Ok, I just got through season 2 for the first time.  So there is a jumble of information in my head.  My question is, in ep.29, when Jacoby and Mrs. Palmer enter the diner and talk to Major Briggs...who is talking through Mrs. Palmer and how is this possible? Remember she says "I'm in the black lodge with Agent Cooper...etc"  I have watched ep.29 twice looking for the answer, but nothing.  Do you think it was something set up for season 3?  Any help would be great.  Thanks

Thats a goopd point. I wonder how Earle was able to do that though??? Maybe it was going to be revealed in Season 3. Anyone else got any idea???

I'd say the fact that he's in The Lodge would explain it pretty much -

however I do wonder what the connection is exactly between this and whatever it was that happened before - the German girl comes in and says she has car trouble or something, Bobby & Shelly say too busy jumpstarting the old man...[b]again[/b] - which I'd think would indicate some sort of re-occurance, but I don't remember anything special happenning 'before' [I can't remember where it's from, the pilot, I think?]

That scene with Heidi is almost exactly like one from the Pilot... Same dialogue, same Heidi's laugh,... A nice artistic touch from Lynch to say that the circle is completed, closed. One of the last scenes with Josie also is a replica of the first one seen in the Pilot, with her looking at the mirror...

Though Earle is a good candidate, there's also evidence that the LMFAP is the one speaking through Sarah... He is the one who we inmediately see in "the Black Lodge with Agent Cooper" and the voice we hear saying "I'm waiting for you" sounds like his... Besides, if the Giant instead of using a human vessel to communicate with Coop used some kind of 'medium' (Droolcup), it's very possible that the LMFAP was using someone like Sarah... But as I said Earle is a good candidate too, the quick shot of his face over Laura's dopp looks like an indication that after all, before being 'owned' by BOB he managed to control some of the BL power... He seems to be in control of Annie too...

Earle has a motive to get Briggs into the lodge... a sort of project blue book showdown.  LMFAP has no reason to contact Briggs that I can see.  Especially given the timing, I think it is almost certainly Earle speaking.

Good call, he would have been pissed after Leo let Briggs go. Earl would've wanted to finish him off for sure.

The voice that says "I'm waiting for you" sounds exactly like the voice of Windom Earl when he talks in the Black Lodge to Agent Cooper.