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Hello internet. Welcome to Film Theory. The show where incredible minds come together with facts and deep discussion to come to the most logical
conclusions of all time. Last week
we definitively proved that both the Simpsons and the X-Files were both part of the same universe and that that universe was actually a part of the
Long string of shows all set inside the state elsewhere snow globe and that said snow globe is actually Plank from Ed
Edd and Eddy and since we're still waiting for that FNaF movie to come out so it can totally consume my content,
I thought it'd be fun to try to solve something a bit older than we commonly look at. To some of my younger
Theorists out there you may not know about the David Lynch serial drama Twin Peaks
It's gone down as one of the most beloved shows of all time, with hilarious characters
fantastic storylines, hidden codes, and secret ciphers all while FBI agent Dale Cooper and Ex president Harry Truman
solve mysteries around Twin peaks, Washington. This show is a theorists dream come true,
or at least it was at the time. Back in the day people were
legitimately unsure about the identity of Laura Palmer's killer.
But these days most every element of the show is comprehended pretty easily. People have spent decades putting these pieces of information together,
created pages upon pages of resources on the case in short any theory about this show is easily provable or
disprovable and thus it's not really up my alley.
I recently went on ahead and rewatched all of twin peaks and at the end something just felt off.
There were so many lingering questions that I still wanted answered. Just about everything that had nothing to do with Annie was so
interesting, and the biggest mystery had been the same thing that I wanted to know from the very beginning. What happens next.
Sure the main villain of season two died and they saved the Audrey stand in and Cooper sort of half escaped the Black Lodge,
but there were so many stones left unturned, so many adventures to be had, so many lives that our main characters could fail at saving.
Ladies and gentlemen I have spent lifetimes studying every piece of Twin Peaks media that I could get my hands on.
Every flop sequel film, every obscure audiobook or in-universe journal, and I have come to one
earth-shattering conclusion. There has to be a
missing link. Something that we haven't caught on to that continues the story without us even realizing it and no, I'm not
foreshadowing the sequel series that's going to be airing throughout the following few months. Sure that's going to be important to solving this ginormous
mystery, but it's not the most important clue to really figuring out this huge missing chunk to the twin peaks
universe. It all started when I found myself thinking back to another film that I also recently seen called "Sleepwalk With Me" an
autobiographical film created by beloved stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia who wanted to explore a recently failed relationship while also
discussing a sleeping disorder so severe that it caused him to jump through a window. This film is fascinating in its own right.
It's only when you start looking really deep at some of the details that you realize there's clearly a hidden layer to this story
something that you weren't supposed to notice the first time but something that's
obviously there. Throughout the story Matt Pattamiglio-
a man cursed the falling a few dozen letters two short of the greatest name of all time-
suffers a series of strange dreams which, at that point the narrative, seemed to have no real point. It's sort of goofy and
irrelevant in a fun way. In some fashion however, they seemed to almost predict the future. Think back to the second dream.
We see our central protagonist running in a field apparently fleeing from an unseen force
He finds himself at a podium where he's offered the reward of third place despite
no one being in first or second. At the time this seems like a surreal element added in to make the dream feel more like
a dream, but later on things seem to have more
parallels. Throughout the process of the film we see Matt spend several weeks driving long distances
from home. Just as much running from his problems at home as he is exploring the world.
He eventually comes back home in a dazed and confused state and decides to Marry his girlfriend of eight years despite feeling the
Relationship isn't meant to last a lifetime in other words after running just about as far and as long as he could
Matt finds himself being rewarded for coming in third place despite the fact that there are two equally viable spots left open for fair use.
Just look at one particular moment where Matt and Abby are forced to stand as a couple in a family photograph
standing in on the third step
representing the third place of their family. Now think back to what other shows had seemingly random dreams
that turned out to payoff in random ways. That's right Twin Peaks in episode three, two episodes away from the pilot, agent Cooper has
A dream with a backwards dancing men, a Laura Palmer look-alike, and two men confessing to the killing of the town's lost
homecoming queen. What's important here
is that exactly like as the case in Sleepwalk With Me, these dreams have no real-World correspondence individually
but slowly small things start to pay off. Such as the description of the crime scene and sometimes it's the
smallest elements which turn relevant in the end. To the Berbiglia fans in the audience
It's important to explain the presence of the two supposed killers in the dream sequence.
Initially the police department decides to go with Cooper's gut-feeling and begins investigating
the two as real suspects, and they even managed to find the one-armed man in the real world. However, something seems off.
He doesn't go by Mike, and he denies being involved with the murder at all despite having convenient patches in his memory
where he just happens to have been seen near the crime scene before he fled and when they discovered that he suffers from schizophrenia,
he is forced by agent Cooper to cease taking his medication where the possessive entity shows its true form.
