eternal beyond?\u201d<\/p>\n Paraphrasing Preston, the truth lies just beyond her fear and she must overcome the darkness. I personally think the darkness, in this case, is a reality veil, but whatever it is it seems unlikely to be the truth.<\/p>\n Her instinct is to remove herself from the fog before it sets in. She wrote down enough that it began to take effect, whatever \u201cit\u201d is. And she stared at it long enough to know what was not true. And the only way to reach the truth again is to pierce the fog where her fear resides and get beyond its limits, where the truth can return.<\/p>\n There are other interpretations, surely. If you want to believe that Laura Palmer has been removed from the timeline where she died, if you want to believe that Dale Cooper broke time, more power to you. But I choose to believe there\u2019s hope that not everyone looked away from Laura\u2019s death and tried to bury it in convenient retellings.<\/p>\n I believe the metaphor is this: the fog is denial, and the world where Laura Palmer died is acceptance. But you don\u2019t have to accept this, I just offer you a path of stones to find the way back home, if you so choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier- A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 4)\u2019\u00a0is now available on Audio, read by author John Bernardy, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. For just $3 a month you will have access to our full library of Audio content, plus three new uploads every week. 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Misdirection<\/h2>\n
Veils<\/h2>\n
Frequencies<\/h2>\n
Leaving Twin Peaks<\/h2>\n
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