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Unpaid Bill

The First Visitor tells Nikki that if today were tomorrow, Nikki would not even remember that she owed on unpaid bill. "Actions do have consequences," she adds.

Piotrek, when threatening Devon not to try to sleep with Nikki, tells him, "There are consequences to one's actions. And there would for certain be consequences to wrong actions. Dark, they would be, and inescapable. Why instigate a need to suffer?"

The Second Visitor tells Sue, "I come about an unpaid bill that needs paying." She then asks if Sue knows the man who lives there (Smithy) and the man who lives next door (Krimp).
Linda & Tracy

Linda (Bellina Logan) and Tracy (Amanda Foreman) are Nikki's friends. They are talking to her in her home when she receives the call that she has been cast in *On High in Blue Tomorrows*, and they joyously jump up and down. After Nikki's appearance on *The Marilyn Levens Show*, they both compliment her in the dressing room, then drop her off at home.

## Trivia

Bellina Logan previously played a friend of Laura Dern's character in another David Lynch film, as Beany Thorn in *Wild at Heart*. While her one scene in that film was deleted, her character plays a key role: it is Beany's Thunderbird that Sailor and Lula drive throughout the film. Logan has appeared in several other Lynch productions: *Twin Peaks* Episode 11 (as Great Northern desk clerk Louie "Birdsong" Budway), the *On the Air* series finale (as the Woman with No Name) and in the third season of *Twin Peaks* as the doctor who clears Dale Cooper to re-enter the world.
Doris Side

Doris Side (Julia Ormond) is Billy Side's wife. She is the latest incarnation of the "Who is She?" woman.

## Things That Happened

Doris is first seen in a police interrogation room, dressed the same as the night she tries to kill Sue later in the film. She has apparently turned herself in because she has been "hypnotized or somethin'," and is going to kill someone with a screwdriver. She says she doesn't know who she is going to kill. She saw "him " looking at her once, when she was looking around a bar. He moved his hands and said she’d know who it was. She then pulls up her shirt to reveal her stomach is bandaged, and under the bandages is a bloody wound with a screwdriver sticking out of it.

Some other time, perhaps earlier chronologically, Doris is home in her and Billy's house. Their son is sick, and a doctor is visiting their home. In the middle of the consultation, Sue enters. Doris knows her, and is confused why she is there. Sue yells for Billy, who walks in. Sue repeatedly professes her love for Billy, and Doris slaps her every time she does so. As Doris becomes increasingly infuriated, her face is intercut with footage of her in the interrogation room, with the corpse of the "Who Is She" woman, and with footage of the Phantom hypnotizing her in a bar. Seemingly, in that moment, she realizes that she is to kill Sue.

Later, when Sue is living as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles, Doris comes to kill her. She stalks Sue along Hollywood Boulevard, finally grabbing Sue's screwdriver and fatally stabbing her with it. Doris seems horrified as soon as she commits the act, and runs away.

## More Things That Happened (Deleted Scenes)

Doris walks barefoot down a quiet LA street, on her way toward Hollywood Boulevard.

## Analysis

* Doris is presumably a character in *On High in Blue Tomorrows*, played by an actress. However, in *INLAND EMPIRE*, Doris is only seen or referenced "in character" in Sue's universe.
* Although Doris exists in Sue's reality, her first appearance occurs at a strange point in the film's structure. The first third of *INLAND EMPIRE* is the most linear portion, and for a long stretch takes place entirely in Nikki's reality. Doris's first scene, in the interrogation room, inexplicably appears in the middle of the "Nikki" sequence, perhaps as a flashforward/forewarning of things to come. Notably, it appears right after Nikki first learns of the curse.
The Darkened Room

*The Darkened Room* is a 2002 short made for David Lynch's website which inspired several elements of *INLAND EMPIRE*.

## Description

The first four and a half minutes of the short consists of footage sent in by DavidLynch.com member Etsuko Shikata, in which she shows the view from her Tokyo apartment and discusses facts about bananas. The short then takes a stark turn in mood as Shikata tells us, "My friend is sitting in darkened room. My friend is crying." The short then transitions to Lynch-directed footage of a girl (played by Jordan Ladd) sitting on a couch in a purple room crying. A Charlie McCarthy doll lies on a cushion on the floor. Shikata, still outside the room, asks the viewer, "Do you see her? I can’t see my friend. Is she talking? Don’t. Don’t look at her." Shikata blocks our view with her hand, and the remainder of the short takes place entirely inside the darkened room.

The crying girl says, "Are you listening to me? Please come out here. Someone’s saying something to her again. Don’t leave me alone out here. Come out here! Please. Please!"

