Siri it's about 8:45 a.m. just a few
miles out from the town of wrong device
Siri it's about 8:46 a.m. just a few
miles out from the town of Twin Peaks
should be arriving at the local
sheriff's station shortly breakfast this
morning consisted of a sausage egg and
cheese burrito and large dr. pepper from
Taco Bell and don't recommend it thanks
for reminding me to inform our viewers
of this documentary and will contain
spoilers for twin peaks seasons 1 & 2 and
the prequel film fire walk with me you
have been warned
hello I'm not so Special Agent Ryan camp
like many other strange kids that grew
up in the early 90s such as myself I
fell in love with a little TV gem called
twin peaks this oddball show was
definitely ahead of its time when it
first aired on ABC in 1990 and it's surreal
new take on the small-town drama
would ensure that television would never
be the same again created by Mark frost
and David Lynch Twin Peaks followed
investigation led by FBI Special Agent
Dale Cooper as he looked into the
strange circumstances surrounding the
murder of local homecoming queen Laura
Palmer as agent Cooper unraveled the many
mysteries associated with her death the
once seemingly innocent town of Twin Peaks and
its inhabitants began to slowly reveal
the more dark and sinister side never
before had there been a show so capable
of warming your heart with a timeless
aesthetic making you grin with its
uniquely fun and quirky characters and
at the same time leave you gripping a
pillow and fear as its demons terrorized
your waking nightmares Twin Peaks has it
all drama mystery suspense horror
romance campy humor film noir and
unforgettable music composed by Angelo
Badalamenti that could accompany any of
those themes perfectly under the guiding
hands of seasoned television writer mark
frost an up-and-coming film director
David Lynch who at the time of filming
was following his success with The
Elephant Man in 1980 and blue velvet in
1986 it seemed like the sky was the
limit for Twin Peaks although it is now
considered by many to be one of the
greatest television shows of all time
its initial success would be short-lived
Oh Oh Good Lord! What do we have here
Twin Peaks aired for only two seasons on
ABC and declining ratings led the
network to insist that the identity of
Laura's killer be revealed midway
through the second season after that the
show story lines with somewhat off the
tracks so to speak but eventually
ended on a strong cliffhanger conclusion
directed by David Lynch himself for many
fans the identity of Laura Palmer's
killer was all that mattered but for
others such as myself Laura's murder was
only scratching the surface of an even
bigger mystery after the second season aired its
cliffhanger filled finale and was
unfortunately cancelled Twin Peaks would
later return as the prequel film fire
walk with me which focused on the last
days of Laura's life and was received
quite poorly by critics and some fans of
the show taking on a much darker tone
overall in the series the film chose to
focus on the more nightmarish side of
Twin Peaks with much of the footage shot
of the TV shows more whimsical
characters left on the cutting room
floor footage that wouldn't be seen by
fans and so the release with the blu-ray
collection the entire mystery in 2014
and rather than answering many of the
show's mysteries the film created even
more unanswered questions perhaps
frustrating some viewers over time
however fire walk with me has come to be
considered by some Lynch's masterpiece
and it truly is a beautifully haunting
film
so you may be asking yourself if Twin
Peaks is so great why was it canceled
and why was the follow-up film received
so poorly well if you ask me it's simply
because Twin Peaks was way ahead of its
time over the years since the release of
the film the question of who killed
Laura Palmer has shifted into a feverish
dissection as fans have poured over
every minut detail in hopes of
deciphering the hidden meaning behind
some of Lynch's more surreal or lynchian
moments it has grown quite a cult
following festivals books magazines
dedicated websites and more offer a
deeper dive into the lore of the Twin Peaks
universe
the most notable additions to the lore
include The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
the autobiography of FBI Special Agent
Dale Cooper my life my tapes and most
recently a book written by Mark Frost
titled the secret history of Twin Peaks
but to prove my point
Twin Peaks is coming back thanks to a
revival by the Showtime network echoing
a prophetic message from Laura to Cooper
in the Black Lodge more than 25 years
ago fans will finally get to visit this
peculiar and fascinating world once
again in 2017
hot damn this pie good
Like many fans of the show I wished for years that
Twin Peaks would return in some form
When news first broke that the show was indeed coming
back I was at first filled with extreme
jubilation
but then the terror set in
I was filled with so many doubts how could
the show continue after so many years had
past how could the creators get around the
fact that many of the original casts are
now deceased including Frank Silva who
played the evil entity bob in order to
ease some of these fears let's take a
look at the story so far and where we
last left some of the characters then
perhaps we'll have a better idea of what
might happen next season one starts when
local logger Pete Martell discovers a
naked corpse wrapped in plastic while
fishing on the bank of a river outside
the town of Twin Peaks Washington when
Sheriff harry s truman two deputies and
doctor will hayward arrive the body is
identified as homecoming queen Laura
Palmer a seriously injured second victim
ronette Pulaski is discovered wandering
