MR JACKPOTS
Conversely, MacLachlan also played
Dougie, initially a ‘tulpa’ manufactured
by the doppelgänger so he can remain at
large, with Dougie whooshing into the
Black Lodge, replaced on the outside by
the returning Cooper. Thus Cooper, his
senses on leave of absence, fi nds himself
married with a kid, with no idea who he is.
Dougie is joyous to watch, stumbling around
with wide-eyed innocence and managing to
win big at a casino (causing him to be awarded
the nickname ‘Mr Jackpots’).
“He’s a newborn in a lot of ways,” says
MacLachlan, “so it became about discovering
objects, sounds, people, as if he’s never done it
before. With animals and children, you never know
quite what they’re going to do next, and I wanted
to bring as much of that as I could to Dougie.”
THE BIRTH OF BOB
Episode eight was an immediately infamous hour
of television, full of such surreal images as an
ultra-slow-motion mushroom cloud and
a frog-monster forcing its way into a
sleeping girl’s mouth. 1945’s Trinity
nuclear test opens up a portal into
another dimension, bringing BOB,
among others, into the world, with
Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) apparently
created as an opposing force of pure
goodness. Even for Twin Peaks, this
was a hard left turn.
“My advocacy for that part of the
plot was that we needed an origin story
for everything we’ve been working with
on the series for 25 years,” says Frost.
“I felt you can’t just hint endlessly at
something just beyond your reach. Even if
it’s at a mythological level, it needs to be, to
a certain point, explicit. I felt very strongly that
we needed a way to fi gure out how this darkness
came along. And that’s where we went with it!”
THE WOODSMEN
In the aftermath of the Trinity test, milling
around the convenience store are some
foreboding Woodsmen, one of whom later
crushes people’s heads. Some fans posited that
they might be the same woodsmen we saw in
Phillip Jeffries’ (David Bowie) remembrances of
a Black Lodge meeting in 1992’s feature prequel.
“Yes, we fi rst saw them in Fire Walk With Me,”
confi rms Frost. “This gives you their origin story.
They’re so frightening and elemental, nightmarish
fi gures, and the less said about them the better.”AUDREY’S FATE
Sherilyn Fenn’s Audrey Horne was
one of Twin Peaks’ enduring icons,
a classic Lynch siren. However, things
have drastically changed. At the end of the
original show, Audrey was chained to a vault
door when the bank exploded. In the third
season we met her troubled son, child of the
doppelgänger, and when Audrey eventually
resurfaced she was terribly unhappy, not herself
at all until she refound her bliss reprising her
dance at The Roadhouse. Then, though, she
suddenly snapped into an entirely different
existence, petrifi ed in the mirror of a bright white
room. She had returned, only to be swiftly snatched
away, a shocker that would be unresolved, to keepThis page, clockwise from
top left: Cooper as Dougie
Jones; Senorita Dido with the
orb; Audrey Horne;
The Woodsmen; The Trinity
nuclear test.