Nadine breaks up with Ed. Cooper's doppelganger meets with Philip Jeffries. FBI searches for Douglas Jones. Log Lady calls Hawk for the last time. Audrey Horne is worrying about her missing lover.

Jerry sees a meeting between Richard and Cooper's doppelganger. Hutch and Chantal spy on Dougie Jones. Cooper wakes up. Diane tolds everything to Cole.

Cole makes a statement. Cooper's doppelganger arrives at Twin Peaks. Sheriff Truman gets an unexpected call. Freddie fulfills his destiny. Laura runs away from James in the past, and Pete goes fishing.

Dougie returns to Janey-E. Cooper and Diane go into the motel, but she dissappears next morning. In Odessa, Cooper finds Carry (Carrie?) Page and takes her to Twin Peaks.

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"I am the FBI" with Falling playing on the background perfectly in sync, Laura Dern's amazing acting, surprise Eddie Vedder, damn good stuff.

Twin Peaks was Laura's story. ("Laura is the one", and this season's intro to each episode starts with Laura's picture)

By rewriting reality, this is no longer Laura's story, or rather Twin Peaks is over. You could say that a show called "Odessa", with different characters (even if played by the same actors), different locations and different subplots is going on. Cooper, who is called Richard here, acts more like a combination of Coop + Mr. C, Diane, who is called Linda, has a different history with Coop/Richard.. The switch of realities seems to happen about when Coop/Richard and Diane/Linda have sex, what with Diane/Linda seeing her doppelganger waiting (for the switcheroo?), and the sex scene being way off. When Coop/Richard wakes up the next morning, he seems to be in the new reality for good.

When he goes to Laura/Carrie, there are whole different subplots to the "Odessa" TV show going on. She asks him if they found him IIRC (doesn't matter who, it shows there are subplots going on we know nothing about), she has a dead guy in her house (again, doesn't matter who this guy is), and so on.

Essentially the Twin Peaks TV show ends with Part 17, and Part 18 is a random episode of the "Odessa" show. Or you could say it's just a different reality. Realities are like dreams to Lynch. "We're like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?" - the dreamer is no longer our heroes, this is no longer their show.

Behind the switching of realities it seems like they are the Tremonds, always involved with the supernatural. (Kind of like the supernatural club Silencio in Mulholland Dr., even if the first 2/3rds of the film were a dream of sorts, to me it feels like Silencio, and its mysterious inhabitants, exists no matter what.)

Finally, Laura/Carrie seems to be having a rude awakening realizing she doesn't belong there, akin to Audrey waking up from her coma, after 25 years. She too was the dreamer of her own reality. Unlike Audrey, I don't think Laura/Carrie can wake up, as she's not in a coma, she's in a reality, just not the one she belongs to.

edit: Oh and Coop always trying to fix the situation is who is responsible. He should have let go. He caused the mess with doppelganger at the end of season 2, he told Laura not to take the ring in FWWM (thankfully she didn't listen to him), and he now "saved" Laura.

it seems like Cooper's plan to save Laura at first worked, as her corpse disappears.

But it angers Sarah, who is hinted to be inhabited by Judy/Mother/The Experiment, and then Laura is gone before Cooper gets her "home", and then we have Part 18. (Sarah has been long implied to have been at least subconsciously aware of Leland raping Laura; now it looks like the implication is that a lodge spirit was always inhabiting her and perhaps feeding of her misery, which perhaps has something to do with the little girl that swallowed that frogbug, perhaps that girl is Sarah).

So there is the implication that it's Sarah/Judy that perhaps creates a new reality as a reaction to what Cooper did, because the sequence of events is corpse disappears -> Sarah attacks Laura's picture frustrated, Laura disappears from Cooper's hand before getting "home'.

My biggest question is not what comes after Part 18, but what did we watch happen during this season? Specifically:

1) What was Mr. C's goal? To reunite with Judy? Didn't he know it was inside Sarah? His meeting with Jeffries, during which he was told he already knows Judy, implies Mr. C didn't realize it beforehand. So maybe BOB kept this from Mr. C?

2) Who was trying to kill him? Who was the Jeffries-impostor?

Isn't it super weird we never really figured what Mr. C was precisely trying to do (reunite with Judy in order to? Just do evil stuff?) and who was trying to stop him and why??????

edit Wait.. Or are Mr. C and Judy enemies? Was the Jeffries-impostor Judy/Sarah?!

That would make some sense, because it's super weird not to know who was after Mr. C! It must be someone who we met during this season. And she seems like the only supernatural character available to fit...