Subject: Margaret's Oil
From: platt@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Date: 1991-06-21, 12:48
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

The engine oil is one of the few elements of the BOB/Black Lodge storyline that
has, IMHO, remained consistant throughout the series. In the 2007 episode, just
before Maddy discovers who BOB is, she says "it smell's like something's
burning!" I didn't understand this at the time, or connect it with the
"scorched engine oil" Jacoby smelled until I saw 2022 and thought about it for
awhile. some netters who were once comic-book fans may recall the Marvel 
character Nightcrawler, who could teleport from place to place and who left
behind a sulfur trail. My theory is that BOB can jump in and out of his host's 
body by using the oil somehow (perhaps it is the anti-substance to MIKE's 
Haloperidol) when he can't use fear.This would mean that BOB has some "down time" in which he isn't in
the host but stays close (i.e. Sarah Palmer's and Maddy's visions -maybe he was 
"staking" out his next victim). This might explain why the LMFAP appeared with
 BOB after Josie died -he was just around for the ride, as it were. My 
question is, where does one go when BOB has taken over? They could just black 
out, but to my mind they go somewhere else... ...perhaps the WAITING ROOM? That 
would explain what SDC was doing in the Red Room -maybe the Giant was in SDC's 
body when SDC was there. Actually, I'm not 100% behind this theory, but I am 
pretty sure that the engine oil allows BOB go into a body.

Dave Platt
Winnipeg,
Manitoba,
Canada,
"Secrets are dangerous things, Audrey" -Dale Cooper