F24. What is the significance of the blue rose?
As the only part of Gordon Cole's code not explained by
Desmond (see question F12), we can only speculate that Cole
uses that code for cases involving supernatural events. It
is not made clear whether Cole has previously encountered
the Lodges or their inhabitants.
Since there is no such thing as a blue rose in nature, it
could represent cases which cannot be rationally or
scientifically explained, the "impossible" cases.
It could also be a reference to cases involving (or
seemingly involving) UFOs, as part of "Project Bluebook"
referred to by Major Briggs and Windom Earle.
According to Greg Olsen, the Film Curator at the Seattle Art
Museum, the street on which Lynch lives in Los Angeles,
happens to be named Blue Rose Street.
It has also been suggested that it is another movie
reference to one of the Steeve Reeves "Hercules" movies of
the '60s, in which Hercules' task was to obtain a blue
rose.
Yet another movie reference is "The Brotherhood of the
Rose", a movie starring Robert Mitchum who played a high
ranking military official who kept roses in his spare time.
During the course of the film, he breeds a blue rose.
