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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Phil says, "Off in dreamland again, Dougie." This seems to suggest that Dougie may have been prone to odd behavior. However, Janey-E seems to think Dougie is having one of his episodes, suggesting Dougie may have had a more [[CloningBlues serious condition]].

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Phil says, "Off in dreamland again, Dougie." This seems to suggest that Dougie may have been prone to odd behavior. However, Janey-E seems to think Dougie is having one of his episodes, suggesting Dougie may have had a more [[CloningBlues serious condition]].condition.
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* ComicalNapDrool: The drugged out mother lifts up her head when her son enters the house to reveals a long trail of drool.

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* ComicalNapDrool: The drugged out drugged-out mother lifts up her head when her son enters the house to reveals reveal a long trail of drool.



** The plaza containing the statue of the man with a gun also contains a statue of a white peak with attached red balloons recalling the balloons from Sonny Jim's birthday and the single red balloon seen beside the drugged out mother in the [[Recap/TwinPeaksS3E04 previous episode]].

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** The plaza containing the statue of the man with a gun also contains a statue of a white peak with attached red balloons recalling the balloons from Sonny Jim's birthday and the single red balloon seen beside the drugged out drugged-out mother in the [[Recap/TwinPeaksS3E04 previous episode]].



* DonutMessWithACop: There is a box of donut and half eaten donuts on the table while Andy and Hawk look through the files.

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* DonutMessWithACop: There is a box of donut donuts and half eaten half-eaten donuts on the table while Andy and Hawk look through the files.



* FalseFriend: Tony tells Cooper he owes him for covering when Dougie did not come in to work, but talks loudly in front of everyone about Dougie being back from Bendersville.

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* FalseFriend: Tony tells Cooper he owes him for covering when Dougie did not come in to work, into work but talks loudly in front of everyone about Dougie being back from Bendersville.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mike Nelson seems unnecessarily harsh and goes out if his way to let Steve know his job application was a mess, but Steve later loses the audience's empathy.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mike Nelson seems unnecessarily harsh and goes out if of his way to let Steve know his job application was a mess, but Steve later loses the audience's empathy.



* MustHaveCaffeine: Cooper manages to mutter the word "coffee" when he sees Phil's tray of drinks. Cooper clearly wants the coffee so much, Phil gives him Frank's coffee.

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* MustHaveCaffeine: Cooper manages to mutter the word "coffee" when he sees Phil's tray of drinks. Cooper clearly wants the coffee so much, that Phil gives him Frank's coffee.



* ParentalNeglect: A drugged out mother sleeps as her son examines a car bomb.

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* ParentalNeglect: A drugged out drugged-out mother sleeps as her son examines a car bomb.



* QuestForIdentity: Cooper repeats the words "agent" and "case files" seeming to know these have something to do with his past life. He also seems drawn to the statue of lawman with a gun.
* RetiredBadass: Dougie's boss, Bushnell Mullins, used to be a boxer, who went by "Battling" Bud and was billed as "tougher then the rest". Mr. Mullins proudly displays a poster advertising one of his fights in his office.

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* QuestForIdentity: Cooper repeats the words "agent" and "case files" seeming to know these have something to do with his past life. He also seems drawn to the statue of a lawman with a gun.
* RetiredBadass: Dougie's boss, Bushnell Mullins, used to be a boxer, who went by "Battling" Bud and was billed as "tougher then than the rest". Mr. Mullins proudly displays a poster advertising one of his fights in his office.



* ShoutOut: Dr. Amp parodies a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_know_where_your_children_are%3F popular PSA]] when he opens his broadcast with "It's 7 pm. Do you know where you freedom is?"

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* ShoutOut: Dr. Amp parodies a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_know_where_your_children_are%3F popular PSA]] when he opens his broadcast with "It's 7 pm. Do you know where you your freedom is?"



** A close up on Dougie's license plate reminds us that Nevada is the Silver State.

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** A close up close-up on Dougie's license plate reminds us that Nevada is the Silver State.



* ToiletHumour: Cooper still needs to be lead into the bathroom when he needs to urinate, and finds great relief when he finds the toilet.

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* ToiletHumour: Cooper still needs to be lead led into the bathroom when he needs to urinate, and finds great relief when he finds the toilet.

