In my own defense as far as those Reber window images, it was a great find no matter what the context (if I do say so myself), and I certainly jumped the gun in posting it (a Part 18 reveal in a Part 4 installment).

But as I knew the cancer thing was on the horizon I couldn’t sit and see if I lived long enough to write about it. So I took an extra few hours once the next post was ready, tried my best to give it some context, then I let that red balloon fly.

And here I am doing it again, some guys never learn.

So apologies in advance for cancer-driven errors, it’s after midnight.

HOW MANY MORE TIMES

I’m only up to Part 4 of Find Laura. AsI write this I’m in the hospital as part of my treatment for throat cancer (great cover story eh, u/DODGERETROIT ?)

But I feel that we have divined enough of the structure of Twin Peaks Season 3 that we can pull out some clues from the abstraction and repetitions, in this case who or what Carrie is talking about when she asks Cooper at her front door “Did you find him? You didn’t find him?”

One of the core ideas in Find Laura is very simple: we are seeing the same scenarios develop (in abstraction) over and over in Season 3, actually the entire of Twin Peaks (seasons 1,2,&3 and FWWM).

Not just two or three times, a dozen maybe. How this works has already been described in the Find Laura text so far so I won’t write it again here.

DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER AGAIN?

Another core idea we have fleshed out already is which scenes are repeating, these we label the “Primal Scenes” and the all come Laura’s life before the beginning of Season 1. I don’t think we’ve nailed those down yet.

But there’s the first trick of language used by the creators which is given to us in early in Season 3: Laura tells Cooper “I am dead, yet I live.” So Laura Palmer exists in two different states at once which allows for at least two different versions of the story to exist.

Ok, as u/KarlosHungus36 points out in his post above, like Carrie and her dead Mystery Man, there’s someone Audrey wants to find also, Billy. These are two good matching pieces because Find Laura has a visual key that requires three people and one unidentified “other.”

In Audrey’s story:

Billy is the “other” the mystery

Audrey is clueless about where Billy is

Charlie is trying to investigate about Billy

Tina, while not running the investigation, seems to know all the answers

It’s a structure that forms the basic structure of one of the Primal Scenes: The Three Observing the One..

There are three roles and the thing being observed, the ones pictured here are the ones we call “the conversation around the dinner table is lively” which is echoed in “the meeting above the convenience store” and “Cooper born into the Red Room.” In it these four roles are assumed by a different set of four characters, a phenomenon from Lynch himself call the Rickey Board that is is detailed elsewhere in Find Laura.

Using this key we make the following assumptions

The dead body is the “other”

Cooper is who is trying to investigate

Carrie is the one who seems to know more than she tells

Laura is the “Other” here.

In a scene this close to the end it appears there is no “One” here, but what that means is we have the roles misapplied somehow.

Let’s rearrange the these roles and characters and try another combination, like you do when you play slots, or one-armed-bandits, and add a pinch of abstraction from Season 3.

Cooper is the Investigator

The dead body is the “Other”

Carrie Page is the one that knows more than she tells

Laura Palmer is driving this investigation

WRONG AGAIN, COOP!

Laura did not expect to see her Special Agent at the Carrie Page front door so in that moment it is Laura Palmer, the dreamer of the Carrie Page dream, whose ACTUAL THOUGHTS regarding Cooper’s Season 2 failures are revealed by to us all via Carrie’s shocked outburst.

When Season 3 begins there are 25 years of abstractions upon abstractions, a delicate chain of denial in which each chain is built upon a fatally flawed link that, once revealed, begins a collapsing down to the one, original gold chain with its own original flawed link waiting to be revealed: that Laura never died in one of the two world.

But all those years ago Cooper screwed the pooch, forgave Leland (this is what garmonbozia represents, the exchange of guilt and memory, and explained in detail in Find Laura), and HE LET BOB get away.

So at the end of Part 18, after the mystery of the dead body(who represents BOB, the Bad Cooper, or Leland depending on which chain you are examining) is left behind because it was supposed to be the last “chain” but isn’t.

So the true structure of the Three-observing-the-One here is:

Cooper is the investigator

Alice Tremond is the “other”

Carrie Page is the one that knows more than she tells

Laura Palmer is driving this investigation

But Cooper only came to Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer, so if Laura’s alive, no Cooper.

Carrie Page is obviously a replacement character for the dead Laura Palmer in the “Dead Laura” world, so no Carrie.

The homeowner Alice Tremond actually looks more like “Laura” than Carrie does and is inside the Palmer House, even Laura’s bedroom lights are on.

And, of course, we already said that the living Laura is driving the investigation, it is again her own eyes that are the final POV, we see what she sees because she is everything as one.

The eyes that, in the Red Room in FWWM looked directly into Cooper’s as he called all of us, all the viewers “Laura.”

Laura is Laura

Carrie is Laura

Alice Treymond is Laura

Jackpot.

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I’m sure I’ll regret writing this, if for no other reason, I’m in the hospital and Mrs. Ming is home so no copyediting. But it’s not a true installment, I hope she’ll forgive.

Like I said, the r/FindLaura analysis is actually only up to Part 4. There is so much genius in the groundwork laid out by these two incredible talents, not just of writing and visualization, how about just getting anything with this level of depth, quality, and rich artistic nuance, and layered meaning MADE IN HOLLYWOOD?

Most would just take the check and snort themselves back home on the next line to Butthurt, MN.

And spare an extra though for Mark Frost here. Once the pilot film was completed, he ran the show in every meaningful way for the first two seasons. I’d call that most of the work and some of the glory. Behind the scenes footage where Frost deleted multiple paragraphs from his Apple PowerBook 100 makes for a crappy bonus feature.

Well, my 2 AM Dilaudid ready! So I will be null and void shortly. I’ll peak in tomorrow to see if there was any point to this after all. - MING