Another girl (played by Cerina Vincent) enters. She shows the crying girl a tiny cigarette burn-sized (or hole puncher-sized) circular hole in her slip. She says she has no idea how the hole got in her slip, and accusingly asks if the crying girl knows. She continues, "You know, it really pisses me off. You think I don’t notice these things, but I do. You do think that, don’t you?" She continues to berate the crying girl, telling her that she notices "every fucking little thing." She says, "There’s nothing you can do about this little thing that’s happening to you. And even if there was, it’s a little too late to do anything about it, don’t you think? It’s your fault, you know that." She then berates the crying girl for buying a watch. She says, "Those watches weren’t even working watches." She says the crying girl bought the watch out of "some horseshit paranoia crap about how it’s gonna do this or that. Now look at you. You’re wrong." The girl says the crying girl thinks this is all a bad dream, and offers to tell her what is really happening. "Interested?" she asks.

## Trivia

* The short inspired the "Lost Girl" motif, the cigarette-burn hole in a silk slip, and the watch. Jordan Ladd appeared in *INLAND EMPIRE* as Terri.
* The short is available on the DVD *Dynamic:01 - The Best of DavidLynch.com*.
Mr. & Mrs. Zydowicz

Mr. and Mrs. Zydowicz (Stanislaw Kazimierz Cybulski and Henryka Cybulski) only appear in one brief scene. They are a Polish-speaking couple who visit Nikki and Piotrek, perhaps friends of Piotrek's. Mr. Zydowicz speaks to Nikki in Polish, and she tries to explain that she does not speak Polish. Mr. Zydowicz then notes to Piotrek in Polish, “A half…” Piotrek insists that Nikki “understands more than she lets on.” While Nikki does not deny this, she again insists that she doesn’t speak Polish.

## Trivia

* The characters might be named after Marek Zydowicz, the founder of the Camerimage festival, who plays Gordy and was an executive producer of the Polish production of *INLAND EMPIRE*.
* The actors who play them share the same last name, and have no other film credits listed on IMDB.
9:45

Time plays a key role in *Inland Empire*, as well as *Rabbits*.

Jane asks, "What time is it?" The studio audience laughs uproariously.

The First Visitor, pontificating on her forgetfulness, says, "I suppose if it was 9:45, I’d think it was after midnight."

Sue tells Billy about a story that "happened yesterday, but I know that it's tomorrow."

After walking out on a fight with his wife, the Lost Girl's lover waits for her on the street. She misses their rendezvous, because her husband is brutally beating her. A man asks him what time it is, and he answers, "9:45."

When the circus men show up at Smithy's backyard party, one of them says, "It's 3:00."

After Smithy takes the Phantom-killing gun, one of the Polish men yells, "Right away! It's after midnight!"

Jane says, "It had something to do with the telling of time."

Sue tells Mr. K, "I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what happened first, and it's kinda layin' a mindfuck on me."

Street Person #1 asks what time it is. Street Person #2 says she does not know, but says, "It's after midnight."

When Nikki enters Sue's house and finds the Phantom-killing gun, the clock reads 12:09. When she exits, it is 12:13.

## Watches

Watches are a recurring motif in the film, and moreso in the deleted scenes.

The Lost Girl tells Sue that if she wants to "see," she needs to be wearing "the watch," and to burn a hole in silk with a cigarette, then to fold the silk over and look through the hole. Sue later performs this exercise, allowing her to see into the past. The watch is stopped at 10:09, but when Sue looks through the hole in the silk, the hands start to fly.

The Second Visitor wears a watch which is identical to Sue's. It reads 9:52, even though Sue's wall clock shows that it is 2:34.

## More Things That Happened (Deleted Scenes)

When Smithy is planning to go out one night, Sue tells him, "It's 11:30."

The Phantom, seemingly in modern day at a party, offers to sell the Lost Girl a watch. The Lost Girl has heard that they bring good luck; he tells her they do if she gives something. He sells her one for $25, and tells her she has to hold his hand to get good luck.

Sue tells Mr. K, "That guy…he’s been comin’ round. It’s like it was. You know what. Sellin’ watches again."

Sue says she likes to eat ice cream around 10:30 or 11pm.

Sue says that she was forty-one in 1960, and she is freaked out because she lost a bunch of years.

## *The Darkened Room*

In *The Darkened Room*, a short which inspired several elements of *INLAND EMPIRE*, a girl yells at a crying girl who is seemingly imprisoned in a room, similar to the Lost Girl. The other girl berates the crying girl for buying a watch. She says, "Those watches weren’t even working watches." She says the crying girl bought the watch out of "some horseshit paranoia crap about how it’s gonna do this or that. Now look at you. You’re wrong."

## Analysis

The phrase "after midnight" seems to symbolize death, or being dangerously close to being too late for something.
Chuck Ross

Chuck Ross is the first assistant director on *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

## Trivia

* He is played by John "Churchy" Churchill, who was the 2nd A.D. on *Mulholland Drive*, and a production assistant on *Lost Highway* and *The Straight Story*.

