According to Philip "Mike" Gerard aka the One-Armed Man, he and the lead owl shape shifting incubus Killer Bob lived above a convenience store when they were killing together. Gerard uses a drug to replicate schizophrenic behavior by which Mike is able to communicate through him to Agent Cooper. According to Bob's host body Leland Palmer or it's incubus occupant, the description of Laura's murderer matches that of a man named Robertson (which Agent Cooper translates as "Son of Robert/Bob") who used to flick matches at him when he was a little boy. While Bob takes the form of an owl when outside of the Black Lodge unless otherwise occupying Leland Palmer, Mike takes the form of Gerard who interestingly is intercut with Leland's vision of a threatening barking black dog when confronting Leland Palmer in Fire Walk With Me. Mike assists Bob in his crimes until cutting his own arm which bears a tattoo reading "BOB" off. Bob himself has a tattoo which reads "Fire Walk With Me". Where the astrologically determined entrance to the Black Lodge appears there is a pool of a strange substance like scorched engine oil, and when Bob occupies or kills his victim he leaves behind a mysterious accompanying odor of scorched engine oil. (TP)
In the Passion Play of Twin Peaks the White Lodge is the equivalent of Heaven, and is depicted according to Major Briggs' account of his vision to his son Bobby as thus:
"A vision I ... had in my sleep last night. As distinguished from a dream which is mere ... sorting and cataloging of the day’s events by the subconscious. This was a vision. As clear as a mountain stream. The mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision I was on a veranda of a ... vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it ... a light from within this ... gleaming, radiant marble. I’d known this place. I ... I in fact had been born and raised there. This was my first return. A reunion with the ... deepest well springs of my being.
Wandering about I noticed happily that the house had been immaculately maintained. There’d been added a number of additional rooms but ... in a way that blended so seamlessly with the original construction one would never detect any difference. Returning to the house’s grand foyer, came a knock on the door. My son was standing there.
He was happy and care free. Clearly living a life of ... deep harmony and joy. We embraced. Warm and loving embrace, nothing withheld. We were, in this moment, one. My vision ended and I awoke with a ... tremendous feeling of ... optimism and confidence in ... you and your future. That was my vision of you."
Major Briggs seems to be describing the White Lodge, a locale in diametrical opposition to the series' accounts of the Black Lodge. However, later in the series when Briggs is questioned by Cooper while shot full of truth serum, he says that it was God who drugged him, and shortly before he spoke the dialogue of the Little Man From Another Place backwards, saying "That gum you like is going to come back in style." In the series finale, Briggs receives a message from the Red Waiting Room in the voice of Windom Earle saying he is waiting for him, via the medium Sarah Palmer. That understood, it is possible Briggs is unable to describe anything regarding the Lodges accurately.
The denizens of the Black Lodge, the incubi Bob and Mike and the dopplegangers of Windom Earle, the Arm, and Laura Palmer are depicted in solely diabolical roles ranging from the violent to the passive aggressive. The vision characters of the Giant, the Bellhop, and Mrs. Tremond and her grandson by contrast are depicted in eerily benevolent roles appearing to aid Agent Cooper's investigations directly and indirectly. For this reason, the benevolent spirits could easily be supposed as potential inhabitants of the White Lodge, although not all of them are depicted as blatantly as the stereotypical Angel. The benevolent spirits who appear to Donna Hayward and Laura Palmer in the form of Mrs. Tremond and her grandson are from the White Loge and represent the Virgin Mary who is both mother and grandmother and Jesus Christ.
Just as Cooper as Christ was collectively betrayed by Sheriff Truman and Doc Hayward as Judas, he and the other citizens of Twin Peaks are haunted by and have their trust betrayed by the passive aggressive incubi and succubi of the Black Lodge. The Black Lodge and the Red Waiting Room are identical apart from the inclusion of white (and black) strobing lights and the inclusion of a greater population of evil incubi, and is described as being completely different from the White Lodge, reflecting the manner in which although inhabiting different places the occupants of Purgatory and Hell are equally separate from Heaven.
Just as the breakthrough piece of evidence in the Laura Palmer murder case was the discovery of the presence of the "Third Man" at the scene of the crime which led to the apprehension of Leland Palmer, there is also a "Third Woman" who is equally guilty of trans-dimensional transgressions: the succubus Lil who appears to Cooper in his dream of Agent Desmond's investigation of the Deer Meadow murder of Teresa Banks in Twin Peaks' version of Dark Shadow's Parallel Time, the film Fire Walk With Me.
