This is the 5^th to the last episode and I am not sure what is going to happen. I have been enjoying this season and don’t want it to end. I notice that with each episode it feels like there is so much more that could be explored. With that, let’s get into Part 14.

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 14

At the hotel in Buckhorn, SD, Gordon Cole (David Lynch) picks up the phone and places a call to the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department. Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) answers the phone. Delighted to hear her voice, Gordon asks if she’s been there all these years. She says yes, but then amends her answer to mention several of the times she hasn’t been there. This includes visiting family and taking vacations. Gordon asks to speak to Sheriff Truman. She connects him in her usual way, explaining to Sheriff Frank Truman (Robert Forster) that FBI Director Gordon Cole is on the line…the line that is blinking…right now.

Frank tells Gordon about Harry’s condition to which Gordon offers his well wishes. Frank goes on to tell Gordon about the missing pages of Laura Palmer’s diary that Hawk found. He further explains that the pages appear to indicate the existence of two Coopers.  Gordon thanks him for the information even though he can’t comment on this development. He wishes both he and Harry well and hangs up.

I have been enjoying Robert Forester in the role of Frank Truman. His delivery in each scene is great with him discovering all the stuff that happened before with Laura. He sounds so unsure at times as to what he is saying, however, he is right there still working on trying to solve this mystery. And I appreciate that most every time we see Frank, Harry is brought up. I am sorry that Michael Ontkean did not want to come back to the show, because imagine having both brothers on this case! That would have been awesome!!!

In another room of the hotel, Albert (Miguel Ferrer) and Tammy (Chrysta Bell) are sitting in their FBI command center. He gives her further back story on the original Blue Rose case. In 1975, two young FBI agents arrive at motel to arrest a woman named Lois Duffy in connection to a murder investigation. As they arrive they hear gunshot. When they enter the room they find two women, one of whom is on the floor dying from a bullet wound to the abdomen.  It’s their suspect Lois Duffy.  She says her last words to them with a smile, “I’m like the blue rose.”  As she vanishes the other woman, who is standing in the corner holding a gun, screams. They realize she is also Lois Duffy. Lois Duffy did not have a twin sister. While awaiting trial the second Lois hanged herself in her cell. Albert tells Tammy that the two FBI agents were Gordon Cole and Phillip Jeffries.  Tammy asks what the significance of the blue rose.  Albert asks her. She says a blue rose does occur in nature. The Lois Duffy who was shot was not natural but was conjured.  She was a tulpa.

I like the passing of knowledge from Albert to Tammy. Especially with us the audience knowing that she will have or does have the dossier now and reading through it making her notes and observations. And I am ok with Chrysta Bell playing this role, however, she looks uncomfortable most of the time like she is trying to get adjusted to acting. It would have been better to have her perform at the Roadhouse or make her the new Julie Cruise.

Gordon enters the room announcing that it’s coffee time. He tells them Diane (Laura Dern) is on her way up. Suddenly the squeegee of a window washer begins frantically scraping against the window. The high pitched sound causes Gordon to wince in pain as he scrambles to try and turn down his hearing aids. Diane arrives and immediately lights up a cigarette stating “Deputy Diane reporting.” Gordon asks Diane if on the night she last saw Cooper, did he mention Major Briggs. After first protesting that she doesn’t want to talk about that, she reveals that he did. Albert tells her about their discovery of Major Briggs more recent than they had thought demise. Albert shows her the ring found in Major Briggs stomach and reads her the inscription, “To Dougie with love, Janey-E.”

A stunned Diane reveals to them that her half-sister’s name is Jane and she married to a man named Douglas Jones. She continues that everyone calls him Dougie and her sister’s nickname is Janey-E. Diane last heard they were living in Vegas, but she and her sister have been estranged for quite some time. She hates her. Gordon has Tammy call the Las Vegas FBI office.

Agent Wilson (Owain Rhys Davies) bursts into the office of Special Agent Randall Headley (Jay R. Ferguson) announcing Director Cole is on the line. Gordon instructs Headley to get back to him with everything they can find out about a Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jones. He warns him they are wanted in connection to a double murder and should be considered armed and dangerous. Headley agrees however when he checks the computer he discovers there are 23 Douglas Jones’ in the Las Vegas area. When Wilson express concern about locating the right one, Headley yells at him, “WILSON! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU!? THIS IS WHAT WE DO IN THE FBI!”

