Today we give The Great Northern a break from opening scenes and start out at the peaceful Palmer Residence. Andy is practicing some artistic talents -that we never knew of or could have possibly imagined he had- by charcoaling a picture of Bob based on the description from Laura's crazy mother, Sarah. Yes, ladies and gents, the police are still basing their investigation on dreams and hallucinations. Truman takes tea from Madeleine and stares glumly into space, wondering how his life could possibly have turned to this constant compromizing of reason. He tries to bring back rationality by asking if Sarah had actually seen the man before, but no, never. Oh, but his face. MY GOD HIS FAACE! she, of course, screams.
Leland stumbles out in his bathrobe and ruins this too, just like the funeral and everything else. He apparently finds the interview with his wife laughable (and he's not far from right) and prompts her to tell the police about her other "vision." Yes, she's had two visions. How many, Leland? Show them.
Two. He then gives his wife too smug a smirk for someone who just recently jumped on a coffin (and let's not forget Glenn Miller), and stumbles out. This upsets Sarah, because there isn't a thing in the world that doesn't upset her. You can just tell she's getting ready for a screaming fit, but Truman cuts her off just in time. But yes, this other vision, it's the necklace one. Donna is present (Why?) and looks slightly off-camera, evidently worried about her feeble little James.Cooper stayed behind at the station, because he is supposedly a "strong sender" and didn't want to influence Sarah Palmer (...), but he didn't let this time pass wasted. He greatly enjoyed a magic show put on by Dr. Jacoby.
Or not.Outside of his magic show, Jacoby supplies only a limited amount of information, for he is a strict believer in a little thing called "doctor/patient confidentiality." He wasn't exactly against Laura's cocaine habit. "The fact that Laura Palmer sought medication, no matter how dubious, was actually a positive sign." That's what my psychiatrist tried to tell the police, too, but they bought it just as much as Cooper did. So why is Jacoby being such a dick? Because, allow me to paraphrase, he's going to be too busy investigating himself for the rest of his life. Cooper asks the man if he knows who killed Laura Palmer. Well, no, but he did go on about following a man in a red corvette Laura had talked about, the night after Laura died. He followed the car to the saw mill, but didn't follow any further, presumably because he wanted to get back to his self-investigation.
Exit Dr. Jacoby, enter Cooper's supervisor Gordon, or David Lynch, via phone. Gordon informs Cooper: 1.) The twine found on Laura's upper arm is your average run-of-the-mill twine, 2.) The twine on her wrists is not, 3.) The bites on her shoulder are bird bites, and 4.) A reconstruction of the plastic thing in Laura's stomach is being faxed to the office. (When it arrives, it is the shape of a poker chip.)
Bad news: Albert wants to continue with his tirade after Truman. Cooper flips out a bit at the phone, and hangs up.
In comes Andy with his work of art.
It is the man Cooper saw in his dream. Bob. His eyes are a bit closer together.
After a phone call from Hawk, Cooper, Truman, and Andy head off to a motel where Hawk is waiting, to find the one-armed man. Also at the hotel are.. ugh. Ugh. Catherine and Ben. Must we see this again? I'm not going to look. If you want to see what happens, watch it yourself. I'm done. And who else is at the motel? Josie. In her car. With a camera. Sure, fine, why not. Oh, and out of Ben's pocket falls a poker chip from One-Eyed Jacks. (Uh-oh.)
Cooper and Truman meet the one-armed man, Mike, who denies everything. He's never seen the Bob in the picture, his tattoo on his shoulder said "mom," he's an innocent shoe salesman, etc. etc. It's convincing! At least, he believes himself, apart from possibly the tattoo thing. He does have a bff named Bob, though! Bff Bob is in a coma. Bff Bob is a veterinarian. Cooper and the gang get down to investigating this vet place. But wait, before we go there..
To the Twin Peaks school, which we rarely see. We have Donna and Audrey in the bathroom. I don't know if it's just Audrey's oozing awesome, but Donna isn't so bad here. Audrey tells Donna of a master plan she's developing, to help Special Agent Cooper solve the murder. She doesn't realllly care about Laura, but she wants Cooper pretty bad, so. Donna is down for the investigating, but on one condition: They don't tell the anyone.
