Subject: What REALLY happens!
From: user@darkside.com (A Modem User)
Date: 1990-05-24, 18:36
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Here's where you need an open mind...

Okay, let's pretend. Let's pretend that the show's creators have a little
more imagination than Cooper's wearing a flak jacket. Follow me, now, my
children, as we descend into the magical land of "What If"...

It's something to think about, anyway. Here I go:

Cooper has been shot. He is not wearing his bullet proof vest (shame on
him). Dying, he is rushed to the hospital. While he lies in a coma, we
dive into his unconscious/subconscious once more, as he has one of those
notorious "near death" experiences. He drifts away from his body. He
enters a long, dark tunnel. There's no light at the end, but several
people are sitting in chairs, awaiting their turns to go in:

Nadine is there. Cooper talks to her. She is going to greener pastures,
after all. She does, however, have a twin cousin (ala Cooper's dream) who
turns out to be Blackie, the OEJ madame (If any of you have absolute
proof that Wendy Robey does not play BOTH Nadine and Blackie, speak up!).
Cooper doesn't get much out of this and moves on.

Jacques gets out of his chair and says, "they're calling for me. They're
taking me away. I have nothing more to say to you, Agent Cooper." So Coop
moves on.

Now things get interesting. He begins to have conversations with the
other patients interned in the hospital in the near-death world. He talks
to Jacoby. He discovers Lydecker. Leo gives him something to think about.