* On the *Stories* feature, David Lynch says Churchy was born to be a great A.D. He says that Churchy used to drive him around, and he would ask Lynch to make up backstories for people they observed. Lynch says that Bucky J was born in this manner, at Churchy's instigation, while Lynch was shooting Justin Theroux from the floor up for a lighting test.
* In the scene where Kingsley yells at Chuck over a lighting cue, Lynch directed Jeremy Irons to play the scene like this is "the first time in a long time" that Chuck has let him down (as seen in the *Lynch 2* documentary). That scene was originally supposed to feature Freddie, but Chuck replaced him on the day of shooting, presumably due to actor unavailability.
Events

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* Shops
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* Meeting Characters
	+ The Character may only be part of the event; however, many or most of them have their own events dedicated to them.
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Carolina

Carolina (Leah Morelli) is a woman in a red dress backstage at Forty Deuce who points Sue upstairs to Mr. K's office.

Although the bouncer at first refuses to let Sue into the club, when she screams, "I know that girl! Carolina! I know Carolina!" the bouncer relents and allows her inside. After Sue sits for a short time, a girl escorts her backstage, where Carolina whispers something to her and points the way to Mr. K. When she points, she seems to control Sue's movements, similar to the way the Phantom controls Doris. When Sue gets upstairs, she tells Mr. K that she does not know what she is doing there, but she was told that he could help her.

## Trivia

Carolina shares her name with two actresses in the film: Karolina Gruszka, who plays the Lost Girl, and Carolina Cerisola, who plays the girl who escorts Sue backstage.
Kingsley Stewart

Kingsley Stewart (Jeremy Irons) is the director of *On High in Blue Tomorrows*. He has a British accent and loves making speeches. He deems information "indispensable," and has his assistant Freddie out "purposefully" gathering information.

## Things That Happened

Kingsley is excited to work on the project, and at the initial cast and crew meeting, he tells Nikki that she has everything she needs to "soar back to the top and stay there."

The producers of the film kept Kingsley in the dark as to the curse, and he only learned of it through Freddie. Despite being angry at the producers, and apparently believing that the story is actually cursed, he continues with the production of the film.

While lying in the makeup chair, Nikki overhears Kingsley telling someone about a “90-year-old niece” who has been fascinated by Smithy ever since they went into preproduction. She has been asking in an “ancient foreign voice,” “Who is playing Smithy?” This may imply that Kingsley knows or is related to Visitor #1.

Kingsley is long-suffering, dealing with many minor setbacks on set. Lighting seems not to be Kingsley's strong suit. During a confusing exchange with Bucky J, Kingsley equivocates greatly, first asking for a light to go up two feet, then deciding it should go down two feet, then down a foot.

Kingsley observes Nikki becoming increasingly erratic on set, blowing a take when she yells, "Damn! This sounds like dialogue from our script!" Kingsley bellows, "What the bloody hell is going on?"

When Nikki wraps Sue's death scene, Kingsley leads a round of applause for her. However, he becomes worried when she does not get up for a long time, and even moreso when she seems to be in a trauma state after getting up. He follows her to hug her and to tell her that she was wonderful, but she wanders off without saying anything.

## Trivia

In the *Lynch* documentary, Lynch can be seen taking a call from Jeremy Irons. Lynch tells Irons a little bit about the film, and Irons agrees to appear.

The 2023 Criterion Collection remastered Blu Ray release oddly edits Kingsley's line about the "ninety-year-old niece" to eliminate the reference to her age.
Worker

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Workers can also produce goods and materials for you in a Workbench or Workshop building.
Forty Deuce

Forty Deuce is a burlesque club in Los Angeles where Sue hides from Doris. Mr. K's office appears to be upstairs from the club.

## Carolina

The bouncer first refuses to let Sue in; then, desperate, Sue screams, "I know that girl! Carolina! I know Carolina!" The bouncer steps aside and lets Sue in. Inside the club, a girl approaches Sue's table and escorts her backstage, where a woman in a red dress (Carolina) then points Sue upstairs to Mr. K's office. When Sue gets upstairs, she tells Mr. K that she does not understand what she is doing there, but she was told that he could help her.

## Trivia

* Although not named in the film, the scene was shot at the now-closed Forty Deuce. On the *Stories* feature, David Lynch recalls his first time at Forty Deuce, on Dennis Hopper's birthday, and says that the evening stayed alive in his mind and fed into *INLAND EMPIRE*.
* The band members in the film (Joseph Altruda, Jay P. Work and William McNeil) are played by the club's regular house band. The music cue, "Lisa," was composed by Altruda and is named after the dancer in the scene, Lisa Dengler-Eaton, a regular Forty Deuce performer. Another dancer at the club, Carolina Cerisola, has a brief appearance as the girl who escorts Sue backstage.
* Joseph Altruda also appeared in *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* as a member of Julee Cruise's backing band at the Roadhouse. In that film, unlike *INLAND EMPIRE*, he did not play on the actual soundtrack cue, but merely mimed the song onscreen.
* The record sleeve for the *Lolita* soundtrack can be seen on the wall behind the dancer. *Lolita* is one of David Lynch's favorite films. However, he did not place the record sleeve there: it was already in the club, as part of a wall of album covers with photos of glamorous women in pin-up poses.
Henry the Butler

Henry (Ian Abercrombie) is Nikki's butler. He serves Nikki and Visitor #1 coffee, and brings her the phone when she learns that she has been cast in *On High in Blue Tomorrows*. He seems devoted to Nikki, and rejoices when she gets the role.

