Twin Peaks: Miss Twin Peaks

October 22nd, 2008

Season 2, Episode 21

Synopsis

Windham Earle has left Leo and Major Briggs tied up at the floor of his cabin. Leo frees Briggs and asks him to save Shelly.

Norma brings three pies to Shelly and Annie, hoping one of them wins the Miss Twin Peaks contest.

Cooper tells Harry that Josie was killed by fear, which BOB, who comes from the Black Lodge, is attracted to. Cooper wants to find the Black Lodge before Windham Earle. Windham listens to his conversation via the bugged bonsai.

Windham sets up a cage of spiders and rigs it to fall on Leo if he moves.

The Miss Twin Peaks contestants practice dance moves. Lana tries to seduce Richard, one of the judges, in a storeroom.

Annie asks Cooper for help with her speech. They kiss and make out on the bed.

Dr. Jacobi brings Nadine, Mike, Ed, and Norma together to talk about their feelings. Nadine is still stuck in her teenage past. Ed says he wants to marry Norma. Nadine desperately announces she’s marrying Mike.

Major Briggs stumbles out of the woods. Cooper and Harry question him, and learn the Black Lodge may only be accessible for a short time.

Pete, Catherine, and Andrew struggle with the puzzle box. Andrew shoots it with a gun. Inside is safe deposit box key.

At dinner, Donna demands to know what’s going on between her mother and Ben Horne. No answers are forthcoming, so Donna storms off.

Briggs says fear and love opens the doors to the Black and White Lodges respectively. Cooper says Windham is about to take a queen in their chess game, the timing of which coincides with the Miss Twin Peaks contest. Andy knocks over the bonsai to reveal Windham’s hidden bug.

The Miss Twin Peaks contest has begun. During the event, the Log Lady knocks Bobby out with her log – she’s actually Windham in disguise. Lucy does a crazy dance. Harry and Cooper arrive, hoping to catch Windham and protect the contest winner. Lana appears in a belly dancing outfit which proves particularly appealing to the men.

Donna confronts Ben, demanding to know his relationship to her mother. Ben starts to tell the “hard truth” – that he is her father. Donna runs away. Meanwhile, Lucy decides Andy will be the father of her child.

Annie wins the contest and is crowned Miss Twin Peaks. Suddenly, the lights go out and a strobe starts up. Smoke fills the room. Windham, still dressed as the Log Lady, kidnaps Annie. He sets off an explosion, distracting Cooper. The lights come back on – Annie is gone. Andy tells Cooper that the wall of petroglyphs is a map.

Thoughts

With the season (and series) finale one episode away, several long-running plot threads are tantalizingly close to resolution:

Donna learns Ben is her father.
Lucy decides that Andy will act as father of her child.
Catherine, Pete, and Andrew finally get to the center of the puzzle box left by Thomas Eckhart to find a safe deposit box key.
Ed and Norma are getting married, and so might Nadine and Mike.
And Cooper has established that Windham Earle is trying to enter the Black Lodge. He also kidnaps Cooper’s love interest, Annie, as a means to enter the lodge (her fear, perhaps) and get revenge on Cooper.

The final scene with the strobe light going off during the contest is amazingly intense and returns to the strange lighting that Lynch used in the first season during Cooper’s dream and the visions of BOB. The surreal, scary stuff is in full force in the next and final episode.

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Previous Episode: The Path To The Black Lodge

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