Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Twin Peaks, #2)

by Mark Frost

While he could no longer legally hang up a shingle,

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on more than one occasion Jacoby claims to have made contact with the little folk, who revealed to him that they’re not of earthly origin and that their mission here on earth is to help steer the “newer root race of human beings” away from our unfortunate genetic propensity for violence and self-destruction.

Anyway, you get the drift.

Terrible writing

Jacoby lived in Hanalei Bay, first made famous as the home of Puff the Magic Dragon.)

Jacoby’s time on the bus came to an abrupt end with the untimely death of singer and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. I believe that Jacoby’s enduring fondness for loud and colorful neckties is most likely a tribute to his old friend.

“defiant liberal denial syndrome.”

Oh come on

he came to view the terrorist attack through the eternal lens of cause and effect—or, to state it more simply, karma—

Bold thing to say in a book like this

Jacoby bought a used mobile home and hauled it up to a remote hardscrabble acre that he bought for peanuts near the peak of White Tail Mountain.

preaching truth against what he described as the rising forces of corporatism, the corruption of wealth inequality, and the corrosive effects of what he called “cannibal capitalism” on the human mind, body, and spirit.

“as far as people thinking I’m crazy, at my age, I just don’t have any fucks left to give.”

In 2015, Dr. Amp began a direct-mail operation after a number of his followers responded to one of his frequent admonitions to “dig yourself out of the shit”—a central theme of his call to self-empowerment, urging people to fight back and seize control of their own lives and destinies. Before long, he added the ideal tool you could use for the job: a (at first) metaphorical “golden shovel” that his followers could visualize to help them complete said task.

a process of “intrapersonal alchemy,” turning the lead of dull, everyday consciousness into the gold of an evolved human soul, the goal of what he described as a hallowed tradition in esoteric philosophy harking all the way back to the Middle Ages.

he comes across as a buoyant and likable personality, fueled by righteous indignation, unbound by convention or any shred of need for our approval.

a dyed-in-the-wool gadfly, whose synapses appear to fire, more or less coherently, in more directions at once than a daisy cutter.

There is an air of the tarot’s “Magus” about the man—the ancient archetype of a magician who’s outlived or conquered the base temptations of life to reach spiritual serenity while still maintaining the height of his powers. As I think of “Dr. Jacoby/Dr. Amp,” a character like Prospero comes to mind, a man in the last act of life who’s survived the “tempest” of human turmoil and by doing...

Is that the secret at the heart of the Blue Rose and the work we do? To identify root causes of human misery and evil, do we first have to find them in ourselves?

Although James narrowly avoided being charged with any crime, he later appeared during trial as a witness for the prosecution. When the highly skilled defense attorney tore his testimony apart—casting serious doubt on James’s character, if not his version of events—James felt threatened enough by loose talk about how he could be charged with perjury that he impetuously and unwisely fled town before completing his testimony. A bench warrant was issued to ensure his return. It didn’t. We know now that James kept driving all the way to Mexico, where he hid out in Baja,

still plays guitar,

Just you

a part of James died when Laura did, and it has haunted him ever since.

Ed and Norma got married not long after. James played a song he wrote on his guitar during a civil ceremony conducted by the Big Log near the old train station. All of their friends—half the town, it seems—were there. Andy Brennan bawled more or less throughout,

there is no light without darkness—and this troubles many of us—but without it, how else would we tell one from the other?

(To meet her; not to become religious.)

If you have to explain it like this phrase it another way jc

Josie Packard.

Joan Chen was TERRIBLY miscast in this role

the Bookhouse Boys

The ends do not justify the means. They are still an unelected unaccountable vigilante group

Josie’s betrayal,

I am forgetting what that was exactly. Forced by the hong kong dude? intrigue involving him catharine andrew hank and her role in andrew's supposed deatg

Harry had learned he was seriously ill. (I’ve confirmed that it’s cancer, and he’s still living and undergoing treatment in a research hospital near Seattle, but he’s fighting uphill.)

Frank agreed to move back to Twin Peaks and take the job for two years to help stabilize the department, with the understanding that he would then step down and hand the reins to Hawk.

We can also assume Major Briggs realized that, rather than confront the Double, he’d best keep that realization to himself, but, given what we have since learned about the Double, it’s fair to suppose that it saw through Briggs’s intention.

Briggs departed for Listening Post Alpha, his classified Blue Rose station up in the mountains.