A brief venture into the boring life of Norma, because this is actually important. Her manslaughtering husband is up for parole, and he wants her help him get it. He has changed. He wants to prove it to her. Norma helps him out. She assures the authority that she will give her husband a job and they will live as man and wife. Why? Maybe she just wants to make her life less boring. Hey, I'm for it.
Now, to the veterinarian!
The person to search these documents is Lucy. She's not overly pleased with this, which I can understand. It's not like she's an office assistant or something. She's just there to watch Invitation to Love on the little TV. Andy tries to talk to her, but she gives him the cold shoulder. She does this a lot in this episode, and Andy doesn't know why. Andy also doesn't get why Lucy didn't let him "spend the night last night." I say!
Bobby and Shelly Time. Bobby tells Shelly he thinks Leo and Jacques are running drugs across the border (because he buys regularly, except he didn't mention that) and are selling it at school. They even possibly sold it to Laura. Shelly shows Bobby the bloody shirt and her gun. It's a relationship built on trust, hopes, and dreams.
While Lucy looks through the documents, the boys go down to the cellar, shoot some stuff, and talk about women. Cooper is one hell of a shot and once had a woman who taught him the pain of a broken heart. Hawk is pretty good at shooting, too, and he writes poetry.
Poetry:
One woman can make you fly like an eagle,
Another can give you the strength of a lion,
But only one in the cycle of life
Can fill your heart with wonder
And the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.
Lucy rings down to interrupt this male bonding, and just in time, because it was starting to get a little gay. What's the problem, Lucy? The vet doesn't organize the files by species, but organizes by name. So in other words, finding this bird could take some time. Swell. Gordan calls in and narrows the search a little bit. The bird is either a myna bird or a parrot. Cooper, Andy, and Truman relieve Lucy of her job and spend hours and hours looking for the goddamn bird. At last, Andy finds it. Waldo! (Where's Waldo, get it?) Hurrrayyy, myna bird. Who owns the myna bird? You'll never guess. Jacques Renault!
They jump in the car and take a trip to Renault's apartment. Renault isn't there, but Bobby is. Bobby is busy planting evidence, Leo's shirt. He hears the police and bolts. Cooper and Truman roll in and find the shirt. I bet they didn't even have a warrant.
Finally! Our Great Northern scene of the episode. Ben is on his treadmill talking on his phone to a potential Swedish investor. Cool! Audrey walks in and spins some tale about wanting to be responsible and "be his daughter again." It takes some convincing, but Ben finally believes her. What is Audrey's motive? She wants her father to put her to work at the perfume counter at his department store. The same place where Laura worked. It works.
But then Ben gets a phone call to meet a mystery person at the river. Who is this mystery person? Leo with his red corvette. Leo has his back to the camera, and then we have that thing that I hate in movies. You know, when someone taps another person on a shoulder in an obviously creepy way, and doesn't understand how this could have possibly freaked the other person out? It's just stupid. The object of the tapping would have heard the tapper before he arrived, unless the tapper was purposely moving covertly. But yeah, Ben surprises Leo.
Leo has a problem. He has a problem with a dead body. Bernie. The late Bernard. That's a real problem. Ben doesn't care too much, and reminds Leo that he better do a good job with burning down Josie's saw mill. (Whoooo caaaares?)
James meets Madeleine at the Double R. He wants to hit that. Later, he and Donna go to check on the necklace, and see that it's gone. James wants to go to the police, but the police didn't love Laura!
Truman calls his main squeeze, Josie, who is desperate to talk to him. Once he brings up her appearance at the sleezy motel, however, she suddenly has to go. That lady is shady. But not too shady to make a date with Pete Martell to go fishing, even though she "doesn't know the first step about fishing." Sweet stuff. Pete leaves, and she notices that in a stack of mail on the kitchen counter, there is an envelope for her. We know it's going to be bad news, because Angelo Badalamenti's loud, forboding soundtrack plays overtop. And oh god! The horror!
That would be an awesome warning to just get in the mail, but the sender had to hammer the point in by calling her seconds after she opened it. Lame. Really. The sender is Norma's husband, Hank. Earlier, we saw him in the prison holding the domino piece, and if the makers of the show had just left it at that, it would have been pretty awesome. But some bad decision maker had to put in the phone call. Because we're not intelligent enough to make a connection.
I'm really missing the doughnut feasts.
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