Borrowing yet again from Dark Shadows and Peyton Place, the writers of Twin Peaks (in the instance of Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch and Robert Engels) reveal the Black Lodge equivalent of a Twin Peaks love triangle that was running in undercurrent throughout the series. In imitation of the Barnabas Collins (vampire)/Josette Dupres (ghost)/Angelique Bouchard (witch) trans-temporal and trans-dimensional love triangle and from countless mortal Peyton Place love triangles, the prequel film which concludes the Passion Play of Twin Peaks introduces the "Third Woman" to the pantheon of Black Lodge inhabitants while casting a Lilith to the Genesis myth of the series' Passion Play. Lil appears in her natural succubus form, suitably framed against the backdrop of a yellow (re: Yellow Light/Purgatory) wind-slicing propeller plane, in only one scene of the entire Twin Peaks saga, however I deduce that her actions are as evident as those of her visible male counterpart Bob throughout the entire story.
Though Bob desperately wants to possess Laura's soul he, Mike, and the seemingly benevolent Giant are never shown to occupy anyone other than men in Twin Peaks. It is the succubi of the Black Lodge, particularly Lil, who possess the women of Twin Peaks however this is never revealed by way of mirrored reflections of their host bodies. Rather, the presence of Lil is evident in the actions of the female characters whom she possesses.
Whether they have all lost their souls to the Black Lodge is up in the air, since the only female dopplegangers we see are those of Laura, Annie, Caroline, and Madeline during Cooper's descent from the Red Waiting Room into the Black Lodge. The actions of Sarah Palmer, Lana Budding Milford, Nadine Hayward, Catherine Martell, Josie Packard, Ronette Pulaski, and Audrey Horne and others suggest that there is a succubus at play in Twin Peaks. Throughout the series, the color red is often a reference to Lil reflecting the succubus' mode of dress and hair, despite Cooper's ominously foreshadowing failure as parallel dreamself Agent Desmond in partially misinterpreting or at least only partially revealing to Agent Stanley the meaning of the Blue Rose that Lil wears. By contrast, in Laura's dream she correctly interprets the Red Rose on her bedroom door during her dreamtime visit from the succubus Mrs. Chalfont, supporting the reference of red as equated to Lil, the womb of whom is depicted as the Red Waiting Room as will be shown. Leland's reaction after being harassed by Philip Gerard in the film, "When a man comes out of the blue like that, what's the world coming to?" is actually a reference to the Blue Rose of Lil and the logic-defying birth of the Antichrist of the Apocalypse of Biblical mythology as represented in the series and film.
The actions of the women of Twin Peaks suggest they have either visited the Black Lodge and/or suggest they are or have been possessed by a succubus, and many of those actions depict a Black Lodge love triangle that parallels the many love triangles of the host bodies that populate Twin Peaks, and that parallels a potential love triangle stemming from the story of the Creation and Fall of Genesis. As described by the incubus Mike to Agent Cooper in a dream in his first and third night staying in the Great Northern Hotel, when he and Bob were killing together they lived together above a convenience store. When Leland as Bob and Laura are confronted by Mike, he reveals that Laura is possessed by Lil when he accuses her of stealing the creamed corn from the convenience store above which Bob and Mike lived. Creamed corn in Twin Peaks represents the forbidden fruit, or garmonbozia of pain and sorrow which feeds the Little Man From Another Place. Mike then tells Laura that her father equals gamonbozia ("It's him! It's your father!"), which is to say the Fall of man and knowledge of evil has manifested as her incestuously abusive father. In Cooper's dream, Mike says that he cut off his own arm which we learn in the series bore the name of Bob (possibly Bob Lydecker) in a tattoo on his shoulder. By this it is suggested that Mike and Bob were in a possibly homosexual incubic relationship, and this claim is supported by the actions of the people controlled by Lil who appears to be Bob's jealous succubus mate. Homosexuality and other plot aspects are very subtly implied in Twin Peaks, as in the instance of John Justice Wheeler, Bob Lydecker and Philip Gerard, and the true nature of the relationship of Mike and Bob is crucial to understanding the Passion Play nature of Twin Peaks, as it is Lucifer's obsession with the destruction of Man that is represented in the storyline. When Mike left Bob he severed the arm with the "Bob" tattoo, the nomenclature of which is represented as The Arm in the Red Waiting Room, although in the aspect of the Christian nature of Twin Peaks the Little Man From Another Place who calls himself The Arm is not the embodiment of the Biblical "if thine eye offend