Subject: Cooper's Dream (for those who missed it)
From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Date: 1990-11-25, 00:32
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

There seems to be some confusion about what happened during Agent Cooper's
dream, way back during weekly episode 2 of the first season.  (That is, 
the second one-hour episode AFTER the premiere -- I forget the official
number.)  This is how it went:

PHASE 1:
First, a series of sudden images, as if illuminated by a strobe light
with darkness inbetween:
Laura's mother running downstairs [seen during the premiere]
A bloody cloth on a chest  [in the railroad car?]
BOB crouched at Laura's bed  [Sarah's vision]

Now we see the One-Armed Man, just as he appears in real life.  He
doesn't seem to be anyplace in particular.  He looks straight at the camera
and says, in his special echo-ey MIKE voice:
Through the darkness of future past,
The magician longs to see
One..chants...out..between two worlds...
Fire...walk with me.
We lived among the people -- I think you say convenience store?
We lived above it.  I mean it like it is, as it sounds.  I too
have been touched by the devilish one; tattoo on the left shoulder.
Ah, but when I saw the face of God, I was changed.  I took the
entire arm off.  My name is Mike.  His name is Bob.

Then we see BOB, who is crouched in some room full of clutter (tantalizingly
unrecognizable metal objects) like an attic or basement.  He looks around
and say:
Mike?  Mike?  Can you hear me?  [he turns to look at the camera]
Catch you with my death bag!
You may think I'm insane, but I promise I *will* kill again!

We see a little mound of dirt with a gold necklace on it, surrounded
by a ring of candles.  There's a puff of wind; the candles blow out.

PHASE 2:
An older Agent Cooper (in his 50s or so) is sitting in a red-carpeted, 
red-curtained lounge.  Laura Palmer is sitting a few chairs away from
him, dressed in a slinky black dress and looking very elegant.  There 
is a strange scraping noise.  We see a distorted silhouette of a person,
backlit against a doorway -- it seems to be shuddering somehow -- the 
scraping noise gets faster -- [this really freaked me out for some reason]
Suddenly the distorted silhouette turns around.  It is a dwarf.  
It's The Man From Another Place.  The scraping sound was him rubbing his
palms together.  He's got a cheerful, wide smile, and he says (in twisted,
backwards English -- subtitles are provided; LAURA talks the same way):
Let's rock!
And he sits in one of the chairs.
There is a pause.
A black shadow drifts slowly over the red curtains, over their heads. Then:

TMFAP:[to Cooper]  I've got good news.  That gum you like is going to 
come back in style.  
[noticing Cooper staring at LAURA]  She's my cousin.  But, doesn't
she look almost exactly like Laura Palmer?
Cooper: [to the TMFAP]  But she is Laura Palmer.
[to LAURA]  Are you Laura Palmer?
LAURA:[arching her back weirdly]  I feel like I know her,
 but sometimes my arms bend back.
TMFAP:She's filled with secrets.  Where we're from, the birds sing a 
pretty song, and there's always music in the air.

Slow jazz music begins to play.  The Man From Another Place stands and
starts a jerky dance.  LAURA stands, crosses to Cooper, kisses him, and
whispers something in his ear. 

(At some point in this second phase, Laura puts one finger next to her nose.
looking significantly at Cooper.  Sorry, can't remember exactly where!)

Cooper jerks awake, with his special Cooper Cowlick pointing straight up.
He calls Harry and says he knows who killed Laura Palmer -- but it can
wait till morning.  When morning comes, of course, he has forgotten.  Grrr.

Jespah