I’ll be honest, I’m starting to lose interest in this show. I’m coming to terms with maybe nothing ever being wrapped up cleanly, but I’m not sure I really care about the mysteries we’ve accrued so far. I’ll see this season out as I’m over halfway, but at this point I’m not committing myself to seasons two and three. We’ll see.

Madeline (Sheryl Lee) is staring for too long whilst serving tea. What does she know? Or is it just to emphasise that she looks like Laura?

Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) is secretly seeing Deputy Andy (Harry Goaz), another secret romance in Twin Peaks! Although Andy seems far more invested in it that Lucy does.

Oh God, can the dress sense of Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn) get any worse? Those two-tone glasses, oof. He allegedly followed a man in a red Corvette the night Laura was killed.

At a motel, Cooper visits the one-armed shoe salesman (Al Strobel) from his dream, who only has a right arm and a suitcase full of right shoes. His left arm had a tattoo saying “MOM”, and recollecting this makes him cry. A truly sad scene and performance. Coincidentally, Josie (Joan Chen) was already at the motel, spying on Ben and Catherine (Richard Breymer and Piper Laurie), plotting to burn the mill down.

Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle) recognises that One-Eyed Jacks is a western starring Marlon Brando, I knew I liked her. That’s one of my Grandma’s favourite films.

Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) visits the vet, where a llama is in the waiting room. Laura’s scratches were caused by a bird.

Man, I hate Bobby (Dana Ashbrook). He’s kissing Shelley (Madchen Amick) then complaining that Laura was seeing James (James Hurley) behind his back, which he was doing with Shelley! Such a hypocrite. Bobby announces he’s going to fix (read: hurt) James, so Shelley tells him to fix her first. I’m sure a therapist could draw a line between that conversation and Shelley being a prolonged victim of domestic abuse.

Andy is a gun-dropping buffoon who cannot shoot and I love him.

When tasked with tracking down a list of townspeople with pet birds, Lucy finds that the police records are sorted by the name of the pet, not the type of the pet. I can fully see this happening anywhere records are kept.

James brings back the psycho stare, this time at Madeline in the diner.

This is a bizarre position for Ben’s exercise bike, pointing directly at the lit fireplace and wall-mounted fish.

Bobby plants Leo’s (Eric DaRe) bloody shirt at Jacques’ place, then calls the cops. Good, but I need Bobby to be such a moron that he implicated himself too.

Gasp! Leo meets Ben in the woods, who asks Leo to burn down the mill.

“Glue-sniffing squish heads.”

Norma’s (Peggy Lipton) incarcerated husband Hank (Chris Mulkey) is being released, with his 3:3 domino. Josie receives a decent enough pencil drawing of said domino. A new mystery! How are these two connected? OK, fine, I’m still a little bit into this show, what’s next?

New Mysteries:
Who is the man in the red Corvette? – Maybe Leo?
How are Hank and Josie connected? Was he arrested for cheating at dominoes, but she really did it and he took the fall, now he’s being released and is out for domino-based revenge? Will he burn down the mill as an act of vengeance (even better, will he construct an elaborate and increasingly large domino rally, that ends with a giant domino knocking the mill down), only to fall into the hands of Catherine and Ben who plan to burn the mill down? Or will this scupper their plans? I’m looking forward to maybe finding out, eventually.

Old Mysteries:
What happened to Laura?
Who assaulted the other traumatised girl?
Where did the blood on Leo’s shirt come from?
Who is the “J” Laura was anxious about meeting?
Who was the shadowy figure behind Leo in the woods? – Ben has now been a shadowy figure in the woods meeting Leo, so he’s gotta be under consideration.
What did any of Cooper’s dream mean?