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Twin Peaks
"Laura is the One"
Season Three, Part 10
Written by Mark Frost & David Lynch
Directed by David Lynch
Original air date: July 16, 2017 |
Richard goes on the offensive; Janey-E
finds a use for Dougie; the Mitchum Brothers have a new target;
Gordon makes some connections; Hawk receives advice from the Log
Lady.
Read the episode summary at the Twin Peaks wiki
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Richard Horne
Miriam Sullivan
Chad Broxford
Carl Rodd
Steven Burnett
Becky Burnett
Rodney Mitchum
Candie
Bradley Mitchum
Dr. Ben
Agent Cooper
Janey-E Jones
Sonny Jim Jones
Sandie
Mandie
Paul
Sheena
Ike the Spike (in news coverage)
Detective T. Fusco
Detective "Smiley" Fusco
Detective D. Fusco
Lawrence Jacoby
Nadine Hurley
Lucy Brennan
Marvin Marcia
Miriam Hodges
Gary Hashimoto (mentioned only)
Scott Fritschler (mentioned only)
Johnny Horne
Sylvia Horne
Ben Horne
Sheriff Frank Truman (mentioned only)
Duncan Todd
Roger
Anthony Sinclair
Albert Rosenfield
Constance Talbot
Gordon Cole
Tamara Preston
Warrick
Mr. C (in photo only)
floating monk
Beverly Page
Log Lady
Hawk
Didja Notice?
Richard Horne's car is a 1996
Saturn SL. Saturn was an American car company from
1985-2010.
At 5:08 on the Blu-ray, Carl is singing "Red River Valley",
an old folk song by unknown authors, most likely originating
in the 1800s.
Carl's trailer has a sign in front reading "9:30 AM (NEVER
BEFORE !!!!) - 5:30 PM). This is similar to the note he had
written on his door at the old Fat Trout Trailer
Park in Fire Walk With
Me.
Dougie's doctor, Dr. Ben, is portrayed by John Billingsley,
best known as Dr. Phlox on Star Trek: Voyager.
The male newscaster called Paul on Las Vegas TV station KQRY 12 at
12:49 on the Blu-ray is portrayed by Greg Mills, a real
world news anchor on Los Angeles stations KCBS and KCAL.
KQRY is a fictitious TV station.
Nadine has parlayed her silent drapery runner invention
(from
Episode
3:
"Rest in Pain") into a drapery shop called
Run Silent, Run Drapes. The name is a play on the 1955 novel
and 1958 film adaption Run Silent, Run Deep, about
submarine warfare during WWII. The on-location exterior of
the business is located at 116 W North Bend Way, North Bend,
WA, across the street catty-corner from Twede's Cafe (the
RR!).
The postal delivery vehicle seen
at 22:59 on the Blu-ray is an
AM
General DJ-5 Dispatcher with WA license plate L5398X.
At 23:15 on the Blu-ray, Chad pulls Miriam Hodges' letter
from the mail delivered to the sheriff's station to prevent
the letter's alleged revelation that Richard Horne was the
hit-and-driver who killed a little boy in town. But the
closing credits of the episode list Miriam's last name as
Sullivan, not Hodges. Did Chad get the wrong letter?
(Producer Sabrina S. Sutherland later acknowledged that the
last name on the letter was a production mistake.)
Meriam's letter has a return address of just "Twin
Peaks, WA", no street address. The zip code on it reads
98705 or 98785, neither of which are actual zip codes and do
not match any of the several others seen for the town of
Twin Peaks in the past!
Meriam's envelope states that the sheriff's station
is on Main Street in Twin Peaks.
Other letters seen in the sheriff station's mail are from
Marvin Mancia, Gary Hashimoto, and Scott Fritschler.
Possibly Gary Hashimoto worked in the props department of
the series, though he's not listed in the credits; a man by
that name worked in that capacity on the TV series
Everybody Hates Chris and the film Jack the Bear.
Marvin Mancia's return address is on Elmford Row Pl. in Twin
Peaks.
Another envelope is from Pentes Pipe Supply, 2440 SW
Marconinia Ave., Tacoma WA 98412. This appears to be a
fictitious business and address, though 98412 is an actual
zip code for the city of
Tacoma.
The postage on the letters shows 49¢, suggesting our
story takes place in 2014 or later (U.S. postage rates rose
to 49¢ in January 2014).
Johnny Horne's teddy bear
with a plastic ball head that repeats, "Hello, Johnny, how
are you today?" has a face similar to that of the main
character (Randy) in David Lynch's 2002 online animated
short series Dumbland. Lynch drew the animated
images of Dumbland himself, so it seems likely he
is also the one who drew the face on the plastic ball-head
of Johnny's teddy bear.
Is there any connection (or inference) of the headless teddy bear
(w/ replaced plastic ball head) to the headless bodies of
Major Briggs and Ruth Davenport? |
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Johnny's talking
teddy bear |
Randy from
Dumbland |
At 24:52 on the Blu-ray, what looks like
a blue laser light shows on Johnny's blue right pant leg,
shortly after appearing on his left. Is there any
significance to this? Is it just some kind of accidental
reflection from off-camera equipment?
Maybe the blue light is an indication that we should
pay attention to Johnny? Does Johnny have a connection to
the other world? Is
Johnny's mental disability related to that of Dougie Cooper?
Is Candy the casino girl's seeming "dimness" also related to
the mental issues of Johnny and/or Dougie Cooper?
