Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is enigmatic even for the standards of the late, great David Lynch, and sort-of introduces audiences to the character of Judy.
Judy is first mentioned by Special Agent Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) during his memorable scene at the FBI regional headquarters in Philadelphia, where he rocks up and immediately starts insisting that he won’t be talking about Judy.
With that Jeffries vanishes, and that’s the last direct word we hear about Judy in the film, who is never once elaborated upon or physically seen.
The implication is that Judy is a malevolent force of some kind, and while Lynch’s sequel series Twin Peaks: The Return continued to follow the Judy thread, we never got explicit confirmation that any of the entities seen throughout the series were 100% Judy.
And now that Lynch has tragically passed, in turn bringing the possibility of future Twin Peaks stories to an end, her concrete appearance will remain a mystery forevermore. Then again, that eerie uncertainty possesses its own kind of staying power.
