Notes for Season One, Episode Five (#1.005)
Warning: Contains spoilers for later episodes and the film Fire Walk With Me.
Red text indicates deleted dialog. Please forgive my mistakes.
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- COOPER
Thursdays were traditionally a school day when I was your age.
Laura was murdered on Thursday night/Friday morning between the hours of 12 am -4 am. Stating that it's Thursday makes it where Cooper's been in town a week even though it's only the fifth episode.
- BEN
Leland, the best thing you can do right now is follow the doctor's orders and go home, you need your rest -
- There is something cut from Ben's dialogue as he is walking up the steps to reach Leland at 5:54. His dialog jumps, skips. "Right now," isn't heard. It's cut, but that's all I can tell.
- Over the walkies-talkies, as Jacques' apartment is shown, Harry can be heard saying, "Hawk, we're at Jacques Renault's apartment. Get over here as soon as you can." One might think Hawk would have accompanied them when they left the station. Or maybe Harry is calling Hawk after Hawk's been out? I believe this mostly acts as an introduction to the viewers, a reminder, of where the police were when we left off.
- I sent Hawk to roust his brother, but it looks like Bernie skipped (jumped) bail; no sign.
- COOPER
shirt.
When did he ever say it was? Is he just voicing his thoughts?
- TRUMAN
envelope, no name - (* this is said of Ronette's ad sent to Flesh World)
In the script to episode seven, Laura recorded a message for Jacoby. She said: "I'm gonna mail it to you in one of the ugly little plain envelopes you gave me ... for, what was the word you used? "confidentiality's sake". It is a plain brown envelope that Donna and James leave outside Jacoby's door containing the VHS of Maddy as Laura at Easter Park. Maybe Donna and James knew Laura used the plain envelopes for Jacoby? There was more than one tape in that shoebox. Is the mention of a brown envelope a remainder from an old, unused idea that Jacoby may have been involved with Laura and Ronette's Flesh World transactions? Or did Laura and Ronette simply use envelopes Jacoby gave Laura to send in their ad information? Confidentiality's sake.
- Cooper removed the magazine with the help of a tool, presumably to not mar fingerprints, but he uses his bare hands to turn the pages and remove and open the envelope within.
- How many pictures of Leo Johnson's truck are in Flesh World, and why didn't Cooper recognize it in the other issue?
- "Points to the picture of a silver truck cab which we saw before." It is supposed to be the same photograph from the previous episode when it is obviously not.
- Did Bobby's parents not care that he was gone all night? Or did he stop by Shelly's before school? Their hair is wet. I think it's suggested that they showered together after spending the night.
- Andy arrives alone to ask Shelly about Leo. Why did the Sheriff leave such important questioning to Andy when Leo is their main culprit?
- Why is Leo so paranoid about the police coming to call if he's not guilty of killing Laura or even conspiring with others to harm her? Was he always this way because of his drug transactions?
- One would think Ben would want to be present while Audrey is having her job interview at Horne's. Not just to make certain she followed through with her promise, but because it would be another chance to put on an act as though he's a proud and loving father. Audrey going alone doesn't seem right. It could have worked. There is no reason Ben can't be there. Audrey could have later found a way to gain a position at the perfume counter.
Audrey didn't necessarily even have to work at the store. She found out what she did by overhearing the conversations of others. She could have simply haunted the area for a while. Being Ben Horne's daughter would have given her leeway with lesser employees. She knew Emory was the man who aided in recruiting girls for One-Eyed Jack's. Audrey is resourceful. She could have found a way to gain information from him at Horne's. She was able to strike fear in him by threatening to cry wolf during her job interview. She confronts Emory at One-Eyed Jack's, but she could have gotten the same information from him at Horne's - a place where she had an advantage rather than Jack's.
- Emory says that Audrey will be working at the flagship store. How many other Horne's Department stores are there?
- James confesses his father left his mother... is this another reason why James eventually leaves Donna? He doesn't even realize he's following his father's example.
- Donna wears golden heart earrings. Full to Laura's half.
- JAMES
"It's the secrets people keep that destroy any chance they have for happiness and I don't want us to be like that...
"We won't. We won't be."
A forewarning of their future?
- JAMES
was true; if we don't do everything we can to figure out
what happened to Laura it'll never go away, our whole
lives -
James goes on to say, "Laura's out there wandering like a restless spirit" which makes me think of how James associated seeing Laura with seeing Maddy at the diner. Was that his train of thought? Maddy was Laura wandering? James then goes on to mention Maddy, how he met her yesterday, and he thinks she could help. It's also interesting to note that he mentions Maddy right after saying, "one day, if they don't do something, Laura will come between us". Though it's both Maddy and Laura.
