Subject: 1/26/91 episode -- the llama scene
From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Date: 1991-01-28, 13:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

A lot of people seem to have missed the 1/26/91 episode, so I thought it
might be helpful if I transcribed that key scene near the end.  It
went as follows:

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Coop is standing in front of Sheriff's office, as the ambulance pulls away
(with Dick's body inside).  The ambulance goes farther and farther away.
Everyone but Coop goes back into the building.

Close-up of Coop, looking puzzled.  The siren is not fading even though the
ambulance is gone.  The siren starts to slow and go lower and lower.  Coop
has clearly entered that strange Giant/dwarf time zone.

Overhead shot of Sheriff's department, bathed in red light.  Cooper is 
standing alone.  Then, a ground-level shot.   A llama (alpaca?)
is walking toward Cooper.  As it passes him, suddenly the OAM is there.

The OAM says:  You wonder about the threshold, beyond the fire.  I tell you
  it is *NOT* there.  There are many...in the woods...the old place, the 
  *wild* *woods* with *wolves* [he emphasizes each word].  The house of Pan.

Cooper:  Where in the woods?  

OAM:  In the wood there is a place.  For a - long - time we have been there.
  It is a white house, in red trees.  Only animals can travel there, only
  animals travel out.  Birds can fly...

Cooper:  Has Major Briggs been there?

OAM:  Any who fly, any on four hooves, can come *if* they know the way.  
  Oho, but those who choose to fly must be careful!  [the OAM gives a choking
  laugh and looks up; there is a wailing sound; there is a sudden shower
  of small silver things, I couldn't see what they were -- all this just
  lasts a couple seconds]  I know you want to come [approaches Coop, grabs
  him arm]  but it is the core of the world!  Be careful, or it may be your
  fatal vision.  The transition is...difficult.  When I came out, BOB...
  took over.  I can no longer return.  

The OAM then looks down, and there on the ground between the OAM's and Cooper's
feet is a word made of sticks:  "EKOJ"

Cooper looks at the llama and, unexpectedly, it turns its head (its body still
facing away] and looks at him.  Coop takes a step toward the llama, but
the OAM is still holding his arm and he says:

OAM:  We need your help against the ravens.

Then Coop looks at the llama -- it has changed into a horse!  He looks
back toward the OAM, but the OAM is gone.  He hears hooves for a moment
and looks back toward the horse, but it too is gone.  The red light fades,
a puff of wind blows by, and we hear somebody laughing.


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That's all.  So what do you all think?  Are Lynch/Frost leading into 
some sort of raven/owl/llama/horse war?  I think Lynch is definitely leaning
toward incorporating all those old myths and religions about animal gods
into TP in some way.  Maybe this place in the woods is where the old gods that
are no longer worshipped go to retire, or something.  I dunno.  And what
about that laughter?

I think the key part of that whole scene, though, is the word made of sticks.

Jespah