Subject: Summary for TP virgins From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) Date: 1990-05-22, 18:13 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks Here is a draft of a summary I've been writing of Twin Peaks. It is intended for those who have not been following the story but who wish to view the season finale tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 10 (and wish to know what the *hell* is going on). There is one major section left for me to write in this summary (the section on clues that have been accumulated so far), but there should be plenty of useful information in here without it. I'm sending this incomplete draft because a complete version might not be available in time for some of you. ---------- This is a summary of Twin Peaks (the story so far), intended to allow Twin Peaks virgins to enjoy this week's season finale (Wednesday, 10 PM, ABC). SETTING Laura Palmer, Twin Peaks' local high school homecoming queen, has been murdered under bizarre circumstances. Some aspects of the murder resemble the (unsolved) murder of another girl, Teresa Banks, a year earlier in a different corner of the state (Washington). Another girl, Ronette Pulaski, attacked in the same incident as Laura, survived and escaped, crossing state lines in the process. She is now in a coma from her injuries and psychological trauma, but by crossing state lines she has enabled the FBI, in the person of Dale Cooper, to investigate the case. CHARACTERS FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper Agent Cooper is a wide-eyed, gee-whiz, little-boy-at-heart, by-the-book investigator with strong intuitions and strong faith in them. He is never too busy to stop for a good cup of coffee or a donut. He loves pie. He has been enamored of the town of Twin Peaks since his arrival, despite the macabre circumstances under which he came. The birds, the Douglas firs, the hospitality all appeal to him. He has often astounded Sheriff Truman, with whom he has been working closely on the Palmer case, by his unorthodox but successful approach to detective work. He places trust in his dreams and in Tibetan mysticism, as well as in more conventional clues. When we last left Cooper, he and some of the ``Bookhouse Boys'' have left their legal jurisdiction to check out One-Eyed Jack's, the brothel/casino across the Canadian border where Jacques Renault deals blackjack (and where Laura and Ronette probably worked as ``hospitality girls''). ``Diane'' Presumably Cooper's secretary, whom we never see, but to whom Cooper constantly tape-records observations, comments, and requests on his hand-held, voice-activated tape recorder. Sheriff Harry S. Truman Twin Peaks' local sheriff has been glad of Dale Cooper's help, and admires Cooper's quirkiness and intuitive approach to detection. Shortly after they first met, Cooper, citing ``body language,'' was able to deduce Harry's love affair with Josie Packard. Truman is a good-humored, no-nonsense cop who doesn't mind being frequently upstaged by Cooper's superior powers of observation. Deputy Andy Brennan Andy, the ``crying deputy,'' is a sensitive man who was deeply disturbed by the news of Laura's death. While adept at routine police procedure, Andy becomes nervous and clumsy when called upon to draw a weapon or perform other hazardous duties. Like most others, he admires Agent Cooper. He has recently been getting the cold shoulder from Lucy, his girlfriend (another relationship which Cooper deduced from body language), and doesn't know why. Deputy Tommy (``Hawk'') Hill An efficient but sometimes enigmatic cop with strong American Indian roots. He is an expert tracker and marksman, and his professionalism belies his occasional forays into poetry and sentimentality. He recited a particularly touching love poem to Cooper and Truman once; written, he said, for his girlfriend Diane Shapiro, Ph.D., Brandeis. Lucy Moran The secretary and switchboard operator for the Twin Peaks Sheriff's office. She is a little bit ditsy in a very likeable way. She has recently been giving Deputy Brennan the cold shoulder; this may have something to do with a recent call from her doctor, who (we don't know for sure) may have told her that she's pregnant. Albert Rosenfield A forensics specialist from Washington, D.C. A crude and obnoxious man who is nevertheless very good at his job, he hated the few days he spent in Twin Peaks (a backwater town