10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 12
6. Coordinates Destination
Diane retreats to the hotel bar, lighting up a cigarette. It's closed, but the bartender hands her a drink regardless. She recites the coordinates lifted from Ruth Davenport's from memory and inputs them into her phone, revealing the location:
Twin Peaks, WA.
Like all of the Diane scenes, its success hinges entirely on the outcome. If Albert determined them before she did - and wasn't in the midst of a trademark sardonic revelation - wouldn't he have reacted more to the fact that they lead to Twin Peaks? If she is colluding with Mr. C, a theory furthered in this Part, doesn't that rid one of the best scenes in the series of its power, instead substituting it for manipulation, and thus risking an empty re-watch? The other theory circulating is that Diane is in cahoots with Jeffries. Until we know for whose benefit Diane is attempting to corrupt the FBI, there is no real way of determining if it makes any sort of dramatic sense. Was the South Dakota prison meeting a display designed to fool the FBI, or ha Mr. C engaged in some form of mind control?
What we know is that the FBI are about to enter the town of Twin Peaks. Possibly by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. As effective as the weekly schedule is - these hours become better, richer, when they percolate in the mind - the wait is maddening. Even a lesser hour, such as this, is a success in that respect.