[voiceover] I play my part on my stage. I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. But that answer cannot come before all are ready to hear. So I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. Sometimes my anger at the fire is evident. Sometimes it is not anger, really. It may appear as such, but could it be a clue? The fire I speak of is not a kind fire.
S1 E6Episode Five
Audrey, you'll have to excuse me this morning, I'm running late. I only have time for coffee.
Well maybe I could go with you.
Wednesdays were traditionally a school day when I was your age.
[moving in close] I can't believe you were ever my age.
I've got the pictures to prove it. How old are you?
Eighteen.
Well, see you later Audrey.
[Presenting her log to Cooper] You can ask it now.
[To log] What did you see that night? The night Laura Palmer was killed.
Shhh, I'll do the talking. Dark. Laughing. The owls were flying. Many things were blocked. Laughing. Two men, two girls. Flashlights pass by in the woods over the ridge. The owls were near. The dark was pressing in on her. Quiet then. Later, footsteps. One man passed by. Screams far away. Terrible, terrible. One voice.
Laura wanted to die.
How do you know that?
Because she told me.
What else did she tell you? Did she tell you that there was no goodness in the world?
She said people try to be good but they're really sick and rotten, her most of all, and every time she tried to make the world a better place, something terrible came up inside her and pulled her back down into hell. Took her deeper and deeper into the blackest nightmare. Every time it got harder to go back up to the light.
JHJames Hurley
Its true, my mother was out of town this week but she wasn't traveling. What she does is, she goes to another town, shacks up in some cheap hotel with a couple of bottles and picks up guys and...
DHDonna Hayward
It's alright.
JHJames Hurley
I'm telling you this because I don't want to have any secrets from you. I don't want there to be any lies between us. Its the secrets people keep that destroy any chance they have of happiness and I don't want us to be like that.
S1 E7Episode Six
[voiceover] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet there are those who open many eyes. Eyes are the mirror of the soul, someone has said. So we look closely at the eyes to see the nature of the soul. Sometimes when we see the eyes -- those horrible times when we see the eyes, eyes that ... that have no soul -- then we know a darkness, then we wonder: where is the beauty? There is none if the eyes are soulless.
Do you like to gamble Ed?
BEBig Ed Hurley
Well, I went to Reno once but I never felt too lucky.
You're gonna be lucky tonight. This is ten thousand dollars of the bureau's money. Whenever I gamble with the company's stake I always like to bring back a ten to fifteen percent return. How much would you like to start with? How about three hundred? And Ed, the suit is perfect.
Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee. Like this.
A present? Like Christmas?
[Taking a sip] Ah, man that hits the spot. Nothing like a great cup of black coffee.
[On tape] What's up doc? Just a few words before I go to sleep. I feel like I'm going to dream tonight. Big bad ones. You know, the kind you like. Its easier talking into the recorder. I guess I feel I can say anything. All my secrets. The naked ones. I know you like those doc. I know you like me too. That'll be my little secret, okay? Just like your coconut. Why is it so easy to make men like me? And I don't even have to try very hard. Maybe, if it was harder...
Now I'm going to go down and get us two malts and some fries downstairs. Then I want you to tell me all your troubles.
That could take all night.
The night is young. Now I'm going to get the food and you're going to get dressed.
I can't tell you all my secrets.
Secrets are dangerous things Audrey.
Do you have any?
No.
Laura had a lot of secrets.
Finding those out is my job.
S1 E8Episode Seven
[voiceover] A drunken man walks in a way that is quite impossible for a sober man to imitate, and vice versa. An evil man has a way, no matter how clever -- to the trained eye, his way will show itself. Am I being too secretive? No. One can never answer questions at the wrong moment. Life, like music, has a rhythm. This particular song will end with three sharp notes, like deathly drumbeats.
[On tape] Hey, what's up, doc? Its Laura, in case you haven't guessed. It's Thursday the twenty-third and I'm so bored. Actually, I'm in kind of a weird mood. God, James is sweet, but he's so dumb, and right now I can only take so much of sweet. Hey, remember that mystery man I told you about? Well, if I tell you his name then you're gonna be in trouble. He wouldn't be such a mystery man anymore but you might be history, man. I think a couple of times he's tried to kill me. But guess what? As you know, I sure got off on it. Hmm, isn't sex weird? This guy can really light my F-I-R-E as in red corvette. Uh-oh, here comes mom with milk and cookies.
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