Read Diary of Laura Palmer in Between Season 1 and Season 2

March 09, 2022 Post a Comment

By · Published on September 13th, 2016

EPISODE 8: "MAY THE Giant BE WITH YOU"

Directed by David Lynch, Story past David Lynch & Mark Frost, teleplay by Mark Frost

Airdate September 30, 1990

Flavor two bows with this extended episode written by series creators Frost and Lynch and directed for the first time since episode 2 by Lynch. In-between seasons in that location was slight development in the form of THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER, the book released in the summer of 1990 written by Jennifer Lynch, David's daughter. The strongest takeaway from this document is that Laura's bad girl persona is the result of fear, she'southward escaping nevertheless she can the malignant presence of BOB.

The prove picks upwards precisely where it left off with Coop lying on his hotel room flooring, three bullets in his chest. That warm milk he ordered from room service finally arrives, delivered by an older and somewhat out-of-touch waiter (played by veteran western player Hank Worden, THE SEARCHERS, Blood-red RIVER). Coop asks him to call a doctor, but instead the waiter hangs up the room telephone, which had a concerned Deputy Andy on the other end of the line. The waiter doesn't seem to sympathize what Coop wants or obviously needs, and rather than trying to sort it out, he makes Coop sign for the milk. Then the waiter leaves, but not before telling Coop he's heard about him and flashing him a thumbs up. He returns twice more in the aforementioned half minute to wink the thumbs up once again before ultimately leaving for good. Coop isn't left lonely long, though, because a bald, bow-tied behemothic materializes over him. The giant has a message for Coop and it consists of iii things, but earlier he tells them, he wants to know if these things come up true, will Coop believe him? That depends on who he is, is the gist of Coop's reply. The Giant says to think of him as a friend. Coop asks where he comes from, to which the Behemothic retorts the real question is – where has Coop gone? And so he reveals the iii things: i) in that location'southward a human being in a smiling handbag, two) the owls are non what they seem, and 3) without chemicals he points. The Giant then takes Coop's ring and promises to return it when Coop finds these clues to exist truthful. The Giant says "they" want to help him, and 1 last thing: Leo's locked inside a hungry horse; there'southward a clue at Leo's house. The Giant dematerializes. Welcome back to Twin Peaks, everybody, and welcome back David Lynch.

ep 8 1

At One Eyed Jacks Ben Horne is endmost in on the new girl, not realizing she's his daughter Audrey. In other quarters his blood brother Jerry is with Blackie, who's hankering for some heroin, which he provides. Back in the boudoir Audrey's running out of places to hide from her horny father. She dons a mask at the last 2nd, only Ben but finds her perceived playfulness all the more than alluring. He pleads his case as the brothel's owner, only before he tin discover her true identity, Jerry calls him abroad. But at present Audrey knows her begetter was involved with Laura, sexually at to the lowest degree, and at worst, murderously.

Back in Coop's hotel room, he's still lying on the flooring bleeding and unattended. He reveals while talking to Diane via his microcassette recorder that just i of the bullets wounded him, in his abdomen, the bureau-required vest stopped the other two from doing whatever greater harm. In the midst of this chat he notices his ring is really gone. He then cites a wishlist should he survive this ordeal: he wishes to care for people with more than care and respect moving forward, he wishes to climb a alpine but not likewise-tall colina and sit in the absurd but not too-cool grass with the sun on his face up, he wishes he'd cracked the Lindbergh kidnapping case, he wishes he could make love to a cute woman he has 18-carat affection for, and he wishes to visit Tibet and run into it costless. That'southward a pretty cute listing, man. And this is when Truman, Hawk, and Andy finally arrive.

Coop comes to in the hospital later and is asked about his assault. The gunman was masked, he says, so unidentifiable. Truman has Lucy bring the Agent (and the audience) up to date on everything that's happened in town since last night (deep breath): Leo Johnson was shot but is alive if comatose, Jacques Renault was strangled to death, the manufactory burned to the footing, Shelly and Pete have been hospitalized for smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are both missing, and Nadine is in a blackout of her own from her overdose suicide attempt. Coop can't help but wonder how long he'southward been out.

Shelly is in her hospital bed watching a newscaster (played by Frost) written report from the scorched ruins of the mill. She's in tears because she doesn't notwithstanding know if Leo held true to his hope to murder Bobby.

Coop when being discharged sees orderlies wheeling away Jacques Renault in a trunk bag. He wonders if it's grin.

And even elsewhere in the hospital, Ronette Pulaski almost comes out of her coma. "Before long," the scene seems to say…

Maddy and Sarah are having some coffee at home. Maddy shares with her aunt a dream she had about the living room carpet. Leland interrupts with a song on his lips and shock of stark white pilus on his head, changed overnight from its normally rich, walnut hue. He does non acknowledge this any. Sarah runs off to confront him but Maddy stays backside and sees the bloody stain from her dream announced on the existent living room rug at her feet. She screams. This firm is fucked up.

