Monthly Archives: August 2017

OK. We’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We start to understand what is going on with Diane and Evil Cooper. We get the triumphant return of Dale Cooper! Audrey does her famous trance dance and we sort of find out all of her story line is some sort of hallucination. She’s in a hospital of some kind. The last two hours may resemble the final two hours of the original show; a mad dash to shoehorn everything in before time runs out. On the with rundown of events as I experienced them

Dark night
Dark road
Evil Cooper and Richard
Is EC his father?
Did EC do something terrible to Audrey?
This kid is pure evil just like EC
EC is driving to certain coordinates
He stops the truck and looks up
towards the sky
They get out of the car

“Pay attention”
“I’m looking for a place”
“Three people have given me coordinates to this place. Two have matched”
Holy Crap!
Jerry!
He pulls out some binoculars
Of course, looks through the wrong end
EC hands Richard the cell and tells him to go up the hill
“Let me know what you find”
Richard climbs on top of the big rock on the hill
“I’m there!” He shouts
As he gets zapped by electricity!
he blows up

“Goodbye, my son” EC says and walks back down the hill to his truck

So EC knows that this was his son but killed him anyway
Jerry freaks out
“Bad binoculars!”

The Jones Residence
Hutch and Chantal pull up in their van
Look disguised as house painters
Two cars pull up
Cops?
No, FBI
Hey! That’s Stan from Mad Men!

Dougie is in the hospital
Tubes in his mouth
He’s in a coma
Janey and Sonny Jim by his side
Bushnell (Don Murray) shows up
The Mitchum brothers show up
And also the three blonde gals
They bring a tray of finger sandwiches!
“All things considered he looks good!”
They ask for the key to their house1
They want to stock their house with food!
These guys are now so lovable!

Gordon Cole
Surrounded by electronic gadgets
Listening, as if he could sense
Cooper is alive somewhere

Jane takes Sonny Jim to the little boys’ room
Bushnell gets a call
The FBI was at the office looking for Dougie
They’re on their way to the hospital

Chantal and Hutch are still outside Dougie’s house
An SUV also pulls up
FBI
The Mitchum Brothers pull up their limo
And a big van!
They’ve brought a ton of food!
Another car pulls up
Parks right in front of the van with Hutch and Chantal
They’re in his driveway
“Go fuck yourself!” Chantal screams
The guy rams the van!
The FBI guys do nothing
Chantal; starts shooting
The guy gets a gun out of his trunk!
Chantal and Hutch try to drive away
But this guy has a machine gun
He stands in the middle of the street and shoots up the van
Killing Chantal and Hutch
The Mitchum Brothers come out with their guns
“What kind of neighborhood is this?”
Now the FBI guys come out!

Dougie still in a coma
Bushnell hears a ringing
Like the ringing in Ben Horne’s office
He follows it out of the room
The one armed man materializes
Dougie suddenly gets up
“You are awake”
“One hundred percent”
“Finally”

YES! FINALLY!

He tells Cooper that the other Cooper did not come back
He hands Cooper the green ring
“Do you have the seed?”
The golden pellet
Cooper pulls some hair out of his head and hands it to him
“I need you to make another one”
Janey and Sonny Jim come back
Bushnell too
“Bushnell pass me some of those sandwiches. I’m starving!”
“Dad, sure is talking a lot”
He has Bushnell call the Mitchum Brothers
Cooper tells them to meet him in the lobby of the casino in 20 minutes
and to gas up the jet
They need to go to Spokane, Washington
“OK Dougie!”
“What is Dougie up to now?

“Bushnell Mullins you’re a good man”
“What do you me to tell the FBI?
“I AM The FBI”

Cooper gets in the driver’s seat

The Twin Peaks Theme plays

He takes off with Janey and Sonny Jim
As the FBI arrive at the hospital

Diane is having a drink at he hotel bar
She gets the text from EC
“All”
She gets a sudden jolt
“Oh Coop. I remember”
She texts him back a set of coordinates
“I hope this works”
She has a gun in her purse
She gets in the elevator
She goes up to the room
Stands outside the door
“Come in Diane!” Gordon shouts
Diane finally tells them about the night Cooper visited her
“One night, no knock, no doorbell. He just walked in.”
“He saw the fear in me and he smiled”
This was Evil Cooper
He raped her
He took her to the gas station
She looks at her phone
At the text
“ALL”
“Sheriff’s station!”
“I’m not me! I’m not me!”
She pulls out the gun from her purse
She points it at Cole
Tammy and Albert pull out their guns
They shoot Diane
She disappears

That was a doppelganger
Diane is in the Black Lodge
“Someone manufactured you”
“I know. Fuck you”
Then her face cracks open
A gold pellets comes out of it

The Silver Mustang Casino

Cooper has to say goodbye to Janey and Sonny Jim

It’s very heartfelt

They are heartbroken

Sonny Jim doesn’t understand

But Janey does

This isn’t Dougie

“You’ve made my heart so full”

“Dougie….I will come back.”

