TWIN PEAKS EPISODE GUIDE

EPISODE 7 (SOON)

2010-03-30T16:41:00.001-07:00

Episode 8 (In Progress)

2010-02-15T11:29:00.000-08:00

Cooper is on his back, with bullet wounds visible on his shirt front. Andy can be heard over the phone. A room service waiter enters with the warm milk. The waiter puts the milk on the table and hangs up the phone and flashes a thumbs-up sign before leaving. A bright light shines on Cooper as a giant appears in the room. The giant says, “I will tell you three
things... There’s a man in a smiling bag... The owl’s are not what they seem... Without chemicals he points.” He takes Cooper’s ring and says he’ll return it when Cooper finds these things to be true. Before he disappears he says, “One last thing. Leo locked inside a Hungry Horse. There’s a clue at Leo’s house...”

At One-Eyed Jack’s Ben enters Audrey’s room to see the new girl. Audrey hides behind the bed curtains and fights his attempts to open them. Jerry visits Blackie’s office and asks for Ben. Ben’s attempt to uncover Audrey is interrupted by Jerry who says there’s a snag. Ben leaves.

Cooper tells Diane about his being shot. Cooper realizes his ring is gone. Hawk, Truman, and Andy
enter.

At the hospital Dr. Hayward, Truman, and Lucy are at Cooper’s side. Dr. Hayward shows him the bullet with a tick stuck on it. Lucy brings him up-to-date. Cooper insists on getting up. In her hospital bedroom Shelly watches a TV reporter describes the mill fire as mysterious. She cries. Cooper, now dressed, sees Jacques Renault wheeled through the corridor in a body bag and asks if the bag is smiling. Ronette Pulaski dreams and mutters “Laura.”

At the Palmer house Maddy tells Sarah she dreamed about the rug. Suddenly white-haired Leland begins to sing “Mairsie Doats.” When he and Sarah leave, Maddy sees a red stain spread across the rug. She screams.

At the hotel Ben and Jerry discuss the night’s events. Leland enters, still singing “Mairsie Doats.” Ben and Jerry dance. Leland says he’s back and ready.

In Leo’s house Cooper reconstructs the shooting and says Leo was shot while attempting to hit someone with an axe. Outside Andy sees Albert’s team arrive and calls to Harry. He steps on a loose board that hits him in the face. He dances around and staggers, laughing. Truman looks under the board and finds a boot and a lot of cocaine.

At the Double RR Maddy sits in a booth. Donna, wearing her hair down and looking very intense, joins Maddy.
Maddy gives her Laura’s sunglasses then shows Donna her own plain glasses before she breaks them. Donna says James spent the night in jail but not because of what they did. She tells Maddy to keep quiet about last night. Maddy tells Donna about Leland’s hair turning white. Norma comes over and gives a note to Donna that came to the RR addressed to her. The note says, “Look into the meals on wheels.” In a back booth the log lady sits chewing gum. She spits it out and drinks from her cup.

At the sheriff’s office, Albert tells Cooper that he was sent by Gordon Cole. He tells Cooper that he was shot by a right -handed person 5’-6” to 5’-10” tall at a distance of less than 3 feet. Andy enters and tells them he called Hungry Horse, Montana and learned Leo was in Jail there on February 9, 1988, the night Teresa Banks was murdered.

Mike Gerrard, the one-armed man, enters the building and tells Lucy he’s there to sell shoes to Truman. Truman talks to James Hurley about the tape he took from Jacoby’s house. James says that Laura talked on the tape about a mystery man and that he thinks the man was not Leo Johnson or Jacques Renault. He describes a scary poem about fire that Laura recited before she asked him, “would you like to play with fire, little boy? Would you like to play with Bob.” Cooper asks James for the other half of Laura’s heart necklace. James gives it to him and explains that he found it in a coconut in Jacoby’s
office.

Donna visits James’ cell. James tells her he didn’t tell about her and Maddy. She kisses him and he resists. Cooper asks Lucy and Andy with searching through every edition of “Fleshworld” published in the last 3 years for an ad with Teresa Bank’s photo.

At the hospital Dr. Hayward asks if Jacoby is on something and the nurse explains that he did take some of his food. On Cooper’s prodding, Jacoby explains that he dug up the necklace after following Donna and James. He saw them bury the necklace and dug it up later as a keepsake. He says Laura was living a double life and had decided to end it by letting herself be killed. He didn’t see anything when Jacques was killed but did hear a fire alarm and smelled something like scorched engine oil. Bobby visits Shelly. He tastes her food and moves it away in disgust. After kissing her he tells her there are cops in Leo’s room. Shelly tells him about Leo trying to burn her in the mill. Bobby plays doctor. Before he leaves they declare their love for each other. Cooper, Truman, and Albert see Bobby leave. They encounter Ed outside Nadine’s room. Ed explains how he came to marry Nadine after he thought Norma had ditched him for Hank. He describes accidentally shooting out Nadine’s eye when they hunted pheasant on their honeymoon. Albert can barely restrain his laughter. Albert discard his coffee after tasting it.
Cooper sees a smiling bag, a body bag drying over a sink. An angry doctor tells a nurse to speak to the kitchen about the food. Pete, in a hospital bed, smells his gurgling dinner and reacts violently. He pushes the food away. As Norma leaves Shelly’s room she says she’ll return with soup because the “food in these places will kill you faster than most diseases.” Shelly asks for pie and Norma promises to bring a chocolate peanut butter pie. As she leaves, Norma looks in through the door of Nadine’s room and sees Ed holding the unconscious Nadine’s hand.

Bobby enters the Double RR Cafe and sits at the counter. His father calls him over to join him in a booth. Bobby asks what his father does, and Major Briggs says it’s classified. Then the Major tells him about a vision he had about visiting a palazzo in which he’d been born and raised and seeing his son there, happy and carefree and clearly living a life of deep harmony and joy. Bobby is genuinely touched by the story. Norma enters and won’t talk to Hank. Hank shrugs towards Bobby. Bobby recalls seeing Hank shoot Leo.

At the sheriff’s office Cooper and Albert recapitulate the events to Lucy, Hawk, Andy, and Truman. Cooper believes Laura had two appointments on the night of her death; she planned to see James Hurley to tell him she didn’t want to see him anymore and she got a call from Leo before she left the house. After leaving James and Sparkwood and 21 she met Leo, Jacques, and Ronette in the woods. They went to Jacques’ cabin at 1:00AM for drugs and sex. Laura was tied up and had sex with Leo
and Jacques. Waldo attacked Laura. Jacques and Leo fought and Jacques went outside and passed out. They think Leo hiked to his Corvette and left the girls alone. A third man, of which Hawk found evidence outside the window of Jacques’ cabin, took both girls to the train car, tied both up, struck Ronette and knocked her out, and was so intent on killing Laura that he didn’t notice or care about Ronette’s escape. He put the “R” under Laura’s fingernail just as he’d put a “T” under Teresa Bank’s
fingernail. He left a note in his own blood, a rare type AB negative that does not match Leo’s, Jacques’, Laura’s, or Ronette’s. Albert and Andy have words when Andy starts crying.

At the Mill, Truman has brought Pete home. Pete has mail, a note from Josie a bout her being in Seattle on business. Pete tells Truman that Josie goes to Seattle every three months but that he thinks the business is shopping. Truman tells Pete that they haven’t found Catherine and to be prepared for the worst. The phone rings. An Asian man asks for Josie.

At the Great Northern the Asian man hangs up and then places a collect call to Hong Kong. Ben and Jerry talk with Hank Jennings. Hank says that Josie left last night to distance herself from the fire. Hank describes shooting Leo. Jerry questions Leo’s chopping wood inside the house. Hank thinks Catherine burned in the fire. Ben and Jerry are pleased that the arson will get blamed on Leo and Catherine.

Blackie threatens Audrey because she turned down the owner. Blackie wants no more complaints
about Audrey.

It’s a rainy night. Donna calls Norma about meals on wheels and says she’ll take over Laura’s route. She asks to use the RR station wagon. Leland, Sarah, and Maddy visit the Haywards for dinner. Gersten, their youngest daughter plays the
piano while Harriet recites a poem about Laura. Donna tells Maddy she’ll start Meals on Wheels tomorrow. Leland wants to sing and asks Gersten to play “Get Happy.” Leland’s singing gets frantic and then he collapses. Dr. Hayward says it’s nothing serious.

At 11:55PM, 19 hours since the shooting, Cooper, in bed, dictates to Diane about sleep deprivation and his thinking he saw a giant last night. He turns out the light.

At One-eyed Jacks Audrey lies in bed and “pray” to her “special agent.” Audrey says she’s in over her head and needs guidance.

The giant appears in Cooper’s room and tells Cooper not to search for all the answers at once. He says, “One person saw the third man. Three have seen him, yes, but not his body. One only, known to you, ready now to talk. One more thing...you forgot something.”The bright light goes out as the giant vanishes.

In the hospital, Ronette dreams, struggles and fights. At the railroad car Bob howls next to the body. He runs through a door yelling. Laura screams. Her teeth are discolored. Bob hacks at something. Laura is dead. Bob is crying and howling over the body.

EPISODE 9

2009-11-12T17:26:00.001-08:00

Act 1: During breakfast Cooper explains Buddhist Tibetan traditions and history to an uninterested Albert. Albert tells him the results of Jacques Renault’s autopsy. Albert says that Jacques was snuffed with a pillow. The killer wore gloves and the tape used to bind his wrists was stolen from a hospital supply cabinet. Albert says the mill fire was arson, Leo the prime suspect. Albert reports that Windom Earle, Cooper’s former partner, who retired to the local funny farm, has vanished into thin air. The Asian man is reading the paper and watching Cooper intently.

Donna carries a tray of food to bed ridden Mrs. Tremond. There’s a little boy wearing a jacket and bow tie seated near the door. Creamed corn disappears from the food tray and appears in the boy’s hands. Mrs. Tremond says “my grandson is studying magic. ”Mrs. Tremond denies knowing Laura well. She suggests that she ask Mr. Smith, next door. “He was Laura’s friend. Mr. Smith never leaves the house.” The boy adds (in french), “I am a lonely soul.” Donna goes next door, knocks, then leaves a note.

In Ronette’s room, Harry and Cooper read the instructions before adjusting the stools, then sit next to Ronette’s bed. Ronette denies that Leo was the man that hurt her. When he shows her the sketch of Bob, Ronette reacts violently.

Jerry and Ben debate the merits of burning the real or the faked ledger and decide to toast marshmallows instead.

Act 2: At the Double RR Andy is having trouble taping the sketch of Bob captioned “Have you seen this man?” to the front door. The Log lady enters and sits at the counter next to Major Briggs. Norma asks the Log Lady to spit her gum in an ashtray rather than on the counter. The Log Lady tells the Major that her log has something to tell him: “Deliver the message.” The Major says he understands.

At the sheriff’s office Andy tells Lucy that when he had applied as a donor to the Tacoma Sperm Bank and they told him he was sterile and could never have babies so now he wants to know why Lucy is having one and how. In the sheriff’s office Truman has Hank sign-in and tells him to keep his nose clean for another week. After Hank leaves Truman tells Cooper he and Hank grew up together and that Hank used to be a Book House boy - one of the best. Ben Horne phones and reports that Audrey has been missing for two days.

Act 3: Jerry brings the unsigned insurance policy to Ben and explains that Catherine wouldn’t sign it because of concerns about the beneficiary being Josie. They decide to call the Icelanders. Leland enters. Einar tells Ben that Leland had called to tell him about the fire. Ben and Jerry calm Einar down. Ben suggests that Leland confine his activities to preparing his tax return. Leland sees a copy of the sketch of Bob and says that he knows the man as the man who lived next door to his grandfather’s summer house at Pearl Lakes when he was a little boy. He leaves to tell the sheriff. Leland asks Jerry
to please, kill Leland.

At the hospital Dr. Hayward shows Leo to Shelly and tells her there’s possible brain damage. Shelly asks if he’s a vegetable and he does not deny it. Shelly cries.

Lucy receives a call for the sheriff from someone who won’t give his name. She tells the caller she cannot connect him unless he tells her his name and then hangs up.

At One-Eyed Jack’s Audrey intercepts a girl carrying ice to a man lying inverted on a chaise-lounge with ankles and wrists bound while another girl pushes a vacuum cleaner. Audrey signals the girl to leave and the nun plugs the vacuum and wraps the cord around the neck of the man, Emory Battis. She threatens to reveal all about Emory and Laura and Ronette to her father. Emory admits working for the owner of One-Eyed Jacks, her father, and recruiting Laura and Ronette. He says Laura came here one weekend, but was using drugs and they threw her out. He says her father saw Laura there, that Mr. Horne makes it his business to entertain all the girls. He says Laura knew Ben Horne owned One-Eyed Jacks, that Laura always got her way, just like Audrey.

Act 4: Evening - Bobby and Shelly are parked in his dad’s car. Bobby tells Shelly that Leo gets his disability as long as he is out of prison. He gets over $5 thousand a month, but only if he’s home. They talk about being together.

At night - Cooper in his pajamas tells Diane about being troubled because of Windom Earle’s disappearance and also because Audrey’s absence touches him. Major Briggs visits and tells him that he has a message for him. He explains that his work includes maintenance of deep space monitors aimed at distant galaxies. They routinely receive communications that are gibberish and noise, “space garbage.” Among these was one clear message that came in late Thursday night or early Friday--
about the time Cooper was shot, Cooper notes. The message was: The owls are not what they seem. When Cooper asks how he knew it was for him, the Major shows him another message that came in
later: Cooper, repeated twice.

At the Haywards’ James Maddy and Donna are recording a song, “Just you and I.” Donna notices James and Maddy looking at each other and runs out of the room, upset. A phone call comes for Donna from Harold Smith. Maddy has a vision of Bob coming at her over the couch. She screams. James and Donna go to her. There’s nothing there.

There are several flashbacks: The giant telling Cooper, “the owls are not what they seem,” Ronette dreaming of Bob, the image of an owl superimposed over Sarah’s vision of Bob, Sarah going downstairs, Bob smiling. Cooper answers the phone. Audrey asks him, “why aren’t you here?” She tells him he looked handsome in his tuxedo. She says she’s in trouble. Blackie and Emory hang up her phone. Blackie tells Audrey, “Miss Horne, you don’t know what trouble is, not by a long shot.”