Ben and Jerry are preparing to tie up the last 24 hours' loose ends. They demand to know where Catherine is and if she'south primed to take the autumn for orchestrating the factory burn, and so they need a medical update on Leo's condition and a reason from Hank why that status isn't "deceased." Then Leland sings his way into the scene. Ben and Jerry are shocked merely decide to but go with it. Leland announces he's all better at present and ready to return to piece of work.

Investigating the offense scene at Leo's firm, Coop and Truman determine that the shot came from outside. Coop pieces the scene together, downwardly to the struggle inside with another male. They don't remember Shelly is involved. Hawk plant a copy of Flesh Earth and a gas-stinking squeegee, but no cocaine. Amanuensis Albert Rosenfeld returns and Andy in his desperate try to warning the others steps on a loose porch lath that strikes him square in the head and makes him walk effectually like a Raptor for a few moments. Albert predictably mocks the Deputy, only the loose lath reveals hidden boots and a whole lot of cocaine under the porch.

Donna and Maddy meet upwardly at the diner. They play with eyewear while discussing James and how he spent the night in jail. They don't know if that's considering of their prank on Jacoby, so pledge to stay silent until more is known. Norma stops by with a annotation for Donna delivered yesterday. Information technology reads Await INTO THE MEALS ON WHEELS, and nix more, no sender info, aught. In a corner booth the Log Lady chews her pitch gum with obvious dissatisfaction.

Albert has returned to Twin Peaks to bank check out Coop's injuries as per Gordon Cole's orders. Andy comes in with an answer to the last matter the Giant told Coop: he chosen Hungry Horse, a town in Montana where Leo was locked up on February ninth, 1988, which is the same night Teresa Banks was murdered. Teresa, you'll call up, is the hooker who turned up dead in a style similar to Laura Palmer, downwardly to the typed alphabetic character embedded under her expressionless fingernail. These murders were thought connected, but with Leo definitively in the clear for the one, doubt is now cast over his culpability for the other.

Phillip Gerard the ane-armed man appears at the Sheriff's station looking for Truman, there to sell him some boots. Truman is busy at the moment, listening with James to the tape "found" at Jacoby'southward. Truman knows the cocaine in James' gas tank was planted, and James remains focused on the "mystery man" Laura mentions on the tape, the man with the red corvette. Truman knows this is Leo, but James disagrees, he thinks it'south someone else, not Leo at all, and not Jacques either. She said on the tape that the dude really lights her fire, which reminds James of the poem she told him back when they started secretly dating and she was all hopped upward on alcohol and drugs. It's the "Fire Walk With Me" poem he's referring to, which he says she concluded past asking if him he wanted to play with fire, if he wanted to play with BOB? James thinks this BOB fella is the mystery man. Coop enters the room and immediately asks James for the other half of Laura's heart necklace. James hands information technology over and tells them where he found it – in Jacoby'southward kokosnoot with the cassette – then is escorted back to his cell.

Shortly thereafter Donna arrives at the station wearing Laura's sexy sunglasses and affecting Laura's sexy mental attitude. She'southward come to see James. She wants to know what he told the authorities about the Jacoby state of affairs, and what they're thinking moving forward. James, however, wants to know how Maddy'due south doing. Donna jealously takes note and kisses him forcefully and desperately. It'south totally weird, and Donna is definitely in the centre of a Single WHITE FEMALE moment.

Cooper tasks Lucy and Andy with searching back issues of Mankind World for pictures of Teresa Banks. He'south curious if there's a parallel between her and the ads of Laura and Ronette placed by Leo and Jacques. Given Lucy and Andy's cooled romantic condition, looking through pornography makes for one uncomfortable situation.

At the hospital, Coop and Truman pay Dr. Jacoby a visit. He's still recovering from his set on and subsequent centre assault. They want to know how he came into possession of Laura's necklace. He reminds them of his original statement in which he admitted to following a human in a cherry corvette the night Laura died, losing him out on the logging road. That's where he plant Donna and James burying the necklace. He took it merely as a keepsake of his troubled and dearest patient. He reiterates that Laura was living a double life, merely the final fourth dimension he saw her she'd establish a kind of peace. He wonders at present if that peace was the resolve to die, to let herself be killed. Coop has one more than thing he wants to know: Jacoby was in the hospital's intensive care ward with Jacques Renault when the latter man was killed; did he see annihilation? He didn't, they had him drugged, but he did remember an odor from that time, the odor of oil, similar scorched engine oil.