Cooper turns and walks away

Janey runs after him

Kisses him

“Whoever you are…thank you”

Cooper in the limo
having coffee
“You don’t sell insurance. You’re an FBI agent who’s been missing for 25 years and we need to get you to a town called Twin Peaks to a sheriff’s station”
“Dougie, we love you but we are not traditionally welcomed in such places”
“Friends, that’s about to change. I am witness to the fact that you both have hearts of gold”

The Bang Bang Bar
The Roadhouse is proud to welcome
Edward Lewis Sevrinsen
AKA Eddie Vedder
Audrey and Charlie!
Finally!
They made it to the Roadhouse!
Who is Billy?
“Ladies and gentleman! Audrey’s dance!”

The dance floor clears.
The Twin Peaks music plays
Audrey starts to go into her trance

She ambles out onto the dance floor
She does her interpretive dance
as everyone watches and sways

Then some guy yells
Throws a bottle at another guy
She runs to Charlie
“Get me out of here!”
Then suddenly somewhere else

She’s in a white gown
Looking into a mirror
Perhaps she’s been in a hospital all along
Charlie is her doctor?

Twin Peaks
Nadine walking down the street with her gold shovel
Oh oh
She’s walked to Big Ed’s Gas Farm!
“I’ve been a selfish bitch and you’ve been a saint!”
She finally owns up to it and tells Ed to go and be with Norma!
She’s shoveling herself out of the shit!
Ed is now free to be with Norma!

Ed immediately heads to the Double R Cafe
“I’ve been Loving You Too Long”
But Norma is with that new fella, Walter!
Ed sits down at the counter
Heartbroken
Cup of joe might help
Norma tells Walter she wants him to buy her out
And that he wants to spend more time with her family
Walter agrees but isn’t happy
Ed sits at the counter, eyes closed
Norma’s hand on his shoulder

They kiss
“Marry me”
“Of course, I will”
Shelly looks on
Pot of coffee in her hand
Smiling

Dark night
Dark road
Evil Cooper
He pulls into that gas station
The one from Episode 8
That music playing too
A grungy looking guy meets him
They head up the stairs, above the ‘Convenience Store’

Ewwwwww
These crazy homeless guys are creepy
“I’m looking for Phillip Jeffries”
They walk through a big empty room
But the forest is superimposed over it
Is this an extension of The Black Lodge?
They go up some stairs
EC opens a door
Opens to a courtyard
This is a big building
It’s a motel
Room 8

Creepy looking woman walking towards him
“I’ll unlock that door for you”
EC walks into Room 8
Bates Motel has nothing on this place
What the hell?
Looks like a big furnace
Blowing smoke

That’s Phillip Jeffries?
“Did you call me 5 days ago?
“I don’t have your number”
We see Bowie again from Fire Walk With Me
“I’m not going to talk about Judy”
“So, you are Cooper” Jeffries says
“Who is Judy?”
Jeffries gives EC Judy’s phone number
The numbers come out like the smoke
“You’ve already met Judy” Jeffries tells him
Then the phone rings
Jeffries disappears
EC picks up the phone
He has transported to the phone booth

Richard confronts EC with a gun
He recognizes him as FBI
His mom had his picture
“Who’s your mom?”
“Audrey Horne”
EC takes the gun away from him
Tells him to get in the car
He text Diane
“Las Vegas?”
The Convenience Store
Looks like a fire starts inside
Flashing lights and lots of smoke
It just disappears!

Interesting how the scenes are fading to black in this episode
That is unlike all the others

Now we’re back in the forest in Twin Peaks
Someone is walking their dog
Who is this couple again?
“Why?”
Steven – Becky’s junkie husband
He’s got a gun
He puts the clip in the gun
He’s really going through withdrawals
The guy with the dog sees them
They freak out
She runs and hides
A gun shot!

