Twin Peaks’ latest episode, “Part 11”, was one of the most organized episodes of the season so far, but it was also one of the most surreal. In my opinion, “Part 11” was the most surreal besides “Part 8”, which was so bizarre that I wasn’t a fan, despite the critics lauding it. That said, last night’s episode was very good.
“Part 11” revealed that Shelly’s daughter, Becky, is actually the daughter of both her and Bobby Briggs. It was also revealed, and confirmed by the credits, that Shelly and Bobby were once married. Unfortunately, they are divorced or separated, and Shelly is seeing Red—which disheartened Bobby as they were sitting as a family for a minute there.
Where Red exactly fits into this entire thing isn’t clear at this point, but things seem to be moving quicker in Twin Peaks now. Even with the presence of Red, Bobby and Shelly having a daughter and the focus on that is more of what I’d like to see 25 years later. The moments with the main characters from the old series in the actual town of the show’s title feels more like Twin Peaks than most moments.
It started getting weird when Bobby went outside to handle the gunshot. That kid that fired the gun looked like he wanted to kill Bobby or something, and Bobby noticed. Then when Bobby got to the car that was annoyingly beeping non-stop, the lady in the car was babbling about needing to get moving; then it got really weird when the child rose up from the ground of the front seat and was obviously having some sort of illness/issue. We never got closure on what exactly happened there yet.
Over to Gordon and Albert—they, along with Tammy, Diane, William Hastings, and detective Macklay took a trip to the house William claims he and Ruth saw Major Briggs. The biggest takeaway from that was there are some incomprehensible things going on. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Albert knows more about this than he’s telling Gordon, just based off the look on Albert’s face. But Albert did seem to save Gordon from getting swallowed up by the vortex. And Diane obviously knows more than she’s telling, as she lied about the dirty faced guy that somehow smashed Hasting’s head in. Those supernatural dirty people are still a huge mystery.
Agent Cooper is still Dougie Jones, and he was luckily able to survive the wrath of the Mitchum brothers, because of a dream Bradley had. Even 25 years ago, it was clear Agent Cooper was gifted or chosen for whatever reason, and this dream seems like it was sent to save him. In the final scene of the episode, it felt like Dougie was going to snap out of it and become Agent Cooper.
The “damn good pie” and being around with the Mitchum brothers, who are kind of like friends to him now, probably helped remind Agent Cooper of some of the good times before he entered the Black Lodge years ago. He didn’t quite snap out of it yet, but he’s definitely close. And with seven episodes yet, I’m hoping it happens soon.
Other thoughts
- The “black fire” on Hawk’s map must mean the Black Lodge. Maybe it’s something else, but that seems obvious.
- Miriam is somehow alive, which is bad news for Richard.
- Evil Cooper, where are you? We haven’t seen him in a couple episodes.