10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8
3. Who Wants A Light?
After we exit what is presumed to be the White Lodge (the only drawback to this impossibly brilliant hour of television is the need for constant, ungainly qualifiers), we return to the sand dunes of New Mexico.
There, we accelerate through eleven years, taking us to 1956. A corn kernel shaped egg gives birth to an insect/amphibian hybrid. The blackened spectres float downwards from the skies, arms outstretched. It is happening again. One figure emerges in front of a car, its herky-jerky movements soundtracked by electrical buzzing. In a totally Lynchian touch in a totally Lynchian feast of sight and sound, this otherworldly figure is in possession of a cigarette but not a lighter.
"Gotta light? Gotta light? Gotta light?" it asks, impersonating a human being with the off-kilter recording of Mr. Cooper in the FBI interrogation scenes. The wife in this middle aged couple is terrified, her anguished cries sounding like BOB's passion throes in his murder of Madeline Ferguson. This figure then walks into a radio station and kills the secretary working there by pressing its fingers into her skull. He repeats this trick with the disk jockey, whose microphone he assumes. He then seems to kill a listening mechanic and waitress with the following message:
"This is the water. And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."
More frightening than the sequence in and of itself is the implication that these figures - absent both from the original series and Fire Walk With Me - have returned to "our" world in 2014.