Notes:

Timeline: Monday, March 6th

Original Air Date: October 6th, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2002

Nielson Rating: 9.2/18

Directed By: David Lynch

Written By: Harley Peyton

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn Packard
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson (as Eric Da Re)
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Miguel Ferrer ... FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield
David Patrick Kelly ... Jerry Horne
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Victoria Catlin ... Blackie O'Reilly
Don Amendolia ... Emory Battis
Frances Bay ... Mrs. Tremond
Grace Zabriskie ... Sarah Palmer
Catherine E. Coulson ... The Log Lady
Phoebe Augustine ... Ronette Pulaski
Austin Jack Lynch ... Little Boy
Jill Pierce ... Ice-Bucket Girl
Mak Takano ... Asian Man
Jula Bell ... Girl at One Eyed Jacks with Vacuum Cleaner
Frank Silva ... BOB

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EPISODE 10

2009-10-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

Act 1: At 7:30am Cooper, Truman, and Albert investigate an attack on Ronette. Albert notes that her IV has been dyed. Cooper finds a letter “B” under Ronette’s fingernail. Cooper tells Albert and Truman about the giant’s visits.

Donna visits Harold Smith’s flower-filled house. Harold tells Donna that he knew Laura ever since she started Meals on Wheels. He doesn’t go outside - he “can’t.” Harold used to be a horticulturist; he raises orchids and wants Donna to place one on Laura’s grave. He gives her a Lady Slipper orchid as his last gift to Laura.

At the sheriff’s office Cooper has written “R-B-T” above the picture of Bob and says the letters are related to the long-haired man who was seen by Mrs. Palmer, Maddy, himself, and Ronette. Albert reports that the cocaine in James Hurley’s gas tank was a match to what was found in Jacques’ car and in Leo’s house: James was framed by Leo. He says the Circle Brand boot found at Leo’s is rare and the “B” was cut from a copy of “fleshworld”. Albert also says that Cooper was shot with a Walther PBK. Truman takes exception to Albert’s humor and threatens him. Albert says he rejects violence. Albert says, “I love you, Sheriff Truman.” After Albert leaves Cooper says, “Albert’s path is a strange and difficult one.” Cooper tells James Hurley he won’t be charged and tells him to go home. Lucy is looking for words containing B-T-R. A man enters and Lucy tells Hawk he’s her lunch date. The man introduces himself as Dick Tremayne, Horne’s Department Store, Designer Men’s Wear. Lucy suggests they leave for lunch. Dick says, “we’ll go dutch.” Truman, Hawk, and Cooper discuss the giant. In the corridor they meet Leland who tells them he knows the long haired man as having lived in a white house next to a vacant lot next door to his grandfather’s summer house at Pearl lakes. He thinks the name was Robertson. Cooper concludes that R-T-B are trying to spell Robert. He sends Hawk to investigate the summer house. Leland says the man used to flick matches at him. He demonstrates and says, “You want to play with fire, little boy?” Cooper exclaims, “That’s our man.”

Act 2: At lunch time at the Double RR, Dick and Lucy are seated at the counter where Dick explains his filing system to Lucy. Lucy complains that they went out to dinner every Thursday for 3 months and that instead of taking her to dinner at the Space Needle in Seattle, he took her to Valley Night at the Pancake Plantation and ended up on a display bed in Horne’s Home Furnishings. When Dick offers to buy her adress with his employee discount, she says, “how about a maternity dress” and tells him she’s pregnant. James and Maddy are side-by-side in a booth. Donna enters and sees them “holding hands.” She tells them about meeting a young man on Meals on Wheels and describes him as bright, charming, intelligent - ”completely unlike anybody I know.” When James asks what she means, Donna says “why don’t you sit here and hold hands and try to figure it out.” She leaves.

At One-Eyed Jacks, Audrey is tied to a chair while Emory takes a video tape of her and Blackie injects a drug into Audrey’s arm. Blackie says that for what Ben Horne will have to pay to get his “funked-up little daughter” back, she’ll buy him out. She says, “look at her ride the white tiger. In a few days she won’t want to come down, just like her daddy did to me.”

Mike Gerrard shows shoes to Truman and sees the drawing of Bob. He acts sick and asks for a bathroom. Truman thanks Shelly for coming in but she refuses to talk about Leo. When she leaves Cooper tells Truman he suspects Shelly’s thinking of the insurance money and wonders who is pulling the strings. In the men’s room, the one-armed man is in a booth giving himself a shot. He drops the syringe and convulses briefly. He leaves saying, “Bob — I know you’re near. I’m after you now.”

Act 3: Late afternoon at the Great Northern: Cooper approaches Ben and asks about Audrey. He tells him about her phone call. Ben warns Cooper off Audrey and Cooper says his intentions are the best. The Asian man has been watching Cooper and follows him as he leaves.

Back at One Eyed Jacks's, Audrey is in bed. Jean Renault wakes her and gives her some sugar and an injection. Blackie shows
Emory a videotape of Cooper at the blackjack table. Emory says he’s FBI. Jean says he wants him. Jean is accompanied by Nancy, Blackie’s sister. Jean tells Emory that he will be the go-between, for a 30% cut. Blackie demands that Nancy leave, but Jean won’t allow it. He says they can’t allow Audrey to live.

Truman tells Cooper that Pete called to say that Josie called and will return tomorrow afternoon. Truman wants to see her alone first, before he brings her in. Hawk describes the white house near the Palmer summer house as being boarded up with no name on the mail box. He’s initiated a search of county and power company records. Truman asks Hawk if he saw the one-armed man. Cooper reminds Truman of his dream and they go to look in the bathroom. Cooper finds the syringe and says, “without chemicals he points... we’ve got to find the one- armed man.”

Nadine’s wrists are chained to the bed rails. Dr. Hayward suggests Ed sing to her. Ed asks him to leave and sings. Nadine sits up, breaks the chains, and starts clapping and chanting. She asks if Ed came to pick her up for cheerleader tryouts.

Act 4: Cooper and Truman enter Jacoby’s room. There’s a Hawaiian woman there. Jacoby introduces her as his wife, Iolani. Jacoby sets up an auto-hypnotic spell. Cooper asks him about the night Jacques was killed. Jacoby remembers smelling engine oil at the park. He remembers dreaming and being awakened by the sound of tape tearing. He describes the pillow over Jacques face and says he knows the man holding the pillow.

At night an owl watches Donna approach Laura’s grave. She puts the orchid on the grave and talks to Laura about Harold and James and her suspicions about Maddy and James.

At the Palmers’ house James tells Maddy that he hates his mother. Maddy and James embrace and kiss. Donna enters, sees them, and runs off.

Maddy tells Leland that she’s not Laura and she’s nothing like Laura. Leland says she just wants things to be like they were before and things just won’t cooperate. Truman and Cooper enter. Truman arrests Leland for the murder of Jacques Renault.

Donna visits Harold Smith and talks about James and being confused. He comforts her and goes to get her something to drink. Donna wanders around and sees a small red book, “this is the diary of Laura Palmer.”

Notes:

Timeline: Sunday, March 5th.

Original Air Date: October 13th, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2003

Nielson Rating: 8.9/17

Directed By: Lesli Linka Glatter

Written By: Robert Engels

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn Packard (credit only)
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Russ Tamblyn ... Dr. Jacoby
Miguel Ferrer ... FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
Lenny von Dohlen ... Harold Smith (as Lenny Von Dohlen)
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Don Amendolia ... Emory Battis
Victoria Catlin ... Blackie O'Reilly
Michael Parks ... Jean Renault
Galyn Görg ... Nancy
Al Strobel ... Phillip Michael Gerard
Phoebe Augustine ... Ronette Pulaski
Mak Takano ... Asian Man
Jennifer Aquino ... Eolani Jacoby

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EPISODE 11

2009-10-06T13:35:00.001-07:00

Act 1: At the sheriff’s office, Truman questions Leland with Cooper and Dr. Hayward present. Leland waives his right to an attorney and admits killing Jacques Renault. As they leave Cooper tells Dr. Hayward that Leland will plead temporary insanity. Andy asks Dr. Hayward if his sperm test could be taken again and Dr. gives him a specimen bottle and tells him to bring a specimen to him immediately. Andy carries a copy of “Fleshworld” to the men’s room but collides with Lucy on the way. Truman tells Cooper that Judge Clinton Sternwood will arrive in the afternoon —he’s a circuit judge in a Winnebago - the last of the frontiers men. The state prosecutor, Daryl Lodwick, will decide if Leland gets bail. Truman reports that Hawk called: there’s never been a Robertson living next to the Palmers and the last resident moved away but they have their current address. Andy collides with another officer and has to fish his specimen bottle out from under the couch. Cooper notices that Andy has circle brand boots. Andy bought them from Philip Gerard yesterday. Cooper says that they have to find Gerard, the One-Armed Man.

9:30am - Desk clerk at Great Northern tells Ben that her sister in Seattle tipped her that M.T. Wentz, the travel writer, is coming to Twin Peaks - he travels incognito. Ben finds Jean Renault in his office - Jean had sold him insurance for One-Eyed Jacks. Jean shows the tape of Audrey and tells him it will cost him a lot to get her back. He shows him the tape of Cooper and tells him he wants the FBI man to bring him the ransom. As he leaves Jean tells Ben to expect a call tomorrow at noon. Ben picks up the phone and asks for Agent Cooper to be found for him.

Act 2: At the Double RR, Donna picks up a tray from Hank. She tells him she has a lunch date with a Meals-on- wheels client. Norma tells Hank about a call from Louie at the Northern about M.T. Wentz coming to Twin Peaks. Hank takes cash from the register and tells her he’s going to buy candles and tablecloths.

Donna and Harold are drinking wine. Harold shows Donna the diary and reads a passage from it about Donna. Donna asks if Harold is going to give the diary to the Sheriff. Harold says no,he’s read it and it has no solutions.

Ben shows the tape of Audrey to Cooper and says they want $125 thousand in cash for Audrey and he asks Cooper to take it there.

Josie arrives home with a lot of packages. Pete greets her and tells her Catherine was killed in the fire.

Emory brings Audrey to see Jean in Blackie’s office. Jean asks Audrey if she’s been mistreated. Audrey says Emory hit her. Jean assures her it will never happen again. He tells her he spoke to her father. Then he shoots Emory.

Act 3: Afternoon - Andy approaches Lucy and says they need to talk. She makes a crack about him preferring the company of his magazines. Cooper enters and asks Lucy to get what’s bothering her out in the open. Lucy explains that she dated Andy for a year and a half and decided she needed some “me time” and met Dick Tremayne, who acts asinine. When Cooper asks if she wants to get back with Andy she says she doesn’t know. Cooper tells Truman about having a dangerous situation and asks Truman to get him one of the Book House boys. Truman says he’ll set it up at 9:30 at the Road House.

Night - half moon. A man enters the Double RR and Norma tells Hank it must be him. After the man asks for the restroom, Hank takes something out of the man’s jacket pocket. Maddy and Donna are in a booth. Donna tells Maddy she needs her help to get Laura’s second diary from Harold. Hank looks at the man’s ID. It says: Daryl Lodwick, DA, born 4-18-50, 6’2”, 325 lbs, red hair, blue eyes.

Thunder and lightning. Truman visits Josie who wears a revealing black gown with a very high slit up one side. Truman asks if she was really in Seattle and Josie says she went there because she was afraid of Ben and Catherine. Truman mentions Catherine being dead and insurance money. Josie acts upset. They embrace on the couch. She asks him to tear it. He rips the gown and takes her on the couch while someone watches through the window.

Act 4: At the sheriff’s Lucy is drinking coffee when Judge Sternwood enters. She greets him and they hug. Truman enters and Sternwood says he has the look of a man with filly trouble. Cooper enters and Truman introduces him. They go into Truman’s office. Dick Tremayne enters and offers to pay to take care of her problem. Lucy tells him to leave and never speak to her again. Andy takes Leland into the office. The Judge offers his condolences and tells Leland they’ll meet in Valhalla and have a drink. Since the DA hasn’t come they postpone action on bail till tomorrow. After Andy takes Leland back, Sid, a young woman enters and Cooper greets her. The judge introduces her to Cooper. They leave for the Great Northern. Truman explains to Cooper that Sid isn’t the judge’s wife, but his law clerk.

Ben greets swim suited Lumber Queen contestants in the lobby then watches a long-haired oriental man register. Louie calls him Mr. Tojamura, who plans to pay cash. He says he came from Seattle. She gives him a card for the Double RR and recommends it. After he leaves she calls Norma.

Josie introduces the Asian Man to Pete as her cousin Jonathan. After Pete goes for coffee Jonathan asks how she lasted 6 years. Josie says she had a job to do and Jonathan says it's almost over: just sell the mill and the Packard lands. Josie says she needs Pete’s signature and it won’t take more than two days. Jonathan says they’re expected in Hong Kong; Mr. Eckardt wants to see her. He asks if there are any complications and Josie says she’s having a problem with Hank.

At the Road House Cooper is at the bar when Truman sits down next to him and says it’s 9:30.Truman is his man. Cooper buys him a beer.

At the Double RR, Hank answers a knock at the door. No one is there. The lights go out. Hank gets a flashlight and finds Jonathan inside. Jonathan beats him up, calls him “blood brother” and tells him, “next time I’ll take your head off.” Then he smashes the flashlight.

Notes:

Timeline: Monday, March 6th.

Original Air Date: October 20, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2004

Nielson Rating: 8.4/??

Directed By: Todd Holland

Written By: Jerry Stahl, Mark Frost, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels.

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (credit only) (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs (credit only)
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn Packard
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
Lenny von Dohlen ... Harold Smith (as Lenny Von Dohlen)
Royal Dano ... Judge Clinton Sternwood
Don Amendolia ... Emory Battis
Piper Laurie ... Mr. Tojamura (as Fumio Yamaguchi)
Ritch Brinkley ... D.A. Daryl Lodwick
Michael Parks ... Jean Renault
Bellina Logan ... Desk Clerk
Claire Stansfield ... Sid
Mak Takano ... Jonathan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Kevin Young ... Toad

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EPISODE 12

2009-04-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Act 1: 6:42AM - In Cooper’s room at the Great Northern, Cooper dictates to Diane about dreaming of gum drops and eating an ear plug. While doing a headstand he finds a note from Audrey under his bed. It says she’s gone to Jacks.

