Janey is Diane’s sister? Wow.
Wow, what an episode. Just wow. Lots actually happening for once.
I think that shot of Sarah Palmer opening her face will now haunt me for days to come.
:shudders:
So to recap:
- Diane and Jane-E are sisters! (Well, half-sisters; Diane hates her.) How Con-VEEN-ient.
- Agent Cole dreams about Monica Bellucci.
- Sheriff Truman got in touch with Agent Cole who is having the Vegas feds track down Dougie Jones. With just four episodes left, things are finally pulling together!
- One time, Lucy and Andy took a vacation in Bora Bora.
- David Bowie kinda sorta DID appear in the new series after all.
- ??? has a name – “the Fireman.” (Is he a Time Lord? “Fireman Who”?)
- Andy got to watch episode 8 (in condensed form) and part of the original series pilot.
- The eyeless girl returns! I did NOT expect to see her again.
- The drunk in the cell has the same affliction as the girl in the car. Nobody seems to notice or care. (BTW, did Bobby ever do anything when he saw that girl in obvious medical distress? Did he just let that angry woman drive away or did he get the girl to a hospital??)
- So Billy and Tina are real people? Audrey isn’t in a coma after all?
But for such a plot-advancing, fast-paced (for “Twin Peaks”) episode…nothing but nothing comes close to the sight of Sarah Palmer opening up her face and attacking that jerk at the bar. Wow!! I thought the sound of crashing and thrashing around in her kitchen was unsettling. But that…just…just…wow!
This was where all the “boring” scenes pay off. I was watching the scene, just figuring it was another moment in Sarah Palmer’s current life.
When she opened her face up, I felt genuinely scared and this happens very rarely for me. It was incredibly, incredibly creepy. And in a way that can not be duplicated.
Back in the original, the grandson did the same “opening the face” action with the white mask with the pointy nose. Red room Laura did it in The Return, episode 1? Now Sarah Palmer does it. I wish I could have done that to some pesky men I’ve been approached by in bars. Either that or a hand with the strength of a pile-driver.
I don’t understand why maintenance at the Great Northern didn’t figure out that the hum is coming from the furnace room.
I thought it was interesting that Andy was the one selected(?) to go to the gray room.
I didn’t expect to see eyeless woman again, either. She must be kept safe and nobody should know about it. So they lock her up in a cell block with sloppy bleeding guy and Chad? WTF?
I was surprised, with all the long, empty silences in the show to date, that there was no time for Truman to tell Cole more than that there might be two Coopers. Um, nothing specifically about the dream like, “The good dale is stuck in the lodge and can’t get out.” The hotel key? Gentlemen. When two separate evens occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object in inquiry we must always pay strict attention. I guess Harry needed to be there. And why so much reference to Harry all the time? He’s very sick. Got it.
Yeah, how convenient that Janey-E is Diane’s half sister.
Don’t know who Monica Belucci is and don’t care enough to Google her.
I was hoping the “in memory of David Bowie” wouldn’t show up in the credits. I figured if it didn’t it might mean he was able to film something before his death. I have much less hope for that now.
Wow. What an eventful episode!
What is the “nut house” the two women were discussing? Is that where Audrey is?
What’s up with Billy jumping over 6 foot fences? It sounds like he’s sleeping around a lot… when he isn’t bleeding all over the place. Is he the disfigured guy in the jail cell?
I definitely did not expect to see the eyeless woman again. I suppose that when she fell off that space thing she went through a portal to the woods.
Has she been lying there all this time, or is this related to a difference in the way time flows in the other world, or are the time lines in the different pieces we’re seeing not in sync?
There’s definitely something more going on with Sarah than just grief and alcoholism. If I remember correctly, Laura did something similar with her face in an early episode.
The half-sister relationship between Diane and Janey-E was totally unexpected. Apparently Diane has never met Dougie or she would have mentioned his strong resemblance to Cooper. She could be holding back, but then why mention her half-sister at all?
Is the Vegas office competent enough to find the right Douglas Jones?
And introducing the newest Marvel super hero - complete with origin story - Glove Man… with the power of a pile driver!
I believe every other “in memory” was for people who filmed this season. They actually filmed this nearly two years ago and the editing/finishing process took an eternity. However, the footage of David Bowie was not filmed for this. You can tell everyone is young.
Was his scene in Fire Walk With Me or a deleted scene? I can’t remember.
Log Lady, Albert, and I think the older guy at the cafe, have all died. Albert is the most shocking and depressing. He was healthy looking when they filmed Twin Peaks.
It is? I must have missed that.
That scene was from FWWM.
Frank Silva (Bob) and Don Davis (Major Briggs) both died years ago. The guy currently playing Toad has also died, I think.
I was thinking that if Bowie did film something for The Return, maybe they would hold off on the “in memory of” until after any new footage played.
Maybe. They already did a “in memory of Miguel Ferrer”, didn’t they?
Hmmm. I hadn’t thought about Miguel. I’m not sure but they must have. And Catherine Coulson and Warren Frost.
It just occurred to me that : 1. Evil Coop created Dougie as a diversion to keep him from being transported back to the Black Lodge, 2. Diane has been shown to be in league with evil Coop, so that 3. Conceivably, Diane may have had a hand in “creating” Dougie and establishing his existence in society. (Recall that the Vegas police determined there is no record of Dougie’s existence prior to 2007.)
Therefore, it may not be so convenient after all that Diane is related to Jane-E. Perhaps Dougie is with Jane-E specifically because Diane arranged it in some way. Although why she is therefore just bluntly telling Gordon, Albert, and Tammy about her sister is not clear…at least not yet. Perhaps it’s some long game of evil Coop that the Feds should find Coop at some particular time.
It could be that when Gordon mentioned the names Janey-E and Dougie she realized that they were getting close and that it would look suspicious if she didn’t say something and they later discovered the relationship.
She did hesitate before revealing that relationship. Perhaps she was weighing her options before deciding to mention it.
So what’s the story behind the non-appearance of the original Sheriff Truman? Did he just not want to do it? And how about his girlfriend?
The actor didn’t want to do it.
I assume when you mention his girlfriend you mean Josie. Explaining that requires a spoiler from the original series:
Josie died, and her soul went into a doorknob.
Joan Chen (Josie Packard) wanted to be in it and even wrote Lyncha letter asking to be in it. We don’t know yet if she’ll show up in some way or not.
Woah, what an episode!
A theory I’ve heard regarding Janey-E and Diane - that Janey is also a manufactured being, and she’s holding a part of Diane, her “half-sister” is literally half of her. Perhaps this is why she’s working with Mr. C, because he’s holding part of herself hostage. It’s a bit out there, but it fits with all the doubling and splits.
I love that Andy is the person the Fireman chose to enlighten (why him? Why not him?), and I want to know what’s happening in the scene where he’s guiding Lucy down the hall. Andy and Lucy have never been my favorites in either run, but I loved the scene where they gently dress the chattering Naido, and I’m feeling a little worried about them.
Chad getting arrested was so satisfying, and I’m pretty sure that guy dripping engine oil (NOT blood) out of his mouth was Billy.
Bobby continues to be a pleasant surprise this season. And if anyone had told me that I’d be excited to see more James, I’d have laughed in their face, but there you are.
Sarah Palmer’s life is one of the most disturbing, sorrowful lives in existence, but she at least she’s embraced her inner darkness and is using it on awful douchebags.
I had that thought too but forgot I had it.
Lynch addressed that and explained it that he simply couldn’t think of a way to include her in the storyline. He said that was the reason neither Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle) nor Catherine Packard (Piper Laurie) were not included either.