Zen, or the skill to catch a killer
FADE IN:
INT. DALE COOPER'S HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
COOPER sleeps unrestly in bed, tossing and turning, with his room lit from an unknown source. He continues to dream and we switch between views of COOPER tossing and turning and of his dream ...
MORPH TO:
In a dimly lit room, a man, seen before walking through the hospital, with one arm speaks.
ONE-ARMED MAN
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds ... fire ... walk with me. ... We lived among the people. I think you say, convenience store. We lived above it. I mean it like it is, like it sounds. I too have been touched by the devilish one. Tattoo on the left shoulder ... oh, but when I saw the face of god, I was changed. I took the entire arm off. My name is Mike. His name is Bob.
MORPH TO:
In a basement we see the man from SARAH'S vision, BOB, a frightening long-haired man, stands beside machinery in a dark room. He looks toward the ceiling as he speaks.
BOB
Mike? Mike, can you hear me?
BOB, in the same surroundings, has one hand on his chest and the other pointing at us as he speaks.
BOB
Catch you with my death bag. You make think I've gone insane ... but I promise, I will kill again.
MORPH TO:
We view a mound of dirt surrounded by twelve lit candles. Suddenly they are blown out.
MORPH TO:
We return to viewing COOPER tossing and turning in his bed and return to the first portion of the dream ...
MORPH TO:
INT. WAITING ROOM
We see a large, windowless, well-lit, sparsely furnished, red-draped room with a table and three easy chairs. DALE COOPER, twenty-five years older, sits in one of the chairs. Next to it is a coffee table with a model of Saturn. A LITTLE MAN, three and a half feet tall, in a red suit, stands with his back to COOPER, shaking violently. Two of the easy chairs are close together. Beside them are two tall Saturn lamps. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN who looks exactly like LAURA PALMER sits across from COOPER in one of those chairs.
COPPER stares at the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN and she stares back at him. He turns to look at the LITTLE MAN. The LITTLE MAN stops shaking, turns to COOPER and claps his hands once.
LITTLE MAN
Let's rock!
The LITTLE MAN moves over and sits in a chair beside the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. The LITTLE MAN closes his eyes and rubs his hands slowly together, a ringing sound is produced.
SOUND EFFECT: SPIRIT PRESENCE RINGING 20K
COOPER looks at the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, who is still staring at him and smiles enigmatically. She slowly puts a finger to the side of her nose and then slowly lowers her hand, almost pointing at him as it drops. As the LITTLE MAN rubs his hands, a shadow of a bird passes in the background behind the red drapes.
Both the LITTLE MAN'S and the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S speech is oddly stilted but COOPER'S speech is normal. We see subtitles under them, with the correct words. The LITTLE MAN stops rubbing his hands, opens his eyes, turns to COOPER and says ...
LITTLE MAN
I've got good news! That gum you like is going to ... come back in style.
COOPER sits quietly listening to him and turns to the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. The LITTLE MAN turns to look at the WOMAN and then back to COOPER.
LITTLE MAN
She's my cousin, ... but doesn't she look ... almost exactly like Laura Palmer?
COOPER
But it is Laura Palmer. Are you Laura Palmer?
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
I feel like I know her, (distressed) but sometimes my arms bend back.
LITTLE MAN
She's filled with secrets. Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song ... and there's always music in the air.
TUNE: DANCE OF THE DREAM MAN
Strange saxophone music filters into the air. The LITTLE MAN hops off the chair and begins to dance a strange dance. A light, like a strobelight, flashes on and off. The BEAUTIFUL WOMAN rises, goes over, and gently kisses COOPER on the mouth. She then softly whispers something in his ear.
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INT. DALE COOPER'S HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
COOPER shoots up out of his bed, waking from this strange and disturbing dream. He turn on the light, fumbles for the phone and dials.
COOPER
Harry, it's Cooper, meet me for breakfast, 7:00 am, at the hotel lobby. I know who killed Laura Palmer. (reply) No, this can wait till morning.
He hangs up and starts to snap his fingers to the sound of the music from his dream.
TUNE ENDS: DANCE OF THE DREAM MAN
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CLOSE:
FADE IN:
INT. WAITING ROOM
TUNE: DANCE OF THE DREAM MAN
We watch a bird's-eye view of the LITTLE MAN dancing as the end credits roll.
TUNE ENDS: DANCE OF THE DREAM MAN
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