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"Episode 8"

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Not to be confused with Part 8.

"Episode 8", or, "May the Giant Be With You" is the first episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, and the ninth episode of the series as a whole. It originally aired September 30, 1990.

Plot[]

"Hello again. Can you see through a wall? Can you see through human skin? X-rays see through solid, or so-called solid objects. There are things in life that exist, yet our eyes cannot see them. Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see? Why are some things kept from our vision? Is life a puzzle?

I am filled with questions. Sometimes my questions are answered. In my heart, I can tell the answer is correct. I am my own judge. In a dream, are all the characters really you? Different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams?

One more thing. I grew up in the woods. I understand many things because of the woods. Trees standing together, growing alongside one another, providing so much. I chew pitch gum. On the outside – let's say, of the Ponderosa pine – sometimes pitch oozes out. Runny pitch is no good to chew. Hard, brittle pitch is no good. But in between these exists a firm, slightly crusted pitch with such a flavor. This is the pitch I chew."

Margaret Lanterman[src]

Andy is on the phone in the hotel room where Cooper lies bleeding. A waiter comes in with a glass of milk and asks Cooper how he's doing. Cooper asks the waiter to put the milk on the table and call a doctor. The senile waiter hangs up on Andy and Cooper thanks him, believing he called the doctor. The waiter has Cooper sign the bill, which includes a gratuity. He warns Cooper that the milk will get cool.

Cooper has a vision of a giant. The man talks to Cooper in a gentle voice, and tells him to think of him as "a friend". He says he will tell Cooper three things, and asks him to believe him if they come true. (1) There is a man in a smiling bag. (2) The owls are not what they seem. (3) Without chemicals, he points. Cooper asks the giant what these things mean, but the giant replies that this is all he is permitted to say. He then asks Cooper for his ring and says he will return it when Cooper finds these things to be true. The giant also says: Leo locked inside hungry horse: there's a clue locked inside Leo's house.

At One Eyed Jacks, Ben tries to get in Audrey's closed bed, not knowing that "Prudence" is really Audrey and believing she is playing hard-to-get. Jerry asks Blackie what room Ben is in, Blackie asks why Ben is holding out on her, and Jerry gives her heroin. Audrey puts on a mask before her father enters her bed but Jerry calls Ben away before anything can happen, much to Audrey's relief.

Cooper, lying on the floor bleeding, calls for Diane. He had been wearing his bullet-proof vest, which took two of the shots fired against him, but since he had folded it up to get a wood tick, he was wounded by the third and final shot. "Being shot isn't so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind," he tells Diane. He start listing his ambitions, before he realizes that his ring really is missing from his finger. Just as he looses consciousness, the officers arrive, guns drawn.

Cooper comes to in the hospital. The wood tick had been found on the bullet extracted from his body. Harry asks Cooper if he can remember anything about the shooting, to which he replies the gunman was wearing a mask, so he didn't see their face. Lucy updates him on the events of the previous night and he insists on leaving the hospital, against Doctor Hayward's wishes.

On the television in Shelly's hospital room, Cyril Pons reports on the fire at the sawmill. Shelly lies in the hospital bed on a respirator. Jacques Renault's corpse is wheeled in front of Cooper.

Ronette Pulaski stirs in her coma. Maddy drinks coffee at the Palmers' house and talks to Sarah about a dream she had about the rug. Leland enters starts singing, with his hair having turned completely white. Madeleine has a vision of a body-shaped stain on the rug.

Ben and Jerry discuss the failures of their plans. Leland enters, singing, and he says he is back.

The officers inspect Leo's home and Cooper analyzes the living room while Hawk finds Leo's duster in the truck. Albert arrives and Andy hits himself on the head with a loose board, causing Albert to taunt him. Cooper finds a pair of boots and a lot of cocaine under the board.

Hank clears a table at the diner. Maddy and Donna meet, the former handing over a pair of sunglasses that had belonged to Laura. Madeleine breaks her glasses, saying she hates them. Donna says that James spent the night in jail and urges Madeleine to keep quiet. Norma delivers a letter to Donna, reading, "Look into the meals on wheels." The Log Lady sits at a booth in the corner and spits out pitch gum on the wall.