## Trivia

Ian Abercrombie previously appeared in *Twin Peaks* Episode 13 as Tom Brockman, the unctuous insurance man who delivers Shelly's (shockingly low) check to provide for vegetative Leo's health care.
Marilyn Levens

Marilyn Levens (Diane Ladd) is the host of *The Marilyn Levens Starlight Celebrity Show*, a popular interview TV show. She seems primarily interested in gossip-mongering.

## Things That Happened

Marilyn interviews Nikki and Devon to promote *On High in Blue Tomorrows*, which has just been announced. Marilyn mentions a “shocking revelation by Devon,” and asks if Nikki can be true to her "hubby" with a wolf in the den. Nikki insists that they’ll be professional, and Devon tells Marilyn that if she's looking for shock value, she should look in a mirror. Marilyn acts amused. She then does her trademark closing, promising her audience that she will report everything she finds out “there and there and there, beyond around the world!”

## Trivia

* Diane Ladd is the mother of Laura Dern, who plays Nikki. The two previously appeared together as mother and daughter Marietta and Lula Fortune in David Lynch's *Wild at Heart*, a performance which earned Ladd an Oscar nomination. The *Lynch 2* documentary shows Lynch talking to Ladd on the phone when she agreed to play this role, and also shows the end of Ladd's day on set.
* The announcer for Levens's show is played by William H. Macy in a cameo. The *Lynch 2* documentary shows Lynch speaking on the phone to Macy, asking if he thinks it might be fun to play an announcer for a scene, and also shows the shooting of Macy's scene.
Marek, Darek and Franciszek

Marek (Leon Niemczyk), Darek (Jozef Zbirog) and Franciszek (Marian Stanislaw) are three old Polish-speaking men who appear to be incarnations of the the Rabbits. They give Smithy the gun which is used to kill the Phantom.

Somewhere in Poland, they hold a séance to summon the Lost Girl while sitting around a table by candlelight. The Lost Girl sends for Smithy, who arrives with Janek. Smithy hears the Lost Girl, but cannot see her. Franciszek says, “It was red.” Marek asks if Smithy works for someone, and Smithy says he does. Marek says that the man Smithy works for is “the one she spoke of.” Smithy repeats this, and Marek says, “So…you understand.” Darek says, “The horse was taken to the well.” Marek takes a pistol out of the back of his pants and places it on the table, telling Smithy to take it. Smithy does so. One of the men yells, “Right away! It’s after midnight!” Janek and Smithy exit, passing a painting of two white arms against a dark background, one hand holding a lit candle. The Lost Girl disappears. The three men rearrange their positions, then turn into the Rabbits in their home. Marek turns into Jane. Darek turns into Jack. Franciszek turns into Suzie. Shortly thereafter, Suzie repeats Franciszek's line, "It was red."

## Trivia

* Darek's line, "The horse was taken to the well," is repeated later by Mr. K (who also seems to be an incarnation of Jack Rabbit). It presumably refers to a trap to lure the Phantom to his death.
* This was likely the first scene conceived and shot for the Poland shoot. According to David Lynch on the *Stories* feature, he had traveled to Łódź a few times with the help of the Camerimage Film Festival, primarily to take photos of abandoned factories. On one visit, ideas started flooding in, and he pictured three people sitting around a table. He had filming equipment with him because he had just shot a scene with Laura Dern, who was in Paris. He spoke to the Camerimage crew about shooting a scene, and scripted it that night. He told Camerimage that he needed a room with a table on a second floor. Within hours, he had the actors' faces; The next morning, Marek Zebrowski translated the script Lynch had written. By 2pm, the actors were cast and they had their pages. They were on location by 6 or 7pm, were shooting by 7pm, and by 10pm "it was taillights" and they had shot the scene.
* Marian Stanislaw, who plays Franciszek, died on April 7, 2004, two and a half years before the release of *INLAND EMPIRE*. Leon Niemczyk, who played Marek, died on November 29, 2006, four days after the film's Polish premiere at the Camerimage Film Festival.
Street People

Sue encounters three homeless people near the Hollywood and Vine intersection as she dies. In Nikki's reality, they are characters in *On High in Blue Tomorrows* portrayed by actors.

## Things That Happened

Sue, after being stabbed, stumbles over to three homeless people and collapses. Street Person #1 (Helena Chase) says, “You dyin’, lady.” The three then continue the conversation they were having before Sue interrupted, about the bus to Pomona.

Street Person #2 (Nae) insists to the skeptical #1 that there is a 3:50 bus if you take the subway first. She says she visited her friend Niko there and stayed for two weeks. #1 asks what time it is, and #2 says she doesn’t know: it’s after midnight. She then goes back to talking at length about Niko.

When Sue vomits blood, Street Person #1 turns her attention back to Sue. “It's OK. You dyin’, is all.” She lights a lighter in front of Sue’s eyes. “I'll show you the light now. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now, love.” Sue dies.

