I kept noticing that the chalkboard had this funky map of what looked like Twin Peaks. There's I think like three episodes where it's there and you keep wondering what it is and then when you see the glyphs there it's all so obvious! I just kept waiting for Andy to knock his head on the board and have it flip over to reveal the original map!

Before the petroglyph was discovered a normal map of the town can be seen drawn in the chalkboard. The explanation is that they were marking on the map all the places Laura visited hours before she died (such as Blue Pine Lodge for Josie's english lessons and of course Sparkwood and 21, Jacques cabin and the traincar). You can see those marks in the map and even a scene with Lucy holding a pointer...

However, it's clear that all the scenes regarding that were cut (though they are in the script).

It was obvious to me too, but I wasn't really surprised Cooper didn't get it.  

What I'm getting at is: is Cooper really that good? He's amazing in some respects, with razor-sharp insights. But he doesn't even really question Leland's bizarre behaviour, a lot of clues pass him by, and he needs a lot of help from the Giant to get to BOB, and then it's after he strikes again. Not really the pinnacle of detective work. Wouldn't it be standard procedure to check Leo's alibi for the night Teresa Banks was killed? Instead he researches Leo's illegal u-turns.

Cooper's detective work is wildly variable and unreliable, in my view. But that could be a thread in itself.

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

so where does this happen?

 I think that the major theme running through the entire series is the slow-but-steady deterioration of Cooper's mind.  McLaughlin (spelling?) does such a great job of subtley hinting at this throughout season two.  Cooper's loss of will doesn't occur entirely in the Lodge; it's a slow downhill slide from the moment he arrives in Twin Peaks.  You can really see how his detective skills dull with each passing episode.  I think it's really interesting to watch.

-- Gerry

the black dog runs at night

Geoff, that's from ep.8 in the scene where they are reconstructing Laura's murder and Andy gets mad at Albert. You can see on-screen Lucy with the pointer and (barely) the marks on the map.

Beware of BOB

When I call out no one can hear me,when I whisper he thinks the message is for him only..my little voice inside my throat,I always think there must be something that I've done or something I can do...But no one no one comes to help,he says,a little girl like you...

"watch out for my cousin.."

Created these on my computer with the DVD in the drive and used Windows Media Player Classic which is available for free on the web. Used their Save Image menu- this is as large as I could get the images with this save feature.

If someone can point me to a better shot of map 1 - tell me where it is and I'll make a new image. 

Cooper is Laura's compliment and they seem to have a psychic link even before her death and his arrival in town.  I think he falters somewhat in the second season because BOB is hovering about him just as he did with Laura.  With she and Leland gone, he sets in on Cooper and with that influence comes the same innate darkness in Cooper that's revealed in Laura and Leland--- some of which may not wholly be BOB's doing.  With Earle loose, the same dynamic that Laura experienced with Leland happens to Cooper:  a monstrous father/authority figure begins to merge with a nightmare abuser.

Got up early, found something's missing/ My only name/ No one else sees but I got stuck/ And soon forever came

Thanks for the great shot of the petroglyph/map! I've been looking for that. I believe The White Lodge is a seperate place in a different location, so I've been wanting to study the map to see if it might be there.

 Now that I look at it, there are several odd things on the map, but the most likely thing that would be The White Lodge is the symbol that looks like a "star" on the other side of the waterfall, a double circle with 8 rays.

 BTW, on IMDb I have 2 accounts, one called wallydanger, and the other is TheManWhoFellToEarth.

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 :)  When I was a lad, we called that action "gleeking."

Incidentally, here's a photo from LynchPosters of the actual cave painting before Andy did his "full scale rendering."  It's quite different in some places, as you can see.