There were heartwarming appearances from old friends. There were incomprehensible scenes of nothing happening very slowly, followed by scenes of nothing comprehensible happening very quickly. The first new episode was as gloriously/frustratingly obscure as fans could have hoped/feared (delete to suit your tastes). Would all become clear? Would Lynch serve up a slice of fresh-from-the-oven narrative storytelling, with a delicious dollop of creamy exposition on the side? Would this long-awaited two-hour premiere go down as easy as the proverbial pie? To make matters worse, murderous demon-spirit Bob (Laura’s killer) had escaped into our world by taking Cooper’s now-vacant body for a joyride.īut on Monday May 22, at the unspeakable hour of 2am, die-hard Peakers raised aloft their cups of Damn Fine Coffee and prayed for enlightenment. When we last saw Cooper and Palmer they were lost in the hellish red-curtained waiting room of the Black Lodge, a demonic netherworld with a handy entrance hidden in the local woods.Ĭooper had broken in to rescue his girlfriend Annie, and succeeded – but his soul was left stuck in the lodge. In case your memory of the early Nineties is a bit hazy, here's a refresher.
Those words were spoken – backwards – by the unquiet spirit of dead prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose murder had brought irrepressibly upbeat FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) to the titular lumber town, a charming place where the forests are lush and the donuts plentiful, located just five miles south of the Canadian border. After a quarter of a century, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s mind-wobbling, genre-hopping, era-defining supernatural whodunit has finally made good on a promise from the last series: “I’ll see you again in 25 years”. RELATED Twin Peaks on Showtime: 15 Characters We Want BackĨ | Was Windom Earle killed in the Red Room when Killer Bob sucked out his soul?ĩ | In the finale, Nadine “awoke” from her fantasy of being 18 again, but did she stay with husband Big Ed? Or did she toss him aside for teen-lover Mike? Related Q: Did Big Ed finally end up with Norma?ġ0 | James rode out of town on his motorcycle in Episode 16 of Season 2 and was never seen again (although he did send girlfriend Donna a postcard from San Francisco).Twin Peaks is back. Did the cage drop? Did the spiders kill him? Did he escape? Was he rescued? Did he reform and actually set out to “Save Shelly”?ħ | Did Shelly accept Bobby’s marriage proposal? Or is she still with the (possibly-dead) Leo? Oh, and is she still slinging coffee and pie at the RR Diner? Did Annie recover? Did Evil Cooper come after her?ģ | Did Doc Hayward actually kill Ben Horne when he smashed his head into the fireplace?Ĥ | Was Audrey killed in the bank explosion? (FWIW, Sherilyn Fenn has since posited that Audrey survived and fled Twin Peaks for Hollywood.) Sadly, the bomb likely felled Andrew, Dell and Pete, seeing as how their respective portrayers, Dan O’Herlihy, Ed Wright and Jack Nance, have all since passed away.ĥ | How is Audrey’s brother Johnny doing? Is he still pining for Laura?Ħ | What happened to Leo? Last we saw him he was tied up in Windom Earle’s cabin with a cage of deadly spiders dangling above him.
Did Laura Palmer take Annie’s advice and write that information down in her diary (when a bloodied Annie showed up in Laura’s bed in a strange dream/premonition in Fire Walk With Me)? Will Laura’s diary be the key to Coop’s rescue in Season 3?Ģ | How is Annie? The deleted scenes from FWWM (newly released in the Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces Blu-ray box set) made it clear that Heather Graham’s alter ego survived her escape from the Black Lodge - and ended up in the hospital (where an unwise nurse stole her cursed “owl ring”).
Meanwhile “Good Dale” is trapped in the Black Lodge. RELATED Twin Peaks on Showtime: EP Mark Frost Talks Returning Characters, Storyline and More!ġ | When we left off, Agent Cooper was alive, but possessed by the spirit of Killer Bob (played by the late Frank Silva).