Season 2, Episode 19

Synopsis

Harry, Andy, Hawk, and Cooper return to the cave to find the mysterious dowel has been inverted by Windham Earle. Andy makes a drawing of the entire petroglyph scene on the cave wall.

Windham Earle tells Leo and another guy a story about the White Lodge as a paradise where happy spirits gather, and an opposite place called the Black Lodge containing evil spirits. Windham wants to find the Black Lodge.

Pete contemplates a chess move and mumbles about missing Josie. Catherine has been trying to open Eckhart’s black box. Pete says it’s a puzzle that must be tipped a certain way so objects within allow the box to be opened.

Bobby tells Shelly that beautiful people get everything they want, and she should enter the Miss Twin Peaks contest for the prize money.

Lana wants to win the Miss Twin Peaks contest and hopes that Dwayne - one of the judges - will help her. Cooper orders coffee and donuts from Annie and asks her to accompany him on a nature study. Shelly mumbles something from the anonymous poem someone sent in the mail. Cooper recognizes the poem as something from Windham Earle.

Andy and Major Briggs recreate the cave wall illustration on the office chalkboard. Briggs has seen the cave petroglyphs in his dreams. Cooper asks him about Windham Earle’s involvement with project Blue Book. Cooper recognizes Leo’s handwriting on the notes given to Audrey, Shelley, and Donna.

Ben tells Richard Tremaine that Audrey is away on business, and admits staying on the “good” path is difficult.

Windham Earle has placed the other guy in a plaster cylinder. He produces a crossbow and murders him.

Ben tells Doc Hayward, Dwayne, and Pete his opinions of the Miss Twin Peaks contest, trying to work the endangered forest ferret into the contest.

The judges begin reviewing contest entries. Bobby, Shelly, and Donna see Lana go up first and wonder if it’s fixed. Nadine also wants to enter. Bobby pulls Mike aside, saying Nadine is pretty old for a beauty contest. Mike says divulges that she has some unusual talents.

Harry asks Catherine about Josie. Catherine admits she has trouble hating her. She shows Harry the puzzle box and that it might have something to do with Josie. Pete drops the box and it opens. inside is another box with a circle of moon phases and zodiac symbols. Catherine snatches it away, wondering how to solve this new puzzle.

Cooper and Annie get to know each other in a rowboat on the lake. She had one boyfriend before entering a convent, and hints she tried to kill herself because of him. They kiss. They have both experienced love and loss. Windham Earle observes them through binoculars.

Richard Tremaine leads a wine-tasting class, asking everyone to smell, taste, and spit. Andy just gulps. Lucy becomes annoyed and spits wine in Richard’s face.

At the diner, Gordon Cole has grown infatuated with Shelly. Cooper and Annie walk in, and they all have pie. Cole says he is leaving Twin Peaks and kisses Shelly. Bobby sees this, and yells.

At dinner with her parents, Donna asks her mom about Ben Horne. She suspects her mother and Ben are having an affair.

A large crate is discovered in the gazebo, along with a brass ring saying “pull me”. Cooper and Harry arrive to check it out. Inside is a large chess piece with the dead boy in it. A note says “next time it will be someone you know.”

Thoughts

Much of this episode documents the stage being set for a confrontation between Windham Earle and Cooper during the Miss Twin Peaks contest. But there are also a few side plots to keep one’s eye on, namely Audrey / Jack, Donna and her suspicions regarding her mother and Ben Horne, and Catherine’s puzzle box.

This is an early role fort Heather Graham and she doesn’t seem a comfortable actress at this point. A lot of her lines seem to not have much emotion behind them, almost as if she’s reading off a card. Shame.

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