5 Years Later Twin Peaks The Return Ending Finally Makes Sense

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In another parallel, towards the shocking coda, Cooper leads Carrie up the steps towards the Palmer house. In Part 17, Mr. C, having received the coordinates he believes will lead him to Judy, accesses the opening where Naido was found by the Sheriff's department. On a projector screen, he is shown an image of the Palmer household, the implication of which is that Judy, following the events of the original series, has inhabited Sarah Palmer, whose grief-plagued tragedy of a life has positioned her as the ultimate sorrow harvester. (Or, the frog-moth that crawled into her mouth in 1956 has finally metamorphosed through the sustenance of garmonbozia). The Fireman thwarts this plan and instead situates Mr. C at the Sheriff's station, where Cooper and Freddie enact his own.

Co-writer Mark Frost provides a key narrative clue in his supplementary novel 'The Final Dossier', penned in the voice of FBI Special Agent Tamara Preston:

"[This species of wandering demon] particularly thrived while feeding - and I quote - "on human suffering'. These beings were said to appear in both male and female forms - "Joudy" indicated the female, and the male was known as "Ba'al" - and, while they were considered beyond dangerous individually, if a male and female ever united while on the earth, the ancient [sumerian] texts claimed, their resulting "marriage" would create something far more perilous. As in: the end of the world as we know it. A few centuries later, Ba'al becomes better known, in both Christian and Islamic sources, as "Beelzebub," a false god, or, as he's known more generally and generically today, the devil."

The wordplay between "Beelzebub" and "Killer BOB" should not and likely has not gone unnoticed; after all, Frost drew criticism for undermining the mystery upon the publication of this novel.

Mr. C wished to bring about the end of the world, and Cooper's tentative or even terrified demeanour as he approaches the door indicates that he has meddled with something far greater than his own, vast understanding of time and space.

CONT'D...(4 of 6)

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