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David Lynch stated that when the series ended, he was not ready to leave Twin Peaks behind just yet. He was wanting to explore the Laura character more closely, and thus wrote this prequel exploring her life and the events leading to her death.

If Fire Walk With Me had made money, more movies would have followed which would have resolved the shows numerous cliffhangers. However, the film did not earn sufficient money to do so.

Despite being a prequel, the film does however offer an explanation of what happens to Dale Cooper at the end of the series. Because the events of the Black Lodge are non-linear, Annie Blackburn (Heather Graham) appears to Laura in her bed one night, telling her that "the good Dale" is trapped in the Black Lodge, can't leave, and that she should write this in her diary. This suggests that the Dale Cooper inhabited by BOB seen in the bathroom in the final episode of the series is the evil doppelganger that chases Cooper through the Black Lodge. It can also be surmised that in warning Laura, Annie was attempting to stop Dale Cooper becoming trapped in the Black Lodge in the first place. Alternately, it could be interpreted as a way by which Dale's plight could become known to Sheriff Truman, who was in possession of Laura's diary and could have eventually found this message, leading to the "real" Dale Cooper's rescue.

Most likely because they had little or nothing to do with Laura. However, most of the actors from the series did shoot cameos for the film. For issues of length, most of these cameos were removed, and have yet to be seen on any DVD release.

Fenn pulled out because of schedule conflicts; she apparently gave Lynch advance notice of her unavailability, as no scenes featuring Audrey Horne appear in the unabridged shooting script.

There has been much speculation as to why Lara Flynn Boyle pulled out. Most likely it was because of schedule conflicts, but it has been mentioned that she did not want to do the nudity which was required. In either case, she was recast with Moira Kelly.

Kyle MacLachlan did not want to appear initially, and later agreed to play a smaller part out of fear of being typecast. The original script featured Cooper going through the Deer Meadow investigation, and the Twin Peaks tie-in book, Autobiography of Dale Cooper, features a retelling of the Teresa Banks investigation from Dale Cooper's point of view.

Issue #60 of "Wrapped in Plastic," the semi-official Twin Peaks fanzine, featured an extensive essay by John Thorne which offered the theory that the first half-hour of the film is actually a part of the dream which Cooper mentions the first time we see him on-screen, and that Chet Desmond is actually a Doppelganger/stand-in for Cooper in this dream. By Thorne's admission, it proved to be extremely divisive amongst fans.

There is the point though that the two agents have the same initials, only reversed. Indeed, the town of Deer Meadow itself is like a reversal of Twin Peaks, with its corrupt police and old, unfriendly waitresses.

The monkey says "Judy," a call-back to earlier in the film when FBI Agent Jeffries walks into the office and says "We're not going to talk about Judy. We're not going to talk about her at all, we're going to leave her out of it," right before sharing his experiences in the Black Lodge. Like most story elements of Twin Peaks, there are as many theories as to what "Judy" means as there are people who saw it. Co-writer Robert Engels, in an interview with the Twin Peaks fanzine Wrapped in Plastic, stated that Judy was Josie Packard's sister, who was involved in dealings with Agent Jeffries and ex-agent Windom Earle in Buenos Aires, a plot thread that would've been expanded upon had there ever been any subsequent Twin Peaks movies.

Indeed you have. The drug dealer Bobby kills is in fact the Deer Meadow Deputy that had a run-in with Chet Desmond earlier in the film. The murder is only briefly referenced in the pilot, when James is telling Donna of his last night with Laura. There is no further explicit reference made to the event in the series, although curiously in one episode Bobby is seen briefly reaching out seemingly in desperation to a crucifix on a wall before being disturbed. It could also be inferred that Bobby's difficult relationship with his father Major Briggs during the series may have something to do with Bobby's angst over the murder, to which he cannot bring himself to confess.

Those who remember Agent Cooper's famous dream in the shows early episodes will remember that "Let's Rock" is the first thing that the Man From Another Place says to Cooper. This is how we know he is involved the events of the film

There are many theories. But one of the most popular is that it allows for the bearer to teleport through space and time. This explains why Agent Jefferies appears and then vanishes from the FBI office, why Chet Desmond vanishes after taking it, why Cooper is able to communicate with Laura in the Black Lodge and how Annie is able to tell Laura about Cooper being stranded in the lodge.

Another theory is that the ring protects the wearer from being inhabited by Bob's spirit.

Another possible theory is that the ring is a physical reference to the events of Twin Peaks being caught in a circle, or ring, and destined to repeat themselves. This may be connected to the fact that Dale Cooper is trapped in the Black Lodge, where events are non-linear.This is actually suggested in the final episode of the TV series, where a scene between Bobby and Shelly at the Double-R diner plays out exactly the same as a scene in the pilot. Another reference to this idea comes from a line of dialogue spoken by the Man From Another Place, cut from the film's convenience store scene: "And everything will proceed cyclically."