At the sheriff’s office Hawk tells Truman that two retired female school teachers live in the house next to the Palmer's and do not remember a gray-haired man. Lucy says she’s going to Tacoma to see her sister Gwen and her husband Larry; they had a baby last week, but she’s worried about the temporary help. Truman tells her not to worry. As she leaves Cooper arrives and tells Truman that they don’t need word on tonight because he knows where Audrey is.

At Leo’s house, Bobby helps Mr. Pinkel set up an automatic harness and wheelchair. Bobby complains about the safety. Shelly and Bobby discuss Leo’s hearing scheduled for today. As they leave, Mr. Pinkel gets caught in the malfunctioning harness.

At the Roadhouse (The Bang-Bang Bar) Judge Sternwood presides over a hearing on Leland’s bail request which the DA opposes. Truman speaks for Leland. Andy draws a picture and says he hopes to sell it to The Gazette. The drawing is of the back of Leland’s head. Truman suggests he show more face. Sternwood releases Leland on his own recognizances.

Donna takes a meal to Harold. She offers to tell him her life story in exchange for him letting her read Laura’s diary. He tells her he’ll read it to her, that the diary must not leave his room. He gets the diary and a fresh notebook from behind the bottom bookshelf. Donna tells him she was born in Twin Peaks and asks where he’s from. He says he was born in Boston and grew up in books. Donna grabs the diary and says she wants to read it on the lawn; she leaves the house. Harold follows, steps outside, and collapses. He takes the diary when Donna goes to help him.

Act 2: Afternoon - Leo’s hearing has Mr. Racine present evidence of Leo’s minimal EEG. Racine suggests Leo suffered diffuse brain damage and can’t take the standard competency test. The DA argues that the community needs a trial. Sternwood asks Cooper and Truman to join him and they go to the bar where Sternwood asks Sid to prepare three Black Yukon Sucker Punches. Cooper tells the Judge that Leo didn’t kill Laura and Truman says the community wants the right man brought to justice. Sternwood tells Truman to tell Shelly Leo will be declared incompetent to stand trial. As Truman talks to Shelly, Sternwood tells Cooper to keep his eye on the woods, “the woods are wondrous here but strange.”

At Big Ed’s James greets Nadine and Ed. Nadine wonders if James is in any of her classes at the high school. She asks Ed where Mom and Dad are and he says they’re out of town. When Nadine goes to get a drink, Ed tells James that Dr. Hayward told him to roll with the punches. Nadine returns with a cabinet door in her hand. She says it just came right off.

At the Great Northern Mr. Tojamura tells Ben he represents Asian investors who want to make an offer for the Ghostwood project. He gives Ben a check for five million dollars. Bobby sees Hank walk in. Cooper arrives. Hank tells Ben that Cooper’s here and then hides. Cooper enters as the phone call from Jean comes. Jean tells Ben to cross the border and go 5 miles east of Grand Fork road to Castle Gardens. Behind a Bar, The Columbian, is a veiled amusement park. Leave the briefcase next to the headless horse on the Merry-Go-Round. Ben gives a briefcase with serialized denominations to Cooper. Cooper leaves with the briefcase. Ben tells Hank to follow Cooper and make sure he and the money are delivered and then to bring Audrey back. He tells him Cooper won’t becoming back and suggests Hank try to bring back both Audrey and the briefcase.

Night —at the Haywards Donna goes over a layout of Harold’s apartment with Maddy and explains how the bookcase works. Donna will get Harold to leave the room and then she’ll signal Maddy with a flashlight.

At One-Eyed Jacks Blackie fits an automatic knife to Jean’s arm. It stabs much like a switchblade. They talk about killing Audrey. Nancy enters as Blackie leaves. Nancy tells Jean Audrey’s asleep. As the discuss killing Blackie, Jean examines a dagger in Nancy’s boot.

Andy is at Lucy’s desk. He calls a laboratory and gets the results of his semen analysis. His once low sperm count is now high. Cooper and Truman review a floor plan for One-Eyed Jacks. Hawk enters and reports that the One-Armed Man is staying at the Robins Nest motel on highway 9. Truman dismisses Hawk and Cooper and Truman discuss their plan to get Audrey out of Jacks. They Leave. Andy finds the number for Gwen and Larry. He dials it and connects with the Adams Abortion Clinic.

Maddy enters the RR and orders a large coffee to go. James asks her about Donna and Maddy evades his questions. When she leaves, James follows.

Act 3: Maddy waits in the bushes outside Harold’s apartment. Inside while Harold writes notes Donna tells him about a time when she and Laura, about 13 or 14 years old, met three 20-year old boys at the Road House: Josh, Rick, and Tim. They were nice. They went into the woods to party and when Laura danced around the boys, Skinny dipping is suggested. They did and Laura kissed Josh and Rick. Donna swam away but Tim followed and kissed her. Donna says that was the first time she fell in love. She never saw Tim again.

At One-Eyed Jacks Truman takes out a man at the door and he and Cooper enter and hunt for Audrey. Cooper leaves Truman watching Jean and Blackie through a curtained window.

Act 4: Harold shows his orchid room to Donna. He kisses her fingers, then her lips. When she caresses his face he draws back and excuses himself. Donna runs to the window and signals with the flashlight. Maddy sneaks toward the house.

Cooper encounters Nancy and twists her arm behind her and forces her to lead him to Audrey’s room. He releases her to go to Audrey. Cooper sees Nancy take the dagger from her boot. He disarms her and slugs her, then unties Audrey and carries her out. Truman sees Jean kill Blackie with the trick blade. Jeans sees him and fires at him. Truman returns fire. Cooper arrives with Audrey. Jean has left. Truman, Cooper, and Audrey in Cooper’s arms head for the exit. They are stopped by an armed man at the stairs. The man is killed by a dagger in the back. Hawk appears and says it’s good you guys can’t keep a secret. They all leave. Hank watches them leave and reports by cell phone. Jean grabs Hank and finds Daryl Lodwick’s ID card.

Harold’s return frightens Donna. Maddy opens the bookshelf and makes a noise. Harold grabs a three-pronged garden tool and confronts both girls. He asks if they’re looking for secrets. “Do you want to know the ultimate secret?” The secret Laura wanted to know. “The secret of knowing who killed you.” He rakes the tool down his face. Maddy screams.

Notes:

Timeline: Tuesday, March 7th

Original Air Date: October 27th, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2005

Nielson Rating: ??/??

Directed By: Graeme Clifford

Written By: Barry Pullman

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn Packard
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Grace Zabriskie ... Sarah Palmer
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Lenny von Dohlen ... Harold Smith (as Lenny Von Dohlen)
Royal Dano ... Judge Clinton Sternwood
David L. Lander ... Tim Pinkle
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Victoria Catlin ... Blackie O'Reilly
Van Dyke Parks ... Jack Racine
Ritch Brinkley ... D.A. Daryl Lodwick
Piper Laurie ... Mr. Tojamura (as Fumio Yamaguchi)
Michael Parks ... Jean Renault
Galyn Görg ... Nancy O'Reilly
Claire Stansfield ... Sid
Michael M. Vendrell ... Outside Bodyguard (as Mike Vendrell)
Robert Apisa ... Bodyguard on Stairs (as Bob Apisa)
Kevin Young ... Toad

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EPISODE 13

2009-02-13T15:47:00.000-08:00

Act 1: Very early in the morning Harold wields his garden tool as he confronts Maddy and Donna. When he tries to take the diary, Maddy screams, James enters and pulls the girls from the apartment. Harold retains the diary. Outside Donna agrees to go to the sheriff. Inside Harold howls.

Joey Paulsen, Hawk, and Cappy assist Cooper as he carries Audrey into a back room at the Book House and places her on a cot. Cooper sees needle marks on her arm and concludes she was probably given heroine. Audrey calls out for her daddy. Cooper comforts her.

Donna and James talk and rekindle their romance.

Truman is reviewing mug shots in his office. Cooper tells him Audrey had close to a lethal dose. Truman identifies Jean Renault, oldest of the Renault brothers, who runs the northern territories: gambling, extortion, and drugs. Truman tells Cooper about seeing the tape of Cooper at the blackjack table and Cooper concludes that Jean was after him because he got his brother.

At the Great Northern Cooper tells Ben about his rescue of Audrey from One-Eyed Jacks and about Blackie being killed by Jean Renault. He tells Ben that Audrey had a drug overdose.

Act 2: Later in the morning Leo is brought home in a wheel chair by Shelly and Bobby. An insurance man tells them that home care is the stuff of miracles and that Leo will benefit from being among his loved ones. He suggests they childproof the electrical outlets. He gives Shelly a check; it’s for $700 rather than $5,000 after expenses and fees. He leaves. Shelly complains that she has to quit her job and doesn’t know how she can make it on $700. Leo groans.

Donna tells Truman about Harold having Laura’s “secret” diary. They’re interrupted by the arrival of Gordon Cole, regional FBI Bureau Chief and Cooper’s supervisor. Cole shouts. He says his hearing is gone and he wears twin hearing aids. Cole says Albert won’t be coming back, but he has his report. Fibers found outside Cooper’s room were from a vicuna coat. The drug in the one-armed man’s syringe was like nothing seen before, “a combo, really wierd stuff.” Papers found down the tracks from the murder site were from a diary. Hawk enters with Mr. Gerrard. They all go into Truman’s office.

Ben visits Audrey. He tells her how worried he was. She says she has learned "a lot of new things". Audrey wants Cooper to take her home. Ben wants to with them.

That afternoon Nadine returns home from shopping. She tells Ed they can pretend their married, punches him in the stomach, throws him onto a couch, falls on him, and declares they don’t need to go out in the car to neck, they can stay right there.

Jonathan gets dressed and compliments Josie on keeping herself in fineries. He gives her a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. When she complains that she hasn’t received the money from the mill, he says Mr. Eckhardt will make it worth her while. He threatens to kill Truman if Josie isn’t on the midnight plane.

Act 3: Maddy is sitting by the lake. James joins her and offers an apology. She tells him he saw Laura in her, that she and Laura were very close and when Laura died, Maddy got to be Laura — other people saw her that way and for a while she got to be somebody different. She tells him that he and Donna belong together. Maddy says she’s going home tomorrow, then kisses him goodbye.

In the evening Ben and Josie drink to the fire. She has Pete’s signature on the contract and wants her money. Ben stalls, but she won’t leave the office without her money. He tells her he has a dossier about her in his safe and can destroy her; she says she has a file on him in a safe deposit box and can destroy him. Ben gives her the five-million-dollar cashier’s check from the Tokyo bank and she gives him the contract. She leaves.

At night Shelly and Bobby party to welcome Leo home. Shelly is startled when Leo seems to move. Bobby taunts Leo and lets his face fall into a cake.

Cooper enters the sheriff’s office and sees Cole. Cole tells him he looks like a small Mexican Chihuahua. They go into Truman’s office for privacy but their shouting can be heard by everyone outside. Cole tells Cooper that Albert thinks he’s in over his head again. They discuss a case in Pittsburgh where Cooper was wounded, but Cooper says that’s the only similarity. Cole gives Cooper anonymous letter they received at the office. It says, “P-K4,” the opening of a “chess deal.” Cooper says it must be from Windom Earle and Cole remarks that they’ll have to watch Cooper’s back from now on.

Act 4: Ben takes Leland into his office and says he’s glad Leland’s back. He tells Leland about a problem: they received payment from the Icelanders on the Ghostwood project but now a group from the orient wants in - Jerry has gone to Tokyo to check them out. They need a little time. Leland advises him to have the land resurveyed because of the fire and then have a parade of inspections until Jerry gets back with a report. Any money received can go through the Cayman’s for a favorable exchange rate. If necessary they can drop escrow into a black hole for six months. Ben is pleased.

Truman visits Josie as Jonathan carries luggage out to the car. Josie says that he’s her assistant, Mr. Lee. Josie tells Truman she’s going away. Over his protestations of love, she tells him to forget her.

Ben and Mr. Tojamura talk after dinner at the Great Northern. Mr. Tojamura complains about getting nothing for his $5 million. When Ben stalls, Tojamura say she’ll withdraw. Ben says he has to promote healing after the fire. Tojamura says he understands fire, his family was at Nagasaki. Leland starts to sing, “Getting to know you.” Ben excuses himself and goes to try to quiet Leland. Mr. Tojamura goes to the bar, where Pete identifies “The King and I.” Pete asks if Mr. Tojamura likes musicals. Tojamura says no and Pete says, “not even fiddler on the Roof. It made me cry like a baby.” Tojamura says he finds adherence to fantasy troubling and unreasonable. Pete offers to buy him a drink.

At the sheriff’s office Gerrard wants his drug which Cole identifies as having trace elements found in a drug used to treat schizophrenia. The one-armed man says it’s too late. When they refuse him the drug, he changes personality. He says his name is Mike, an inhabiting spirit; Phillip Gerrard is his host. Mike says Bob is his familiar. Bob is a parasite that requires a human host and feeds off fear and pleasures. Mike says he’s similar to Bob, that they were once partners. Together with Cooper he recites, “Through the darkness of future past / The magician longs to see / One chants out between two worlds / fire walk with me.” Mike says he saw the face of god and was purified. He took off his arm and remains close to and inhabits his host from time to time for one purpose: to stop Bob. The drawing is Bob’s true face, “but few can see it:the gifted and the damned.” When Cooper asks if Bob is near now, Mike says for nearly 40 years. Cooper asks where. Mike describes a large house made of wood, surrounded by trees. The house is filled with many rooms, each alike, but filled with different souls night after night. Cooper exclaims, “The Great Northern Hotel!”

Notes:

Timeline: Tuesday, March 7th and March 8th

Original Air Date: November 3rd, 1990

Official Episode Number: 2006

Nielson Rating: 7.6/??

