So it was Diane. I should have placed some bets. Lots of people thought it would be Audrey.
Sure enough. Laura Dern is always a pleasure to see. I guess Annie Blackburn won’t make an appearance in S3.
I’m into this, and I’m sticking it out, but this one was a harder watch than the others. So frustrating (When Janey-E asked Cooper if he was going to answer the phone, I almost tried to reach through my screen and strangle her), but I already know I’ll be watching it again in a day or two to really start working it out. That scene with the kid and the truck, holy fuck. Closing my eyes next time for that.
I’m happy about Diane entering the scene. Less thrilled that we didn’t get to check in with Mr. C (Evil Cooper). The scene with Richard Horne and the drug dealer was intriguing - magic and doubles. Don’t know what that means yet. Still don’t know why the Red Room is helping Cooper with lights.
Kyle Maclachlan makes an adorable sixty year old toddler, though. I want Agent Cooper back as much as the next person, but I have to appreciate the subtle wonder in his performance. The look on his face when he was playing with the clapper and the elevator (electronic things, same as his doppelgänger, and seemingly a running theme) was pure joy, and now I want to take him home and mother him.
So Cooper as Dougie has shown the boss something he likes (or at least is glad to know). I’m guessing it’s a pattern in the claims that proves fraud of some sort, probably involving the coworker he called a liar. And Janey don’t take no shit from nobody!
The kid getting hit by the car was difficult to watch.
What’s with the little guy with the ice pick? That scene was straight out of Mulholland Drive. Apparently his next target is Dougie.
I’m starting to think that we’re never going to get explanations for a lot of this. Of course that is what you should expect from Lynch. He only solved the Laura Palmer murder due to network pressure. We’ll probably be trying to figure it all out for years.
At least we know what the Log Lady meant when she told Hawk to find what was missing. Seems like dumb luck, though.
We don’t know who the little guy is, but he got the white envelope from Mr. Todd. His first target was Lorraine, the woman who hired the hit men who failed to kill Dougie. So now we have an explanation for who Mr. Todd hired in Episode 2.
And boy weren’t we all off base in our guesses about that?
The Indian heritage part was a reference to Nez Perce Manufacturing, the company that manufactured the restroom stalls. That’s almost as silly as my joking guess about casinos. And the missing thing was one rivet on the stall door!
I don’t think it was dumb luck though. He noticed it when he followed a dime rolling across the floor, which I’m guessing relates somehow to the drug dealer and his dime trick.
Someone, I forget who, was aghast at the idea that the reference to Hawk’s heritage might be a casino. Rest easy, it’s a toilet. Much better. 
Were those pages of Laura’s diary?
ETA: Davidm, apparently was who.
2ETA: What was with the big lady eating pie? That was…a thing.
I think it’s some sort of battle between the Black Lodge and the White Lodge, and the White Lodge is trying to help Cooper but is obviously constrained somehow in what it can do.
At this point, I feel as if I am getting a more than a little lost in all the random tangents and left-turns the series keeps taking. There are so many oddball twists, I can’t keep them all straight. Was the man in the office who got the fax about the dot (I assume it’s the same dot from Buenos Aires) the same man who told a woman “You don’t ever want to have dealings with someone like HIM!” ?? I was thinking it was, but am not sure.
The woman who the little guy murdered was the same woman in the photo that Gordon Cole’s new assistant was studying, right?
The pie lady was standing on the side of the street after the hit and run and appeared to get a good look at the driver and the truck, and I think he got a good look at her. So he may be going after her.
The pie lady was standing on the side of the street after the hit and run and appeared to get a good look at the driver and the truck, and I think he got a good look at her. So he may be going after her.
Right. The guy who took the white envelope from the safe was Mr. Todd.
If you watch the scene again, I think you’ll agree that the “woman” is really long-haired Evil Cooper. The woman the little guy murdered was Lorraine, who hired the hit men who failed to kill Dougie.
So the missing thing inside the stall door were the diary pages Leland/Bob torn out of Laura’s diary that was found in her bedroom (as opposed to the one at Harold Smith’s house)? I’m not sure why Bob would have torn them out and not destroyed them though. Maybe it was actually Mike who tore them out to preserve them? Was that the stall Mike/Gerard was in when he was having his withdrawal from his meds 25 years ago? And weren’t there diary pages that were found at the train car, too? I believe that was a buffalo nickel that rolled to the ground rather than a dime.
Was Red (The Balthazar Getty magician/drug dealer) the same guy that was with James in The Roadhouse who did a friendly finger gun point at Shelly at the end of episode 1 or 2?
Yes, it was Mr. Todd who told a guy named Peter that he should hope he never has to deal with someone like “him” when he also told Peter to tell he she’s hired (or was it got the job?)
Is Truman’s wife relevant to anything or is that just a throw away storyline?
I was surprised when Shelly didn’t tell Miriam (the pie lady) that she was the best pie customer *since Agent Cooper. *
I vaguely recall Miriam from the original series. Either she or someone very much like her was a customer at the Double R and said something very similar about the pies there in pilot.
Was there anything to indicate that those are the missing diary pages? They could be, but what relevance could they have at this point? The murder was solved a long time ago.
Looking back at the restroom scene I think you’re correct that it’s a buffalo nickle. Hawk is looking at the side with the indian head. So that’s part of the heritage clue along with the stall door.
Regarding Shelly not mentioning Cooper in the pie conversation: she was never really involved much in the Palmer murder case, so Cooper is probably just a distant memory for her; a customer who came in a few times and complimented the pie and coffee.
I thought they were about the right size to be diary pages, the left edge looked uneven (as if torn, rather than cut). Could it be the pages where Laura wrote, per vision/dream Annie’s instructions, “My name is Annie, and I’ve been with Laura and Dale. The good Dale is in the Lodge, and he can’t leave. Write it in your diary.” I think maybe that happened in FWWM. Maybe that’s why Lynch was saying in interviews that it was more important to watch FWWM than it was to watch seasons 1 & 2?
Was that in FWWM? I don’t remember that, but I never really liked that movie.
It was. It’s one of the few things I do remember from the movie.