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Twin Peaks
Episode 21:
"Double Play"
TV episode
Written by Scott Frost
Directed by Uli Edel
Original air date: February 2, 1991 |
Leo stalks again; Hank recovers from
the beating he took from Nadine; Cooper relates the story of
Windom Earle; Mayor Milford sets out to avenge his brother’s
death; Dr. Hayward reveals the truth about little Nicky.
Read the episode
script at Glastonberry.net
Didja Know?
For the titles of the Twin Peaks TV episodes, I have taken
the unique approach of using both the episode numbers, which were
the only titles given the scripts by series creators David Lynch and
Mark Frost, and the translated German titles of the episodes that
were assigned when the series aired in that country. Frequent
readers of PopApostle know I like the aesthetic of actual episode
titles, but I also wanted to honor the simple numbering used by
Lynch and Frost, hence the expanded titles presented in these
studies.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Dale Cooper
Dr. Hayward
Deputy Andy
Sheriff Truman
Deputy Hawk
Windom Earle
Hank Jennings (mentioned only)
Audrey Horne
Bobby Briggs
Ben Horne
Shelly Johnson
Leo Johnson
Lucy Moran
Dick Tremayne
Jeffrey Marsh
Ed Hurley
Nadine Hurley (née Butler)
Norma Jennings
Toad
Dr. Jacoby
Jerry Horne
Major Briggs
Lana Milford
Mayor Milford
Pete Martell
Catherine Martell
Andrew Packard
Josie Packard (mentioned only)
Thomas Eckhardt
Jones
Randy (Meyer/St. Croix)
Malcolm Sloan (mentioned only)
Notes from the Log Lady intros
When cable channel
Bravo
obtained the rights to air reruns of Twin Peaks
in 1993, David Lynch directed all-new introductions to each
episode featuring the Log Lady, portrayed by original
actress Catherine E. Coulson. These intros also appear as
options on the DVD and Blu-ray collections of the series.
"The heart. It is a physical organ, we all know. But how
much more
an emotional organ. This we also know. Love, like blood,
flows from
the heart. Are blood and love related? Does a heart pump
blood as
it pumps love? Is love the blood of the universe?"
Didja Notice?
This episode opens on the night of Friday, March 17, then
continues through the day of Saturday, March 18, 1989.
At about 2:06 on the Blu-ray, the corpse in Truman's office blinks just before
his left eye leaves the shot in the camera pan.
Notice that Deputy Andy has his eyes closed in the presence
of the corpse, presumably so he won't
start crying as he has in the past when encountering dead
bodies.
At the crime scene, Cooper and Truman find needles from a
lodgepole pine on the floor. Lodgepole pines are common in
the Pacific northwest.
At 4:27 on the Blu-ray, besides the obvious duck decoy,
notice there is also a small owl statue on the bar in the
Timber Room.
Bobby plays with the candle fire throughout the Timber Room
scene. He has played with the fire of his cigarette lighter
in the past. In general, he has been seen to fidget with
objects continuously.
When Audrey explains her father's current fragile condition
to Bobby and tells him she's the one he needs to suck up to,
it seems he might be misinterpreting her demands to be
romantic/sexual when he says, "What about Shelly?"
At 5:28 on the Blu-ray, notice there is a used paper
shooting target hanging on the freezer door of the
refrigerator in the Johnson house.
At 5:53 on the Blu-ray, notice that a deflated red balloon
is still hanging from the ceiling light in the Johnson
kitchen, left over from Leo's welcome home party in
Episode 13:
"Demons".
As Leo attacks Shelly, notice that he is no longer wearing
the party hat and does not have food smeared all over his
face as was seen at the end of
the previous episode
Episode 20:
"Checkmate". As
speculated in that study, it was probably a shot of Leo
borrowed from
Episode 13:
"Demons", when
Shelly and Bobby had Leo's welcome home party.
At 7:14 on the Blu-ray, Leo is holding the famous soap in a
sock as he threatens Shelly! He throws it at her seconds
later.
As Andy stretches and pulls the rubber glove off his hand,
we can see that it falls to the floor next to him, but the
next shot shows that it flew across the lobby and stuck to
the sliding window at Lucy's reception desk.
Lucy's sweater has diamond patterns on it.
The toy car on Jeffrey Marsh's shelf at 13:18 on the Blu-ray
is of a
Rolls-Royce automobile. As the camera pans across the
shelf, we also see a couple of toy
Mercedes-Benz's, a
Jaguar,
and another Rolls. A photograph on the shelf is of a
Duesenberg. As the shot fades out and into the garage, the
first car seen is a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. The second
car in the garage is a 1950
Chevy
Corvette.
The athletic jacket Jeffrey wears when he meets James at
13:38 on the Blu-ray is an Air Jordan jacket made by
Nike.
As Jeffrey drives off in the repaired Jaguar Drophead Coupe,
Evelyn watches him go and the sound of a car skidding and
crashing is heard. It seems this was a symbolic sound in her
head to indicate the sabotage she and Malcolm had made to
the vehicle in order to bring about the accident that will
shortly cause her husband's death. The actual accident seems to
occur later that night.
Doc Hayward's sweater at 15:03 on the Blu-ray, has small
diamond shapes all over it.
Hank is said to be in the hospital with multiple injuries.