Directed By: Lesli Linka Glatter

Written By: Harley Peyton & Robert Engels

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Lenny von Dohlen ... Harold Smith
Ian Abercrombie ... Tom Brockman
David Lynch ... FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Piper Laurie ... Mr. Tojamura (as Fumio Yamaguchi)
Al Strobel ... Phillip Michael Gerard
Jill Rogosheske ... Trudy Chelgren
Ron Kirk ... Cappy
Leonard Ray ... Lounge Local
Mak Takano ... Jonathan Lee
Brett Vadset ... Joey Paulsen

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EPISODE 14

2009-01-21T09:34:00.001-08:00

Act 1: Morning- Hawk, Cole, Cooper, Mike Gerrard, and Andy drink coffee just inside the entrance to the Sheriff’s station. Truman enters and says they’re waiting for them at the Great Northern; the guests will be in the lobby. The One-armed man repeats his description of Bob’s location. Truman sends Hawk to search Harold’s apartment. Gordon repeats that papers found near the train site were diary pages and Cooper tells Hawk that Donna reported Harold having a secret diary of Laura Palmer. Gordon leaves for Bend, Oregon on “hush-hush” official business.

At the Great Northern there’s the sound of many balls bouncing as the One-Armed man reviews and rejects a parade of hotel guests, including many men and women sailors, many of whom are standing in the lobby and corridors bouncing and tossing balls. Ben enters the lobby and the One-Armed man has a seizure and collapses. Ben wants to know what’s going on.

Hawk enters Harold’s apartment and finds a mess of papers scattered all over and the body of Harold hanging in the orchid room.

At the Palmer’s Sarah, Maddy, and Leland have coffee and read the morning paper while a recording of Louis Armstrong singing “what a wonderful world” plays on the phonograph. Maddy tells them she wants to go home to Missoula.

A sheriff’s team is searches and photographs Harold’s apartment. Cooper finds a note pinned to the body, “J’ai une âme solitaire — I have a lonely soul.” Hawk finds Laura Palmer’s diary.

Act 2: Bobby and Shelly review bills and bank balances and find a net of $42 for the month. Bobby remarks that Leo had money that never went into a bank. Leo hollers and mutters “new shoes.” Bobby asks if Leo bought any shoes lately and Shelly tells him that Leo had her take some old boots in for repair. Bobby sends her for the receipt.

In the afternoon, Audrey visits Ben in his office and tells him she knows about One-Eyed jacks, Blackie, Emory, Ronette, and Laura. She tells him she was Prudence and saw him there. In response to her questions Ben admits having owned One-Eyed Jacks for five years and to sleeping with Laura. He says he loved her.

Act 3: At the Double RR Shelley tells Norma she has to quit her job to take care of Leo. Ed and Nadine enter, Nadine complaining about problems registering for the Spring semester. Nadine orders a chocolate shake, Ed coffee. While talking to Norma, Nadine takes hold of her glass and shatters it.

Bobby and Mike Nelson enter Shelly’s house. Bobby shows Mike the window through which Hank shot Leo. They show Leo his old boots and Bobby uses a hammer to break off the heels. He finds a microcassette audio tape and remarks, “It’s not money, but who knows.”

In the sheriff’s conference room Cooper dictates to Diane what he finds in the remains of Laura’s diary: many references to Bob abusing and molesting her since her early adolescence, descriptions of Bob as a friend of her father’s, and an entry made two weeks before her death, “someday I’m going to tell the world about Ben Horne...who he really is.” Audrey enters and tells Cooper about her father’s admitting to sleeping with Laura and owning One-Eyed Jacks. After she leaves, Cooper remarks to Truman “without chemicals he points” and describes Mike reaching out and fainting when Ben entered the lobby. He tells Truman to get a warrant for the arrest of Ben Horne.

Act 4: Tojamura is in Ben’s office. Ben tells him that Jerry reports the Tokyo bank checks out and they’ll accept Tojamura’s proposal. Tojamura gives him a contract to review. Cooper, Truman, Hawk, and Andy enter. Truman asks Ben to come with them for questioning in the murder of Laura Palmer. Ben stalls and tries to leave the office. Hawk and Andy grab him, handcuff him, and lead him out past Tojamura.

The record turns in the Palmer’s living room with the needle stuck in the final groove. Mrs. Palmer crawls down stairs and into the room.

Ben is taken into the sheriff’s station and Truman tells Hawk and Andy to take him into a holding cell. The Log Lady is waiting in the station. Cooper sees her and she tells him there are owls in the roadhouse. Cooper says, “something is happening, isn’t it, Margaret?” She says, “yes.” There’s a full moon.

Pete is at home in the kitchen when he hears a noise. He walks out of the kitchen right into Tojamura’s arms. Pete drops his milk and sandwich and pushes Tojamura away. In her own voice Catherine tells him, “it’s me!” Pete says, “Catherine! You look terrible.” They embrace, laughing.

Mrs. Palmer crawls across the floor of her living room, looks up, and momentarily sees a white horse in the room. She faints. Leland is straightening his tie while looking in a mirror.

The girl singer is performing in the Road House. Donna and James are in a booth. They talk about Harold Smith. Cooper, Truman, and the Log Lady enter and sit at a table. They have beer and peanuts. James tells Donna that Maddy is going to go home. There are sailors in the Road House. Cooper looks around. The old room service waiter is sitting at the bar next to Bobby and Mike. Cooper watches the singer. She fades out and the giant appears. He says, “It’s happening again.”

Leland regards himself in the mirror. His reflection is Bob. He becomes Bob for a moment. Leland puts on rubber gloves. Maddy comes downstairs and says it smells like something is burning. She sees Sarah on the floor then Bob/Leland. Maddy screams and runs upstairs. Leland follows her and Bob drags her downstairs. Alternating as Leland and Bob, they attack her. Leland calls her Laura and embraces her. Bob kisses her. He says that Leland said she was going to Missoula, Montana. Leland smashes her face against a framed picture. The glass shatters. She falls, bleeding from numerous facial cuts, apparently lifeless. Leland uses an Exacto knife to push a letter “O” under the nail of her left ring finger.

The giant looks at Cooper, then fades out, replaced by the singer. The old waiter goes up to Cooper and says, “I’m so sorry.” He returns to the bar. The Log Lady stares at Cooper. Bobby stares at the waiter. Donna starts to cry. James comforts her.

Notes:

Timeline: Thursday, March 9th

Original Air Date: November 10, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2007

Nielson Rating: 10.4/20

Directed By: David Lynch

Written By: Mark Frost

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Grace Zabriskie ... Sarah Palmer
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Al Strobel ... Phillip Michael Gerard
David Lynch ... FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole
Piper Laurie ... Mr. Tojamura (as Fumio Yamaguchi)
Gary Hershberger ... Mike Nelson
Catherine E. Coulson ... The Log Lady
Julee Cruise ... Roadhouse Singer
Carel Struycken ... The Giant
Hank Worden ... The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter
Dave Bean ... Sheriff's Deputy (uncredited)
Frank Silva ... Bob (uncredited)

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EPISODE 15

2008-09-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Act 1: Morning - Leland is hitting plastic golf balls in his cleaned-up living room. Donna and James come to say goodbye to Maddy and Leland tells them he dropped her of at the bus station less than 20 minutes ago. He suggests they write to her. After they leave Sarah calls down to him to remind him to sign them up for Glenn Miller Night at the club. He puts his golf club into a case in which a hand is visible, then carries the case to his car, puts it into the trunk, gets in the car, puts down the roof and, while singing “Surrey with the Fringe on Top”, drives off.

Ben cleans his jail cell with a handkerchief and is brushing his teeth when Jerry enters. Jerry tells Ben he will serve as his lawyer and asks if he killed her. Ben tells him he was with Catherine the night Laura died. They reminisce about their first room, with bunk beds, in which Louise Dombrowski danced on the hook rug with a flashlight.

Lucy enters the Sheriff’s station accompanied by a woman with a baby. Lucy introduces her to Hawk as her sister, Gwen.

10:03AM - Cooper, in a corridor of the Great Northern, dictates to Diane about his visit with Harry to the One Armed Man. Cooper and Truman enter the lobby to find Leland dancing. Truman tells Leland they arrested Ben for the murder of Laura. Leland asks about Jacques Renault and Cooper tells him Renault didn’t do it. Leland walks off to a side corridor where his apparent sobs turn to laughter. Cooper follows him and asks him to let them know if he remembers anything about the night Laura died. After Cooper leaves Leland’s sobs again change to laughs. When he’s sure Cooper and Truman are gone, he resumes dancing.

Act 2: In Ben’s cell with Cooper, Jerry, and Truman, Dr. Hayward takes a blood sample from Ben and tells Cooper he’ll have the results in a couple of hours. Jerry demands that Ben be released or charged. Cooper recites, “Jeremy Horne, Gonzaga University, 1974, graduated last in his class of 142, passed the bar on the third attempt, license to practice lawrevoked in Illinois, florida, Alaska, and Massachusetts.” Cooper shows Ben Laura’s diary and reads the entry about Laura telling the world all about Ben Horne. Jerry asks for a moment alone with Ben and tells Ben not to blurt out a confession and advises him to get a better lawyer.

Bobby plays back a copy of the cassette: Ben Horne tells Leo to burn the mill and make it look like arson. Bobby writes a note to Ben to suggest a talk and encloses it with the cassette copy. He tells Shelly the envelope is their ship.

At the Double RR Cafe at lunchtime, Norma’s is surprised at the appearance of her Mother, Vivian. She asks if the potatoes on a customer’s plate are real and not flakes and then tastes them. She introduces her new husband, Ernie, as a financial analyst. Norma explains her nervousness as due to an expected visit from a food critic. After they leave, Norma picks up a paper left behind by Ernie and reads,“$1000—Houston by 3 points!”

In his room at the Great Northern the One-Armed Man mutters, “He’s close.” He sends the nurse for water, knocks out the guard, and escapes through a window.

Act 3: Afternoon - Hank enters the Double RR and apologizes to Norma for his absence. Her mother is in the kitchen and over hears. Norma tells Hank to ask for help next time he has trouble. Hank greets Norma’s mother. Vivian invites Hank and Norma to dine with her and her husband at the Great Northern at 8:30.

At the sheriff’s station Pete enters Truman’s office and joins Harry in observing a pileated woodpecker through the window. Pete tells Harry that Josie’s gone. Harry tells Pete she sold the mill to Ben Horne. Pete says he loved her. Harry says he did too and that he watched her leave with her assistant. Pete identifies him as her cousin, Jonathan. Truman says she told him he was her assistant, Mr. Lee. Pete repeats “Lee” and says he has a bad feeling. Cooper enters and reports that Gerrard is missing. Truman and Cooper leave. Andy enters the station and sees Lucy with a baby. Andy faints. Pete goes back to the cells and laugh at Ben. He plays a recording: Catherine greets Ben and recalls the night they spent together, the night Laura Palmer died. She says she’ll trade her testimony for the Mill and Ghostwood Estates. A representative will visit Ben with documents within 24 hours. Pete laughs and leaves. Ben destroys a pillow and turns over the bunk beds.

Leland sings “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” while driving all over the road. Truman and Cooper (who is whistling the same song) are almost forced off the road by Leland. They pull him over. Leland is contrite and says he was on his way to the club to try out a new set of irons when he starting thinking about Ben. He tells Cooper he remembered working late at the office with Ben the night of the murder and that Ben got a phone call about 10 o’clock, that Ben seemed agitated and said something about a “dairy.” Cooper suggests, “diary.” and Leland agrees. Lucy calls an urgent message for Truman. Leland wants to show Cooper his new clubs and goes to open the trunk. Truman calls to Cooper that they found Gerrard near the waterfall and Cooper fails to see the hand and the plastic-wrapped parcel when Leland opens the trunk to remove a club. Cooper and Truman drive off. Leland puts the club in the trunk, re-enters the car, and looks at Bob’s reflection in the rearview mirror.

Act 4: Hawk brings Gerrard into the Sheriff’s station passed Andy, still on the floor, with Lucy holding an ice pack to his head while her sister prattles on and interrupts Andy’s attempts to tell Lucy about his sperm count. They tell Gwen to shut up and she leaves. When Andy explains that his sperm count was normal and that he is the father, Lucy appears dismayed. In Ben’s cell Gerrard looks at Ben and says Bob is not there now. Jerry asks who Bob is and demands they charge Ben or let him go. Truman charges Ben with the murder of Laura Palmer. He tells Hawk to take Gerrard back to the Great Northern. Ben threatens Truman. Cooper asks Truman outside and tells him he doesn’t think Ben killed Laura. Truman says he’s had enough of dreams, visions, dwarf, giants, Tibet; he has hard evidence against Ben. Cooper leaves.

Night, after 8:30 - In the Great Northern dining room Vivian says the salmon was fresh and firm and just a little bit overdone. Norma and Vivian go the the rest room. Hank knows Ernie Niles, Ernie “The Professor” Niles, from prison and asks what his angle is. Ernie insists he’s gone straight and says that Vivian doesn’t know about him. Hank says the family is important and one must be prepared to pay any price to protect it. Norma and Vivian return and Hank proposes a toast to the newlyweds.

11:05PM - Cooper starts to tell Diane about the trail narrowing when a knock on the door interrupts. He admits Audrey into his room. She asks about Ben’s arrest, then crawls onto the bed and starts to tell Cooper that she didn’t allow anyone at One-Eyed Jacks. Cooper has one knee on the bed when the phone rings. He answers it and then tells Audrey to go to her room and lock the door.

Near the waterfall Cooper arrives as they open up the plastic. Truman identifies the body as Maddy Ferguson.

Notes:

Timeline: Friday, March 10th

Original Air Date: November 17, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2008

Nielson Rating: 8.2/?

Directed By: Caleb Deschanel

Written By: Scott Frost

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell (voice)
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Grace Zabriskie ... Sarah Palmer
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
David Patrick Kelly ... Jerry Horne
James Booth ... Ernie Niles
Kathleen Wilhoite ... Gwen Morton
Jane Greer ... Vivian Smythe Niles
Al Strobel ... Phillip Michael Gerard
Emily Fincher ... Louise Dombrowski
Dave Bean ... Sheriff's Deputy
Frank Silva ... BOB

Our Rating:

Thoughts:

EPISODE 16

2008-08-02T20:09:00.000-07:00

Act 1: Morning - Albert, Cooper, Truman and Hawk are walking outdoors along a path in the woods. Albert says that Maddy was murdered by the same man who killed Laura, there was an “O” under Maddy’s ring fingernail, and she had strands from the fur of a stuffed white fox in her right hand. Cooper tells Truman not to make phone calls reporting Maddy’s murder - he wants 24 hours to finish the case. Albert advises Cooper to follow his vision quest before there’s another killing. Hawk tells Cooper he’s on the path and to follow it.

