I don’t see a thread for it yet so I’ll start it.
Another good episode. At least IMHO. It’s good to see more of the town.
At this point, I’m getting a little impatient with the whole “Dougie” storyline. The fact that nobody notices “Dougie” is more than just a little off is a joke that’s wearing thin.
Possibly pointless overanalyzing weird points, but 'Dougie’s" real estate development has a sign “Regional Resort” (or something like that) with a “Double R” – just like the Double R diner! And oh, hey! It’s the Double R Diner!
The fact that Shelley is still a waitress at this greasy spoon (sorry, Norma – it’s good to see you though) seemed kind of depressing to me, especially given that she now seems to have a daughter who’s setting off on her same trajectory – getting in deep with a guy who’s clearly trouble.
Who was the guy watching Dr. Jacobi’s internet show? I recognized Nadine (still with the eyepatch), but not the man. Was that someone we should recognize?
And I was trying to see who was the woman’s picture that Agent Tamara was looking at? It didn’t look like Laura Palmer from what I could see of it. What other woman’s photo would be in a file on Agent Cooper?
Don Draper,
Yeah, the Dougie thing needs to go somewhere soon.
Shelley’s situation is depressing? Hey, welcome to Twin Peaks! Shelley was always on a course to nowhere, plus she had terrible taste in men and her daughter is no different. Maybe she should have hooked up with Gordon way back when.
Agent Tamara was looking at a picture of a woman? I must have missed that. I remember her comparing a picture of 90s Cooper to a picture of current day evil-Cooper, but I don’t remember a picture of a woman. I’ll have to check it out on On Demand.
Ouch. I think that woman may have been Evil Cooper with his long hair.
I’m glad Mike Nelson turned out well. He and Bobby went straight.
Where was Mike? I must not have recognized him.
Never mind. Mike was the guy who rejected Shelley’s son-in-law for a job.
And how about the poor sheriff with that wife?
No kidding. I felt awful for the guy.
We’ve seen Norma and Nadine, but has Big Ed showed up at all?
Not that I’ve noticed. What about Norma’s husband?
Is Norma still with Hank? Is Nadine still with Ed? I’d like to think that Norma and Ed are together.
As I recall, Nadine regains her memory at the end of Season 2 and dumps Mike. I got the impression that she and Ed reconciled afterward.
I agree that I’d prefer to see Norma and Ed together. Maybe they haven’t shown Ed in S3 so that we’ll continue to wonder.
Jerry Horne. We saw him with his brother Ben in Ben’s office in episode 2, primarily to inform the audience that marijuana is now legal in Washington state, and Jerry is taking full advantage of that.
So is Jacobi going to turn out to be some kind of unabomber type radical or is he basically harmless? The shovels he’s selling make me think that his goals may be purely mercenary.
My guess would be that he lost his medical license at some point and had to find a different way to make a living. He’s using his knowledge of psychology to dupe weak minded people into buying overpriced shovels.
Some of his followers, however, may cause problems.
Yeah, I’ve had my fill of Dougie too. Somehow I can accept Cooper being teleported to a space station and meeting a woman with no eyes, but the idea that nobody has called 911 to report Dougie’s zombie-like behavior is too much for me.
Big Ed (Everett McGill) was listed in the closing credits, but I don’t remember seeing him.
My favorite moment of the episode: Jade turns over the Great Northern key fob, and it says “Clean Place, Reasonably Priced” on the back!
Speaking of the key, when it shows up in the mail at the Great Northern, will somebody realize that it’s from Cooper’s old room and notify the FBI? Does the Post Office postmark such things somehow, and will that lead them to Vegas and then somehow to Cooper?
Has agent Tamara discovered that evil-Cooper’s fingerprints are wrong?
Google tells me that the PO returns keys in an envelope. That means that there will be a postmark and fingerprints may be preserved.
I predict the following sequence of events, or something similar.
Tamara has discovered that evil-Cooper’s fingerprints are wrong. Then the key shows up with a Vegas postmark, someone recalls that it’s from Cooper’s old room and they then find his prints on it.
They also find Jade’s prints. Being a prostitute, her prints are on file with local law enforcement. She tells them that she dropped the possessor of the key “Dougie” at a casino. The casino’s limo driver recalls the housing development and the red door…
Rancho Rosa, the same name as the production company for the show. Which, if I understand correctly, was also the working title for the new episodes.
Best hope for Shelly is that she got a business degree of some sort from a local college and is (or will be) a co-owner of the Double-R with Norma.
Not yet, but there’s a promo picture of him sitting alone in a dark office with two cups of coffee from the Double-R.
From The Secret History of Twin Peaks released by Mark Frost last year.
Hank got killed in prison shortly after the events of the original series
Heidi’s listed, too, and I think that we see her walking past the counter for a fraction of a second. Never saw Big Ed.
I loved the callback. Didn’t like those exact words being printed on the key fob.
Since most places haven’t used actual keys in decades, it’ll raise an eyebrow. Hopefully, Audrey will see it, and she’ll know something’s up with Agent Cooper.
What’s with the smoking guy at the Roadhouse? Seems very Bob-ian. Reminded me of Frank Booth from Blue Velvet (Dennis Hopper). He’s listed in the credits as Richard Horne. Audrey’s kid? Jerry’s? One of Ben’s wrong-side-of-the-sheets surprises?
Maybe Audrey’s kid by evil-Cooper?
Dougie must go and Cooper must return to our show. I miss him; he’s the heart of Twin Peaks.
Did they identify the body missing its head?
The prints are Garland Briggs’ but, oddly, there have been a number of false positives of his prints over the years.
And they found what appears to be a wedding band in the stomach, inscribed with something like "To Dougie With Love, Janey-E.
So, is it Briggs? Is it Dougie? Who knows?
Dusts off account.
Regarding the Dougie plot: everyone in Vegas seems to be operating on classic Lynchian dream logic - questioning nothing and acting as if everything is normal, guiding our protagonist around as he needs. Lynch is no idiot - this is not a bug, it’s intentional. There are even common dream conventions, like Dougie-Cooper needing the bathroom but not being able to find it, having supernatural knowledge (the slot machines, Tom Sizemore’s lie), moving in a slow, dreamlike manor, and hell, just being a different person all together! I don’t think Dougie-Cooper is the real Cooper - he’s a dream. My theory is, we’re being Mulholland Drive-ed.
Of course, this makes Evil-Cooper the real thing, and that would break my fucking heart, but I’m not holding out hope for a happy ending.
How does that make evil-Cooper the real thing?