The original plan was for Twin Peaks to shirk the woods that later on made for such a compelling and thematically apt visual. Long before we moved into the Pacific Northwest, we were playing around with this idea of the plains and a place far away from the world, said co-creator Mark Frost, with the series at first planned to be set in North Dakota, with a name to match. The Northwest Passage move happened further into pre-production. And it's a good thing it did, because Washington state proved to be a crucial setting in many ways. Whilst Sheriff Harry S Truman is technically named after a local resident Lynch was friendly with, not the US President, they still played up to the association with the White House resident with his THE BUCK STOPS HERE quote under some moose horns in his office (which President Truman said). Meanwhile Dale Bartholomew Cooper shares his last name and first initials with DB Cooper, a somewhat more unsavoury character. Cooper was mysterious hijacker who disappeared after demanding a massive pay-off from the government for taking a plane hostage, before jumping out of it over the Washington-Oregon borderlands and never being seen again. That was in 1971 and yes, he has still not been located, nor has the very real money that was handed over to him.
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