131 Fun Facts About Twin Peaks
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Take the 131-question quizIn an early Twin Peaks episode, what is found in the percolator after Cooper and Truman are served coffee?
A fish: their host bursts back in to warn Cooper and Truman off the coffee he has just poured, explaining that 'there was a fish in the percolator'.
What oddly large population does the 'Welcome to Twin Peaks' sign give the town?
51,201 is ten times what Lynch and Frost intended: they wanted 5,120, but ABC feared viewers would not relate to so small a town.
Which composer, a regular David Lynch collaborator, wrote the dreamy Twin Peaks theme and score?
Angelo Badalamenti wrote the show's signature love theme in about 20 minutes at his keyboard with Lynch beside him; Lynch told him he had just written 75 percent of the score.
Which actor, already David Lynch's lead in Dune and Blue Velvet, plays FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks?
Kyle MacLachlan played Dale Cooper from the pilot through the 2017 revival, where he also plays Cooper's evil doppelgänger.
What is the illicit casino and brothel across the Canadian border frequented by Twin Peaks residents?
One-Eyed Jack's is secretly owned by Ben Horne, who has girls recruited for it from the perfume counter of his own department store; Laura Palmer was one of them.
What is the given name of the mysterious character known as the 'Log Lady'?
Margaret Lanterman was widowed on her wedding night, when her lumberjack husband died in a fire; she passes on the cryptic messages she says her log gives her.
Which Twin Peaks character is the rebellious, curious daughter of the town's wealthiest hotelier?
Audrey Horne goes undercover at the brothel her father secretly owns to investigate Laura's death, and is very nearly sent to him as the new girl.
To which night of the week did ABC move Twin Peaks for its second season?
Saturday proved a graveyard slot: 'Our audience doesn't stay home on Saturdays,' Mark Frost complained, and ABC pulled the show from its schedule in February 1991.
In Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer hid a secret life behind volunteer work for which organization?
Meals on Wheels was Laura's volunteer round; after her death, Donna takes over the route to look for suspects among the people Laura visited.
Which Washington state town was a primary filming location for the fictional town of Twin Peaks?
Snoqualmie and neighbouring North Bend supplied the pilot's locations and the waterfall in the credits, but most episodes were then shot on sound stages and locations around Los Angeles.
Which actor plays Bobby Briggs, Laura Palmer's football-playing boyfriend?
Dana Ashbrook played Bobby Briggs from the pilot through the 2017 revival, where the former delinquent has become a sheriff's deputy.
In Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper says he likes his coffee 'black as midnight on' what?
A moonless night completes Cooper's coffee order; within weeks of the premiere, Newsweek found office workers quoting his coffee lines to each other at the coffee wagon.
What food item is the visiting FBI agent forever praising in 'Twin Peaks'?
Cherry pie made a celebrity of the Mar-T Cafe in North Bend, the real diner used in the pilot: its 72-year-old baker told People in 1990 she had never sold so much of it.
Laura Palmer's body is found on a riverbank in the Twin Peaks pilot, wrapped in what?
Plastic sheeting wraps the body in the image that starts the series; in The Return, Cooper's trip back in time makes the corpse vanish from the shore.
In Twin Peaks: The Return, which technology baffles receptionist Lucy?
Cell phones: when the sheriff phones her and then walks through the door, she takes fright; only in the penultimate episode does she announce that she finally understands them.
What does an elderly waiter bring Cooper as he lies shot in his Twin Peaks hotel room?
Warm milk arrives instead of help: the senile waiter hangs up the phone, has the bleeding agent sign for it and leaves him with a thumbs-up.
Which actor plays the deranged former FBI agent Windom Earle?
Kenneth Welsh played Windom Earle, Cooper's former FBI partner, who escapes an asylum and stalks Cooper through the second season.
Which Twin Peaks spirit inhabits the one-armed shoe salesman Phillip Gerard?
MIKE says he was once BOB's partner in killing; then he 'saw the face of God' and took off his host's arm to rid himself of the tattoo that marked him.
Which actor played the red-suited little man who dances in Twin Peaks' Red Room?
