We're on the home stretch, friends.
Richard is Mister Cs son. Doesn't come entirely out of nowhere but it's great to see it confirmed. Sadly not much seems to come from it, seeing how all Mister C does is use him as a canary in the coalmine for what seems to be a trap that... someone set. Was it Mike? Jeffries? Both seem fairly likely. Welp, certainly both of them seemed to have had an intention of screwing him over. Either way, that's how that relationship ends. All things considered, Mister C isn't a particulary good father.
The whole Vegas subplot reached its climax, obviously. You know, it's obvious, now that I write it out but Hutch and Chantal were kind of a riff on Quentin Tarantino, weren't they? I mean, it seems obvious now, both having been in a bunch of Tarantino movies and sharing Tarantino dialogue but it was when Chantal kept putting her feet on Hutch's lap when I realized that that was the joke here. Anyway, their life ended like that of everyone else who made an attempt on Dougie's life: Unceremoniously. Also: This is how Lynch films an action sequence. How about that. Well, either way, the two of them went to the great Wendy's in heaven. They'll be dearly missed.
Guess who's back. Back again. Cooper's back. Tell a friend. What we've all been waiting for has finally happened, Dale came to his senses. And he's back in action right away. Now, here's what's interesting: He asked Mike to create another Tulpa. Now, chances are it's so that his new family doesn't have to be without a dad. Nevermind that he knows this, chances are he learned a thing or two while he was stuck in the black lodge, what's more important is that it implies that he doesn't expect to come back again.
And while we're on topic, Diane is a tupper aswell! Mister C violated her, took her to the lodge and had a tulpa created in her image to work for him. Didn't see that coming. So, what happened to the real one? And what exactly is the difference between a tulpa and a doppelg?nger? Presumably that doppelg?nger aren't artificially created, as far as we know.
Getting back to OG Cooper: He says his goodbyes to his loved ones. Him hugging Sonny Jim and Janey E was probably the fourth or fifth time I got a bit teary eyed watching this show. You know, unlike his doppelg?nger, real Coop is a fantastic dad. I might be imagining things here but fatherhood seems to be a bit of a theme in this episode. Not only between Mister C and Richard, slash Cooper and Sonny Jim, the act of creating a tulpa could be seen as a metaphor for that aswell. Does it mean anything? I don't know but at least it seems to be there.
Now, let's get to the ending. So, what was up with Audrey? Is Audrey really in the Roadhouse? Is the Roadhouse a real place? Is Audreay in a coma? In a mental institution? In the black lodge? I do wonder if the show's gonna follow up on that and I halfway expect it not to. Either way, the ending was freaking surreal and whatever Lynch was trying to communicate with it, it seem unlikely that Audrey and Charlie are actually in the Roadhouse.