When Richard storms into the house and threatens
Sylvia, the normally oblivious Johnny looks in the direction
of the struggle and begins to strain against the bonds
securing him in his chair, as if he wants to go to her
aid. This may be similar to the generally stupified Dougie
Cooper immediately coming to the aid of Janey-E when Ike
attacks her.
The house where Sylvia Horne lives with Johnny is at address
7318 (we never see the street name). We don't even know for
sure if it's in Twin Peaks, though it is likely fairly close
to the town since her grandson Richard shows up there.
Grabbing her by the throat, Richard Horne threatens to
"squeeze the shit" out of his grandmother and that he'll
then cornhole Johnny. "Cornhole" is a slang term for anal
sex.
A barely-started jigsaw puzzle is seen on Sylvia's table at
the seat next to Johnny's. Does Sylvia enjoy jigsaw puzzles
to fill her time?
At 30:44 on the Blu-ray, a woman carries
a miniature French flag as she walks through the hotel
restaurant where Albert and Constance are having dinner.
It looks as if Albert and Constance may be
developing an attraction to each other. In the previous
episode (Part
9:
"This is the Chair"),
the pair matched each other for sarcastic remarks.
At 38:31 on the Blu-ray, Candie and the girls fix Bradley
Mitchum a martini with
Aviation American Gin and
Martini
vermouth.
At 38:59 on the Blu-ray, Rodney Mitchum says, "Now I know
how Brando felt." This is likely a reference to actor Marlon
Brando and his mafia character of Vito Corleone in the 1972
mafia crime film The Godfather.
What is the significance of Gordon's drawing at 41:04 on
the Blu-ray? It looks like a deer with rather strange
antlers, almost like miniature trees. The art was surely
drawn entirely by Lynch himself, as it a similar stylization
to other
things he has drawn in his artistic career. After Gordon steps away from it to answer the door,
the camera zooms in on the drawing and lingers on it for a
moment, so it seems as if it must be important.

When Gordon answers his hotel room door at 40:47 on the
Blu-ray, he briefly sees a crying Laura Palmer before it
resolves into Albert. A disotrted voice is also heard
shouting her name. The shot of Laura is from
Fire Walk With Me
when she knocks on the Hayward's door to be comforted by
Donna, but who is the voice? Is the voice Sarah? And why did Gordon see Laura at that moment? What
does it mean? Does Gordon have a sixth sense that the
timeline is changing from one where Laura died to one where
she didn't (as later suggested in
Part 17: "The Past
Dictates the Future" and
The Final Dossier)?
As Tammy approaches Gordon's hotel room at 42:26 on the
Blu-ray, notice that the film is slowed slightly, giving it
a dream-like pace, until the moment she reaches Gordon's
door, then the speed is back to normal as she knocks. Why
did this occur? Is there a residue of Laura's presence still
in the hallway? Tammy does not seem to notice the slow
effect herself.
At 43:02 on Blu-ray, Tammy shows Gordon and Albert a photo
capture from one of the earliest video cards at the New York
penthouse where the glass cage was installed. It depicts Mr.
C in a meet-up with a bald, spectacled man. Is the man
wearing a robe or a lab coat? A zoom on the screenshot does
look like he might be wearing a necktie, so that would
suggest his outer garment is a lab coat. It's hard to tell
from the darkness and framing of the photo, but the man
almost looks as if he is
sitting cross-legged apparantly in mid-air! Or is it just a
man who has his left foot raised up and resting on a box or
something? If it is a standing man, he is awfully tall; look
at the difference between him and Mr. C! If he is floating,
it would explain why he seems tall. Who is this
man? Is he another giant? Is he a dugpa of the Black Lodge?
Is he just a hired technician? |
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After Sylvia hangs up on him after she reports Richard's
assault on her, Ben is visibly irritated and maybe
depressed. Holding his face in his hands he asks Beverly in
her outer office if she wants to have dinner with him. We don't
hear her response and never see whether the two do dine
together. Does he ask her simply because he wants some
pleasant company during this moment? Or has he decided to
stop resisting his attraction to her and her obvious
attraction to him? It seems that Ben is separated from
Sylvia, not divorced, as he is still wearing a wedding ring
and it is obvious they are no longer
living together. If Ben does enter a romantic or sexual
relationship with Beverly, is this a backslide for him from
the goodness he seems to have achieved since his more wicked
days in the original series? A physical relationship with
Beverly would still be improper for him because Beverly is married herself and
she is also his subordinate in the Great Northern business
structure.
At the end of the phone scene between Hawk and the Log Lady,
the Log Lady tells Hawk, "Laura is the one." She also used
this phrase in the Log Lady Intro segment of the pilot
episode of the original series (see
Episode 0A:
"Wrapped in Plastic"). In that segment she said,
"The one leading to the many is Laura Palmer. Laura is the
one."
At the Roadhouse at the end of the
episode, Rebekah Del Rio performs her 2011 song "No Stars."
The song was co-written with her by David Lynch and John
Neff in 2001. The lyrics variate between English and
Spanish. The guitarist on stage with Del Rio is Moby,
another singer-songwriter-musician.
Del Rio also appeared as a singer in
Lynch's Mulholland
Drive.
Memorable Dialog
Dougieeeeee!.mp3
hello, Johnny.mp3
shame on you.mp3
electricity is humming.mp3
listen to the dream of time.mp3
Laura is the one.mp3
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