the" and is another entity entirely as will be shown. Philip Gerard represents everyman, and Mike is his identical and wicked spirit. Lil who represents Lilith, Eve's precursor, stole creamed corn (garmonbozia or "pain and sorrow", the forbidden fruit of Eden) and introduced it to Mike. This piqued Bob, Lil's male counterpart's interest in Mike just as Satan set to tempt God's creation after the Fall, which explains Lil's jealous behavior throughout the series. In Fire Walk With Me when Laura and Bobby meet Deputy Howard in the late night drug deal which culminates with Howard's murder, Laura tells Bobby that he killed Mike. Bobby hastily attempts to bury Howard and Laura "helps" by placing a tiny pinecone and a sprinkle of dirt on the corpse she maintains is Mike. Bobby and Laura then hasten away into the woods while the smokestack of the Packard Sawmill uncannily blows in reverse, revealing the allegorical nature of this scene. Laura is in fact Lil, Bobby is in fact Bob, and Howard is in fact Mike. In keeping with the Passion of Twin Peaks, Bob as Satan with Lil as his accomplice Lilith bring mortality to Mike as Everyman. They then use Everyman as fertile ground in which to plant the pinecone which represents the primordial Antichrist. The drug itself represents the garmonbozia, the cherry pie, the "pain and sorrow" of the knowledge of good and evil represented by the Forbidden Fruit. The drug deal dream scene takes place in a more incubicly literal but more prophetic depiction in the European edit of Cooper's dream in the series' pilot, where Mike shoots Bob and relives the pain of losing his arm in the basement of Calhoun Memorial Hospital, and Lil is represented by a wind which blows out Laura's birthday candles (numbered in reference to the birthday on which she began her secret diary) which surround a fertile pile of soil containing Laura's half of her heart necklace. The Antichrist also is represented in this scenario not as a pinecone but as Agent Cooper himself who intones "Make a wish," implying that the birthday wish of the possessed unborn child of incest that Laura aborted in Canada was to exist incarnate as Cooper. "Make a wish" also relates to how Cooper's instruction to Laura to abort her incestuous baby as transmitted through a dream induced by the Virgin Mary and Jesus as depicted by Mrs. Chalfont and her Grandson, brought about imprisonment in Purgatory which could only be absolved by the grace of God that a person can only "wish" or pray for.
To continue, Bob then took possession of The Arm and thus an accompanying doppleganger of The Arm appeared in the Black Lodge. Bob's possession of the Little Man From Another Place is crucial to comprehending the complimentary duality of their Biblical natures. Following the severing, Mike continued to inhabit Philip Gerard the One-Armed Man, although ceasing to kill with his partner Bob. Mike never claims to stop killing altogether, even though he says to have seen the face of God and was changed. Following behind in vision form while tailing Bob as Leland through the course of the death of Laura (allegedly there was only a third set of additional footprints at the crime scene, however considering that Truman and Hayward and possibly Albert by proxy were actively hampering Cooper's entire investigation while directing him into the Black Lodge, it is possible that on the night of the murder Mike was in his mortal Gerard form and there were in fact a fourth set of footprints at the crime scene), Mike appears able to bag a victim of his own, after Bob knocks Ronette unconscious after the Angel releases her from her ropes, from the train car and leaves her for dead when Leland emerges with Laura wrapped in plastic and ready for the river. Because she knew Cooper was targeted by Bob (who had Fire Walk With Me tattooed on his arm) to be the future embodiment of the Antichrist, she set about using the female host bodies of Twin Peaks to manipulate this into being.
Lil inhabits Audrey, and fails in her attempt to seduce Cooper in order to disgrace him from the Bureau and get him off the murder case. When she infiltrates the brothel One Eyed Jacks forcing Cooper to cross state lines to save her, Lil intentionally jeopardizes the FBI Agent's career and the Laura Palmer murder investigation, thus delaying Bob's occupancy of Cooper. Lil inhabits Josie and while trysting with whichever incubus inhabited Sheriff Truman, attempts to shoot Cooper dead in his hotel room in the Great Northern. When Josie is finally apprehended for the crime she committed while inhabited by Lil, she dies of fright at what Cooper assumes is the sight of Bob. Rather, it was Lil who induced a heart attack in her host and killed it just as Bob would later violently discard Leland's body when it was no longer useful to him. Josie's appearance in the wooden doorknob of a bedside table in the Great Northern suggests that she is trapped in the Black Lodge, which according to Mike is synonymous with the Hotel itself.