[Criminal speaks] "I'm after you now"
We find out throughout the course of the show that there is a hell-like area in the town known as the Black Lodge, where various
omnipresent beings use their powers to possess humans often those who are emotionally disrupted or have simple medical conditions
Sounding familiar to anyone? Think the very first scene we discovered that Matt Pattamiglio has sleep apnea
He sleepwalks to the corner of the room kicks the hambar over and over again while yelling. "There's a jackal in the room."
"Abby, there's a jackal in the room." So is Matt seeing a wild animal in his dream
Who he believes to be actually present or is there something more sinister going on?
After doing hours of research matching the identity of a jackal up to everything that I could manage
I finally found a thing that could fit the ancient Egyptian gods
most famously that of
Anubis is it possible that wandering spirits from Twin Peaks had once posed as a God in the time of the ancient
Egyptians and then had to return to this form after losing a more relevant
Copy of his being. We find out later in the film that math dreams are often centered around him trying to save those around him
From things that are going after him specifically
So is it possible that Matt is attempting to fight the jackal himself only deserve protecting his loved ones? It only goes
Deeper think forwards again to the driving scene in this moment. Matt suddenly finds himself talking in person to William C
Demint in the flesh who begins telling him about various sleep disorders surely a straightforward
Sequence, right? Wrong. When Matt wakes up he's still on the road
He's still on course to his destination
Something has taken over while he fell into this trance which led us here at game theory to only one logical
Theory this wasn't William. C. Demint this was none other than the killer Bob himself
Finding a new skin once again to approach Matt Pattamiglio's consciousness
consider the most important scene in the entirety of sleepwalk with me when Matt is so stuck into his visions that he climbs out of
Bed and jumps through a window causing severe injuries that require immediate medical attention
Is this just more evidence that for Burbigula's character's disorders causing him to start living out his dreams in the real world? NO
Think back to why the one-armed man states that his host only has one arm "When I saw the face of God,
I was changed,
took the entire arm off."
Here we have blatant evidence that the possessive entity of Mike cut off his own arm as his own
Personal stamp to represent his powers over the person that he possesses
so in the same way that Mike losing his arm can be seen as a
repercussion for him being possessed by an entity from the black Lodge
So can that infamous jump into the night and this just got me thinking
deeper about the spirits and Twin Peaks, about the actions of our main characters and things started to make sense
Consider how Matt Pattamigli was constantly leaving New York to take jobs that barely cover the cost of his travel
It seems like he's doing it for the thrill or just to get away, but what if he's not?
What if this is a direct
Coherent plan by the Killer Entity prossessing Mike to eventually leave the comedian directly to the Washington City of Twin Peaks
Where he will be trapped inside the hole known simply as the black lodge
It's been seen before in the 1993 Non-Canon, Georgia coffee advertisements
We see the crew of the sheriff's police department investigating the mysterious case of a missing Japanese woman named Asami
Throughout the Four-Part narrative agent Cooper is eventually able to piece together that
Asami is being led directly to the black Lodge itself
Where she is free just in time to celebrate with a cool can of fresh, Georgia Coffee
Just like I love the taste of diet Pepsi
What we can learn from this is that the spirits of the black Lodge have a discrete history of drawing
foreigners to twin peaks just to trap them in the black Lodge for eternity
Presumably often to be used as Fleshy shells for dastardly entities which perfectly explains
Why one of these spirits unable to find a new body would go out of their way to lure an emotionally fragile New Yorker with a
Personality that could fit into a crowd and with a notable disorder that makes them easy to possess all the way to Washington
State through various Comedy Routines
which is where we tie ourselves back into the revised and
Revisited Twin Peaks series coming this very year it's a known fact that killer Bob will appear in some way throughout the series although
It's certainly unknown who is going to be playing him as the original actor passed away many years ago
There's been many suggestions from a body double to a CGI mock-up to stock footage
but to me there's only one true option in the
2017 Twin Peaks series Bob will have shed his immortal skin to take the form of his latest victim in other words
Don't be shocked if it turns out that Mike Birbiglia might have a surprise role in this show killing and Murdering young
children in the new form of the Killer Bob not enough well
There's one more piece of evidence that directly ties the whole puzzle together
When agent Cooper is in his infamous first dream sequence when Mike is describing the thrill that he felt
killing with Bob he uses four words
which has shattered throughout the franchise ever since.
"Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
fire
Walk with me." That's right fellow theorist in Cooper's first dream sequence that happens while he sleeps
we see a figure who knows Bob the killer in person and he
Entices the audience to walk with him this all but completely matches up to the title of Mike
Birbiglia feature film revealing once and for all that sleepwalk with me was intended to be the concrete and
official sequel to the original Twin Peaks franchise, but hey, that's just a theory
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