Subject: How's Annie?
From: erics@sco.COM (eric smith)
Date: 1991-06-22, 13:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Well, I just reviewed the final episode in the attempt to gain some
information on the crucial question, "how's Annie?" Specifically, for
me it comes down to where is Annie and is she dead?

The first time we see Annie in the BL, Cooper sees her lying on the
floor with himself, both covered in blood. She starts to sit up and
her movements are very zombie-like, as if she were an animated corpse.
She then is transformed into Caroline, then a series of figures that
end with WE. While WE and Cooper are facing each other, Annie appears,
with a pleading look in her eye and looking very alive, then disappears
again. The next time we see her is when she and Cooper are lying on the
ground outside the BL, covered in blood, and she looks very dead.

Here's my stab at a theory: the Annie we see on the floor of the BL is
not the real Annie, but is in fact Caroline or some other manifestation
that appears as Annie to Cooper. The living Annie who later appears and
disappears is the real Annie, but she's in some other place (the WL?),
trying to aid Cooper, but unable to remain in the BL for long. In 
general it seems that characters who may be from the WL (like the Giant,
Maddy, maybe the "good" Laura, etc.) are able to enter the BL only
briefly. The dead Annie lying on the ground outside the BL is again not
the real Annie, as that Cooper is likely not the real Cooper.

Anyone have any thoughts on this theory about what may have happened to
Annie? Did anyone make out what she was saying as WE led her toward the
circle of sycamores? At first I thought it was a prayer given her convent
background, but after listening to it again it seemed more like a chant
or incantation.

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