Downwards the hall, Bobby pays Shelly a visit. Both are happy to encounter the other still live. Shelly explains what Leo did to her, to the manufactory, and how he knows near them, how he's vowed to kill Bobby. Bobby's still not worried, and to prove it, they brand out and say their first "I love you"s. This human relationship is quite touching for all its illicit origins, and their honey is second only to Norma and Ed's in its genuineness.

Speaking of Ed, Coop runs into him at the infirmary. Nadine's withal comatose. Ed recounts their honey story: he graduated high school involved with Norma, anybody thought they'd get married just Norma got cold feet and ran off with Hank, which left Ed devastated and primed to autumn into Nadine'south willing artillery. When it turned out Norma's romp with Hank was anything just frisky, Ed tried to get his union annulled, but while on their honeymoon he accidentally shot out Nadine'south heart while hunting, so felt obligated to stick with her. Hawk brings James by to console his uncle. Coop sees a body handbag hung up to dry and tin can't aid but notice it looks like it's smiling. That's ii things he was told by the Giant that he'southward since found to be true (with the Hungry Equus caballus/Leo info). Something almost this clicks and Coop announces he's ready to lay this all out, "all this" beingness the murder of Laura Palmer.

After his visit with Shelly, Bobby runs into his dad at the diner. They actually have a normal conversation until Bobby dares to ask what the Major does for work. This of course is classified, but the Major does share a vision he had just the night before: he was on the veranda of a vast estate with a calorie-free emanating from inside it. He knew the place, had been born and raised there and was returning after a long absence. Wandering the business firm he noted additional rooms that composite coherently with the original design he remembered. A knock on the front door came and information technology was his son, Bobby, happy and harmonious. They embraced warmly. It was a transcendent moment that concluded when the Major woke feeling optimistic and confident in Bobby's future. Given that's it'south happening between the most opposing characters on the show, who only happen to be father and son, this moment is truly touching, and makes for a nice emotional pairing with the soft side of Bobby we just saw with Shelly. The Briggs' cap this with well wishes and a house handshake. Then Bobby sees Hank, causing him to remember it was he who shot Leo.

In front of a vast and varied buffet of doughnuts, Coop verbally sketches for Truman, Hawk, Andy, Albert and Lucy the night Laura Palmer died: the girl had two appointments that dark, the outset with "J," or James, who she was nervous about seeing because she was going to end their relationship. Before she left her house for this rendezvous, she got a telephone call from Leo to gear up her 2nd appointment of the night with him, Jacques Renault, and Ronette Pulaski for a go-round of hard drugs and gross sex activity. After Laura broke James' center and jumped off his motorcycle at a stoplight, she ran into the woods to meet with the others. The foursome walked past the Log Lady's cabin to Jacques' where they partied down. Laura was bound by her arms and Waldo the mynah bird pecked her neck and shoulders. At some point Leo and Jacques fought, resulting in Jacques passing out exterior, and when he woke everybody else was gone. The manner Coop sees information technology, Leo left the cabin lonely, leaving Ronette and Laura all the same within. He thinks this because of the third human that the Log Lady mentioned walking past later that night, and because of the other gear up of footprints Hawk constitute exterior Jacques' cabin. Whoever this person is, he took the girls to the railroad train car, tied them up, knocked out Ronette and then started in on Laura, his rage so focused on her that he didn't notice Ronette wake upwards and escape. Once Laura was expressionless, the killer then congenital the mound of dirt, put the half-a-eye necklace on information technology, put the letter R under Laura'south left index finger and scrawled in blood "Burn Walk With Me" on a scrap of paper. Interesting forensics note here: the blood used to write these words doesn't friction match Laura's, Ronette's, Jacques', or Leo's, which most probable means information technology belongs to the killer. The blazon is AB negative, and matches claret on a towel that was establish down the tracks from the train car, where there were as well several more scraps of torn paper. That, Coop concludes, is how information technology all went down. The only question that remains is: who'south this tertiary human? How Wellesian.

Truman delivers Pete home from the infirmary. Josie is nevertheless missing after the mill fire, but at that place's a letter of the alphabet waiting that might hold the answer. Sure enough it's from Josie, saying she had to go out boondocks on a business emergency and is in Seattle. This is regular behavior, Pete says, she goes quite often for business organisation and shopping, so that's ane case closed. Truman begrudgingly has to mention that they all the same haven't found Catherine, and tells Pete he should prepare for the worst. Pete takes this news a helluva lot harder than Catherine would were the situation reversed. An Asian homo calls the house from The Great Northern looking for Josie. She of course isn't in that location and he doesn't give whatever farther details, just hangs up so immediately calls Hong Kong.