Albert dresses Cooper's wound and says that Gordon Cole ordered him to return. He notes that whoever shot Cooper was right-handed and between 5'6 and 5'10 tall, and he hopes to have a complete ballistics rapport ready later this afternoon. Andy reports that Leo Johnson was locked in a jail in Hungry Horse, Montana, on the day Teresa Banks was murdered, meaning he has an alibi.

The one-armed man enters the stationhouse carrying a large suitcase and asks for Sheriff Truman, saying he is there to sell him some shoes.

Harry finishes listening to Laura's tape with James, asking him about the cocaine in his gas tank and the tape, which he stole from Doctor Jacoby's office. James tries to cover for Donna and Maddy and claims that he was acting alone in the break-in, and only did so because he wanted to help with the investigation. Harry tells him that while he believes his intentions might have been good, it was still very reckless of him to interfere with a police investigation. As to the cocaine in his gas tank, James tells Harry that he thinks that might it have been Mike and Bobby trying to frame him, which Harry believes to be the case too. James tells Harry that he doubts that the mystery man Laura referred to on the tape is Leo or Jacques, pointing out that Laura had associated the person with fire. James remembers that Laura once told him a "scary" poem about fire, and said "would you like to play with fire, little boy? Would you like to play with Bob?" Cooper enters and demands the other half of Laura's necklace. James admits to be astonished that Cooper knew about the necklace as he hands it over and explains that he found it inside a coconut in Jacoby's office. Cooper is surprised to learn this, as he had believed that Jacoby had nothing to do with the case.

Donna enters the station house, wearing the sunglasses. Lucy recognizes her and Donna says she wants to see James. She visits him in his cell and James rebuffs her kisses.

Cooper asks Lucy and Andy to look through a pile of Flesh World for ads from Teresa.

Doctor Hayward inspects Jacoby and Cooper and Harry come to visit the psychiatrist. Cooper demands that Jacoby tell him where he got the necklace. Jacoby admits he suspected Leo Johnson to be involved with Laura's murder, so he shadowed him as he drove his red corvette into the woods that evening, where he lost him. Coincidentally, he spotted James and Donna driving through the woods and he decided to follow them instead see what they were up to. He observed them in secret as they were talking to each other, but they were too far away for him to make out what they were saying, and then he saw that they buried something under a rock. He remained hidden until they had left and then took it for himself. Jacoby ponders the appropriateness of the necklace being a divided heart, saying that Laura was a divided heart herself, leading a double life and he believes Laura had decided to end her life, that she allowed herself to be killed that night. Cooper asks Jacoby about Jacques' death. Jacoby replies that he was too out of it from his heart attack to remember much of what happened after he was taken to the hospital, but he does recall there was a strange smell in the room: something like scorched engine oil.

Bobby visits Shelly and brings her flowers and after his visit, the officers see him leaving the room. Big Ed sits in the hallway and Cooper talks to him privately. Ed tells his history with Norma and Nadine, including the detail that he shot out Nadine's eye on their honeymoon. James is released to Ed. Cooper sees the body bag hanging, and notices that it is shaped like a smile.

Pete inspects the hospital food and rejects it.

Cooper says he is ready to lay out everything. Norma promises to bring Shelly some food and on her way out of the hospital, she sees Ed sitting with Nadine.

Bobby enters the diner and his father calls him over. Major Briggs tells Bobby of a vision he had of the latter's future, of being in an old family house, and embracing Bobby, in the knowledge that in this future everything had turned out well for his son. Briggs then rises from his seat, giving Bobby a handshake and wishing him nothing but the best in all things, thanking him for sharing this moment with him. He then leaves the diner to get back to work, promising Bobby that they will talk later. Bobby, greatly moved by his father's tale, overhears Norma returning to the diner and tells Hank she cannot talk. Bobby then realizes that Hank shot Leo.

Cooper discusses Laura's diary, and that she made two appointments. They summarize their knowledge of what happened to Laura that night.