down some train tracks once the
authorities find her she goes into a
non-responsive state and is brought to
local hospital FBI Special Agent Dale
Cooper arrives in town
being called in to take over the
investigation Cooper's examination of
Laura's body reveals a tiny piece of
paper with a typed letter R inserted
under her fingernail Cooper informs the
community that Laura's death matches the
signature of a killer who murdered
another girl in deer meadow Washington
the previous year and that evidence
indicates the killer lives in twin
peaks the story behind the first victim
Teresa banks would later be detailed in
the film fire walk with me
the town is shocked to learn that laura
has been living a double life she was
cheating on her boyfriend football
captain Bobby Briggs with biker James
Hurley and prostituting herself with the
help of truck driver Leo Johnson and the
Canadian drug dealers jaque renolt Laura
was also addicted to cocaine which he
obtained by coercing Bobby into doing
business with the shady Canadian Jaque
Laura's father attorney Leland Palmer
and mother Sara both suffered nervous
breakdowns over the death of their
daughter and Sara sees visions of a
strange long-haired man Laura's best
friend Donna Hayward begins a
relationship with James and with the
help of Laura's look-alike cousin Maddie
Ferguson Donna and James discovered that
Laura's psychiatrist dr. Lawrence Jacoby
was obsessed with Laura but he is later
proven innocent of the murder Ben Horne
the richest man in Twin Peaks and owner
of the Great Northern Hotel plans to
destroy the town's lumber mill along
with its owner Josie Packard and murder
his lover and Josie's sister-in-law
Catherine Martell so that he can then
purchase the land and reduce the price
and complete a development project horn
sultry troubled daughter Audrey becomes
infatuated with agent Cooper and spies
for clues in an effort to gain his
affections Cooper has a dream in which
he has spoken to by a one-armed being
who calls himself Mike Mike says that
Laura's murderer is a similar entity
known as Bob killer Bob a feral denim
clad man with long gray hair also
matches the description of Sarah Palmer
visions later in the strange dream
cooper finds himself decades older in a
Red Room with Laura and a dwarf and a
red business suit who engages in a
strange coded dialogue with Cooper the
next morning Cooper tells Truman that if
he can decipher the dream he will know
who killed Laura Cooper and the
Sheriff's Department eventually tracked
down the one-armed man from Cooper's
dream a traveling shoe salesman named
Phillip Gerard Gerard says that he knows
a Bob the veterinarian who treats
Renaults pet mina bird Cooper
interprets these events to mean that
Renault is the murderer and with
Truman's help tracks Renault to one-eyed
Jack's a brothel owned by Ben horn
across the border in Canada they lure
Renault back onto US soil to arrest him
but renault tries to escape and is
shot and hospitalized Leland Palmer
learning that Renault has been arrested
sneaks into the hospital and murders him
smothering him with a pillow
that same night horne orders Leo to burn
down the lumber mill with Katherine
trapped inside and has Leo gunned down by
a man named hank Jennings to ensure
Leo's silence Cooper returns to his room
following jaque's arrest and is shot by a masked gunman
leaving fans with a serious cliffhanger
to end season 1 still with me as you can
see there are a lot of players in the
Twin Peaks Universe all of their own
intertwine stories and motivations but its
the initial mystery that we should be
more concerned with here
namely the murder of Laura Palmer and
the paranormal circumstances surrounding
her death and agent Cooper I came to Twin
Peaks looking for answers I was sent
here because there's been a string of
new murders this one included I'm not
sure if these new killings are connected
to the laura Palmer case in any way but
I feel that the answers I seek will make
themselves known to me in time in one
way or another let's continue on with
our examination of the story so far as
season 2 begins we pick right back up
where we left off as agent Cooper lies
badly injured on his hotel room floor
shot by an unknown assailant who would
later be identified as Josie Packard
trying to cover her tracks while he
waits for help to arrive Cooper has a
vision in which a giant appears on him
with three clues there is a man in a
smiling bag the owls are not what they
seem and without chemicals he points the
giant takes Cooper's gold ring and
explains that when Cooper understands
the three clues
his ring will be returned to him
who are these beings that Cooper sees in
his visions are they manifestations of
his own psychic abilities are they
actual beings from another place why are
they helping Cooper what is the
significance of the ring these are all
good questions to consider going forward
in our investigation tying up a few
cliff hangers from season one we see that
Leo Johnson has survived but appears
badly brain-damaged Catherine Martell is
missing presumed dead in the fire and
Leland Palmer seems rejuvenated with
happiness at the death of Jacques
Renault he returns to work and his hair
has turned snow white overnight we
learned that the shoe salesman Phillip
Gerard is the host for Mike a demonic
inhabiting Spirit who has a history with
the mysterious entity Bob Mike reveals
himself to Cooper when not using his
medication without chemicals he points
Mike informs Cooper that Bob has been
possessing someone in Twin Peaks for
years but he does not reveal who bob has
under his control meanwhile Donna takes
on Laura's old route for the
meals-on-wheels program in hopes of
finding out more clues to Laura's murder