Gordon gets off the phone and excuses Diane. He tells Albert and Tammy about his call to Sheriff Truman and the recently discovered diary pages. Gordon then mentions that last night he had “another” Monica Bellucci dream. He describes being in Paris on a case, when Monica called him to meet her at a café. At the café, Cooper was there but Gordon couldn’t see his face. Monica arrived with friends and they all had a coffee.  She spoke “the ancient phrase. You are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream.” Gordon told her he understood. She continued asking “but who is the dreamer?’ She then looked past him and indicated to Gordon to look behind him.

When he turned he saw himself several years ago in the old Philadelphia office as he listened to Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) telling him about his own dream. It was the day Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) reappeared. Jeffries raised his arm and pointed at Cooper asking Gordon “Who do you think that is there?”  Albert and Gordon both remember this moment having happened and that it’s something to think about.

When Gordon stated that he had a dream, I was not surprised that we were going to see it or that it was in black and white. But I was not expecting it to be old footage. We got to see young Gordon, Dale and Albert. And now everyone can stop speculating how David Bowie was going to make an appearance.   However, the most important thing that happened was that we have found out that Diane is Janey-E’s half-sister! I did not see that coming. When Diane is stating that she and her sister are estranged, and that she hates her, I am feeling that Diane is not stating any truths. We already know that Diane is getting texts from Bad Cooper and that in one of these texts it asks if anyone has asked her about Las Vegas. I feel like Diane is working with Bad Cooper somehow and knows exactly what is going on and arranged the set-up of her sister with Dougie Jones.

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At the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) arrives with sandwiches and coffee as Deputy Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz) has laid out four lunchboxes. Bobby reads off the sandwich types: turkey and cheese, ham and cheese, roast beef and cheese, and just cheese. Deputy Chief Hawk (Michael Horse) asks “Who ordered just cheese.” Andy answers immediately that he did. Frank comes into the room along with Deputy Chad (John Pirruccello). Frank nods toward Hawk as they enter the room. Seeing the lunch boxes, Chad asks where they’re going and as Hawk pulls his gun on him as he says “Up the mountain.” Frank tells Chad he’s under arrest; they’ve been watching him for a long time. In spite of Chad’s protests, he tells Bobby to lock him and take his badge. Chad tells him they’re making a big mistake.

Ha-ha Chad, they arrested you! Good!  But more important, who had the Turkey and who had the Ham?

Frank, Hawk, Andy, and Bobby get out their SUV and head into the woods toward the former location of Major Briggs’ listening post station. Andy asks Bobby what his father used to do there. Bobby wasn’t sure he only went inside a couple of time when he was little. He just remembers lots of machines. They arrive at Jackrabbit’s Palace, a large towering tree stump just off the road.  Bobby reminisces about spending time there with his dad as they would make up tall tales.  Hawk reminds them that they now need to head 253 yards due East. Andy chimes in reminding them they need to put soil in their pockets.

As they walk deeper into the woods, things grow more ethereal. They soon reach an area shrouded in fog. As they get closer the fog begins to clear revealing a nude woman lying next to a small crater filled with a molten brown liquid. The men hurry to the woman. Andy kneels next to her as she turns onto her back revealing she is Naido (Nae), the eyeless woman last seen plummeting in the void from atop the box room in Part 3. Much as before she is chattering unintelligibly as Andy holds her hand. Frank looks at his watch and announces it‘s 2:53. Above them the trees and sky begin to swirl into a vortex like the one that formed above Gordon Cole in Buckhorn, SD. The four men stare up at it as a light begins to grow from the center. Naido tightens her grip on Andy’s hand before suddenly letting go. Andy stands, continuing to stare. The without the other even batting an eye, Andy vanishes.

He reappears in the White Lodge and backs into a chair. Looking around, Andy is soon joined by the giant, who introduces himself as The Fireman (Carel Struycken).  He raises his hand and when he drops it Andy finds he his holding an oddly shaped box of some kind. Andy is surrounded by fog that is then whooshed up above him to the ceiling.  Andy stares upward and sees images of the experiment (Erica Eynon) and Bob (Frank Silva). He witnesses the woodsmen at the gas station and the “gotta light?” woodsman (Robert Broski) as well.  Andy sees the girl running across the school on the day Laura Palmer’s body was found. This is followed by an image of Laura (Sheryl Lee) herself with an angel on either side. After seeing Naido lying on the ground, he sees an image of the two Coopers. At first their images overlay each other but soon they shake apart showing good and bad.  The phone at the Sheriff’s Department rings as the light on line one flashes.  He sees himself guide Lucy to show her something in a violently shaking image.  The image of Naido on the ground returns this time she is holding Andy’s hand and chattering. The electrical pole with the number six that Carl looked when Richard killed the boy is the last of the images. The fog comes down from the ceiling and goes in to the box Andy is holding. Andy then disappears.