The guy with the dog goes to the trailer park
He tells Carl what he saw
They know who it is

The Bang Bang Bar
“Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top”
Two couples in a booth
I recognize Renee, James likes her
James and his British partner talk in
“Good to see you Renee” James says
Her husband gets mad
Starts beating on James
The British guy steps in
Punches both dudes with his green gloved fist
They go flying!
They look fucked up
Renee’s husband is foaming at the mouth
Yikes

Las Vegas
FBI Office
Douglas Jones and wife Jane are there
Nope
Wrong Douglas Jones

Bad Vegas dude and Roger
Chantal walks in and shoots them both
Then talk to Hutch on the phone
“French fries. Extra ketchup”

Twin Peaks PD
Jail cells
James and his British mate get locked up
Chad is still locked up
So is that awful looking guy!
And the lady with no eyes
What a group!

Chantal and Hutch sit in their van and eat burgers and fries

The Jones residence
Jane brings Dougie some chocolate cake
Doesn’t she know he prefers cherry pie?
Dougie turns on the TV
Sunset Boulevard comes on
Norma Desmond speaking with Cecil B. DeMille

“Get Gordon Cole” DeMille says
It triggers Dougie
He pauses the film
He looks at the electrical outlet
he gets down on the carper and crawls over to it
He takes his fork
He sticks it in the light socket
He gets electrocuted!

The Log Lady!
She calls Hawk
“Hawk, I’m dying.”
“I’m sorry, Margaret”
“Death is just a change, not an end”

“Hawk, it’s time. There’s some fear. Some fear is letting go. Remember what I told you”
“Watch for that one. The one I told you about. The one under the moon. On Blue Pine Mountain”
“Hawk, my log is turning gold. The wind is moaning. I’m dying.”
“Goodnight Hawk”
“Goodbye”

Truman in the conference room
Bobby, Andy and Lucy come in
Hawk follows
“Margaret passed away tonight”
“The Log Lady is dead?”
Truman removes his hat
We see The Log Lady’s house
The lights go out

Audrey and Charlie
Looks like they’re finally going to the Roadhouse
Oh my God!
Just go to the Roadhouse already!
Audrey attacks him!
“How can you be like this? I hate you!”

The Bang Bang Bar
A couple of leather jacketed hooligans
menace a young girl in a booth
They kick her out of the booth and sit down
She sits on the floor
She gets on her hands and knees
Starts to slowly crawl onto the dance floor
She screams but no one seems to care

Buckhorn South Dakota
Gordon Calls Twin Peaks
“Is that you, Lucy?”
“It’s Gordon Cole, Harry! Returning your call!”
Frank Truman tells him about the missing pages of Laura’s diary
“Two Coopers”

“Tammy, case #1”
2 women fighting in a hotel room
1 shoots the other
“I’m like the blue rose”
She smiles, dies and disappears before their eyes
The other woman seemed to be a twin
claims she didn’t kill anyone
The two arresting officers were Cole and Jeffries
The second woman was conjured

“Coffee time!”
Window washer appears
the squeezing on the glass
annoys Gordon, has to turn down his hearing aid
Diane arrives
Did Cooper mention major Briggs the last time she saw him?
“Yes”
Thought he died 25 years ago but didn’t
died a few days ago
a ring found in his stomach
“To Dougie with love, Janie E”
Diane gasps!
Dougie’s wife is Diane’s sister!
“We’re estranged. I hate her.”
The Vegas connection is made
Cole calls Vegas PD
He asks for all info on Douglas Jones and his wife
“This is what we do in the FBI!!!!

“Last night I had another Monica Belluci dream”
We see his dream as he describes it
It really is Monica Belluci!

“We’re like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream”
“But who is the dreamer?”
Gordon looks behind him and sees himself as a younger man
We see a scene from Fire Walk With Me as a flashback

Cooper had a dream
It’s 10:10 am on February 16th
David Bowie as Agent Jeffries
He points at Cooper
“Who do you think that is there?”

