Notes For Season Two, Episode Two (#2.002)
This post contains notes made during my most recent viewing (December 2019) of Twin Peaks season two, episode two (#2.002, Coma).
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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- The script says the gun that shot Cooper was a .38, but I remember them already mentioning a .44. I know it was a Walther PPK in the televised series.
- Ominous music as Donna starts up the path to the Tremonds. The music continues within the house.
- The Tremond's keep the door unlocked.
- 7:51 There is a sound after the grandmother says her grandson is studying magic. It almost sounds like a bird. A friend said electricity or bird.
- A high pitched wind whistle sound as Donna enters. Like a flute or tin whistle that fades out at one point, making it added on purpose. It changes pitch. Outside it was like the air after a rain, very quiet.
- When the grandmother says Laura is dead, there is a cracking sound. A sound within the room?
- A friend noted that the grandmother was excited to talk about Harold. She was apprehensive about Donna knocking at the door. My thought is that her apprehension was akin to that of a performer knowing what is expected of them, worried that they'll make a mistake. Or worried about the future they already see.
- The Tremond house is not an easy place. Donna didn't want to stay. This feeling was heightened when the grandmother said she didn't know Laura.
- Seven or eight trilling sounds after the magic trick is performed by the grandson. The sound almost like that of a cricket. Like a water pipe. A whistle.
- The grandmother was hiding something when she was asked about Laura.
- Crackling tonal pitch when it gets darker, deeper synth. Danger. Donna senses it.
- The grandmother seems afraid, as though she questions what is in store.
- Donna knocks 7 times twice then 9 times at Harold's door.
- How can Donna deliver lunch to the Tremonds on a normal basis if she needs to be in school?
- Donna seems to be troubled by the pair when she says she'll be back.
- Donna is upset to hear that Mr. Smith was Laura's friend. She also acts upset to hear the grandson say, 'J'ai une ame solitaire'. She is upset by the visit as a whole. Overwhelmed and confused. So much so that she is anxious to leave.
- Ominous music continues even as Donna writes the note outside Harold's house.
- BEN:
"The ledger gambit guarantees the mill goes bankrupt, the will gives Catherine the mill. Catherine sells to us and pockets the cash."
How can Catherine sell if she is supposedly dead? - Why doesn't Harry mention what Josie said regarding a second mill ledger? Granted, it is a deleted scene from the script, but when Pete brings it up, one would think Harry might say, "Josie talked to me about this. Pete, she was afraid. She was afraid Ben and Catherine might hurt her." Discovering that Catherine may have been killed might make Harry wonder if Josie was right. Especially now that Ben is working on his own and stands to make so much from Ghostwood. If Ben's desire to sell the property is well known - so much so that the Double R Diner has fliers that read SAY NO TO GHOSTWOOD --- how does this even make sense? Ben doesn't have the land - yet he's trying to sell it. Apparently, it is known that he plans to turn it into The Ghostwood Estates and Country Club, or there wouldn't be flyers against it. But he doesn't own the land. How is it supposed to belong to Catherine if Josie was in charge of the mill? If Josie owned it in the pilot, how is the land now Catherine's? How did it come to be turned over to Catherine? If Catherine owned the mill, then Josie wouldn't have been able to 'pull the plug'. She inherited it from Andrew as his widow. I came to understand that Catherine ran the mill though Josie owned it. Catherine said Josie didn't know the first thing about running a mill.
- Why doesn't Ben Horne legally acquire other real estate projects to turn over for profit rather than resort to such means with Catherine and Josie? The mill plotline with Catherine and Josie is too complicated. It doesn't make sense. Yet he actually goes through with the sale with the Icelanders, thirty- three million dollars. He gets a check for land that isn't even his...
- JERRY
Query: How pliable?
BEN
She gets the cash. We get the mill. And the land for Ghostwood.
JERRY
I wonder ... what does Josie really want?
BEN (puzzled)
I don't know. You? (?)
- PETE
Catherine asked me to help her find the account ledger. She asked me to help her. (Beat) This was in her safe. Catherine said it was the wrong one.
TRUMAN
Josie showed me a second ledger.
ALBERT
(to Pete) Sounds like your wife was cookin' the books
- When Ronette is questioned by Cooper and Truman, she is given a sketch. There is a cracking sound that may be SF for paper, though it sounds odd. It makes me think of fire. At 13:36, 13:38 -39, 13:42, but Ronette is creasing the paper. It could make noise, but the sounds heard were added later.
- 14:10 garbled sound. It sounds backwards. A possible bark. A laugh. Another at 14:12. The sound of glass seems altered and bizarre according to a friend.
- There is a football trophy on Harry's desk.
- Why does Cooper follow Harry in all his police duties - why is he involved?
- Red drapes in the Tremond apartment.
- FADE IN: 25. INT. SHERIFF'S STATION - DAY
BEN
I'd appreciate it if you would keep this quiet, Harry.
TRUMAN
I'll do what I can. But...
BEN
Audrey has a penchant for the dramatic. The unexplained disappearance, is, after all, a part of her repetoire. And with Laura's killer in custody, well, you understand. No need to panic.
Harry knows different. But Ben's attitude irks him just the same.
TRUMAN
I understand, Ben. We'll be in touch.
Ben exits. Harry turns to find Cooper in the office doorway, watching with evident concern.
Wasn't Jacques' death made public? And what is it that Harry knows different? That Jacques isn't the killer or that he's dead? Note that in the script it says Ben leaves Harry's office when in the televised version Ben called Harry.
- Jerry says the insurance agent told him that Catherine was concerned about Josie being named chief beneficiary, but Catherine never told him that. She said she wanted to make a few changes that were not in the copy Neff gave her.
