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"The Owls Are Not What They Seem" A Twin Peaks Rewatch with the Theory in Mind: The Pilot "Northwest Passage"
The theory: Twin Peaks is the dream of William "Billy" Hastings, a serial killer. The result of his mother's abuse, at the hands of her father, Billy was abused by her in turn, keeping the cycle going. Playing with fire, as abused/neglected/antisocial children are prone to do, he accidentally burned down the motel where he lived with his mother and grandfather/father, killing them. He was sent to live with his grandmother/great-grandmother, until she died too. Billy then went to live with his strict, born again uncle. In high school, Billy became obsessed with a schoolmate. He murdered her, the first in a string of victims, all similar in the way that they reminded him of his mother. To deal with his past and what he'd become, he constructed the world of Twin Peaks, allowing him to also "protect" and honor his mother, the woman he both loved and feared. Inside of the dream, Billy's family was represented by both the Hornes and the Lodge Spirits, while Billy's main avatar was our hero Dale Cooper. Inside of his dream, Billy sought to project his tragedy and sins onto his victim's family instead, which worked for a while. However, if the OG is a representation of how Billy got away with murder, the Return is how he was eventually discovered by the mother of his first victim, an act precipitated by his involvement with Betty, his final victim.
A longer essay on the theory: https://armsholdair.dreamwidth.org/7192.html
WARNING: A knowledge of the whole Twin Peaks series is needed for this, fittingly from A to Z and Z back to A.
- The Log Lady introduces the Pilot by expressing how Twin Peaks is essentially about stories and how Laura is the one whom leads to those stories. This is because Billy created Twin Peaks only after he murdered his first INTENTIONAL victim, reimagining her as Laura and making her the One. Her death, and only death, led to the creation of its inhabitants, and without it things would become drastically changed, as we see in Part 18. This is for the simple reason that, if Billy had not become a murderer, his own life would not be the same.
- A lamp featuring dogs is seen, just as Hastings has a door knocker of a wolf, and Cooper and the grandson are also linked to dogs in some way: Cooper's interest in Dead Dog Farm, the grandson's theme "Black Dog Runs at Night".
- The first character shown is a pretty woman of oriental descent (Josie) mirrored by the importance of Naido in The Return, whom we suspect is actually Hastings "unseen" secretary Betty. Betty is particularly important because she will be one of the two characters (both women) whom lead to Billy's downfall. The second will be Sarah Palmer, whom will feature in the aired Pilot's ending.
- Pete, the man whom discovers the body, is an avid fisherman, just like William Hastings. In Part One, a chunk of flesh, infact, will be found in the trunk of Hastings' car, hidden by some fishing related equipment. Hastings said he drove Betty home in his car so it is most likely Betty's flesh that was found there not Ruth's.
- The person to introduce us to the dead girl found on the beach is the only major William found within the OG series. It is William Hayward (same initials as William Hastings) whom unwraps the plastic and says Laura's name for the first time. It is important for Billy that someone sharing his name indicates what the victim is to be called within his fantasy, most likely influenced by the old film "Laura".
- Sarah Palmer climbs the stairs and looks into Laura's room twice. Why? Could her first look have somehow been wrong or she doubts herself? It was. In reality, Billy's victim's mother found her daughter dead in the bedroom.
-Of note is how Laura's room seems like the room of a grandmother or a guest bedroom. Harriet Hayward's room will have the same unrealistic quality for an 1980's teenager. This is because Billy was not allowed a room of his own, having lived at either the Red Diamond (or the trailer parked outside it), then at his grandmother's (the convenience store) and then at his strict religious uncle's. Having not experienced a normal youth, he projects this on to the teenagers within his fantasy too.
- Sarah dialing the number to the Great Northern can be heard as the hotel is first seen. Phones/Calls/Rings will play an important role, especially when linked to hotels/motels.
- Audrey is introduced while leaving her father's hotel, heading to a limo. It seems likely her father's chauffeur, not a bus, is under instructions to take her directly to school and supposedly back again, indicating that Benjamin Horne controls his daughter's daily schedule/movements to an extent. This follows the pattern of an abusive parent possibly more than the Palmers whom had no idea where Laura was.
-Audrey is seen wearing black and white shoes, which might mimic the Red Room floor. Admittedly, the floor looks deep brown and white/cream too, but this could indicate a change in time, leather, such as saddle shoes are usually made of, fading and becoming discolored with age.