A Panavision camera pulls back to reveal that this has been a movie scene. The actors playing the street people walk away.

## Trivia

* Street Person #3 (Terry Crews) appears to be dating Street Person #2. His only line is when his girlfriend says that Niko tore a hole from her vaginal wall into her intestine. He says, "Shit, baby. Why do you tell us that shit?"
* Helena Chase lived in one of the houses used as a location in the film, and Lynch decided to cast her in the film. *(Source:* Room to Dream*, David Lynch and Kristine McKenna, 2018, Random House, p. 418)*
* In the *Lynch* documentary, Lynch can be seen directing this scene. He tells Nae that she is polite and enjoys talking to people. He also says that she and Crews's character are a couple, that they "get along real good," and that he protects her.
* Nae appears in *Twin Peaks: The Return* as Naido, a strange eyeless Lodge spirit with a connection to Dale Cooper.
* The line "I'll show you the light now. It burns (bright) forever" is sampled in Untitled by Burial (Untrue: 2007)
Crew Member Cameos

*See also Chuck Ross, Bucky J, Cyrk Zalewski, Mr. K, Gordy,* *End Credit Sequence.*

Due to the loose shooting style for *INLAND EMPIRE*, many crew members from this film and David Lynch's previous films were able to appear in small roles.

## Cameos

Karen Baird (costumes and wardrobe) plays Nikki's servant.

Phil DeSanti (camera assistant, construction, and key production team) plays Tim Hurst, the 2nd A.D. on *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

Chamonix Bosch (set P.A. on *The Straight Story*) plays Sally Irwin, the 3rd A.D. on *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

Sara Glaser (utility sound) plays Ellen Thomas, the script supervisor on *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

Edward St. George (key hairstylist) plays a hair stylist on *The Marilyn Levens Starlight Celebrity Show*.

Marsha Lewis (Diane Ladd's hairdresser) plays Marsha, Marilyn Levens's hairdresser.

Jeremy Alter (co-producer, additional camera operator, construction team; also assistant location manager on *Lost Highway*) plays the stage manager for *The Marilyn Levens Starlight Celebrity Show*. His son, Scout Alter, plays Billy Side's son.

Jerry Stahl (co-writer of *Twin Peaks* Episode 11) plays Devon Berk's agent. Stahl was in the throes of heroin addiction when he worked on *Twin Peaks*, and according to Mark Frost and Harley Peyton, turned in an incomprehensible script with blood stains on it which had to be entirely rewritten by the regular writing staff. *(Source:* Reflections: An Oral History of *Twin Peaks**,* *by Brad Dukes, 2014 short/Tall Press, p. 188.)*

Austin Lynch (David Lynch's son and a member of the construction team, as well as costarring with David Lynch in the *Out Yonder* web series and portraying Mrs. Tremond's grandson in *Twin Peaks* Episode 9) plays Devon Berk's driver (who notes that Nikki has a nice ass).

Jason Weinberg (Laura Dern's manager) plays Nikki Grace's manager.

Heidi Bevins (costumes and wardrobe) plays Devon Berk's wardrobe assistant.

Scott Ressler (first assistant camera on *Lost Highway*, *The Straight Story* and *Mulholland Drive*) plays a camera operator on *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

Adam Zdunek (key production team, Poland) plays the man on the street who asks the Lost Girl's husband what time it is.

Kris Kane (Jeremy Irons's assistant) plays Nikki Grace's wardrobe assistant.

Michelle Clark (key makeup artist) plays a makeup artist on *On High in Blue Tomorrows.*
Animals

Several characters are said to "have a way with animals," or some variation thereof.

Freddie says he has always loved animals, their nature, and how they think. He says he used to raise rabbits, and has watched dogs reason their way out of "the trickiest situations."

Smithy is hired by the circus to "take care for the animals." "It was said that I have a way with animals," he adds. He is seen taking care of the horses.

Street Person #2 says of Niko, "There are those who are good with animals. Who have a way with animals." Niko has a pet monkey.
Sue's Sister

## More Things That Happened

Sue speaks to Mr. K about her sister. Sue is living with her sister. The sister calls her husband "Kiddo."

She works as a waitress at a diner, and leaves around 4pm when the dinner crew comes in. She has "been drinking more and more at night as the years go on." As soon as she comes home, she plants herself on the couch next to Kiddo and they start drinking Four Roses bourbon mixed with water, and tap "a fifth" before the 7:00 news. She will only fix food for Kiddo, not for Sue or anyone else. By 10:30 or 11, they are completely "in the bag."

Sue says she hears Kiddo laughing at the dumbest shit on TV. She says it was Kiddo's idea to give Sue her own shelf in the fridge because he has a "hard-on” for not running out of his favorite stuff. Sue likes ice cream around 10:30 or 11. Kiddo came into Sue's room one morning after his wife went to work and tried to crawl into bed with her "after making sure he had a buncha breakfast." He sat on the end of her bed, rubbing her foot, “all smiley,” and said, “Bet you’re all soft and warm down in that little bed. Maybe a little lonely, though?” She then threatened to chop his penis off and leave it on her shelf in the fridge with a tell-all note to her sister if he ever even thought about hitting on her again.
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Who Is She?

