Guide page: "Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer"
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The "Bravo" Log Lady Introduction -
Overview -
Backplot -
Unanswered Questions -
Analysis -
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FBI Agent Dale Cooper demonstrates an unusual deductive technique for the Twin Peaks Sheriff's
Department; Benjamin Horne and his brother, Jerry, take a trip to One-Eyed Jacks; Donna Hayward
and James Hurley pledge their love; Leo Johnson holds Bobby Briggs at gunpoint; Cooper has a
strange dream.
Production number: 1002
Original air date: April 19th 1990
Written by Mark Frost and David Lynch
Directed by David Lynch
"Sometime ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce
themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas
speak so strangely.
"All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas
are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the
form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of
a dream."
- Cooper once had a dream about Tibet, in which he gained the theory of the "trial by
rock throwing". This shows that he is prepared to use unorthadox methods if it will help
him find the killer.
- Cooper's rocks struck the bottle on the names of Doctor Jacoby and Leo Johnson. In what
way does this implicate them?
- Cooper's dream has serious connotations. If "BOB" really is the killer, then where is he?
We have not seen him in Twin Peaks, unlike his former associate, Mike, who Deputy Hawk
saw at the hospital, ( Pilot ).
- Just over the Canadian border is a brothel / casino called One Eyed Jack's. Ben Horne
is obviously a regular customer there, as Blackie obviously knew him well.
- Jerry Horne works for his brother, travelling around and doing most of Ben's preparation
work. It is obvious why this relationship works; Ben is clearly the smarter of the two.
- Leo Johnson deals in drugs, and Bobby and Mike both use the drugs themselves as well as
selling them on. Both of them view Leo as a crazed maniac; a description we cannot contest.
- Who killed Laura Palmer? (See "Lonely Souls").
- Who was with Leo in the woods?
- Can Donna and James' love survive the gruelling inquest into Laura's death, or will it
just bring back too many memories for them?
- Who killed Laura Palmer?
Leo Johnson is becomming more and more likely a suspect; his attitude to his "friends"
Mike and Bobby shows just how dangerous he is. We are left in no doubt that he is capable
of killing.
- It is most likely that the man with Leo is Jaques Renault, (See The Last Night ).
- Since Ben Horne owns everything else in Twin Peaks, it is easily possible that he
owns One Eyed Jack's as well.(See "May The Giant Be With You".)
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Next Episode: "Rest in Pain"
Last update:
February 3rd, 1997