Pete and Harry return to Pete's house and Harry asks where Josie is. She left a note stating that she had to leave for emergency business in Seattle. Pete explains that she leaves for Seattle regularly, and comes back with a lot of clothes. Harry then says they have not found Catherine, and advises him to prepare for the worst. The phone rings and a strange man asks to talk to Josie. The man hangs up and calls Hong Kong next.

Ben and Jerry talk about European delicacies and Ben asks if Jerry has seen Audrey, but he has not. They enter the office, where Hank is waiting. They ask him where Josie is and he says she left. He explains that he could not enter Leo's house because he had to pass patrol cars on the way there and says Leo was chopping wood inside and defends the statement with Leo's craziness. Hank says that his phone call made Catherine hide and that she is dead. Hank asks what to do with the ledger.

Audrey enters Blackie's office and asks about the locked door and bodyguard. Blackie warns her that she does not want to hear any more complaints.

Donna calls Norma about Meals on Wheels and offers to take over Laura's route.

The youngest daughter of Will and Eileen Hayward, Gersten, addresses her parents, Leland and Sarah Palmer, Maddy, Harriet and Donna, welcoming them to the Hayward supper club. She says she will be playing music, and brags about her test scores; but first, the Haywards' middle child, Harriet, reads a poem about Laura. Leland and Sarah are moved and Gersten plays a piece by Mendelssohn. The Palmers and Haywards discuss recent events. Leland sings "Get Happy," and Sarah cries. Leland falls over, but recovers quickly and says he feels happy.

Cooper makes a voice note to Diane about the necessity of sleep.

Audrey lies in bed praying to "Special Agent."

A shadow passes over Cooper in his sleep. The Giant is back; he apologizes for waking Cooper and says there was something he forgot to tell him. Cooper, in turn, tells him he was right about the smiling bag, and tries asking for more details, but the giant gently stifles his questions by holding up his hand. "Don't search for all the answers at once. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time. One person saw the third man; three have seen him, yes, but not his body. One only known to you, ready now to talk." The giant then says that he has one last thing to tell him: "You forgot something." Cooper asks what it is, but the giant just holds up his hand and then flashes a globe of light into Cooper's head.

Fluorescent lights flicker in the hospital. Ronette raises her arms and she thrashes around, having nightmares of Laura's final moments. The man with long gray hair screams at the sky.

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Notes[]

  • Timeline: March 3, Friday
  • Director Steven Spielberg was interested in directing this episode before David Lynch decided to direct it himself.

Shooting script differences[]

  • The script establishes Mak Takano's character, Jonathan Kumagai, as being the Asian Man from Episode 6, although the latter was portrayed by Derick Shimatsu. Since Derick Shimatsu later portrayed Mr. Tojamura's valet in episode 12, they are considered as being two different characters in the released cuts of the episodes instead of a recast.

Production errors[]

  • The corridor of the Great Northern has a blue wallpaper while it was only wood paneling in episode 7.
  • Cooper' room has a fish on the wall near the entrance but it was not there in episode 7.
  • Cooper signs the waiter's paper with the tip of his pen retracted.
  • A boom mike is seen in the shot above Norma as she leaves Shelly's room with Peggy Lipton even looking at it. In the Blu-ray release, the mic was removed but Lipton is still looking at it.
  • The killer's blood is said to be AB- and incompatible with Jacques' but episode 5 stated that Jacques' blood is AB-. It could be that other tests than just the blood type were carried on.
  • A still image of Cyril Pons is seen at the bottom right corner of a scene.
  • When Leland falls on the floor, electrical equipment can be seen.
  • When he arrives, Albert can be seen taking off his sunglasses three times.
  • In the previous episode, Cooper read that the envelope was addressed to "my special agent". When seen on the table, it is simply for "Agent Cooper". Furthermore, in the previous episode, he put on the table but it was then discovered under the bed.
  • Cooper was shot right by the door to his room, but is on the ground by his bed.
  • Donna's hair is visibly longer than in the previous episode.

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