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My theory on what happened. The fact that 25 years have passed has always been embedded in the story. Cooper AND Audrey both had to face that realization directly and it shattered them. • In Audrey’s final shot, one important aspect that seems to have been overlooked is that she is wearing no makeup. Every line of age is visible. The youthful vixen in the plaid skirt and red heels no longer exists. • Like us, Cooper fully expected Sarah Palmer to answer that door in the final shot. When Sarah does not (and it is instead answered by a woman we’ve never seen before and who has never heard of Sarah Palmer), he is as stunned by this as we are. I think Cooper staggers at the end and asks, “What year is it?” because, 1) it hits him that the world he knew 25 years ago is gone and 2) he realizes he fucked up as well. Bringing Carrie to that house was the worst thing he could do to her. He should have let sleeping ghosts lie. Both Audrey and Cooper lost 25 precious years of their lives-Cooper trapped in the lodge, Audrey possibly in a coma. Only faint echoes of the Twin Peaks universe they were once prominent in remain. The world has changed and moved on without them (and indeed, there are numerous clues scattered throughout that Cooper is now more and more in our reality -one with Wendy’s instead of the RR; with Valero gas stations instead of Big Ed’s; with Sunset Boulevard instead of Invitation to Love on the TV-than in the one comprised of electric dots on a TV screen in 1990-91). Lynch and Frost want us to confront this as well. It is clear they had zero interest in making this season a trip down memory lane. Lynch himself, at 72, turned and faced his 47-year-old self in the Monica Belucci dream.  You can’t exist in the past and you most certainly should not try to alter it. (I have heard some strong arguments for a more positive ending, but this was my initial reaction).