- If the police are dusting Jacques' apartment, why wouldn't they find Bobby Brigg's fingerprints or hair follicles? Evidence of some sort of his being there. They were able to tell Ronette, Laura, Leo and Jacques had been at Jacques cabin.
- The outfit the girl is wearing in the Flesh World photo looks like the outfit Laura was wearing when she died. However, the body does not look like Sheryl's.
- Why didn't David Lynch have Into the Night playing at the cabin in FWWM?
- OFF the cropped photo of Laura in the magazine ...
Laura's cousin, MADELEINE FERGUSON enters, looks around. James and Donna are
seated at a booth.
More connecting Laura and Maddy that is not present in the series
- Sheryl is obviously dubbed when she says, "Hi, I'm Madeleine Ferguson. My friends call me Maddy." I have no idea what she might have once said.
- Note that Donna isn't calling her Maddy.
- Also note that Donna isn't reacting to how Maddy looks like Laura, not like James did. Why wouldn't she? The only way this makes sense is in accordance with the story told in The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Maddy already knew Donna in the novel. And I do truly think that Donna, being Laura's best friend, would have met Maddy before.
- MADELEINE
JAMES
We have some ideas.
DONNA
We wanted to talk to you because we need your help.
Who do they suspect? James, in deleted dialog, said that maybe the less Maddy knew the better. Donna said she didn't want to say anything she couldn't prove yet. What did she know other than that Laura was taking drugs, possibly worked at One-Eyed Jacks, and was seeing Doctor Jacoby? She doesn't seem to have an inkling of the killer's identity. Otherwise, the only other piece of information pertaining to the case they are aware of is that James' half of the heart necklace was stolen.
- James and Donna go to Maddy for help finding the secret hiding place in Laura's room. Donna needs help from Maddy in s2 with another secret hiding place containing Laura's words.
- Why do Donna and James have to ask Maddy to find Laura's secret hiding place in the Palmer house? Why can't they visit Maddy and look with her in Laura's room? Why can't they tell the Palmers and have them look as well? Why so secret? Donna has known the Palmers almost - if not - her entire life. Why would she suspect them? Why trust Maddy when she is not as well known? Is it that Donna doesn't want to bother Leland and Sarah while they're grieving? She had a bad experience visiting Sarah the day after Laura died? The only other reason that comes to mind is that they are younger, but Maddy is still an adult. Logic doesn't always apply.
- Why is Maddy, James and Donna's conversation at the diner anything Hank wants to hear? What does it matter if Hank overheard? They weren't talking about meeting in Easter Park. They were simply talking about having suspicions about who the killer might be, and asked Maddy for her help. The only way I can make sense of this is that Hank may have originally been involved with Laura's murder. Was he looking out for his friends because he knew they were involved? Is he supposed to have his fingers in many pies? Always looking for an excuse to cause trouble? This never pans out. We never know why Hank was listening.
- HANK (CONTINUED)
NORMA
Wife.
HANK
That Leo. So impulsive.
(a friendly remark)
Norma knows Hank knows Leo? Their relationship isn't secret like most characters? Or is it that Leo is well known in the area?
- BOBBY
DR. JACOBY
Have you?
BOBBY
My father has.
Jacoby redirects the question.
- DR. JACOBY
What happened the first time you and Laura made love?
How does he know this? Laura must have told him.
- Bobby almost seems to shake his head 'no' when Jacoby asks if he was very sad when Laura died. Bobby says Laura wanted to die ,so if he is shaking his head maybe this is why; she wanted death. He wanted her to be free.
- DR. JACOBY
people's weaknesses and prey on them, tempt them,
break them down, make them do terrible, degrading
things?
Laura made Bobby sell drugs in The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.
- Why does Jacoby ask Bobby those questions in particular? "Did you cry and then she laughed about it?" I understand that Jacoby wanted to ask something that would strike emotionally, reawakening that vulnerability and enabling Bobby's confession, but why a question regarding sexuality in particular? Something that seems to cut him down, and is almost demeaning in itself? There must have been other moments of darkness in Bobby and Laura's relationship. Jacoby told Cooper that Bobby and James were boys, Laura was a woman. In other words, Laura could confide in Jacoby; he is a man. Is this connected? Does he want to let Bobby know he's aware of his sensitive side? The side that would possibly make others consider him a lesser being? The way Jacoby conducts his questioning makes it seem as though he is more than willing to make another experience pain in the process of gaining an answer. Almost like a darkness coming to light. Almost as if he enjoys it to some extent. Enjoys its power. Bobby, I know all about you. Who you really are. Let me bring you down to size.
