She's dead... Wrapped in plastic.
S1 E1Pilot
[voiceover] Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks -- some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery -- the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks. To introduce this story, let me just say it encompasses the All -- it is beyond the "Fire", though few would know that meaning. It is a story of many, but begins with one -- and I knew her. The one leading to the many is Laura Palmer. Laura is the one.
Diane, 7:30 am, February twenty-fourth. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life. As W.C. Fields would say, I'd rather be here than Philadelphia. It's fifty-four degrees on a slightly overcast day. Weatherman said rain. If you could get paid that kind of money for being wrong sixty percent of the time it'd beat working. Mileage is 79,345, gauge is on reserve, I'm riding on fumes here, I've got to tank up when I get into town. Remind me to tell you how much that is. Lunch was $6.31 at the Lamplighter Inn. That's on Highway Two near Lewis Fork. That was a tuna fish sandwich on whole wheat, a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee. Damn good food. Diane, if you ever get up this way, that cherry pie is worth a stop.
Norma, I'll see you in my dreams.
Not if I see you first.
Who's the lady with the log?
We call her the Log Lady.
Shhhhhhh!
Gentlemen. When two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object in inquiry we must always pay strict attention.
Diane! I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.
Wanna know why I'm whittling?
OK, I'll bite again. Why are you whittling?
Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down and not speed up.
S1 E2Episode One
[voiceover] I carry a log -- yes. Is it funny to you? It is not to me. Behind all things are reasons. Reasons can even explain the absurd. Do we have the time to learn the reasons behind the human being's varied behavior? I think not. Some take the time. Are they called detectives? Watch -- and see what life teaches.
[Cooper is ordering breakfast during his first morning at the Great Northern.]
You know, this is -- excuse me -- a damn fine cup of coffee! ... Now, I'd like two eggs, over hard. I know, don't tell me; it's hard on the arteries, but old habits die hard -- just about as hard as I want those eggs. Bacon, super-crispy. Almost burned. Cremated. That's great. And, I'll have the grapefruit juice, just as long as those grapefruits... [He trails off as he sees high school vixen Audrey Horne saunter up to his table.] ... are freshly squeezed.
[Pete Martell pours coffee for Dale Cooper and Sheriff Truman.]
Mr. Cooper, how do you take it?
Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Pretty black.
You know, I think I'd better start studying medicine.
And why is that?
Because I'm beginning to feel a bit like Dr. Watson.
For your information, I heard you speaking about Laura Palmer?
Yes?
One day my log will have something to say about this. My log saw something that night.
Really? What did it see?
Ask it.
Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess. There was a fish in the percolator! Sorry.
S1 E3Episode Two
[voiceover] Sometime ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.
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