This mysterious woman lived in late nineteenth or early twentieth century Poland, and was married to a man who cheated on her with the Lost Girl. She was unable to bear children, which perhaps was the cause of some of their marital problems. When her husband walked out one night during a fight, she yelled after him, "I'm not who you think I am! I'll never let you have her! Never."

She later is seen walking up a staircase holding a screwdriver. There is then a scream heard, and this woman is seen bleeding to death and then lying dead of a stab wound. It is unclear if her death was self-inflicted or the result of a struggle.

When Sue sees into the past, the Valley Girls repeatedly ask, "Who is she?" in regards to this woman.

## Analysis

She appears to be played by Julia Ormond, who plays Doris Side, the modern-day reincarnation of the role.
Freddie Howard

Freddie Howard (Harry Dean Stanton) is Kingsley Stewart's assistant. He is the first person in Nikki's sphere to learn of the curse. While he is a loyal assistant and an expert information-gatherer, Freddie seems to be in financial difficulty.

## Things That Happened

Freddie is almost always at Kingsley's side. Freddie is extremely valuable to Kingsley because he is "purposefully" out and about gathering information for the director, and information is "indispensable." Kingsley praises Freddie as an assistant who can hold his liquor with the best of them (Freddie adds, "Somebody's got to do it. Gable's dead").

When he and Kingsley arrive for the first day of rehearsals on Stage 4, Freddie seems somewhat out of it. He and Kingsley have just had a particularly bad cup of tea at the commissary ("Terrible isn't an adequate description of it," Freddie laments). Freddie interrupts the run-through of Scene 35 when he sees someone else on the soundstage. Kingsley then reveals to Nikki and Devon that Freddie has learned of the curse.

On the soundstage one day, during down time, Freddie pathetically and unprofessionally asks the films stars, Nikki and Devon, for money after Nikki good-naturedly asks if he is enjoying himself:

> Well… There’s a vast network, right? An ocean of possibilities. I like dogs. I used to raise rabbits. I’ve always loved animals. Their nature. How they think. I have seen dogs reason their way out of problems. Watched them think through the trickiest situations. Do you have a coupla bucks I could borrow? I’ve got this damn landlord. … I got a lot of nerve, I know. Seems like only yesterday that I was carrying my own weight.
>
>

Nikki guiltily gives Freddie money, and after some hesitation, Devon does as well. Nikki later notices Freddie giving some crew members the exact same sob story.

## Trivia

* Harry Dean Stanton has portrayed more David Lynch characters than any actor other than the late Jack Nance. He starred as Slim in Lynch's short *The Cowboy and the Frenchman*, played Johnnie Farragut in *Wild at Heart*, played Carl Rodd in *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (a role he reprised in the 2017 *Twin Peaks: The Return*), starred as Moe Boca in the Lynch-directed *Hotel Room* episode "Tricks," and played Lyle Straight in *The Straight Story.*
* The role of Kingsley's assistant was originally to have been played by Freddie Jones, who costarred with Harry Dean Stanton in "Tricks," and also appeared in Lynch's *The Elephant Man*, *Dune*, *Wild at Heart*, and Episode 4 of *On the Air*. The *Lynch 2* documentary shows Lynch on the phone explaining that Jones was flying to America to play the role when he experienced vertigo in Heathrow Airport and went to the hospital because he could not stand up. The documentary also shows Lynch discussing possible replacement actors, still apparently committed to making the character British. The documentary also shows Harry Dean Stanton's first day of shooting, when Stanton and Lynch still apparently planned to use a British accent for the character, a concept that was ultimately abandoned.
The Marine's Sister

"The marine's sister" (Tracy Ashton) is sister to the Phantom, or the incarnation of him that toured with a Polish circus. She has only one leg, and a "car stick" in the place of the other. According to Sue, she killed three kids in the first grade.

She appears in Nikki's house in the end credits. She first appears alone in the dark, looking around. She says, "Sweet." She is then joined by others.

## More Things That Happened

In a hidden Easter egg deleted scene on the DVD, Sue tells Mr. K about a one-legged girl being sent to a "children's prison" in the country. She escaped when she was eight and killed a female guard with the guard's own billy club, then hitchhiked away with a trucker. Nikki says the girl would be about sixteen by now, but no one has seen her since she took off with the trucker. (If this is true, it's unclear how Sue would know the specifics of this encounter.) Sue mentions that at this point, her prosthetic leg was wooden.
Koz Kakawski

Koz Kakawski (Stanley Kamel) is a member of a traveling circus troupe that performs in the Baltic region. He and seven other members of the group attend a backyard party hosted by Smithy, and recruit him to join their circus. At the party, Koz gets in a fight with another member of the circus who took his hammer.