Josie's appearance in the doorknob if taken with the approach of Twin Peaks as an unfinished soap opera appears to be one of many vague surrealisms along the way to inevitable series cancellation. In light of Twin Peaks being a retelling of the Passion of the Christian Jesus as told through the themes and styles of Peyton Place and Dark Shadows however, the doorknob scene is a moment that lends credibility to the scenario of a "Third Woman" in the Black Lodge love triangle that represents a "zaney" (to use Cooper's possible terminology ala "How zaney!") perspective on the Creation love triangle of God, Lucifer, and Man.
Twin Peaks' God's (White Lodge) creation Lucifer (Bob, who has a female counterpart Lil aka Lilith) would not submit to the fallible creation, man (Gerard the One-Armed Man who has a spirit which is evil named Mike) so he inhabits Hell (the Black Lodge) while conspiring against God's creation (Twin Peaks) and imprisoning the ones who fail to heed God's law. The Arm, as represented as the namesake of Little Man From Another Place but not in his representational actuality, was cut from the body of Mike and cast into the Red Waiting Room (Purgatory). Mike however is changed when he sees the face of God. This is to imply that Gerard who is inhabited by his identical spirit is representative of Biblical Man who through the teachings of Christ (the face of God) is able to choose between good and evil.
The Arm in name only (the Arm admits to Cooper, "when you see me again it won't be me.") is therefore reminiscent of Gerard's body part which is torn asunder, but is actually the representation of an unbaptized aborted baby. When Cooper warns Laura not to take the Owl Cave Ring which The Arm offers her in a dream just prior to her murder, The Arm is depicted as a mock-representation of the Christ Child. The Owl Cave Ring he holds aloft inverted reflects a non-worldly marriage similar to the union of Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit, although it is anything but holy. The tiny cut on the arm's middle finger is a mock reflection of the blood of Christ which Cooper emulates in his trial in the Black Lodge, but is also representative of the blood of the aborted who reside in Purgatory, and in terms of The Arm's role in Twin Peaks the blood is reminiscent of his namesake's removal from the body of the One-Armed Man. The discarded Little Man From Another Place who calls himself the Arm's existence is therefore that of an unborn bastard child, created from a non-union as represented by the inverted ring, who was cast unborn into the Purgatory of the Red Waiting Room via an illegal abortion in Canada just prior to it's mother's death by medical complications.
While similar to the mythological Christ the Arm is not his representation, and although deceivingly Christ-like nor is the role Agent Cooper. Rather, the writers of Twin Peaks (in this case the executive producers and co-creators Mark Frost and David Lynch themselves) borrowed even more from the Dark Shadows character who inspired Twin Peaks' "Lucifer" Bob, that of the immaculately conceived reptile shape-shifting Leviathan leader Joseph/Alexander/Michael/Jebes, to create Twin Peaks' representation of the Antrichrist or "Little Horn".
Laura Palmer's confession to Agent Cooper in their shared dream that her father killed her is not Laura Palmer's deepest secret, nor is her deepest secret the fact that Leland repeatedly raped her until she died at age 17. The Log Lady, who translates messages from her Log which represents the wood of the crucifix, is perfectly aware of Laura's secret and approaches her about it just before Laura goes to Canada in Fire Walk With Me. On the doorstep to the Bang Bang Bar/Roadhouse where Laura will meet up with men who will take her across the border into Canada in Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks' version of Dark Shadows' Parallel Time, the Log Lady tells her
"When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy."
The fire which the Log Lady is referencing is not Laura's ongoing hedonistic lifestyle, which began well before and will continue for five days after her encounter with the Log Lady. The fire that is hard to put out and destroys first the tender boughs of innocence before jeopardizing all goodness which the Log Lady is referring to is the abortion that Laura is going to Canada to have which will remove the evidence of the incestuous relationship she shares with her father, and is reference to the Fire that Walks with Laura through her final days in the form of her undiagnosed internal bleeding from the botched nature of her illegal medical procedure.