Michael J. Anderson played the Man from Another Place; his eerie cadence came from speaking lines phonetically backwards, then reversing the film.
What is the name of the diner owned by Norma Jennings in 'Twin Peaks'?
The Double R Diner, a single small-town cafe in the original series, has grown by the 2017 revival into the flagship of a franchise called Norma's Double R.
Which actress plays Donna Hayward, Laura Palmer's best friend, in the original Twin Peaks series?
Lara Flynn Boyle did not return for the prequel film Fire Walk with Me, an absence put down to scheduling conflicts, so Moira Kelly plays Donna there.
'Fire Walk With Me' opens with the FBI investigating the murder of which earlier victim?
Teresa Banks, a drifter murdered a year before Laura, is the case Agent Chester Desmond works in the film's opening act before he vanishes.
In Twin Peaks: The Return, a dazed Agent Cooper spends most of the season living as whom?
Douglas 'Dougie' Jones is the Las Vegas insurance man whose life Cooper stumbles into, winning jackpot after jackpot as 'Mr. Jackpots' while his evil double roams free.
By what title is the pilot episode of 'Twin Peaks' also known?
The pilot is known as 'Northwest Passage', the working title the whole series carried in development before it became Twin Peaks.
What pattern covers the floor of the Red Room in Twin Peaks?
Zigzag stripes floor a room first filmed as an ending for the European video release of the pilot; Lynch liked the footage so much that he reused it as Cooper's dream.
Which character does Carel Struycken play in Twin Peaks?
The Giant, played by Carel Struycken, appears on the Roadhouse stage in season two to warn Cooper, 'It is happening again,' at the very moment the killer strikes once more.
Ben Horne's Ghostwood country-club project is intended to replace which local business?
The Packard Sawmill stands on the land Ben Horne covets for Ghostwood Estates; the mill burns down in the season one finale.
Which actor plays sardonic FBI forensics expert Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks?
Miguel Ferrer's Albert insults the town until Sheriff Truman punches him; on a later visit he stuns Truman by declaring himself a pacifist who acts out of love.
What kind of creature is Waldo, the talking witness to Laura's last night at the cabin in Twin Peaks?
A myna bird, Waldo is shot by Leo Johnson through the sheriff's station window, but a voice-activated recorder left by its cage has already caught it saying 'Leo, no!'
Laura Palmer's look-alike cousin, who comes to Twin Peaks after her death, is named what?
Maddy Ferguson's name nods to Hitchcock's Vertigo, pairing Madeleine Elster with Scottie Ferguson; as with Kim Novak in that film, one actress plays both the blonde and the brunette.
Which eccentric Twin Peaks psychiatrist, played by Russ Tamblyn, is fascinated by Tiki culture?
Dr. Jacoby spent years in Hawaii and wears glasses with one red lens and one blue; by the 2017 revival he has lost his licence and rants online as 'Dr. Amp'.
What is the name of the main theme of 'Twin Peaks'?
'Falling' is a Julee Cruise song with lyrics by David Lynch himself; the show strips out her vocal and uses the instrumental as its opening theme.
Which FBI agent, played by David Bowie in 'Fire Walk With Me', mysteriously vanishes and reappears?
Phillip Jeffries bursts into the Philadelphia FBI office after two years missing, describes a meeting of spirits and vanishes again; the 2017 revival turns him into a steaming, kettle-like machine.
Sheriff Truman tells Cooper the Bookhouse Boys were formed to fight what in the woods around Twin Peaks?
Supernatural evil is their old enemy, 'a sort of evil out there' in Truman's words, though on Cooper's first visit to the Bookhouse the men are holding a suspected cocaine runner.
Which actor plays Leo Johnson, the violent truck driver?
Eric Da Re played Leo Johnson, the drug-running trucker who is shot in the season one finale and spends much of season two in a vegetative state.
In 'Fire Walk With Me', what piece of jewellery passes between victims as an otherworldly artifact?
The ring vanishes along with the agent who finds it in the film's opening case, and resurfaces on the night Laura dies, when it is thrown to her and she puts it on.
