Notes For Season Two, Episode Three (#2.003)

 

This post contains notes made during my most recent viewing (December 2019) of Twin Peaks season two, episode three (#2.003, The Man Behind Glass).

Warning: Possibly contains spoilers for later episodes and the film Fire Walk With Me.

Red text indicates deleted dialogue. Please forgive my mistakes.

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• A place marker can be seen on the floor when Donna and Harold sit down.
  

• Strange bird-like sound: 7:18 to 7:23

• Maddy is supposed to have seen BOB twice within the last two days. There are a few ways this can make sense. One is in going with the script, where Maddy saw BOB after Donna mentioned starting the Meals on Wheels. The second is that the scene may have been filmed and deleted. The third is that in certain versions of the episode, BOB is superimposed over the carpet when Maddy has her vision. The fourth is simply that the vision of the carpet is tied to BOB.
  

• COOPER
  I saw him in my dream. (*Cooper has by now had TWO dreams about BOB. Not one singular dream.)
  
  TRUMAN
  And Ronnette (*Spelling matches TSDoLP)
  
  COOPER
  - saw him physically in the train car.
  
  Not a dream, vision or apparition. Cooper's words are "physically in the train car".
  

• Why is Cooper telling James he's not being charged? Shouldn't that fall under the Sheriff's duty?

• Why do Hawk, Harry and Cooper react strangely to Leland's appearance before he tells them about BOB? They are unaware of his role in Laura's death. 

• If each episode is a day, why did it take Leland so long to arrive at the Sheriff's Department? It has been a day because Cooper slept, dreamed, and now Leland is in the police station the next day. Leland rushed from the brothers Horne, saying he needed to tell the Sheriff right away. Is it that scenes are shown out of sequence or is this mistake in writing?
  

• At 13:40 there is an odd sound. It's reminiscent of crumpling paper, though the action isn't carried out by Cooper. We see Leland as we hear this sound.

• The script states, He shoots a match that hits the window. This was later changed to an ashtray in the televised episode. Did Leland originally hit a window because of its connection to BOB's entry to Laura's room?
  

• BOB never lived in the house, just as the Tremond's never lived in 'their' house.

• Cooper is nonchalant about Audrey being missing. He received the call the previous night, but instead of talking about her, he's talking about the Giant. He should have at least shown the same concern for Audrey as he did Ronette while she was missing.

• BATTIS
  We can't do this ourselves. Ben Home is dangerous.
  

• In the script, much seems cut from Dick's dialogue with Lucy at the Double R. The whole filing of clothes at Horne's seems added, judging by the fonts and spaces.

• James enters the diner and slides into a booth where MADDY FERGUSON waits. She looks different; a more attractive dress, and her hair seems softer with more of a sheen. The script seems to indicate Maddy's change was first made apparent in this episode, though she saw Bob in the season premiere, and her change was made known to us at the Double R Diner in that episode.

• MADDY
  Running away won't solve anything.
  
  Maddy says this to James. It reminds me of what Annie said about going away, that it didn't solve anything. It seems like Laura said something similar.

• James says, "Donna, where have you been? You're late." Didn't James hear her talking to Harold the night before?

• Maddy was supposed to ask if Donna had found anything out. Donna said she met someone real interesting. The scene goes from Maddy and James to Donna. There could be some dialogue cut before James says, "those old people must have some real nice stories".

•  INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
  
  PHILLIP MICHAEL GERARD, the one armed man, is trying to sell shoes to Truman. Sitting on the table is a stack of posters of the Iong haired man. Gerard holds
  (more)
  (CONTINUED)
  
  There is nothing more. Something was removed from the script.
  

• 2.003    Revised 7-24-90, PINK 20.
  16. CONTINUED:
  
  GERARD
  Now these babies are perfect for heavy field work, and extremely versatile. Durable with a steel reinforced toe.
  
  TRUMAN
  They're not quite right.
  

Gerard first arrived at the Sheriff's Department in episode eight.

• There is a strange static in the background of the scene where Philip tries to sell shoes. It almost sounds like a typewriter as the scene ends and goes to Shelly.

• Is Cooper saying Shelly didn't dream this up herself because he believes her too kind or otherwise incapable?

• Is there a reason why Philip Gerard was going to shoot the medicine in his leg? A leg, like the arm?
  

• Philip breathes heavily, like BOB.

• There is a cheerleader convention in town. Not only are they at the Great Northern, but the Double R Diner.

• Cooper seems to become in charge of all cases in Twin Peaks, not just the Laura Palmer case. Truman has to ask Cooper's permission to talk to Josie. Harry's the Sheriff and Cooper, in my opinion, has no business investigating the mill fire if Laura is his priority. Audrey's rescue is of the utmost importance as well.

• COOPER
  Are you ready to be hypnotized?
  
  This is mentioned as though it has already been addressed. Did they discuss it earlier in a deleted scene? It's said almost as soon as he walks in Jacoby's room. 

• There is no real reason why Cooper and Truman come back to talk to Jacoby other than to undo what has already been said. He tells them about the engine oil being in the park, then Leland being the one who killed Jacques, but there is no other reason.
  

• COOPER
  Sir, (Mr. Horne) have you seen or heard anything from your daughter?
  
  BEN
  Not since I spoke to (Sheriff Truman) you yesterday.
  
  The 'you' being replaced by 'Truman' shows that at one time Ben was supposed to stop by the Sheriff's Department.
  
  
•  BLACKIE
  Jean Renault, Emory. Say something weak and fawning.
  
  BATTIS
  Jacques was your b-brother.
  
  BLACKIE
  And this is my sister. Nancy.
  
  JEAN
  I also had a brother named Bernard. This business cost me them both.
  
  BLACKIE
  I told you we were going to have help
  

 Reminds me of dialogue in Invitation to Love.

• The music is dark with the One-Armed Man. Not before. Strange sound I've heard before, a clicking sound.

• The orderly tying Nadine down has a name tag that seems to read. F. Larson.

• Strange music in the segue between Jacoby and Donna visiting Laura's grave

• Donna says, "Although, I guess anybody can start to seem that way when you look close enough."  The way it's phrased, or perhaps how it is said, reminds me of Cooper saying, "Then again suppose you could say that about almost anything in life: it's not so bad if you can keep the fear from your mind."

• In the script, it says Donna listens after her speech in the cemetery. There is no reason for her to listen. But there is sound in the graveyard. The way the camera moves almost makes it seem as though we're seeing through another person's eyes.
  

• 9:36, 40:02 A sound that could be wind. Again at 40:46-55:00?

• Along with the lamp, James knocks from the table pictures of Laura as a little girl.

• The orchid on the table with the diary, the one that catches Donna's attention, seems to have been moved from a side-table by the sofa from when we were in the house earlier.

• The Meals on Wheels tray is no longer by the door when Donna visits. Did she take it with her?

• I think Harold could have known about Donna, Madonna by just knowing Laura.

• Laura's ghost plays as Donna approaches the desk with the diary.

• Bad music plays when the diary is revealed. The skipping sound.

• The episode with Colleen Hurley was shot by Tim Hunter. Lesli Linka Glatter said she tried to fit it in episode 10. Proof that directors used other director's footage.