Laura Palmer’s famous “I’ll see you again in 25 years” line is seen as one of the final episode’s many cliffhangers but Laura and Cooper already met 25 years later… three weeks earlier. Cooper’s dream sequence in season 1, episode 3 (“Zen or Skills to Catch a Killer”) is a vision of their meeting “25 years later,” despite having occured three weeks before Cooper entered The Black Lodge. Time functions differently in The Black Lodge and in a non-linear fashion; this also explains how Annie Blackburn’s spirit visits Laura in Fire Walk with Me.
