Notes For Season One, Episode Three (#1.003)

This post contains notes made during my most recent viewing (September 2019) of Twin Peaks season one, episode three.

Warning: Contains spoilers for later episodes.

Red text indicates deleted dialog. Please forgive formatting mistakes. My access to the Internet is limited to a smartphone.

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• Cooper in the televised series and scripts says the following:  
  COOPER: What is "One-Eyed Jack's?" 
  AUDREY: It's a place up north. Men go there.

But Audrey wrote, 'Jack with One Eye'. Shouldn't Dale have asked something along the lines of, "When you wrote "Jack with one-eye" were you possibly referring to a casino named One Eyed-Jacks?" Having him ask it as he does goes along with the script version of the note that read, "Have you checked into One-Eyed Jack's?"

• COOPER: Did Laura work there?

   AUDREY: I don't know. Laura worked at my father's department store.

This also goes along with the script, because in it, Audrey would have overheard Ben and Jerry talking about a girl freshly scented from the perfume counter.

• Mike couldn't stand the killing any longer, so he cut off his arm. This makes me think of how often BOB's victims couldn't stand life under his torment, eventually killing themselves to be free of him. But what if that evil remains tethered to the body in the arm? What if the evil would leave via the arm? Housed in it.

• We don't see Trudy arrive with Cooper's order.

• Andy says on the walkie, "Sheriff, I'm at the morgue and there's a big fight going on." But the fight doesn't start until Cooper and Truman arrive. 

• Cooper asks Audrey what One Eyed-Jack's is, but he already knew from Truman that it is a casino. Audrey tells him it's a brothel -- how does she know other than from overhearing her father? Rumors? If Audrey knows, why wouldn't the sheriff? Harry referred to it as a casino. It hardly makes sense why Cooper would ask her what it is. I can see him asking how it was tied to Laura, but why would she write to check into it unless she knew it was tied? In the series, she is asked if Laura worked there. She says she doesn't know but then says that Laura worked at the perfume counter of her father's store... which makes me think that in an earlier draft, she put two and two together.

• Wouldn't it have been kind for Dale to have canceled his meeting with the sheriff? He knew ahead of time that he'd forgotten the identity of the killer.

• Think about when this episode is supposed to take place  -  Albert is still with the body the next day. This is 7am, and he's fighting with Doc Hayward. In the previous episode, he complained about wasting half the day to get to Twin Peaks, so he had at least half a day with Laura.

• When Albert falls on Laura, I think it is meant to be seen as sexual. Especially with the line, 'How appropriate'. Very elaborately staged to make it look that way. When Albert says, "That's nice, how appropriate," he then looks at Laura's face. Why add this? How is it supposed to be funny that he lands on the body of a girl who was raped before her death? A victim of molestation so many years of her life.

• Albert stays on Laura from 10:03 to 10:16 only then moving. 

• "Albert, I want the girl's body released to her family now. I want to see your test results by noon. Those are orders." This is at 7 or 8 am. Albert would have had to have just gotten started. The results, one would think, would have to be from yesterday?
  
  
•  When Leland watches TV before Maddy arrives, the television screen is shown with an introduction to Invitation To Love, but on top of the TV are different items than shown at a distance. The wall in the background looks like the Palmer house, but the things on top of the television are different. Maybe the footage was different at another time? 
  
  

• Shelly was supposed to be thinking about suicide in the script. Now it's Leland. But there's the tie between Emerald and Jade and Laura and Maddy.

• Maddy's bangs are styled similarly to Laura's in the Black Lodge. 

• If a scene was filmed and/or scripted where Leland receives a call from Maddy informing him of her visit, why does he act so bewildered to see her? He acts as though he doesn't recognize her, which is what says in the script. Maddy is that you? Is it that Maddy wasn't supposed to have been seen for many, many years?

• When Leo is questioned by Cooper and Truman, a yellow Volkswagen can be seen behind him. It looks like Heidi's car in the pilot. It's next to another house. Is this where Heidi lives?

• There is a strange sound of what I assume is supposed to be children playing/laughing with the shot of the Briggs' house. 15:23.