We know he got his ass whupped by Nadine in
Episode 20:
"Checkmate", but
he is apparently making different excuses for his injuries,
not wanting to admit he got beat up by a woman. He told Hawk
he was hit by a bus and he told Norma a tree fell on him.
At 19:08 on the Blu-ray, the couch that had gone missing
from Truman's office in
Episode 20:
"Checkmate" is
back in place. But it is gone again when Major Briggs visits
the office at 28:48! It is back in later scenes.
The model railroad train seen in Ben's office at 24:40 on
the Blu-ray is of an old
Union Pacific
steam engine. It is seen pulling a Santa Fe flatbed car
loaded with logs (the Santa Fe Railway is now known as
BNSF Railway).
Notice that Ben is wearing his tie backward! Dr. Jacoby's
tie in this scene has a hula girl on it, but it's not the
same hula girl tie he wore in
Episode 0A: "Wrapped in
Plastic".
The song that Dr. Jacoby leads Ben in singing is "Dixie", a
blackface minstrel song of the 1850s which became one of the
candidate songs for the anthem of the Confederate States of
America during the Civil War.
Dr. Hayward tells Dick, "Dick, I didn't drop you on your
head when I brought you into this world, don't give me cause
to regret that." This implies that Dick was born in Twin
Peaks. Why then does he have a British accent? Is it merely
an affectation? Did he have British parents from whom he
picked it up?
Major Briggs staggers into the sheriff's station at 27:52 on
the Blu-ray as if he's drugged. His condition is not
explained. Possibly he was given truth drugs or something
similar by his Air Force interrogators in an attempt to get
him to recall what happened to him during his recent
disappearance from the woods. Oddly, Lucy seems only mildly
concerned when he approaches her desk and asks to see the
sheriff and then collapses to the floor; notice she stands
and looks down at his fallen form and then resumes gazing
into her compact mirror, as she had been applying lipstick
before he entered!
Notice that Deputy Andy still refers to Cooper as "Agent
Cooper" even though Cooper is currently on suspension from
the FBI.
When Lana expresses her gratitude to Dr. Jacoby, notice that
Cooper looks at him a bit jelously!
Catherine's sweater at 34:25 on the Blu-ray has rows of
large diamond shapes on it.
At 36:48 on the Blu-ray, Eckhardt's assistant, a woman known
only as Jones, picks up a small hand bell and rings it at
the reception desk of the Great Northern Hotel to summon a
desk clerk. But in
Episode 24:_"Wounds and Scars", we see
Nadine ring a common tap type desk bell at reception when
she checks in with Mike Nelson.
The desk clerk at the Great Northern is said to be named
Randy St. Croix in the end credits. But his badge appears to
read "Randy Meyer" here. Yet, in
Episode 24:_"Wounds and Scars",
he has the correct name on his badge. Maybe here he
misplaced his badge and borrowed one from another Randy that
works there!
At 37:17 on the Blu-ray, Eckhardt's sunglasses are
reflecting the fire of the Great Northern lobby's fireplace
right where his eyes would be, giving him a devilish aspect.
At 37:56 on the Blu-ray, Cooper is seen reading a book about
Tibet in the background. He is later seen reading this same
book at the RR Diner when he first meets Annie in
Episode 24:_"Wounds and Scars". I
haven't been able to identify exactly which book this is.
Can anyone identify it from the cover? |
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At 39:20 on the Blu-ray, Truman shows Cooper a newspaper
article that came over the fax line, "Asian Man Killed!!",
regarding the murder of Jonathan. The article seen on the
screen is somewhat amusing when read on a freeze-frame, as
it has nothing to do with the murder and is, instead, an
extremely vague account of an investigation of
something-or-other being conducted by a committee. It also
seems as if the article may be from a sensation-style
tabloid newspaper, as average daily newspapers do not
typically use double (or even single) exclamation points in
news headlines. It is also odd that the headline should
specify the man as "Asian" instead of just a man.

Doc Hayward reveals that Little Nicky was
conceived to an immigrant chambermaid at the Great Northern
during a rape by a man who fled to Canada.
The woman died in childbirth and was
buried in Potter's Field. A potter's field is a cemetery for
unidentified or unclaimed people. This is the first mention
of one in Twin Peaks.
Nicky's foster parents were killed in a car crash
during a family outing. He pulled their bodies from the
burning wreck, but it was too late to save them.
Evelyn tells James she loves him, claiming she never said
that to anyone before.
At 44:02 on the Blu-ray, four hand-carved wood flutes are
seen on the table in Windom Earle's commandeered cabin. He
was playing one of them as Leo approached the cabin, which
was the music we heard over the soundtrack. He is
seen playing these flutes at different times in the episodes
that follow.

The chess board glimpsed in Earle's cabin at the end of the
episode bears no relation to the state of the game currently
being played by him and Cooper. Maybe he just likes to play
against himself as a way of formulating new chess
strategies.
Memorable Dialog
I can still feel his presence.wav
a
very sick game.wav
we think he murdered his parents.wav
sexually active.wav
cold and hard and brilliant.wav
you don't know what he's capable of.wav
the Almighty is a Southerner.wav
not ideologically pure.wav
I was taken to the White Lodge.wav
trouble
ahead.wav
I will be in the shadows.wav
is
it hot in here.wav
and
the hippy, too.wav
you say drink coffee, I'll drink coffee.wav
you can call me Windom.wav
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