We are now almost exactly half-way through Mark Frost and David Lynch’s ambitious, 18-hour Twin Peaks revival, and while there was some debate before the season started over whether the typical Internet obsessive approach would be appropriate here, the season has already rewarded some close watching. This highly abstract eighth episode, in particular, could benefit from some unpacking. Lynch may lead us through a mushroom cloud or two that he never intends to explain, but there are some references in the revival that have deeper meaning—particularly when it comes to the way Twin Peaks: The Return interacts with the mythology of the 1992 feature film Fire Walk with Me.

Allow us, as we have previously, to point out a few references and callbacks you might have missed while not, to put it into Twin Peaks terms, losing the thematic forest for the trees. Pour yourself a hot cup of coffee, dish up some pie, and be prepared to follow every clue from the confounding Part 8. It’s what both Dougie Jones and Agent Dale Cooper would do.

An Inconvenient Truth: Of all the baffling elements within this episode of Twin Peaks, the most confusing may be the lengthy sequence involving an old-timey convenience store/gas station and a group of sooty ghosts. This scene evokes a few things in Peaks-ian lore. First of all, in Fire Walk with Me, a number of Lodge spirits are seen in a room located above a convenience store. And while the convenience store in this episode doesn’t exactly look like it has rooms above it, in Fire Walk with Me, Mike (Al Strobel) shouts to a BOB-infected Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), “You stole the corn! I had it canned over the store!” If you squint closely at the store in this week’s episode, you may see cans stacked in the window.

There’s also Big Ed’s Gas Farm from the original Twin Peaks series.