Notes for Season One, Episode Seven (#1.007)

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

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

Red text indicates deleted dialog. Please forgive my mistakes. As with most notes, these are mostly basic observations.

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• The music is strange as Donna and James enter Dr. Jacoby's office. It sounds like altered Hawaiian music mixed with the brush-snap of Freshly Squeezed. Muted, warped, and then it abruptly stops. A friend said it reminded her of an owl, a bird. 2:20 - 2:28

• James's half of the heart necklace was on a black cord in the pilot. In Jacoby's coconut, it is on a gold chain like Laura's half of the necklace.

• When Jacques leaves the table, the two glasses of beer on the table are half full, just as they were when he sat down, though he drained a glass while talking to Cooper.

• If Hawk and Ed were able to hear Cooper speak when he was talking to Jacques, why does Cooper keep moving his wrist to his mouth to speak in the mic?

• Jacques makes a face when Harry accuses him of murdering Laura (no reaction for the attempted murder of Ronette). This could be in mocking; someone guilty would make a similar face.

• If Jacques wasn't guilty of involvement with Laura's murder, why did he go so far as to attempt to shoot the sheriff? He had to know there was no hope when he was surrounded.

• The gun Jacques was going to use to shoot Harry sits next to Jacques on the ground after he drops it. Hawk does not confiscate it or attempt to move it out of his reach.
  

• Hank keeps touching Josie as their talk continues. It becomes more aggressive. She does not want him to touch her. It's sexual, violent.

• Blood being seen as sexual. Licked up by Jean in a later episode, placed in Hank's mouth now.

• Note that the scripts have more than once had state troopers involved, though the extras have Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department patches.

• Why does Cooper ask Jacques if he took Laura and Ronette to his cabin the night Laura was murdered? He already received this information at One-Eyed Jack's. Jacques told him about the poker chip, and he said they were at the cabin.

• Jacoby has one eye open as he 'sleeps'

• The script says Norma is supposed to be weakening with Hank, but she looks at him so coldly, as though she can hardly stand him. Like she's guarding herself against pain she's known in the past.

• Nadine puts the phone beside her as though she wants Ed to call for help after she's attempted suicide. Perhaps her thoughts were, If he loves me enough to call, I'll want to come back. If he doesn't call, death is best for me. A test? A test to see if he truly loved her? Maybe all she wanted was to not stand in his way? She couldn't abide the thought of seeing him with Norma if she divorced him? She'd rather die than live through life knowing he didn't love her? 

• Cooper: Hawk, pull the surveillance off Leo's house. I want you to set up a parameter around Easter Park. Why call off all surveillance from Leo's house due to one phone call?

• Why would Bobby enter the Johnsons house in the middle of the night and start calling Shelly's name? I cannot see Bobby doing this if there was any indication Leo might be in town.

• Why wouldn't Hank make sure Leo was dead? Why not shoot him twice? If he refused to go inside, why not shoot him twice through the window? Make certain he's dead.

• Catherine's black gloves are shown twice. She's wearing a long dark coat (as will Leland when he kills Jacques). Was she meant to be a suspect? Or is it that the close-ups of gloved hands were originally supposed to tie to the mysterious masked man in the woods?

• When the wood from the ceiling of the drying shed falls toward Shelly and Catherine, Catherine was helping untie the rope from around Shelly's wrists. When the wood falls, Shelly has no rope around her at all.

• Was Shelly tied up for us to be reminded of Laura's bound wrists? Another reason to think Leo might be the culprit?

• The curtains around the hospital beds appear to change from solid beige to striped.

• Leland acts strangely, as though when the alarm goes off, he awakes from whatever spell he was under.

• While the Icelanders, or rather Einer, is signing his contract with Ben at One-Eyed Jacks, it almost sounds like they're playing the same version of 'Home on the Range' Trudy played on the piano at The Great Northern.

• It almost seems as though, instead of finding out if Laura and Ronette worked at One-Eyed Jacks, Audrey's goal was to figure out who owned the establishment. Ronette's name was in Emory's book. Since Jenny's name was in the book as well, were I in Audrey's place, I would have assumed Ronette was escorted to One-Eyed Jack's in the same manner as Jenny.
  
  
• "And Leo Johnson, the man I believe is responsible for Laura's death" - even Agent Cooper thought it was Leo before season two. 

• In a deleted scene on the Gold Box set, Sylvia tells Audrey that it's her fault regarding Johnny. She says, Johnny was nine, and Audrey pushed him down the stairs. You came running up and you pushed him down the stairs. In the script, Audrey was crawling. How old is Audrey if she was running when Johnny was nine? The only age ever stated for Audrey is 18. Johnny is said to be 27. According to Parents.com, the average baby is usually 18 to 24 months old when they start running.

• Why does Ben pay for Laura's funeral? Leland and Sarah were not impoverished. Was he trying to mask guilt? 

• Laura was supposed to have visited Johnny on the day she died, though she died on a Thursday. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays were the days she visited him. In the Fire Walk With Me script, Laura visited Johnny for his birthday.
  

• The director's clipboard when Cooper was shot reads 12/21/89.