Subject: Re: Unsatisfactory fear
From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
Date: 1991-06-30, 12:07
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <8825@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
> >Perhaps that's it.  BOB wants Cooper locked in the rubber room (as opposed to
> >the red room), just as Cooper had gotten Windom sent to the mental ward years
> >earlier.  Divine irony, as BOB would see it...
> >

According to Coop's Autobiography (and TP), he thought WE had faked insanity
with the help of halperidol to draw attention away from himself as the best
candidate for Caroline's murder. My impression is the WE could have gotten
himself out any time he wanted.  He was waiting for the right moment, namely,
when the Jupiter and Saturn came together as the Major reported.  I'm not
saying that WE knew when that moment would be, but rather that he was waiting
for something and realized that it was 'happening again' and where without
knowing precisely where or when.  That he needed the map and the Major for.

However, an intriguing possibility is that WE has been under BOB's control (or
someone else with BL associations) for a long time as a result of having gotten
a little to close to the BL while he was working on Project Blue Book.  BOB or
who/whatever parked him in the loony bin until the time was right again and
summoned/reactivated him.

It is possible that BOB has similar plans for Coop, but I don't think they are
going to succeed, though the point is probably moot now unless the series, like
Coop, comes back from the dead in some form or another.

-Rich Haller