Which singer plays FBI agent Chester Desmond in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me?
Chris Isaak's Agent Desmond opens the film investigating a murder in the hostile town of Deer Meadow, then vanishes without trace at a trailer park.
What does Agent Cooper throw at a bottle to narrow down his suspects in an early Twin Peaks episode?
Stones: Cooper has each suspect's name read out as he throws at a bottle about sixty feet away, a deductive technique he calls his Tibetan method.
What is Windom Earle's ultimate goal in the second season of Twin Peaks?
To harness the town's dark powers, Earle hunts for the Black Lodge; once inside he demands Cooper's soul, and BOB takes Earle's own instead.
Which actress finally appeared as Diane, Agent Cooper's unseen tape recipient, in the 2017 Twin Peaks revival?
Laura Dern's Diane turns out to be a manufactured copy planted by Cooper's evil double; the real Diane is freed only in the revival's penultimate episode.
Where do Cooper and the sheriff's men find an ancient map to the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks?
Owl Cave's petroglyph baffles Cooper at first; it is Deputy Andy and, separately, the villain Windom Earle who work out that the carving is a map.
James Hurley is a keen rider of what?
Motorcycles; James lives with his uncle Big Ed because his musician father left and his mother drinks.
Which Twin Peaks waitress is secretly seeing Bobby Briggs behind her violent husband's back?
Shelly Johnson is still waitressing at the diner 25 years later in the revival, by which time she and Bobby have a grown daughter, Becky, in a troubled marriage of her own.
What title did Laura Palmer hold at Twin Peaks High School?
Homecoming Queen was Laura's public face, and her portrait from the school trophy case closes almost every original episode; the investigation uncovers a cocaine habit behind it.
The 2017 revival series of 'Twin Peaks' aired on which television network?
Showtime nearly lost its director: Lynch walked away over the budget in April 2015, then returned weeks later, and the planned nine episodes became 18.
Which actress plays Lucy Moran, the high-voiced receptionist at the sheriff's department?
Kimmy Robertson played Lucy Moran from the pilot onward; in the 2017 revival the scatterbrained receptionist is the one who shoots Cooper's evil double.
Which Twin Peaks character is obsessed with inventing completely silent drape runners?
Nadine Hurley, Big Ed's wife, pours her energy into silent drape runners; in season two she gains superhuman strength and regresses to her teens.
Which Twin Peaks deputy is known for bursting into tears at crime scenes?
Andy Brennan weeps over Laura's body in the pilot, yet in the season one finale the hapless deputy saves Sheriff Truman by shooting an armed suspect.
Which film journal named Twin Peaks: The Return the best film of the 2010s?
Cahiers du Cinéma counted the 18-part television series as a single film, which is how it came to top the journal's ten best films of the 2010s.
Which logger discovers Laura Palmer's body in the Twin Peaks pilot?
Pete Martell finds Laura on his way out one morning; when The Return replays that morning after Cooper changes the past, he sets off again and there is no body to find.
In the Twin Peaks pilot, which dazed, injured girl is found walking across a railroad bridge?
Ronette Pulaski had wandered across the state line, which made the case federal and brought the FBI's Agent Cooper to Twin Peaks.
What tiny typed letter does Cooper find under Laura Palmer's fingernail?
The letter R matched a T found under the nail of a girl killed a year earlier, which told Cooper the same killer had struck again.
Which industrial band plays the Roadhouse in Part 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return?
Nine Inch Nails play 'She's Gone Away', their second attempt: Lynch turned down the first track they sent and asked for something menacing and unpleasant instead.
In Twin Peaks, whose corpse in a body bag turns out to be 'the man in the smiling bag'?
Jacques Renault's body bag, hung up empty at the hospital, sags into the shape of a smile, which Cooper spots as the answer to a riddle from his vision.
Which agoraphobic orchid grower kept Laura's secret diary?
Harold Smith, the agoraphobic orchid grower, hangs himself after catching Donna and Maddy trying to steal Laura's secret diary from his home.
Disguised as which Japanese businessman does Catherine Martell return after the mill fire in Twin Peaks?