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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart: Darren sent Rhonda a message, despite being married.
* Main/{{Zeerust}}: Lorraine uses an iconic blue Blackberry 6210, which was considered sleek technology when introduced in 2003.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Darren sent Rhonda a message, despite being married.
* Main/{{Zeerust}}:
{{Zeerust}}: Lorraine uses an iconic blue Blackberry 6210, which was considered sleek technology when introduced in 2003.

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* DrinkOrder: While Frank initially wants his coffee, which Phil had noted he never finishes, he gives a delightedly surprised smile after taking a sip of the green tea latte.

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* [[Fridge/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles Fridge Items.]]
* [[Trivia/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles Trivia Items.]]
* [[YMMV/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles YMMV Items.]]

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'''[[Recap/TwinPeaks Recap]] of ''Series/TwinPeaks'''''\\
'''Season 3, Episode 5'''

!The Return: Part 5
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twin_peaks_pt_5_3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:I love how you love me.]]

-->"The fucks are at it again!"
--->'''--Dr. Amp AKA Dr. Jacoby'''

Written by Mark Frost and Creator/DavidLynch.

Directed by Creator/DavidLynch.

Airdate: June 4, 2017.
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!Non-trope items:
* [[Fridge/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles Fridge Items.]]
* [[Trivia/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles Trivia Items.]]
* [[YMMV/TwinPeaksS3E05CaseFiles YMMV Items.]]