Truman, Hawk, Andy and Bobby arrest Chad
“There’s your roast beef and cheese”
Then they head up the mountain
Bobby leads him to the spot
his dad wrote in his message
“Jack Rabbits Palace”

A large tree trunk – looks like a castle
They have to put soil in their pockets
and then go 253 years due East
“Father did tell me never to walk around here without him”
they come across a patch of smoke
a woman lying naked on the ground

She’s alive
But she has no eyes
this is the woman Cooper met back in episode 2
She tries to speak
there’s a cauldron of some liquid there as well
“It’s 253 fellas
a whirlpool of trees and leaves
Andy disappears
He ends up in the black and white place
with the giant

“I am the fireman”
The giant raise his right hand
somehow send something to Andy
Andy’s holding it
a column of smoke forms around Andy It goes up and disappears

Andy looks up through a window
He sees a shaking figure
he sees the events of episode 8
the smoking man
“Gotta light?”
The red curtains
Laura palmer with angels beside her
the no eyed woman they just saw
the two Coopers
a phone, blinking light
himself and Lucy
the no eyed woman
a telephone pole and the number 6
the smoke goes back into the bottle
in Andy’s lap
Truman, Bobby and Hawk are back at Jack Rabbit Palace

Andy walks up carrying the no eyed woman
“We have to get her down the mountain. She’s very important and people want her dead. We have to put her in a cell where she’ll be safe. Don’t tell anyone about this.”
Truman and Hawk don’t remember what happened

Nae Yuuki in a still from Twin Peaks. Photo: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME

Lucy gets the no eyed woman some clothes
Chad is another cell
And a horribly beaten man is in another
Porpoise sounds come from the no eyed lady
the beaten man starts making the same sounds
Chad yells at them to shut up
The beaten man seems odd
who is he?
is he like the cigarette man?

James Marshall in a still from Twin Peaks. Photo: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME

The Great Northern
Looks like James works as security
“We’ve got one more delivery and then hit the Road Hose”
“You want to see if Renee will be there. but she’s married”
“I remember when I was 23”
James’ partner, Freddie has a black glove on his right hand
He can’t take it off or it will start bleeding

He tells a crazy story

Apparently he visited the Giant, too

Just like Andy

“This bloke’s there. A fireman is what he called himself”

“Once you got the glove on go to Twin Peaks and there you will find your destiny”
James goes down to check the furnace

Elk’s Point #9 Bar
Sarah Palmer
She orders a bloody mary
guy in a baseball cap at the end of the bar
t shirt says “Truck You”
He makes a move on her
Bad mistake
She tells him to go back to where he was sitting
he turns ugly
starts calling her names
she says she’ll eat him
she stands and removes her face
Whaaaaaaaaa?
Then she bits his neck off
he falls dead, bleeding out

The Bang Bang Bar
Two women in a booth
I can’t keep track of these women
Have we seen them before?
“Have you seen Billy?”
Is this Tina?
Audrey’s Billy
Billy and Tina’s mom had a thing
Oh this girl’s mom is Tina
He showed up bloody and yelling
and then he took off again
who is this girl’s uncle?

Well, hell. Now what? This was a very unusual episode but it stayed very concentrated on three story lines:

Sansa and Arya / The Magnificent 7  / Daenerys and Tyrion.

I’ll be very honest. Arya scared the hell out of me tonight. She’s obviously the show’s version of Lady Stoneheart and that makes me worry for Sansa. Meanwhile, I just don’t get Tyrion these days. He doesn’t seem to be getting anything right. He comes up with the lame brained idea to go and fetch a dead person to bring back to King’s Landing and then tells Dany not to help and that they knew what they were getting into when they went on the mission. Not his best season.

ARYA AND SANSA

Arya confronted Sansa about the raven mail she was forced to write and sent back in season one. I was hoping Arya was smarter than this but she doesn’t care if Sansa was young or forced. She should have died before agreeing to write it according to Arya. You can see all the sibling jealousies coming out here. Arya saw Sansa on the dais when Ned was beheaded. She was in her pretty dress and fancy hair. has Arya really put Sansa on her list?

Sansa meets with Little Finger and asks where Arya got the raven mail. Of course, Little Finger said he didn’t know. Sansa is worried that the letter will get out and their allies would desert them. Little Finger suggests that she seek Brienne’s help. He’s trying to pit Brienne and Arya against each other.

When raven mail arrives from King’s Landing asking that Sansa come down for a little pow wow Sansa tells Brienne to go and represent her. At first I thought Sansa was acting strangely. Of course she doesn’t want to head South and be in the presence of Cersei but it felt off. Then I realized that she was playing a deeper game. She knows Little Finger. She knows he is trying to pit Brienne against Arya and so she decides to remove Brienne from the situation.