As Mr. Tojamura, Catherine Martell wrests the Ghostwood project from Ben Horne; to keep the secret, the credits named a non-existent actor, Fumio Yamaguchi, in the part.
Which DEA agent, played by David Duchovny, arrives in Twin Peaks when Cooper is suspended from the FBI?
Denise Bryson returns in the 2017 revival as FBI Chief of Staff, where Gordon Cole recalls telling the colleagues who mocked her to 'fix their hearts or die'.
Which Twin Peaks villain frames Cooper for cocaine trafficking?
Jean Renault's plot has a crooked Mountie plant cocaine in Cooper's car; Cooper, suspended from the FBI, has to clear his name with a DEA agent's help.
Windom Earle murders someone each time what happens in his game with Cooper?
A chess piece is captured and a victim dies, so Cooper recruits the town's best player to steer the game toward a stalemate that costs as few pieces as possible.
In Twin Peaks, who is revealed to have shot Cooper at the end of season one?
Josie Packard shot Cooper in his hotel room, as ballistics later prove; cornered, she dies suddenly, and her face appears trapped in a wooden drawer knob.
Which Hong Kong businessman, Andrew Packard's old partner, arrives in Twin Peaks in season two?
Thomas Eckhardt, held responsible for the boat explosion meant to kill Andrew Packard, is shot dead at his hotel soon after he reaches town.
Which contest does Annie Blackburn win before Windom Earle kidnaps her?
Miss Twin Peaks is the crown Annie wins with a speech on saving the forests; Earle, disguised as the Log Lady, grabs her when the lights go out.
What does the Man from Another Place say first in Cooper's Red Room dream in Twin Peaks?
'Let's rock,' says the Man from Another Place in Cooper's Red Room dream before his dance; the words are later scrawled on Chet Desmond's windshield in Fire Walk with Me.
In the final part of Twin Peaks: The Return, Cooper finds Laura's double, Carrie Page, in which state?
Texas: Cooper finds her in Odessa and drives her to the Palmer house in Twin Peaks, where the stranger who answers the door is played by the house's real-life owner.
In Twin Peaks: The Return, a librarian's murder brings the FBI to which South Dakota town?
Buckhorn, South Dakota, is where police find librarian Ruth Davenport's severed head placed on a headless man's body; the puzzle brings Gordon Cole's FBI team to town.
What gold-painted item does 'Dr. Amp' sell on his webcast in Twin Peaks: The Return?
Shovels: he spray-paints them gold at his trailer and urges viewers to buy one and shovel their way 'into the truth'.
Which police drama had Mark Frost written for before creating Twin Peaks?
Hill Street Blues had Mark Frost as a writer and story editor from 1982 to 1985; he then met Lynch on a film script that was never made, and the partnership stuck.
Lynch and Frost first worked together on a screenplay about which Hollywood star?
Marilyn Monroe was the subject: they adapted Anthony Summers's biography Goddess, but the script implicated Robert Kennedy in her death and the film was never made.
FBI chief Gordon Cole takes his name from a minor character in which classic Hollywood film?
Sunset Boulevard, one of Lynch's favourite films, has a minor studio man named Gordon Cole; Twin Peaks borrowed the name for its hard-of-hearing FBI boss.
Before moving the story to forest country, Lynch and Frost first set Twin Peaks in which Plains state?
North Dakota was the first setting and, Frost says, the original title; the plains lacked the mystery and darkness of the forest, so the story moved west.
Which actress dropped out of playing Giovanna Packard before the pilot?
Isabella Rossellini, Lynch's partner and Blue Velvet star, was to play the Italian Giovanna Packard but left; the part was rewritten as Josie Packard, from Hong Kong.
Which character did Warren Frost, co-creator Mark Frost's father, play?
Dr. Will Hayward was Warren Frost's role; he came back for one scene in the 2017 revival, advising the sheriff over Skype, and died months before it aired.
In which city did Lynch find Sheryl Lee, hired at first only to play Laura Palmer's corpse?