The doppleganger of Leland with hands clasped as in prayer tells Cooper in the Purgatory of The Red Waiting Room, "I did not kill anybody" and this is a half truth, since we see Leland kill Teresa Banks in Fire Walk With Me and Madeline Ferguson in the series (while the murder of Teresa Banks may be attributed to Leland as Mike, since Gerard seems to have been in the vicinity of the crime, possibly during the time when he and Bob were still killing together). When Cooper dreams of meeting with Irene (another potential succubus) at Hap's Diner in his Deer Meadow Desmond persona, Irene's description of Banks' murder being a freak accident is a clue to the actual instance of the death of Laura Palmer. As Agent Rosenfield reports, Laura died from blood loss attributed to numerous shallow wounds, wounds which contrary to popular belief were not inflicted by Bob as Leland in the train car, but rather attributed to the botched abortion which led to fatal internal bleeding over the course of Laura's final days.
In this respect, the Arm's phrase, Laura's and Bob's quote, "Fire, walk with me" is reminiscent of Laura's gradual walking death. The Arm's phrase, "Let's Rock!" is a reference rocking a baby, as well as a reference to the stone set in the inverted Owl Cave ring and to his role as simultaneous unholy ring-bearer and bastard offspring to the unholy union of Laura and her father Leland. The Arm's phrase, "I've got good news" is a mockery of Christ's word and completely in line with his role as Antichrist in Twin Peaks. The Arm's phrase, "That gum you like is going to come back in style" is a clue to Cooper that he as the unborn child of Laura would also be aware of and experience the taste of Cooper's favorite Blackjack gum (probably to mask the smell and taste of coffee) when they kissed, implying that their kiss would come full circle when Cooper and Laura are received by an Angel from the White Lodge at the close of Fire Walk With Me.
The Arm provides clues to the description of Jacques Renault's cabin, leading Cooper to the discovery of the "Third Man" on the night of Laura's death but not to the discovery of her killer, in contradiction to what is almost unanimously surmised in popular Twin Peaks analysis. The killer of Laura Palmer was actually the unseen back-alley abortion doctor in Canada who she visits after talking to the Log Lady. The unseen killer of Laura and Leland's unborn child is foreshadowed by the act of Buck from the Bang Bang Bar going down on Laura under the table, and the unsanitary conditions which lead to her internal bleeding is further represented by the filth and grime on the floor of the Pink Room (which just as the Red Waiting Room is a euphemism for Lil's womb, is a euphemism for Laura's womb). Since Fire Walk With Me is the Parallel Time version of the last seven days of Laura Palmer, Ronette's exclamation during Buck's under-table maneuvering that it's just like she and Laura are "back at One Eyed Jacks", this would appear to indicate that the unseen fatal abortion in the universe of the series took place in a room at the Canadian brothel owned by the Horne brothers. This would explain Benjamin Horne's profound sadness and life changing resolutions that came about as a result of Laura's death.
Like the presence of Lil in Twin Peaks, the unborn child of Laura and Leland Palmer who personifies as the Antichrist character of The Little Man From Another Place who assumes the moniker The Arm, is along with the characters of Agent Cooper and Laura herself the third significant example of the personification of Christian mythology that is subtly interwoven into the entire fabric of Twin Peaks story, and without which the story appears to be simply a surreal yet unfinished soap opera. The wind that rises to fan the flames of Laura's fire is personified in Lil as Lilith whose name is synonymous with ancient forms of "owl", "water spirit", and "air" or "wind". The incubation that the succubus Lil provides The Arm is personified in The Red Waiting Room itself, the Purgatory of the Twin Peaks Passion Play. The red drapes which envelop the dimension are representations of Lil's womb and altered dress which, as it expands to incubate and retracts after delivery requires additional red thread to be altered. The zig zag lines of the floor of the Red Waiting Room are representative of the ripping out of condemning pages of Laura's diary, cuts of alteration on Lil's red dress, and also the severing of Laura and Leland's unborn child of incest from her womb: the multiple shallow wounds of which led to Laura's death by cumulative blood loss, and not blunt-force trauma as inflicted by Leland. The Arm and Laura's vague verbal and non-verbal responses to the question of their identities by Agent Cooper in the dream he shares with Laura ("She's my cousin", "I feel like I know her") are representational of the vague and enigmatic relationship the offspring of an incestuous impregnation has with it's parents. Lil's Blue Rose which the dreamself of Agent Cooper, Chester Desmond, incorrectly deciphers as only a code for drugs is more generally representative of an example of a non-existent life form, as roses are never blue. To all but Laura Palmer and Agent Dale Cooper, Laura's unborn child of her incestuous father is a non-existent life form, as subtlety included in and as relevant to the Twin Peaks storyline as the subtle inclusion of succubus Lil.