- A shot of fire is first established inside of the Great Northern Hotel, not the Palmers. Fire was associated/synonymous with BOB.
- Benjamin Horne is first introduced walking towards the fire and spitting into it, as the fire momentarily flares. He is shown to be duplicitous, a user of people and seeking to sell/corrupt the woods that surround Twin Peaks. He is similar to BOB in these ways. Leland seems to object to his methods, but goes along with them, like the Woodsmen. In the next scene, whilst speaking with the Norwegians, the fire is directly behind Ben, while Leland sits off to the side of it.
- Will Hayward meets Leland at the hospital, but does not go with him to look at Laura's body, staying in the hallway. When Leland identifies Laura the overhead light is not flickering, a feature that often accompanied a supernatural presence, most often BOB.
- Audrey changes into a pair of secret red shoes at her locker at school. Red was the other predominant color of the Red Room, the curtains being that color. This means she has shoes which directly echo the Red Room.
- Audrey is also seen smoking and has a Smokey the Bear ashtray (warning against forest fires), hidden inside of her locker as well. The woods were often linked to abuse throughout the series. A forest fire would be of particular note, merging the woods with fire (aka BOB).
- Audrey appears to be friendly to her classmates whilst actually having no real friends. While several girls comfort Donna, Audrey is not one of them, nor does she seem close to anyone in the classroom. Audrey appears isolated and alone, another trait common of those suffering abuse.
- Will Hayward sits by Sarah, administering drugs, as she recounts her last memories of Laura. He is the first person we see, infact, administering drugs to Sarah, not Leland. He stays by her side during the scene, anxiously watching over her.
- Sarah pinpoints seeing Laura last on the stairs: "She was going up the stairs. Those stairs right there." then becomes frightened by sounds, knowing it isn't Laura. "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" theorizes that the real "Laura" was murdered in her bedroom, not the abandoned train car meant to derail our more realistic thinking. The mother went to her daughter's bedroom and found her murdered there.
- Ronette is found specifically crossing over on a bridge. Bridges link things, providing a crossing point. Ronette links Teresa's murder to Laura's. As Laura is a substitute inside of the dream for American Girl, whom is Ronette, Teresa Banks will be a substitute for Audrey Horne, Billy's mother. Ronette crossing over the bridge is what brings Dale Cooper to Twin Peaks supposedly, in specific relation to Teresa. This is because Ronette/American Girl reminded Billy of his mother and he eventually killed her for it.
- During Cooper's introduction, he is specifically driving, whereas Audrey was being driven. He shows a specific love for the trees (ie woods that surround Twin Peaks, Ghostwood?). He mentions the Lamplighter Inn, lamps, light and electricity (modern electricity) all becoming important to the story. Lamps offer illumination and can possibly provide clues. Cooper's conversation with the unseen Diane also prominently features him saying he'll need to ask about Lodgings, which we all know will be The Great Northern Hotel. It will become his home. The question is, what if it was always his home?
- While talking to Harry, Cooper is still obsessed with those trees of Twin Peaks, finding out they are Douglas Firs. In the Return, he becomes a "Dougie".
- Cooper sees Ronette before ever seeing Laura Palmer.
-Ronette's face around her right eye is damaged, reversal of Ruth Davenport's and Miriam's in The Return. Ruth Davenport is to Betty what Laura is to Ronette and Teresa is to Audrey, substitutes to shield Billy from the truth. Miriam was another representation of Betty, having seen Richard Horne's crime and trying to tell the police before he silenced her.
- When Cooper sees Laura's body the light flickers, just as it does when BOB is near.
- Bobby is specifically jealous of James. Bobby, Laura and James all went to the same school. Inside of the dream, the name Bobby being a youthful derivative of BOB, this might imply that Billy went to school with Laura and it was his jealousy over Laura's true love (not the imaginary one he fostered for her) that initiated his killing her for the "betrayal".
- Unlike Donna, James, Mike or Bobby, Audrey apparently went straight back to the Great Northern after school, hanging out with her father's employee even before spending time with a friend, which she still doesn't seem to possess any.
- Audrey is the first major character to say the name "Bob".
- Audrey willfully destroys her father's business deal, knowing the Norwegians aren't supposed to know of Laura's death until after the contract concerning Ghostwood is signed, and, whilst she does, a fire blazes in the fireplace. This betrays an outright animosity towards her father. Her joy that her stunt worked hints at the level of that animosity. Her wishing to hurt him outweighs even the fact that the Ghostwood deal will supposedly benefit her family.
