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Dale Cooper quotes from Twin Peaks

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Most-quoted character in Twin Peaks: in 64 of its 201 quotes
Most scenes with: Sheriff Harry S. Truman (16), Albert Rosenfield (11), Log Lady (3)

Scenes with Dale Cooper 47

It was her you see. The necklace, a divided heart. Laura was, in fact... well she was living a double life. Two people. Yeah, but then, then when I saw her that last time she, I don't know, she seemed to have reached a kind of peace with herself. Now I believe that what she had in fact arrived at was a decision to end her life.

Are you saying Laura wanted to die?

DCDale Cooper

Doctor, Laura Palmer did not commit suicide.

No, no, but maybe she allowed herself to be killed.

Lucy, you'd better bring Agent Cooper up to date.

Leo Johnson was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Shelley and Pete got smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing, Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills.

DCDale Cooper

How long have I been out?

Six hours.

...

DCDale Cooper

Laura Palmer is dead. Jacques Renault is dead. Ronette Pulaski and Leo Johnson are in comas. Waldo the bird is dead. This leaves only the third man.

DCDale Cooper

Harry, when Albert finishes up at the Great Northern we'll meet back at the station. I'm ready to lay the whole thing out.

Rocks and bottles?

DCDale Cooper

Chalk and blackboard will be just fine.

Jelly donuts?

DCDale Cooper

Harry, that goes without saying.

Lucy, you'd better bring Agent Cooper up to date.

Leo Johnson was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Shelley and Pete got smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing, Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills.

DCDale Cooper

How long have I been out?

DDoctor

It’s 7:45 in the morning. We haven’t had this much action in one night since the Elks Club fire of ‘59.

DCDale Cooper

Who shot me, Albert?

My men are interrogating the hotel guests, the usual bumper crop of rural know-nothings and drunken fly-fishermen. Nothing so far. Oh, the world's most decrepit room service waiter remembers nothing out of the ordinary about the night in question, no surprise there. Señor Droolcup has, shall we say, a mind that wanders?

DCDale Cooper

Ronette Pulaski has woken from her coma.

DCDale Cooper

I'm thinking she's gonna have quite a story to tell when she regains the ability to speak.

So she's not talking?

DCDale Cooper

Waking but silent. Probably shock. I'm going to show her the sketches of Leo Johnson and Bob, the man Sarah Palmer saw in her vision. The man who came to me in my dream.

Has anyone seen Bob on Earth in the last few weeks?

DCDale Cooper

Buddhist tradition first came to the land of snow in the fifth century AD. The first Tibetan king to be touched by the Dharma was King Hathatha Rignamputsan. He and succeeding kings were collectively known as the Happy Generations. Now some historians place them in the Water Snake Year, 213 AD. Others in the year of the water ox, 173 AD. Amazing isn't it? The Happy Generations.

Agent Cooper, I am thrilled to pieces that the Dharma came to King Ho-Ho-Ho, I really am, but right now I'm trying hard to focus on the more immediate problems of our own century right here in Twin Peaks.

DCDale Cooper

Albert, you'd be surprised at the connection between the two.

[deadpan] Color me amazed.

I, uh, performed the autopsy on Jacques Renault. Stomach contents revealed... let's see, beer cans, a Maryland license plate, half a bicycle tire, a goat... and a small wooden puppet. Goes by the name of Pinocchio.

DCDale Cooper

You're making a joke!

I like to think of myself as one of the happy generations.

So, what did this giant sound like, huh? I mean, did he have a big, booming voice or what?

DCDale Cooper

No, no! He spoke softly, distinctly.

And you gave him the beans you were supposed to use to buy a cow.

DCDale Cooper

No, Albert! I gave him my ring.

Okay. Uh, confining my conclusions to the planet Earth...

Anything we should be working on?

Yeah. You might practice walking without dragging your knuckles on the floor. Heh heh heh.

Albert! Let's talk about knuckles. The last time I knocked you down, I felt bad about it, the next time's gonna be a real pleasure.

You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchet-man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely: revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.

DCDale Cooper

Albert's path is a strange and difficult one.

(talking about BOB) I was just a boy. I saw him in my dreams. He said he - he wanted to play. He opened me and I invited him and he came inside me.

DCDale Cooper

He went inside?

When he was inside, I didn’t know and when he was gone I couldn’t remember. He made me do things, terrible things. He said he wanted lives, he wanted others. Others that they could use like they used me.

DCDale Cooper

Like Laura?

They wanted her. They wanted Laura ... but she was strong. She fought ‘em. She wouldn’t let them in. Oh god, they had me kill that girl Teresa. (strains in pain) And they ... and they said ... and if I didn’t give them Laura they’d have me kill her too.

DCDale Cooper

But she wouldn’t let them in?

She said she'd die ... before she let ‘em. And then they made me kill her. Oh god have mercy on me! What have I done? What have I done? Oh god, I love her! I love her with all my heart! My angel, forgive me!

[Dale Cooper and a real-estate agent arrive at a decrepit-looking house that Cooper is interested in buying]

REReal-estate agent

Well, it's still standing, almost by force of habit.

DCDale Cooper

A little habit can provide a strong foundation.

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