Was Judy Responsible for the Tragic Fate of Dale Cooper?
The one thing that I never saw coming with the final season was Sarah Palmer getting possessed. The one thing I couldn't figure out was who would want to take over her body from the Red Room or the Black Lodge, and it turned out to be one of the most powerful entities from the Black Lodge. We had witnessed her birth in episode 8 of the final season, when the entities from the Black Lodge were first created. One entity known as the Fireman headed over to a radio station to murder two people, and began to speak a poem over and over, to allow the possession of Sarah Palmer to take place. She was a young girl who unfortunately had her window open that night, not aware that a powerful entity was going to take over her body.
It all makes sense why Sarah Palmer had displayed signs of her strange abilities throughout the old seasons. I always questioned why she was born with her abilities, and how she was able to see entities from the Black Lodge. She was connected in some way, because Judy had possessed her for many years. Her abilities were deadly, and were finally shown in scary fashion when she took on a random guy in a bar who wouldn't stop hitting on her. She literally removed her face to show this guy what she looks like beneath Sarah's vessel, and then she removed part of his neck like it was nothing.
Judy had also been mentioned by Philip Jeffries, who had been played by David Bowie. He had warned the FBI agents about Judy's power, before he suddenly vanished, never to be seen again, until the final season, where he is now a gigantic tea kettle. (Why he turned into a tea kettle will forever remain a mystery to me, but that is Twin Peaks for you).
Toward the end of the show, we get an eerie glimpse of finding Judy's name on a diner sign. Dale Cooper had seen this sign in the alternate reality, when he was given permission by the Red Room to save Laura Palmer, to prevent her death in this new alternate reality. Dale Cooper heads over to the restaurant, learns where Laura is, and decides to bring her back to her old home where Sarah Palmer lived, to make her remember where she came from.
It doesn't go well, and once Laura hears her mother calling for her, the episode ends with Laura screaming in fear, and the lights go out in the neighborhood.
I think Judy had taken over this timeline, and I think the Red Room knew that Cooper's fate wasn't going to be good, depending on the decisions that he would make with Laura. His mistake was bringing her back to the house, because perhaps since he had been given his wish, he was never supposed to interact with her again.
Judy most likely knew that Dale Cooper wouldn't be able to resist bringing Laura back to Twin Peaks, and it led to a brutal fate for Cooper. Perhaps Judy didn't want to give him a happy ending, because of all the trouble he had put both the Red Room and the Black Lodge through. Come on, even his doppelganger refused to go back to where he came from, and I'm sure Judy wasn't happy about this development.
It's crazy how we barely got any scenes with Judy, but she was one of the scariest entities in Twin Peaks.
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