Subject: Re: plot speculations (spoilers)
From: bjr@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Brian J Ross)
Date: 1991-07-02, 05:51
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I have a pet theories about TP.

(1) In the final episode, it is obvious that time is much different in the
    Lodge than the real world; it seems to be backwards and/or multiply 
    branching in the Lodge (ie. Laura's backwards snapping of fingers, 
    backwards pronounciation, Cooper's stabbing and un-stabbing, and the 
    midget's "Wow Bob Wow" *before* the coffee tricks).  Now, Laura (I think) 
    says to him, "See you in 25 years." If Cooper is 25 years old, then this 
    implies that she'll see him before he's born.  This means that his 
    possession is retroactive from the time he went into the Lodge, and 
    that he has ALWAYS been possessed by Bob.  This helps explain why Windom
    was so crazed before; he too was retroactively possessed.  

(2) Cooper's retroactive possession is further supported by the fact that he
    kept having visions of the characters in the Lodge (giant, midget).
    So did Droolcup -- when the giant appeared once, he exclaimed, "I've seen
    him before."  And Droolcup was in the Lodge also.

If the above interpretation holds, then I say that Cooper himself
was the murderer all along,  and had untold influence in Laura's 
death (Leland: "I didn't kill anyone.")

So, there you have it. Dale Cooper always was the demon.

-- Brian Ross. Diet Pepsi. 'Nuff said. bjr@aipna.ed.ac.uk