At the Double RR Donna and James chat over coffee. James gives Donna a ring. Norma and Vivian quarrel over Norma’s omelets. Andy tries to say “J’ai une âme solitaire” and Donna overhears him; when she asks him about it, Andy tells her about Harold Smith’s suicide note. Donna leaves to find Cooper.

As Donna, Cooper, and Andy approach Mrs. Tremond’s apartment Donna tells Cooper about Mrs. Tremond’s telling her about Harold and her grandson’s saying the same words as in Harold’s note. When they knock on the door a middle-aged woman answers. She identifies herself as Mrs.Tremond and tells Donna she could not have seen her mother because she’d been dead for three years. She also has no children. When the woman learns Donna’s name she gives her an envelope that she found in her mail the day after Harold’s death; it’s addressed to Donna in Harold’s handwriting. The envelope contains a page torn from Laura’ diary. An entry for February 22 describes a dream Laura had that seems identical to Cooper’s dream about the dwarf. She writes that she has to stop Bob, Bob’s afraid of only one man, Mike, and Laura wonders if the old man in her dream was Mike. On February 23 Laura wrote, “Tonight is the night that I die - it’s the only way to keep Bob away from me.” Cooper remarks that Laura and he had the same dream. He tells Andy to take Donna home, while Cooper goes to see Gerrard.

Act 2: Cooper talks to Mike while Dr. Hayward urges that Gerrard be given his drug. Cooper urges Mike to tell him how to unlock the dream. Mike tells him that when he and Bob were killing together there was a perfect relationship, appetite, satisfaction, a golden circle. Cooper says he gave his ring to the Giant. Mike says the Giant can help find Bob, but Cooper must ask him first. As Cooper leaves he encounters the old waiter, who carries a glass of milk and says, “I know about you. That milk will cool down on you, but it’s getting warmer now.” He gives the thumbs-up sign to Cooper.

In Ben’s office Truman tells Cooper about finding a record of the telephone call Leland reported, a call to Laura Palmer’s number. He notes the stuffed white fox and concludes that Maddy was here. Albert reports that Maddy died the night before last between 10PM and midnight and Truman says that fits, “we didn’t take Ben until after midnight,” an apparent error by Truman. Albert gives Cooper the results of Ben Horne’s blood test.

In the Sheriff’s station a workman adjusts the sensitivity of the sprinkler system while Andy tells Lucy he wants to talk about their baby. Lucy tells him she’s not certain if the baby is his or Dick’s. Andy calls Tremayne and tells him they need to talk. Tojamura visits Ben’s cell with papers for him to sign. Ben says he cannot deliver on the Ghostwood contract and Tojamura asks for the return of the $5 million. As Ben explains about Jerry’s looking for a better lawyer, Tojamura extends a bare, pedicured foot through the bars and Ben recognizes her as Catherine. Catherine calls him slimy rat bastard and says she intends to make his life hell. Ben asks her to tell Truman about his being with her the night of Laura’s murder. He signs Ghostwood and the mill over to her and she starts to leave. She tells him she’ll consider telling the sheriff, that “we’ve spent our entire adult lives lying to each other. Why spoil it with the truth now?”

Leland greets Donna, who has come to deliver a tape of the song she, Maddy, and James recorded, so that Leland may mail it to Maddy. He recognizes Laura’s sunglasses and be comes agitated. She tells him about the discovery of Laura’s secret diary. Leland gets a phone call from Beth, who reports that Maddy never came home. When Donna becomes upset, Leland suggests lemonade.

Act 3: Donna is startled when Leland returns with the lemonade. He puts on a phonograph record of “J’attendrai” and asks Donna to dance with him. We see flashes of BOB as thunder is heard. Leland grabs Donna but the doorbell rings. Leland admits Truman who tells him he needs Leland’s help because there’s been another murder. Crying, Donna walks through the woods. James drives upon his motorcycle. Donna tells him that Maddy’s been killed. James says they could have helped her. He says this is no good. Maddy asks him not to leave. He says nothing they do matters. He leaves. Donna cries.

A thunderstorm is in progress. Ben is in a booth at the Roadhouse. Cooper and Albert are at the bar. Truman brings Leland in. Ed Hurley joins them. Cooper tells them to clear a space in the center of the room. Cooper summarizes the investigation and his techniques. He says he needs magic. There’s an awkward moment. Cooper says someone is missing. The clock strikes 3pm and Major Brigs enters with the old waiter, who had flagged him down. The waiter gives Cooper a stick of gum. Leland recognizes the gum from his childhood. The waiter says, “that gum you like is going to come back in style.” Cooper recalls his dream. Laura whispers, “My father killed me.” to Cooper. The Giant appears and drops Cooper’s ring to the floor. Cooper puts a stick of gum in his mouth , picks up the ring, and tells Ben Horne to accompany him to the sheriff’s office, with Leland as Ben’s attorney. As they leave, Cooper flashes the thumbs-up sign to the waiter.

Act 4: They arrive at the sheriff’s station at 3:56 pm. Cooper tells them to take Ben Horne into an interrogation room. Leland says he wants to begin bail proceedings, but Cooper puts him off, then whispers something to Truman. When they open the door of the interrogation room, they push Leland inside and lock the door. Leland starts to hoot and slams himself against the walls. Cooper tells Hawk to take Ben upstairs and release him. Ben says, “Leland?” Hawk says that’s not Leland. When Cooper explains to Truman what Laura told him in her dream, Truman remarks that he needs hard evidence. Cooper suggests a confession. They cuff Leland in a chair. Hawk keeps a gun aimed at him. Truman reads him his rights. Leland laughs and says, “I suppose you want to ask him some questions.” When Cooper asks if he killed Laura Palmer, Leland hoots and says, “that’s a yes.” He admits killing Maddy because he has a “thing for knives, just like what happened to you in Pittsburgh. ”He describes Leland as a good vehicle, but says it’s time to shuffle off. When Cooper asks if Leland knows what “you’ve” done, he tells Cooper to watch Leland remember, but not for long, when he goes. Truman says that’s enough for him and they leave Leland alone. Dick Tremayne arrives and Lucy takes him into the Sheriff’s conference room, where Andy is. She tells them she’s going to keep her baby and will depend on a post-natal blood test to determine who the father is. Dick’s cigarette smoke rises toward the smoke detector. Outside the interrogation room Cooper says Ben Horne’s blood type was wrong. He points out that the action of the dwarf in his dream, dancing, pointed to Leland’s compulsive dancing. The man next door was Robertson - Mike said the people Bob in habited where his children - son of Robert, the name being spelled under the fingernails. Leland killed Laura because she was on to him, as he learned from her diary. Leland placed the call to Laura from Ben’s office. Cooper suggests Leland killed Maddy because she reminded him of Laura. Leland recites the poem and screams the last line, “fire walk with me.” The sprinkler system goes off. Leland/Bob goes ballistic. He hoots and beats his head against the door. They open it and find Leland on the floor. Before he dies Leland remembers that he killed Laura. He says they wanted Laura but she fought them. She wouldn’t let them in so they killed her...Cooper comforts Leland and tells him the time has come to seek the path...to enter the light. Leland says he sees Laura in the light. He dies.

The next morning Cooper, Truman, and Albert encounter Major Briggs on the path in the woods. Truman remarks that Leland was completely insane. Albert says people saw Bob in visions. When Truman says he has trouble believing, Cooper asks if it’s easier to believe a man would rape and murder his own daughter. “Is that any more comforting ”Briggs asks if it matters what the cause is and Cooper replies, “yes. It’s our job to stop it.” Truman says that if Bob were real, he’s gotten away, “where is he now?”

The camera tracks passed a wrecked car into and along a ravine until an owl flies directly at the camera.

Notes: Despite being listed in the credits, Mädchen Amick, Jack Nance, Sherilyn Fenn and Joan Chen do not appear. This is the only episode of Twin Peaks that contains no night scenes.

Timeline: Saturday, March 11th

Original Air Date: December 1, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2009

Nielson Rating: 72nd 7.9/15

Directed By: Tim Hunter

Written By: Mark Frost, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Ray Wise ... Leland Palmer
Piper Laurie ... Mr. Tojamura / Catherine Martell
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn Packard
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Sheryl Lee ... Madeleine Ferguson / Laura Palmer
Miguel Ferrer ... FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
Jane Greer ... Vivian Smythe Niles
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Al Strobel ... Phillip Michael Gerard
Michael J. Anderson ... Man from Another Place
Clive Rosengren ... Mr. Zipper
Frank Silva ... BOB
Carel Struycken ... The Giant
Mae Williams ... Mrs. Tremond #2
Hank Worden ... The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter

Our Rating: B+

Thoughts: Episode 16 concludes the first half of the series in fine fashion as Cooper (with a little help from a few Lodge Spirits) concludes and remembers from his dream that Leland is the killer. Tim Hunter delivers a polished story full of thoughtful camera angels and beautiful lighting (the early scene of Donna and James at the Double RR is very striking.) The scene with Leland almost making Donna his next victim (if only it were so) is quite effective, especially as it takes place in the middle of the day. In fact, this is the only episode of Twin Peaks with no night scenes. The writers push the forced quirkiness a bit in the Roadhouse scene, and indeed the help Cooper receives seems a little bit too pat at times. Why is this help given to Cooper all of the sudden? Is it because of Maddy's death? Or, has Cooper at last adequately looked inside himself using his mind/body techniques to recognize the clues that have been around him all along? Cooper treats Leland with extraordinary kindness during his death scene for someone who raped and murdered his own child.

EPISODE 17

2008-07-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

Act 1: Three days Later, Morning - Mrs. Palmer refuses an injection from Dr. Hayward because she wants to “be there” for both of them. Cooper explains to her that Leland didn’t do these things and Sarah comments, “no, the man that I saw.” Cooper tells her Leland drugged her to keep his actions secret, and that he saw Laura before he died and that he died in peace. Cooper offers to drive her to the funeral.

There’s a large buffet for the crowded post-funeral wake at Sarah Palmer’s house. Nadine rubs her fingers over her patent leather shoes to see her reflection. Hank takes plates of food past Norma, who’s talking to Ed Hurley, to Mrs. Palmer, who is seated in conversation with Mrs. Hayward and Audrey Horne. Donna tells Ed that James acts as though he thinks the deaths are his fault.Ed tells her James will be back. Major Briggs enters and greets Dr. Jacoby. Jacoby, wearing his sunglasses with two-colored lenses and a painted necktie, converses with Cooper and Truman. Major Briggs invites Cooper for an evening of night fishing. Nadine asks Ed if her shoes reflect her underpants. Sarah talks about Donna and Laura promising to be best friends forever. Mayor Milford and his brother Dougie get into a fight over an old flame. Pete explains to Cooper that Dwayne is jealous of Dougie, who’s engaged to a girl in her teens.

Act 2: Early afternoon - The vice principal at Twin Peaks High School displays doubt over the request from Dr. Jacoby and Ed Hurley to admit a 35-year-old woman to the senior class. Nadine enters and expresses impatience to go to class. She says she wants to try out for cheerleader and Ed tells her to go practice her splits.

Cooper is packing at the Great Northern. Audrey enters his room and notes that he’s leaving. Cooper explains that he’s going fishing, but that he’s also leaving. Audrey suggests that someone must have hurt him badly once, but Cooper says, “no. Someone was hurt by me. ”He tells her he loved a woman who was a material witness in a federal crime, a witness he and Windom Earle were supposed to protect. They failed. She died in his arms, he was badly hurt, and his partner lost his mind. Audrey tells him to watch out for her when she’s older.

12:35pm - Bobby puts on one of Leo’s suits for his visit to Ben Horne. Shelley tells Bobby she wants to go out, but Bobby tells her to be patient and leaves.

Dressed much like a bum Catherine visits Truman in his office and tells him she believes an angel saved her life. She tells Truman about going to the drying shed, finding Shelley, and the bomb that started the fire. After that she found herself in the woods and at dawn found herself at her old summer cabin at Pearl Lakes, where she lived on canned tuna fish. Dick Tremayne tells Lucy he’s quit smoking and wants to discuss “their” child. Andy interrupts to say they should all be friends. Hawk tells Andy he’s crazy. Cooper arrives at Truman’s office to say goodbye. Truman gives him some green-butt-skunk fishing lures and a Bookhouse Boy Patch; he’s one of them now. Cooper says goodbye to Hawk, Andy, and Lucy. A Canadian Mountie enters and introduces his companion to Truman as Special Agent Roger Hardy of the FBI. Hardy suspends Cooper without pay.

Act 3: In Truman’s office, Cooper explains that Roger represents bureau Internal Affairs and suspects that the problem is because he crossed into Canada. When Truman says that was related to a case he was working on, the Mountie says he should have been informed. Cooper explains the charge as malfeasance - improper and unlawful execution of an act that is in itself proper and lawful. Hardy says he’s waiting for some evidence to arrive and that they’ll convene in one hour, alone.

At the Great Northern Bobby waits to see Ben, but when Samantha tells him Ben could see him in a month, Bobby tells her to tell Ben it’s about the tape he got yesterday. Audrey discovers Bobby and they comment that they’re both not in school. Audrey gets Bobby into see Ben. Ben has him thrown out. Audrey rescues Bobby from Ben’s men and invites him for ice cream. When Bobby asks if she wants a cup or a cone, Audrey says, “cone. I like to lick.”

