Twin Peaks series one, episode six, let’s go!

Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) turns down the advances from Audrey (Sherilyn Fenn) because she’s a high school girl, and he’s an agent of the FBI. So if he weren’t an agent of the FBI he’s be down? They agree to be friends, though her sigh as he leaves implies she may not be satisfied with that outcome.

Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) is still being cold to Andy (Harry Goaz) at work, then she receives a phone call from the doctor, so she’s probably pregnant, right?

The bird from the cabin is called Waldo, and like birds in all good mystery stories, he can mimic human voices he’s heard, but only when he’s in good health. Beautiful. They leave the bird alone to recuperate, alongside Cooper’s voice-activated Dictaphone. I approve of this.

Dammit, Leo (Eric DaRe) survived the gunshot (in his arm, come on Shelley!) and is spying on his own house, watching Bobby (Dana Ashbrook) arrive and listening on the police radio frequency.

Maddy and Donna (Sheryl Lee & Lara Flynn Boyle) listen to the cassette Maddy found in Laura’s secret stash, it’s a tape for Dr. Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn), in which she heavily alludes to her and Jacoby being in some kind of relationship beyond regular doctor-patient boundaries, and Laura admits to finding it easy to make men like her without trying. They believe Jacoby has another tape from the night Laura died, so they hatch a plan to lure him out of his office so they can break in and retrieve it. The plan? Dress Maddy up as Laura and phone him to meet up somewhere. Aside from the break in his professional ethics, if Jacoby is innocent in Laura’s murder, this is an appallingly mean plan, to have this man receive a video and phone call from someone he loves but who is definitely dead.

Audrey is gleefully awful at sales, but gets to do her favourite thing, snooping. Logically she’s bad at this too though, as she hides in a ventilated closet but continues smoking whilst she’s in there. Fortunately Emory (Don Amendolia) is too slimy to notice, giving Audrey’s perfume counter colleague Jenny (Lisa Ann Cabasa) a unicorn ornament as a reward for a side-gig job at One-Eyed Jacks, where he also offers her a more permanent position. Audrey finds a little red book with lots of names and different numbers of hearts next to them. Ronette has four hearts next to her name but, crucially, Laura’s name is nowhere to be seen. Audrey pockets the unicorn and bluffs her way into getting the contact’s phone number from Jenny, great job!

Oh shoot, Nadine’s (Wendy Robie) silent curtain runner pitch has been rejected.

Is the name of this crew the Bookhouse Boys? Doesn’t sound right, but either way Cooper and Big Ed (Everett McGill) have barely disguised themselves (Cooper is literally just wearing a tuxedo and thin glasses) in order to infiltrate One Eyed Jacks. I’m all in on this plot thread, and of course Cooper has a suitcase full of moustaches, who doesn’t?

So Josie and Ben (Joan Chen & Richard Beymer) are secretly in cahoots and have taken out a new life insurance policy on Catherine (Piper Laurie), who has been plotting with Ben to burn down Josie’s sawmill. However this shakes out, Ben is not to be trusted, nor is Hank (Chris Mulkey) who seems to have put Josie up to this.

Waldo starts talking (“Laura! Don’t go there. Hurting me! Stop it! Leo no!”) but then soon after starts spitting feathers after Leo shoots him from outside the police station. Poor Waldo, but it seems pretty clear now that Leo is the prime suspect for everything, this is pretty damning evidence. This is unlikely to be the whole story though, so Leo could be a pawn in a much bigger scheme.

Jerry (David Patrick Kelly) has a giant pine cone. This guy seems to have had little impact on the plot at large, but comes in with some of the odder fashion and accessory choices. I’m here for it all. I’m pretty sure last episode Ben suggested he and Jerry take the Icelandic visitors out to One Eyed Jacks, but now he’s annoyed with Jerry for telling them about the establishment. Ben clearly is spinning way too many plates right now, something has to drop.

Audrey’s interview at One Eyed Jacks is giving Mena Suvari in American Beauty vibes, outwardly seductive but secretly virginal. Doesn’t stop her tying a cherry stem in her mouth, though. Is this where that cliché started?

Jacoby is the kind of guy who watches TV at an indirect angle and enjoying a full, umbrella’d cocktail whilst on his own. Good for him.

Oh no! Psycho Bobby is watching from the bushes and puts something in James’ motorbike tank. I think it’s sugar, that’ll mess up an engine.

New Mysteries:
Is Lucy pregnant, and if so, is it Andy’s? – Yes and maybe.
What’s really going on at One-Eyed Jacks? – Seems to be a casino/brothel hybrid, I’m certain there’s a link to what happened to Laura and Ronette, but if it was simply a case of killing off all the girls they bring in then surely there’d be some kind of dead hot girl epidemic in this town and the FBI would’ve been brought in much sooner.

Old Mysteries:
What happened to Laura?
Who assaulted Ronette, the other traumatised girl? – Leo seems candidate #1 here.
Where did the blood on Leo’s shirt come from? – Ronette or Laura seem very likely candidates right about now.
Who is the “J” Laura was anxious about meeting? – At this point it’s probably either Jacoby or James.
Who was the shadowy figure behind Leo in the woods?
What did any of Cooper’s dream mean?
Who is the man in the red Corvette?
Why is Hank blackmailing Josie?
Who is the third man seen on the night of Laura’s murder (presuming the other two are Leo and Jacques)?
What is the overall plan with the mill?