Twin Peaks The Return Recap: Part 9. Twin Peaks. Part 9. Season 1. Episode 9. Editor's Rating. . Early on in this episode, Evil Cooper borrows a pretty pink clamshell phone from an accomplice named Chantal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and texts a cryptic message to an unknown recipient: “Around the dinner table the conversation is lively.” Although this episode does not free us — or Good Coop — from the human purgatory that is Dougie Jones, some lively and informative conversations do end up tying together some of the show’s most esoteric threads in surprisingly linear ways.

After their prison visit, Gordon Cole & Co. U- turn when they receive not one but two calls about more nefarious goings- on in South Dakota. The first informs them about the fingerprint match with Major Briggs on the decapitated body in Buckhorn, and the second that “Cooper flew the coop,” a pun that seems inevitable, in retrospect. The great escape isn’t going quite as smoothly as Evil Cooper had planned, however.

After being double- crossed and shot by Ray, and clawed at by the otherworldly talons of ghouls, he finds himself stumbling down a dirt road the next morning, looking bloody and bedraggled. Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays! He makes his way to a house marked by a red bandanna, where his accomplices Hutch and Chantal have been waiting for him. After his long walk, he is very ready to start crossing off action items in his bullet journal: He sends that “dinner table” text, and then calls Duncan Todd. You may remember Duncan as the man we saw sitting in an office with a view, hiring hit man Ike the Spike at the behest of some ominous malefactor who was clearly Evil Cooper.

He now demands to know if Duncan has done “it” — i. Dougie — and notes gravely that it’d better be completed by the next time he calls. Evil Cooper leaves Hutch and Chantal with instructions to kill Warden Murphy within the next two days, and then head to Las Vegas for another doubleheader. Vegas, of course, is the home of Dougie and Janey- E Jones, so it sounds like we’ve got multiple hit people heading off to finish the same job.

Welcome to The A.V. Club's section dedicated to all things Twin Peaks! Settle in, have a slice of cherry pie, a damn good cup of coffee, and peruse all our coverage. Here is Lil. She indicates that this is one of Gordon's blue rose cases. "Twin Peaks" was conceived as a series (like "The Fugitive" before it) in which the central. · When the Woodsman throws a switch and causes an electrical burst (like the one Dougie created) we also see the “Jumping Man” from Fire Walk With Me.

Who killed Major Briggs? And when did they kill him? A recap of the Twin Peaks: The Return episode “Part 9”. Mark Frost on the ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival: ‘Trailers Are Coming Soon’ and More Reveals. · It’s happening again. The long-awaited revival of Twin Peaks continues on Showtime at 9pm PT / ET. If you're not sure how to watch Twin Peaks — either. As gripping as it is disappointing, Twin Peaks: The Return once again ends with more questions than answers. Spoilers ahead.

Since his arrival in the life of the ne’er- do- well insurance salesman, Dougie/Coop has already survived a stakeout by a sniper, a car bombing, and of course, the bold daylight shooting attempt by Ike the Spike. The remarkably high level of violence directed at Dougie has finally been noticed by the local police, who open an investigation not just into the attempted murder but also the “damn strange business” that seems to follow the man at the center of it all. They’ve discovered, for example, there are no records of Dougie prior to 1.

Witness Protection Program” rather than “supernatural doppelgänger constructed by an evil being from another dimension,” they can tell that something is amiss. Although Dougie’s boss insists that he’s a “solid citizen” who’s been working for him for 1. Dougie had a car accident prior to getting hired and still has “lingering effects.” He also mentions that Dougie had dissociative moments even before Coop was transplanted into his life, though a little bit of spaciness is probably to be expected when you’ve been manufactured as a sacrificial simulacrum for a malevolent spirit. One of the cops brings a fresh mug of coffee to Cooper — his one weakness!

DNA off to the lab, which I suspect will mean that Gordon Cole gets another call in the not- too- distant future about very strange fingerprint hit in the system. As Agent Cooper sits in the police station waiting, he stares at an American flag in the corner, like a man trying to remember a word he has forgotten. A woman walks by in red heels, and he follows the color of them until his gaze comes to rest on an electric outlet. There’s always been something about electricity in Twin Peaks, an energy running beneath the surface or through the veins of a place. Back at the Great Northern Hotel, Ben Horne is still wandering around with Beverly, trying to find the origin of the “mesmerizing tone” that keeps ringing in his office.

He and Beverly have a moment where they almost kiss, but he says that he can’t do it, prompting Beverly to call him “a good man.” This is surprisingly upstanding behavior from a man who previously had a long- running affair that may have produced a child, ran a brothel where he regularly “broke in” his employees (including teenaged Laura Palmer), and almost accidentally had sex with his own daughter. Uh, I guess people can change?