whose forensics facilities give new meaning to the word ``primitive'') and managed to alienate everyone around him, even the good-natured Cooper. Truman, a normally unprepossessing person, was moved at one point to strike Albert, a minor incident for which Albert is determined to have Truman's badge. (Cooper has promised to stand up for Truman should Albert follow through on his threat to file paperwork.) Jocelyn (Josie) Packard Josie, a young Oriental woman with imperfect English, inherited the Packard Sawmill when her husband, Andrew, died more than a year before. Catherine Martell (her sister-in-law) runs the business for her, but grudgingly; there is strong hatred between Josie and Catherine. Catherine has been falsifying the mill's financial records to make it appear as though it's losing money, and is scheming with Ben Horne (who wants the land) to burn down the mill and make it appear as though Josie did it in an insurance fraud. However, Josie is also scheming with Ben, unbeknownst to Catherine, and Josie is aware of Catherine's plans. Josie seems to be keeping her secrets well-hidden from her lover, Sheriff Truman. Before Laura's death, Laura was Josie's English tutor. Josie has the distinction of being the very first character we see in the Twin Peaks pilot; she is applying makeup and looking very sad, before news of Laura's murder is announced. Catherine Packard Martell Sister of the late Andrew Packard, wife of Pete Martell, and mistress of Benjamin Horne. Catherine is a shrewd and hateful woman who has designs against Josie Packard, who owns the mill that Catherine runs. With Ben, who wants the land that the mill sits on, she has been planning to burn the mill, and through her careful falsifying of the mill's financial records, plans to pin the blame on Josie, making it look like an insurance fraud. Catherine has recently become aware of Ben and Josie scheming behind her back, however. She discovered that a new life insurance policy has been taken out on her, with the one million dollar benefit going to Josie. Catherine has now allied herself with the Mr. Neff, the ambitious insurance agent whose penchant for double-checking everything brought the new policy to Catherine's attention. Pete Martell Catherine Martell's husband. Pete is a pleasant, easy-going fisherman who works for Josie at the mill. He is aware of Catherine's affair with Ben Horne, and sadly accepts his wife's hatred. He is fond of Josie (in an innocent way), and may or may not be aware of her shadier dealings. Benjamin Horne Twin Peaks' local real-estate baron and owner of Horne's department store is a man of voracious appetites -- for food, for sex, and for power. Ben has many connections to the Twin Peaks underworld. He has hired Leo Johnson to burn the mill according to his and Catherine's plan and is aware of Leo's murder of Bernard Renault. He frequents One-Eyed Jack's, a brothel just over the Canadian border. Laura and Ronette are rumored to have worked as ``hospitality girls'' there; in fact, we've recently discovered that the perfume counter at Horne's is a recruiting station for new One-Eyed Jack's talent. Ben and his brother Jerry are currently entertaining a visiting group of Icelanders in the hope that they will sign on with Ben's ``Ghostwood Estates'' development project -- a project for which he needs the land on which the mill sits. When Josie steadfastly refused to sell the mill, he and his mistress Catherine schemed to burn it down and get rid of Josie; however, Ben has also been scheming with Josie behind Catherine's back, possibly to murder Catherine. Sylvia Horne Ben's estranged wife. Jerry Horne Ben's brother and partner in various shady real-estate deals. Jerry has been in charge of entertaining the current Icelandic junket, and has fallen in love with one of its constituents, ``Heppa.'' He and Ben have recently decided that, to clinch the deal, they should take the Icelanders to One-Eyed Jack's. Johnny Horne Ben and Sylvia's retarded son. Audrey Horne A smoldering sexpot and rich brat. Audrey is the daughter of Ben and Sylvia. She has been enamored of Agent Cooper since his arrival in Twin Peaks, and hopes that she can help solve the murder, so that he'll fall in love with her and take her away to a life of international intrigue. To this end, Audrey has tried to enlist the help of Donna Hayward, Laura's best friend, in learning more about Laura; but