Spoilers

“May the Giant Be With You”

“Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?“

Leland, with his hair changed to all grey overnight, came out singing this song, to signify that he was ready to move on. Who knew smothering a man to death had such a revitalizing property to it?

Of course, the grey hair was one more hint that Leland was the actual killer of Laura, being possessed by Killer Bob.

This episode was originally promoted as the reveal of the killer, but that was just a promotional trick and what we saw, for the first time, was an image of Killer Bob, which was what the show was giving us. Yes, Bob was the killer, but we wanted the secret to which character was being possessed.

Twin Peaks, which was already fairly mystical, embraced that end of the spectrum starting with this episode, featuring the Giant, a return of the one armed man, and Bob.

There were a couple of quotes from this episode that resonated with me. The first one was from Agent Cooper, who after waking up at the hospital after being shot, and having Lucy run down all the things that had happened that night, Cooper sarcastically said “How long was I out.” That was delivered with such a perfect tone.

The other quote was one that makes me think of my roommate Andy, because Andy loved Pete Martell’s delivery of the line. Pete was suffering with smoke inhalation and he said to Sheriff Truman, “I feel like someone taped my lips to the tailpipe of a bus.” I can hear Andy’s echoing laughter just thinking about it .

Twin Peaks has had a history of violence toward women, which probably wouldn’t work in today’s world. We got one of the more violent moments so far when we get the flashback, via Ronette’s memory, of Bob killing Laura. It is why the strong woman Catharine was such a different character on the show.

This kicked off the second season in a really strong way, and, looking back, it was clear that there were actually a lot of info dropped. More than we even knew.