Twin Peaks · Season 2
[voiceover] A poem as lovely as a tree:
As the night wind blows, the boughs move to and fro.
The rustling, the magic rustling that brings on the dark dream.
The dream of suffering and pain.
Pain for the victim, pain for the inflicter of pain.
A circle of pain, a circle of suffering.
Woe to the ones who behold the pale horse.
[reading Harold Smith's suicide note.] "J'ai une âme solitaire." I am a lonely soul. Poor guy.
HEADIN' ON OVER TO BEND, OREGON. WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOING ON IN BEND!
It is happening again. It is happening again.
[voiceover] Food is interesting. For instance, why do we need to eat? Why are we never satisfied with just the right amount of food to maintain good health and proper energy? We always seem to want more and more. When eating too much, the proper balance is disturbed and ill health follows. Of course, eating too little food throws the balance off in the opposite direction and there is the ill health coming at us again. Balance is the key. Balance is the key to many things. Do we understand balance? The word "balance" has seven letters. Seven is difficult to balance, but not impossible if we are able to divide. There are, of course, the pros and cons of division.
Diane... 10:00 a.m. at the Great Northern. I've just been in a hotel room with the One-armed Man... or what's left of him. In another time, another culture, this man would have been a seer, a shaman priest... possibly a leader. In our world, he's a shoe peddler, and lives in the shadows.
The trail narrows, Diane. I'm close, but the last few steps are always the darkest and most difficult.
Sheriff... no offense, but, eh... clearly, this man's stairs do not reach the attic. Now, your 24 hours are up! You either charge my client or let him go!
Ben Horne, I'm charging you with the murder of Laura Palmer.
Yeah. Good move, Jer!
[voiceover] So now the sadness comes -- the revelation. There is a depression after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing. Yes, now we know. At least we know what we sought in the beginning. But there is still the question: why? And this question will go on and on until the final answer comes. Then the knowing is so full, there is no room for questions.
I know that Gum. That's the kind I used to chew when I was a kid! That's my favorite gum in the world.
That Gum you like is going to come back in style.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
The time has come for you to seek the Path. Your soul has set you face to face before the clear light ... and now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without circumference or center... At this moment, know yourself and abide in that state.
(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.
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.
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.
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!
[voiceover] Complications set in -- yes, complications. How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again. What is the secret? What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life? Are our appetites, our desires undermining us? Is the cart in front of the horse?
There's nothing quite like urinating in the open air.
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