Donna made Audrey promise not to give any facts they discover to the police. An inveterate snoop, Audrey has eavesdropped on Ben and Catherine's plan to burn the mill and implicate Josie. Recently, Cooper returned to his hotel room at the Great Northern to discover Audrey, naked, in his bed. He gently declined her implied invitation, opting instead to stay up and talk about her problems, for which Audrey was grateful. Audrey suspected the connection between her father's department store, One-Eyed Jack's, and Laura's murder. She pleaded with her father for a job at the store; she blackmailed Emory Battis, the store's general manager, to place her behind the perfume counter; and she eavesdropped as Emory offered another perfume-counter girl a job at One-Eyed Jack's. Audrey got the phone number of Blackie (the madame at One-Eyed Jack's) and persuaded Blackie to give her a job as a ``hospitality girl,'' proving her suitability for the job by tying a knot in a cherry stem with her tongue. The last we heard of Audrey, she was desperate to get an important message to Cooper; we don't know what the message is. Leland Palmer Laura's father, and a lawyer for Ben Horne in his real-estate deals. Initially, following Laura's death, Leland had his hands full keeping his wife from falling apart; now, the situation has reversed. Leland exhibits grief on a grotesquely comic scale. At Laura's funeral, he leaped atop Laura's coffin, sobbing loudly. At home, and twice in public, he has danced with an imaginary Laura in his arms while sobbing and causing discomfort and embarrassment to those around him. Sarah Palmer Laura's mother now seems to be mostly over her grief. She is given to psychic visions; she had one, on the night after Laura's death, of a gloved hand digging a buried necklace from the ground, and another one of ``Killer Bob'' crouched at the foot of Laura's bed. Laura Palmer The murder victim, and the beautiful ``good girl'' of the town, turns out to have had a very dark side. According to her psychiatrist, Dr. Jacoby (with whom she seems to have had more than just a doctor-patient relationship), Laura saw herself as essentially bad, and was driven by the desire to corrupt those around her. Cooper et. al have discovered a personal ad that she placed in the pornographic ``Flesh World'' magazine. Forensics has determined that on the night she died, she had had sex with three men. She also had a cocaine habit and may have been involved in dealing drugs. She had been working at the perfume counter at Horne's department store, and was almost certainly a ``hopitality girl'' at One-Eyed Jack's. She was dating Bobby Briggs, and also James Hurley (whom Bobby didn't know about until after she died). Madeleine Ferguson Laura's look-alike cousin, with dark hair instead of blond, arrived in Twin Peaks just in time for Laura's funeral. She used to play with Laura in their youth, pretending they were sisters, though they haven't seen each other in many years. Maddie is sweet, shy, and timid. She is staying with Leland and Sarah Palmer. She ran into James Hurley at the RR Diner and immediately struck up a friendship with him, expressing what may be a morbid fascination with Laura's murder. James introduced Maddie to Donna, and the three of them made a pact to find out what happened to Laura. Step one: Donna was certain that Laura kept something hidden in her room. Maddie, who's staying in Laura's room, is able to find several cassette tapes in the bedpost. When the three of them get together to listen to them, they discover that the tapes were made by Laura in privacy, but were addressed to Dr. Jacoby. The tapes spoke of secrets, and of sex. James, Donna and Maddie discovered that one tape was missing from the set (they were all dated), and they presume that Jacoby must have it. Using a wig, and discarding her glasses, Maddie makes herself up to look exactly like Laura. The threesome sends a videotape of the new Laura to Jacoby with a message to meet Laura, in the hope that they will be able to find his tape when he leaves his apartment. When we last saw Maddie, she had been left alone standing by a gazebo while James and Donna went to break into Jacoby's apartment; Jacoby was on his way to the gazebo; and Maddie (in her Laura disguise) was being watched by an unknown person. Janek Pulaski Ronette's father. Maria Pulaski Ronette's mother. Ronette Pulaski Co-worker and friend of Laura