10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Finale
7. How To Pay Off A Silly Gag
As lavish as these recaps may read, the treatment of Andy and Lucy in the early Parts really did seem absurdly broad - regressive slapstick rendered problematic in comparison to the brilliantly comedic Golden Age Lynch and Frost wished to surpass, much less equal.
Lucy could not grasp the concept of mobile phone technology. She flew out of her chair at the sight of Frank Truman following so closely the sound of Frank Truman. It read as a two birds, one stone failure: a clumsy method of reintroducing the character and reconciling modern technology with the vintage Peaksian aesthetic, a known fandom concern. In the end, it was beautiful foreshadowing; as Mr. C drew his weapon in a tense standoff with Frank, Lucy shot the doppelgänger in the head to set up the superhero battle between Freddie Sykes and the BOB orb (incidentally, a sequence better than it had any real right to be). "I understand cellular technology now!" she said. Only Twin Peaks is capable of weaving the lightest shades with the darkest so seamlessly.
This was the payoff for what appeared on the surface to be a throwaway chuckle. It's interesting that the simple but pure Lucy was chosen to end evil incarnate. We yearned desperately for Dougie Jones to wake up, but his awakening heralded his doom. He existed (and was revealed to be aware of that existence) in a blissful state fuelled purely by the deepest level of intuition.
Given Lynch's Transcendental Meditation obsession, he seemed to offer us the most telling method of combating the 'Judy' growing in power on our own plane of existence.