• The wounds on Laura's shoulder are supposed to be bird bites. Why wouldn't Doc Hayward have been able to tell that? And if they are bird bites, Ronette had them too. Waldo is only said to have attacked Laura.

• The images on Albert's screen change. When Albert is saying the findings are enough to get him out of 'this godforsaken berg', Harry is shown, then the image is changed. Moving to Harry, was something cut? Or was the video moved?

• The 'fibers of twine' look like red threads in the evidence bag.

• From the script: Traces of pumice in standing water outside the railroad car, suggesting soap. The kind used for heavy cleaning. Same pumice particles appear on the back of Laura's neck. Not her home-use brand. My conclusion: the killer washed his hands and leaned in for a kiss ... like this.

This makes me think of Leo with his soaps and cleaning supplies. His obsession. It also makes me think of what BOB said in Laura's diary, how dirty she was.

• The dots of wounds across Laura's shoulders make me think of the dots in David Lynch's signature.

• ALBERT

        Distinctive wounds on Laura's shoulders and neck. Appear to be claw marks, bites of some kind.

• Note that it was Ben, not Leland, who wanted Laura buried as soon as possible.

• 20:30 sound from behind the scenes.

• Strange buzzing noise, similar to an alarm while Nadine is talking to Ed about he and Norma in High School. From 23:00 to about 23:29.

• Nadine confuses James' motorcycle as belonging to Ed. Does this mean that Ed once rode a bike as well?

•  What I can discern from Ben and Sylvia's conversation as Audrey moves through the corridor:
  
  Ben: I don't care what the doctor says. If we keep indulging him this way, he's never going to change.
  
  Sylvia: I don't think we should be discussing this while Johnny's in the room.
  
  Ben: Johnny? Johnny doesn't even know what day it is.
  
  Sylvia: We have to be patient, Ben.
  
  Ben: You be patient. I have been waiting 20 years for some sign of intelligent life.
  
  Ben: Clear about this, Sylvia, I have my needs.
  
  Sylvia: Don't I know it. {??}
  
  BEN: Then it's all in my general direction? {??}
  ???
  
  Ben: Taking in/it the specialty of the house.
  ??? I will make it extremely simple for you. We can't take Johnny to the funeral in that ridiculous get-up.
  
  Sylvia: Then let the great Dr. Jacoby see what he can do. Am I going to have to call Dr. Jacoby every damn time I have a problem with Johnny?
  
  Ben: Thank God. Alright, let's everyone just get in the car.

• First child named John + John Justice Wheeler. The son Ben never had.

• In the script, Norma talks to Ed at Laura's funeral and says that Hank's parole hearing is tomorrow. He could be out next week or sooner.

• It is in this script that Nadine first exhibits signs of being unwell. Before we were meant to think she was bossy and jealous. Now it seems like memory loss.

• Catherine makes note of Ben taking care of the Palmers in the script (at the funeral). It could be from guilt. Ben is not the caring type. Consider the last scene with Johnny. 

• The bruise is back on Bobby's face.

• BOBBY:
  All you good people. You want to know who killed Laura? You did!
  Vs. the scripts: You want to know who killed the prom queen?

• Bobby: Keep your prayers. Laura doesn't need them. She would've laughed at them anyway.

After Bobby says she would have laughed at them anyway, he makes a noise, almost like stifling a sob, or as though he's about to say something else.

• 30:14 sounds like Leland's wails of "Laura" is replayed.

• When Cooper and Truman pushed Sarah, Maddy, Donna and Johnny away, they were in front. Then I think it may have been cut, the sequences realigned. Sarah's scream may have been a result of her incredible sadness and anger during the end. It doesn't make sense why Cooper and Truman would push them aside and then they appear at the front again.

• Noticeable jump at 30:24. Cooper and Truman in front at 30:19. Something was skipped.

• The script has the creation of  a human chain to retrieve Leland. We can hear the voices of others not seen. This seems to have been filmed and removed.

• In series:

Ed: I'm telling you, Harry. He's just not going to figure this out.

Harry: Ed, that's a bet I'll take for the check.

Harry: Right on time. {We hear Harry say the last line but don't see him speak.}

{Their mouths are moving, but this isn't what they say.}

IN SCRIPT

          TRUMAN
        Maybe we should tell him.
   
