SPOILER WARNING. This post has spoliers




At the start of the film (about a year before the events surrounding Laura Palmer) the film focues on Agent Desmond (Chris Issac). This is where we get the concept of that ring and its links to the Lodges.

Desmond finds the ring (under Theresa Banks trailor) and vanishes. Laura is later given the ring in her dream. The ring is linked to the lodges and allows or causes a teleportation to happen.

All this shows that people going missing is linked to the Lodges. Bowies character (Agent Jeffries) had been missing for 2-3 years. It is apparent that Bowie has been (or probably still is) in the lodge. However time doesnt move in a straight line in there, so the future and past can bleed into the present. Explaining the bizzare security camera jiggerypokery. Other references to time not moving in a straight line include Annie being in Lauras bed, and in the main series, Cooper bleeding before he was stabbed during the final episode along with the various dreams and visions that come from the Lodge.

Jeffries is therefore pretty disorientated, and keeps babbling about "Judy" (possibly the monkey - more on why in question 2). Saying at one point "I found something" (at Judy's). This is the ring, and it sealed his fate.

Jeffries tells us that he has been to one of "their meetings" above a convienience store (the one armed man later tells Cooper that this is where they lived) and then we get shots of the room above the store with The Lodge people.

So in a nutshell, Bowies character is trapped in the Lodge, and is now appearing randomly in earthly time. He carries knowledge of the future and the past. He is almost a warning that Cooper will one day suffer the same fate (Cooper and the security cameras as well)




After Laura dies (I think ive got the right part) Leyland visits the Lodge and then you see this Monkey face. It says something, but like a lot of the dialogue in this film its almost impossible to make out. However the Monkey actually says "Judy"

This ties back to the whole Bowie situation, and the convienience store. However Judy shows herself to Jeffries be it as a monkey or a human, it is this meeting that sparks off a lot of the events.

Jeffries finds Judys ring. (Judy is connected to the lodge) = Jeffries disappears.

BOB/Leyland kills Theresa Banks, leaves the ring for Agent Desmond to find... Cooper becomes involved.

The ring is given to Laura in a dream, Cooper warns her against it

Laura dies and the ring takes her from the train car to the lodge, Cooper comes to town, engages in conact (through dreams) with the Lodge and eventually reaches the point in Earth time where he enters the Lodge.




Ok here is the really complex bit.

However Cooper is always in the Lodge, because time isnt straight in there. Cooper although on Earth has also been involved in Lodge activity at the same time.

In the past, Cooper fell in love with Windome Earles wife. Eventually Earle stabs his wife and wounds Cooper. However this also happens in the Lodge. So although it had an earthly "fixed"point in time, it can happen at any point in the non linear timeline inside the Lodge. And in this case is alluded to during the final episode.

Its actually shown very early on in the series that Cooper is inside the Lodge because of the dream he has very early on where he is an older man and Laura whispers the name of her killer. Therefore Cooper is dreaming of the future, and is still trapped in the Lodge druing his older years.

So thats sorted all that out then no further questions your honour

Careful Karrde. You might get stuck in the lodge. Then who would explain all this to us? I think Lynch was just having a good laugh to be honest.

He was kind of winging it.

The character of BOB was never written or planned for. During early production they were arranging a panning shot accross Lauras bedroom for an emotion scene, and there was a set designer who happend to be backed into a corner after helping to lug a chest of draws into place.

Lynch was struck with an idea, and asked this guy if he was an actor, obviously he was. He was told that he would be in this.

Then the real clincher for just how much he would be in it. The acrtess playing Mrs Palmer was required to scream. The charcter was having a vision about the necklace that James and Donna buried in the woods. She has to throw her head back and scream

Lynch was delighted and declared that it went so well on take one that he could close the book on it, except the camera man said nope, sorry one of the crew was accidentally caught in the mirror in shot.

Bet you cant guess who that was... BOB was totally born.