Part 8 (Twin Peaks) director David Lynch
"Part 8", also known as "The Return, Part 8", is the eighth episode of the third season of the TV series Twin Peaks. It was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch, directed by Lynch, and stars Kyle MacLachlan. "Part 8" was broadcast on June 25, 2017, on Showtime and was watched by an audience of 246,000 viewers in the United States. The episode is composed of lengthy, surreal scenes, with very little dialogue throughout, and was largely shot in black and white. It received critical acclaim.Background
The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine). FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has been sent to the town to investigate and has discovered that the killer was Laura's father, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), who acted while possessed by a demonic entity—Killer BOB (Frank Silva). At the end of the original series, Cooper was trapped in the Black Lodge, an extra-dimensional place, by BOB, who let out Cooper's doppelgänger to use him as his physical access to the world. Twenty-five years after those events, Cooper manages to escape the Lodge through a portal between worlds; during this process, he was supposed to replace the doppelgänger, but instead he takes the place of a second doppelgänger (known as Dougie Jones), fabricated by the first as a patsy for the exchange. Cooper's doppelgänger, exhausted from the process, crashes his car and passes out, allowing the police to capture him; at the station, he uses the information in his possession to blackmail Warden Murphy (James Morrison) into releasing him and his partner, Ray Monroe (George Griffith).Filming
"Part 8" was directed by Lynch, who had also directed the rest of the limited series and six episodes of the original series—the "Pilot", "Episode 2", "Episode 8", "Episode 9", "Episode 14" and "Episode 29". The scenes inside the Fireman's house were filmed inside the Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, a location Lynch had used in Mulholland Drive. On set, Lynch showed Joy Nash how to hold the Laura Palmer orb, kissing it and giving it "so much love" before letting it go; he also demonstrated to her how to walk through the theatre, with bouncing steps like a "little cherub." The scenes at KPJK were filmed in a specially constructed set in New Mexico. Upon visiting the set for the first time, Lynch said that he had envisioned a simple set for one shot, but instead they had built an authentic radio station, which he joked could be on the air by the following week.
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