Notes for Season Two, Episode One (#2.001)

 

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

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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• Cooper's body is quite distant from the door. How was he thrown so far as a result of being shot?
  
  
  
  
  
• We were lead to believe the note Audrey slipped under Cooper's door was addressed to 'My Special Agent', but, as it is shown now, it simply reads, "Agent Cooper".
  
  
• The ticking clock stops as soon as the old waiter finally leaves the room. It may be with the Giant's entry or the waiter's departure.
  
  
• There is a magical sound when the Giant appears. It is like the sound heard when The Man From Another Place rubs his hands together in the International pilot.
  

• The clock in Cooper's room resumes once the Giant comes into focus but now it is backwards.
  

• The sound as Cooper comes into focus, has the spotlight shown on him, makes me think of fire, a man's voice. It is otherworldly. I think it is heard later in season two, perhaps in Owl Cave?

• Giant: "The question is where have you gone?" Cooper smiles with the Giant's reply. Does he think it's funny? Clever? He understands because he has been there before? Or he simply understands?

• The spotlight floods both the Giant and Cooper at the same time. Like a light on a mirror, it shines in reflection. Does the light connect them? It almost seems like the light intensifies as it shines on Dale, moving from the Giant to him. Or at least the Giant's light is dimmed while Cooper's is inflamed. Cooper almost seems to feel it or perhaps it's the Giant he's sensing. He senses something which causes him to stir in the light.

• GIANT: "This is all I am permitted to say. If you find these things to be true, I will visit you again. We want to help you. If I tell them to you, and they come true, then will you believe me?"
  

Why does the Giant phrase things this way? Why does he say it as though Dale is reluctant to believe? Is it because he has talked to Cooper before to no avail? "If you find these things to be true, I will visit you again..." Almost as if he has experienced this before and is giving Dale another chance. Actually listen to us. Recall how Dale did not heed the Giant's warning regarding Annie. Is it that he did not believe him? Perhaps it was his hubris at the moment. Nothing will happen to Annie while I'm protecting her.  Maybe he was so in love, he could not think beyond Annie. I understand that's how it's meant to be. He didn't even notice Windom in the diner because he was so distracted. But it still seems strange. He also did nothing to halt the Miss Twin Peaks Contest or ask Annie to withdraw for her safety.

• The clock in Cooper's room resumes ticking as normal once the Giant disappears.

• Why does Audrey, in disguise as Prudence, tell her father she's a virgin in the script? Wouldn't that make her all the more enticing for someone like Ben?

• Why would Ben, the owner, leave money on the table for Prudence/Audrey in the script? One wouldn't think he wouldn't have to pay the girls that work in his buisness. Perhaps it was an incentive. There is more where this came from. Also, one would assume Blackie is in charge of monetary transactions. Usually, money is presented before clients are allowed time with employees.
  

• It does seem cut right after Ben says "Vixen", possibly indicating dialogue was removed, following the script.
  

• Blackie calls the room Audrey's in "the little flower room". It has the same or similar wallpaper as Laura's Tremond vision/dream in FWWM. In season three, the Dutchman's has similar wallpaper as well.
  
  
• Laura must have been in the Little Flower Room.
  
  
• According to the script, Audrey was kept locked in the room without food until she gained their trust. She was told all the new girls had the same experience. If this is true, was Laura an exception? I don't see her being able to stay away from the house for many days, as Audrey did, without her parents or those at school missing her.
  

• When Jerry shines the light on Blackie the sound is like that of the light on Cooper with the Giant. 11:54 to 11:58

• Owl Cave music plays during Jerry's talk with Blackie. This is the first time it is played.

• There is a magical sound effect when the curtains are pulled from Audrey's bed.

• Why does Jerry need to speak to Ben at that exact moment, interrupting his time with the new girl, to say something that could have waited?
  
  
•  Cooper suddenly looks to his finger and feels for the ring. The magic music plays. Oh my God. The ring is gone. He says this in a state of shock. He didn't believe it was real, as the Giant knew it would be. Is it that Cooper is open, but not as much as he would have others think?
  

•  "Oh my god. The ring is gone." He lies back down, having risen from the mid-waist then we go back to an extreme close-up as though the ring dialogue was added between. He seems to mouth, "Oh my God."

• Lucy says Jacques was strangled when he was actually smothered.

• I wonder if there was a reason why Cooper didn't want to be put under?

• Ronette's file has the date '89 and that she was admitted on 2/24.

• The way Ronette's file is shown bothers me because it is suspended in mid-air, as though someone is holding it. The file is shown then the scene pans over to Ronette in bed.

• Ronette seems to have a black eye or bruised cheek.

• Foghorn heard blowing outside the Palmer house?

• I wonder why in the script it was a wild cat Maddy dreamed of in the woods? The window was open when she woke, blowing in a cold breeze. Instead of the cat dream, we have Maddy staring at the carpet and seeing either her blood or the scuffed carpet, which in my opinion, seems to indicate it is the same as connected to BOB.
  