Ben and Jerry Horne are discussing their favorite bailiwick – nutrient – and find Hank waiting for them in Ben's office. They want to know where Josie is. He gives them the same Seattle story as the letter, seemingly proving information technology true. So they want to know what happened with Leo, why he isn't dead? Hank says he's as skilful as, he's stuck in a coma with significant brain harm. Hank reveals here he doesn't know Bobby was inside the house, he thinks Leo had the axe because he was chopping woods. Inside. Even Jerry thinks this is ridiculous, simply somehow it's accepted as truth because Leo is nuts. Ben wants to know about Catherine'southward fate, and while Hank doesn't know for certain what happened to her, he's pretty sure she was inside the burning mill. This pleases Ben, as information technology means she and Leo should accept the rut for this, pun intended.

Audrey's still at One Eyed Jacks and reporting back to Blackie after meeting with the owner. Blackie tells her the owner was very disappointed with how that meeting went, of course not knowing she was his daughter. Audrey tries to talk around it, but Blackie isn't having it and issues the daughter an ultimatum: put out or get out.

Over the phone, Donna arranges with Norma to take over Laura'due south Meals on Wheels route, based on the note she got. And then in that location's a musical interlude past Alicia Witt (TWO WEEKS NOTICE, DUNE) every bit ane of Donna's younger sisters meant to entertain the family unit plus their dinner guests Maddy, Sarah and Leland, who'southward dressed in a tux for no given reason. Donna'due south other sis Harriett also contributes past reading a verse form about Laura. Over dinner Md asks about Leland'south stark white pilus. He says it just inverse, like he has now: he feels he's finally turned a corner in his grief, and this makes him experience similar singing. So he does. "Come On Get Happy" is the song he picks. This time, though, it isn't and then creepy, everyone seems buoyed, until he starts speeding up besides much, loses the thread, and passes out. He comes to, but only physically; mentally, he's not all there.

Coop's in bed talking to Diane. He's at present blaming the Giant vision on the combination of his injury and slumber impecuniousness. He turns off the light. Simultaneously at One Eyed Jacks, Audrey is trying to reach her Special Agent telepathically to allow him know she'due south in trouble. She's hoping past now he'southward seen the note she slipped under his door terminal night telling him where she is and what she's done, but of course, information technology got lost in the defoliation of his shooting and is now hiding out of sight under the bed.

The Behemothic returns to Coop that nighttime. Coop knows this time he isn't dreaming. The Giant forgot to tell him something: don't search for all the answers at once. He says one person saw the tertiary man the night Laura died, and iii have seen him since, but not his actual body. Only one of these, known to Coop, is ready to talk at present. And one last affair: you lot forgot something. The Giant so creates a ball of light that goes into Coop's throat, and the Behemothic is gone.

At the hospital, Ronette has truly terrifying visions of Laura being viciously murdered by BOB in the railroad train car, and awakens.

All in all, then, season 2 opens with a large damn bang. Right from the first scene they're tackling all the loose ends from the season 1 finale, and they take giant strides – pun intended – towards starting to wrap up the case of Laura's murder. Lynch returns to direct and he and Frost collaborated on the script for the get-go fourth dimension since episode 3, and as such this is a re-establishment of the narrative and visual aesthetics that brand TWIN PEAKS TWIN PEAKS. They bring dorsum the expected quirks – for case the local who hollers, "Hot damn that's good pie!" in the starting time diner scene – and they throw a heap of the unexpected on u.s.a. by turning a major corner in the central mystery. This was the first full season order the serial received, pregnant different season i, there were 22 episodes to air this time effectually, three times as many every bit had already aired, and with 21 nonetheless to become, audiences were starting to realize that they were on the verge of a solution. The last sequence of the episode – which for my money is the most frightening TWIN PEAKS ever gets with the shrieking and screaming and killing and that terrible, terrible heart contact from Laura – made it a certified fact that BOB was Laura's killer. That would be similar THE Ten-FILES finding definitive proof of aliens a dozen episodes in to its 10-season run. The only questions left, it would seem, are who exactly is BOB, and where is he? That is, those would be the only questions left if in revealing them, Lynch hadn't also asked a much larger question, one that would set the tone for the show past the "resolution" of Laura Palmer's murder: sure, at that place'southward an ending coming, but what the hell is it going to be?

The conclusion to wrap up the central mystery sooner than after came from the network, non Lynch and Frost, and this for many folks is the central executive decision that tanked the evidence. If the creators had been left to their own devices, who knows how or for how long they might have permit the case play out. But that wasn't what happened, as fifty-fifty with phenomena the bottom line trumps the narrative, and as a result we got this episode, which can be viewed, I think, as almost similar the other side of the money of the serenity and atmospheric pilot, or a negative version. There's so much information crammed in here the characterization is mostly expository, in contrast to the pilot, where the info was scant and the characters took centre stage. Wherever we're being led at the end of the season 2 premiere, we know it's nowhere expected, which is precisely what we were expecting.

Side by side calendar week – EPISODE NINE: "COMA"

Follow me on Twitter for TWINS PEAKS' tidbits, ephemera, and other hijinks between posts.