Back at Jackrabbit Palace, Frank, Hawk, and Bobby all return in many multiple dazed images that when they align form whole version s of themselves. None of them are sure how they got there. Andy arrives carrying Naido wrapped in his jacket. He tells the others that they need to get her down the mountain. He tells them she is very important and there are people that want her dead. They need to put her in a cell where she will be safe. Frank says “Okay.” Andy tells them not to tell anyone about this. Frank asks Hawk what happened. Hawk knows something did but he doesn’t remember.

I like how Bobby is having happy memories of being a child and going to Jack Rabbit’s Palace with his dad. The way the smile comes over his face you can just see him reflecting on the good times he had. In watching the four of them move through the forest, with the way that it’s shot, it feels dreamlike. And when they come upon the Naido, I was like what is going on?   Why is she here?  I still cannot figure it out, even after Andy meet with the giant or Fireman has he is calling himself.   And I like how Andy got to watch an abridged version of Episode 8.  I hope he remembered all of it so he can then share with the others. How is this all going to connect? Why is this woman important? Who wants her dead? Authoritative Andy is fantastic!

In a jail cell, Lucy puts a pair of pajamas and a robe on Naido. Lucy tells her she’s had them in her locker since the night that dog got lost in there. She asks Andy if he remembers that night. They lock Naido in as Chad starts shouting at Andy. Andy walks over to Chad and tells him gives policemen a bad name. Naido an incarcerated drunk (Jay Aaseng) begin making noises. After mocking them, Chad yells at them to shut up.  The drunk repeats his words back to him before Chad gives up and covers his head with a pillow.

I don’t know if putting Naido in a cell is the best place to keep her. Also, the guy who is in the cell next to her, with the hole in his check seems to be familiar to me, however, I cannot think of why? Do you remember why?

On the loading dock of The Great Northern Hotel, security guard James Hurley (James Marshall) and fellow guard Freddie Sykes (Jake Wardle), sit waiting. Freddie is trying to crack walnuts between his thumb and forefinger of his green rubber gloved right hand. However, each time the nut is crushed to dust. James decides he should probably do that instead. He uses a nutcracker. James tells Freddie that after one more delivery they can hit the Roadhouse. Freddie says James just wants to see Renee, something James doesn’t deny. Freddie brings up the fact that she’s married. James knows. James tells Freddie it’s his birthday today. Freddie wishes him a Happy Birthday.

James asks Freddie about his glove. Freddie explains that he can’t take it off. A doctor tried once but he started to bleed. James wants to know where he got it but Freddie is reluctant to tell him. James convinces him to share since it’s his birthday.  In that case, Freddie agrees.

Six months before, back home in London, after a night out with his mates he was walking home alone when he got a terrible feeling that he’s wasting his life…doing nothing when he should be helping people. After jumping into a pile of boxes, Freddie began to be sucked up into a vortex in the sky.  He found himself face to face with The Fireman.  The Fireman told him to go to the hardware store and purchase an open package of green gardening gloves with only the right glove inside. He told him that when he put the glove on his hand would have the power o f an enormous pile driver.

Then, poof, he woke up in his bed. He followed The Fireman’s instructions but ran into an impossible clerk who refuses to sell him the open package. Freddie put the money on the counter, took the glove and put it on. The clerk chased after him and tackled him. Freddie punched him with gloved hand and heard a crack. He then remembered what else The Fireman told him. He told him that once he had the glove on he needed to go to Twin Peaks, WA USA.

James thanks him for the story. He then asks Freddie if The Fireman told him why him. Freddie said he told him “why not you?”  Freddie says the odd thing was that when he went to get his ticket at the airport he found out he already had a ticket. He reminds James they need to check the furnace. James says he’ll do if Freddie will wait for and not forget to sign for the delivery.  James walks through the bowels of the great hotel toward the furnace. He walks with trepidation as he listens to the sounds around him. He soon begins to notice a high pitch noise soon accompanied by a wobbly sounding electrical noise possibly coming from behind a door.