Seattle: Lynch wanted a local girl only to play the dead body, but a home-video picnic scene showed him Sheryl Lee could act, so he wrote her back in as Laura's cousin.
Phillip Gerard, named after a TV lawman, was an homage to which classic series?
The Fugitive: its hero hunts a one-armed man while pursued by Lieutenant Gerard; the nod was meant as one elevator shot until Lynch wrote the actor a larger part.
Which crew member was cast as BOB after turning up by accident in a mirror shot?
Frank Silva was dressing Laura's bedroom set when Lynch had him crouch by the bed for a shot, then spotted his accidental reflection in a mirror and made him BOB.
Which Frank Lloyd Wright house from Blade Runner hosted the soap Invitation to Love?
The Ennis House in Los Angeles was the soap's set; its twin sisters, both played by one actress, mirror Laura and her look-alike cousin.
Who is the mayor of Twin Peaks in the original series?
Mayor Dwayne Milford feuds for years with his brother Dougie, the newspaper publisher, who dies on his wedding night to the much younger Lana.
What faulty fixture did Lynch keep during Cooper's first examination of Laura's body?
A flickering fluorescent lamp over the examination table was a faulty set light; Lynch liked its disconcerting effect and kept it in the scene.
What everyday moment inspired Lynch's idea for the Red Room dream?
Leaning against a hot car gave Lynch the Red Room in a flash; the dream sequence was never in the script yet became a driving plot point.
What is the name of Lucy and Andy's son in Twin Peaks: The Return?
Wally Brando, played by Michael Cera, turns up dressed as Marlon Brando in The Wild One to pay his respects to the sheriff in a rambling monologue.
Which 1989 Julee Cruise album supplied several motifs for the Twin Peaks score?
Floating into the Night grew out of Blue Velvet: when a song Lynch wanted for that film proved too costly, Cruise sang a new one written in its style, and the album followed.
Which jazz cue is Audrey Horne calling 'too dreamy' as it plays on the diner jukebox?
'Audrey's Dance' is the finger-snapping cue she sways to in the diner; the 2017 revival brings it back when the Roadhouse floor clears so she can dance to it again.
Which character is unmasked in season two of Twin Peaks as Laura's killer, acting under BOB's control?
Leland Palmer, Laura's own father, is the killer; Lynch and Frost wanted the mystery left open far longer, but ABC pressed them to name the culprit in season two.
Which veteran actor plays the new Sheriff Truman in the 2017 Twin Peaks revival?
Robert Forster plays Frank Truman; he had been wanted as the original sheriff but a scheduling clash ruled him out, and the revival finally gave him the badge.
Which NBC sitcom saw its ratings dented by Twin Peaks' Thursday slot?
Cheers was the hit it faced on Thursday nights: Twin Peaks cut into its audience on arrival, but within weeks the newcomer's own ratings were sliding.
Who wrote Dale Cooper's tie-in 'autobiography', subtitled My Life, My Tapes?
Scott Frost, brother of co-creator Mark, wrote it as transcripts of Cooper's tapes, starting in boyhood and stopping the day he is handed the Laura Palmer case.
Which actress played the Log Lady from the pilot through the 2017 revival?
Catherine Coulson played the Log Lady from the pilot through the 2017 revival, filming her final scenes shortly before her death in 2015.
The Return's Part 8 traces BOB's birth to which real event?
Trinity test: the 1945 atomic blast in New Mexico fills the screen in black and white, and out of it a floating figure spews an orb bearing BOB's face.
At which Las Vegas casino does the dazed Cooper win a string of jackpots?
The Silver Mustang is where Cooper copies another gambler's cry of 'Hello!' and wins the jackpot at every slot machine he tries, 30 in all.
Who co-wrote Fire Walk with Me with David Lynch?
Robert Engels, a writer-producer on season two, co-wrote the film with Lynch; co-creator Mark Frost has no script credit on it at all.
Which character does Kiefer Sutherland play in Fire Walk with Me?
Kiefer Sutherland played Sam Stanley, the fussy forensic agent who assists Chester Desmond in the film's opening investigation at Deer Meadow.