## Room to Dream

Koz costars with Lanni and Lori in a short deleted scene, which was released on *Room to Dream*, a promo DVD which was sold with ProTool editing software. In the scene, Koz sits stoically in the backyard of Smithy's house with Lanni and Lori. Koz seems to be experiencing some sort of temporal displacement. Lanni says she thought Koz went to the circus, and he says he did. Yet, he is somehow "near here." Some sort of disturbance occurs, which suddenly turns day into darkness, and Koz and the girls break into a somber love song called "It Happened."
Warehouse

Warehouses are your in-town storage. There is a Storage Keeper NPC in every City or Town with Warehouse space.

You can access this storage via the Storage Keeper's interface or by renting a Container from them. The Container can then be placed in your residence and your Warehouse can be accessed from that.
Janek

Janek (Jan Hench) is an otherworldly presence who seems to want to stop the Phantom.

## Things That Happened

### *The Mansion*

Jack enters a dark mansion room; as the lights come up, Jack disappears and Janek manifests, hinting at a link between the two. Janek then speaks to the Phantom in Polish. Janek asks if the Phantom is "looking to go in," and the Phantom agrees: he is looking for "an opening." Janek says he understands, and the Phantom repeatedly yells that he is glad Janek understands, while Janek fades away in a blur.

### *Sue's Reality*

Janek teams up with Smithy in Poland to find the Phantom. They drive to the site of a few trailers in the woods. Janek waits by the car while Smithy approaches a trailer, and is told the the Phantom left for Inland Empire.

He later accompanies Smithy to a séance in Poland held by three old Polish-speaking men. The men give Smithy the gun which is used to kill the Phantom.

## Analysis

* Janek apparently has the power to allow the Phantom to "go in" and reenact his curse with a group of new humans. He apparently allows the Phantom to do so; however, his later actions suggest that he does so so that Nikki may kill the Phantom.

* The fact that Janek appears when Jack disappears (and vice versa) in the Mansion scene may indicate that Janek is a manifestation of Jack. However, Janek subsequently appears in the same room as Marek, who is almost certainly a manifestation of Jack, so it is possible that Jack merely arranged or covertly observed the Mansion meeting.
Gordy

Gordy (Marek Zydowicz) is a Polish man who works for Cyrk Zalewski and seemingly is part of the plot to defeat the Phantom.

He attends a backyard party at Sue and Smithy's house along with seven other members of the circus troupe, apparently to recruit Smithy. He is wearing a captain's hat and a plaid jacket. Upon arriving, he immediately approaches Piotrek and says, "It's 3:00." Smithy, seeming perplexed, replies, "Yes, that's right. You're right on time."

Later, Gordy is staying in a trailer in the woods in Eastern Europe when Smithy and Janek arrive, looking for the Phantom. Gordy tells Smithy that the Phantom is gone, and angrily yells at him, "You're nothing! You've done nothing!" Eventually, Gordy calms down and tells Smithy that the Phantom "talked, mumbled something about Inland Empire."

## Trivia

Marek Zydowicz is an executive producer for the Polish portion of *INLAND EMPIRE*. He founded the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Camerimage) in 1993, and was instrumental in recruiting Lynch to attend the festival in 2000, ultimately resulting in Lynch’s love of Łódź and decision to film much of *INLAND EMPIRE* there. *(Source:* Room to Dream*, David Lynch and Kristine McKenna, 2018, Random House, p. 376-77.)*
Cyrk Zalewski

Cyrk Zalewski is a traveling circus in the Baltic region. Smithy and the Phantom tour with the circus.

Eight members of the circus, all Polish-speaking, attend a backyard party hosted by Smithy and Sue. Gordy says, "It's 3:00." Smithy, slightly perplexed, responds, "Yes, that's right. You're right on time." One man (Janusz Hetman ) says, "The situation is becoming dangerous." Another man (Michal Stopowski) escorts him into the house, then comes out and asks Smithy for "paper for the toilet." Koz Kakawski, another member of the troupe, fights one of his colleagues for a hammer.

Smithy leaves Sue to travel with the group, to "take care for the animals."

The Phantom's job is to work up the crowd, doing "some sorta thing on people," according to Sue. One night, the Phantom was involved in a barroom fight. Everyone involved was arrested, including many circus clowns, but when the group was taken to the station, the Phantom had vanished.

## More Things That Happened (Deleted Scenes)

Smithy does tricks with a horse in a darkened tent, with a few appreciative onlookers.

## Trivia

* Several members of the circus are played by members of the film crew. Kazimierz Suwala, Janusz Hetman and Michal Stopowski are co-producers for the Poland unit. Alfredo Ponce is credited as construction coordinator, and is also credited as "builder extraordinaire" on *Lost Highway.* Initially hired as a landscaper after Lynch saw him doing working on a neighbor’s property and befriended him in the mid-1990s, Ponce has served as a “jack of all trades” plumber, electrician and builder on Lynch’s home property ever since. *(Source:* Room to Dream*, David Lynch and Kristine McKenna, 2018, Random House, p. 312.)*
* Juggler Bryson Lang plays a member of the circus. He is briefly seen entering the backyard party carrying juggling pins.
* The *Lynch 2* documentary shows Lynch planning the circus shoot while sitting in a restaurant. Stopowski tells Lynch they can get him a camel, tiger and horses for two days. Lynch only says he wants to shoot outside the tent at night with wagons, and where they keep the horses. Stopowski asks if Lynch wants the inside of the tent, and Lynch says he wants the tent empty. After thinking, he adds, "Maybe Piotrek," and the Camerimage gang dressed and in back, coming out together with Piotrek. He asks if Krzysztof (who plays the Phantom) will be there tomorrow night, and Stopowski says he will. In the *Lynch* documentary, Lynch says that he doesn't think he'll use the whole circus, and says he has to "think fast" and see if it conjures up ideas.
The Angry Birds Show: Mine and Dine Bootleg Episode