- Laura's death ends up stalling the destruction of Ghostwood. Ghostwood, in fact, is simply the way that Billy views his father's (Ben Horne's), desecration of his daughter, and Billy's mother (Audrey). Laura dying inside of the dream allows Billy to subvert it momentarily.
- The abandoned train car murder site is created to throw us "off track" from where the murder really happened.
- The locket is displayed as a significant contribution to the murder. The locket represented Laura's love for James not Bobby or BOB. Did Billy see American Girl displaying her love for someone else and it enraged him?
- The words Fire Walk With Me are written in the killer's blood on NEWSPRINT. Billy's past contained something linked to what had made the headlines of the papers: the Red Diamond Motel/Dutchman's having burned down, killing his mother and possibly father/grandfather in the process. This occurred as a direct result of Billy playing with fire.This might connect the locket, situated near to the note, to another piece of jewelry: Billy's mother's ring. Interesting fact, Cooper's ring supposedly came from his mother, whom received it from her father. Perhaps Billy is doubly triggered by articles of jewelry, his mother having received a ring (symbolic of a sexual marriage) from her own father.
- Audrey's brother, Johnny, is revealed to be a grown man whom behaves like a child, stuck in his own fantasy world, which Laura visited and he enjoyed.
- The usually bold Audrey seems timid and quiet around her mother, their relationship obviously strained. They seem uncomfortable with each other.
- Cooper and Harry visit the bank, where a head of a male deer (a buck, Bill Hastings lived in Buckhorn, notice the HORNe) lies on the table having fallen off the wall, presumably on the same day of Laura's death.
- Inside of Laura's safety deposit box is RONETTE'S issue of flesh world, the girl's image marked and circled, indicating Ronette being hidden inside something of Laura Palmer's. This betrays the truth behind Billy's dream: he shielded Ronette/American Girl with the outward image of the blonde Laura Palmer.
- Through Leo, we once again see a man's possessive jealousy of a woman. He specifically tries to control her by demanding she smoke only the same brand of cigarettes. This hints at Billy's obsession/jealousy of Ronette/American Girl "Laura".
- Cooper mistakes the rabbit he saw for a cottontail when it was a snowshoe. In a later episode, we will see a photograph of Laura and Audrey dressed up in a fashion known as "snow bunny" on Ben's desk. Audrey will once again be wearing the colors of the Red Room. In the Return, there will be a question of bunnies being important.
- Cooper calls Josie a "babe" showing a preinterest in dark, Asian beauties like Naido/Betty.
- Cooper sees Ben Horne and inquires "Who's the glad-handing dandy?" Though Ben Horne is going around shaking hands, it is of interest that Cooper specifically points out his hands, which uncomfortably, under the view of this theory, were used to molest his own daughter, Cooper's mother by extent of the same theory. Glad-handing is also used for politicians whom wish to appear friendly/warm/decent, but are contrary beneath that. Dandy denotes someone overly interested in their outward appearance.
- Cooper claims that Teresa Banks had no family. Teresa Banks is a substitute for his mother (Audrey/Judy). Within Billy's dream, it is important to try to distance things from the truth, in this case the Hornes, one of the largest families in Twin Peaks, so in response Teresa possesses no family at all. The word Banks also indicates wealth, despite her impoverished condition. Harry just informed Dale that Ben Horne owned half the town.
- The next fire seen is in WILLIAM Hayward's house, once again not the Palmers'.
- James and Donna hide the other half of the necklace beneath a rock. Billy similarly hid/buried what he had done, not to mention his whole tragic history. The phrase, "Let's rock!" will reappear throughout the series, and Richard Horne, Audrey's son within the dream, will be electrocuted on a rock thanks to his father's, Dale's doppleganger's, manipulation.
- Just as his first scene involved discussing his lodgings in Twin Peaks, Cooper's last scene involves it as well, this time with Harry pointing him directly to The Great Northern, where in fact he belongs.
- Flashing between the stairs and Sarah resting on the couch, she has a vision of someone taking the locket from beneath the rock. The stairs being centered on again subtly hint that American Girl's mother truly discovered her poor daughter's body in her bedroom, while her having a vision of the locket being stolen indicates that, American Girl's mother can possibly sense that something from her daughter's room was stolen. Simply put, Billy took a trophy. The question is what did he take? A necklace that had made him jealous or perhaps something involving a horse, leading to Sarah's future visions within the dream?
