After an in-depth viewing of Twin Peaks, I’m ready to write a few all-encompassing posts on the series as a whole. First, I’ll jot down some thoughts on Season 2, which was split into two halves, the first covering the conclusion of the Laura Palmer case, and the second tackling the mysterious Windham Earle and the discovery of the Black Lodge.

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Andy and Lucy console each other after the chaotic Miss Twin Peaks contest where Annie was kidnapped by Windham Earle. Cooper, Harry, and Hawk stare at the map, as Cooper mumbles “Fire, walk with me.” Pete says the Log Lady stole his truck and drove off toward the woods. Cooper informs Pete that was Windham Earle in disguise. The Log Lady arrives, and says her husband gave her a bottle of oil from a “gateway” in the woods. The jar smells like scorched engine oil. Hawk brings in Ronnette Pullaski, who recognizes the smell from the night of Laura Palmer’s murder.

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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.

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Lucy announces her intention to enter the Miss Twin Peaks contest, and will soon decide whether Andy or Dick will act as father to her child. John Wheeler learns a friend has been murdered, and he must leave Twin Peaks immediately. Donna finds her birth certificate has no father listed, and old photographs of Ben clowning around with her parents.

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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.

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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.

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Harry gets loaded on whiskey at the Bookhouse Boys hideout, distraught at Josie’s death. At the RR diner, Norma introduces Annie Blackburn (Heather Graham), Norma’s sister, to Shelly. Annie will work at the diner.

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Agent Cooper plays Windham Earle’s recorded message to Harry. They call on Pete Martell to play the next chess move. Meanwhile, Pete and Catherine are having breakfast when Josie enters the room to see Andrew Packard – her husband – whom she thought was dead all these years – still alive and well. She faints.

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Malcolm, Evelyn’s lover / brother is happy that her husband is now dead, and kisses her. At Wallie’s bar, Donna urges James to leave, but he feels guilty for abandoning Evelyn. Donna phones Ed for help.

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Doc Hayward looks at the corpse and pulls out a chesspiece from his mouth. Cooper deduces that Windham Earle set off an explosion to cause a diversion so he could place the corpse in the sheriff’s office. The dead body represents a pawn taken in the ongoing chess game between he and Windham Earle.

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