I absolutely loved the angry Birds Show a long time ago. I played every single game. I was on my computer playing Trainz Simulator till I was bored so I went to google and typed "Angry Birds Show." However, something popped up. It was a weird website that had an angry Birds Show lost episode. It was called mine and dine but the episode was a Bootleg. I clicked the download link and went to windows media player to play it. The episode began with The pigs mining. Chuck was shocked. There was static playing while the episode was playing for no reason.

The episode then cut to black And showed the first scene high showed two Chuck birds, Matilda, and Terrance. Chuck then pulled to action. Three pigs blew up. The other Chuck then went to action. There was one pig left. Matilda went to action and layed the egg but missed. The pig said "He Ho! You missed" Terrace was so angry he went to action too. The pig was destroyed. Then came the next scene which showed Two booms and Two Matilda's. The first Bomb went to action! Part of the whole building blew up. Matilda went to action and layed the egg. Bomb then went to action and blew up. However. The scene failed and the pigs said "AHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOUR NEXT" Oh no! I was so scared I deleted the video. If you find this video, don't watch it!
Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski appears in Nikki's mansion in the end credits sequence. Her character is unnamed, and she is credited only as a "Special Appearance." She sits next to Nikki, and seems somewhat confused or stunned throughout the sequence.

## More Things That Happened (Deleted Scenes)

Nikki's friend (played by Kinski) sits in Nikki’s house speaking to her. She says she had the most incredible experience. It was "at Al’s." She was sitting at the bar in the back where the bathrooms are. A guy bought her a beer, He was married, but she didn’t care. He told her he was just passing through. His name was Billy. Pete was in the back, serving a beer to Sondra. Billy said, “I think I’ve met you before,” and although she didn’t want to fall for that line, she felt she had met him before as well, so she said it back to him. She “wanted him so bad.” He said, “I want you.” They went back to his room at the Harriston Hotel. Pete looked at her as she left, and Sondra eyeballed the man. The inside of the hotel was different. They must have changed the décor, she says: she didn’t know where she was, like she was dreaming.

## Analysis

Her story about going to a hotel to sleep with a man and finding herself unable to recognize her surroundings clearly parallels *Axxon N.* Immediately after she tells her story, Jack is seen in the hallway from *Axxon N.*
Pointing

Various characters use the wiggling or pointing of a finger or hand to control or influence people and time in magical ways.

The First Visitor seems to transport Nikki through time and space by pointing her finger, moving Nikki to the next day, when she received a call that she has been cast in *On High in Blue Tomorrows*.

At Forty Deuce, Carolina directs Sue upstairs to Mr. K's office, seemingly using her hand to control Nikki's movements.

In a bar, the Phantom uses his finger to "hypnotize" Doris into murdering Sue.

Lori mockingly makes the same "hypnotizing" finger motion that the Phantom made, toward Chelsi.

When Sue leaves Mr. K's office and runs downstairs, the camera lingers on a strange object dangling from the banister which resembles Carolina's arm in a red sleeve, pointing the same direction Sue is running.
Inland Empire (place)

The sole reference to Inland Empire in the film is when Gordy tells Smithy that the Phantom is gone, and that he "talked, mumbled something about Inland Empire." Smithy seems worried to hear this; since the Phantom moves in next door to Sue, it is possible that Sue and Smithy live in Inland Empire. (However, on set, Lynch and Dern referred to Smithy's home as "the Valley house," likely placing its location in the San Fernando Valley).

A broader definition of the "Inland Empire" area includes Pomona. Street Person #2 says that Niko lives in Pomona, and she and Street Person #1 have a lengthy discussion regarding whether there is a bus from Hollywood to Pomona.

## Trivia

* Lynch gave the film this title when Laura Dern told him that her boyfriend (later husband) Ben Harper was raised in Inland Empire. Lynch immediately knew that he wanted this to be the title of the film. Later, Lynch's brother sent him a scrapbook Lynch had made when he was five. On the first page was an aerial photo of Spokane with the words "Inland Empire" written beneath, so Lynch new he was "on the right track." *(Source:* Catching the Big Fish*, David Lynch, 2006, Penguin Group, p. 143.)*
* Several other works by David Lynch are titled after place names, both real and fictional: *Mulholland Drive*, *Twin Peaks*, *Lost Highway* and *Dune*.
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