When in Laura's dream Cooper warns her not to take the inverted Owl Cave Ring, he is telling her not to carry her father's unborn child to term, the union from whence it was conceived is physically and metaphorically represented by the Owl Cave Ring. When in the dream she is reminded by Annie Blackburn that the Good Dale is in the Lodge and he can't leave, she is reminding Laura of the eternality of Heaven (The White Lodge) and Hell (The Black Lodge) without actually naming to Laura which Lodge the Good Dale will enter in the penultimate scene of the series. When in the dream she discovers the ring in her hand, she is horrified in a moment representational of the terror of discovering both she is pregnant with Leland's child and that the abortion of which will condemn her to the Red Waiting Room (Purgatory). When she focuses on the red rose hanging on her door, she is making up her mind to get an under-age abortion in Canada, and it is at this moment when Laura herself resigns her unborn child, represented by The Arm (The Antichrist of Twin Peaks' Passion Play), to the ranks of The Red Waiting Room (Purgatory) as well.
Seeing her own image in the painting depicting additional rooms of the Black Lodge (the dilapidated flower patterned walls of which are not as commonly believed in Twin Peaks fandom as the walls of the White Lodge since the White Lodge is described by Major Briggs as being immaculate) given to her by the benevolent succubus of Mrs. Tremond, Mrs. Chalfont, is representational of Laura's foreknowledge of the spiritual repercussions of what she is about to do. In keeping with the Christianity theme of Twin Peaks, from the threshold of the red curtained Purgatory, in the painting Laura views the void of the Black Lodge without entering, representational of her position in Purgatory after death following the infanticide she commits on the unborn child of her incestuous father.
Leland's desire to rip out certain pages of Laura's Diary was not only to cover up his incestuous behavior with Bob at the helm, but to destroy evidence of his having engaged in such behavior in times of her menstrual cycle when Laura was capable of getting pregnant. His scrawling the words "Fire, walk with me" on a fragment of those pages is a clue that although he beat her severely in the train car, it was actually the culmination of her internal bleeding that actually killed her. Thus, Leland's doppleganger in Purgatory was partially telling the truth to Cooper.
With the inclusion of both Lil and the inverted Owl Cave Ring of The Arm, the Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me is both Genesis and Revelation to the Passion Play of Twin Peaks. The Lilith of Genesis is the mythological descendent of an aspect of the ancient Triple Moon Goddes, and is personified through subtle actions of the succubus Lil in the Passion Play that is Twin Peaks. The constant reminder of Lil's presence in Twin Peaks can be found not only in the actions of the women possessed by succubi, but found also in the ever-present visual depiction of the moon hanging over Twin Peaks, which represents fertility and the feminine and is just as significant to the importance Laura Palmer's menstrual cycle holds to the story. Lil's one and only visible appearance in Twin Peaks is singularly
the most compelling evidence in favor of the Antichrist as personified by the Little Man From Another Place, and her mannerisms are completely misinterpreted by Agent Cooper's dreamself Agent Desmond. Lil's arm held aloft is representative of the name the Little Man From Another Place takes for himself, just as the patched hole in her altered dress represents Laura's abortion from whence the Arm as Antichrist was sprung.
Twin Peaks' openly pro-life stance in the love triangle of Deputy Andy Brennan, Lucy Moran, and Richard Tremayne is a clue to the overt Christianity of the series. Lucy and Andy's simultaneous profession of their Love for one another on the eve of the opening of the Lodges, is reflected in Laura and Cooper's eventual rescue to the White Lodge after waiting in the Red Room for twenty-five years, just as Annie Blackburn's fear in the face of Lucifer via Bob at the helm of Windom Earle opens the door to the Black Lodge. Similarly, Agent Cooper's Fear of the doppleganger that was created when he becomes an accomplice by proxy to the murder of Leland and Laura's unborn child, perhaps is what resigns him to join Laura in the Purgatory of the Red Waiting Room.
At any rate, it is the "Good Dale" who instructs Laura not to bear the child of her father who in the Red Waiting Room exists as an aborted Antichrist. However, if we are to draw the same comparison between The Arm and Bob that mythology would have us draw between the Antichrist and Satan, then possibly it is Agent Cooper himself who emerges from the Black Lodge as the Antichrist as controlled by Lucifer. If this interpretation is correct and I suspect it is, then Twin Peaks can only be viewed in terms of a literal doppleganger of a Passion Play as performed by actual living, breathing actors and not a figurative Passion set within the confines of a fictional narrative marriage of Peyton Place and Dark Shadows.
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