What was Audrey Horne's Fate at the End of Twin Peaks?
Audrey Horne makes a return to the stellar Twin Peaks: The Return, the final season of this fantastic series. Audrey Horne is given one of the saddest fates in the show, but I was also left confused with what her fate was supposed to represent. Audrey Horne is revealed to be married to a man that she is obviously unhappy with. His name is Charlie, and Audrey straight up admits that she is cheating on him with a guy named Billy, who is missing. She demands Charlie to help her look for him, but Charlie continues to complain about the situation, aggravating Audrey to the point that she attacks him in their home.
I guess that crazy encounter convinced Charlie to go to the Roadhouse with Audrey, and there is still some disdain between them when Audrey refused to toast her drink to their marriage. Then while Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam is performing, we get a strange scene with Audrey. The crowd clears the floor, announcing that they are about to watch Audrey's dance, from the original Twin Peaks. Audrey gets on the dance floor, slowly dancing to her song theme, until a fight suddenly breaks out. Audrey freaks out, and runs to her husband, demanding that she wants to go home.
Then we get a shocking reveal of Audrey facing a mirror, and she is in a white room. Audrey freaks out, wondering where she is.
There is one theory as to what I think happened to Audrey in The Return.
Audrey is still in her coma.
This does make a lot of sense, because in the ending of the original Twin Peaks, Audrey chains herself to a bank, that unexpectedly blows up. The characters in the show confirmed that Audrey was in the hospital, in a coma from this explosion. The characters never mentioned about her waking up from her coma. Ever.
We also get a scary confirmation about her old friend named Dale Cooper, who gets sucked into the a supernatural and dangerous place known as the Black Lodge toward the end of season 2, and only his evil doppelganger emerges from this realm. He pays a visit to Audrey's room, and we learn something extremely disturbing about this moment.
Audrey had a son named Richard Horne, who was the son of Cooper's doppelganger.
This was a terrifying and tragic reveal. Audrey never deserved something so awful to happen to her.
We also notice that Richard never bothered to mention if his mother ever woke up from her coma. What's crazy is that not even her father mentions Audrey too. Ever. You would assume Benjamin Horne would, since he did share a bond with his daughter, despite all of his evil wrong doings in her past life.
But he never mentions her once...unless Audrey is still in her coma.
Perhaps he blames himself for what happened to her. And maybe he is aware of how Richard was born, but again, he refuses to mention Audrey, out of extreme guilt of the crimes that were done to one of his children, that he deeply cared about.
It does explain why Audrey is trapped in a coma within her mind too, because of how Charlie's character is like. Audrey was failed by so many men in her life. Mr. C, who turned out to be an evil version of an old friend harmed her, her father did so many evil things when she was young, and she is tortured by a bad group of people that were connected to her father, and one of them turned out to be a dangerous man.
Perhaps her coma induced brain created Charlie, and he is a combination or an image of what Audrey was exposed to in her life.
That sudden moment of everyone clearing the floor for Audrey to have her moment was probably one of the few moments where she felt happy, but once again, a man interrupted her dance, and she ran to her husband for comfort, only to realize that she is trapped, in a place that she does not understand or is aware of.
The white room could represent the hospital room she is staying in, and it's awful to imagine if Audrey is going through a never-ending cycle of coming to the conclusion of her tragic fate.
It's a shame that Audrey will most likely stay in this paralysis state forever.
And it's even more tragic that Audrey never got to live her life.
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