- A dark, dark grove. The air still and moist. A solitary mournful bird call. Hawk stops, listens, examines the ground, finds something that leads him on. Cooper, Truman and Hayward follow.
- The owls won't see us in here.
- Cooper. looks around, noticing all the firefighting equipment. She looks at him, as if to say, "Don't laugh. I see everything and it takes it's toll." Pause.
- LOG LADY
Flashlights, in the woods, pass by, over the ridge. The owls were near. The dark was pressing in on her ... Quiet then. A gentle wind. Footsteps, later, one man pass by. All quiet. Screams, far away. Terrible. Terrible. One voice ...
COOPER
(quietly)
Man or girl?
LOG LADY
Girl.... Further up. Over the ridge The owls were silent.
Cooper reacts to hearing this information as if knowing something. Knows the meaning.
- If Cooper has been dreaming of BOB for years, how does it make sense that he thinks the drapes and the music in the air in his dream are just interpretations for other things in reality? Why doesn't he believe that the Black Lodge might be real? Or at least have suspicions?
- Hawk uses his bare hands to open the camera at Jacques cabin
- Strange background noise in Jacques cabin. Almost like white noise. Horrible. More than wind. It is reminiscent of the music that plays with the sprinklers. Music of a sort often accompanied by horror and by BOB.
- Cooper's reasoning is that Leland's hair turned white because of BOB. Why did his hair just now turn white if Leland has had BOB inside since he was a boy? Besides that, BOB's hair is gray.
- 34:27 Josie in the chair in Ben's office.
- Trudy sings Home On The Range with the Icelanders. Windom sings also sings the song. Both in the presence of Garland Briggs.
- Jerry is all agog with the new object of his affection, the tall and beautiful Icelandic girl,
HEBA THORSDOTTIR, who's playing with him.
JERRY
Heba. Take a bite of that salmon tartare.
(he feeds her)
Did you know that was an American figure of speech?
- At 35:43 is Jerry wearing glasses in the background as Leland enters? He appears to be wearing a black jacket. There might be a glass in his hands. In the last scene, he was holding a fork. Heba doesn't have the plate in her hands. When they're shown again seconds later, Heba has the plate in her hands again, and Jerry is without his glass.
When Jerry is shown in a close shot, he is not wearing a jacket.
We see them in the distance before Audrey is shown in a close up prior to leaving the room.
Jerry is wearing a jacket when he gives his speech. Heba has a glass of champagne.
- Strange sounds in the background while Audrey is walking in the secret passage to spy on Catherine and Ben. Sounds like wood. Like trees moving.
- 40.21 In the background we can see Jerry and Ben doing just what they did a moment before in a closeup.
- 41.04 Josie shown again in Ben's office
- MADELEINE
and I couldn't find anything but I looked up and noticed
there was a loose ceiling panel? ... yes, that was her
hiding place, I pushed the panel back, there was a shoe
box up there ...
They changed it from her ceiling panel, possibly to match the description given in Laura's diary. Also, Jacques hid flesh world behind a loose ceiling panel in his apartment. It almost sounds like Sheryl was dubbed when she says, "I found a tape inside".
- If Laura has a phone in her room, why didn't Maddy use it to call Donna?
- If Leland/BOB were one why wouldn't Leland have known about the secret hiding place in Laura's room?
- Leo is shown placing the gas cans on the ground. We see a close-up of them. He is then shown working with a tarp over the bed of his truck before Hank attacks him. Why didn't we see him place the gas cans in the truck?
- A SHADOWY ASSAILANT efficiently, silently and systematically dismantles him, finally turning him and hitting him with three hard right hands to the face. Dazed and bleeding, Leo never knew what hit him. The Assailant grabs Leo by the lapels and pulls him close. The Assailant is Hank Jennings.
In my mind, addressing Hank as such ties him to the masked man in Easter Park.
- If Leo was only shot in the arm, don't you think, instead of leaving the house, he would have picked up the gun Shelly dropped and turned on her? Granted, he may have initially been in shock, but that shock would have subsided to anger; rage. If not a gun, he would have harmed her otherwise.
- It sounds like Audrey was moving around in Cooper's room before she was seen.
- Josie waits in the dark for Ben. Audrey waits in the dark for Cooper.
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