Palmer, was attacked along with Laura, but survived and escaped. She is now comatose, having suffered severe physical and psychological trauma. Ronette worked with Laura at the perfume counter at Horne's -- and, presumably, as a hospitality girl at One-Eyed Jack's. A personal ad was run by Ronette in ``Flesh World'' on the same page as Laura's ad. ``Big Ed'' Hurley Owner of ``Big Ed's Gas Farm'' and a faithful Bookhouse Boy. Ed is married to the bizarre and disturbed Nadine, but has been having an affair with Norma Jennings. (With the news of Hank's release from prison, and Ed's growing concern about Nadine's mental health, he and Norma recently decided to break it off, at least for a while.) We last saw Ed as he was undercover at One-Eyed Jack's with Cooper. Nadine Hurley Ed's wife is mentally disturbed in a way you can't quite put your finger on. She wears an eyepatch. Her greatest joy, aside from the fact that she has a husband, is that she managed to invent silent drape-runners by accident a short while ago. She had been out of town consulting a patent attorney, and returned in a black depression when her patent application was rejected. James Hurley Twin Peaks' ``good boy'' rides a motorcycle and dated Laura before her death; in fact, she abruptly jumped off his bike on the night of her death to keep a mysterious appointment. Laura complained to Jacoby that James was ``too sweet.'' James, Donna and Laura formed a tight clique. Laura gave James half of a broken-heart sweethearts' necklace which, after her death, he and Donna buried beneath a rock in the woods. When Donna learned of Sarah Palmer's vision (of a gloved hand removing a necklace from the ground), she and James returned to find the necklace missing indeed. James was deeply hurt by Laura's death and the subsequent revelations of her darker side. He and Donna made a vow to learn the truth about what happened to Laura. To this end, they've allied themselves with Madeleine. Their current scheme is to lure Dr. Jacoby away from his apartment so that they can get Jacoby's Laura-tape. When we last saw James, he and Donna had just entered Jacoby's apartment, and Bobby Briggs, who had followed James, placed a bag of white powder (coke? sugar?) in James' motorcycle's gas tank. Norma Jennings Owner of the RR Diner. Norma's husband, Hank, was recently paroled from prison, where he was serving a 3-5 year sentence for manslaughter (his car struck a vagrant). Norma helped Hank get his parole by promising the parole board that she'd employ Hank at the diner. Nevertheless, she seems uneasy about Hank's return, and not only because it prompted her to suspend her affair with Ed Hurley. Henry (Hank) Jennings Hank Jennings, Norma's husband, was recently paroled from prison (3-5, manslaughter). Now working at Norma's diner, Hank has resumed what we must assume were his old ways. As soon as he was released, he tracked down Leo Johnson and beat him up, threatening him thus: ``I told you to mind the store, not open your own franchise... Clean up your act or you'll watch me take apart your chippy [Shelly] before I kill you.'' Hank is now involved in some way with Josie Packard. Sheriff Truman, who doesn't believe that people can change, is keeping a wary eye on Hank. Dr. William Hayward Donna's father and the local GP. Dr. Hayward has been helping Cooper and Truman with various minor forensics aspects of the case, and also helped to nurse Waldo the mynah bird back to health. Dr. Hayward delivered Laura at birth, and was too upset to perform an autopsy at her death, objecting to Albert's cold professionalism in the matter. Eileen Hayward Donna's mother, wheelchair-bound. Donna Hayward Possibly Laura's best friend, and also close to James Hurley. She and James, with the help of Madeleine, are now intently searching for clues regarding Laura's murder. A while ago, Donna was approached by Audrey Horne, who wanted more information about Laura in *her* own search for clues. Donna reluctantly agreed to help, but she and Audrey have not communicated since then. Donna was surprised when Sarah Palmer revealed her vision of a gloved hand digging a necklace out of the ground; Donna and James returned to the site where they secretly buried Laura's necklace and, sure enough, found it missing. When we last saw Donna, she and James had just entered Jacoby's apartment searching for his Laura-tape, after luring him out of the apartment