This 2017 “Twin Peaks” sequel got made just in time for a lot of its players. Catherine Coulson (date of death: Sept. 28, 2015), Miguel Ferrer (Jan. 19, 2017) and Warren Frost (Feb. 17, 2017) all make posthumous appearances.
David Bowie, who died January 10, 2016, was supposed to be in the Showtime “Peaks” as well. From Harry Goaz’ May 2016 interview with The Dallas Morning News:
Goaz says David Bowie, who had a small role in the 1992 film spinoff Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was set to return to make a cameo, but it didn’t happen before the musician’s death this year.
Previously. On "Twin Peaks":
* HORNE HIGH. Jerry Horne phones his brother Ben, explaining someone stole his car and he doesn’t know where he is. (Did Richard Horne kill the Yellow Mist Boy with Jerry’s truck?)
* LAURA’S PAGES. Frank Truman and Hawk Hill read three of the four missing pages of Laura Palmer’s diary, apparently stuffed into the stall door of the Twin Peaks sheriff’s department’s men’s room a quarter century ago by the late Leland Palmer: “This came to me in a dream last night: ‘My name is Annie. I’ve been with Dale and Laura (me??!!!). The good Dale is in the lodge and he can’t leave. Write it in your diary.’ That’s what she said to me.” “It’s 1:30 a.m. I’m crying so hard I can hardly breathe. NOW I KNOW IT ISN’T BOB. I KNOW WHO IT IS.”
* THE ONE WHO CAME OUT. “Harry saw Cooper come out of the lodge with Annie that night,” notes Hawk. “Doc and Harry took him over to the Great Northern. But if The Good Cooper is in the lodge and can’t come out then the one who came out of the lodge with Annie that night was not The Good Cooper.” “And he left town soon after. Who else saw him that day?” “Like I said: Doc Hayward, but I don’t know who else.”
* THE SHERIFFS TRUMAN. Frank phones his brother and learns Harry has been moved to a new facility. “Nothing urgent,” Frank tells Harry. “Don’t worry about it. Just get rest.”
* WHO WAS DRIVING? Deputy Andy tracks the truck Richard Horne was driving to the home of a Jesus-y looking redneck (Ted Dowling). The redneck says he was not driving the truck and Andy wants to know who was. The redneck says he can’t talk about it there, and asks Andy to meet him at 4:30 “just past Jones’, down by the creek.”
* COMATOSE AUDREY. “Where’s Harry?” asks Doc Hayward (the late Warren Frost), seemingly surprised to hear Frank identify himself as “Sheriff Frank Truman.” On Frank’s (Harry’s?) cool lever-activated pop-up computer monitor (which David Lynch probably designed and built himself), Doc remembers Cooper “sneaking out of intensive care, fully dressed. He turned and he looked at me and I saw that strange face again. He didn’t say a word. He just turned around and walked out.” What was Cooper doing in intensive care? “I thought at the time he might have been looking in on Audrey Horne. That terrible business at the bank and she was in a coma.” (Did Bad Cooper rape Audrey Horne that day? Is Richard Horne the evil spawn of Audrey and Bad Cooper?)
* OFF THE BODY. In Buckhorn, S.D., Air Force lieutenant Cynthia Knox learns from CSI Constance Talbot that Garland Briggs’ fingerprints were lifted from a decapitated body decades too young to belong to Garland Briggs. Ominous music plays during Knox’ call to Col. Davis as a dark figure (the one we saw in the Buckhorn jail?) approaches.
* SAY PLEASE. “No fucking way,” were Diane’s words, Albert Rosenfield relays to Gordon Cole. Albert tells Gordon it’s Gordon’s turn.
* DIANE’S APARTMENT. “See you later, Diane,” says the young fellow leaving. “Good,” Diane Evans replies when Gordon tells her her former boss is in federal lockup.
* THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS. En route to South Dakota, Tammy Preston, Albert and Gordon agree that the man in lockup merely mirrors Dale Cooper’s fingerprints. Albert shows Tammy the “only known photo” of Cooper during his missing years, taken in front of the home of a girl from the affluent Ipanema section of Rio de Janeiro.
* WHO ARE YOU? “I knew it was going to be you. It’s good to see you again, Diane.” “Oh, yeah? When was that, Cooper? When did we see each other last?” “Are you upset with me, Diane?” “What do you think?” “I think you’re upset with me.” “When was the last time we saw each other, Cooper?” “At your house.” “That’s right. Do you remember that night?” “I’ll always remember that night.” “Same for me. I’ll never forget it. Who are you?” “I don’t know what you mean, Diane.” “Look at me. Look at me.”
