Along the way, he reflects on his mortality, failures, and pride.
The first came at the start.
A series of fades told us that she had been walking this walk for a long time.
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She was a woman on a mission of reconciliation and release.
Its possible she might still.
Nadine praised the man and, possibly, her new boyfriend?
as the only truth-teller left in town.
The long walk to Big Eds Gas Farm had given her time to vet her thinking.
True love is giving the other that which makes them most happy, she said.
Ed, you are free.
She could have been talking about herself, too.
If shes as smitten with Jacoby as I suspect, divorce serves her interest, too.
Nadine exhorted the bug lug to run to Norma, hugged him and let him go.
Then he shook it off.
Something inside him activated.
Nadine may be wrong in the head, but she was right in theory.
It was time for Ed to pursue his bliss.
It was time tocarpefingdiemalready.
The Power of Positive Thinking.Ed arrived at the Double R in his gold-ish truck.
The color reminded me of creamed corn Garmonbozia.
He walked through the door and saluted Norma with an enthusiastic wave.
Walter for a private meeting.
The song Lynch had chosen for the scene Ive Been Loving You Too Long by Otis Redding faded.
A deflated Ed plopped himself on a stool.
He ordered a coffee.
And a cyanide tablet, he said.
But Norma had no interest in breaking Eds achy heart.
She had some affairs to get in order before she could move on to new business.
Contracts, you know.
She didnt want to be in the franchise business.
She was an artist-entrepreneur.
She wanted to use the buyout money to take care of her family.
He thought she didnt have family.
Meanwhile, Ed sat at the counter with his eyes closed.
Otherwise, hed be everything Nadine said about herself manipulative, jealous, selfish.
We saw Normas hand enter from the side of the frame and touch his shoulder.
It was like watching a dream divine come true.
Marry me, he said.
Of course I will, she said.
Shelly beamed and so did we.
And then we went to hell.
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Sometime ideas, like men, jump up and say hello.
They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words.
These ideas speak so strangely.
All that we see in this world is based on someones ideas.
Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive.
Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream.
I can say it again: Some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.
The Log Lady, from the Bravo introduction of episode 3, season 1.
Think of it as a very special eclipse episode.
Fittingly, it began with Mr. C traveling a lost highway at night.
He was guided, it seemed, by the occult energies coursing through telephone wires.
The convenience store is a roaming, teleporting poltergeist.
It could be a sentient entity.
Perhaps its piloted by one of Lynchs Guild Navigators fromDune.
A Woodsman coolly stepped onto the blacktop to direct Mr. C to stop.
(Where did they take it?)
They might have healed him, too.
There was no door up there, anyway.
Yep, this was going to be weird.
Mr. C and his chaperone were now inside a spare apartment with a hardwood floor.
One of the components was a turntable with a record on it.
My Prayer, perhaps.
Black ooze was smeared around his mouth.
He had a mess of it on his chest, too.
It could be pitch.
Mr. C wanted to see Phillip Jeffries.
Was that where we were now?
More in a sec.
Pitch-Mouth Woodsman threw a lever.
A sparky flare lit the room.
Freeze the image and youll see a face superimposed on the mask.
It appeared to be Sarah Palmer.
If true, you wonder if The Jumping Man holds sway over Sarah at present.
The scene had another connection to the beleaguered woman.
Another Block Lodge entity, Mrs. Tremond, had gifted the artwork to Laura.
Chaperone Woodsman escorted Mr. C through a corridor, superimposed with the trees of Ghostwood Forest.
Some ideas, like jumping men, speak so strangely.
What happens when they taint all the earth?
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Hello again.
Can you see through a wall?
Can you see through human skin?
X-rays see through solid, or so-called solid objects.
There are things in life that exist, and yet our eyes cannot see them.
Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see?
Why are some things kept from our vision?
Is life a puzzle?
I am filled with questions.
Sometimes my questions are answered.
In my heart, I can tell if the answer is correct.
I am my own judge.