                HAWK
        Why?
   
                TRUMAN
        I feel bad keeping him in the dark. What the hell, he's going to figure it our sooner or later anyway.
   
                ED
            Don't be so sure.
   
                TRUMAN
            (looking over Ed's shoulder)
        Want to bet?
   
Truman SEES Cooper enter the diner, step toward their booth.
   
   
                TRUMAN
        Right on time.
   

•  Harry: There's a sort of evil out there. Something very, very strange in these old woods. Call it what you want; a darkness, presence... It takes many forms. But it's been out there for as long as anyone can remember.

The Bookhouse Boys keep this a secret with the intent to keep the town safe, but their secret aided in Laura's misery if we are to believe the darkness is BOB. To be aware of their knowledge of a darkness in the woods would have given her strength. The blessing of knowing she wasn't alone. She wasn't dreaming it all. She wasn't crazy.

• If Harry, Ed, Hawk and the other Bookhouse Boys are aware of 'a presence' in this episode, why does Harry act as though he must work within the laws of reality in 'Drive With A Dead Girl'? Harry seems so out of character at that moment. In this episode, Harry asks Cooper to trust him and to believe him no matter how crazy things sound. Harry's insight into the supernatural aspects of the town, Hawk's insight, made their working relationship with Cooper understandable. They were kindred spirits in some aspects. They were aware of things others were not. Another reason why Cooper and Truman almost instantly became friends.

• Is Harry saying that the people the Bookhouse fights, such as Jacques, are influenced by the darkness in the woods?

• TRUMAN

        You're going to have to trust me. No matter how it sounds.

           COOPER
        I trust you, Harry.
   
                TRUMAN
            (after a beat, looking for words)
        Twin Peaks is different. A long way from the world. You've noticed that.
   
                COOPER
        Indeed I have.

TRUMAN
        And that's the way we like it. But there's a back end to that that's different too. Maybe that's the price we pay for all the good things.

COOPER
        What is it?
   
TRUMAN
            (lowering his voice)
        There's a sort of evil out there. Something strange in the hills. It takes different forms, but it's been there for as long as anyone can remember. And we've always been here to fight it.
   
                COOPER
        "We?"
   
                TRUMAN
        Men before us. Men before them. More after we're gone. We protect our own. We have to.

{It sounds as though the evil, BOB and the other Lodge entities, have existed much longer than the atomic bomb.}

• Truman has been sheriff for 5 years.

• James seems really cocky in this episode. He is the one who wanted to start a fight with Bobby. His pose at the Bookhouse when he's standing with Bernard reinforces this attitude.


• What is on the table in front of Bernard, Joey and James in the far shot aside from books, a glass and an ashtray? In the close shot the items are nowhere to be seen.

• The Bookhouse is made of wood.

• Jacques walks to work from what appears to be the woods or nearby; a country road. He hasn't shown up for work for a few days. Why, unless he felt guilt?

• Josie: I heard Catherine on the phone saying I'd never suspect. Just like with Andrew's death. {She is referencing a deleted scene available in the script. Josie went back in to open the secret safe, and Catherine walked in, causing Josie to hide in the closet as she spoke on the phone.}

• Josie leads Truman into the office, trips the hidden catch, releases the false bookshelf, and reveals the wall safe. She inserts the key, tugs at the handle.

This sounds like Harold's bookshelf. And the episode was written by Harley Peyton.

• In this script, Jacoby is referred to as a mystery man:

Cooper slips into the shadows. He watches a lone figure step to Laura's grave. But he can't make out the face. At least until the mystery man lights a cigarette.

• If Hawk believes in many souls, why does he say the only thing he's sure of is that Laura's in the ground when Cooper asks if Laura is in the Land of the Dead.

• Truman and Josie sit before the wood-burning stove. Josie burrows into Truman's arms, shivers, speaks just above a whisper, revealing her deepest fears.

This phrasing makes it sound as though Josie is telling the truth.

• There are strange sounds in the background when Jacoby is visiting Laura's grave. Maybe these are the sounds of the 'singing caskets' mentioned in the script.