After a multiple-day celebratory bender with Dougie, the Mitchum brothers reward him and Bushnell with expensive gifts. Janey-E's anger at Dougie for disappearing again is defused when a moving team arrives at the Jones household to install an elaborate backyard gym set for Sonny Jim. Meanwhile, Anthony Sinclair witnesses Dougie and the Mitchums traveling through the office in a conga line, and realizes his attempt to frame Dougie has failed. Following Duncan Todd's orders, Sinclair reluctantly attempts to kill Dougie himself, acquiring untraceable poison from a corrupt cop associate. He meets Dougie for coffee and pours the poison into Dougie's cup, but Dougie becomes transfixed by dandruff on Sinclair's shoulders and begins poking at it. The already-jumpy Sinclair is pushed over the edge by this, breaking down and tossing out the poisoned coffee. He comes clean to Bushnell about all of his misdeeds and resolves to help send his associates to jail or die trying.
Cooper tracks Ray to Montana, where he's hiding out with a large criminal gang led by the imposing Lazaro. Cooper requests that Lazaro turn Ray over. Lazaro challenges Cooper to an arm-wrestling match - Lazaro has amassed his gang through the same process, by which the winner of each match becomes the leader of the gang, and Lazaro has never lost. Cooper accepts the challenge and, after being deliberately antagonized by Lazaro, uses inhuman strength to toy with him throughout the match, before finally breaking his arm and caving his face in with a single punch. The entire gang immediately submits to Cooper, handing Ray over. Cooper interrogates Ray about his betrayal and learns that Philip Jeffries ordered his assassination. He retrieves mysterious coordinates from Ray, then forces him to wear the emerald ring and shoots him in the head. The ring transports Ray's corpse to the Black Lodge, where it is retrieved by MIKE. Lazaro's gang watches this interrogation and killing, joined by Richard Horne.
Hutch and Chantal drive through Utah and discuss Mormons. Sarah Palmer drinks alone in her house and watches a repeating twenty-second loop of an old boxing match. Still stuck in the room with Charlie, a frightened Audrey Horne suffers a dissociative moment, claiming she doesn't know who she is and can't bring herself to leave the house. Dr. Jacoby spots one of his golden shovels displayed in the window of Nadine Hurley's silent drape shop and pulls over to talk to her. They share an affectionate moment as Nadine confesses her admiration for Jacoby. At the RR, Bobby runs into Big Ed Hurley and Norma Jennings and eats with them, when Norma's business associate and apparent lover Walter arrives, to Big Ed's chagrin. Bobby and Ed move to another table while Norma meets with Walter, who is helping her franchise the RR diner's brand into multiple branches. Though the franchise is becoming successful, Walter notes the lack of such success in her flagship Twin Peaks diner, attributing the difference in profit to Norma's use of fresh ingredients in her recipes and the diner being called just "RR" rather than "Norma's RR". Norma adamantly refuses to change her practice. Later, Big Ed returns to his gas farm with some soup from the RR, eating it alone in a depressive state. At the Roadhouse, James Hurley performs "Just You" to an eager audience. Renee, the woman for whom he has feelings, watches his performance from a booth and becomes emotional.
Tropes:
- One-Sided Arm-Wrestling: Evil Cooper beats Renzo easily.
- Underestimating Badassery: Ray's gang underestimates Evil Cooper.
