My Twin Peaks first-time watch continues! I’m still happy I’m watching and, as predicted, this episode poses far more questions than it offers solutions, but then we’re only two episodes in, so I wasn’t exactly expecting the loose ends to be tied up any time soon. Here are my thoughts:

I truly was not expecting Agent Cooper to be introduced upside down. Good for him. I love that he’s speculating to Diane the Deceased Dictaphone about the reception on his room’s television without having actually tried it.

Look at those eyes. Audrey is already trying to eat Cooper from the other side of he room.

Oh no! Shelley’s partner Leo is an abusive scumbag, I’m rooting for him to have a painful, imminent demise. He also is trying to hide a bloody shirt, which is suspicious, but too obvious of a clue for episode two, so he definitely didn’t kill Laura. My guess is he ran over a deer or some such.

So Mikey and Bobby were involved, with the now deceased Laura, in owing Leo $10,000. Why? For what? A new mystery! Also, Laura has a history of doing cocaine, with James tried to get her to stop. Laura’s best friend Donna has fallen in love with Laura’s secret boyfriend James, but feels bad about it. This is getting a little too soap opera for me.

Still loving Lucy, notifying Cooper that the phone call he’s about to pick up has an “open air” sound to it. Judging by his love for coffee (“black as midnight on a moonless night”) and cherry pie, Cooper would probably get at least a little annoyed with me for not partaking in either (don’t like cherries, never had coffee).

Nadine, Big Ed’s wife, is developing a “noiseless, completely silent drape runner” using cotton balls. I love when people solve something that isn’t really a problem.

Laura was helping Jocelyn (another J she was possibly apprehensive of meeting up with) with her English. She also helped organise meals being delivered to the elderly.

Serving coffee with an unintentional fish in the percolator is the kind of stuff I’m here for, more of this please.

Another secret tryst! Mrs. Packard’s sister-in-law Catherine and Audrey’s father Ben, in another hideous tie, are having an affair whilst plotting the demise of the wood mill. Yes, more soap opera stuff, but it does make me care more about the mill ownership.

Just look at Ray Wise lingering in this doorway. How can you not suspect him of some kind of foul play? He’s not grieving at all, whilst his wife is utterly distraught (understandably), so much so that she mistakes Donna for Laura. Is it possible that Mr. Palmer is drugging his wife with some kind of hallucinogen?

Audrey enjoys dancing alone in the hotel, before her father threatens her with scrubbing bidets in a Bulgarian convent. That’s pretty specific and terrible parenting.

The Log Lady’s log saw something and has something to say, but instead of talking, all it does is bark.

Man, fuck Leo. Cornering Shelley and approaching her with a bar of soap in a sock. Not what I was expecting from this show. Screw this guy, someone kill him soon.

James is doing his best to not look like a psychopath meeting Laura’s parents for dinner. He’s partially succeeding, but barely.

Laura sent recordings to Dr. Jacoby and was potentially in ANOTHER secret relationship with him too? Jacoby has a sweet secret coconut stash containing the other half of Laura’s locket (I thought James had it last episode, my mistake). “James is sweet, but he’s so dumb.” Savage. I think (hope?) Laura is leading Jacoby on, possibly in connection to the $10,000 she, Bobby and Mike owe Leo.

Mysteries:
What happened to Laura? – I’m still saying Laura’s father killed her, other than that I don’t know yet.
Who assaulted the other traumatised girl? – She was apparently assaulted by three different men. The three most villainous men (so far) are Leo, Mike and Bobby, although I’ve got to keep Ben and Leland in the equation still too.
Who do Mike, Bobby and Laura owe Leo $10,000? – If it was just Mike and Bobby, I’d be hypothesising that they owed Leo money for killing Laura for them for some reason, but that’d be very odd for Laura to also be involved in the debt.
Where did the blood on Leo’s shirt come from? – Probably a deer.
Who is the “J” Laura was anxious about meeting? – Fingers now point to Jacoby, but Jocelyn, Johnny and of course James cannot be discounted.

Roll on episode three!