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!!Tropes appearing in this episode:
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Rhonda, who seemed to have something with the married Darren, tells Cooper she might let him kiss her now, believing he is the married Dougie.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Lorraine calls Gene upset that the job (i.e. killing Dougie) was supposed to be done yesterday. She hangs up after swearing, and the other assassin in the car says, "She's a worrier."
* ArcNumber: We see a lot of prime numbers in this episode.
** The number 2 is sent after the message Argent
** 03 appears in the upper corner of Dougie's license plate. We also see Cooper's keychain for room 315 in the Great Northern Hotel.
** 5 appears with the discussion of the owed $50,000. Another possible appearance of 5 on Dougie's license plate, which reads DUGE LV or DUGE 55 with Roman numerals.
** Dougie works on the 7th floor at the LuckySeven Insurance Company. When Phil pushes the elevator button, he says 7 up. The logo for Lucky Seven is a picture of 2 dice showing 2 and 5.
* BadBoss: Bradley and Rodney Mitchum, who brutally beat Supervisor Burns before firing him.
* BlackComedy: Constance jokes over a headless body.
-->'''Constance Talbot:''' Here's the headline... Actually, I just gave you the headline.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: The morgue scene opens with the sound of a running faucet and then a closeup of blood in the sink.
* BrandX: They drink Szymon's Famous Coffee at the office meeting.
* TheCameo: Creator/JamesBelushi as Bradley Mitchum.
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: Cooper stands in agony holding himself in the hallway until Rhonda lets him into the lady's room.
* CantTieHisTie: Janey-E ties Cooper's tie, when he leaves the house with it still around his neck untied.
* CarBomb: A blinking device is attached to the underside of Dougie's car.
* CatchPhrase: Cooper almost reprises his iconic sentiment, when he repeats "damn good joe" after Phil.
* ChorusGirls: The 3 girls in pink dresses at the casino.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Lorraine has a large ashtray on her desk.
* ComicalNapDrool: The drugged out mother lifts up her head when her son enters the house to reveals a long trail of drool.
* ContinuityNod:
** The sign for Rancho Rosa Estate has a red circle around the two R's, recalling the Double R Diner.
** The plaza containing the statue of the man with a gun also contains a statue of a white peak with attached red balloons recalling the balloons from Sonny Jim's birthday and the single red balloon seen beside the drugged out mother in the [[Recap/TwinPeaksS3E04 previous episode]].
** There is a glazed [[DonutMessWithACop donut]] on the table in front of Frank during the office meeting.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Phil says, "Off in dreamland again, Dougie." This seems to suggest that Dougie may have been prone to odd behavior. However, Janey-E seems to think Dougie is having one of his episodes, suggesting Dougie may have had a more [[CloningBlues serious condition]].
* CreatorThumbprint: A log cabin built of Lincoln Logs sits on Hawk's desk, recalling Lincoln Street in ''Film/BlueVelvet''.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Cooper seems to realize Tony is up to something involving the Littlefield settlement, despite not being able to understand what is going on around him or explain himself.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The security camera footage from the casino.
* DescentIntoAddiction: Steve is taking money from Becky's family and using cocaine to get through his job interviews, and he dragging Becky down with him.
* DonutMessWithACop: There is a box of donut and half eaten donuts on the table while Andy and Hawk look through the files.
* DrinkOrder: While Frank initially wants his coffee, which Phil had noted he never finishes, he gives a delightedly surprised smile after taking a sip of the green tea latte.
* DrugsAreGood: After Becky sniffs cocaine, she finds Steve's joke funny and totally blisses out listening to the song on the radio as they drive with the wind blowing her hair.
* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Becky smiling to "I Love How You Love Me".
* EstablishingShot: The episode opens with a shot of the UsefulNotes/LasVegas skyline and then a drive down the strip.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The cook played by [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741007/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr137 Marvin Rosand]] is called Toad. While this was the name of the cook in the shooting script for ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', fans of the original series [[OneSteveLimit may be confused]] as a regular of the Double R diner played by Kevin Young was also called Toad.
* EvilDebtCollector: The loan sharks threaten the Jones family.
* FalseFriend: Tony tells Cooper he owes him for covering when Dougie did not come in to work, but talks loudly in front of everyone about Dougie being back from Bendersville.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Cooper is handed coffee in a paper cup with a Solo traveler lid, which is now ubiquitous but was less common before the rise of Starbucks in the 90's. Cooper seems to have difficulty finding the hole in the lid, hilariously mouthing the lid until he is able to gulp down his coffee. When he sees a couple drinking from mugs, Cooper takes a break from gulping from his paper cup to look at them longingly and says "coffee".
* {{Flashback}}: Evil Cooper looks into his mirror in his prison cell, and there is a cut to the scene of Bob and the Cooper doppelgänger laughing hysterically in the Black Lodge followed by the scene of a Bob-possessed Cooper duplicate banging his head into the mirror at the Great Northern Hotel in Episode 22 of Season 2, "[[Recap/TwinPeaksS2E22BeyondLifeAndDeath Beyond Life and Death]]".
* TheFool: Cooper continues to run into others who help him through his day, even though he is still unable to find a toilet on his own.
* GetOut: Janey-E repeatedly yells at Cooper to get out of the car, but she still has to open the car door for him and shove him out of the car.
* HenpeckedHusband: Frank patiently listens to his wife's concerns about a leaky pipe, her father's car, and Dwight's diarrhea.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: Steve rushes into Mike Nelson's messy office, only to be told that his resume is one of the worse Mike has ever seen and Steve's completion of the form was "worse than sloppy".