In a dream, are all the characters really you?
Different aspects of you?
Do answers come in dreams?
One more thing: I grew up in the woods.
I understand many things because of the woods.
Trees standing together, growing alongside one another, providing so much.
I chew pitch gum.
On the outside, lets say of the ponderosa pine, sometimes pitch oozes out.
Runny pitch is no good to chew.
Hard, brittle pitch is no good.
But in between there exists a firm, slightly crusted pitch with such a flavor.
This is the pitch I chew.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 1, season 2.
C was taken to Room 8.
Mr. C entered the space, illuminated with a fritzing lamp.
He saw nothing at first.
and he beheld the puzzle of Phillip Jeffries.
He still spoke with a Southern growl, but he no longer looked like David Bowie.
It had been modified with a gooseneck spout that puffed steam.
Phillip Jeffries had become a magnificent teakettle.
Part 15 had suddenly turned steampunk Kafka.
Maybe David Lynch thinks this is a nifty way to spend eternity.
A frustrating dialogue ensued.
Did Mr. C (and we) learn anything?
I…think so?
Another area of discussion: Judy.
So: Who is Judy?
Well, Darren Franich, myTwin Peakspodcasting partner, theorizes that Judy is a codename for Laura Palmer.
Might Naido be Judy?
Do those coordinates refer to the Twin Peaks Sheriffs Department?
Mr. C wanted more info, but the magnificent teakettle was out of steam.
As it evaporated from view, a phone began to ring.
Yes, look in the mirror.
What do you see?
Is it a dream, or a nightmare?
Are we being introduced against our will?
I can see the smoke.
I can smell the fire.
The battle is drawing nigh.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction to episode 4, season 1.
Family reunion?Mr.
C was annoyed by his forced introduction to Richard.
But Twin Peaks most wanted vehicular manslaughterer and grandma beater-upper became more curious to him the more he blathered.
Did Mr. C see something of himself in Richards abysmal gaze?
Richard believed Mr. C to be an FBI agent.
Well talk on the way, he said.
And the road warriors were back on the highway.
Is Richards deadbeat dad about to give him an education about family history?
Has Mr. C just recruited a new ally in whatever final battle awaits him?
Is a character with a Cooper face finally going to show his mug in Twin Peaks?
Yes, it is a dilemma.
Is there an answer?
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction to episode 6, season 2.
The total eclipse of Stevens heart.Once upon a time they were falling in love.
Now, Steven and Gersten have fallen apart.
He was tweaking and itchy from overdose or withdrawal.
He was also holding a gun, loading a bullet, and talking of ending things.
They were red as mars, from her hair to his bloodshot eyes to the clothes they were wearing.
Steven: not a poster boy for marriage!
Did he hurt Becky, maybe with that gun?
Did she hurt him, maybe by slipping him a Sparkle mickey?
Or maybe he was just stoned and making up crap.
Truth is, it probably doesnt matter how or why Steven and Gersten got to this moment.
In serving as his shelter in this tempest, she had become his prisoner.
Lord, did this scene have a mood.
Im a high school graduate!
The forest was unmoved.
Into this fall myth tableau walked one of the gods ofTwin Peaks, co-creator and co-writer Mark Frost.
He was reprising his role from the original series, Cyril Pons, a TV news reporter.
When he saw Steven and Gersten, he froze.
She broke free from Steven and ran behind the tree to escape Cyrils line of vision.
Are they fugitives on the run?)
We heard a gunshot.
Did Steven take aim at Cyril?
No: A follow-up beat saw the ex-journalist report what he had seen to Carl Rodd.
There was no why, only despair, only tears and the moaning wind of Ghostwood.
The heart it is a physical organ, we all know.
But how much more an emotional organ this we also know.
Love, like blood, flows from the heart.
Are blood and love related?
Does a heart pump blood as it pumps love?
Is love the blood of the universe?
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction to episode 14, season 2.
The dopey romantic had a history for crushing on women in relationships with other men in the original series.
