Season 1, Episode 7

Synopsis

Donna and James sneak into Dr. Jacobi’s office. Donna opens a coconut to find the other half of the necklace and the last cassette tape Laura recorded. They drive away on James’ bike.

Meanwhile, Dr. Jacobi sneaks up to Maddie, still dressed as Laura, behind the gazebo. A masked man attacks him from behind. Unaware of Jacobi’s situation, Donna and James pick up Maddie and leave the scene.

At One Eyed Jacks, Cooper talks to Jacques, a creepy card dealer who is now the prime suspect in Laura’s murder. Cooper hands him the broken poker chip, and claims to know Leo. Jacques says Waldo the bird was in love with Laura, and pecked her while she was tied up. To get her to be quiet, he made her bite the poker chip. Jacques agrees to do a job for Cooper, who tells him to go to a designated location for further instructions.

Blackie tells Audrey that the owner of One Eyed Jacks (Ben) likes to meet all the new girls. Everyone is unaware that she’s his daughter. Meanwhile, Leo attacks Shelly at her home.

Harry and Andy wait at the designated spot for Jacques to arrive. When he drives up, Jacques is arrested for murdering Laura. Jacques grabs a gun, so Andy shoots him.

Donna, James, and Maddie listen to Laura’s final tape. On it, Laura says she’s bored, mentions a mystery man, and sex being strange. James believes Jacobi didn’t kill her and was only trying to help. Donna still wonders how Jacobi found that buried necklace.

Leo collects cans of gasoline to burn down the mill. He has tied Shelly up at the mill, and sets up a detonator to set the whole mill on fire. He then plans to kill Bobby.

Nadine is having a picnic in her living room. Sad about the failure of her drapes, she fills a bowl with two bottles of pills and swallows them. Later, Ed finds her passed out, and feels terrible that this has happened.

Josie gives Hank a cash payment for an earlier job. It turns out Josie killed her husband disguised as a boating accident. She’s worried that Catherine might find out, and now wants Catherine killed. Hank wants more money to keep this secret. He takes out a knife, cuts his and Josie’s thumbs, and presses them together, while saying “partner.”

Catherine tears up an office looking for the second ledger. Pete says he doesn’t have it. Catherine apologizes and they find some common ground. Hank calls Catherine, disguising his voice. He tells her, what she’s looking for is at the mill. Catherine gets a gun and leaves for the mill.

As the deputies celebrate Jacque’s capture, Andy learns that Lucy is pregnant. Pretending to be Leo, Bobby calls the office, telling Cooper to check out James.

Cooper and Harry question Jacques, who admits taking Ronnette and Laura to the cabin to take some pictures, but he didn’t go to the train car where the murder took place. He suggests Leo may have done that.

At the Sherriff’s department, Lucy tells Harry that Leo called, and that she heard the clock at Easter Park in the background. Cooper sends some cops to surround Easter park. Leland Palmer walks in, and asks Harry if they caught the killer. He overhears the cops mention the hospital. James gives Cooper Laura’s last tape, and Harry finds a bag of cocaine in James’ gas tank.

Hank calls Ben to say he’ll make house call to Leo Johnson. Ben wants to bump Leo off to get rid of the evidence of the mill burning.

Bobby arrives at Leo’s house, looking for Shelly, and Leo attacks him with an axe. Suddenly, Leo is shot through the window. Bobby sees that Hank was responsible. Leo collapses on the couch as Hank leaves the scene.

Catherine walks into a shed at the mill to find Shelly tied up. They see the detonator light, starting a huge fire. Catherine unties Shelly as the mill burns around them. Meanwhile, Leland sneaks into the hospital, and suffocates Jacques with a pillow.

After the Icelanders sign the Ghostwood contract, Ben decides to check out the “new girl,” having no idea it’s his daughter, Audrey.

Cooper returns to his room, believing that Leo is the killer of Laura Palmer. He gets a phone call from Andy, saying Leo was shot. Cooper answers a knock on the door, and a masked person shoots Cooper three times in the chest. He collapses on the floor.

Thoughts

The last tape Donna, James, and Maddie listen to is the one that Dr. Jacobi was listening to at the end of Traces To Nowhere.

For the entire first season, Josie seemed like an innocent person that Catherine and Ben were conspiring against, but it turns out she has a much darker side.

Several plot threads meet at the climactic burning of the mill. Josie, Catherine, Pete, and Ben are all involved, but Leo ties up Shelly there as a solution to his marital problems. In addition, Leo works for Ben and Hank works for Josie. So Hank shooting Leo is an additional layer.

Hank, previously a minor character is very evil, and has his hands in many things as does Ben. He directs Catherine to the mill, shoots Leo, and torments Josie.

Two mystery people:

• Who beat up Dr. Jacobi? Hank? Leland? Someone else?
• Lastly, somebody shot Cooper. Was it: Hank? Leland? Someone Else?

Clues

• Jacques says Leo made Laura bite the poker chip.
• Leland kills Jacques, believing Jacques was the killer of his daughter.
• Laura’s last tape talks about a “mystery man” - likely that same third man from the night of her murder, but not Leo or Jacques.
• A masked individual beats up Jacobi.
• A masked individual shoots agent cooper.
• Ben has his fingers in everything.
• Josie is more evil than we thought.
• Hank is more evil than we thought.

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