When broken out, these coordinates read 48.551420, -117.163956

Messing around in Google Maps, I thought I would have some nerd fun and punched in the coordinates that tulpa-Diane texts Mr. C in episode 16 just to see what spot might show up. Here is what popped up:

Somebody appears to have enshrined a searchable location in Google Maps for a “Twin Peaks Inter-Dimensional Portal” using these same coordinates as the pinpoint.

These coordinates have been Twin Peaks: The Return’s MacGuffin all season long. Mr. C now finally has them in his possession. As do we, the viewer, to use and explore with as we please. Once received, I think we can assume this is where Mr. C immediately (and creepily) marches towards near the beginning of episode 17:

These coordinates also appears to be the exact same location in Episode 14 where Sheriff Frank Truman and gang discover Naido after using Major Briggs’s esoteric puzzle-map to guide them, rather than specific decimal coordinates. Andy is then sucked up into the swirling vortex straight to a meeting with the Giant (aka The Fireman aka ???????). I think it is safe to assume that this is a portal to the White Lodge, just how the center of Glastonbury Grove is already known to be a portal to the Black Lodge.

Not to get too on a tangent, but based on a number of clues throughout the season, I do believe that Mr. C’s ultimate quest was to infiltrate the White Lodge in order to conquer its domain for the purpose of infinite destruction. With no good left to balance evil, BOB and the Woodsmen would have free reign. As Windom Earle once told before his misguided and fatal attempt to wield the power of the Black Lodge as a weapon, “if harnessed, these spirits in this hidden land… will offer up a power so vast that its bearer might reorder the Earth itself to his liking.” But, like Earle in the Black Lodge, Mr. C is similarly thwarted and bested by forces beyond his understanding, but here by the powers of the White Lodge. The spirits are immediately aware of his presence at the entrance of the portal, vacuum him up straight into a spirit cage, then transport him via their magical tubes to the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station, delivering him straight to the only (White Lodge-created deus ex machina) weapon that can vanquish him — Freddy and his Green Glove.

In any event, in episode 18, after Agent Cooper’s hop, skip and a jump through many inter-dimensional layers (the basement of the Great Northern, The Dutchman’s Motel to visit Jeffries, time travelling through the woods of Twin Peaks, the Black Lodge, etc.), he finally emerges back in the real world in Glastonbury Grove, where Diane happens to be waiting for him. Although we don’t have precise, findable coordinates for Glastonbury Grove, I think it is safe to assume it lies within just a few miles (perhaps exactly 3?) from the White Lodge portal, since we know both entrances reside within the boundaries of Twin Peaks.

Diane and Cooper then head out on a long car ride. We’re not exactly clear where they are going or what their quest may be. We only know they want to “cross” over into somewhere, and its entrance is precisely 430 miles from where they left.

So I got to thinking, since we have a real set of findable coordinates, what real place could be a 430 mile car journey from where they left? After a trial and error narrowing down of the precise mile count on Google Maps, enter:

THREE FORKS, MONTANA

I hope the car radio was working.

As you can see, Three Forks, MT is just about 430 miles from the Diane coordinates. This is so appropriate of a name, I can’t believe it could just be a coincidence. Especially since it’s relatively near Missoula, David Lynch’s hometown, he was likely already aware of its existence and found the name so inspired and fitting to one of the themes of The Return, he couldn’t help but include it as an easter egg.

3 Forks = 3 Coopers

Throughout this entire season, Cooper has been on three simultaneous paths (or better — down three forks in the road): Mr. C, Dougie, and Agent Dale Cooper. Once Cooper crosses over this threshold into Odessa, he seems to acquire a strange, new 4th persona. These three Coopers appear to have now coalesced into one entity — Richard. It is almost like he has gone backwards from three forks into one definitive path. We’re certainly not unfamiliar with backwards motifs in the world of Twin Peaks.

And finally, let’s not forget what tool Cooper used to shock himself back into normalcy — that’s right, a FORK.

Cue “Dance of the Dream Man”

Check back for my next post where I further explore this theme of 3's and trinity.