A delivery, at the apartment that is at least nominally Dale Cooper's, comes the day after the Tupperware party:

Blue irises in a cut-glass vase, with elegant lines and a simple pattern.

There's no note.

He'd suggested a game of chess.

Their cups -- tea and coffee -- sit by the pieces they've taken. Moiraine has more. Cooper's mind isn't really on the game.

Pete Martell was supposed to join them out on the Pearl Lakes for some fishing; Pete got taken down by laryngitis.

So it's Cooper and Harry in the boat. Cooper sits in the bottom on a life-vest; to the observant eye, it's clear Cooper is spending more time meditating than fishing.

Seven forty-five in the morning, when Moiraine Sedai comes to Twin Peaks, and the very first thing Dale Cooper does is drive her to the Bookhouse, funny sound in his engine be damned. Once she's safely asleep in the back room, under the guard of one of the boys, Cooper calls the sheriff's station and tells Lucy that they'll need to get somebody ( Read more... )

Summertime, and the living is easy. It's not bad, certainly. Cooper is commuting down the road from Twin Peaks to Colville a few days a week to assist in an ongoing drug operation -- a gift from Gordon Cole's interim replacement; apparently Gordon was able to leave a few notes in files and a few bugs in people's ears before going on administrative ( Read more... )

There's no glow around the door ( Read more... )

( welcome to Tibet )

( Twin Peaks, somewhere, somewhen )

What's black and white and red all over?

The answer of answers:

Not the newspaper or the Communist panda. Not the FBI agent in a blender.

The Black Lodge.

***The vertiginous pattern on the floor never stops -- the black and white stripes, with each stripe coming to a point and receding until it makes a point in the other direction, like so many ( Read more... )

Glastonberry Grove is a circle of twelve sycamore trees out in the middle of the woods northeast of Twin Peaks. Ordinarily there's a pit in the ground -- a white-rimmed puddle of black ( Read more... )