History Recap / TwinPeaksS3E02TheReturnPart2

Inside the Red Room, Cooper sits and MIKE asks him if it is "future" or "past," then tells him someone is there. An older Laura Palmer comes and speaks to Cooper, telling him he can "go out now." She asks if he recognizes her and when he asks if she is Laura Palmer, she gives the same answer she gave him in the dream he had many years before: "I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back." When he asks who she is, she confirms that she is indeed Laura Palmer and that she is both dead and alive at the same time. She removes her face, revealing an intense light behind it, then puts it back. He asks her when he can leave and she walks over to him and kisses him before whispering in his ear, just like in his dream 25 years prior. Suddenly, she screams and a force pulls her up. The red drapes blow back and reveal a pale horse and darkness. MIKE appears to Cooper again, and again asks him if it is "future" or "past," then leads him out of the room. He shows him to the arm, which has evolved into an electric tree with a fleshy mass at the top of it. The arm asks Cooper if he remembers his doppelganger and explains that he must be returned in order for Cooper to be allowed to leave.

Jack closes a garage door, where a car used by Cooper's doppelganger is parked. He gives the doppelganger keys to a different car and the doppelganger grabs Jack's face and strokes it. He goes to a motel, where inside, Darya quickly hangs up the phone and tells him she was talking to Jack. He tells her that Ray never showed up to a planned meeting they had and he borrows Darya's gun before sitting on the bed with her. Holding her, he reveals to her that he killed Jack. Realizing her cover is blown, Darya tries to escape, but he restrains her and plays a recording of the phone call she just had with Ray, revealing that Jeffries had given them a call to kill the doppelganger. She tries to escape again, but he once again restrains her and he confirms to her that he is going to kill her. After another futile attempt to escape his grasp, he punches her in the face and asks her to reveal to him who hired them to kill him, but she claims to not know, but does say they were to be paid $500,000 split between the two of them. As a plea for her life, she says she would not have followed through, but he brushes this off. He says he was supposed to get pulled back into the Black Lodge the following day, but has a plan to prevent this. He asks if Ray got the information from Hastings' secretary and asks if she heard anything about coordinates, but she says she has not, but that the secretary did tell Ray something. The doppelganger pulls an ace card out of his pocket with a strange symbol on it and says that it is what he wants. After one more attempted escape from Darya, the doppelganger kills her. He washes his hands, then contacts who he believes is Phillip Jeffries, but the voice mentions that he met with Major Garland Briggs and says he has called to say goodbye. The voice then says the doppelganger is "going back in tomorrow" and he will be with BOB again, then disconnects. The doppelganger logs into an FBI database and downloads files on Yankton Federal Prison, where Ray claims to be. The doppelganger goes to the motel room next door and meets with Chantal Hutchens, asking her to clean up Darya's body and to meet him along with her husband in a few days.

"The stars turn and a time presents itself."
―Margaret Lanterman

Inside the Red Room, Cooper sits and MIKE asks him if it is "future" or "past," then tells him someone is there. Laura Palmer comes and speaks to Cooper, telling him he can "go out now." She asks if he recognizes her and when he asks if she is Laura Palmer, she gives the same answer she gave him in the dream he had many years before: "I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back." When he asks who she is, she confirms that she is indeed Laura Palmer and that she is both dead and alive at the same time. She removes her face, revealing an intense light behind it, then puts it back. He asks her when he can leave and she walks over to him and kisses him before whispering in his ear, just like in his dream 25 years prior. Suddenly, she screams and a force pulls her up. The red drapes blow back and reveal a pale horse and darkness. MIKE appears to Cooper again, and again asks him if it is "future" or "past," then leads him out of the room. He shows him to the arm, which has evolved into an electric tree with a fleshy mass at the top of it. The arm asks Cooper if he remembers his doppelganger and explains that he must be returned in order for Cooper to be allowed to leave.