When Briggs got there, one of two things then happened: Either he successfully enacted those measures and then staged a scene to make it look as if the post had been ransacked—and that he himself had been attacked—or, at some time during his staging, the Double arrived and a genuine and deadly sacking and assault took place.

The post had been breached, during which Briggs had, in all likelihood, been attacked.

believe it’s reasonable to conclude that the scene at the LPA was—for the most part—staged by Briggs and that he subsequently escaped with whatever classified material he could carry with him, which I believe later became the basis for the dossier. A few miles from the outpost, Briggs then staged the crash of his own vehicle, leaving a severely burned corpse inside to complete the illusion and facilitate his escape.

According to Hastings’s testimony, at some point during their last year together, they claimed to have made contact with a person or entity that identified itself only as “The Major.” They were eventually told they could make personal contact with this individual by entering into some sort of nonphysical or metaphysical dimension. The Major told them that this encounter would occur at a specific time and place in or near an unspecified entrance to this “Zone.” The location he gave them for the meeting happened to be a derelict vacant lot on the wrong side of the tracks in Buckhorn. Once they were “inside” the Zone, “the Major”—whom Hastings described as “hiding” or “hibernating” inside of wherever this was—appeared and tasked them with finding a set of “important coordinates” from a secure military database. (From Hastings’s description, it seems that during this initial conversation, “the Major” revealed himself to them in more or less corporeal physical form.) As we’ve now been able to confirm, once Hastings and Davenport succeeded in hacking this military database—most likely with clues provided by the Major—and obtained the information he was after, they returned to the same location of the “Zone” a second time to personally deliver it to “the Major.” As they were about to give the Major these coordinates, according to Bill Hastings, all manner of hell broke loose.

The Major floated up—toward what he described as a vortex or “portal,” presumably like the one you yourself witnessed, Chief—and dark, shadowy figures, appearing out of nowhere, assaulted them. Both Davenport and “the Major” were decapitated in the attack, and Hastings was left unconscious, but alive, in the vacant lot. He seemed to suffer some form of memory loss about this event, and his memory returned only after his arrest. A few days later, Davenport’s severed head, aligned perversely and tenderly on the neck of the body of “The Major,” was discovered by local police in her apartment.

The body was identified as that of Major Garland Briggs, and his age was determined to be roughly forty-five, which just happened to be how old he was at the time of his disappearance, twenty-five years ago.

(That was a joke, Chief, but the idea that these amateurs penetrated our servers is not.)

Come on Mark

the Major hid a similar clue, to the local set of coordinates, for his son, Bobby, in plain sight—concealed in his favorite armchair.

some kind of out-of-time place or portal

(Or if that term doesn’t work for you, I suggest we refer to it as something like “the Hotel California,” in that “you can check in, but you can never leave,” at least not for twenty-five years.)

Oh god. This is terrible writing

There was a surveillance photo of the Double from a South American sting operation, which certainly appears to be him, though analysis did reveal hints of digital manipulation, so in the Photoshop era, it may be impossible to authenticate. The second: Cooper appears, more clearly, on another surveillance photo from the bizarre “glass box” operation/murder scene that you and Albert investigated more recently in Manhattan.

Las Vegas,

Buenos Aires,

He desperately wanted those coordinates from Briggs.

it’s clear that the second time the Major emerged to meet Hastings and Davenport, the Double was there waiting for him. He killed Briggs, Davenport, Hastings, and anyone else who got in the way, seized those coordinates, and headed for their location,

The “glass box” operation in New York, which we now know the Double set up through a series of cutouts, suggests he was after something else as well. Some kind of entity that moved, as Briggs appeared to be able to do, free of the constraints of time and space as we used to think we understood them.

the glass box appears to have been installed there as a trap to catch it.

What if the Double was looking for the most important location in this alleged system, a Grand Central Station, if you will, on the other side?

What did the Double want, if it ever actually made it to this place? What was it after? Some kind or form of even greater power than it already appeared to possess? (What would that be? Immortality?) I

The Dweller legend states that when a person on the spiritual path consciously approaches a place or state of soulful enlightenment, at the very moment they’re about to enter into its full embrace—on the “threshold,” as it were—this Dweller allegedly appears and must be confronted and defeated in order for the person to successfully pass through.

Is this, literally, what Cooper’s Double was? Albert and I have spoken of this thing before as a “tulpa.” A tulpa—like the false “Diane”—is a concept that in the original Tibetan, it turns out, does not mean “double” or “doppelganger” but rather an entity created or summoned by a dark magician or sorcerer,