A couple decades later, the broody biker hasnt changed much.
Now we know why everyone thinks James is always cool.
Hes frozen in time.
She was hanging out with her spouse, Chuck, and another married couple.
But that didnt stop James from declaring sincere affection for her.
You got a death wish?!
I was just trying to be polite!
James went down with a punch.
Wingman Freddie stepped in.
But the power of the rubber fist didnt just knocked them out.
They had a toxic reaction to it.
Their eyes went wonky.
They began to cough up foam.
Im so sorry, Renee, said James.
Not cool, James.
Time to grow up.
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Complications set in yes, complications.
How many times have we heard Its simple?
We live in a world where nothing is simple.
What is the secret?
What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life?
Are our appetites, our desires undermining us?
Is the cart in front of the horse?
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 10, season 2.
Chantal then plugged his assistant, Roger, though he didnt go down easily.
He needed another bullet.
Roger, the Yes-man enabler of worse men.
I love how these evildoers were dispatched with little ceremony.
It was all very impersonal.
As Chantal strutted away in her two tone heels, she made dinner plans with Hutch.
Dont spare the ketchup.
Her casual nihilism was a Royale with Cheese short of max Tarantino.
Dont worry, James.
There are worse kinds of cool.
Sometimes well, lets say all times things are changing.
We are judged as human beings on how we treat our fellow human beings.
How do you treat your fellow human beings?
Are you proud of your behavior?
Are you ashamed of your behavior?
You know in your heart if you have hurt someone you know.
If you have hurt someone, dont wait another day before making things right.
The world could break apart with sadness in the meantime.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 17, season 2.
Hell is other people.
Seize the evening, boys!
Makes your lives extraordinary…with reflection on your shameful behavior.
A couple decades later, one of them had moved on, jailing another who hadnt.
He might be a dope, but when woke, I think hes a dont-wait-another-day-to-make-things-right guy.
The holding cells at the Twin Peaks Sheriffs Department are getting crowded.
Get ready to rumble, Rubber Fist.
As above, so below.
The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle.
There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside.
Stars, moons, and planets remind us of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within?
Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us, and what goes on inside us?
I think it does.
Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe?
What really is creamed corn?
Is it a symbol for something else?
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 2, season 2.
Thou shalt not kill?
Its gone on all along!
Killed all the Indians.
Twin Peakshas been grieving the condition of American culture and rub-off on its people.
We are spirits in the material world, taught by an invisible sun of culture.
And we always want more.
Yeah, but my fun is over when I actually kill someone.
Its no fun torturing a corpse.
I havent gotten to torture anybody for a fing long time, Hutch.
Her husband responded with sympathy.
Its just hasnt worked out, he said.
Sweet, attentive Hutch.
He should move to Twin Peaks and teach boyfriend classes.
I love you, Hutch.
I love you, Chantal.
Hutch admired the view.
Full dark, one star, telephone poles and wire.
Beautiful night, said Hutch.
Chantal took a gander and pointed at the heavenly body ruling over them.
She assumed it to be the one named after the god of war and farming.
Mars, she said, mouth full of burger.
You are what you worship, reap, and eat.
And here endeth the lesson.
One down, one to go said Chantal after popping Duncan and Roger.
Whoever is next on Chantals hit list menu better beware: The lady torturer has a hunger.
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I carry a log yes.
Is it funny to you?
It is not to me.
Behind all things are reasons.
Reasons can even explain the absurd.
Do we have the time to learn the reasons behind the human beings varied behavior?
Some take the time.
Are they called detectives?
Watch and see what life teaches.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 2, season 1. but I cant blame her for her contentment or values.
Things have been tough in her house for a long time.
And anyway, shes American.
Aint she living the dream?
She certainly thought so.
Its like all our dreams are coming true, and she left her husband to eat his cake.
Dougie has been the seasons most whimsical and challenging indulgence.
That consideration could be drawing to a close.
The TV powered up.
