This is the part of the Final Dossier about Laura "disappearance" :
Here’s where it all moves beyond weird, Chief. No sooner has the smoke cleared after that shootout in Sheriff Truman’s office, with the Double fading away, and something black and spectral floating out of its body and up through the ceiling—don’t even get me going right now on that oddball Cockney kid with the green glove—than the lights go out and you and Cooper, apparently, “apparate” to the basement of the Great Northern Hotel. After a brief exchange, Cooper vanishes in the dark down a long corridor that isn’t actually there, the lights come back on, and you’re left standing with the Horne brothers in a boiler room.
And, for the second time in the past twenty-five years, Special Agent Dale Cooper disappears from sight, sound, and the world as we think we know it.
By the time you get back to the sheriff’s station, Diane Evans, Cooper’s longtime former assistant (whose mind-altering disappearance-and-doppelganger journey calls for, wouldn’t you agree, an exhaustive investigation of its own at some point), who was seen by more than twenty witnesses emerging from a holding cell in the basement only minutes before everything hit the fan in Truman’s office, has also now, without anyone in that crowded room noticing—including yours truly—once again disappeared without a trace.
So when you jetted off back to Philadelphia later that day and left me to cover the aftermath of what went down in Twin Peaks—my first visit; charming place, as you’ve always told me, but to be honest, Chief, I’m a big-city girl and always will be—and to mop up, to quote Albert, this “gargantuan multidimensional clusterfuck,” I decided to nose around a bit.
This happened today, Chief, just a few hours ago. Up to the minute.
Earlier this morning, while perusing past editions of the Twin Peaks Post—outstanding small-town paper, conveniently preserved on microfiche—for more than the fun of it, I went back to look up the occasion of the first Cooper disappearance from Twin Peaks. Sure enough, the intrepid Post reporting staff, expertly trained by their late editor Douglas Milford, featured his sudden and unexplained departure on their front page, along with pained and puzzled quotes from Cooper’s pal Sheriff Harry Truman, about how strange and confusing the whole business was.
You know what else I discovered, Chief, in that same article, a few sentences later? This:
“Agent Cooper had come to town a few months earlier, to aid in the investigation into the disappearance, still unsolved, of local teenage beauty queen, Laura Palmer.”
Let me repeat that phrase for you: “still unsolved.” No mention of “murder,” “wrapped in plastic,” or “father arrested for shocking crime eventually dies in police custody of self-inflicted wounds.”It’s right there on the front page: Laura Palmer did not die. So, fairly certain I’ve not misplaced my own mind, I go back and check the corresponding police records. They tell me this: Laura Palmer disappeared from Twin Peaks without a trace—on the very same night when, in the world we thought we knew, it used to be said she’d died—but the police never found the girl or, if she had been killed elsewhere, her body or made a single arrest. In every subsequent mention in an edition of the Post, the case is still listed as an open and pending investigation.
And when I spoke to our good friends at the sheriff’s office about this, they all got a slightly dazed and confused expression on their faces when I brought it up, as if they were lost in a fog, having trouble recalling, unable to fully wrap their minds around something that happened so very long ago.
Until finally they said, each and every one of them, “Yeah, that sounds right. That’s how I remember it.”
I started to examine the public records on the rest of the Palmer family. Their daughter’s disappearance dominated the local news for weeks. The same set of suspects was identified and questioned—Jacques Renault, Leo Johnson, Bobby Briggs, James Hurley—as those who were known to have been among the last to see her. No useful information came from them, and no arrests were initially made. The next day, Ronette Pulaski—the girl who was abducted and nearly killed along with Laura, and who had apparently still been taken captive—escaped and ended up in the hospital after being found wandering along a railroad trestle, just like “before.” But she also testified that Laura had wandered off into the woods before she and Leo and Jacques entered the railroad car.
Laura was never there.
After a while, with a complete lack of tips, leads, or sightings to move an investigation forward, the Laura Palmer story began to fade. Within a month it had gone cold; another “missing person” story with no clear resolution. As mentioned, I did find a few stories in the Post about Agent Cooper coming to town to investigate Laura’s disappearance—there are not many details to speak of, and he didn’t stay long—and nothing much beyond that. (As soon as I return to the office, I intend to look into whether any of Cooper’s files or tapes that are still in our possession support this alternate version of events.)
So in the Twin Peaks Post archives, Cooper was on the front page after he disappeared suddenly.
But it was not explained what he was doing in Twin Peaks at this time.
Because in the same article, it's said that Cooper came to Twin Peaks few months earlier to investigate about Laura Palmer disappearance.
Have we an article from march 1989 speaking about events happened few months earlier in...february/march 1989 too ?
And why an FBI agent was sent from Philadelphia to Twin Peaks to investigate for a simple missing person case ?