In the sheriff’s conference room Hardy asks Cooper the purpose of the first visit to One Eyed Jacks and Cooper tells him it was to gather information about Laura’s death from Jacques Renault and that the second visit was to rescue Audrey Horne from her kidnappers. Mountie King says he had worked on a sting to nail Jean Renault but that Cooper’s visit lead to Jean’s escape, the deaths of two men, and the loss of some cocaine. Cooper says three people were killed: Blackie killed by Jean, Battis, and a bodyguard killed in self defense. He says he knows nothing about drugs. Hardy says the DEA has been brought in and gives Cooper 24 hours to assemble his defense. Hardy takes Cooper’s gun and badge. Truman is called in. He gives Cooper the Bookhouse Boy signal as Cooper leaves. Hardy asks for Truman’s cooperation. Truman tells King he needs extradition papers to get a statement from him and that Hardy needs a subpoena. He calls Cooper the finest lawman he’s ever seen and tells them to help themselves to coffee on the way out.

At Twin Peaks High School cheerleader tryouts are in progress. Nadine, calling herself Nadine Butler, does tumbling and then throws Mike Nelson high in the air and into a volleyball net.

At 5:20 in the afternoon Shelly is angry and almost ignores the phone when Bobby calls. She tells him they have to put Leo in a home. The she sees that Leo’s wheel chair has moved. “He’s moved,” she tells Bobby.

Act 4: Norma removes tablecloths from the tables at the RR in early evening, while her mother tries to get her to cheer up. Nadine complains about the bad review her restaurant got and when Vivian tells her that she is M. T. Wentz, who wrote the poor review, Norma tells Vivian to get out of her life.

At Night Hank and Ernie enter an office in One Eyed Jacks with two girls. After the girls leave, Jean interrupts Hank and Ernie’s horseplay. Jean tells them he needs one hundred twenty-five thousand immediately. Ernie describes himself as a broker with many financial contacts. Jean signals and Mountie King, dressed in a civilian dinner jacket, enters with an aluminium case. Jean says Ernie’s their new broker. Hank takes Ernie to the casino as Jean discusses the cocaine in the case with King. Jean says four sacks are for “us” and just a little can put the nail in Cooper’s coffin. King says he only needs a little to put a trace into Cooper’s car. Jean says he wants him crucified. King leaves with one sack.

There’s a full moon. Truman is awakened by a rattle at his door. When he opens it Josie collapses against him. She’s crying.

Cooper and Major Briggs toast marshmallows over a campfire. Cooper wonders if Bob was real, that it’s hard to imagine him incarnate and searching for another victim. The Major talks about powerful forces of evil and fear creating vulnerability to darkness. He says Cooper’s been blessed with certain gifts and asks Cooper if he’s heard of the White Lodge. [We see a movement through the trees reminiscent of the movement at the end of the previous episode.] Cooper answers a call of nature. He says there’s nothing like urinating in the open air and that he looks forward to hearing about the White Lodge. Briggs gives him a thumbs-up sign as Cooper leaves. An owl hoots. Cooper relieves himself behind a tree and looks up at the owl. A bright white light shines. The Major yells, “Cooper! Cooper!” A hooded, robed figure stands silhouetted by the light. Cooper runs back to the campfire. The Major has vanished. Cooper follows the bright light for a short distance until it suddenly vanishes.

Notes: For the first and only time in the series, several days pass since the previous episode. Hence the caption 'Three days later' at the start of the episode.

Timeline: Wednesday, March 15th

Original Air Date: December 8th, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2010

Nielson Rating: 75th 7.4/14

Directed By: Tina Rathborne

Written By: Tricia Brock

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Russ Tamblyn ... Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
Grace Zabriskie ... Sarah Palmer
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
James Booth ... Ernie Niles
Jane Greer ... Vivian Smythe Niles
Clarence Williams III ... FBI Agent Roger Hardy
Gavan O'Herlihy ... RCMP Officer Preston King
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Tony Jay ... Dougie Milford
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Mary Jo Deschanel ... Eileen Hayward
Don Calfa ... Vice Principal Greege
Michael Parks ... Jean Renault
John Boylan ... Mayor Dwayne Milford
Lisa Cloud ... P.E. Teacher
Tiffany Muxlow ... Cheerleader
Susan Sundholm ... Samantha

Our Rating: C

Thoughts: If Twin Peaks can be said to be in two parts, then Episode 17 certainly signals the start of the second half of the show. It's a shaky start. Indeed, after Leland dies the writers float around from one uninteresting subplot to another. Will Audrey and Bobby hook up? Will hilarity ensue for Nadine during each school day? Twin Peaks always works best when a dominate story line hovers above the narrative (Laura Palmer's death in the earlier episodes and Windom Earle's Black Lodge quest at the end of the series) However, here and for the next five episodes or so, we are lost in a no man's land of material, picking and choosing several decent scenes along the way.

EPISODE 18

2008-07-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

Act 1: James rides his bike along a road.

In the sheriff’s office Betty Briggs tells Truman and Cooper that Garland has disappeared before, but always in connection with his job. When she remarks that the major talked about the woods constantly, Cooper asks if he was attempting to contact an element in the woods as part of his work. Mrs. Briggs tells him that is classified. After she leaves, Cooper tells Truman that the flash of light he saw was a powerful force that lives in those woods. Andy and Hawk enter with a present for the Milford wedding: a matched scarf and ascot set. A temporary operator, there because Lucy is helping with the wedding, tells Cooper he has a long distance call. It’s Gordon Cole, calling from Bend, Oregon, who tells Cooper he has his full support. He tells Cooper the DEA is sending Dennis Bryson to investigate. Cole’s advise to Cooper: Let a smile be your umbrella. Cooper enters the conference room to meet with Roger Hardy and two other investigators, one using a Mac portable. When Roger asks Cooper for his defense, Cooper says he has none but will defend himself in court if charged. Cooper tells Roger he’s focusing beyond the board at a bigger game, the sound wind makes through the pines, the sentience of animals, what we are in the dark, and what lies beyond the darkness. He says he’s talking beyond fear and looking at the world with love. Roger tells him he’s likely to be extradited for murder and drug trafficking and that he may recommend a full psychological workup.

Act 2: Nadine greets Donna at her locker between classes at Twin Peaks High School. Donna asks about James. Nadine asks about Mike and says there’s some major chemistry developing. When Mike walks by Nadine says he has the “cutest buns.”

James parks next to a black Corvette at Wallies. He takes a place at the bar next to an older blond woman. James orders a beer. The woman asks where he’s going and he tells her he’s from Twin Peaks. She asks if he’s good with cars because she drove her husbands Jaguar into a ditch and needs it repaired before he gets home. She introduces herself as Evelyn Marsh, who lives right down the road. James agrees to look at the car, after he plays the jukebox.

Andy arranges flowers in a vase on Lucy’s desk just as Dick enters with a child he introduces as Nicky, his charge from Happy Helping Hand. Dick explains they were on their way for a malted and hoped Lucy could come with them. When Andy explains her absence, Dick tells Nicky they can’t go for the malted. Andy suggests he take them both out for a malted.

In the sheriff’s office Cooper asks Truman and Hawk if they ever heard of a place called the White Lodge. Hawk asks where he heard of it. Cooper explains that the major mentioned it just before disappearing. Hawk comments that “you may be fearless in this world, but there are other worlds.”He tells that his people believe the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature live. Truman remarks the legend goes way back. Hawk then describes a legend about a shadow self of the White Lodge called the Black Lodge. He explains that “every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it the Dweller on the Threshold...It is said if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate you.” The operator interrupts to announce Agent Bryson’s arrival. Cooper says he worked with Dennis in Oakland. The door opens and a bewigged man dressed in woman’s clothing enters. When Cooper
exclaims “Dennis,” the man tells him it’s a long story and he prefers “Denise” now. Denise tells Cooper the DEA’s interest is in the allegation that Cooper stole drugs from an RPMC sting operation. Denise leaves for the Great Northern.

At the high school Mike leg presses 240 pounds. Nadine uses the bench next to his to leg press 600 pounds without apparent effort. A coach asks Nadine if she considered going out for the wrestling team. Mike is stunned.

Act 3: Josie rests in Truman’s bed, where he joins her. She explains to him about working for Thomas Eckhardt in Hong Kong since he took her off the streets when she was 16. He taught her about life and business. When she met Andrew Packard, a business partner, she was already afraid for her life so she accepted Andrew’s marriage proposal. She explains that Mr. Lee works for Eckhardt and that he threatened Truman’s life if she didn’t leave with him. She says Eckhardt is responsible for Andrew’s death. She escaped at the Seattle airport.

Roger reads a copy of the Twin Peaks Gazette in a booth at the Double RR, where Norma serves him pie. Hank and Ernie enter. Norma asks after their hunting trip while Hank heads for coffee. Ernie claims to have shot a 12-point buck. Norma tells him that Vivian left for Seattle and suggests he follow her. Hank tells Ernie he’s better off without Vivian around while they have 4 kilos to dispose of. Norma serves two Three berry Pies and 1 chocolate malted to Andy, Dick, and Nicky. Nicky blows whipped cream over Dick’s face. When Andy gets up to get Dick some napkins, Nicky spins Andy’s stool so Andy is thrown to the floor.

At Evelyn Marsh’s house, James gets out from under a jacked-up 1948 Jaguar sedan in the garage. Evelyn explains that her husband, Jeffrey, travels extensively on business and she doesn’t know where he is this week. She says Jeffrey has to have the most unique and beautiful toys; they have to be perfect. “I could have learned something from that if I’d been paying attention,” she says. James says he’s not interested so much in how his bike looks but where it can take him, to a feeling not a place. She offers him the room over the garage, room and board, and anything else he thinks is fair, if he’ll work on the car and fix it before Jeffrey gets home. She also says she’d enjoy the company.

In his office, unshaven Ben Horne, looking as though he’d slept in his clothes, watches home movies of the groundbreaking of the Great Northern Hotel. “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York,” he recites as he approaches the screen to kiss his mother’s image. Hank enters. Ben tells him that Catherine is alive and has cheated him out of both Ghostwood and the mill. Hank tells Ben he’s out at One-Eyed Jacks due to a friendly takeover. Ben warns Hank about working for Jean Renault, whom he calls a psychopath. Hank leaves and Ben makes finger shadows on the screen.

In his room at the Great Northern Cooper opens an envelope from Windom Earle: a card with “P to Q4” and a micro cassette tape that Cooper plays. Earle comments on Cooper’s tidy response to his traditional opening and warns Dale that predictable patterns leave him vulnerable to attack. He says his knight’s skirmishing will open lanes of power for his bishops and rooks and suggests he would sacrifice his queen to attain his goal: the king must die.

Act 4: Truman escorts Dwayne Milford from Dougie’s wedding when the mayor objects to his marriage to a “gold digger who just wants his money and publishing empire.”

Cooper takes a call from Denise and accepts his invitation to the reception.

At the reception Cooper finds Denise sitting at the bar and holding the bride’s bouquet. Denise says he had an unfair advantage, “how many of these girls were varsity wide receivers?” Denise tells Cooper he found cocaine residue in Cooper’s car and guesses it will match the lot stolen from the mounties. He says it looks like a frame but needs evidence. At Cooper’s prompting, Denise explains that he had worked undercover in suburban surveillance of a seller who would only sell to transvestites. Dennis played the buyer and found that wearing women’s clothes was very comfortable. At a table, Dwayne
complains to Pete about Dougie. Cooper dances with Audrey. Andy dances with Denise.

Josie tells Catherine that Andrew was killed by Thomas Eckhardt and that Catherine is in danger. She says she’s at Catherine’s mercy. Catherine tells Josie she can work for her as her maid and warns her that if she disobeys or lies she’ll find Eckhardt and feed her to him. After Josie leaves,Andrew Packard enters and says “everything is going exactly as we planned” and now they have to wait for Eckhardt to come looking for his one true love.”

Notes: The closing credits appear over Ben's home movies. This is the only time a non-standard end credit sequence has happened with a director other than Lynch. This would be the final episode shown until episode 19 was shown 4 weeks later on January 12th, 1991. Despite being listed in the credits, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Warren Frost, Everett McGill, Kimmy Robertson and Grace Zabriskie do not appear.

Timeline: Thursday, March 16th

Original Air date: December 15th, 1990

Official Episode Number: #2011

Nielson Rating: 67th 7.9/Unknown

Directed By: Duwayne Dunham

Written By: Barry Pullman

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (credit only)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs (credit only)
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward (credit only)
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley (credit only)
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran (credit only)
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn "Josie" Packard
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
Clarence Williams III ... FBI Agent Roger Hardy
James Booth ... Ernie Niles
David Duchovny ... DEA Agent Dennis / Denise Bryson
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Charlotte Stewart ... Betty Briggs
Gary Hershberger ... Mike Nelson
Tony Jay ... Dougie Milford
Robyn Lively ... Lana Budding Milford
Annette McCarthy ... Evelyn Marsh
Royce D. Applegate ... Rev. Clarence Brocklehurst
Ron Taylor ... Coach Wingate
Dan O'Herlihy ... Andrew Packard
John Boylan ... Mayor Dwayne Milford
Catherine E. Coulson ... The Log Lady
Joshua Harris ... Nicholas 'Little Nicky' Needleman
David Lynch ... FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (voice)
Jill Rogosheske ... Trudy Chelgren
Kenneth Welsh ... Windom Earle (voice)

Our Rating: C

Thoughts: If there is one episode of Twin Peaks that could truly be called innocuous, then episode 18 would be it. There is nothing exceptional (besides the touching scene of Ben watching home movies) or offending that is offered. In fact, this chapter has an almost Bizarro-Twin Peaks flavor to it. Absent are many regulars (Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Warren Frost, Everett McGill, Kimmy Robertson and Grace Zabriskie) and Audrey turns up like an extra, dancing with Cooper for about 5 seconds. The pacing seems a little odd here as well with some scenes being very brief while a few seem to go on forever. Richard Beymer has mentioned that his favorite scene is offered in this episode and we must agree. Tough to do with so many memorable moments littered throughout the series. With so many uninteresting things going on, did anyone expect the cliffhanger to be spectacular? Neither did we.