by tricking him into believing that Laura was still alive (Madeleine, Laura's lookalike cousin, dressed as Laura and sent Jacoby a videotape). Harriet Hayward Donna's sister (?). Mike Nelson A friend of Bobby Briggs. Mike and Bobby have had drug dealings with Leo Johnson. They owe Leo $20,000; $10,000 of which Bobby had given to Laura before she died, and which is now unaccounted for. Leo threatened the two of them for the money, and Mike was terrified. He said, "I'm outta here," and we haven't heard from him since. Maj. Garland Briggs Bobby's father, a retired (?) Air Force officer. Major Briggs is aware that his son has gone bad, and repeatedly tries to instill wisdom in Bobby (in vain). Most recently, he took Betty and Bobby to Dr. Jacoby for family counselling, which (so far) has been inconclusive. Betty Briggs Bobby's mother, a plastic apple-pie Donna-Reedite who sees her a family through rose-colored glasses, preferring to ignore the chaos that really exists. Bobby Briggs Twin Peaks' ``bad boy.'' Bobby is a football player, a small-time drug dealer in an uneasy alliance with Leo Johnson, a former lover of Laura's, and currently in an affair with Shelly, Leo's wife. Bobby and his friend Mike Nelson worked together with Leo, and owed him $20,000. Half of that money Bobby gave to Laura before she died, and is now unaccounted for. When Leo demanded his money, Mike, terrified, disappeared. Bobby has been having an affair with Shelly (Leo's wife), possibly since before Laura's death. Bobby and Shelly are frightened of what would happen if the violent Leo should discover their affair. Thus, when Shelly mentioned Leo's bloody shirt to Bobby, Bobby thought that it could be used to implicate Leo in the death of Laura, and with Leo in prison he and Shelly would have nothing to fear. Bobby planted the bloody shirt in Jacques Renault's apartment, where it was discovered by Cooper et. al. (They discovered Leo's initials in the shirt, and the blood -- type AB negative -- didn't match Laura's, but *did* match Jacques'.) At Laura's funeral, Bobby began ranting about how everyone knew Laura was in trouble, and no one did anything to help her. He seems to have been deeply affected by her death. Also at the funeral, Bobby confronted James Hurley, who he had recently discovered was another lover of Laura's. He threatened to kill James and had to be restrained from fighting with him. When Major Briggs took the family to Dr. Jacoby for counselling, Jacoby asked to be alone with Bobby. Once alone, he vigorously interrogated Bobby about Laura, using information about him that Laura had told Jacoby in confidence. (``Bobby, what happened the first time you and Laura made love? Bobby, did you cry? And did she laugh at you?'') Jacoby said that he understood Laura's desire to corrupt people, and Bobby explained that Laura had told him that she views herself as essentially bad, and that while she tries to do good things, she always feels like she's pulled back down to hell. Bobby also told Jacoby that it was Laura that got him involved in coke-dealing. Recently, Bobby spoke to Shelly about standing up to Leo (who routinely abuses her), and Shelly pointed out that she keeps a gun in case things get out of hand. Shortly after this, Shelly actually did shoot Leo, wounding him in his left arm. Leo fled and staked out his house, then saw Bobby arrive the next day and deduced his affair with Shelly. He was prepared to shoot Bobby but had to leave when he discovered that Waldo, the mynah bird, was about to give the police some sort of evidence. Shelly told Bobby that she had shot Leo and that she now fears for her life, and Bobby promised that ``Leo Johnson is history... Bobby's gonna take care of everything.'' Meanwhile, Bobby followed James, first to his meeting with Donna and Madeleine (where they made the videotape with Madeleine looking like Laura), then to Jacoby's apartment. When James and Donna went into Jacoby's apartment, Bobby placed a bag of white powder (coke? sugar?) into the gas tank of Bobby's motorcycle. Leo Johnson A despicable man involved in all manner of illegal activities. Leo is a murderer, a drug-runner, an arsonist, and a wife-beater (to name a few). Leo lives with his wife, Shelly, and has only recently learned of her affair with Bobby Briggs. Leo drives a tractor-trailer named ``Big Pussycat,'' which appeared in a photograph on the same page of ``Flesh World'' as