There are thousands and thousands teenage runaway cases every year.
And hundreds thousands missing persons every year.
The feds have no time for these cases (only very special ones with kids or interstate cases).
Local authorities are investigating for missing persons.
FBI - NCIC missing persons 2014 statistics :
As of December 31, 2014, NCIC contained 84,924 active missing person records. Juveniles under the age of 18 account for 33,677 (39.7 %) of the records and 43,289 (51.0 %) records when juveniles are defined as under 21 years of age.*
During 2014, 635,155 missing person records were entered into NCIC, an increase of 1.2% from the 627,911 records entered in 2013. Missing Person records cleared or canceled during the same period totaled 634,367. Reasons for these removals include: a law enforcement agency located the subject, the individual returned home, or the record had to be removed by the entering agency due to a determination that the record is invalid.
The FD is one more bit of evidence as to the timeline changing, not just a crossing over a dimensions or realities. A person is writing about the changing of time while her memory of the original version (official or unofficial) slowly fades away.
I have also wondered why a Fed would show up for a missing teenager unless there was a link to other know crimes (usually across state borders.) So what was Coop doing there? Was Laura's disappearance enough to link it to Banks's death or the "Blue Rose Task Force?" Or was he there to make sure she stayed "disappeared?"
And why does it say that Cole was left standing at the hotel boiler room door with the Horne brothers?
And how about how it says that Diane Evans emerged from a holding cell, not Naido , and later dissapeared?
Unofficial versions ...
Cooper was investigating a "Blue Rose" case in the county adjacent to Twin Peaks. The case involved a possible serial killer who was murdering young women. A sudden disappearance of a teen woman in the next county over would catch his attention. The two cases could be related, but he would have to investigate and find a body to confirm it.
Cooper was investigating a "Blue Rose" case in the county adjacent to Twin Peaks. The case involved a possible serial killer who was murdering young women. A sudden disappearance of a teen woman in the next county over would catch his attention. The two cases could be related, but he would have to investigate and find a body to confirm it.
That completely depends on which version of the geography of Deer Meadow you are working with, southern WA in FWWM or NE WA in later accounts.
Hmmmm, maybe one of them is the unofficial version.
I understand what you're saying and I think Frost/Lynch used the "The Secret History" to establish that the Fat Trout is now located closer to Twin Peaks and for the reason you stated, "the unofficial version." In the "The Secret History" book on page 190 it shows a post card that was sent from L.A. to Twin Peaks by Nora. The post card is post dated April of 1969 and has the moon landing stamp. We didn't go to the moon until July of 1969 and the stamp was not issued until September of 1969. This discrepancy, like many of the others in the book, I believe indicate that someone has been altering the timeline. Now whether it was intentional or not, whether it was Cooper, Briggs, Jefferies, or someone else is anyone's guess. But things in the world as we know it have changed.
Absolutely right! Between season three and the book, we see many discrepancies that are not explained, and I seriously doubt that a single one of them is by accident. I just keep hoping for more Twin Peaks!
Absolutely right! Between season three and the book, we see many discrepancies that are not explained, and I seriously doubt that a single one of them is by accident. I just keep hoping for more Twin Peaks!
Many have argued that TSHOTP is NOT fodder for the show and that Frost took many liberties that were not necessarily agreed upon between the D/L writing team.
I think the consensus is to take it with a grain of salt.
That would prove to be quite disappointing to me, if true. I would hope that both Frost and Lynch agreed on certain consistencies within the confines of the show, but, I admit that is only what I wish, it certainly isn't factual.
However, I still don't think all of Seasons 1 & 2 would have happened had Cooper "saved" Laura. Of course, he never would have gone back in time and saved her had there never been a reason to lead her away from her impending doom.
Or maybe it was all some dream........................ ?
It depends how you view ’time’ in S3’s world, really. The vagueness allows us to endlessly analyze. It seems to me that just as the lodge presents its inhabitants the ability to manufacture ‘people’ it also presents the side effect of altering/creating ‘timelines’ or double realities. Lodge entities can transcend and enter them fluidly in certain instances, usually with direct guidance, and can even be forced into them via stronger lodge entities (such as The Arm’s doppelgänger). The Lodge(s) serve as the link/vessel to traveling between dreams so to speak. Jefferies shows us these as a figure 8 looping, and could seemingly pinpoint a precise time to go to. He is inside a machine that looks like the machines The Fireman has in his factory, yet he is found via the convenience store portal. I’m still unsure myself if Carrie’s scream was indication of Judy’s death, but keep in mind that if the story continues or loops back, just saving Laura might not have saved anyone else or stopped Judy or Bob from existing. Laura’s disappearance could be just that, and the changes wouldn’t make everything from before vanish, they'd just make things different.
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