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Having the Blue Rose concept fleshed out and clarified was the real highlight of this week's episode.
And was it just coincidence that that Tammy was inducted in a room which in many ways echoes the Red Room? I mean Diane even entered through a red curtain!
There were a couple of really strong scenes this week. I'm curious to know who else is in the Palmer house. Sarah Palmer is clearly a very haunted woman 20 years on, but there's clearly more to it than simply the trauma of losing her daughter. When Hawk comes calling to check in on her there is clearly somebody else in the house with her. But who?
Is Richard Horne hiding out there? Who knows.
It was a trying episode in many ways also - he pacing deliberately slow and indulgent, even by Lynch standards. Long pauses, awkwardly long distractions, people talking at cross purposes on the other end of phone line.
And that Audrey Horne scene! Painfully slow. Painfully confusing. And probably not the return which many folks were expecting from such a prominent original series character.
I think we had all assumed that Richard Horne was Audrey son, from what we had seen so far. But there is no acknowledgement of that in this scene, and it's Benjamin Horne who is visited by Sheriff Truman to discuss Richard having knocked that boy down. So maybe not.
We see Audrey argue with her husband, an intense person (and I believe with dwarfism - though it's hard to be certain behind a desk) preoccupied with paperwork, and there is plausible hinting that perhaps this is a marriage of convenience.
The names of the people they discuss we are not familiar with. Billy, Tina, Chuck and Paul. Audrey wants to go to the Roadhouse to look for Billy - who is missing. She tells her husband she has been sleeping with Billy and that she is in love with him, and her husband barely reacts.
He then takes a phone call to interrupt the scene. Which seems to deliver some shocking news which he promises to keep to himself. So he does. To Audrey's annoyance. The whole scene is deliberately uncomfortable and hard to dissect.
Who is Billy?
You may remember a few episodes ago a guy ran into the Double R asking if anybody had 'seen Billy' before running out and onward. Same guy? Maybe. Maybe not.
And that's the nature of Twin Peaks - you're never sure what is important and what is not. I mean take the number of booth conversations we've overheard at the Roadhouse. Some from returning characters. some from new. Names get mentioned, situations referred to. How many of those MEAN something?
I guess we'll have to wait and see.