Twin Peaks: The Return episode review — 3.16 — Part 16/No Knock, No Doorbell
By: Patrick J Mullen
Tags: Tv Reviews, Drama, 2010s, TV, Twin Peaks

Original air date: August 27, 2017

Director: David Lynch

Writers: Mark Frost and David Lynch

Rating: 10/10

The episode starts with Mr. C and Richard Horne driving along a dirt road in the night. They get to the coordinates that Mr. C has. Well, he has two sets of coordinates, but he’s convinced one of them is a trap to get him back to the Black Lodge, so he has Richard go and investigate.

This leads to Richard being electrocuted and apparently killed in the sight of Jerry Horne, though there’s no indication that he knows it’s his nephew. Actually, he thinks he accidentally killed him with his binoculars. It’s strange.

Dougie is in a coma following his own electrocution, and the FBI waits outside his house, as do Hutch and Chantal, the assassins working for Mr. C. The Mitchum brothers volunteer to go stock the Jones’ house with food and stuff, so they’re there, too.

Hutch and Chantal get in an argument over a parking spot with someone in the neighborhood. This eventually turns, violent, as everyone pulls out their guns.

Both of them are killed, and the Mitchum brothers looking on makes this one of my favorite moments of the season.

Bushnell leaves Dougie’s hospital room in pursuit of the source of a noise — that same one heard in the Great Northern. Dougie then wakes up, and it’s clear that it’s not Dougie, but Cooper.

Special Agent Dale Cooper, at long last.

It’s amazing that this season had us wait this long to finally see the character we all know and love back in our plane of existence, but the really remarkable thing is that this series pulled it off well. The wait has made this moment all the more wonderful.

Janey-E and Sonny Jim arrive to find Cooper awake. Bushnell arrives and tells him the FBI is looking for him. Cooper has the doctor check him out and confirm that he’s okay, as he’s ready to leave.

He gives Bushnell a message to send to Gordon Cole, and call the Mitchum brothers to get a plane ready for him to take to Spokane, Washington.

As Dale says his goodbyes to all the people in Dougie’s life, he’s definitely the old Cooper.

At the same time, Janey-E slowly realizes, and perhaps even Sonny-Jim, that their dad is someone else. In his emotional goodbye to them, he promises he’ll be back, and they both seem to understand that this is necessary.

After receiving a text, Diane gets emotional and confronts Gordon Cole, Albert, and Tammy. She tells them how when Cooper came out of the Black Lodge, she was the last person to see him, as he came to her place and raped her.

She pulls a gun, but Albert and Tammy shoot her. She then disappears and appears in the Red Room, where MIKE tells her that she was manufactured.

Cooper explains to the Mitchums who he is, and what he needs to do, so they come with him to Twin Peaks. They’re apprehensive about being involved with the police considering they’re gangsters, but Cooper assures them that he’s seen that they really do have hearts of gold, to which Candie wholeheartedly agrees.

Eddie Vedder, introduced by his real name, performs “Out of Sand” at the Roadhouse.

Towards the end of the song, Audrey and Charlie arrive. When the song is done, the announcer says the next song is “Audrey’s Dance.” The dancefloor clears out, leaving room for Audrey to reenact her famous dreamlike dance from the first season.

It’s interrupted, though, by a fight which breaks out. Audrey runs to Charlie and tells him to get her out of here, but then she appears in a white room in a mirror.

Wherever she is, she’s incredibly distraught.

It’s a really great way to end the episode, as it makes you want to learn more. This is a great episode. There are a lot of really fun moments, and some emotional ones as well. And it’s just great to have Cooper back.