Twin Peaks: 10 Questions That Still Need Answering

2. Why The Twenty-Five Year Gap?

The Twenty-Five Years Later coda appeared in the show itself as a dream sequence of Cooper€˜s, thus apparently rescinding its plausibility as a future event. However, this being Peaks, nothing is very plausible in the first place, so its nature is still open-ended. Was it a premonition Cooper had that he simply mistook for a dream? That certainly does seem to be his niche. In the series itself, the dance of the Man from Another Place was intended as a clue to help solve the murder of Laura Palmer. However, if it does take place twenty-five years in the future, long after the murder has been solved, then what purpose could that same dance hold for Cooper now, in his possessed and helpless state? Is it now a clue to help him escape the grasp of the Red Room? It€™s a safe bet that the familiars or indigenous residents of the Lodge already know the events that will occur, which is why the doppelganger of Laura tells Coop, €œI will see you again in twenty five years.€ Everything occurs at once in the Lodge. Living in a temporal paradox allows them to visit and alter events tangentially. This would allow Coop to foresee his decades in the Lodge as a dream that helps him crack the Palmer case, and for Annie Blackburn to appear in Laura€™s dream and tell her to write about Dale in her diary. But that pertains to the gap itself; what happens after that twenty-five years is up remains a mystery. It's suspiciously ominous that Laura said we would see her again in that time. Was this hiatus planned by Frost and Lynch after all?