Here, in a moutaintop castle (the design of which wouldn't be out of place in an UFA-produced German silent), lives the Giant aka ? (Carel Struycken) and a female companion, decked out in full 1920s finery, named Senorita Dido (Joy Nash)-likely a reference to the founding queen of Carthage, though she's a Lynch creation first and foremost, equal parts Princess Irulan from Dune, the radiator lady in Eraserhead and the catbird-seated Club Silencio socialite from Mulholland Drive. Eventually, a suspended body-a female form called simply Experiment (Erica Eynon), which devoured the unlucky voyeur couple, Sam (Ben Rosenfield) and Tracey (Madeline Zima), in Part 1-materializes and vomits up a stream of what looks like the Black Lodge life essence, garmonbozia, inside of which is a cell containing BOB.įor every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: Within the roiling universe of this exploded atom bomb is an entrance to the purple ocean world that the good Cooper discovered in Part 3. I think you say 'convenience store.' We lived above it." Note, of course, that the building has no "above" where a room could be.) A gaggle of the ghostly Woodsmen amble around in herky-jerky motion, as if film frames were being skipped (though there's no celluloid involved in this production). (His exact words: "We lived among the people. Out of the flames and molecular breakdown of the atom bomb arises the "Convenience Store" that MIKE, the One-Armed Man (Al Strobel), referenced in the original series's third installment, in a scene edited down from the international version of the "Pilot" episode.
Fire walk with me: For a dialogue-free half-hour, Lynch visualizes the birth of the Black Lodge and Killer BOB.