Remedy Leisure’s video games have at all times been impressed by the late, nice filmmaker David Lynch, who handed away in January 2025. Finest identified for the influential muder thriller collection Twin Peaks and cult traditional thriller Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s penchant for merging surrealism with horror and absurism made him iconic as a director and screenwriter. These inspirations are clearly seen in 2019’s Control and particularly in 2023’s Alan Wake 2. Now, Remedy’s newest sport Control Resonant options an Easter egg that pays tribute to him with one in every of the strongest quotes from Twin Peaks.
All through the open zones in Control Resonant, you may discover tons of particulars in the setting that construct up its fictional model of New York Metropolis. One is a movie show with a marquee exterior that reads: “NOW PLAYING: FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE.”
It is a reference to a line from 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return in which the character Gordon Cole (performed by David Lynch himself) says the following to his transgender colleague Denise Bryson (performed by David Duchovny):
“After I had you working undercover at the DEA, you had been a confused and wild factor generally. I had sufficient filth on you to fill the Grand Canyon. And I by no means used a spoonful since you had been and are an awesome agent. And once you turned Denise, I advised all of your colleagues, these clown comics, to repair their hearts or die.”
Thus, the phrase “repair your coronary heart or die” had turn out to be an iconic line not solely in the Twin Peaks pantheon, highlighting the convictions of Lynch’s character, but additionally a motto and rallying cry for transgender people and in trans rights activism.
Bryson’s depictation in the totality of Twin Peaks is not with out its problematic tropes, particularly in the unique 1990-1991 run, however Lynch’s character (and Lynch himself) made it some extent to make a press release towards transphobia outright. And that resonated with many trans individuals.
It is very nice to see Remedy, by means of Control Resonant, pay homage to one in every of its greatest influences, but additionally make reference to a particular quote that now serves a particular objective.
Be sure you take a look at my Control Resonant evaluate, which I scored an 8, saying, “Even when fight’s sharp edge finally dulls, Control Resonant is a superb addition to the Remedyverse. Whereas its story follows a extra commonplace framework, its gravitational pull is in the ingenious world constructed round it and the humanization that grounds the paranatural intrigue.” It revealed on September 18, 2026, and in case you can imagine it, that is a Friday as soon as once more.