''"Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say, 'Hello!' They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words – are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: Some ideas arrive in the form of a dream."''

--Margaret Lanterman

The Horne family sits at the dinner table in silence until Jerry enters, returning from his trip to Paris, bringing brie and butter baguettes to share with Ben. After quite enjoying the sandwich, Ben takes Jerry aside to tell him about Laura's murder and the Norwegian businessmen leaving the hotel. He also notes that there is a new girl at One Eyed Jack's, and that one of the brothers was "first in line," so they take a boat to the brothel.

Donna's parents go to bed, leaving her and James alone.

Ben and Jerry arrive at One Eyed Jack's and order drinks. The madame, Blackie O'Reilly, brings out the girls and the Horne brothers toss a coin for the new girl. Ben wins, so Jerry has a drink with Blackie.

James insists to Donna that their relationship is not wrong, believing that they would have still ended up together if Laura had not died, citing that he had feelings for her before.

Cooper returns to his room at the Great Northern and receives a phone call from Deputy Hawk, who informs him that Ronette has recently quit her job at Horne's Department Store and that he saw a one-armed man at the hospital. After he hangs up, Cooper is delivered a note that reads, "Jack with One Eye."

Bobby and Mike go out to the woods to pick up a supply of cocaine from Leo. However, not all of the expected supply is there and Leo is present along with another man. They discuss the money situation, and Leo states his suspicion that Shelly is cheating on him. He tells them to "go out for a pass" and throws the football onto the hood of the car Bobby and Mike took to the woods.

With greasy hands, Ed goes inside his home as Nadine exercises. He accidentally trips on one of her drape runners, upsetting her to the point where she bends her exercise machine.

Cooper has the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department set up a bottle 60 feet and 6 inches away from Lucy. Hawk questions why, but Sheriff Truman does not know.

Shelly turns off her television that is playing Invitation to Love, then there is a knock on her door. She is hesitant to let Bobby inside, as she had clearly been beaten by Leo. However, he gets inside and upon seeing her, he promises that he will kill Leo if he abuses her again.

Ed goes to the Double R Diner and orders a cup of coffee from Norma, telling her about his trouble with Nadine earlier.

Lucy serves the lawmen some coffee and Cooper presented them the "Tibetan method," which entailed him throwing stones at a bottle for each name starting with a 'J.' This narrowed down his suspicion to Leo Johnson and Lawrence Jacoby. He was also informed that the "Jack with One Eye" probably referred to One Eyed Jack's.

Audrey goes to the Double R Diner, where she talks to Donna, revealing the crush she has on Agent Cooper. She also asks if Laura ever spoke of her father, then begins to dance.

Cooper and Truman examine a bloodied rag found near the crime scene as Agent Albert Rosenfield arrives with his team. Immediately, there is friction between Rosenfield and Truman due to the former's dissatisfaction with the small town's investigation abilities.

Ed returns home and an overjoyed Nadine tells him that he had gotten grease on her cotton balls, creating the silent drape runner she had been trying to achieve.

At the Blue Pine Lodge, Pete and Catherine discuss Agent Cooper's presence at their home earlier in the day. When Catherine is briefly away, Pete slips to Josie a key to the safe containing the mill's ledger. Josie gets into the safe and finds that there are two ledger books.

A distressed Leland puts on a record and picks up a photo of Laura. He turns around in circles with it, screaming until Sarah comes in, distressed. She tries to take the picture from him and they end up breaking the frame. Leland smears his blood on the photograph.

Cooper goes to bed and has a dream of the One-Armed Man (who identifies himself as MIKE), and a long-haired man called BOB. He then sees older inside a red room where also are a little man and Laura Palmer, who whispers the name of her killer into his ear. He wakes up and calls Sheriff Truman, telling him that he knows who killed Laura Palmer, but that the information could wait until morning.

"Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say, 'Hello!' They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words – are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: Some ideas arrive in the form of a dream."

-―Margaret Lanterman