Notes for Season One, Episode Four (#1.004)
This post contains notes made during my most recent viewing (October 2019) of Twin Peaks season one, episode four.
Warning: Contains spoilers for later episodes.
Red text indicates deleted dialog. Please forgive my mistakes.
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- If Leland was with BOB the entire time, wouldn't BOB be angry about his true face being seen in a sketch? It doesn't seem like Leland would be behaving the way he is, or that he'd even allow sketches to be made, if BOB was in him at the time. Granted, he acts dismissive of Sarah's words, as though she is delusional, but it doesn't seem like BOB speaking through him. It doesn't even make sense why Leland is acting this way if Sarah, Beth, Maddy, and Laura have the same gift. He would be used to their behavior. But, at the same time, if that notion were true, you would think the BOB in him would fear their honesty. The truth of his nature being spread. Perhaps he was both drawn to and repelled by them.
- JACOBY
suspect, will be ongoing for the rest of my life.
(not unaffected)
Laura had secrets. And around those secrets she built a
fortress that in my six months with her I could not
penetrate. For which I consider myself an abject failure.
TRUMAN
Did she discuss Bobby Briggs and James Hurley?
JACOBY
They were boys. Laura was a woman.
Jacoby saying she confided in him because he is a man. He's justifying his actual or desired sexual relations with her by stating she's a woman.
Why just James and Bobby? Why not ask about the mystery man?
- COOPER
Who killed her, Dr. Jacoby?
JACOBY
(walking a fine line)
The night after Laura died I followed a man Laura had
spoken to me about. He was driving a red corvette. I
lost him near the Old Sawmill Road. That, gentlemen,
is all I can tell you.
If Jacoby knew Laura so well, even going so far as to say there was trouble at home, why would he point to Leo Johnson as the killer?
The night after Laura died. What difference does it make if he was following a car AFTER Laura died?
- COOPER
one of them?
JACOBY
No.
Why does it change from rape to sex?
Just because Jacoby did not have sex with Laura the night she died is not to say he did not have sex with her during the time he knew her.
- COOPER
vision were connected. I didn't go with you this
morning so I wouldn't influence her. I'm a strong sender.
(he hands the sketch back to Andy)
The eyes were a bit closer together.
Where does this place matters if Dale is capable of this degree of persuasion? What can other people do in their world? How far-reaching is their spirit, their design?
- Catherine unveils her hiding place to Ben, telling him where the second ledger is. Pete isn't supposed to know about it, though he seemed to see it in the last episode.
- Montana from Invitation to Love can be heard on the TV while Catherine and Ben are in bed. He says the line about spending 18 months in the Amazon dodging blow darts.
- Catherine knows One-Eyed Jacks is a brothel. "Catherine slow-burns with anger" is not shown. We only see her picking up the poker chip. How does she know it's a brothel if even Sheriff Truman was unaware? Perhaps Ben shared information with her of his business enterprises.
- Phillip Gerard's mouth moves with words different than those heard. This is when he says,"Bob is about the best darn vet in these parts."
- Andy is shown near the cases with dubbed dialog from Al Strobel. I think that Andy was originally going to check the suitcases as he did in the script.
- Strange jump in music 14:20.
- Donna says she'll help Audrey, but whatever they learn, they have to promise to keep it between themselves. I don't believe Audrey would have held true to her word. She probably would have found a loophole in talking to Cooper, not the police. She informed him she was going to One-Eyed Jack's.
- How does Audrey know Ronette and Laura worked at the perfume counter? Dale found this out, I remember. But how did Audrey? There's always the chance Ben mentioned it but one would think he might be reluctant to do so with its connection to One-Eyed Jack's.
- The way the scene is edited almost makes it seem as though something more was shown between Hank and Norma after he says, "Let me have a chance to prove it to you."
- It sounds like the girl outside the vet says, "Her name is Esther. It's OK. You can pet her."
- CAMERA MOVES UP to a shop above the convenience store. A sign reads: "Lydecker Veterinarian Clinic .- Aid to the Beast Incarnate" The vet was originally above the convenience store...
- Flare up of music when Shelly shows Leo's jacket to Bobby 23:22. The sound makes me think of a truck horn.
- SHELLY
This was in Leo's truck, two days after Laura was murdered.
- Why does the sheriff's department have a totem pole similar to one at The Great Northern? Was it once outside the Sheriff's Department?