"I remember that that scene was the first time I ever felt like an actor. I have heard actors talk, all my life, about getting into it. I've always thought 'Yeah, yeah - to a certain degree' But i've never had that total giving over to it. For some reason or other, that scene did it... The scene was supposed to end when Hank says 'Ben, you're through,' and he walks out of the scene. The director just kept the film going, and I started saying 'You're out Ben!' and laughing at it all. Then I went back to the desk, sat on the desk with my legs crossed, and played shadow games. All of that was just [improvisation]; no one had said 'Cut!' yet, so I kept going... For me, that was the high point of the shooting"
Richard Beymer (Wrapped In Plastic #39)

EPISODE 19

2008-07-02T20:30:00.001-07:00

Act 1: Bobby Briggs visits Ben Horne in his office, where Ben has piled furniture and artifacts into a tower. Ben, still dishevelled and unshaven, tells Bobby he listened to the tape and asks what Bobby wants. Ben gives Bobby a camera and tells him to follow Hank Jennings and chronicle his activities. As Bobby leaves Ben’s office, the newly-wed Mrs. Milford runs screaming through the hallway.

Cooper examines photographs of two properties and tells the real estate agent that he’d like to see both. When the agent asks which he’d like to see first, Cooper flips a coin that lands on a photo of a different property, Dead Dog Farm, described by the agent as a puzzle - no one ever stays there long. Cooper decides he wants to see that one. Dick enters the sheriff’s office and meets Andy, Lucy, and Judy Swain, Nicky’s case manager with Happy Helping Hands. Judy tells them Nicky has been confused and traumatized by persistent random misfortunes that include the deaths of both his parents under mysterious circumstances. They are interrupted by Truman, who calls to Andy to accompany him to an emergency at the Great Northern.

In his room at the Great Northern, Dougie Milford lies dead in bed, attended by Dr. Hayward, who tells Truman and Andy that it looks like a heart attack. Dougie’s body is surrounded by sex manuals, love poems, and a box of sex toys. Dwayne Milford enters and grieves over his brother. As he leaves the room, he shouts accusations at Dougie’s widow, who sits outside the room. She tells Hawk that she’s cursed, that it started in high school when her date kissed her and locked his braces so that he had to go to the emergency room, where they broke his jaw to free it. Hawk tries to impress her with unsuccessful results.

In the Twin Peaks High School gym the coach encourages the wrestling team to accept Nadine. He has her wrestle Mike Nelson, whom she easily beats while asking him to go out with her.

Act 2: At Donna’s locker Mike asks Donna to help him to discourage Nadine.

At the Marsh house, James sorts tools in his room above the garage. The chauffeur, Malcolm Sloan, introduces himself as Evelyn’s brother. Malcolm, a heavy drinker, tells James that Jeffrey regularly beats Evelyn and that she perpetuates the cycle by trying to get even by breaking Jeffrey’s things.

At Dead Dog Farm, which Irene, the real estate agent, describes as an old legend - of all the people in the world the best and the worst are drawn to Dead Dog and only those wity purity of heart can feel it’s pain. Cooper notices tracks made by three vehicles: a jeep, a 4-wheeler, and a luxury sedan. The door to the house is open and Cooper says there’s been a meeting here within the past few hours. He finds residue of baby laxative in the sink and cocaine on a chair. He tells Irene they have to notify the sheriff.

Dick is seated next to the front right wheel of his jacked-up car with tools and an instruction manual; he’s slowly changing the tire while Nicky plays with the steering wheel and horn. After Dick orders Nicky from the car, and while Nicky is standing looking away from the car, the car slips off it's jack. Nicky gets upset and asks if Dick’s going to die.

In his office Truman introduces Col. Reilly to Cooper as the head of an Air Force investigation into Major Briggs’ disappearance. The Colonel asks Cooper if he noticed any wildlife in the area and Cooper tells him he heard an owl moments before Briggs vanished. Truman urges the Colonel to level with them and Cooper tells him they know about the monitoring and the messages from deep space pertaining to Cooper. Reilly says the monitors are pointing at space but that the messages originated within the woods. Cooper asks about the White Lodge and Reilly says, “that’s classified.” He tells them Garland Briggs was the best pilot he’s ever known and that his disappearance has implications that “go so far beyond national security the cold war seems like a case of the sniffles.”

In the garage James starts the car and tells Evelyn the engine is fine and the axle should be ok. When Evelyn asks how he got so good with cars, James tells her about Ed. James refers to his talk with Malcolm and She tells James to mind his own business. They kiss. James asks Evelyn if she’s afraid and why she doesn’t leave Jeffrey. Their second kiss is interrupted by Jeffrey’s return home. As she leaves to meet Jeffrey, Evelyn tells James it’s not as bad as she made it out to be.

Act 3: Audrey intercepts Bobby on his return to Ben’s office. He tells her he’s on the payroll and asks her to celebrate with him. Audrey says they should do business together. She ducks away when he attempts to kiss her. As Bobby enters the office, Audrey enters a hidden doorway. In the office, Ben, wearing a Confederate Army coat, is constructing a model of Gettysburg on his desk. Bobby gives Ben pictures of Hank as Audrey listens from a secret room. Ben opens the envelope and is pleased. He gives Bobby some cash and tells him to come back tomorrow to discuss a full-time position.

6:25 p.m. - Catherine and Pete have a candlelight dinner with champagne. Pete recites part of Yeats’ “A Drinking Song.” Catherine asks Josie to serve the appetizer and reminds her to wear her maid’s cap. When Pete complains about Catherine’s treatment of Josie, Catherine tells him Josie had a hand in Andrew’s death and had done everything she could to destroy her.

In his room Cooper dictates to Diane an observation that a nationally distributed newspaper has printed his opening move in the personal column, but that he already received Earle’s reply, that Earle anticipated Cooper’s response perfectly. Cooper says he’s looking into real estate and discovering secrets that may be connected to his problems with the bureau. Audrey enters and shows Cooper the photographs that she’s stolen from her father’s office. The pictures show Hank, Ernie, Jean Renault and Sergeant King outside of Dead Dog Farm. Cooper tells Audrey she may have saved his life. Denise enters and hugs Cooper. Cooper introduces DEA Agent Deni se Bryson to Audrey, who says she didn’t know they had women agents. Audrey kisses Cooper and leaves. After Cooper shows the pictures to Denise and gives him the cocaine found at the site, Denise wants to know about Audrey. When Cooper says he didn’t think Denise was still interested in girls, Denise says, “I may be wearing a dress, but I still pull my panties on one leg at a time...”

Ed sits at the counter of the RR and toys with a piece of pie. Norma approaches and asks about his problems. Ed talks about plans not meaning as much as you grow up and Norma takes his hand and suggests they can make new plans. Hank observes.

Act 4: Night, thunderstorm in progress, Dick arrives at the sheriff’s station, ignores Lucy and seeks out Andy. Dick tells Andy they have a problem, that Nicky may be the devil or homicidal in the first degree. He tells Andy they have to find out what happened to Nicky’s parents. Dr. Hayward takes an autopsy report into Truman’s office, were Dwayne Milford sits, and tells them that Dougie died of a heart attack with no evidence of foul play. Dwayne tells Truman he’ll sue Milford’s widow to make sure she doesn’t get Dougie’s money. As Dwayne leaves, Hawk is standing in the doorway to the conference room with Mrs. Milford, who is dressed in a very short, but black dress. Hawk asks Truman if he still has that bottle of Irish in his office - he wants to put some in warm milk for her. Dick, Andy, Truman, and Dr. Hayward all stand in the hallway admiring Mrs. Milford as Lucy walks away annoyed. When Lucy returns to answer a call for Truman, she’s unable to find him. She opens the door to the conference room and find all the men gathered around the widow laughing at her stories. Lucy gets very upset when she sees how charmed Andy is by the widow and slams the door.

Denise enters the Double RR and sits at the booth where Ernie is eating. She shows him the photographs and her badge. She tells him he’s guilty of parole violation and has to cooperate or go back to prison for a long time.

In Cooper’s room Cooper and Denise question Ernie, who tries to avoid cooperation, but Denise insists that she will set up a meeting with a major drug buyer. When Ernie asks who the major drug buyer is, Denise says, “You’re looking at him.” Ernie acts ill.

In his room James hears shouting and sounds of fighting from the main house. Malcolm enters and tells James Evelyn made him promise four years ago not to interfere, but swears he’ll kill Jeffrey one day.

At the Briggs house Bobby talks with his mother while the storm is in progress. Bobby recalls the Major’s dream about Bobby. The lights go out. The Major appears suddenly in the house and asks how long he’s been gone. When Betty tells him two days, he says it seems much shorter. He embraces her, tells Bobby to put out his cigarette, and asks Bobby to fix him a strong cocktail. When Mrs. Briggs asks Garland is everything's all right, he says “no.”

Notes: Mädchen Amick does not appear in this episode despite being listed in the credits.

Timeline: Friday, March 17th

Original Air Date: January 12th, 1991

Official Episode Number: #2012

Nielson Rating: Unknown

Directed By: Caleb Deschanel

Written By: Harley Peyton and Robert Engels

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn "Josie" Packard
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
James Booth ... Ernie Niles
David Duchovny ... DEA Agent Dennis / Denise Bryson
Robyn Lively ... Lana Budding Milford
Tony Burton ... Colonel Riley
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Charlotte Stewart ... Betty Briggs
Tony Jay ... Dougie Milford
Gary Hershberger ... Mike Nelson
Annette McCarthy ... Evelyn Marsh
Nicholas Love ... Malcolm Sloan
Ron Taylor ... Coach Wingate
John Apicella ... Jeffrey Marsh
John Boylan ... Mayor Dwayne Milford
Joshua Harris ... Nicholas 'Little Nicky' Needleman
Geraldine Keams ... Irene Littlehorse
Molly Shannon ... Judy Swain
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (credit only)

Our Rating: C-

Thoughts: This episode has a relaxed and confident quality that nearly disguises the fact that not much is in fact happening. Nearly. Director Caleb Deschanel tries to infuse some atmosphere with a thunderstorm and some handsome camerawork, however, this only really works in the final scene with the return of the Major. Why does Pete no longer care for the wellbeing of Josie? It's also nice to know that some of the kids in Twin Peaks are still interested in attending school! In the end, too much slapstick and uninteresting plot lines leaves us stranded (like Dick and Little Nicky) in the proverbial woods.

EPISODE 20

2008-06-22T17:52:00.000-07:00

Act 1: A mysterious object rotates out of a star field. We see flames, then Major Briggs sitting on a stone seat in the woods. He says he remembers stepping from the flames, a vague shape in the dark, then nothing else until he found himself at the two-day-old campsite. The Major is seated in the sheriff’s conference room with Truman and Cooper. Dr. Hayward photographs the back of Briggs’ neck. The Major also recalls seeing the image of a giant owl. Dr. Hayward displays the photograph with three triangular scars behind the major’s right ear. Major Briggs is very upset and wonders if his experience was meant for his soul. When Cooper suggests he start at the beginning, the Major asks if they’re familiar with Project Blue Book, the Air Force investigation into UFOs that ended in 1969. The Major says some continued the effort unofficially both to examine the heavens and, as in Twin Peaks, the earth below. He says they’re searching for a place called The White Lodge. They are interrupted by two MPs who, on orders from Col Reilly, take the Major. As Cooper examines the photograph, a few drops of water drip on to it from the overhead sprinkler. In the sheriff’s office, Denise urges Ernie to make a phone call. Cooper enters. Ernie calls Jean Renault and tells him he has the out-of-town buyer. Andy enters the sheriff’s station, walks past Lucy, and encounters Dick who tells him about visiting the Happy Helping Hand Adoption Agency to find that Nicky’s records were sealed and returned to the orphanage. Andy and Dick plan a visit to the orphanage. They leave. Lucy tells Cooper she’s checked all the personal columns in national newspapers and found nothing that looked like a chess deal and no name like Windom Earle.

Ed drinks coffee at the Double RR. He passes a note to Norma, “We need to talk.”

As Shelly feeds Leo, we hear the introduction to “Invitation to Love.” Shelly complains that it was Bobby’s turn to feed Leo and Bobby claims he had baseball practice. He tells her he’s not coming back, that he has better things to do than bathe Leo. Shelly slaps him and Bobby leaves. Leo drools.

James phones Ed and asks that the money from his savings account be sent to him at Willies, the bar on the 96. Evelyn enters the garage and asks if he’s homesick. James tells her about Laura and his wanting to run away from Twin Peaks. Evelyn kisses him. They hear Jeffrey leaving and she tells James she needs his help.

9:25a.m. - Nadine sits next to Mike Nelson at the counter of the Double RR. Mike tells her he doesn’t want to know her. She tells him she wants to go out with him, kisses him, and pushes him off his stool. Norma puts on a coat and leaves after telling Hank she’s going to run some errands.

Act 2: Truman visits Josie at Blue Pine Lodge and asks why she isn’t moving into his place. Josie says she’s safe there. She says she’s no good for him. Truman kisses her and holds her.

Audrey watches Ben’s secretary run from his office in tears. She enters and finds Ben deep in his reenactment of Gettysburg. She tells him he needs help and uses the phone to call for Jerry Horne.

Norma visits Ed and they declare their love for each other with embraces and kisses.

Cooper and Truman are in Truman’s office where Hawk tapes a transmitter to Ernie’s abdomen. Ernie claims he suffers from hyperhydrosia when hawk complains about Ernie’s sweating. Ernie starts to recall Korean War experiences. Cooper makes Ernie review his plan to take Denise to Dead Dog Farm to meet Renault. Truman deputizes Cooper so he can go with them. Cooper pins deputy badge no. 13 on as Dennis enters dressed as a man.

There’s wind blowing through the trees as Dick and Andy enter the office of Dorritt Home for Boys. while everyone’s at lunch. Dick searches the files and finds the file on Nicholas Niedleman. He starts to read the file as a couple enter, introduce themselves as the Brunstons, who came to see Donny. Dick tells them little Donny isn’t feeling well.

Donna visits Ed and asks about James. Ed tells her about James’ phone call and gives her the money to take to the bar on 96. After she leaves, Ed turns to Norma, who kisses him and leaves. After Ed closes the door, Hank attacks him and slugs him repeatedly. Nadine enters and beats up Hank. Nadine comforts Ed.