Laura's and Ronette's ads. Leo and Jacques Renault are known to have been with Laura on the night she died. After Laura's death, Leo returned home with a pile of laundry that he commanded Shelly to wash. Among the laundry was a blood-soaked shirt, which Shelly hid. (When Leo discovered the shirt missing, he beat Shelly with a makeshift blackjack -- a bar of soap in the end of a sock.) Leo's house is littered with the same sort of plastic sheets that Laura's body was wrapped in when she was found. Leo has some sort of shady business alliance with Jacques Renault. Jacques, Leo, Ronette and Laura were all at Jacques' cabin on the night Laura died; so was Jacques' pet mynah bird, Waldo. Leo murdered Jacques' brother Bernard out of fear that Bernard would talk about their dealings. In addition to his truck, Leo also drives a pickup and a red Corvette. (When Dr. Jacoby was interrogated by Cooper, Jacoby mentioned that on the night following Laura's death, he followed a red Corvette to the Old Mill Road, then lost it.) On the night of Laura's death, Leo called his wife, claiming to be in Butte, Montana. Leo has been hired by Ben Horne to burn down the Packard Mill; when they met to discuss the arrangements, Leo revealed to Ben that he had murdered Bernard. When Leo returned from his most recent trip (he seems to take several, possibly running drugs with his truck), he was first met by Hank, just paroled from prison, who beat him up and threatened him (vide supra); then he went indoors and angrily demanded a beer from Shelly, who, after being hurled to the ground, shot Leo, wounding him in his left arm. Leo retreated to the woods behind the house and watched Bobby Briggs arrive the next morning. Deducing the affair between Bobby and Shelly, Leo prepared to shoot Bobby when he re-emerged. However, he then heard Lucy's voice on the police scanner talking about the capture of Waldo, the mynah bird. Afraid that the police might learn something damaging from Waldo (mynah birds mimic human voices), Leo went to the sheriff's station and shot Waldo through a window (but not before Cooper's voice-activated tape recorder picked up some of Waldo's chatterings). Shelly Johnson Leo's beaten wife, currently having an affair with Bobby Briggs. Shelly works as a waitress at the RR Diner. Shelly dropped out of the eleventh grade to marry Leo, at which time she claims he was sweet and loving. Now, however, she has nothing but hatred for, and fear of him. After a ``pep talk'' from Bobby, Shelly stood up to Leo when he shoved her, and as he angrily advanced on her, she shot him in the arm. She is now hiding in her house, certain that Leo is waiting outside to kill her. She hysterically explained the situation to Bobby, who promised to protect her from Leo. Jacques Renault A bartender at the Roadhouse bar, and a blackjack dealer at One-Eyed Jack's. Jacques Renault is a business confederate of Leo Johnson's. It was Jacques' log cabin where he, Leo, Laura and Ronette were involved in unknown activities the night Laura died. Jacques is a Canadian national who works as a logger on the American side of the border. He fled Twin Peaks when he discovered that the Bookhouse Boys were interrogating his brother, Bernard, about Laura. Most recently, Jacques was seen dealing cards to Cooper, who, along with some other Bookhouse Boys, are undercover at One-Eyed Jack's. Bernard Renault Jacques' brother. Bernard was also involved in some way with Leo. Bernard was captured by the Bookhouse Boys and was interrogated about his connection with Laura Palmer and whether he'd ever dealt coke to her. Bernard was murdered by Leo when Leo feared that Bernard would ``talk.'' Dr. Lawrence Jacoby Laura's psychiatrist (and possibly lover) is a bizarre man. He wears glasses with colored lenses: One red lens, one blue lens. He did not attend Laura's funeral and, afterwards, encountered Cooper, saying that he felt like a terrible person (presumably not just for missing Laura's funeral). In a private moment, we saw Jacoby alone at home, wearing headphones, listening to a tape made by Laura on the night she died (``I feel like I'm gonna get lost in the woods again tonight...''), and extracting half of a broken-heart sweetheart's necklace from a coconut shell. Jacoby was interrogated by Cooper, but was reticent to discuss Laura because of doctor-patient confidentiality ethics. He did claim, however, two things: He