Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 5: "Case Files"

Dougie Dale sheds a tear at the sight of his son in the car, then goes to work at LUCKY 7 INSURANCE. He convinces young intern Phil to give him a guy called Frank’s coffee, which works out because Frank finds out he likes green tea. A flashing green light makes Dougie say that a co-worker, Sinclair, is lying about an insurance payout on a fire. His boss, Bushnell “Battling Bud” Mullins, gives him a bunch of case files to study all night. Then he forgets how to pee again which makes an anonymous female coworker want to fuck him so bad. He definitely does not pay back the $50,000 debt Janey-E tells him to. 

Meanwhile, Mr C is locked up in jail, where he sees Bob’s reflection in the mirror. He uses his one phone call to say something about “Mr Strawberry”, which seems to rattle the warden, and then puts a code into the phone that makes every alarm go off so he can say “the cow jumped over the moon” without anyone hearing.

Meanwhile: the hitmen supposed to kill Dougie keep circling the block and going idunno his car is still there. This really stresses out a woman named Lorraine who texts “2” to a little black box which shrinks. Don't ask me! Later some punks try to steal the car and it explodes. Anyway! The detectives find Dougie’s ring inside the stomach of maybe Garland Briggs’ corpse. Shelley and Norma Shelley's daughter, played by Amanda Siegfried, is dating a burnout called Steven. New Sheriff Truman’s wife is a TOTAL BITCH. 2 mob guys(?) beat up and fire the casino pit boss while their 3 hotties watch. Jade puts Coop’s Great Northern key in the mail. A guy named only in the credits gets very rapey at the Roadhouse. Tammy Preston seems to think there's something weird with Coop's fingerprints. Andy and Hawk still got nothing. And we FINALLY learn what Jacoby is doing with those shovels and it makes NO SENSE!!

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Things mentioned:

• Soulseek
• Kashiwa Daisuke – program music I & program music III
• Behind the Bastards (podcast) 
• The Doom Generation (1995)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• red ball market global (this is a bit from The Chair Company lol)
• This picture of Caleb Landry-Jones
• “How Takeout Culture Has Changed Twin Peaks’ Relationship to Coffee”
• “The Turtle Club” from Master of Disguise (2002)
• I Think You Should Leave
• Megalopolis (2024)
• How to pronounce: Steve Buscemi, Amanda Seyfried, Brian Outhwaite
• Max Graves – “What Happens Next”
• alex jones get back here coward
• Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• Network (1976)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Universal Language (2024)

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Music by Jamie Page

Show art by Mya Fernandes-Giles

This episode edited by Mary Chan at Organized Sound Productions

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