Act 3: In his office Ben tells Bobby about the battle. Audrey opens the door and peeks in. Ben addresses Bobby as General Mead; Bobby says he has to talk to President Lincoln and leaves. Outside Bobby tells Audrey Ben has flipped. Audrey says Uncle Jerry will be home on the next plane and Dr. Jacoby will come over tomorrow. As they leave Catherine enters and goes into Ben’s office. Ben tells her to go ahead and gloat. Catherine says she did come to gloat, refers to Ben as “Slimy Rat Bastard Americanus - do not feed.” Then she tells him she wants him and embraces him. “You make my body hum,” she says. They kiss and hug.

James leads a blindfolded Evelyn to the car and lets her look at it. She says Jeffrey will be home at midnight. They drink champagne. She asks him not to leave. He starts to remove her clothes and presses her onto the fender while he kisses her. Malcolm watches and laughs to himself.

Truman and Cooper watch Ernie, Jean, Dennis, and Sergeant King through binoculars at Dead Dog Farm, while Hawk listens to their conversation over the radio. Ernie talks about hyperhydrosia and yellow fever. Dennis tries to hurry them. King tells Jean that Ernie’s shirt is smoking. Hawk tells Truman and Cooper that the wire’s dead. King and Renault emerge holding Ernie and Dennis as shields. Cooper exchanges himself for the hostages and Truman tells Hawk to call the state police.

Act 4: At night under a half moon, Evelyn leaves James’ bedroom and meets Malcolm, who asks about “their boy.” She says he’s “sound asleep and dreaming of love.” Malcolm and Evelyn kiss and embrace.

The state police arrive at Dead Dog Farm. Inside King suggests they deal or run. Jean asks Cooper if they will deal and Cooper tells him his only option is to surrender. Jean says he must decide whether to give up quietly or to kill Cooper. Jeans says Twin Peaks was quiet before Cooper arrived. He tells Cooper he may to have to die and “maybe the nightmare will die with you.” Denise approaches with a tray of food and Jean decides to let the girl in. She lifts her skirt to reveal a gun, which Cooper grabs. Cooper shoots Jean as Denise jumps King. Truman and the troopers break for the house. Jean dies. Denise credits Truman with the idea of her bringing food.

A record player is on at Shelly’s house. The lights dim and Shelly wakes up. She gets off the couch and looks for Bobby. She finds a clown doll on the pillow of Leo’s empty bed. She calls for Bobby. The lights dim again. She sees Leo standing, wearing the party hat. He says, “Shelly” and she screams. The lights go out.

Outside the darkened sheriff’s station Truman asks Lucy about a bomb report. Lucy tells him there was a voice on the phone that said there was a bomb planted in the woods. There was a huge explosion and the lights went out. Lucy called the fire department. There were two fires, one at the power station. Hawk goes to check the generator. Cooper enters the station and calls to Harry from Truman’s office. Harry enters and sees a body with long red hair tied to a chair with one hand pointing to a chess board. Cooper says it’s Windom Earle’s next move.

Notes:

Timeline: Saturday, March 18th

Original Air Date: January 19th, 1991

Official Episode Number: #2013

Nielson Rating: Unknown

Directed By: Todd Holland

Written By: Harley Peyton

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Kimmy Robertson ... Lucy Moran
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Chris Mulkey ... Hank Jennings
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
James Booth ... Ernie Niles
David Duchovny ... DEA Agent Dennis / Denise Bryson
Gavan O'Herlihy ... RCMP Officer Preston King
Wendy Robie ... Nadine Hurley
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Gary Hershberger ... Mike Nelson
Annette McCarthy ... Evelyn Marsh
Nicholas Love ... Malcolm Sloan
Michael Parks ... Jean Renault
J. Marvin Campbell ... M.P. #1
Will Seltzer ... Mr. Brunston
Craig McLachlan ... Drifter

Our Rating: B

Thoughts: Todd Holland delivers a solid episode with several stand-out sequences including the mysterious opening to the show, Leo coming back to life and the hostage situation at Dead Dog Farm. James Booth as Ernie Niles continues to entertain and Michael Parks shines in his final moments. The Evelyn and Civil War scenes are for the most part unobtrusive. In the penultimate scene with Shelly and Leo, superb direction and lighting lead to a wonderfully atmospheric conclusion of Leo (complete with hat and frosting still on his face) delivering what he has been promising to the audience for much of the second season. This would have been a much stronger ending.

EPISODE 21

2008-06-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Act 1: Power is still off in Truman’s office. Dr. Hayward removes a black pawn from the dead man’s mouth. Cooper tells Hayward he believes he’ll find a stab wound one inch beneath the sternum, penetrating upward to sever the aorta. As the doctor uncovers the wound Cooper tells Truman he’s seen a wound like it before. They find evidence from a pine tree on the floor. Hawk reports footprints outside, going and coming, made with the same boots. When Truman asks if Cooper is sure Windom Earle is behind this, Cooper says that a vagrant, the victim, was given a lift and driven up the ridge, where the car will be found, and stabbed once. He asserts that Windom Earle engineered the explosion that cause the power outage so that he could bring the body in through the window while everyone was out of the station. He says Earle is a genius who’s taken his first pawn in a sick game.

Candles illuminate the Great Northern where Audrey tells Bobby that it’s their job to help her father recover his senses. “From now on,” she tells Bobby, “I’m the one you suck up to.”

At the Johnson house, Shelly calls Leo’s name as the lights flicker on and off. Leo throws something at her and she tries to run. An owl watches outside as Shelly fails to open the locked doors. Leo trips her with the wheelchair and calls her a “bad girl.” She picks up a knife and threatens to kill him. He throws her to the floor. Bobby knocks at the door. Leo picks up an axe and throws a table over. Bobby calls for Shelly through a window and Leo grabs him. Bobby breaks free. Leo says, “goodbye, wife” and raises the axe. Bobby attacks Leo. Leo holds Bobby up with the axe handle under his chin. Shelly finds her knife and stabs Leo in the leg. Leo runs out of the house.

Act 2: There’s daylight as the body is removed from Truman’s office. Truman tells Cooper there were no fibers or prints. Cooper says that Denise called and reported that the Bureau and the DEA cleared Cooper of all criminal charges, but that the suspension still stands; Cooper’s waiting for a call from Gordon. Truman reminds Cooper that he’s still a deputy and offers him the case. Hawk reports finding the car on a logging road—no prints. He says Hank Jennings missed the buy at Dead Dog because he was hospitalized and claims he was hit by a bus. Hawk cuffed him to the bed and booked him for parole violation. Hawk says Shelly Johnson called and reported Leo’s recovery, his attack on her, and his vanishing in the woods. Andy pulls of a rubber glove, which flies up against Lucy’s window. He tells her that he and Dick think Nicky killed his parents. Lucy gets angry and pulls Andy’s other glove till it snaps. She say’s she’s going to get to the bottom of this right away.

In Evelyn’s garage James is working when Jeffrey approaches and introduces himself. He wants to talk shop with James after he takes the car for a spin. Evelyn says James will stay. James excuses himself. Jeffrey leaves in the Jaguar and we hear the sound of a car crash.

At the Double RR Ed tells Dr. Hayward that Nadine wants to start dating boys. When Hayward asks if she’s sexually active, Ed says he wakes up feeling like he’s been hit by a timber truck. Hayward says that’s due to extra adrenalin and that Ed should be patient and tell her to be home by nine on school nights. Norma brings some potatoes to Ed. Dr. Hayward says Donna took the van and went looking for James. Ed explains she’s taking him some money. After Hayward leaves Norma tells Ed that Hank is in the hospital and said that a tree fell on him. Ed tells her about Hank’s jumping him and Nadine’s beating of Hank. Norma tells him that Truman called to tell her Hank will be arrested for parole violations and may have to return to prison. Norma indicates she wants to correct some mistakes and Ed suggests a cabin, some venison steaks, and wine.

Evelyn enters James’ room where he’s listening to a basketball game. He tells her he’s leaving. She asks him to stay, but he says he needs to check his bike and runs out.

Cooper studies the chess board in Truman’s office and explains to Harry that he and Earle played a game every day for three years. Earle believed all of life could be found on a chess board. Cooper never beat him. Cooper says he put his response in the Twin Peaks Gazette. When Truman asks for more information, Cooper explains that Earle was his first partner; that four years ago they had to protect a material witness, a beautiful woman named Caroline whom Cooper loved. One night he failed in his vigilance; he was wounded and woke with the woman in his arms, stabbed to death. The killer was never found. Earle went mad and was institutionalized until his recent escape. Caroline was Windom Earle’s wife - Cooper thinks Earle killed her and that he committed the crimes he had witnessed. Cooper thinks Earle feigned the insanity, but at some point lost the ability to distinguish right and wrong.

At Wallies Donna enters while Evelyn is at the bar. Donna orders coffee and asks the bartender about a biker named James. Evelyn tells her James worked for her until yesterday when he left on his bike for Mexico. She suggests Donna go home.

Act 3: In Ben’s office, Ben plays with trains and soldiers as Audrey enters with Jerry. She explains that Ben is marching on Washington. Dr. Jacoby, who is perched in a corner and shouts encouragement to Ben, explains that by reversing the outcome of the civil war, Ben will reverse his emotional setbacks.

Major Briggs enters the Sheriff’s station, asks Lucy for the sheriff, and faints. In Truman’s office Briggs tells Truman and Cooper that his Air Force superiors demonstrated sufficient suspicion and intolerance to suggest paranoia. He says their motivation in the search for the White Lodge is not ideologically pure. He believes he was taken to the White Lodge during his disappearance. He says there is trouble ahead, but he’ll wait in the shadows till he’s needed. Andy enters as the Major leaves and asks to show them something. They go into the conference room, where Hawk is present with Dr. Jacoby and the Milford widow. Jacoby reports spending most of the last 24 hours with her and says that she’s not cursed, but has a heightened sexual drive, a knowledge of technique, anatomy, and touch. Cooper congratulates Lana. Jacoby says they’re going bowling and they leave. Everyone follows when she screams. In the corridor Dwayne Milford threatens to shoot Lana and Jacoby with a shotgun. Cooper suggests Lana and the mayor talk things over alone. The pair enter the conference room while everyone else waits outside.

Act 4: Cooper says OK and opens the door to the conference room. They enter with guns drawn and find Mrs. Milford on Dwayne’s lap. The mayor’s face is covered with lipstick. He announces that they’ve decided to adopt a child. Lana says Dwayne is much like Dougie. They leave together. Truman suggests they all have something to drink.

In Catherine’s house Pete says they forgot hot dogs and tells Catherine that Josie already went shopping. Catherine tells him there’s something she wants to show him. She asks if he ever wondered how she survived after the fire and get the resources to win back the mill from Ben. She opens the door to the library to reveal Andrew Packard. Andrew explains to Pete that they discovered the attempt on his life was coming so they arranged the deception of his death. He tells Pete he and Thomas Eckhardt were business partners. Catherine says Eckhardt planned Andrew’s death for six years, that Josie worked for Eckhardt, and that Eckhardt will come for Josie.

It’s evening when a woman rings the bell at the Great Northern and asks the desk clerk for the two suites reserved for Thomas Eckhardt, who stands near the fireplace.

At night Dick, Dr. Hayward, and Lucy enter the Sheriff’s station and take Andy into the conference room. Truman shows Cooper a picture of Jonathan under the headline “Asian man killed.” He says Josie told him she’d gotten away from him and asks Cooper to find out if Josie had something to do with Jonathan’s death. In the conference room Dr. Hayward tells Andy and Dick that Nicky’s mother was a chamber maid at the Great Northern and his father was an attacker who fled across the border. Nicky’s mother died in childbirth. His adopted parents were killed in an auto crash, that the six-year-old pulled them from the blazing wreck but it was too late. Dick and Andy cry.

James is packing when Evelyn enters his room. She tells him she loves him. Sirens are heard as police cars pull up to the house. Evelyn says that Jeffrey is dead. James accuses her of killing Jeffrey and setting him up. Evelyn says it was Malcolm’s idea, that he is not her brother. She tells James to flee and find the girl who loves him. He runs outside; Donna pulls him behind some trees and takes him away.

Leo moves through the woods. An owl flies near him. He comes upon a cabin and enters it. A man arranging pipes on a table and holding a gun invites Leo in, puts the gun next to a chessboard, and offers Leo help. He tells Leo to call him Windom Earle.

Notes: The opening credits were abbreviated when originally broadcast on ABC.

Timeline: Sunday, March 19th

Original Air Date: February 2nd, 1991

Official Episode Number: #2014

Nielson Rating: 83rd 5.4/Unknown

Directed By: Uli Edel

Written By: Scott Frost

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan ... Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean ... Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick ... Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick)
Dana Ashbrook ... Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer ... Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle ... Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn ... Audrey Horne
Warren Frost ... Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton ... Norma Jennings
James Marshall ... James Hurley
Everett McGill ... Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance ... Pete Martell
Joan Chen ... Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard
Piper Laurie ... Catherine Martell
Eric DaRe ... Leo Johnson
Harry Goaz ... Deputy Andy Brennan
Michael Horse ... Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Kenneth Welsh ... Windom Earle
Russ Tamblyn ... Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
David Patrick Kelly ... Jerry Horne
Ian Buchanan ... Dick Tremayne
Robyn Lively ... Lana Budding Milford
Don S. Davis ... Major Garland Briggs (as Don Davis)
Annette McCarthy ... Evelyn Marsh
David Warner ... Thomas Eckhardt
Dan O'Herlihy ... Andrew Packard
Brenda Strong ... Ms. Jones
John Apicella ... Jeffrey Marsh
John Boylan ... Mayor Dwayne Milford
Ron Blair ... Randy St. Croix
Craig MacLachlan ... The Dead Drifter
Gérald L'Ecuyer ... Bartender
Brenda E. Mathers ... Caroline Powell Earle

Our Rating: C+

Thoughts: Director Uli Edel delivers a nice looking episode anchored by two memorable scenes; Leo attacking Shelly and the cliffhanger of Leo discovering Windom at his cabin in the woods. Other than the aforementioned however, we are largely in the no man's land of mid season two Twin Peaks. Was anyone surprised that Evelyn and friend set-up James? The only good thing about this plotline confirmation is the fact that maybe we are mercifully close to ending this torturous chapter in the Twin Peaks saga. The scene with Mayor Milford, Jacoby and Lana at the Sheriff station is so stale and overlong that it should have hit the cutting room wastepaper basket faster than a three day old donut.

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