Hiking Twin Peaks: An Experimental Guide!? 2-2 Coma [Chrysalis]
Think of the coma-like state of Cooper when shot and the Giant arrived…fade to…
Falls…..pan up and right….water drips…
[“Buddhist tradition first came to the land of snow in the 5th century AD.”]…Doowoppers…. “Touched by the Dharma” [LT: MNT]…. “The Happy Generations.”… “[Water Snake[1] Year] 213 AD…[“Year of Water Ox[2]] 173 AD”… “[Amazing isn’t it?]….The Happy Generations” matches the Doowoppers in the back [MNT]…. [Albert’s sarcastic “Thrilled to pieces” [IM: MNT:]…. “Trying hard to focus on the more immediate problems of our own century right here in Twin Peaks” [MNT: Principle]…Albert: “Color me amazed.” [IM: MNT]…Cooper: “Quite a story to tell.” [IM: MNT: Principle].] their singing soothes….dark black tie and down left with tight stripes of silver for Albert…flag pin [AT]…what is Cooper’s pin?…red tie with green ovoid… “Bob.”…. “The man who Sarah Palmer saw in her vision.”…Cooper for dreams…[Albert: “Has anyone seen Bob on earth in the last few weeks?” [WRQ: HQT]…. “Autopsy on Jacque Renault. Stomach contents reveal beer cans [WRQ: FM], Maryland license plate, half a bicycle tire [HQT], a goat [AM: MNT: FM]…and [“a small wooden puppet, [goes by the name Pinocchio].” [MNT: LT: WRQ]… “You are making a joke.” [MNT]….[“I like to think of myself as one of the happy generation.” [MNT: Principle].]…“Fat boy.” …smoking Doowopper looking at us… “I nominate.”…. “Well enough.”…coffee mug [AM]…rotating spiral [SM]…[“I believe it is customary to ask after the health of someone recently plugged three times.]…Don’t get sentimental.” [Principle]… “Know nothings.” [IM: HQT]…. “Decrepit room service waiter.”… “A mind that wanders.” [HQT]…. shaman…. “My ring is gone.”… “One day here, the next day gone.” [Principle: momento mori]…. “We need the very best.” [Principle: HQT: Best the Best Quest by Questing for the Best.]… [Albert: “Dedication to duty wasn’t the only thing that brought me back here.” [Principle: HQT]…[Cooper: “Agent Earle…Local Laughing Academy.” [IM]…Cooper….eyes open… “Your former partner [flew the coop, Coop…vanished into thin air.” [IM: HQT].]….fade up and over to…
The left….two fishermen [HQT]….totem [NAM]…lizard like [AM]….weird music comes in…to Japanese man…staring at Cooper…side profile…fish or Predator snake totem [NAM: AM: LT] to left top of man…with paper….
Toolbox, wooden, in a yard [PTHM]….blue trim….flower curtain [FLM]….view inside….towards boy and woman….fish eye style [First used in last episode?]….cow on picture to right of woman [AM]…silver bird cage….portrait of a woman looking at you [MNT] and nature scenes….cow is pitcher [AM: AT: FM]….young David Lynch: “Miss, sometimes things can happen just like this.” [Principle: WRQ: HQT: MNT]…snap…he does…..woman says nothing….stares at food [AM]…..with….what kind of reaction?….. “Creamed corn.” [FM]…up close shot….motif….red behind her to her left….creamed corn is gone…now in his hands…glow of it floats in air above it….then gone….. “My grandson is studying magick.” [HQT: LT]….open-mouthed Donna….after “Who are you?” [WRQ]…. “She’s dead.”….back and forth shots….woman looks away to answer…suspiciously….Donna’s hand on edge like bird claw [PTHM: AM]…..flower picture…yellow [FLM]….. [“Imagine that.” [IM: Principle].]…[Grandson: “Je suis une âme solitaire.” [LT: HQT]…In French = “I have a lonely soul.” [3]].]…grandson looks at woman…stacks of papers by her bed [LT]….urn on curtain like in painting [AT: MNT]….. “2” on door…wood framing of door……back to boy Lynch… “She seemed like a very nice girl.”…log as table on right…tires next to house…again…blind up….car through fence….
Calhoun Memorial Hospital…back to Bob vision…..scene…light through window through curtains….ethereal effect…..stool rolling…sounds……angled up at them….absurd….stool in face of her…lack of response…reading instructions [LT: Principle]…absurd to her situation…..noises by her do nothing…apologies still given…looks at him……blurry green on shelf….circle above Cooper…on curtain…..first sketch…weird in……..she blinks…licks lips…blurry to focus…..Leo…..she has black cord around neck…next…two is…Bob…can see from behind…..focus…then pain….squirming…saying…what?….what is she saying?…she is clawing [AT: DMT]…. “Train….train car.”……figured out by Cooper….nurse there with high bonnet….lights out…[AM: DMT: Animal noises]…black…
To Benjamin Horne….knife near smoked cheese pig [FM: AM]……real ledger……masterminded… “Faked for public consumption.” [Principle]… “So which one do we burn?”…has cigar [PTHM]….gold circle on black tie…..sitting on the carpet together…symbol of carpet aligned with placement of ledgers….Benjamin… “So which one do we burn?”…impulsivity brother on left and deliberation on the right [Jerry and Ben: DMT]… [“Hold up under any future scrutiny.” [Principle]… “Depending on how one looks at the situation, it appears they both have merit.” [Principle: MNT].]…“It looks like we are 100 percent certain that weren’t sure.” [Principle: HQT]…. [“Obviously something requires burning.” [Principle: FRT].]…dramatic irony [DI]… “Obviously something deserves burning “BEN” on his desk…. “Where are those hickory sticks?” [PTHM]…he is ecstatic….