Under what title were the deleted scenes of Fire Walk with Me finally released as a feature in 2014?
The Missing Pieces runs 91 minutes; Lynch had cut the film from about five hours of footage, leaving series regulars such as Sheriff Truman out of it altogether.
Who wrote the tie-in novel The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer?
Jennifer Lynch, the director's daughter, wrote it at 22; told by her father and Mark Frost to 'be Laura Palmer', she said it came like automatic writing.
Who is revealed as 'the Archivist' who compiled The Secret History of Twin Peaks?
Major Garland Briggs is the Archivist, hand-picked for the job by Douglas Milford; his dossier breaks off with a single-word distress call, 'Mayday'.
With which historic expedition does The Secret History of Twin Peaks begin?
Lewis and Clark open the dossier, which starts with their exploration of the region, letters to President Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis's mysterious death in 1809.
Who writes the FBI reports that make up Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier?
Agent Preston, Tamara 'Tammy' Preston, annotated the earlier Secret History dossier under the initials 'TP'; here she reports on what became of the town's residents.
What kind of trees does Cooper admire on his arrival in Twin Peaks?
Douglas firs is Sheriff Truman's answer: Cooper has just told him the FBI is taking charge of the case when he lights up and asks what the trees around town are.
Twin Peaks reunited Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn, who had co-starred in which classic film musical?
West Side Story cast Beymer as the lovestruck Tony and Tamblyn as Riff, leader of the Jets, though Tamblyn had first tested for Beymer's part.
Which actress played Annie Blackburn, Cooper's love interest, late in season two of Twin Peaks?
Heather Graham joined as Annie Blackburn, Norma's sister, written in as a new romance for Cooper after the planned pairing with Audrey was dropped.
What is the alternative title of season three's largely black-and-white 'Part 8'?
'Gotta light?' is what a soot-black Woodsman keeps asking strangers in Part 8, before he seizes a radio station and broadcasts a chant that knocks listeners out.
What does Cooper ask in the final scene of Twin Peaks: The Return?
'What year is this?' he asks outside the old Palmer house; a voice calls 'Laura', the woman beside him screams, and the lights go out.
Dale Cooper is named after a real-life hijacker of what?
The hijacker known as DB Cooper seized a Boeing 727 in 1971, collected $200,000 in ransom, parachuted out over the Northwest woods and was never found.
MacLachlan sees Cooper as a grown-up version of which earlier Lynch character he played?
Jeffrey Beaumont is the student sleuth of Blue Velvet; MacLachlan called Cooper that character grown up, no longer acted upon but in command of his world.
In Fire Walk with Me, what is the name for the pain and sorrow BOB feeds on?
Garmonbozia, the pain and sorrow the Lodge spirits consume, appears on screen as creamed corn, which MIKE demands from BOB at the film's end.
Who is the first Twin Peaks character to have a vision of BOB?
Sarah Palmer, Laura's mother, screams at a vision of a long-haired man in the first regular episode; the broadcast pilot shows him only as an accidental reflection in her mirror.
Which of the Hornes is Audrey's brother, the young man Laura Palmer used to tutor?
Johnny Horne, Audrey's older brother, is seen in the pilot in a headdress, banging his head against a dollhouse because Laura has not come.
Leland Palmer works mainly as whose attorney?
Ben Horne's legal work is Leland Palmer's living, the businessman being his main client; after Laura's death Leland keeps breaking into tearful dancing in public.
Which character is played by David Lynch himself?
Gordon Cole, the hard-of-hearing FBI bureau chief who shouts every line, is played by David Lynch himself, who kept the role through the 2017 revival.
Which actress plays Janey-E, wife of the man Cooper replaces in Las Vegas?
Naomi Watts played Janey-E, the exasperated Las Vegas wife who takes the dazed Cooper for her husband and pays off his gambling debts.
Windom Earle is versed in the lore of which Tibetan sorcerers?
The dugpas, as Earle tells it, were sorcerers who cultivated evil for the sake of evil; he studied them while assigned to Project Blue Book.
What does Cooper repeat into the bathroom mirror in the final scene of Twin Peaks' original run?