• Sarah scoffs when Maddy says, "What?" Is Sarah used to Maddy not listening? Or did Laura not used to listen?
  

• Why doesn't it bother Sarah that Maddy looks so much like her daughter?

• There is the sound of two doors closing before Leland appears from behind the screen, but there is no door for him to have come from...

• 23:17 ominous music with Leland's arrival.

• In the script, Ben was watching the news story about the mill burning - not Shelly.

• It sounds like fire in the background when Maddy sees whatever she sees on the carpet. I'm going to say it is fire because the next thing we see is logs in Ben's fireplace.

• A foghorn is heard inside the Johnson home.

• Cooper didn't tie the scent of Leo's duster to the mill fire. Harry did.

• I assume Philip Gerard sold Leo his boots. Did they know each other beyond the sale? It's very interesting to think about, Leo possibly knowing Mike with his connections to BOB and Laura.

• Maddy is completely changed from when we last saw her. She was still Maddy earlier. Her voice, her look. Flower robe, red glasses... Black socks. Now her voice is deep, she's serious, more like Laura. It's after the carpet. After BOB.

• Wouldn't Cooper have found out Leo was in jail in Montana when he searched for his prior arrests?

• James says he doesn't think the red corvette has to do with Leo. He didn't put it together until he heard this one tape where Laura says, "this guy can really light my fire". But we hear her say that immediately after talking about Leo on the same tape. (As in little red corvette.) Did the writers forget it was on the same tape, not later listening? And if it is supposed to be BOB, why does she say, "I think he's tried to kill me, but as you know, I got off on that." BOB made threats throughout Laura's diary. This doesn't seem like something she would say regarding him. She knew he wanted to kill her. There isn't any fear in her voice. It is more of a casual observation. I can see the words intended for Leo, not BOB/Leland. I understand the writers were trying to redirect. Perhaps they wanted to point to those not yet seen on the Meals on Wheels route.
  

• James acts as though the necklace wasn't his. He may be trying to hide the truth, but it still seems strange. He says, "This was in Jacoby's office. It was in a coconut." It doesn't seem as though the necklace is the same one that belonged to James. He could have said Jacoby took it from him, which would have been an excuse for why he hadn't come forward with it.  When I first watched Twin Peaks, I thought the necklace Jacoby was holding at the end of episode one was one Laura had given him. I wonder if this is how it may have once been? It would have been an intriguing idea for there to have been many different necklaces belonging to different suspects.
  

• The necklace is back on its cord. The last time we saw it it was on a gold chain.

• Cooper: Laura and James were in love. I figured he had to have the other half of the necklace. But If he had the other half of the necklace, he would have given it to us to help with the case. Then it dawned on me, something or someone frightened him off. He had to have it, so I asked him for it. How does this really make sense? James, as we know, didn't want to be found guilty, that's why he didn't hand it over. The police would have been the ones to "frighten him off".
  
  
• Cooper says he didn't figure Jacoby had anything to do with this at all. How didn't he? He seemed to find him suspicious, to begin with.

• If Harry is certain James didn't own the cocaine why did he keep him in jail for the night?

• Why would Cooper leave it up to Andy and Lucy to search for a photo of Teresa Banks when it seems as though only Cooper himself was able to discover the photo of Laura? Cooper provided a photo of Teresa, but Laura's face was obscured in the image he identified. Who's to say it wouldn't be a similar situation with Teresa? Leo didn't even have his picture in the magazine but his truck.
  

• Why does Donna ask James if the police think Leo killed Laura?  Jacques, not Leo, was arrested for killing Laura. It's almost as if BOB was asking through her. "Are they still fooled?"

• It could be Laura or BOB working through Donna with her aggressive sexuality. James is upset by it.

• Cooper acts like he's mad at Andy before he asks them to go through Flesh World.

• Cooper says Teresa was killed in the southern part of the state. If it was at the Fat Trout Trailer Park one might think he'd say less than an hour away or something along those lines.
  

• Cooper leans back as if in recognition when Jacoby says the smell was like oil.

• In this script, the only one online, Laura had been seeing Jacoby for nine months.

•  The last time I saw her, two days before her death, Jacoby says in this script. In one of the deleted scenes, Jacoby says he saw her the day she died. She'd come to visit Johnny.

• There is a dripping sound with the body bag. The smiling death bag. This dripping sound reminds me of the dripping sound in the same scene with Jacoby. In his hospital room.

• The other people in the Double R Diner are standing as still as they can in the background behind Briggs.

• Albert has taken a bite out of what appears to be a coconut donut (during the reconstruction) 105:55

• In the script, the killer took over an hour to kill Laura. It was supposed to show a gleaming knife.

• Lucy points to six buildings on the map indicating the Meals on Wheels clients but Cooper says she delivered them to nine? - this is just in the script. COOPER'S VOICE (CONTINUED) ... where she picked up nine hot meals and distributed them to nine shut-ins around town as part of the Meals on Wheels program. CUT TO:  54. INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY  Lucy points to six small "buildings" scattered around the map.
  