The crux of the episode is Major Briggs, whose death (and “death”) has been one of the central mysteries of the new season. When Gordon & Co. Buckhorn morgue to examine his body, they get a rundown of the mayhem that took place earlier in the season: A beheaded librarian was supposedly murdered by her lover, a high- school principal named Bill Hastings (Matthew Lillard), whose wife was then supposedly murdered by her lover, after which Hastings’s secretary died in a car explosion.“What happens in season two?” jokes Albert. Hopefully, no more Dougie. There are two pretty strange things about the body of Major Briggs, aside from the fact that it has no head: It hasn’t aged in the last 2. Dougie Jones’s wedding ring in its stomach.

When the talk turns to Hastings, things gets even more interesting. It seems that Hastings and his librarian paramour Ruth Davenport had been investigating alternate dimensions and writing about them online, with a final blog entry that concluded: “Today we finally entered what we call the Zone, and we met the Major.”Oh, and while everyone examines the body, Diane stays behind and gets a text message — the same text message that Evil Cooper sent in the beginning.

Oh shit, are they in cahoots? Then the whole gang is off to interview Hastings, who had previously claimed that Ruth died “in a dream,” and neglected to mention that they were actually exploring an alternate dimension with a dead Air Force officer at the time. Thanks to their extensive research, the couple discovered that they could enter this dimension by going to a specific place at a specific time.“I do a lot of reading,” Hastings tells Agent Preston tearfully. They found Major Briggs, who was “hibernating” there but wanted to move because he feared that “other people” — perhaps the gray men of the Black Lodge — were going to find him. He asked Hastings and Ruth to dig through a secure military database to get “important numbers, coordinates” that would allow him to move to an unspecified new location. Could it be the White Lodge, which he had visited before, and is that why Evil Cooper is so desperate to find the coordinates now?

When Hastings and Ruth came back with numbers, however, the “others” had arrived. They killed Ruth, Major Briggs’s head disappeared (likely to float by Cooper on his way out of the Red Room) and Hastings woke up in his home.

Back in Twin Peaks, the competent members of the Sheriff’s Department arrive at the home of Mrs. Briggs to ask her about about the fateful night before her husband “died,” when he went to meet with Agent Cooper. Mrs. Briggs doesn’t answer that question exactly, but gets a strange look on her face, and says that she’s been waiting for this moment for a long time. Mrs. Briggs explains that after Agent Cooper left, her husband gave her a prophecy: that one day in the future, Bobby, Hawk, and Sheriff Truman would come to her and ask about Dale Cooper. When that day came, he asked her to give them a strange metal vial. That’s exactly what’s happening now, and so she does. Bobby knows just how to open the odd the device — he saw his father do it before — and throws it down on the concrete outside until it snaps open, revealing two scraps of paper.

The first scrap has a familiar symbol of two triangles, one beneath a red sun and one beneath a symbol of the Black Lodge. There are also directions: dates, times, and a location.

Twin Peaks': Your A to Z Guide"Who Killed Laura Palmer?" Jeez, where do we begin? The dense, disturbing, one- of- a- kind murder mystery crafted by David Lynch and Mark Frost has haunted viewers ever since its 1. And as the show's long- awaited third season prepares for its launch on May 2.

Showtime, the mystery is deeper than ever. That's where this A to Z guide comes in. Below you'll find all the sights, sounds, characters, concepts, mysteries and madness that make Twin Peaks one of television's most influential and beloved shows of the past quarter of a century. Consider it a cheat sheet for the premium- cable reboot to come, and a refresher course on what made the original such a special experience. That gum you like has indeed come back in style at last.

A: Angelo Badalamenti"Where we’re from, the birds sing a pretty song and there’s always music in the air." That music – as indispensable to to the series as Dale Cooper or donuts and coffee – is the work of Lynch's longtime musical collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, whose suite of lush leitmotifs made the show sound like a world all its own. Twin Peaks without the composer's sumptuous synths is like Psycho without Bernard Herrman's screeching strings, or Jaws without John Williams’s menacing "dun- DUN- dun- DUNs." This clip of the composer explaining how he and Lynch came up with "Laura Palmer's Theme" shows how much heart and soul he poured into every note. B: Bob. Lynch was filming a scene for the pilot in which the late Laura Palmer's mother sits bolt upright and screams. Then he noticed a face in the mirror behind her – the same face he himself saw when its owner, an actor turned set dresser named Frank Silva, crouched behind Laura's bed to dodge the camera for a different shot. From this sinister coincidence was born Bob, the demonic rapist and murder from the otherworldly Black Lodge who began the series by killing Laura Palmer and ended it by possessing Agent Dale Cooper.

Thanks to his malevolent presence, no show has ever been scarier. C: Coffee, Damn Good.

