Subject: The cherry-pie palsy (4/18 spoilers)
From: dawson@maverick.epps.kodak.com (Keith Dawson)
Date: 1991-04-19, 01:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

One of the best episodes since the second season started. Much more airtime was
devoted to the central mysteries, White Lodge / Black Lodge, and less to the
dreary side plots -- this is easier now that Windom's activities are converging
with the larger theme.

We see three, perhaps four instances of unexplained palsy: (1) the unknown
woman customer eating cherry pie at the R&R; (2) Cooper at the window in the sheriff's office; (perhaps 3) Ben in his office as Audrey rushes out to catch
up with J.J.Wheeler; and (4) Pete after J.J.'s jet departs. (We don't see
whether Ben has the same symptoms as the other  three; the scene shifts too
quickly, perhaps cut for brevity?)

The symptoms are shaking in one hand (quickly steadied by the other), accom-
panied by a ringing, roaring noise perhaps heard only by the person exper-
iencing the fit.

At first I thought Windom had put something in the cherry pie. Coop's fit dis-
pelled this idea. Then I wondered if the palsy came upon only "sensitives" (the
gifted and the damned); but neither Ben nor Pete fit this hypothesis. Best
guess now is that the palsy is some sort of precursor to the coming conjunction
of Jupiter and Saturn, which at the end seems to result in Bob coming through
in the flesh. Scary scene!

--Keith Dawson
dawson@epps.kodak.com

P.S. they did it again in Boston: T-P pre-empted by a basketball game, shown at
midnight, run as scheduled on the Manchester H.N. station.