Tape on Andy… “Have you seen this man?”….Bob pic on glass uneven [MNT]….Major talking to Norma and watching…Log Lady walks by…red glasses…red to left….ashtray and ketchup…red top left menu…. “I’ll have a bearclaw.” [AM: FM: DMT: PTHM]….. “You wear shiny objects on your chest…are you proud?” [Principle]…. “[No,] achievement is its own reward. Pride obscures it.” [Principle]….black on left and brown on right… [About the Log:] “Can you hear it?…[I will translate.” [HQT: WRQ: MNT: LT].]…Tree spirit? Power of the woods?.…of Twin Peaks?…the oddness…. “Deliver the message.” [IM: Principle: HQT]…. “Do you understand?” [LT: HQT] as weird music in…red on his chest…
Two rings on her fingers….right hand….ring and pinky [PTHM]….overly loud fly [MNT]…red sweater…Andy pacing back and forth…design on Lucy’s sweater like mandala [AT: LT: MNT: Tibet in last episode]….buzzing of Andy in front and then by Lucy….Lucy kills with a pencil…Andy like Pee Wee [DMT: Bizarro: Doppelganger: LT: AT]….tape still on head….hair up… “It’s my civic duty, [and I like whales.]” [Principle]… “I’m sterile.”…paced for that question…Lucy leans in and takes off the tape…shot of buck [AM]…closer to it and then below hanging is “The Buck Stopped Here.” [IM: AM: MNT: LT: GT: Actual Harry S. Truman reference.[4]]…Hank in office….6 domino on chain [GT]…drawing on top of shelf…red book to the left of Harry and right on the shelf….football trophy on desk [GT: HQT]…shield on wall [PTHM: HQT]….guns on wall… “Keep your nose clean for another week.” [HQT: IM]…signs what?…laughs…buck on desk….hanging lamp on right of Cooper….old computer on right…Cooper… “Interesting piece of work.” [LT: What is interesting and when is that just the standard response? [IM].]…. “Hank used to be a Book House Boy.” [HQT: DMT: LT]…. “Back then Hank was one of the best of us.”….
Moran shown, too highly her tone….behind Cooper shown….to Harry….Horne seated…wine [FM]…buck to left of Harry…Cooper swallows hard with “Audrey Horne’s missing.”…Benjamin comes in…
Flaps “One insurance policy.”…blazer for BH [Benjamin Horne]…not Ben…brother….white animal to left [AM: AT]…. [“Concerned about certain irregularities….” [Principle]…“Smoky fate” [WRQ]… “Win a few, lose a few.” [GT: IM]… “Let’s get those pickled Icemen on the blower.” [IM] …buck now fully shown…red book on right…blue and red book colors [DMT]….in Leland…. “Gentleman, [I’ve been giving us an honest thought…we must make sure this moment, our moment, does not pass us by…gentle handling. [Principle: IM: HQT: MNT].]…his tie…abstract [MNT: AT]…his hands together pointed and praying [PTHM: HQT]… ….fire wood stacked to right [FRT]… “Now this is a coincidence.” [MNT: WRQ: HQT]…. Synchronicity, Jung….dangling chain of brother… “An unfortunate development.”…. Leland red tie with abstract design… “Full speed ahead.” [IM: HQT]…sees picture of Bob…. headed to it like a magnet [IM]… [“Let’s take you off of damage control; let you concentrate on something you can handle.” [Principle: HQT].]….his POV…tie has pattern and coloring similar to wall art [MNT]….Leland… “I know him.”…..open-mouthed…. “My grandfather’s summer house on Pearl Lakes.” [HQT]…. “He lived right next door.”…. “I was just a little boy.” … “But I know him.” [WRQ: LT]….open-mouthed… “I gotta tell the Sherriff about this right away.” [HQT] …Jerry now…..BH… “Jerry, please kill Leland.” [HQT]…. “Is this real, Ben, or some strange and twisted dream?” [WRQ: DMT: HQT: MNT]….
