Subject: Re: Cooper was given the solution on a silver platter. (was Re: Major glaring diary discrepancy? (and some MAJOR dissatisfaction))
From: peregier@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Phil Regier)
Date: 1990-12-06, 09:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <4520@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@der.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
> >"Let's give Cooper back his ring!  Oh, we didn't reveal the owls to him
> >  yet?  Well, no time!  Give 'im back the ring!"
> >

Several others have brought this up as well.  But Cooper could get his
ring back when he found the three clues to be true.  One of them was
"the owls are not what they seem".  It didn't say he had to find
out WHY, it just said he had to find that they were not what they seem.
He knew this, from Major Briggs printout of the satellite reception
and from Margaret saying "There are owls in the roadhouse tonight"
and Cooper realizing that this was a foreboding.