The theory: Twin Peaks is the dream of William "Billy" Hastings, a serial killer. The result of his mother's abuse, at the hands of her father, Billy was abused by her in turn, keeping the cycle going. Playing with fire, as abused/neglected/antisocial children are prone to do, he accidentally burned down the motel where he lived with his mother and grandfather/father, killing them. He was sent to live with his grandmother/great-grandmother, until she died too. Billy then went to live with his strict, born again uncle. In high school, Billy became obsessed with a schoolmate. He murdered her, the first in a string of victims, all similar in the way that they reminded him of his mother. To deal with his past and what he'd become, he constructed the world of Twin Peaks, allowing him to also "protect" and honor his mother, the woman he both loved and feared. Inside of the dream, Billy's family was represented by both the Hornes and the Lodge Spirits, while Billy's main avatar was our hero Dale Cooper. Inside of his dream, Billy sought to project his tragedy and sins onto his victim's family instead, which worked for a while. However, if the OG is a representation of how Billy got away with murder, the Return is how he was eventually discovered by the mother of his first victim, an act precipitated by his involvement with Betty, his final victim.
A longer essay on the theory: https://armsholdair.dreamwidth.org/7192.html
WARNING: A knowledge of the whole Twin Peaks series is needed for this, fittingly from A to Z and Z back to A.
- The Log Lady introduces the Pilot by expressing how Twin Peaks is essentially about stories and how Laura is the one whom leads to those stories. This is because Billy created Twin Peaks only after he murdered his first INTENTIONAL victim, reimagining her as Laura and making her the One. Her death, and only death, led to the creation of its inhabitants, and without it things would become drastically changed, as we see in Part 18. This is for the simple reason that, if Billy had not become a murderer, his own life would not be the same.
- A lamp featuring dogs is seen, just as Hastings has a door knocker of a wolf, and Cooper and the grandson are also linked to dogs in some way: Cooper's interest in Dead Dog Farm, the grandson's theme "Black Dog Runs at Night".
- The first character shown is a pretty woman of oriental descent (Josie) mirrored by the importance of Naido in The Return, whom we suspect is actually Hastings "unseen" secretary Betty. Betty is particularly important because she will be one of the two characters (both women) whom lead to Billy's downfall. The second will be Sarah Palmer, whom will feature in the aired Pilot's ending.
- Pete, the man whom discovers the body, is an avid fisherman, just like William Hastings. In Part One, a chunk of flesh, infact, will be found in the trunk of Hastings' car, hidden by some fishing related equipment. Hastings said he drove Betty home in his car so it is most likely Betty's flesh that was found there not Ruth's.
- The person to introduce us to the dead girl found on the beach is the only major William found within the OG series. It is William Hayward (same initials as William Hastings) whom unwraps the plastic and says Laura's name for the first time. It is important for Billy that someone sharing his name indicates what the victim is to be called within his fantasy, most likely influenced by the old film "Laura".
- Sarah Palmer climbs the stairs and looks into Laura's room twice. Why? Could her first look have somehow been wrong or she doubts herself? It was. In reality, Billy's victim's mother found her daughter dead in the bedroom.
-Of note is how Laura's room seems like the room of a grandmother or a guest bedroom. Harriet Hayward's room will have the same unrealistic quality for an 1980's teenager. This is because Billy was not allowed a room of his own, having lived at either the Red Diamond (or the trailer parked outside it), then at his grandmother's (the convenience store) and then at his strict religious uncle's. Having not experienced a normal youth, he projects this on to the teenagers within his fantasy too.
- Sarah dialing the number to the Great Northern can be heard as the hotel is first seen. Phones/Calls/Rings will play an important role, especially when linked to hotels/motels.
- Audrey is introduced while leaving her father's hotel, heading to a limo. It seems likely her father's chauffeur, not a bus, is under instructions to take her directly to school and supposedly back again, indicating that Benjamin Horne controls his daughter's daily schedule/movements to an extent. This follows the pattern of an abusive parent possibly more than the Palmers whom had no idea where Laura was.
-Audrey is seen wearing black and white shoes, which might mimic the Red Room floor. Admittedly, the floor looks deep brown and white/cream too, but this could indicate a change in time, leather, such as saddle shoes are usually made of, fading and becoming discolored with age.
- A shot of fire is first established inside of the Great Northern Hotel, not the Palmers. Fire was associated/synonymous with BOB.
