Audrey Horne's (Sherilyn Fenn) initial absence from Twin Peaks season 3 prompted a lot of questions from the show's fans, after we had last seen her in a coma following season 2's bank vault explosion.
We finally saw her in 'Part 12', demanding that her husband Charlie help her track down her missing lover Billy. Her confused appearance, and the revelation she was married to a character fans had never heard of, meant matters were certainly not clearer.
Then, in 'Part 16', she was seen performing a variation on her dance to 'Audrey's Theme' from the original series, before suddenly waking up and screaming in an all-white room as she looked at herself in a mirror.
All confusing so far.
But now the show's co-writer Mark Frost has given us more details about exactly happened to her, in his new book Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (via Vulture).
He reveals Audrey did end up in a coma after the explosion at the bank vault, but woke up after three and a half weeks. During the time she was unconscious, she was raped by Cooper's doppelgänger and fell pregnant with his son.
Those events prevented her from returning to her normal life attending high school, but she eventually gained a diploma and opened up a beauty salon in Twin Peaks.
When her son Richard turned 10, Audrey married her accountant "without warning" – presumably Charlie, who we met in Twin Peaks: The Return.
(Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost)
FBI files state "witnesses close to the situation suggest that this was more of a marriage of financial convenience than affection" as Audrey continued with her life – but then, out of the blue, she closed her salon and disappeared without a trace.
The files continue: "[Audrey] seemed to vanish from public life, into agoraphobic seclusion, or, one troubling rumor suggests, a private care facility. The Horne family spokesperson has refused to respond to all inquiries regarding her whereabouts."
No more details are provided but it isn't a stretch to conclude that "private care facility" is the white room where we saw Audrey break down, seemingly unable to get over her rape and raising the evil Richard.
After Twin Peaks: The Return ended with one of the biggest cliffhangers a TV show has ever seen, Frost has revealed he is thinking about stories for a possible season 4.
That's more encouraging than David Lynch's recent insistence that there have been "zero talks" about making more Twin Peaks.
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier is already available in the US and is released today in the UK. Listen to an excerpt below:
