Twin Peaks: The Return: 10 Most Wonderful & Strange Theories Examined
4. Anybody Seen Bing/Billy?
If there’s anything that we have learned about Twin Peaks while studying every episode with a fine-tooth comb, it is that everything happens for a reason and that nothing is by mistake, which makes an apparent continuity error in Part 7 of The Return all the more suspicious.
Rather than closing the episode at the The Bang Bang Bar, as we had become accustomed, Part 7 finished inside the Double R Diner, with a man running into the otherwise quiet scene, frantically yelling to a bewildered group of onlookers, “Anybody seen Billy?”
There has been some debate over the name uttered in this three-word line, with many hearing the name “Bing”, as it also appeared in closed captioning, and others believing it sounded like “Billy”, as confirmed by Showtime:
This would make sense as the man in the scene is credited as Bing (played by David Lynch’s son Riley Lynch), a character who previously appeared on-stage at the Roadhouse in the band Trouble, performing their self-described “noir R&B” near the end of Part 5 – but is this name mix-up a genuine mistake or a deliberate red herring?
We’re inclined to hedge our bets on the latter, as eagle-eyed Redditor EricMee13 noticed a slight change in the diner scene immediately after Bing’s exit, with two identically framed shots revealing a shift in clientele and their positions, amongst other subtle differences. This is surely not an editing fluke, but perhaps signifies something of greater importance, such as a sudden jump in time or reality.
Watch this space (-time continuum).