Background The small town of
Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl
Laura Palmer (
Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend
Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine).
FBI special agent
Dale Cooper (
Kyle MacLachlan) has been sent to the town to investigate and has discovered that the killer was Laura's father,
Leland Palmer (
Ray Wise), who acted while possessed by a demonic entity,
Killer BOB (
Frank Silva). At the
end of the
original series, Cooper was trapped into the
Black Lodge, an extra-dimensional place, by BOB, who let out Cooper's doppelgänger to use him as his physical access to the world. Twenty-five years after those events, Cooper manages to escape the Lodge through a portal between worlds; during this process, Cooper was supposed to replace the doppelgänger, but instead takes the place of a second doppelgänger, Dougie Jones, fabricated by the first as a decoy for the exchange. Cooper's doppelgänger, exhausted from the process, crashes his car and passes out, allowing the police to capture him; he subsequently manages to escape, dividing his time between his search for access to "the Zone" and organizing his minions' attempts to eliminate the now catatonic Cooper, whom Jones's family and colleagues take for the real Dougie. After numerous attempts, Cooper's doppelgänger is given the coordinates by
Diane Evans (
Laura Dern), whom he raped in the past and substituted with a "tulpa" (a Lodge-manufactured copy of a human being) at his service; after confessing all this to FBI and redirecting them to the Twin Peaks Sheriff Station, Diane is shot by Agent
Albert Rosenfield (
Miguel Ferrer) and disposed of in the Lodge by
Mike (
Al Strobel). In the meantime, Cooper awakens from a self-induced coma in full possession of his mental faculties, and after saying goodbye to Dougie's wife Janey-E (
Naomi Watts) and son (
Pierce Gagnon), leaves for Twin Peaks. Agent
Phillip Jeffries (originally played by
David Bowie) was also aware of Judy's existence, and Cooper warned Gordon to find him in case he disappeared, saying that he was "trying to kill two birds with one stone." A portal opens and the doppelgänger is transported to the building above the purple ocean, where he is immediately encaged. In the room are Major Briggs's floating head and
the Fireman (
Carel Struycken); the screen shows the Palmer house, until the Fireman slowly waves his hand and the location changes to the Twin Peaks Sheriff's station. The cage is moved into the screen through a golden contraption. Cooper's doppelgänger appears outside the station, where he encounters Deputy
Andy Brennan (
Harry Goaz). Believing him to be the real Cooper, Andy and
Lucy (
Kimmy Robertson) welcome the doppelgänger back and introduce him to Sheriff
Frank Truman (
Robert Forster), the brother of the former sheriff,
Harry Truman (
Michael Ontkean). After Frank invites the doppelgänger into his office, Andy recalls a vision the Fireman showed him involving him and Lucy and rushes through the corridor. In the cells,
Chad Broxford (John Pirruccello) attempts to escape, threatening to shoot Andy when discovered, but Freddie Sykes (Jake Wardle) knocks him unconscious with his green glove. Meanwhile Lucy receives a call, and is startled when the interlocutor identifies himself. She redirects the call to Frank, who is told by the real Cooper that he has almost reached Twin Peaks. Sensing that something is wrong, both Frank and the doppelgänger draw their guns. Before either of them pulls the trigger, however, Lucy shoots the doppelgänger. Andy,
James Hurley (
James Marshall), Freddie, Naido and Deputy Chief
Tommy "Hawk" Hill (
Michael Horse) arrive in the office, expressing perplexity at the sight of the doppelgänger's corpse. The room darkens and the woodsmen appear in an attempt to revive the body. Cooper arrives at the station with Bradley (
Jim Belushi) and Rodney Mitchum (
Robert Knepper). BOB, in the form of an orb, exits the corpse and starts to attack Cooper. Freddie yells at BOB to get his attention and says "this is my destiny." BOB begins attacking Freddie; Freddie is wounded, but punches the orb repeatedly, breaking it into pieces. Cooper reassures Freddie that he destroyed BOB and proceeds to place the Owl Cave ring on the corpse's left hand's ring finger. The corpse disappears, and the ring reappears in the Black Lodge. Gordon, Tammy and Albert arrive at the station; as Cooper notices Naido, his face appears in
superimposition on the screen.
Bobby Briggs (
Dana Ashbrook) enters the office and asks what is going on; Cooper says that Garland Briggs, Bobby's father, was already aware of the events that are happening in that moment, and reveals that information Garland gathered brought the two of them to form a plan with Gordon. Cooper says that some things will change, and that "the past dictates the future;" he asks Frank to give Harry his regards. Naido approaches Cooper, and when they touch she turns into Diane, who says she remembers everything; the two of them and everyone else in the room turn to look at the clock on the wall, which switches continuously back and forth between 2:52 and 2:53. Cooper's superimposed face says "We live inside a dream" as Cooper in the room expresses his hope to see everyone present again. The room goes dark and the superimposed face disappears. Cooper, Diane and Gordon walk through the Great Northern's furnace room, hearing a continuous hum. Cooper unlocks a door using his old room key. Before he proceeds, he asks Diane and Gordon not to follow him inside and says he'll see Diane "at the curtain call." Cooper meets Mike, who recites the
"Fire Walk with Me" chant. They are transported to the Dutchman's and encounter Phillip Jeffries (voiced by Nathan Frizzell), enclosed in a bell-shaped steam-spouting machine. Cooper asks Phillip about the date
February 23, 1989, which Jeffries promises to find in the place he's in. Jeffries says that it's good to see Cooper again, and tells him to say hello to Gordon, who will remember "the unofficial version." He tells him that there he will find Judy, and warns him that someone will be there; he asks if Cooper asked him "this," after which the figure engraved in the Owl cave and on the ring comes out of the steam. The figure breaks in three parts and reconstitutes in a number 8, which turns on itself; a brown point on the figure travels from one side of the number to the other. Jeffries enjoins Cooper to "remember;" Mike says, "electricity", and Cooper is transported out of the room. On February 23, 1989, James Hurley drives Laura Palmer into the woods on his motorbike. Cooper appears and watches them from behind a tree. Laura breaks up with James, and after he drives away, goes to meet
Leo Johnson (
Eric Da Re), Ronette Pulaski and
Jacques Renault (
Walter Olkewicz) for an orgy, but encounters Cooper before reaching them. Recognizing him from her dreams, she takes his hand. Cooper leads her through the woods and tells her they are going home. On
February 24, 1989,
Pete Martell (
Jack Nance) goes fishing but Laura's corpse is not visible. In the present, in the Palmer house,
Sarah Palmer (
Grace Zabriskie) wails and tries to break her daughter's portrait. While guiding Laura through the woods, Cooper suddenly hears the strange scratching noise behind him. When he turns towards the sound, Laura disappears. Confused, Cooper looks for her for a moment. Her screams echo through the woods. The scene fades to
Julee Cruise singing "
The World Spins", accompanied by
Chromatics. == Production ==