The Drugged-out Mother aka The 119 Lady.
I've been thinking a lot about her recently. She only does a few things. Drink booze, take pills, sleep, and yell out '119'. I wasn't the first to notice the objects on the table where we always see her sitting at. Two stand out immediately.
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Playing cards and a safety pin. When Mr. C shows Daria his ace of spades card, there are markings both above and below the ominous black figure. Those markings could easily be made by such a pin. If we assume this is not a coincidence, then what does it mean?
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When asked why the woman repeats "one-one-nine," Mark Frost stated in an interview that "The people who have one foot in the other world have a pronounced tendency to speak backwards."
Okay! Given that she is credited as Drugged-out Mother, could she be or some version of.. MOTHER? The Mother that American Girl is warning Coop about? The Mother in the Glass Box etc? Mark's clue is huge and the only thing we have outside the show itself.
The Vegas reality. I've continued to go back and forth on this. Is anything we are seeing in Vegas real? Why does The One Armed Man appear to Dougie and tell him to wake up and not to die. Don't die. Is Dougie in a coma? How long has Dougie been in a coma? Did he dream of being hit in the head with a baseball?
Could Vegas be a pocket reality? Or, as Mark Frost says - the 'Other World'? For Dougie, Vegas is one big training ground. Everybody is patient and oblivious to him seemingly having 10% of the I.Q. of Sonny Jim. People guide him back home. Some sort of Lodge Spirit guides him to the winning slot machines with the result of paying off his debts. The only issue with the Vegas pocket reality is that later on, some of the Vegas characters show up in Peaks after Coop wakes up.
119 is of course 911 backwards. Jade gives Dougie five dollars and tells him to call for help. 911 is literally someone calling for help. Is Drugged-out 'Mother' mocking Dougie? Or, is the purpose of 119 simply to counterpoint 911? If we fall down the Vegas pocket reality rabbit hole, it is interesting to note that 'Mother' drinks to excess just as Douglas Jones did. Is Drugged-out 'Mother' the diametric opposite of Dougie? Is she about to morph and wake up eventually as well? Is Vegas corrupting to Black Lodge spirits? Is Vegas mainly a friendly recuperating ground that the Black Lodge has trouble functioning in? After all, through electricity, Duncan Todd is instructed to contact Ike the Spike to kill both Dougie and Lorriene. Lorriene has a bizarre camera device lodged in the wall right behind her desk. Forces outside city limits utilize men and woman to do their bidding but seem unable to reside (effectively) within.
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