was not one of the three men with whom she'd had sex on the night she died; and on the night following her death, he followed a red Corvette to the Old Mill Road, where he lost it. He told Cooper that ``Laura had seeeecrets,'' and that in his six months counselling her he had been utterly unable to penetrate the wall she had built around herself, for which he considers himself an abject failure. He stated that his own personal investigation will be ongoing for the rest of his life. On another occasion, Jacoby was visited by the Briggs family for family counselling. He spoke to Bobby alone and caused him to break down (vide supra). Most recently, Jacoby received a phone call and a videotape from Madeleine, made up to look like Laura and using phrases that Madeleine heard Laura use in the tapes they found. Jacoby is skeptical but decides to meet ``Laura.'' Margaret (``Log Lady'') Margaret is a lady who goes nowhere without cradling a log in her arms. (Cooper: ``Who's the lady with the log?'' Truman: ``We call her The Log Lady.'') She often speaks to the log, and the log often ``speaks'' for her. Some time ago, she approached Cooper, urging him to ask her log about Laura's death. Cooper, feeling silly, declined. However, during their search for Jacques' log cabin, Cooper, Truman, Hawk and Doc Hayward encountered the Log Lady again. She invited them in, and then the log gave its testimony (speaking through Margaret). The log's testimony was typically cryptic (vide infra). Emory Battis Emory Battis is the general manager of Horne's department store. When Ben secures a job there for Audrey, she is sent to speak to Emory. Emory says that, in accordance with her father's wishes, she is to start small and work her way up. He has a position for her in gift-wrapping. Audrey, intent on working behind the perfume counter, makes her wishes known to Emory, threatening that if he doesn't let her work the perfume counter, she'll tear her dress and scream. Emory assents. Later, after Audrey has been working the perfume counter for a while (and offending customers), Emory asks to speak to her coworker in private. Audrey eavesdrops and hears Emory telling the other girl that the people at One-Eyed Jack's were pleased with her, and that she should call Black Rose, the One-Eyed Jack's madam, about the possibility of a job as a ``hospitality girl.'' It is from this conversation that Audrey is able to get Blackie's phone number. Mr. Neff Mr. Neff is the insurance agent who, either because he's very cautious or because he detected a possible fraud, brought the new life insurance policy to Catherine for her to verify. In so doing, he alerted Catherine to the fact that Ben and Josie were scheming against her. Catherine, sensing a possible ally in Neff, asked him if he was an ambitious man, to which he knowingly replied in the affirmative. Mr. Gerard (``the One-Armed Man'') Because a one-armed man figured prominently in Cooper's dream, Cooper and Truman assign Hawk to track down a real one-armed man who had been seen hanging around the hospital. When he is finally found, he turns out to be a timid, frightened shoe salesman. In Cooper's dream, the one-armed man is named Mike, and his friend, the killer, is named Bob. Cooper asks Gerard whether he has a friend named Bob, and Gerard names Bob Lydecker, a local veterinary doctor, as his best friend in the world. Waldo the Mynah Bird Waldo is Jacques' pet mynah bird. Cooper et. al learn of Waldo's existence by confiscating and scrutinizing the files of Dr. Lydecker. (Several animal bites on Laura's body were determined to have been inflicted by a bird, either a mynah or a parrot.) They find Waldo in Jacques' cabin, where they also find many other items of corroborating evidence. They bring the starved, dehydrated bird back to the sheriff's station, where they hope that, with its return to health, it will mimic the voices of the visitors to Jacques' cabin. Cooper leaves his voice-activated tape recorder near Waldo while they wait for the bird to recuperate. Waldo begins to speak, but is shot by Leo before he can say very much. Dr. Bob Lydecker A local veterinarian. Dr. Lydecker has been in poor health lately, which explains Mr. Gerard's frequent visits to the hospital. Dr. Lydecker's files were impounded by Cooper after several indications that there was a connection between Dr. Lydecker, and ``Killer Bob'' from Cooper's dream. (``Harry, as