Sansa has a look in Arya’s room trying to find the raven mail. Instead she finds a bag full of faces. Arya suddenly appears. Awkward. Arya was chilling in this scene.

“I have hundreds of men at Winterfell all loyal to me.” Sansa says.
“They’re not here now.” Arya points out.

Sansa is freaked out about the faces but when area grabs her new dagger and walks towards her and says:

“I could even become you. I wonder what it would feel like to wear those pretty dresses, to be the lady of Winterfell. All I would need to find out is your face.”

Yikes! She then hands Sansa the dagger and walks out of the room. What the hell!!!!! Just talk to Bran! He will explain it all to you! But Bran is probably sitting in front of that tree again!

THE MAGNIFICENT 7

There were some great moments with the boys as they stomped through the snow. Tormund and The Hound had a wonderful exchange that led to the topic of Brienne.

“You’re with Brienne of fucking Tarth?” The Hound
“Not yet but I see the way she looks at me” Tormund
“Like she wants to carve you up and eat your liver? The Hound
“You DO know her” Tormund beams and smiles.

Jon, of course, being Jon, offered to give Ser Jorah his father’s sword, Longclaw. But Ser Jorah told him to keep it and hand it down to his children. But are children in Jon’s future?

Berrick and Jon had a nice conversation about why the Lord of Light wants from them, seeing as they both have died and been brought back to life.

“We’re here to protect those who can’t help themselves” Berrick says.
“I am the shield that guards the realms of men.” Jon says.

They agree that perhaps that is enough of a reason to still be alive.

Even Gendry made up with Thoros and Berrick!

The first test comes in the shape of an undead bear. The bear takes out some ‘red shirts’ and takes a chunk out of Thoros. Berrick cauterizes his wounds with his flaming sword. Luckily enough, they come across a small band of undead led by w White Walker. They attack and when Jon kills the White Walker all but one of the wights also disintegrate. It’s explained that perhaps that when a White Walker is killed so are all of those wights he created. So by killing The Night’s King himself all the others would die.

The gang starts to tie up the wight when the rest of the undead army descends upon them. Jon sends Gendry back to Eastwatch to send a raven to Daenerys for help. The rest of them run for their lives across a frozen lake and stand on a rock island while being surrounded by the dead.

DRAGONSTONE

Daenerys and Tyrion have a fireside chat to discuss strategy. Tyrion teases her that Jon is in love with her. She of course poo poos the idea. Then they discuss the armistice agreement with Cersei. Cersei will have something up her sleeve but do they? They end up getting in a heated argument. Dany doesn’t think much of her Hand’s advice of late and I don’t blame her. But when he starts bringing up who should succeed her he hits a sore subject. She can no longer have children, you see.

When Dany decides to ride North with her dragons to help the boys Tyrion protests. “Sometimes the hardest thing to do is nothing” he tells her. But he told her to do nothing before and she believes it was a mistake so off she goes with her ‘children’ to save the day!

THE MAGNIFICENT 7

Thoros dies and they burn his body. Then The Hound got bored and started throwing rocks at the wights, knocking the jaw off of one of them. He throws another one but this one doesn’t hit. The jawless wight took offense however, and starts walking across the lake. The rest start to follow. “Oh fuck” The Hound says. Yup! The group ends up fighting for their lives. I thought for sure Tormund was done for and I started the grieving process but at the last second The Hound was able to save him. Awwww! Those big lugs love each other! Just when Jorah gave his goodbye look to Jon a stream of fire shot over them! Dany and her dragons obliterated hundreds of those wights!

Dany reached down to pick up Jon but he decides to fight of the wights so the rest of the gang could board the dragon with their hostage. So Jon! Then The Night’s King, ever so calmly, takes a spear and throws it at one of the dragons and brings it crashing down! Holy crap! He killed a dragon! It sinks into the frozen lake. Jon sees that he has grabbed another spear and tells Dany to take off. She does but looks back longingly as she sees Jon attacked by wights and fall into the lake.

Of course Jon isn’t dead. He climbs out of the lake and grabs Longclaw which was conveniently nearby. Hundreds of wights start towards him but out of nowhere Uncle Benjen rides in, puts Jon on his horse and sends him off! Benjen gets overtaken by wights and dies.

