10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 11

4. Hawk's Map Has A Message For You

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We visit the Sheriff Station briefly, after hours, as Frank Truman and Hawk carry out some reconnaissance work ahead of their trip to Jack Rabbit's Palace. This got Hawk "thinking" about a living, evolving map in his possession. The information given by the Major is going to take them there. These woods, as Hawk tells us, are formed by a dark path.

Truman attempts to parse it, to little success. What he mistakes as a campfire is in fact a "fire symbol" - a "type of fire more like modern day electricity," teasing a fusion of original series and Fire Walk With Me mythology. Its power is apparently dependent on its usage. This dialogue, ironically, is both threatening and comforting. The former, for reasons that should be obvious; the latter that, in a story in which the demarkation between worlds has been clearer than Lynch's post-TP solo efforts, lends it a human agency. Hastings was very much a spiritual successor to the Leland Palmer of episode 16 more so than Fire Walk With Me - an unwitting patsy more so than torn collaborator.

This teased expansion of the mythology may yet blur these lines to more pressing, philosophical effect.

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