* NOT COOPER. “Hold this man till you hear from us,” Gordon Cole instructs Warden Murphy. “Listen to me. That is not the Dale Cooper than I know,” Diane tells Gordon. “It isn’t time passing or how he’s changed or the way he looks. It’s something here. Or something that definitely isn’t here.” “You and I will have a talk sometime,” Diane tells Gordon of the night Cooper came to her house. Near tears, Diane toasts the FBI.
* A STRAWBERRY. “Tell Warden Murphy I have a message for him,” “Cooper” tells his guard. “I need to speak with him in his office. Just tell him we need to speak about a strawberry.”
* ANDY’s WATCH. The redneck’s front door is shown open and abandoned as Andy sees the time on his Rolex is 5:05. (Andy’s watch looks like a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 34 115200, which retails on Amazon for $5,395.)
* MURPHY’S LAW. “Joe McClusky,” says “Cooper,” and Warden Murphy puts down his gun. “1 a.m. tonight. Smooth and safe.” “No one will hear anything more about Joe McClusky or your late Mr. Strawberry.”
* SWEATY SINCLAIR. Dougie’s pen has left his case files and is now digging into his desk blotter. “Is there a reason you’re not talking to me, Dougie?” asks nervous-looking colleague Tony Sinclair, whom “Dougie” earlier called a liar. “What were you and Bushnell talking about earlier? I saw you walk into his office carrying a bunch of files.” Sinclair beats a hasty exit when Rhonda announces policemen are in the building.
* DETECTIVES FUSCO. Three cops named Fusco (“Anchorman” star David Koechner, “Parks and Recreation” player Eric Edelstein and “Law & Order” vet Larry Clarke) arrive. “Dougie, was your car stolen?” asks wife Janey. “Stolen,” replies “Dougie.” Janey is told Dougie’s car killed people in an explosion, then demands to know why she wasn’t told that in the first place. “Goodbye, Mullins,” “Dougie” tells his boss as Janey guides “Dougie” to the elevator.
* DWARF ASSAULT. His icepick bent perhaps irreparably, Ike “The Spike” Stadtler pulls a gun on “Dougie,” who remembers his Quantico training, pushes Janey away, grabs the pistol and karate-chops the dwarf’s larynx. “Squeeze his hand off!” implores a talking tree-gumball thing only “Dougie” can see. And, indeed, something that looks like a piece of Stadtler’s hand is peeled from his weapon.
* COOPER’S ROOM KEY. After hours in Ben Horne’s Great Northern office, Beverly Paige (Ashley Judd) has difficulty identifying the source of a loud hum. Beverly gives Ben Cooper’s ancient room key. “Who’s Laura Palmer?” asks Beverly, who may want to fuck her boss.
* DON’T FUCK THIS UP, TOM! Beverly returns home to her bald, sickly husband Tom. He asks why she’s late. She offers few specifics, but it’s clear she much prefers her work life to her home life these days.
* (I initially thought Beverly might be married to a dying Harry Truman. Tom Paige is played by Hugh Dillon, the bald guy from the Canadian cop drama “Flashpoint” -- but recall that David Lynch had no problem swapping out Lara Flynn Boyle for Moira Kelly while shooting “Fire Walk With Me.” For some reason I still suspect Grant Goodeve will play the old, sickly Harry.)
* GREEN ONIONS. A man sweeps. “The roadhouse has been owned by the Renault family for 57 years,” explains Jean Michel Renault (Walter Olkewitz). “We’re not going to lose it now because of a couple of 15-year-old straight-A students.”
* FLYING THE COOP. “You drive,” instructs “Cooper.”
* THE RR. “Anybody seen Billy?”
Still to put in appearances are Monica Bellucci (“SPECTRE”), John Billingsly (“Star Trek: Enterprise”), Jonny Coyne (“Alcatraz,” “11.22.63”), Francesca Eastwood (“Heroes Reborn”), Jay R. Ferguson (Stan Rizzo on “Mad Men”), Grant Goodeve (“Eight Is Enough,” “Northern Exposure”), Trent Reznor (“Light of Day”), Tim Roth (“Pulp Fiction”), John Savage (“The Deer Hunter”), Lauren Tewes (“The Love Boat”), Eddie Vedder (“Singles”), Charlyne Yi (“This Is 40,” “Love”), Julee Cruise, Jan D’Arcy (Sylvia Horne), Sherilyn Fenn, Everett McGill, Charlotte Stewart (Betty Briggs) and Alicia Witt.