'How's Annie?' he repeats, laughing, after ramming his head into the mirror, where BOB's face looks back: the Cooper who left the Lodge is not the one who went in.
Albert, Cooper and Chet Desmond were among the first agents of which secret FBI squad?
The Blue Rose Task Force took on the cases the Air Force's Project Blue Book left unexplained; Jeffries led it and recruited Albert, Chet Desmond and Cooper.
Where did Annie Blackburn live before returning to Twin Peaks?
A convent took Annie in after a painful first love led to a suicide attempt; years later she returns to work at her sister Norma's diner.
Which actor plays Hank Jennings, Norma's ex-convict husband?
Chris Mulkey played Hank Jennings, Norma's husband, who returns from prison on parole early in season one and slides straight back into crime.
How did Nadine Hurley lose her eye?
Nadine lost her eye in a hunting accident on her honeymoon; Ed's guilt over it is much of what holds their unhappy marriage together.
Who becomes Nadine's boyfriend after she wakes believing she is a teenager again?
Mike Nelson, captain of the wrestling team Nadine joins with her new superhuman strength, becomes her boyfriend, which frees Ed to return to Norma.
Which Horne's Department Store employee rivals Andy for Lucy's affections?
Dick Tremayne, the menswear man at Horne's Department Store, dated Lucy while she was seeing Andy, which left the fatherhood of her baby in doubt.
Whose son is the violent Richard in The Return?
Audrey and Cooper's doppelgänger are his parents; the double sends Richard ahead onto a booby-trapped hilltop, watches him electrocuted and only then calls him his son.
Which actor plays Sheriff Truman in the original Twin Peaks?
Michael Ontkean played Sheriff Truman through both original seasons; he had retired from acting and declined to return for the 2017 revival.
Which actor plays Benjamin Horne?
Richard Beymer played Ben Horne in both runs; between them, Lynch asked him along to India to film the director's journey there as a documentary.
Which actress plays Laura's mother, Sarah Palmer?
Grace Zabriskie played Sarah Palmer from the pilot through the 2017 revival, where a much darker Sarah removes her own face in a bar.
Which actor plays Major Garland Briggs, Bobby's father?
Don S. Davis played Major Garland Briggs, the Air Force officer who was part of Project Blue Book and relays deep-space messages addressed to Cooper.
Which actor plays Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill?
Michael Horse played Hawk, who as deputy chief in the 2017 revival follows the Log Lady's clue to pages torn from Laura's diary, hidden in a restroom door.
Which comedian does Cooper quote on his drive into Twin Peaks, saying he'd rather be here than Philadelphia?
W.C. Fields gets the credit in Cooper's first tape to Diane, for the line 'I'd rather be here than Philadelphia', the city where Cooper grew up.
Which award did the 'Twin Peaks Theme' win in 1991?
A Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance went to the theme in February 1991, a TV tune beating entries by Kenny G and Phil Collins.
Which actress plays Josie Packard?
Joan Chen played Josie Packard and came back for Fire Walk with Me, but her only scene was cut from the film.
The waterfall in Twin Peaks' opening credits is about 100 feet taller than which falls?
Niagara Falls drops less than 190 feet; the credits' cascade in Washington state falls 268, and since the 1890s it has driven a power plant dug into the rock beneath it.
From where did the FBI agent played by David Bowie go missing for two years?
Buenos Aires was his posting; he steps out of a lift at the Philadelphia FBI office two years after vanishing, raves at Gordon Cole and is gone again.
Fire Walk with Me was unveiled in competition at which European film festival in 1992?
Cannes showed it in competition in May 1992, with French money behind it: the company CIBY 2000 financed the film, announced a month after the series was cancelled.
Which Twin Peaks actress won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1991?
Piper Laurie won it as Catherine Martell; in season two she fooled her own castmates by playing Catherine's male disguise on set under a made-up actor's name.
Fire Walk with Me bombed in North America but did far better in which country, where it opened first?
Japan got the film first, in May 1992, to reach the show's devoted fans there; in North America it grossed just $4.2 million.
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