* {{Homage}}: The statue which entrances Cooper resembles Creator/JimmyStewart in ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052792/ The FBI Story]]''.
* InMemoriam: This episode was in memory of [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741007/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr137 Marvin Rosand]].
* InsuranceFraud: Bushnell Mullins seems surprised that Tony thinks the Littlefield case is legit, as he thought it was ruled arson. Mullins gives Cooper a stack of case files to review.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mike Nelson seems unnecessarily harsh and goes out if his way to let Steve know his job application was a mess, but Steve later loses the audience's empathy.
* LamePunReaction: After the detectives just stare at Constance when she gives them the ''headline'', she cracks her knuckles and says she is still doing standup on the weekends.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Shelly knows what it is like to get involved with someone with a fancy car and drug problem, but does not know how to help her daughter.
* LivingLieDetector: Cooper is able to detect lies as a shimmering green light.
* LoanShark: Janey-E makes plans to pay off Dougie's $50,000 debt.
* LostWeddingRing: Constance finds a gold ring in the body inscribed "To Dougie, with love, Janey-E".
* MadeOfBologna: The headless body had a solid red stump between the shoulders with no vertebrae, trachea, bleeding, or other visible tissues that would be expected in a severed neck.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Rodney Mitchum beats up the casino supervisor in front of the other employees, including Pit Boss Warrick, who will be the new supervisor.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Mike Nelson has 2 deer heads and a gun mounted on the walls of his office.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: When the Bob-possessed Cooper duplicate looks in the mirror, his mouth briefly changes to BOB's SlasherSmile, prompting him to say "You're still with me. That's good."
* MustHaveCaffeine: Cooper manages to mutter the word "coffee" when he sees Phil's tray of drinks. Cooper clearly wants the coffee so much, Phil gives him Frank's coffee.
* NewspaperBackstory: Norma is sitting next to a framed newspaper article titled "Double R Diner wins award for best local takeout meal".
* NotHimself: Janey-E seems to realize there is something different about her husband, and that he is "acting weird as shit." However, she just goes along with it instead of getting him medical help.
* OffWithHisHead: The detectives stand next to the headless body as they get an update from Constance Talbot.
-->'''Constance Talbot:''' Cause of death; took me a while, but I think someone cut this man's head off.
* OrgasmicallyDelicious: Cooper really enjoys his cup of coffee in the elevator.
* ParentalNeglect: A drugged out mother sleeps as her son examines a car bomb.
* PosthumousCredit: Marvin Rosand, who died on September 21, 2015, appeared in this episode.
* ProfessionalKiller: Gene and another assassin continue to watch the house with Dougie's car parked in the driveway.
* QuestForIdentity: Cooper repeats the words "agent" and "case files" seeming to know these have something to do with his past life. He also seems drawn to the statue of lawman with a gun.
* RetiredBadass: Dougie's boss, Bushnell Mullins, used to be a boxer, who went by "Battling" Bud and was billed as "tougher then the rest". Mr. Mullins proudly displays a poster advertising one of his fights in his office.
* RhymingList: Bradley and Rodney arrive with Sandie, Mandie, and Candie.
* ShoutOut: Dr. Amp parodies a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_know_where_your_children_are%3F popular PSA]] when he opens his broadcast with "It's 7 pm. Do you know where you freedom is?"
* SilverHasMysticPowers:
** Lorraine sends the message ARGENT, followed by the number 2.
** A close up on Dougie's license plate reminds us that Nevada is the Silver State.
** We return to the Silver Mustang Casino.
* SingleTear: Cooper has a tear running down his face as he watches Sonny Jim look sad in the car.
* SourceMusic: "I Love How You Love Me" by the Paris Sisters plays on the car radio.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Cooper is still unable to function in the world.
* TipisAndTotemPoles: Hawk has a totem pole lamp in his office, but this may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as Hawk is of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nez_Perce_people Nez Perce tribe,]] who do carve and display totem poles.
* ToiletHumour: Cooper still needs to be lead into the bathroom when he needs to urinate, and finds great relief when he finds the toilet.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Janey-E hopes they will be clear and free once they pay off the debt with the cash windfall.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Cooper still can not recall who he is or activities of daily living.
* {{Tuckerization}}:
** The Rancho Rosa Estate is named after the production company for this series.
** Bushnell Mullins, Dougie's boss, is likely a ShoutOut to the artist, [[http://bushnellkeeler.com/Welcome.html Bushnell Keeler,]] who was a mentor and subject of a short film for Creator/DavidLynch.
* TwinDesynch: Tony notices that Cooper is thinner and has shorter hair than Dougie and accuses him of drinking in a sweat lodge and getting a haircut.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment:
** Cooper does not turn around to face the door after getting on the elevator, as Phil taps his fingers on his tray of coffee and a woman looks at her cell phone. They then both stare at Cooper uncomfortably when he moans with pleasure while drinking from a coffee Phil reluctantly gives him.
** Cooper keeps his back turned to the door as he rides the elevator down. He then stands in front of the door as everyone wants to exit the elevator at 5:30 pm.
* VanityLicensePlate: Dougie's car has a plate reading "DUGE LV".
* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: Cooper is wearing a jacket which is too big for him, as it belonged to the heavier Dougie, and fits Cooper about as well as Dougie's life fits Cooper.
* WouldHitAGirl: Lorraine has a clear bruise on her left jaw when she calls Gene.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Rodney Mitchum beats the casino supervisor, believing he must have colluded with Cooper to win the jackpots.
* YourCheatingHeart: Darren sent Rhonda a message, despite being married.
* Main/{{Zeerust}}: Lorraine uses an iconic blue Blackberry 6210, which was considered sleek technology when introduced in 2003.

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