Drawing to left of Shelly….mirror…..hairy chest…. “Resulting oxygen deprivation starved his brain, [induced the coma you see here.”[MNT]… “Is he a vegetable?” [IM: FM]…mirror shot has blood red in it as she ponders what to do [RM]…[“The only ally we have is time.” [Principle].]…. “He’s kind of in prison anyway.” [IM]….time is 8:13ish…odd music comes in as closing in on mirror with Leo [RM: ZM]….then to…
Moran….phone ring…. “I can’t connect you unless you tell me who you are.” [Principle.]….odd music in…
One Eyed Jack’s buzzing electric…..toes drying….Audrey…..One Eyed Jack’s ice ….red toenails drying…POV jerky of her….moving with her….girl vacuuming…in cowboy hat [HQT: WRQ]….exotic photo to right [HQT]….red-haired, dyed, walks out….picture on shelf….black and white or drawn… “Frosty, my little snow man.” [IM: LT]… “You got yourself in a fix here, [huh?]” [IM: HQT]…. [“Met a bad, old wolf. She kicked the crap out of that wolf.” [IM: HQT].]…POV of Audrey….red of his color….cuff on jacket….by Audrey’s head…. “I’m Audrey Horne and I get what I want.”…. “Hell, he owns everything.”… “Mr. Horne makes it his business to entertain all the girls…Laura always got her way….just like you.” [WRQ]….jazzy comes in softly…with his point…
Then Pink Panther [LT: AT] creeping jazzy…Bobby and Shelly…changing station changes music…bluesy walk…. “Disability…over $5,000 a month”…..in 90s…. “Leo is in dreamland…Stick him in the corner and hang donuts on his ears.”…..Bobby flannel…. “Not have to worry about money.”…Twin Peaks…duality….POV through windshield….down they fall together to the left….
Note shown on the floor of Cooper’s room… “Wyndham Earle has vanished.”… “The disappearance of my former partner is extremely troubling.” [HQT: MNT: Hank leaving the Book House Boys]….Audrey’s absence…thinks of her smile…Cooper slow to move…shot waist height and up…..wooden post of bed…briefcase with Major…black and thin…he looks around…. “I have a message for you…I’m not at liberty to reveal the nature of my work.” [Principle: MNT]…. “[This secrecy pains me from time to time.] Any bureaucracy that functions in secret inevitably lends itself to corruption [SNAFU Principle[5]]. These rules I have pledged to uphold. I believe a pledge is sacred.”]…. “Deep space monitors aimed at galaxies beyond our own.” [WRQ: Principle]… “[Various communications,] space garbage to decode and examine….radio waves and gibberish.”….part of fish [FM: AM] to left of Briggs… [“Around the same time I was shot.” [WRQ: Synchronicity].]…“[Readout] took us by surprise.” [IM]…“The owls are not what they seem came in.” [DMT: AM: WRQ: HQT]….all caps with back slashes / between… “Cooper….Cooper…Cooper”….repeated…..odd music in and out…then to
Bike…..outside…Donna….James with guitar….red light in between….solar….red lipstick on both Donna and Maddie…. “Just you, [and I]”…falsetto…light on him…. “Together forever in love.” [AT: MNT: enchanting music of angelic contrast.]….lamp has metal orb in middle…seated symmetrically…Donna looking at James; Maddie’s eyes closed [DMT]…..now close up of James…sees Donna….Donna has stopped singing for moment….Maddie…see…..but then Maddie closes her eye(’)s eye…then looks again at James…the twin of Laura [DMT]….James’ eyes closed….Maddie looks at James….wonders….blinks at him….Donna looks at Maddie…distraught….Donna up…runs out…black pony tails on wall picture [AT]…..kissing noises….Maddie hugs herself…whimpering crying…
Harold Smith call…yellow geometrical block pattern by door…mirror blurry and column blurry in front…..Donna doesn’t blink….hear hang up….none of his response…Maddie wondering…her POV….to couch…here comes Bob….creeping center stage [WRQ]……odd music in….red lamp light to left…..he is crawling over couch to us….her POV….face into the blackness of the camera…Maddie….open-mouthed…..nothing there from POV now….then to…
Cooper with arm on head again…giant wave…with shadow over him…then blurry Bob coming into focus… “Owls are not what they seem.”…he is a lycanthrope [= “A legendary man whom the devil covers with wolf’s skin and forces to roam howling over the countryside (8), and symbolic of the irrationality latent in the baser part of man and the possibility of his awakening. Hence, it is similar in meaning to all evil monsters and fabulous beings.”[6] Bob as this and/or evil shaman who can transform into various creatures.]….Giant and then Briggs repeated…owl and Bob crossed…then slow of Mrs. Palmer moving down the steps…fan moving [SM]…POV up …then blurry Bob…..smiling…laughing…breathing deeply….
Audrey…red curtain…background like dream….down cord…..of Audrey….Blacky…hung up…..perfume man be hind to left…. “You don’t know what trouble is.” [IM: HQT]… “Not by a longshot.” [GT: IM]…
[1] “If all symbols are really functions and signs of things imbued with energy, then the serpent or snake is, by analogy, symbolic of energy itself— of force pure and simple ; hence its ambivalence and multivalencies.”
J. E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols, trans. Jack Sage (New York:
Philosophical Library, 1962), 272.
[2] “Broadly speaking, the ox is a symbol of the cosmic forces (40)…For obvious reasons it became a symbol of sacrifice, suffering, patience and labour.”
J. E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols, trans. Jack Sage (New York:
Philosophical Library, 1962), 236.
[3] “I Am a Lonely Soul,” Translate, accessed August 6th, 2017.