James is a security guard at the Great Northern? Like Bobby is a Sheriff? I like seeing the teenagers of Twin Peaks as adults with jobs I never thought they would have. However, I am not surprised that Shelly is still a waitress. I was wondering how this kid from England would have come to Twin Peaks, and now we know that it’s because the Fireman sent him there. What is his purpose though and does it involve this rubber glove he must wear? I like how James just goes with the story that he was told and does not question it, and you know why? Because James has always been cool. When James goes to check the furnaces, it feels like we have entered a horror movie where the security guard is going to be killed. And did you hear that weird humming? The same humming that Beverly and Ben heard. The same humming that seems to have been throughout the show. The scene ends on a door. Where is that door going to lead James?

Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) heads to the entrance of Elk’s Point Bar #9.  She enters und the neon sign and heads to the bar where she orders a bloody mary.  A nearby patron (John Paulsen), wearing a t-shirt that reads “Truck You,” takes notice of her and saunters over.  She asks him to leave her alone. He takes offense to her rebuff and when she asks him to go back to where he was sitting. He refuses and begins whispering crude insults to her. She stands up and stares at him before removing her face in the same manner that Laura did in Part 1. However, unlike the bright light shining from inside of Laura, Sarah is black inside as a hand and then a mouth become visible. A voice (Nathan Frizzell) is heard asking, “Do you really want to fuck with this?” The man stands back in horror. Sarah replaces her face and then lunges forward biting a huge chunk out of his neck.

As he falls to the ground, Sarah seems to notice him for the first time as she lets out a scream. The bartender (Eric Ray Anderson) runs over asking what happened. He asks Sarah if she had anything to do with this. She says no, she was just at the bar enjoying her drink. He just fell down. The bartender responds, “With half his neck missing?” He calls to his wife to call 911. Turning to Sarah, he tells her “We’ll see about this.” With a complete change of demeanor, Sarah turns to him and says, “Yeah. Sure is a mystery, huh?” The owner backs away from her slowly as her gaze cuts right through him.

What the fuck? What is going on with Sarah here? It does seem to explain some of her behavior lately with seeming very out of it, as if she is a different person. Is this a spirit that entered in body? Is that what the noises were when Hawk came to see her in Episode 12? Maybe she was watching the animal show on predators to learn how to rip someone’s throat out! She took her face off to show that ass that she is not something to be messed with. Remember when Laura took her face off in the Black Lodge to show Cooper she was full of light. Like daughter, like mother? How is this connected, if at all.

Megan (Shane Lynch) and Sophie (Emily Stofle) are sitting in a booth at the Roadhouse. Sophie is concerned about Megan going somewhere she refers to as a nuthouse to get high. Megan assures her she’s not; she’s getting high in her room. Sophia asks Megan about her sweater. Megan tells her it’s Paula’s. The subject changes to the disappearance of Billy. Sophie says she understands that Megan was the last to see him. Megan tells her it was scary. She was in the kitchen with her mom and maybe her uncle. Billy came leaping over the back fence and charges through the door. There was blood coming out of his nose and mouth. He hangs his head in the sink. Then he turns and looks at them before bolt back out. They didn’t tell anyone because they didn’t know what to make of it.

Megan says that her mom and Billy had a thing until very recently. Sophie is surprised.  Megan says she would smile whenever his name came up. Sophie asks what her mom’s name is. After a pause, Megan says, “Tina.” Ominous music begins to swell and Sophie looks down for a moment.  Sophie asks about him just running out again. Megan says yes and talks about all the blood on the floor and the walls. It took them a while to clean it all up.  But still she can’t remember if her uncle was there. They sit in quiet tension that is broken by the MC (J.R. Starr) introducing the night entertainment, Lissie.

I was so waiting for her to say that her mom’s name was Audrey! However, her mom being Tina works too. Does that mean then Audrey is not in a dream like coma state? Does it mean that she has been involved with Billy? Who is Billy? What is going on with Audrey?

Final Thoughts

This episode I noticed felt very movie like with how it was shot and edited. Only 4 Episodes left, what are we going to do?  I cannot see how any of this is going to come together and I am starting to feel for reals like we will never get Cooper back, or if we do, it’s right at the end before the final scene fades to black. I have enjoyed this season and there is so much more I would be willing to watch week to week. Tune in with me next week for Episode 15!

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