@ScorpionQ2 said:

So how/why was both Leland and Cooper wearing the ring when it was shown that Bob was possessing them?

My guess is that those were Doppelgangers and not the real ones.

However, this brings up another question. What ARE Mike's intentions? He throws the ring to help Laura yet later we see him collecting (and demanding) a share of garmonbozia. So WTF? Is he a good guy or bad guy or WHAT?

I 'd say or WHAT because apparently I may not know anything.

LOL, hey man, your guess is as good as mine. :sm

@movie_nazi said:

My guess is that those were Doppelgangers and not the real ones.

LOL, hey man, your guess is as good as mine.

@Invidia said:

Special Agent ⦁ Chester Desmond: Found the ring where Mrs. Chalfont and her grandson lived at Fat Trout. He then disappeared shortly after to never be seen again.

Yeah, Where the hell is he?

Philip Gerard / ⦁ MIKE: Shows the ring on the little finger of his sole arm to Laura while yelling "it's your father." Throws the ring at Laura during BOB's ritual, causing the latter to kill her.

Which means the ring protects you from possession, right?

Laura Palmer: She felt numb in her left arm with the ring in her hand, when waking from the dream with the Man From Another Place mentioned above; the ring quickly disappears. She puts the ring on her left ring finger during BOB's ritual when MIKE throws it at her, forcing BOB to kill her. Bob put the letter "R" under her left ring fingernail.

Forcing? BOB kills her out of spite since he cannot possess her. Forced Leland, I would agree with but BOB was not "forced".

Annie: Had the ring on her left ring finger when returning from the Black Lodge.

Where is this scene?

A ⦁ nurse: Took the ring from an unconscious Annie and wore it on her left ring finger.

Annie was Cooper's ex lover right?

Dougie Jones: a decoy of ⦁ Cooper; wore the ring on his left ring finger and his left arm became numb. After being transported to the ⦁ Black Lodge, Dougie disintegrated into a gold bead, and the ring fell off his hand. MIKE picked up the ring and placed it on the table.

Who gave Dougie the ring? Did he have a dream about it as well?

The following peoples are also known to have been in contact with it at some point.

White Indians: A tribe living near what will be called White Tail Falls and where will be Twin Peaks. They gave three artifacts, including the ring to the Nez Perce tribe.

⦁ Chief ⦁ Twisted Hair: Chief of the Nez Perce, owned the ring in a leather pouch but knows that it should never be worn.

Meriweter Lewis: Was given the leather pouch by Twisted Hair. He shortly wore the ring near the area of the White Indians but after a psychedelic vision regretted doing so and destroyed his map.

Huh? Where did this info come from?

Major James Neely: Stole the ring from the leather pouch on Governor Lewis corpse. Disappeared from the public eye, maybe thanks to his relations with General James Wilkinson.

Aleister Crowley: Never explicitly said, but his pupil Jack Parsons who reenact his rituals wears the ring.

Jack Parsons: Wore the ring on his right ring finger. Was apparently in contact with the Lodge's spirits since he begins to say the Fire Walk with Me chant. Died in a fulminate of mercury explosion, maybe a double explosion and might be a "fire demon", his right arm was never found. Might have received the ring from his Thelema guru ⦁ Aleister Crowley, though never clearly implied.

WHAT? LOL Where the heck does this come from?! I'm intrigued to be sure as Parsons did indeed die in an explosion.

One also gets the feeling the current POTUS may have also worn it?

Don't get me started on that moron.

@Invidia said:

SOMETHING'S WRONG was also a phrase that we kept hearing a LOT in INLAND EMPIRE.

When we previously spoke of David Lynch movies ( that time I thought Naked Lunch was his confusing him with Cronenberg) I hadn't realized just how many of his movies I had seen, I already told you I saw Blue Velvet (for Kyle ) and recently TPFWWM.

I have also seen and did not realize at the time they were DL's:

Dune ( Kyle )

The Elephant Man

Mulholland DR.

Eraserhead

My list of David Lynch movies I'd like to see:

INLAND EMPIRE

Darkened Room

Lost Highway

The Alphabet

The Grandmother

Absurda

@Invidia said:

INLAND EMPIRE is my favorite FILM.

I knowww

TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN just became my FAVORITE TV SHOW (even though all I've seen are 2 EPISODES of it).

I it too.

IE is a tough story to comprehend. Most people also GIVE UP and don't bother spending the TIME that it takes to understand it.

I don't give up, I may still not understand it all - but I won't give up.

LYNCH also reveals where he got the idea for the WHITE HORSE in one of them.

In TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN there was a WHITE HORSE, that Cooper saw before he left the lodge. That stayed in my mind because I knew it meant something, but wondered what.

Anyhow, if you have any questions about IE just ask.

I sure will and thank you for the links