Part 7 ofTwin Peaks(Theres a body all right) opened with a still life of disorientation.
Call it: Portrait of the TypicalTwin PeaksWatcher.
Someone stole it, apparently.
Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME
I mean, there was a two-minute scene of a guy sweeping peanut shells at The Bang!
Bar, set to Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.s.
And Doppelganger Brain Tree is back!
No:BabyDoppelganger Brain Tree!
And there was plenty of eeriness and enigmatic stuff, too.
Guys… whatwasDirty Cooper doing in Audrey Hornes hospital room on his last day in Twin Peaks?
The scene also keeps the memory of Laura Palmer alive.
I firmly believe the story is coming back to her in a major way.
The credit sequence promises this, via Lauras spectral image.
And anyway,Twin Peakshas no time to make him play the cliche of mystery serial skeptic.
So hes probably familiar with the concept and even phenomenon of The Black Lodge, too.)
(Leland actually did commit this crime.)
Its actually hard to imagine that Frank wasneverpart ofTwin Peaksuntil now.
It sounded like Harry is now hospitalized, possibly somewhere out of the area.
(Obviously, the visceral themes of life and death help.)
I have a theory, one you may not want to hear.
Thats said, Im not rooting for his death.
I loved this scene for the poignancy generated by Frost and Forster.
The re-connection was heartwarming, but the business end of the call was disturbing.
Doc thought that Dirty Cooper had been in Audreys room for about an hour.
He certainly recalled the look of dead-inside evil on his face when they locked eyes.
And by bang-up, I mean piss-poor.
There may be significance to all the little details.
Finally, theres the Joneses and the only Jones we know on the show is Dougie Jones.
If the 4:30/4-3-0 correlation is correct, then what does it mean?
Well, it could be a meta-directional.
So these clues omens could represent a ticking clock.
If so, then… whats the crime?
Maybe (gulp) the disappearance (and death?!)
of Deputy Andy Brennan?
Whoever had ordered these two girls (Red?
didnt want to pay for both.
(Sounds like this customer may have also had an issue with the age.
Could this have been a fulfillment of The Giants two birds one stone omen?
Will this factor into whatever TBD mystery Cooper and company will be investigating downstream?
We also finally got another moment with Ben and his assistant, Beverly, played by Ashley Judd.
They were searching for the source of a persistent (possibly supernatural?)
humming sound emanating from somewhere in her office at the Great Northern.
Is her spirit acting up, trying to speak out?
Was she responding the arrival of an object charged with Black Lodge magic Agent Coopers old room key?
When she left, Ben hung his head, as if he had lost a battle with his demons.
(You dont think maybe it was Ben who ordered those prostitutes, do you?)
A postscript to this intensifying flirtation came when Beverly returned home.
Her husband, Tom, bald from chemo and radiation treatments, was in dark spirits.
His suspicious mind was tweaking.
Why was she working so late at the office with Benjamin Horne?
Her interest in/attraction to Ben might speak to loneliness.
But my suspicious mind is tingling, too.
Might Beverly be running a con on Ben?
And Ive seen one too many film noirs, havent I?
arrived in Buckhorn to figure out why local law enforcement was trying to acquire intel on Major Briggs.
Macklay informed the soldier that he could do better than show her fingerprints.
He could show her Briggs whole damn hand.
He could show every part of Briggs, in fact, except his head.
Knox was shocked.You have a body?
!Theres a body all right, said Macklay.
How do we make sense of this?
Perhaps he became unstuck in time thanks to the meddling of supernatural entities within The Black Lodge.
I wonder if it wont beanyonescase for much longer.
Has The Charred Man come to tie up loose ends?
Albert didnt appreciate nearly catching pneumonia for his trouble (F YOU, MOTHERFING GENE KELLY!
), nor did he like Dianes withering brush-off.
No fing way, she told him.
(Lots of fing anger in Coles section of the FBI!)
Cole found her defiance unacceptable.
Albert wasnt about to hit it one more time without Cole coming along.
Cole felt something similar.
He didnt want to confront tough cookie Diane alone, either.
Albert made his boss say like, and they were off.
The decor of her home, like her look, was Asian fusion.
During the flight, Albert played attendant and offered Diane tiny bottles of Vodka to steel her resolved.
She told him to f off and drank the Vodka, anyway.
Again, all of this was rather queasy, and knowingly so.
The FBI was using her and abusing her like a prostitute.
(Is her look meant to suggest geisha?)
Meanwhile, Agent Tammy Preston, the Beverly to Coles Horne, was working to just her boss.
They were exactly like Coopers, but reversed.
Cole and Albert gave Tammy with more insight into what they knew about Dirty Cooper.
(A surveillance photo made Dirty Cooper look like someMiami Vicedrug lord.)
Cole also told Tammy how he came to be suspicious of Dirty Cooper.
He asked Tammy to hold out her hands.
The yrev very in reverse landed on Tammys ring finger, the spiritual mound.
Ergo, Cooper had a wrong spirit; he was an anti-Cooper.
You think about THAT, Tammy!
said Cole with his loud voice, sounding even more like a rude dick.
But a lovably quirky rude dick!
I totally missed that.)
Diane looked her up and down, maybe saw something she recognized.
She asked for her name.
F you, Tammy, said Diane.
It was a beat as awesome was it was sad.
Diane entered the dark room.
She pressed a button and a curtain went up.
She saw Dirty Cooper, still as a stone, gazing at her blankly with his dark eyes.
He spoke to her with his slow, slurred voice.
Dirty Cooper said he knew they would send for her.
His knowingness was menacing.
Whatever happened, Diane was marked deeply and resented him for it.
She demanded he look at her.
She bravely peered into the void of his eyes and saw what she needed to see.
This was not the Agent Cooper she once worked for.
She wasnt even sure he was even a man.
In the aftermath, Diane offered her assessment to Cole.
He asked about what had happened between her and Dirty Cooper way back when.
She toasted him with a tiny bottle of Vodka and seethed.
Cheers to the FBI, she said, and drank her poison.
Dirty Cooper knew the warden was corrupt, either because he has a nose for rot or through intelligence.
Dirty Cooper revealed that he shared his information with three other people.
Each of them received a severed dog leg with the scoop.
We left them as they hit the road in a beige car, the color of Garmonbozia.
I suspect Dirty Cooper will be tanking up on someone elses pain and sorrow very soon.
Dougie Cooper continues to get there by degrees, but they were significant degrees.
Some Lynchian keystone cop humor ensued.
The three plainclothes detectives were all named Fusco, fronted by actor David Koechner.
A reference to the cartoon strip The Fusco Brothers by J.C. Duffy, perhaps?)
(Twin Peaks: The Returncould have been subtitled Mechanized Death.)
Suddenly, Ike the Spike emerged from the crowd.
Dougie saw the threat, and something instinctively Cooper-esque took over, as if muscle memory had been triggered.
like a spectator sitting ringside at some gladiator contest.
SQUEEZE HIS HAND OFF!
SQUEEZE HIS HAND OFF!
It was if the dark side was tempting Cooper to give himself over to excessive force.
Cooper succeeded in getting Ike to release the weapon.
As Ike fell away, we saw his palm was bloody.
Had Ike glued the revolver into his hand?
Or did Cooper administer some kind of heat that caused Ikes hand to melt and fuse with the gun?
Round one goes to our addled hero.
So, too, were those who witnessed Coopers cobra-like moves.
Heres hoping either Gordon Cole or Sheriff Frank Truman or both watch the news.
And heres hoping that Cooper can get enough of his mind back before the main event.
