The Essential Wrapped In Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks by John Thorne

Author:John Thorne [Thorne, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997108101
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Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Episode 24 (Script number 2017; First televised March 28, 1991)

Special Guest Star: Billy Zane (John Justice Wheeler)

Guest Starring: Heather Graham (Annie Blackburne), David L. Lander (Tim Pinkle)

Co-Starring: Brenda Strong (Jones), Ron Blair (Randy St. Croix), Julie Hayek (Model), Betsy Lynn George (Teen Model)

Written by Barry Pullman; Directed by James Foley; Edited by Jonathan P. Shaw

Wednesday, March 22, 1989:

Prologue: Cooper dictates to Diane about “recent developments.” (This prologue served to recap the show’s various plotlines because Twin Peaks had not aired for six weeks.)

Act 1: A despondent Truman drinks and remembers Josie. Annie Blackburne arrives at the Double R. The Log Lady notices Major Briggs’s tattoo. Windom Earle is outraged by Cooper’s attempt at stalemate. Jack Wheeler asks Audrey out for a picnic. Cooper provides a blunt report on Josie’s criminal life. Truman tells him to get out.

Act 2: Jones gives Catherine a puzzle box from Eckhardt. A disguised Earle gives Donna a gift for her father—a small, wrapped package. Pete reports that there is no stalemate game that doesn’t involve the loss of pieces. The Log Lady has a tattoo similar to Briggs’s. She remembers a light in woods from when she was a child; she also had the same experience when her husband died in the fire.

Act 3: Doc Hayward opens the box and finds a black pawn with a note: “knight to king’s bishop 3.” Ed wants a divorce but Nadine thinks they are simply breaking up. Donna spies Ben paying an affectionate visit with her mom, Eileen. Cooper notices scars on Annie’s wrists. Cooper tries to talk Truman down from his rage. Truman breaks down and Cooper embraces him.

Act 4: Cooper and Hawk put Truman to bed. Ben hosts the “Stop Ghostwood” fundraiser. Pinkle shows off a real pine weasel which bites Dick on the nose. It then escapes into the audience, terrorizing the fundraiser attendees. Audrey is knocked off the stage into Wheeler’s arms. Jones knocks out Truman’s guard and climbs into bed with Truman.

This episode challenges episode 19 as the worst in the series (and like that earlier episode, has a great number of scenes played for laughs). Poor scenes proliferate: Truman’s drunken binge (complete with a faux film noir ambiance and an embarrassing performance by Ontkean); Annie’s introduction (and later, Cooper’s first meeting with her); the Wheeler/Audrey picnic (with Wheeler singing!), Ben’s visit to Eileen; Mike and Nadine’s visit to the Great Northern; the “Save the Pine Weasel” fashion show (with a pine weasel on the loose), and on and on. It proves that no series is too good to avoid self-destruction if diligence is not maintained. In interviews, director Foley talked about how unhappy he was working on Twin Peaks, and given the episode he ended up directing it’s easy to understand why. The episode ends with Eckhardt’s assistant Jones slipping into bed with Truman—a scene that, as we see in the next episode, makes no sense.

Though Heather Graham performs quite well, the material she has to work with in this episode is not strong.

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