sure as the signs on the highway, the bird that attacked Laura Palmer is a client of this office.'') Cooper gives Lucy the job of finding a pet in the files that is either a parrot or a mynah (Laura's body exhibited bird bites inflicted by one of those two kinds of birds), and Lucy finds a mynah bird in the files named Waldo, owned by Jacques Renault. This double coincidence prompts Cooper and Truman to investigate Jacques' apartment. ``Killer Bob'' A bizarre man, long-haired and appearing to wear a crown of thorns or somesuch, who has appeared in two separate psychic incidents. First, Cooper dreamed of Killer Bob, who promised to kill again. Later, Sarah Palmer saw Killer Bob for an instant at the foot of Laura's bed. When Andy rendered a police sketch of Killer Bob from Sarah's description, Cooper confirmed that it was the same man from his dream. (``I had an intuition that Sarah Palmer's vision was linked to my dream.'') The drawing does not resemble anyone in Twin Peaks, including Dr. Bob Lydecker. ``Man From Another Place'' The ``Man from Another Place'' is the dwarf from Cooper's dream. He first appears with his back to Cooper, vigorously rubbing his hands together. He then issues a series of confounding statements in badly garbled English (vide infra). Black (``Blackie'') Rose Blackie is the madam at One-Eyed Jack's. Most recently, she was hesitant to hire Audrey, but relented after Audrey demonstrated her ability to tie a knot in a cherry stem with her tongue. RUNNING THEMES Birds Birds seem to play a major role in the more metaphysical aspects of this story. In Cooper's dream, there is the shadow of something resembling a bird moving across the red curtains. When James and Donna discover that the necklace is missing from the woods, an owl that has been watching them hoots ominously. The Log Lady's speech is littered with frightened references to owls (``The owls won't see us in here''; before Laura's death ``the owls were flying,'' afterwards ``the owls were silent.'') Finally, there is the crucial testimony given by Waldo, the mynah bird, prior to its death. ``Invitation to Love'' All of the residents of Twin Peaks watch TV, and no one watches anything but the cheesy soap-opera, ``Invitation to Love.'' The events in ``Invitation to Love'' often seem to closely parallel the events in Twin Peaks itself. While Leland is watching the opening credits (``starring [so-and-so] as Emerald and Jade [the identical twin sisters]''), Madeleine (Laura's ``twin'') makes her first appearance. While on ``Invitation to Love,'' Emerald plots to steal the Towers from her sister Jade, Catherine plots to get the Mill away from her sister-in-law, Josie. When ``Montana'' beats up ``Chet,'' Hank beats up Leo. When ``Chet'' shoots ``Montana,'' Shelly shoots Leo. When ``Jade'' is asked to toast old friends, Jacoby gets a call from the long-dead Laura (actually Madeleine). And on and on... Duality There is a strong sense of twins, doubles, etc., in Twin Peaks; and usually, we only see one of the pair while the other is simply implied. There is, first of all, the town's name (and in the opening credits, we only see one peak). There's Nadine's eyes, one hidden by a patch; Laura's lookalike cousin; the one-armed man's one arm; the twin sisters Emerald and Jade on ``Invitation to Love''; the double-three domino carried around by Hank; the other murder of a girl, a year earlier; and many other suggestions on this theme. The Bookhouse Boys The Bookhouse Boys is an underground organization consisting of the members of the sheriff's department and some other local citizens such as Ed Hurley. Truman explains to Cooper that the Bookhouse Boys have existed for a very long time in Twin Peaks, to combat ``the evil presence in the woods.'' The Bookhouse Boys are not above going slightly outside of the law. Thus, when Cooper decides that a trip to One-Eyed Jack's is in order, he suggests that it is a job for the Bookhouse Boys (since One-Eyed Jack's is in Canada, and out of their legal jurisdiction). ______________ _____________________________ Bob Glickstein | Internet: bobg@andrew.cmu.edu Information Technology Center | Bitnet: bobg%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet Carnegie Mellon University | UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!bobg Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 | (412) 268-6743 | Sinners can repent, but stupid is forever