*WARNING: SPOILERS FOR TWIN PEAKS SEASON 3, EPISODE 15*

Amongst the mystery, a deep sadness. The jubilation of Twin Peaks’ return has been touched, multiple times, by loss: Catherine E Coulson (The Log Lady), Warren Frost (Will Hayward), and Miguel Ferrer (Albert Rosenfield) all passed away after filming, while David Bowie (Phillip Jeffries) had planned to film a cameo before his death.

This week, we said goodbye to The Log Lady. “In Memory of Margaret Lanterman”, the credits read, in tribute to the character’s real name; it seems fitting for a show that so often intermixes truth and dreams. Catherine E Coulson made us fall in love with The Log Lady, and The Log Lady made us fall in love with Catherine E Coulson.

“It’s just a change. Not an end. Hawk, it’s time. There’s some fear. Some fear of letting go,” Margaret whispers down the phone to Deputy Chief Hawk (Michael Horse). It’s the saddest moment of Twin Peaks’ entire return so far, since the shadow of those words seems so all-consuming, In a way, it’s all been about letting go. All of this.

So many of Twin Peaks’ residents are shackled to their own pasts, to the point that actually witnessing anyone let go feels so triumphantly sweet – even suspiciously dreamlike in its perfection. After years and years of pining, Norma (Peggy Lipton) and Big Ed (Everett McGill) were finally free to love each other: Nadine (Wendy Robie) let him go, as part of her effort to shovel “myself out of the sh*t” and adhere to Dr. Jacoby’s teachings.

Is it right to question whether we’re watching reality here? It's a love story that wraps up as neatly as a TV movie, as Norma ditches her business-obsessed boyfriend and the two embrace in the middle of the Double R. It’s a contrast, certainly, to what then feels like a nightmare: the scratchy, shaking camera cuts to Bad Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) at the maintenance store from episode 8, a lair of the woodsmen.

It’s clear the location is another portal to the alternate dimension; as they walk through and trees flicker at the sides of the frame, we’re reminded that all of this comes back to Twin Peaks. It’s beyond the portal that we are finally reintroduced to Phillip Jeffries. Presumably, this would have been David Bowie’s cameo in the show, but his absence leaves a bizarre substitute: a sputtering teakettle.

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Voiced by Nathan Frizzel, Jeffries in such an obtuse, intimidating form finally feels like a match for Bad Cooper. Their exchange brings to the surface our new, big mystery to obsess over: who is Judy? Jeffries in Fire Walk With Me insisted that he would not talk about Judy, but now comes a new revelation, “you’ve already met Judy”. Bad Cooper stepped back into the world only to discover Richard Horne, his probable son, had followed him. Bad things are brewing.

If we’ve seen dreams and nightmares, then what is Audrey Horne in? Purgatory? It seems probable, as another conversation with her husband Charlie proved even more disorientating than what we’d seen before. “You’ll talk me to death right here on the threshold,” Audrey spits. Yet, death would let her leave the threshold, at least.

Also in purgatory, it appears, are the new generation of Twin Peaks. Our original residents may be clinging on to morsels of the past, but at the cost of leaving their children like forgotten ghosts. Steven Burnett (Caleb Landry Jones) is in a desperate place, on the run from his raging wife (Amanda Seyfried), as Gersten Hayward (Alicia Witt) tries to prevent him from committing suicide.

We’re introduced to Ruby (Charlyne Yi), too, ejected from her table at the Roadhouse by two men who pick her up and drop her on the floor. She crawls into the crowd of dancers, and lets out a scream as anguished as those of Laura Palmer. No one sees her. And no one cares.

Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Show all 21 1 /21 Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) Laura's murder is the mystery that sets off Twin Peaks and which brings Dale Cooper to the sleepy town drenched in mystery. Her soul still appears to be trapped in the Black Lodge, along with Cooper. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) The FBI Special Agent sent to Twin Peaks to investigate Laura's murder ended things in a perilous situation. The show's famous final scene sees him smashing his face into the mirror, as the killer BOB's reflection stares back out. Is he possessed? Or is this his evil doppelgänger, with the Good Dale still trapped in the Black Lodge? Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Shelly Johnson (Mädchen Amick) Shelly spent the series trapped in an abusive marriage to trucker Leo Johnson, whose fate was left uncertain at the end of the show, though her own secret affair with Bobby Briggs ended in a marriage proposal. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) Bobby found himself in a lot danger during his high school days thanks to his involvement in the local drug trade. Though formerly Laura's boyfriend, his secret romance with Shelly blossomed over the series and ended in a proposal. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Nadine Hurley (Wendy Robie) Ed Hurley's eccentric wife, possessing both phenomenal strength and an obsession with drape runners, saw her attempted suicide trigger a bout of dementia-amnesia, where she still believed she was a teenager. After having a sandbag dropped on her head, however, Nadine's memory was restored. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton) The owner of the Double R Diner, she and Ed have been in love since high school, and the show saw them come very close to finally getting together during Nadine's bout of memory loss. Will they still be pining for each other? Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) With Nadine's memory returning at the end of the series, the implication is that Ed and Nadine's marriage has remained intact. Ed suffered tremendous guilt over the loss of Nadine's left eye in a hunting accident during their honeymoon, when it was struck by a piece of buckshot from his gun, which has made him feel like it was impossible to ever leave her. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) A master manipulator whose teenage crush on Cooper faded when she met Billy Zane's rich charmer John Justice Wheeler, the show left things open as to whether she died in the explosion at the local bank, having chained herself to the vault door in protest. However, the book The Secret History of Twin Peaks confirms she survived and was taken to hospital in critical condition. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? James Hurley (James Marshall) Twin Peaks' biker with a soul was once Laura Palmer's secret love, though her death saw him realise his true feelings toward her best friend Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle). However, by the end of the series, James had left the town and was en route to Mexico. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Gordon Cole (David Lynch) Cooper's boss supposedly has a fairly prominent role in the new series, though the show saw him fall head-over-heels for Shelly, upon discovering she's the only person the hard-of-hearing chief could understand with perfect clarity. Photograph by Marc Hom Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) Audrey Horne's father seems to have changed little in our time away, as he's still apparently managing the Great Northern Lodge in Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Lucy Brennan (Kimmy Robertson) and Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz) Neither have Lucy or Andy, still in their respective jobs at the Twin Peaks Police Department, though it's nice to see their relationship has only blossomed with time. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Tommy "Hawk" Hill (Michael Horse) Hawk is still part of the Police Department too, and it seems like he's been tasked with the mysterious mission of tracking down Agent Cooper. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? The Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson) A task entrusted to him by the Log Lady, a bittersweet moment considering Coulson sadly passed away in 2015. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Denise Bryson (David Duchovny) One individual who's definitely shot up the career path is Denise, now the chief of staff for the entire FBI. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Beverly Paige (Ashley Judd) We don't know much about Ben Horne's assistant, but it's likely we'll see more of her soon. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? William Hastings (Matthew Lillard) Is the local high-school principal of Buckhorn, South Dakota really behind the murder of Ruth Davenport? Is this somehow connected to BOB, or Dale Cooper's doppelganger? Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Wally Brando (Michael Cera) Lucy and Andy's son really couldn't have turned out any other way. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Sam Colby (Ben Rosenfeld) and Tracey (Madeline Zima) Sam's job to watch over the strange glass box in New York came to an abrupt end when both he and Tracey were consumed by a demon which burst outside of it. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Tammy Preston (Chrysta Bell) A new partner for Gordon Cole, who's taken her on as a kind of protégé. Twin Peaks season 3: Who's back? Who's new? Janey-E Jones (Naomi Watts) The wife to Dougie Jones, the strange other Cooper, with the pair having a son together.



Is everyone in Twin Peaks lost: inside of their own dreams, their own nightmares, their purgatories? What would it take to awaken them? And so we come to Dougie, who switches on the TV as it plays a scene from Sunset Boulevard, the moment Cecil B. DeMille calls out “get Gordon Cole” (Lynch’s character is named after Sunset Boulevard’s).

Something changes. The electricity in the outlet starts humming again. He crawls towards it with his fork and plunges it in. He is electrocuted, obviously. But what happens next?

Twin Peaks airs 2am on Mondays on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV with the Entertainment Pass, in a simulcast with the US. The episode will then be shown again at 9pm on the following day. You can catch up now on season one and two via Sky Box Sets and NOW TV.