Twin Peaks: On The Wings Of Love

October 2nd, 2008

Season 2, Episode 18

Synopsis

Eckhart’s assistant Jones tries to seduce Harry, then pulls out a wire to choke him. He manages to fight her off. Harry asks Cooper why Eckhart would want him dead. Doc Hayward shows Cooper and Harry the chess move left by Windham Earle and a bonsai tree, and Agent Gordon Cole produces Windham Earle’s classified dossier. The bonsai tree contains a bug.

While part of the FBI, Windham Earle investigated UFOs as did Major Briggs. Cole reinstates Cooper in the FBI to help catch him.

Windham Earle asks Leo to pick three cards from a deck onto which he has pasted small pictures: Queen Donna, Queen Audrey and Queen Shelly. The King is Cooper. The final Queen will be the winner of the Twin Peaks contest.

Ben and Donna’s mother have a secret meeting at the Great Northern. They had an affair twenty years ago, and she is returning some old love letters. Ben wants to make up for old wrongs. Donna and Audrey listen from a secret passage.

Cole, Cooper, and Harry visit the RR Diner for breakfast. Cole becomes enamored by Shelly when he realizes he can hear her voice unassisted. Cooper is similarly enamored by Annie. Meanwhile, Cooper draws a doodle on a napkin from Major Briggs’ tattoo. Harry recognizes it as a hieroglyph in the Owl Cave.

James tells Donna via postcard that he has gone on a long, solo road trip. She asks her father how her mom knows Ben Horne, and he brushes it off.

At the library, Audrey runs into Windham Earle in yet another disguise. He says she looks like a queen. This sort of creeps her out and she skitters off.

Annie glances at an ad for the Miss Twin Peaks contest, but tells Shelly she’s uninterested in both the contest – and Dale Cooper.

Harry receives the next move from Windham Earle. Cooper hands Harry a cave hat.

Ben tells Audrey he hasn’t been a good father. He sends Audrey on a trip to talk with some environmentalists about the ferret. John advises Ben to always tell the hardest truth first. Ben offers him a carrot.

Cooper, Harry, Hawk, and Andy crawl into the dark, owl cave. They examine the walls to find a cave drawing that resembles Cooper’s triangular doodle. There is a flame at the top of the diamonds. Andy swings a pick which sticks in the wall. The center diamond slowly moves, revealing a pole. On the pole is a symbol that looks like a diamond within two mountains – or an owl – emerging from a flame. Cooper says it will lead somewhere. An owl flies out of the cave.

Annie visits the Great Northern bar and orders a rum and tonic. Cooper smiles when he sees her. She says everything in the town is so new and interesting to her. She says she failed before and it might happen again. Cooper offers his help.

Windham Earle is in the owl cave alone. He finds the pole with the odd symbol on it, and decides to invert the symbol by rotating the pole. The pick falls to the ground and the whole wall starts to cave in.

Thoughts

Cole’s fascination with Shelly was quite amusing, and a parallel to the slowly blossoming romance between Cooper and Annie. Yet another pair in Twin Peaks.
The owl cave is the first time we see the “owl” symbol that has multiple interpretations and also can be inverted. It looks like two mountains – “twin peaks.” The symbol appears on a ring in the Twin Peaks movie Fire Walk With Me.
We also learned that Windham Earle was involved in the same paranormal, UFO investigation as Major Briggs, tying together those two plot lines.

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