While the choice of this particular sound is, like so many things connected with Twin Peaks, wrapped in an enigma, the association of a sound with this character serves to clue the audience in on his presence at multiple points in the film. Both Chet Desmond and Dale Cooper seem to hear the sound emanating from the electrical pole in the trailer park where Teresa Banks had lived (another likely example of Lynch's oft-used association between electricity and spirit phenomena). Laura Palmer hears the sound reverberating through her house following her dream, and it is also heard as the One-Armed Man chases down Leland at the intersection, indicating that he is possessed by the Man From Another Place, who is addressing BOB, not Leland himself, in his ensuing spiel.

In the theatrical cut of the film, he simply vanishes; it's not said where he goes or why, although a scene in the shooting script has him re-appearing in a hotel in Buenos Aires seconds later.

In the film, just before Phillip Jeffries appears in the FBI office, there is a scene where Cooper looks into a security camera in an adjacent corridor, then goes into the nearby security office to look at the camera's live monitor, showing the empty corridor where Cooper was just standing. He repeats this action several times, for apparently no reason. Then the seemingly impossible happens - Cooper sees himself on the monitor. On reviewing the footage after Jeffries disappears, Cooper sees the former FBI agent in the corridor moving past him, which did not happen.

Effectively, Cooper just for the moment that Jeffries arrives appears to be in two places at once. This references the fact that Cooper is also in the Black Lodge, (which Jeffries has visited) where events are non-linear. It could therefore be inferred that the Cooper on the monitor with Jeffries is in fact the Black Lodge version of Cooper trying to communicate with him.

Garmonbozia is the physical manifestation of people's pain and suffering and is represented by creamed corn, which the Little Man From Another Place then consumes. BOB, apparently, is responsible for obtaining garmonbozia for the Lodge inhabitants to dine on (in the series, Mike informs Cooper that BOB was his "familiar," a term used to denote an evil spirit which is enslaved by a human being well versed in magic). However, BOB went rogue at some point and stole a quantity of garmonbozia belonging to Mike/The Man From Another Place. Thus, the conflict between the two spirits arises from Mike/MFAP trying to reclaim their share of human pain and suffering for them to dine upon.

Formica is a brand of plastic, often used to make kitchen table tops.

"And Miss, the look on her face...there was a stillness. Like a formica table..." -Mike, the One-Armed Man. Take from that what you will.

No, not directly. Chet Desmond states only that "I can't tell you about that." Later, after Desmond vanishes, Cooper says to Diane, "This is one of Gordon's blue rose cases." The most common theory is that the blue rose is Gordon's way of telling agents that a case is somewhat of an "X-File," meaning that it involves unexplainable phenomena (as a blue rose is not a naturally ocurring phenomenon). The term "blue rose" could possibly refer to Project Blue Book, discussed in the series, which deals with the investigations of UFOs.

For those unfamiliar with the show, Garland Briggs, Bobby's father, is a Major in the US Air Force, and worked on Project Blue Book sometime between the 1970s and the start of the series. In the second season, he presents Cooper with a top-secret transcription of a transmission that the Air Force picked up, which is encoded with Cooper's name and a phrase spoken to him during a vision of one of the Lodge Spirits. Briggs informs Cooper that the Air Force did not pick up the transmission from space, but rather from the woods outside Twin Peaks. The source is apparently the Black Lodge.

Some fans have used this to argue that Gordon himself is familiar with the Black Lodge and the rose is his warning to agents (a theory which seems to be disproven by Cooper's lack of knowledge of the Lodge). Others have just stated that he is simply saying there are elements to a case that can't be rationally explained.

Many fans have said that it is David Lynch making a joke out of the fact that Twin Peaks fans will try to examine each and every small detail of the show to decipher the unanswered plot details. Dialogue from the shooting script (missing from the film) has Agents Desmond and Stanley talking about it, with Desmond saying that Gordon is just being cautious because he talks so loud, on top of the fact that he just enjoys using code for the fun of it.

Since the film's release in 1992, there have been many petitions and movements to try and get a new DVD with the missing footage produced. David Lynch has stated many times that he is keen, but he does not want to extend the film, just include the extra scenes as a bonus feature on a new DVD Special Edition.

In November 2008, David Lynch stated in an interview with WYNC.org that he had spoken to MK2 in France, (who hold the rights to the footage) on several occasions, the last being only two months previously. He said there were at least 17 scenes he wanted to utilise, but that the current financial crisis may put things on hold for a while.

There has also been word of film crews having been spotted at film festivals shooting new interviews with Twin Peaks cast members. There is also rumor that a crew has been hired to edit together new featurettes and documentaries for a new DVD of Fire Walk With Me down the track.