Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Twin Peaks, #2)

by Mark Frost

Rebecca McCauley Briggs.

Amanda Seyfried

the explosion in the vault of Twin Peaks Savings and Loan, which, as you’ll remember from the dossier, resulted in the deaths of Pete Martell, Andrew Packard, and the bank’s assistant manager, Dell Mibbler.

the incident’s only living survivor, Ben Horne’s eighteen-year-old daughter, Audrey, gravely injured in the explosion, was being treated in intensive care at Calhoun Memorial Hospital.

Agent Cooper, according to available records, spent that day and night in the hospital

Doc Hayward saw Cooper in a hospital corridor, fully dressed in his usual black suit, exiting the room in the ICU occupied by Audrey Horne.

Nine months later, almost to the day, Audrey Horne gave birth to her son Richard Horne.

Major Garland Briggs—reportedly the last person in town whom Cooper visited before his disappearance—had been declared dead after a fire at Listening Post Alpha, high up in the mountains of the Ghostwood Forest.

the discovery of a few loose teeth, which matched Briggs’s dental records, led to the conclusion that he had indeed died in the fire,

Donna—just after graduating with honors from Twin Peaks High—also left town for good, settling in New York City.

Steven Burnett,

reconciliation

?

Johnny—a profound case of autism—

Audrey awoke from the coma she’d been in as a result of the bank explosion after three and a half weeks.

Audrey married her longtime accountant. Witnesses close to the situation suggest that this was more a marriage of financial convenience than affection, and during my research here I’ve come across troubling accounts of public scenes, heavy drinking, verbal abuse, and sexual infidelity—all allegedly on the wife’s part.

Four years ago, without warning, Audrey closed the salon. Not long after she seemed to vanish from public life, into either agorophobic seclusion, or—one troubling rumor suggests—a private care facility.

The Horne family spokesperson has

?

The chief administrator of Ghostwood prison at this time, Warden Dwight Murphy, crossed our radar during the recent Blue Rose investigation. It may be worth our time to see if his subsequent murder related back in any way to his years at Ghostwood.)

Having paid a visit there recently, I can personally attest that Ghostwood Correctional Facility is more than just a befouling presence in the once pristine foothills of Blue Pine Mountain. Its long record of ignoring employee complaints places it in the lowest 10 percent among the burgeoning phenomenon of private prisons nationwide. Widespread reports of abuse and neglect toward its inmates place it even closer to rock bottom.

This is all embarrassingly poor writing

Jerry, according to a number of sources I’ve heard from, has been perpetually as high as an orbiting communications satellite since approximately 1969.

highly competitive and tightly regulated business environment.

Is this a reference to something? Am I supposed to know what this means?

He remains, as he’s always been, a loner by nature, given to long stretches wandering in the nearby wilderness—

“Ilsa never got over losing Marty,” that her health subsequently failed, and that she died in her sleep in 1984. This much, anyway, I have been able to verify: Ilsa Lindstrom passed when he said she did, at which point Norma inherited the diner.

Wait, what?

Vivian,

I gotcha. Vivian is the one who showed up - in season 2 i think

The ever polite and fiercely private Norma introduced Vivian to friends and acquaintances as her mother, declining to elaborate on the twisted circumstances that had brought the woman—who had, all too briefly, been her stepmother—

she was the author of the article.

only two years later he would die at the hands of a convict with family connections to the Renaults.

Hank

who fancied the cut of her jib.

The writing in this book is really pathetic, sorry

I’m alluding, as I’m sure you know,

No one would write this in a case brief!

Cooper never could resist a bird with a broken wing—you know as well as I do by now that it’s a central part of his makeup: white knight syndrome, the irresistible urge to rescue every damsel in distress he came across.

Douglas Milford.

The newspaper publisher?

After an independent survey of all the available facts, I have concluded that the tapes/transcripts have been heavily redacted and modified—it’s safe to say that “Diane’s” motivations for doing so, at this point, are well known to us—and cannot be considered a consistently reliable source.

We also know that Earle suspected that a mutual attraction existed between Cooper and Caroline from the moment he introduced them to each other at a Bureau Christmas party in Philadelphia the previous year. Cooper

when Earle crossed the threshold from private madman to public murderer.

Though you also wrote that windom committed the murders that brought cooper to Pittsburgh in the first place

when Earle took his wife’s life and nearly finished Cooper’s, he was acting to prevent their revealing his guilt to the Bureau. At which point this “crime of passion” became a convenient cover for our purposes, as well as his, to conceal the far uglier truth.

an ingrained impulse to save a troubled woman from herself,

believe Cooper’s obsession with the Laura Palmer case harbors echoes of this tendency.)

a factor in Cooper’s attraction to Annie Blackburn?

after nearly ten years in solitary lockdown at a federal max-security facility, Earle engineered a breathtakingly daring escape and vanished without a trace.

Earle’s objective seems crystal clear: With Annie in hand, he hoped to draw Cooper to him and finish the job he’d begun in Pittsburgh years earlier.

Annie Blackburn spent one day in the hospital, during which she appeared relatively unaffected by whatever ordeal she’d endured and claimed to have no memories of it. The next morning, hospital staff found her in an abject catatonic state.

she never spoke again,

8:38

The doctor on call noted this on her chart: “May have been responding to auditory hallucination.”

Every year, once a year, on the anniversary of that day she was found in the woods, without prompting or responding to any inquiry directed to her, at precisely 8:38 in the morning, she speaks that same single sentence to no one in particular. “I’m fine,” she says.

one jade green ring.

On Doug Milford? This is important

there is a thread running throughout the dossier about an appearing and, apparently, disappearing “green ring.” It’s mentioned a number of times, as early as the papers of Meriwether Lewis and as late as the Nixon White House, where Doug Milford himself may have observed it on the left hand of the troubled late president. The wearer is more than a few times described as “worrying” the ring, twisting it on his or her finger, and, more often than not, its appearance presages impending peril, misfortune, or untimely death.

The appearance of the ring presages impending misfortune, peril, or untimely death

Lana briefly dated a notorious resident of a certain eponymous tower on Fifth Avenue, who was either between wives, stepping out, or merely window-shopping.

Trump

the man appears to be wearing an unusual green ring on his left ring finger,

Trump

Anyway, who cares? As my mother used to say, trash is trash even if it’s in a Tiffany bag.

Strange thing to write

his license to practice medicine had been summarily revoked.