- Benjamin Horne is first introduced walking towards the fire and spitting into it, as the fire momentarily flares. He is shown to be duplicitous, a user of people and seeking to sell/corrupt the woods that surround Twin Peaks. He is similar to BOB in these ways. Leland seems to object to his methods, but goes along with them, like the Woodsmen. In the next scene, whilst speaking with the Norwegians, the fire is directly behind Ben, while Leland sits off to the side of it.
- Will Hayward meets Leland at the hospital, but does not go with him to look at Laura's body, staying in the hallway. When Leland identifies Laura the overhead light is not flickering, a feature that often accompanied a supernatural presence, most often BOB.
- Audrey changes into a pair of secret red shoes at her locker at school. Red was the other predominant color of the Red Room, the curtains being that color. This means she has shoes which directly echo the Red Room.
- Audrey is also seen smoking and has a Smokey the Bear ashtray (warning against forest fires), hidden inside of her locker as well. The woods were often linked to abuse throughout the series. A forest fire would be of particular note, merging the woods with fire (aka BOB).
- Audrey appears to be friendly to her classmates whilst actually having no real friends. While several girls comfort Donna, Audrey is not one of them, nor does she seem close to anyone in the classroom. Audrey appears isolated and alone, another trait common of those suffering abuse.
- Will Hayward sits by Sarah, administering drugs, as she recounts her last memories of Laura. He is the first person we see, infact, administering drugs to Sarah, not Leland. He stays by her side during the scene, anxiously watching over her.
- Sarah pinpoints seeing Laura last on the stairs: "She was going up the stairs. Those stairs right there." then becomes frightened by sounds, knowing it isn't Laura. "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" theorizes that the real "Laura" was murdered in her bedroom, not the abandoned train car meant to derail our more realistic thinking. The mother went to her daughter's bedroom and found her murdered there.
- Ronette is found specifically crossing over on a bridge. Bridges link things, providing a crossing point. Ronette links Teresa's murder to Laura's. As Laura is a substitute inside of the dream for American Girl, whom is Ronette, Teresa Banks will be a substitute for Audrey Horne, Billy's mother. Ronette crossing over the bridge is what brings Dale Cooper to Twin Peaks supposedly, in specific relation to Teresa. This is because Ronette/American Girl reminded Billy of his mother and he eventually killed her for it.
- During Cooper's introduction, he is specifically driving, whereas Audrey was being driven. He shows a specific love for the trees (ie woods that surround Twin Peaks, Ghostwood?). He mentions the Lamplighter Inn, lamps, light and electricity (modern electricity) all becoming important to the story. Lamps offer illumination and can possibly provide clues. Cooper's conversation with the unseen Diane also prominently features him saying he'll need to ask about Lodgings, which we all know will be The Great Northern Hotel. It will become his home. The question is, what if it was always his home?
- While talking to Harry, Cooper is still obsessed with those trees of Twin Peaks, finding out they are Douglas Firs. In the Return, he becomes a "Dougie".
- Cooper sees Ronette before ever seeing Laura Palmer.
-Ronette's face around her right eye is damaged, reversal of Ruth Davenport's and Miriam's in The Return. Ruth Davenport is to Betty what Laura is to Ronette and Teresa is to Audrey, substitutes to shield Billy from the truth. Miriam was another representation of Betty, having seen Richard Horne's crime and trying to tell the police before he silenced her.
- When Cooper sees Laura's body the light flickers, just as it does when BOB is near.
- Bobby is specifically jealous of James. Bobby, Laura and James all went to the same school. Inside of the dream, the name Bobby being a youthful derivative of BOB, this might imply that Billy went to school with Laura and it was his jealousy over Laura's true love (not the imaginary one he fostered for her) that initiated his killing her for the "betrayal".
- Unlike Donna, James, Mike or Bobby, Audrey apparently went straight back to the Great Northern after school, hanging out with her father's employee even before spending time with a friend, which she still doesn't seem to possess any.
- Audrey is the first major character to say the name "Bob".
- Audrey willfully destroys her father's business deal, knowing the Norwegians aren't supposed to know of Laura's death until after the contract concerning Ghostwood is signed, and, whilst she does, a fire blazes in the fireplace. This betrays an outright animosity towards her father. Her joy that her stunt worked hints at the level of that animosity. Her wishing to hurt him outweighs even the fact that the Ghostwood deal will supposedly benefit her family.
