The Secret History of Twin Peaks

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After the demise of Nixon, Milford’s only trustworthy ally to continue his activities in Twin Peaks was a man from the FBI who Nixon recommended: Gordon Cole. https://web.archive.org/web/20170807013422/http://braddstudios.com/2012/01/20/scott-frost-talks-twin-peaks/ Scott Frost Interview Twin Peaks FAQ: All That's Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange ( ISBN 978-1-4950-1586-1), 2016. Written by David Bushman and Arthur Smith. Paley Center for Media curators David Bushman and Arthur Smith guide longtime fans and the newly initiated through the labyrinthian world of the television series and the theatrical film Fire Walk with Me, delving deep into the rich mythology that made Twin Peaks a cultural phenomenon. The book features detailed episode guides, character breakdowns, and explorations of the show's distinctive music, fashion, and locations. On p. 232, the Archivist includes a report from Dr. Jacoby regarding Ben Horne’s brief delusion of re-enacting the Civil War as a “southern general.”

In his previous novels The List of 7 and The 6 Messiahs, Frost proved adept at combining historical fact, conspiratorial speculation, and occult lore. He goes one further here, painting a completely paranoid and secretive world where the very definition of reality is always up for grabs. But Jacoby’s write-up on Nadine also foreshadows to another scene in The Return. The last time we see Jacoby and Nadine, he visits her shop Run Silent, Run Drapes and they share a moment in which they clearly have a connection. It can also be noted that one of the books from the picture of the Bookhouse Boys favorite tomes, The Boys of Summer, is an edition from 2006 meaning that the picture can not be from when the dossier was made. Indeed, the Harper Perennial 'olive' logo did not exist before 2005. The Twin Peaks Post article mentions Margaret's log being Douglas Fir, even though it has always been stated as Ponderosa Pine, including in the Access Guide. This, as a base, gives Twin Peaks much of its great energy, yeah it is also horrifying and difficult to distinguish clearly as separate from the beliefs or practices of the property’s authors. Often times, when it is said that David Lynch or Mark Frost have shown a misogynist hand in Twin Peaks, what they have for sure shown us is a misogynist world. Is up to us to take the interpretation from there.

Agent Preston comments that Jacoby’s patient files confirm this is what happened. However, this isn’t exactly how things went down in Season 2 of Twin Peaks. In a slight difference, the Civil War storyline with Ben Horne is wrapped up with the South winning the war — not the war’s “actual conclusion,” as Jacoby writes about in the Secret History. Briggs indicates that when he returned after his disappearance, he appeared in the same spot in the woods where he left; he then ran home. In the series he appears in a flash of light in his living room. Briggs then heads to LPA alone, intending to send the ‘MAYDAY’ signal. The next day, Briggs was reported to have died in a fire at the station. ‘Cooper’ left town soon after this, not to be seen for many years. What the ‘elaborate’ MAYDAY protocols actually were, we don’t know. I would hasten a guess at burning down the LPA and faking his own death were at least part of it. Though hibernating in another dimension for 25 years is definitely elaborate. In the Zone Briggs left a trail of clues in his wake. Not just the message in the metal capsule, but by somehow getting ahold of the Tulpa Dougie Jones’ wedding ring inscribed with love from Janey-E and swallowing it so that when his body was discovered, it would lead the Blue Rose Task Force to Las Vegas. He waited 25 years to give up his body, only giving it up when the time was exactly right. He also left a clue in the dossier.

It might be done on purpose to indicate that the Archivist retroactively took the picture to include the secret message: "Fear the Double"/"Cooper" In the Secret History, Pete's father is named Ersel, whose father is named Zebulon. But in the Access Guide, Pete's father is named Nealith, whose father is named Rudolph.

THE “MYSTERY” OF THE ARCHIVIST’S IDENTITY

Towards the middle of the dossier is a double spread, a picture of the books chosen by the Bookhouse Boys.

Appraisal of facts to the side, their moral judgements and personal aesthetics are not, by The Secret History, prescribed to us, nor are they necessarily didactically countered. It is not revealed where the dossier was found or by whom other than it was at a crime scene on July 17 2016. Gordon Cole knows it is related to the investigation into the death of Laura Palmer and the disappearance of Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, 1989. The Final Dossier reveals that this dossier was found at the apartment of Ruth Davenport, where Briggs’ decapitated body was discovered. The dates don’t quite match up to the events of Series 3 of Twin Peaks which take place mid-September/early October, but time in the world of Twin Peaks is always sketchy, to say the least. Possibly the dossier stored in Ruth Davenport’s ApartmentWith there being older documents in the dossier that are placed after this, President Jefferson likely decided to look more closely at the relevance of the jade owl ring after the events of his dear friend Meriwether Lewis’ death. The book states that Douglas' wedding occurred on the same night Briggs disappeared but this was not the case in the series.