Back at Eastwatch Dany waits with Jorah hoping for a miracle. And she gets it! Jon comes riding through the snow. He’s alive. When she comes to his quarters she sees his naked torso and all the scars. Now she knows. She may be the breaker of chains and the mother of dragons but has she ever come back from the dead? She’s there when Jon wakes up. He calls her Dany but that brings back memories of her brother. “How about my queen?” Jon says. He assures her that the Northerners will agree with his decision once they get to know her. “I hope I deserve it” She says, teary eyed. “You do” he assures her. This is the most vulnerable I’ve seen Daenerys in years! They hold each other’s hand and when she starts to pull away and he doesn’t let go you can see the jolt it sends through her. But what happens when she finds out Jon is her nephew! Will it matter? Does it matter?

THE ICE DRAGON LIVES!

But the last scene of hundreds of wights pulling the dragon out of the frozen lake! I think we all saw this coming right? The Night’s King touches the dragon and it opens its eyes. Those big, beautiful blues! Will The Knight’s King ride the dragon? Probably. Why not? And now we got a fight!

DAENERYS FASHION

I would be remiss if I didn’t at least mention Daenerys’ beautiful Winter attire. Sansa will be soooo jealous!

SIDE THRONES

Why didn’t Jon bring dragon glass with them on their suicide mission?
How did Gendry get back to Eastwatch so fast?
How fast is a dragon?

Is Tyrion planning on switching sides? Is it possible? Every plan he’s come up with this year has been terrible.

I still am hoping that Arya is onto Little Finger’s plan. She cannot kill Sansa! I won’t have it!

The Hound is going to see his brother The Knight formerly known as The Mountain. Will we finally see Clegane Bowl? I hope so!

Cersei and Qyburn will have something diabolical planned. I would eat or drink anything at that meeting everyone is going to.

GREAT QUOTES

“Death is the enemy. The first enemy and the last. The enemy always wins but we still have to fight it.” Berrick Donderrion

“What are you whinging about?” The Hound to Gendry

“Walking’s good, fighting’s better, fucking’s best!” Tormund

“Everyone I’ve ever met has been a cunt. Why should the Lord of Light be any different?” The Hound

“If they found out that I wrote that letter, a woman who’s not only married on but two enemies of their house” Sansa

“I don’t give two shits about wildlings. It’s gingers I hate.” The Hound
“Gingers are beautiful. We are kissed by fire. Just like you.” Tormund

“You should be on your knees thanking me!” Sansa

5 THINGS I THINK I KNOW

1 Cersei is planning a surprise attack at the truce meeting
2 Sam and Gilly arrive at Winterfell and together with Bran they tell Jon who he is.
3 Yara is dead
4 Arya will kill Little Finger
5 Arya will add Little Finger’s face to her collection

Samba line
The Mitchum brothers, Candy and the girls and Dougie
Happy as can be
Dancing through the insurance agency!
“Dougie you might want to call your wife”
“Wife?”
Hahahahahahaha
Tom Sizemore is stunned!
He’s in trouble now
He calls Mr. Todd, the Vegas guy who hires the hit men
Now it’s up to Tom Sizemore to kill Dougie

There’s a delivery at the Jones’ residence
Sonny Jim’s new gym set
Courtesy of the Mitchum brothers
And the car, too!
Mrs. Jones seems happy!
“Oh, Dougie, I love you so much”

Evil Cooper
Ray is not happy to see him
“You didn’t kill him too good, Ray”
Ray is with a motley gang of thieves
A bald guy
Looks like Mr. Clean
We got a new contestant
Arm wrestling Mr. Clean
New guy’s gets one chance
If you lose
Lorenzo’s your boss
“What is this? Kindergarten?”
“What do I get if I win?”
“If I win I want him (Ray)”

Oh don’t piss off Evil Cooper you idiots!
The rules are read
The hands are clasped
Ready!
Mr. Clean almost takes him down
But
“Starting positions”
EC is just toying with him
“Starting positions is really more comfortable”
EC is not even breaking a sweat
Ray tries to run but the others won’t let him
EC finally takes Mr. Clean down
Then pops him in the face
Jamming his fist through his skull

Damn!
EC shoots Ray in the leg
“Someone hired you to kill me”
“Philip Jeffries?”
“He says that you got something inside that they want”
“Did he ever mention Major Briggs?”
“Jeffries says I was to put this on you after I killed you”
It’s a ring
A guard gave it to him
The rest of the gang watch on giant screen TV
EC makes Ray put on the ring
“You know what I want Ray”
The coordinates
“I know who you are”
Richard is with the group watching
Ray hands EC the coordinates
“Ray, where’s Philip Jeffries”
The Dutchman
It’s not a real place?
EC shoots Ray in the head
The ring disappears and lands in the Black Lodge
He was to be sent back to the Black Lodge!