- James' mother was gone for four days.
- Shelly is very rude when she arrives at the diner. Toad holds the door open for her, but she doesn't acknowledge him. She opens and slams the counter down, almost catching a customer's newspaper. She removes her coat and purse and leaves them on the counter by the same customer.
- It almost seems as though Donna should have called James instead of the other way around. However, since he is in the diner, Donna cannot call him. She has news to tell him and wants him to come over, but he says he won't be very good company. She does most of the speaking until he says he's going to get something to eat, then come over. Maybe James could feel her reaching out to him? Donna didn't talk to James at school?
- 47. JAMES POV - NORMA AND MADELEINE
I think it's ready, let me go check.
Maddy and Norma are shown from James' pov while he's still speaking to Donna. When he ends the call, we see only Maddy from his pov. Maddy and Norma speak, but we can't hear them. Norma seems to be mainly reacting to what Maddy said.
- There is no mention of Maddy removing her glasses in the script.
- MADELEINE
other much recently. I live in Missoula. I'm a
receptionist at a insurance company?
(instinctively trying to cheer him up)
Ever been to Missoula?
JAMES
I heard it was nice.
MADELEINE
From who?
(James smiles)
So you can smile. Missoula's not so bad actually.
(tries another subject)
Did you know Laura well?
JAMES
I thought I did.
Sheryl's voice changes with the line, "Did you know Laura well". It sounds as though the dialogue was cut.
- Shelly's voice is dubbed when she says, "Here you go. I've got your order ready." Her voice seems to echo.
- Maddy looks upset when we see her face after James says he thought he knew Laura, which would still go with the script.
- After Maddy says, "Aunt Sarah can't cook right now," she starts to say, "And Uncle Leland..." as the camera moves from her face to show James. I can't think why James was shown other than to hide removed dialogue. The speech is the same in the script, but Maddy moves her head as though this is not what she's saying.
- BEN
Where have you been? ... Meet me down by the river near the mill pond ... half an hour. Be discreet.
- Cooper is not the one who figures out what the object was in Laura's stomach. He simply says, "Something with the letter J". Harry is the one who says, "Poker chip. One-eyed Jacks." Cooper's face reads shock. It had not occurred to him.
- The initials L.J. on the blood-stained shirt equate to Leo Johnson in Dale's eyes. But what about Lawrence Jacoby?
- BEN
your whole approach is misguided.
They behave as though their relationship is fairly new - when did Hank introduce Ben to Leo? Was it while in jail or before? I believe it is later implied that Leo took over Hank's business, which makes me think it was the former.
- LEO (CONTINUED)
talk. He's staying in Canada. Jacques was the brains in
the outfit. Bernie made bail this morning on possession.
Why is Jacques staying in Canada if he's not guilty of anything pertaining to Laura's murder?
- BEN
How exactly would Bernard have "given him up"? Drug dealing or worse?
- BEN
LEO
The mill?
One last chance? How many times have they worked together? How has Leo disappointed him? Ben is not phased by Bernie's death nor does he care about the drugs.
- DONNA
used to see stuff, she'd have dreams. Laura did too.
An owl hoots. They move closer to one another.
An owl is paying attention to them, reminding me of the owl that listened to Laura in The Secret Diary, as if commenting on what is said.
- JAMES
(This is in regard to Laura's necklace being unearthed.)
When James says, 'Then he knows that we know," it almost as wandering speech, which Donna interrupts. However, in the script, it sounds as though they know something we don't. It doesn't make any sense for James to say what he does. The necklace wasn't buried to hide anything other than that James was the person who had it. They were worried he would be wrongly implicated by possessing the necklace. James goes on to say he couldn't stand it if anything happened to Donna, but why should she be targeted? The way it is said almost makes it sound as if it is because he was formerly Laura's boyfriend. Was there originally something more to this? Did they have a secret withheld from the viewers?
- JAMES
Just a few days ago we were so happy. I keep thinking
I'm going to see her, I think I catch a glimpse of her out
of the corner of my eye, sometimes it's like I really see
her, at school or the Diner...
James first saw Maddy at the Double R.
- DONNA (CONTINUED)
her. This is about us. We have to do this for us, not just
for her.
- Hank Jennings on a phone in a dark corridor.
(ambiguously)
... catch you later.
He hands up. STAY WITH Josie. Her hand trembles.
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