On the screen:Sunset Blvd.,a meta-Hollywood film noir and one of Lynchs favorite films.
Call it: Metapocalypse Now!
Maybe he did so because Dougie still has a mind of child.
And so:ZARK!
Janey-E screamed as the house went dark and her seventh heaven existence went kablooey.
Will Dougie still be Dougie when he regains consciousness?
Will Dougie still be in the house when the lights are restored?
Or might he now be en route elsewhere, a spirit traveling the spectral super-highway back to Twin Peaks?
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Welcome to Twin Peaks.
My name is Margaret Lanterman.
I live in Twin Peaks.
I am known as the Log Lady.
There is a story behind that.
There are many stories in Twin Peaks some of them are sad, some funny.
Some of them are stories of madness, of violence.
Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery the mystery of life.
Sometimes, the mystery of death.
The mystery of the woods.
The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.
It is a story of many, but begins with one and I knew her.
The one leading to the many isLaura Palmer.
Laura is the one.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of theTwin Peakspilot.
The closing stretch, which gave us the heartbreaking death of Margaret Lanterman, a.k.a.
the Log Lady, was the ultimate bookend to the heartwarming consummation of Ed and Normas longing romance.
Like all her scenes this season, Margarets final moments were staged as a phone call with Hawk.
She was in her log cabin, he was in his office at the sheriffs department.
This was the sunset of Margaret Lanterman.
And she was ready for her close-up.
My log is gold.
The wind is moaning.
A moment of silence was held in the Twin Peaks Sheriffs Department.
After all, we know her mostly as The Log Lady, not by her real name.
In memory of Margaret Lanterman.
The Margaret scenes this season made you feel that care.
You did right by your friend, Mr. Lynch.
Im sorry shes no longer with us.
I feel like Id be desecrating the scene by theorizing over the plot stuff expressed in the sequence.
Well, heres one possibility.
During their search, they came across Margarets log house home and had tea with her.
She talked about the devil.
But really, she was speaking of all the themes pertinent to this episode.
Love and loss, death and grief.My husband was a logging man, she said.
He met the devil.
The devil took the form of fire.
Fire is the devil hiding like a coward in the smoke.
Hawk responded, The woods holds many spirits, doesnt it, Margaret.
And now, the woods hold one more.
That reason was her proverbial ball-and-chain, her old scapegoat, her husband, Charlie.
He told her if she didnt put on her coat, he was taking his off and staying.
He followed through on his threat.
And where oh where did the old Audrey go?
Last time, Audrey began doubting her very existence, and Charlie threatened to end [her] story.
This week, the beat came when Audrey began to question Charlies authenticity.
I never really saw you before the way Im seeing you now, she said.
Im meeting a different person.Who are you, Charlie?
Charlie responded with a kind of blank-faced silence that could be interpreted any number of ways.
Still, Im suspicious.
And I wonder:What lies beyond that door?
On a meta level, Audreys should-I-stay-or-should-I-go?
clash is also the shows internal conflict, and it is ours.
As Margaret told us, theres some fear in letting go.
And many other emotions besides.
There is a depression after an answer is given.
It was almost fun not knowing.
Yes, now we know.
At least we know what we sought in the beginning.
But there is still the question: Why?
And this question will go on and on until the final answer comes.
Then the knowing is so full, there is no room for questions.
There is a sadness in this world, for we are ignorant of many things.
Yes, we are ignorant of many beautiful things things like the truth.
So sadness, in our ignorance, is very real.
The tears are real.
What is this thing called a tear?
There are even tiny ducts tear ducts to produce these tears should the sadness occur.
The answer, of course, is yes.
One day the sadness will end.
The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 4, season 1.
Ghosted.Part 15 ended with another young person at the Roadhouse doing something bizarre while a band played us out.
(Or kid-za, as angry Agent Stanley of the Las Vegas FBI might say.)
(Hiya, Drawer Knob Josie!)
When will the sadness end?
Hurry home, Agent Cooper.
A town gone noir needs your light.