she befriends a young recluse named
Harold Smith who was in possession of a
secret diary that Laura kept she and
Maddy attempt to steal it from him but
Harold catches them in the act
loses all faith in humanity and hangs
himself in his orchid greenhouse the
officers take possession of Laura's
secret diary and learned that Bob noted
as a friend of her father's raped her
repeatedly as a child and she began
using drugs to cope Cooper believes that
the killer is Ben Horne but in a
shocking twist it is revealed to the
audience that Leland is the host of bob
when he brutally murders his niece Maddy
Cooper has doubts about horne''s guilt
but after gathering all the suspects
together the giant appears before Cooper
again and reveals Leland to be the
killer when arrested Bob assumes total
control over Leland  he confesses to a
series of murders before forcing Leland to
commits suicide in his jail cell as
Leland dies free of Bob's influence he
tells Cooper that bob has possessed him
ever since molesting him as a small
child he begs for forgiveness
he's a vision of Laura and dies in
Cooper's arms the lawmen question
whether Bob is real roaming Twin Peaks
in search of a new host or if Leland
was just mentally ill after the mystery
of Laura's murder has wrapped up season
two loses direction a bit with the show
searching for its next big mystery
following a drug trafficking storyline
involving the vengeful brother of
Jacques Renault and agent Cooper the
show begins to focus on the otherworldly
dimensions known as the lodges and their
inhabitants the paranormal places and
beings that hide just below the surface
of the quiet town of twin peaks one could
argue that the mystery of the lodges are
what Twin Peaks is truly all about but
there is no denying that they are the
catalyst for the show's main storyline
the small bit of information we can
gather about these dimensions and the
spirits that inhabit them from the
series and fire walk with me could also
be a good indicator of what the new
season may focus on
Cooper falls in love with a new girl in
town named Annie Blackburn just as his
old treacherous and insane FBI partner
wyndom earle escapes from a mental
institution
and begins tormenting Cooper with a
series of arch villain esque mind games and
murders it is later revealed that
although Windom Earle is taking much
delight and creating problems for his
old partner his true motivations in
Twin Peaks are to find his way into the
mythical Black Lodge and somehow harness
its power for himself all the while
Cooper is playing a dangerous game of
chess with earle as he battles his old
partner he is also trying to discover
the origins of Bob himself and learn
more about the white and black lodges
with help from clues from deputy Andy
and the log lady
Cooper finally finds the entrance to the
lodge which happens to resemble the red
curtain room from his dream he is
greeted by the dwarf the giant in the
spirit the Laura Palmer they each give
Cooper coded prophecies and demonstrate
the properties of the Black Lodge which
defy the laws of time and space while
trying to escape the lodge with Annie
who Windom Earle has kidnapped and
brought there against her will
Cooper encounters various terrifying
doppelgangers of the Dead before he runs
into Earle who demands Cooper's soul for
the safe release of Annie Cooper agrees
and is stabbed by Earl but not to be
outdone Bob finds Earle reversing time and
takes Earl's soul instead eventually
Cooper and Annie emerge from the lodge
and are discovered by sheriff Truman
annie is hospitalized but Cooper is well
enough that he has brought to his room
it's a great northern upon waking Cooper
goes into the bathroom smashing his head
against the mirror revealing his
reflection to be that of the evil entity
Bob and that is where our story so far
comes to an end
although the prequel film fire walk with
me takes place before the events of the
TV series it offers a ton of new
wrinkles into the Twin Peaks lore
aspects of the lodges their inhabitants
and introduces us to two FBI agents who
go missing while investigating agents
Chester Desmond and Philip Jeffries we
learn of a ring that the victims of the
lodge inhabitants wear a gold jade ring
called the owl cave ring we learned that
the spirits possibly travel using
electricity and that they consume the
pain and suffering of humans which takes
the form of creamed corn there is a ton
of interesting stuff to unpack here
information that can be interpreted a
myriad of ways and we see exactly what
happened the night of Laura's murder and
who was present siri I've been in Twin
Peaks for three days now 11:45 p.m. on
Wednesday April 11th I can feel that I'm
closer than ever to my true objective
I'm still left with so many questions
are the lodge inhabitants good or
evil who was in possession of the owl
cave ring taken from annie at the end of
the film has Cooper been possessed by
Bob since the last episode aired and
what happened to agents chet Desmond and
Phillip Jeffries the recent murders in
the area were not connected however the
darkness in these old woods has drawn me
closer to the threshold
I'm going to venture into those old
woods tonight Siri see where the path
takes me wish me luck
here it is the reason I came to Twin Peaks the owl cave ring its
power is immense
it's been here before the dawn of man
where will the story of Twin Peaks go next
no one knows perhaps with the power of
the owl cave ring it will give me all the answers I seek
if there is anything that Twin Peaks has
taught us its that pain and suffering takes
the form of creamed corn spirits travel through
electricity nothing is what it seems and
the afterlife can be a truly terrifying
place Let's Rock!