- Dark music plays when Leland sees the flyer with BOB's image. The music, in my state, makes me think of a roll of nausea. Some sickness creeping to a point, a wave.
- The flyer wavers in Leland's hand. It may be just as it would normally, with his breath and so on, or it could be more. His hand may be shaking with fear.
- Look at where the bandage is on Leo's chest compared to the gunshot wound in the first season finale.
- Shelly seems to be wearing the same robe in the hospital as the one in her home.
- Leo binds Shelly's wrists. Laura and Ronette's wrists were bound. Emory's were bound. All seem to be connected. Emory's ankles are bound as well.
- The girl Audrey 'tags' in the hall is the same girl who whispered in Cooper's ear.
- Note that Audrey wears the same red underclothes as the other girls, only Audrey's outfit is slightly less revealing. I wonder if Sherilyn requested the black dress.
- The drapes in the Tremond apartment are tied like those in One-Eyed Jack's. Floral walls, red curtains, and the Grandmother and her Grandson appear in Laura's dream in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Is it purely coincidence?
- A girl wears a red wig in the room with Emory.
- The dialogue that follows is as it appears in the episode. Red text indicates deleted words.
AUDREY
Once upon a time there was this (a sweet) innocent little girl named Red. That's me. And she met (a bad old) a horrible wolf. That's you. And the wolf took her to a secret place and did terrible things to her against her will. But the little girl was tougher than she looked. She kicked the crap out of the bad old wolf, (cut) and (she) told her (daddy) father all about it. After that *cut* (then) she told the police. And the bad old wolf went to (jail) prison for a (million) thousand years.
- Audrey does seem taken aback to learn her father owns One-Eyed Jacks. Almost as though this an alternate cut where she didn't have that encounter with Ben in her room.
- EMORY
I recruited Ronnette and Laura.
AUDREY
Did Laura come here?
- TV canon: Laura was at Jack's for one week.
- The information - her father, Laura - troubles her deeply. Scares her too.
Again indicating that Audrey was unaware that her father is the owner before this episode- when that isn't the case. This is after Battis has told her that Ben is the owner. Audrey saw her father's face. She heard his voice as he spoke to her as she wore a mask. Why should the script describe her as not knowing?
- Blackie was originally supposed to rough up Audrey in the script. Or at least she was bruised when she prayed. Also in the script, Audrey says 'Red' was taken to a secret place and made to do things against her will'. Was Audrey originally molested at One-Eyed Jack's? We're being shown a mirror between Audrey and Laura, that they're alike. The story Audrey tells sounds so much like what Laura suffered:
The wolf being BOB and Red being Laura. I wonder, though, if this was an old arc. Why does Audrey say Emory is the Big Bad Wolf and that he did terrible things to her against her will when this is the first time we've seen him while Audrey's been undercover at Jack's? How did Audrey get by working as a prostitute without actually having to have sex? How could she? Audrey seems so weak - not just when she's rescued, but when she talks to Agent Cooper when she's wearing the black sweater and pink skirt, when she tells him her father is the owner. So different. Like she had been harmed emotionally as well as physically and not just by the drugs. Something else.
- Audrey is warned by the 52 pick-up about Battis. But Battis is usually shown as a pawn.
- Donna interrupts with a passionate embrace. James resists at first. But Donna will not be dissuaded. She bites at his lips, offers soft kisses, then hard. James relents. And their embrace deepens, gives rise to whispered moans. And the fevered kiss continues.
- SMITH'S VOICE Tomorrow, Donna. I will show you what Laura gave me.
This makes it sound as though he intended to show Donna the diary. This matches more with the Harold of episode eleven, the indoor picnic.
- "James wonders who she's talking to". Already jealous.
- In the script, Bobby and Shelly were sitting on her couch rather than in the car. One would think they might take advantage of the luxury of having the house to themselves rather than sit in a car as they're used to in order to avoid Leo.
- Lobster bisque is the soup of the day again.
- The scene of Bobby and Shelly listening to the radio in the car is reminiscent of the scene of Norma and Ed listening to music in the car in the deleted scenes of FWWM.
- Have Cooper and Major Briggs met before Briggs appears at Cooper's door? The only scene I can place them in is Laura's funeral. Cooper repeats his name after he says it as though he either can't place him or wonders why he is there.
- Cooper's name was repeated at least five times, not just three on the readout from Briggs. Three in the script. Five in televised episode.
- We hear the dial tone as Harold ends the call but we do not hear his voice.
- BOB wears workmanlike boots, similar to those sold by Philip Gerard and worn by Leo.
- The Giant appears, waving his hand in front of Cooper again. Cooper dreams of Ronette. We see a man out of focus walking. As soon as the Giant appears the sound of a ceiling fan can be heard. The owls are not what they seem, repeats the Giant.
- Garland says twice, the owls are not what they seem. The first time he says it the orange light floods Cooper as he lies in bed.
- Sounds of electricity as Cooper is shown in shock white.
- BOB in both sightings in this episode breathes heavily. More so with Maddy. In Cooper's dream, it's more like a nervous or barely restrained laugh.
- Maddy and Cooper probably saw BOB around the same time.
- Cooper seems calm and placid when answering the phone after being woken from his dream containing BOB. Think of this in comparison to Maddy's reaction to BOB.
- Audrey's first words to Cooper in the script (on phone) are: I know who it is. Almost as if that was the purpose of her investigation. I would think, seeing as this is the episode where she found out her father is the owner of OEJ.
- Cooper telling Audrey he wants her home now sounds like he's talking to her like a child. Like he's taking Ben's side that she's just off on a lark. She opens with, why aren't you here? There is no reason for him to be so callous.
- Strange sound from 45:55 to 45:58 almost makes me think of a horse?
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