And hot! Decades before cooking shows from Chopped to The Great British Bake- Off became a national obsession, Twin Peaks led with its tastebuds, as its characters constantly touted their affinity for a fine cup of Joe – and, of course the delicious cherry pie to go with it. More than just a cute recurring gag, the show's celebration of diner fare demonstrated a genuine affection for small- town life that added warmth nuance to its often vicious portrayal of its hidden sins. Everett Collection. D: The Double R Diner. Home of a cherry pie that'll kill ya – and haunt of not a few characters who’ll do the same – the Double R functions as a crossroads for countless storylines. A frequent meeting place for Coop and the rest of the town's law- enforcement community, it's also the workplace of owner Norma (Peggy Lipton) and Shelly Johnson (Madchen Amick) – the young waitress involved with two of the town's baddest gents, psychotic trucker Leo Johnson (Eric Da Re) and drug- dealing alpha jock Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook). It's also the site of Audrey Horne's dance (Sherilynn Fenn) and the heart to heart between Bobby and his pure- hearted father Major Briggs (Don S.

Davis), two of the series' most iconic scenes. And don't even get us started about the time Norma's ex- con husband Hank (Chris Mulkey) thought a famous food critic might be stopping by .. E: Evelyn Marsh. She was Season Two's stab at a femme fatale, but her real victim was the quality of the show itself. Played by Annette Mc. Carthy, who was saddled with the thankless task of generating story material for sullen James Hurley (James Marshall) in the episodes following the revelation of Laura's killer, Evelyn was a black widow with a rich husband and a killer chauffeur.

She used James as her patsy in a back- stabbing murder scheme – a noir- pastiche plotline disconnected from basically everything anyone cared about, and a marker of how badly the series struggled during the middle of Season Two. F: "Fire Walk With Me"One of the most haunting turns of phrase in a series full to bursting with memorably creepy lines, this passage from the poem recited by the repentant Black Lodge refugee Mike is arguably the show’s signature line. As a grammatically off- kilter paean to living life on the edge of morality, sanity, and even reality, it's a perfect encapsulation of the appeal of the show's dark side. It’s also the subtitle of the prequel movie released after the show’s conclusion, which depicts the final week of Laura Palmer’s life in excruciating sad detail; Lynch has recommended the film as the key to understanding the show's third season. G: The Giant. By day, he's the doddering old room- service waiter at the Great Northern Hotel. By night, he's a towering emissary of the world beyond our own – a ghostly entity from the angelic White Lodge who provides Coop with crucial clues to the murder of Laura Palmer, and who famously warns him that "it is happening again" when the killer turns his attention to Laura’s cousin Maddie (also played by Sheryl Lee).

Actor Carel Struycken is set to reprise the role in the series' return; it really is happening again. Everett Collection. H. Sheriff Harry S.

Truman. The one that got away. Michael Ontkean played this square- jawed local law- enforcement honcho, whose friendship with oddball FBI Agent Dale Cooper was all the more affecting for their odd- couple nature. Harry is also romantically involved with the glamorous Josie Packard (Joan Chen), whose rivalry with her sister- in- law Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie) is one of the show's main sources of intrigue. He was also a card- carrying member of the Bookhouse Boys, the local secret society dedicated to keeping watch on the numerous nefarious goings- on around Twin Peaks. Watch Voyage Of The Unicorn Tube Free more.

Ontkean has since retired from show business; legendary actor Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) is rumored to be his replacement, though it'll be difficult to recapture his innate righteousness. I: Invitation to Love.

One of the greatest show- within- the- shows this side of Itchy & Scratchy, this was Peaks' send- up of soap opera melodrama, watched by many characters who were caught up in soap opera melodrama themselves. Love triangles, doppelgangers, shocking shootings – much of went on in the "real" Twin Peaks also went down in slightly more hysterical form in the fake afternoon- TV staple popular with many of the town's residents. Series co- creator Mark Frost was the man behind the camera for this very meta element. J: Julee Cruise. She was Angelo Badalamenti's angel- voiced counterpart, the platinum- blonde singer who gave voice to his rapturously romantic compositions. In addition to "Falling," the vocal version of the Twin Peaks theme song, Cruise performed on the show itself – most memorably in the Bang Bang Bar roadhouse, where her song "The World Spins" brought half the cast to tears at the very moment Laura’s lookalike cousin was falling victim to her killer. K: Kyle Mac. Lachlan.

Like the platonic ideal of a leading man, cinema du Lynch mainstay Kyle Mac. Lachlan – also the star of the director's big- budget sci- fi spectacular Dune and Reagan- era suburban nightmare Blue Velvet – didn't so much play FBI Agent Dale Cooper as embody him. With his brylcreemed hairdo, his boyish optimism, his grad- student intellect and his innate decency, Coop was the antithesis of all the forces of evil at work; Mac. Lachlan had both the looks and the chops to turn this improbably combination of personality traits into one of the most believably noble heroes in TV history.

Everett Collection. L: The Log Lady"My log has something to show you." Catherine E.

Coulson's mysterious townsperson, known to all as the Log Lady for the hunk of wood she carried around and communicated with, became so synonymous with Twin Peaks that she was selected to host introductory segments for re- runs, defining the series' offbeat tone for a generation of viewers.