- Laura's death ends up stalling the destruction of Ghostwood. Ghostwood, in fact, is simply the way that Billy views his father's (Ben Horne's), desecration of his daughter, and Billy's mother (Audrey). Laura dying inside of the dream allows Billy to subvert it momentarily.
- The abandoned train car murder site is created to throw us "off track" from where the murder really happened.
- The locket is displayed as a significant contribution to the murder. The locket represented Laura's love for James not Bobby or BOB. Did Billy see American Girl displaying her love for someone else and it enraged him?
- The words Fire Walk With Me are written in the killer's blood on NEWSPRINT. Billy's past contained something linked to what had made the headlines of the papers: the Red Diamond Motel/Dutchman's having burned down, killing his mother and possibly father/grandfather in the process. This occurred as a direct result of Billy playing with fire.This might connect the locket, situated near to the note, to another piece of jewelry: Billy's mother's ring. Interesting fact, Cooper's ring supposedly came from his mother, whom received it from her father. Perhaps Billy is doubly triggered by articles of jewelry, his mother having received a ring (symbolic of a sexual marriage) from her own father.
- Audrey's brother, Johnny, is revealed to be a grown man whom behaves like a child, stuck in his own fantasy world, which Laura visited and he enjoyed.
- The usually bold Audrey seems timid and quiet around her mother, their relationship obviously strained. They seem uncomfortable with each other.
- Cooper and Harry visit the bank, where a head of a male deer (a buck, Bill Hastings lived in Buckhorn, notice the HORNe) lies on the table having fallen off the wall, presumably on the same day of Laura's death.
- Inside of Laura's safety deposit box is RONETTE'S issue of flesh world, the girl's image marked and circled, indicating Ronette being hidden inside something of Laura Palmer's. This betrays the truth behind Billy's dream: he shielded Ronette/American Girl with the outward image of the blonde Laura Palmer.
- Through Leo, we once again see a man's possessive jealousy of a woman. He specifically tries to control her by demanding she smoke only the same brand of cigarettes. This hints at Billy's obsession/jealousy of Ronette/American Girl "Laura".
- Cooper mistakes the rabbit he saw for a cottontail when it was a snowshoe. In a later episode, we will see a photograph of Laura and Audrey dressed up in a fashion known as "snow bunny" on Ben's desk. Audrey will once again be wearing the colors of the Red Room. In the Return, there will be a question of bunnies being important.
- Cooper calls Josie a "babe" showing a preinterest in dark, Asian beauties like Naido/Betty.
- Cooper sees Ben Horne and inquires "Who's the glad-handing dandy?" Though Ben Horne is going around shaking hands, it is of interest that Cooper specifically points out his hands, which uncomfortably, under the view of this theory, were used to molest his own daughter, Cooper's mother by extent of the same theory. Glad-handing is also used for politicians whom wish to appear friendly/warm/decent, but are contrary beneath that. Dandy denotes someone overly interested in their outward appearance.
- Cooper claims that Teresa Banks had no family. Teresa Banks is a substitute for his mother (Audrey/Judy). Within Billy's dream, it is important to try to distance things from the truth, in this case the Hornes, one of the largest families in Twin Peaks, so in response Teresa possesses no family at all. The word Banks also indicates wealth, despite her impoverished condition. Harry just informed Dale that Ben Horne owned half the town.
- The next fire seen is in WILLIAM Hayward's house, once again not the Palmers'.
- James and Donna hide the other half of the necklace beneath a rock. Billy similarly hid/buried what he had done, not to mention his whole tragic history. The phrase, "Let's rock!" will reappear throughout the series, and Richard Horne, Audrey's son within the dream, will be electrocuted on a rock thanks to his father's, Dale's doppleganger's, manipulation.
- Just as his first scene involved discussing his lodgings in Twin Peaks, Cooper's last scene involves it as well, this time with Harry pointing him directly to The Great Northern, where in fact he belongs.
- Flashing between the stairs and Sarah resting on the couch, she has a vision of someone taking the locket from beneath the rock. The stairs being centered on again subtly hint that American Girl's mother truly discovered her poor daughter's body in her bedroom, while her having a vision of the locket being stolen indicates that, American Girl's mother can possibly sense that something from her daughter's room was stolen. Simply put, Billy took a trophy. The question is what did he take? A necklace that had made him jealous or perhaps something involving a horse, leading to Sarah's future visions within the dream?