  
• Cooper mentioning the Meals on Wheels clients again makes it all the more frustrating that the police did not investigate.
  
  
•  It seems strange that Norma should allow Donna to resume Laura's Meals on Wheels route when she is not sure if she is putting Donna in danger. If the police had already questioned the clients and determined their innocence, I might see it, but not when nothing has been done yet.
  

• Laura was supposed to have delivered Meals on Wheels on the day she died.

• ALBERT (CONTINUED)
  He wore surgical gloves, he was thorough, he was careful. The girls did not struggle until they were inside.
  
  COOPER
  Suggesting they knew the man.
  

One might think there would be some sign of struggle by the way the girls were forcibly lead to the train car in Fire Walk With Me.

• COOPER
  During the course of which, Ronette came to, managed to crawl out of the cabin. (*They were supposedly tortured in the train car, though the FWWM script has torture in the cabin. Ronette in FWWM escapes from the train car) into the woods and eventually to safety. The Man didn't know or didn't care that Ronette was gone.
  
  ALBERT
  He cleaned up. He built a mound of dirt, just as he had with Theresa Banks. He left a note written in Laura's blood. (*canonically the killer's blood)  Washed his hands in the rainwater pooled outside. My men also found these outside ... (*Albert says his men but it is later Hawk.)
  
  Holds up an evidence bag containing water damaged scraps of paper.
  
  ALBERT (CONTINUED)
  Scraps of paper. Hand torn, scattered around the area. Ink washed away by the rain. Commercial quality.
  
  TRUMAN
  From what?
  
  COOPER (a guess)
  Letters? Personal papers?
  
  ALBERT
  Attempting to implicate Leo Johnson, he wrapped Laura's body in plastic that was taken from Leo's house or car. He carried the body to Elk River a quarter of a mile away and threw her in.

• Lucy does have the pointer in her hands by the blackboard as in the script.

• Ominous music plays with Hank's meeting with Ben and Jerry.

• The Owl Cave music seems to have once been tied to Blackie or One-Eyed Jack's.

• 123:58 strange sound as Leland says he felt as if a great weight had been lifted from his heart.
  

• Away from Dale, Audrey talks to him almost as he talks to Diane.

• The Giant raises his hand like Cooper.

• The note from Audrey was under the phone when the waiter hangs up. How did it get under Cooper's bed?

• Why didn't Ronette see Leland instead of BOB? I know one theory is that she chose to see BOB rather than Leland due to her knowing him. Jennifer Lynch suggests that because Teresa Banks did not know Leland, and had no reason to mask his identity, she could see his true face. Why would Ronette have so deep an emotional connection with Leland that she would blind herself to his true identity? It would almost be like Laura blinding herself to Ronette's father were the roles reversed. Speaking from my own experience, the parents of my friends were a backing presence. I rarely thought of them. Were one of them to hurt me, I would not have reason to create another face to mask theirs. If it were Donna instead of Ronette, I could understand, but Ronette is a secret friend to Laura. Laura did not have her over to her house.  Ronette did not know Leland as Donna did. Even at that, when Donna was in the living room with BOB/Leland, and their dance turned into a dangerous situation, Donna was not blinded by a mask. She saw Leland, even though we as viewers saw BOB, and knew Laura's father/BOB to be the one causing her harm.
  
  
• "There is a connection between Horne's department store and One-Eyed Jack; It's my father. He owns the place." This reminds me of a previous exchange between Cooper and Audrey.
  
  
• The Giant comes in, checks to see if Cooper is awake. The clock is ticking as normal. The lights don't flare up. His theme, the humming, plays. He waves his hand in front of Cooper several times. Leaves, or just goes off to the side, then reappears. The light flares up. The clock starts ticking backwards. That same flaring sound like fire, the sound of cries. Animal cries, the cries of a man, I can't name it. It sounds so familiar but It escapes me. It plays again with the light shed on Cooper. Just as before! It seems that the sound wakes Dale. It's pretty loud. It stops when he wakes. 
  
  
• The way Dale says, "I'm not dreaming" is strange. Is it to convince himself? He sounds childlike. Almost as though he's saying it in sleep.
  
  
• The spotlight on Dale wavers around the time he says, "I believe you". 

• The lights in the hallway of the hospital flicker before BOB appears or with BOB's appearance. Before we see him.
  
  
• There is a piece of paper on the mound of dirt by BOB. Paper and possibly the necklace.
  
  
• In the script Ronette, was supposed to be hit by a wrench. Also, the way it's filmed makes me think that BOB is hurting Laura, not Ronette.
  
  
• Did Laura have blood on her teeth when they found her?
  
  
• There is another flash of light when there is a close-up of BOB's hand. 132:50
  

• Galyn Görg is credited as Nancy, proof that the scene where Audrey talks to Nancy about her room being locked was filmed.