Las Vegas PD
They get the prints on Dougie
“He escaped from a high security prison two days ago”
“He’s a missing FBI agent!”
They laugh and toss the report in the trash
Tom Sizemore shows up
Looking for Detective Clark
Hey! Set. Clark is Tom Savage!
“I need to know a good poison I can use, undetectable.”
“Somebody’s onto us”

Why is this cop helping him?
Another cop ask what’s up?
“He’s cracking”
“I’ll call Mr. Todd”

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth
Driving back from killing the warden

Mrs. Jones drives Dougie to work
In their brand new car!
When is Good Cooper coming back to life?
Will the original Dougie return?
Tom Sizemore will probably poison Dougie’s coffee
Maybe that will holy the Good Cooper into existence
Yup!
“Coffee for the great Dougie Jones!”
Dougie drinks it
Smiles
Oh oh
He sees something

He stands up and walks to the counter
Cherry Pie!!!!!
Tom Sizemore puts the poison in Dougie’s coffee
“Go sit down. I” bring you a slice. Go enjoy your coffee”
Dougie sees dandruff on Tom’s coat
Tom thinks Dougie’s giving him a massage
Tom starts crying
“Oh God! So sorry! I never meant to hurt anyone!”
Take the poisoned cup of joe and leaves
Dougie drinks Tom’s coffee
The waitress brings the cherry pie

RR Cafe
Becky calls Shelly
Stephen hasn’t been home in 2 days
“Why don’t you come down here and I’m going to serve you a nice piece of cherry pie!”
That’ll cheer up anyone!

Tom confesses to the boss
“I tried poisoning Dougie and he saw right through me”
“Confess”
He admits that he stole from the company
Working for Mr. Todd
The boss asks him to testify against Todd
And to turn over the bad cops
“Dougie saved my life!”
Dougie is like Peter Sellers in Being There
Chauncey Gardner

Bobby comes into the RR
“Norma, Shelly go home already?”
Hey! It’s Ed sitting with Norma!
They invite Bobby to join them
“So what’s new, deputy?”

Hey! Its Grant Goodeve from 8 Is Enough!
He’s Norma’s boyfriend? Walter
Ed and Bobby move to another booth
Walter tells Norma that 3 of her 5 franchises have shown a profit
But this location is not doing so good
“You’re spending too much for pie and not charging enough”
“The pies at the other locations are not as good as the ones we make here”
Norma glances at Ed
Still something there?
Walter wants her to change the name to Norma’s Double R Cafe
“In Twin Peaks it’s been the Double R diner for over 50 years”
Definitely Ed is jealous

Nadine
She bought a gold shovel
It’s in the window
A truck sees it and stops!
Rings her bell
It’s Dr. Jacoby!
“Nadine! Is that you?”
“I love your window display”
“And those drapes are completely silent!”
Romance is in the air!

Oh the Palmer house
Sara Palmer drinking herself into oblivion
Watching boxing
The same image keeps playing over and over
What is going on in that house?

“What did she say?”
Audrey keeps asking Charlie
Why won’t he tell her?
“I feel like I’m somewhere else”
“Like I’m somebody else”
“Well I’m not sure who I am but I’m not me”
“You’re supposed to go to the roadhouse and see if Billy is there”
This is too weird
This isn’t really happening
Is she still in her coma?
No, can’t be
Something is wrong here
Audrey falls apart

The Bang Bang Bar
The Roadhouse is proud to welcome
James Hurley!
James has such a high voice!
He captures the attention of a lovely girl
“Just you and I”
“Together forever in love”
The lovely lady is crying!
Who is she?

Big Ed’s Gas Farm
Ed drinking soup
Probably from the Double R
Looks like a lonely fella
He sits at his desks
Watches the traffic whiz by
He burns a piece of paper
Drinks his soup
As the credits roll
In silence
But for the sound of cars passing by

This is the set up episode for what’s coming. Cersei vs Daenerys. Arya vs Little Finger. Jon and his all star unit of misfits vs The Dead. How can there only be two episodes left!

People! Do not get hung up on the passage of time issues. How did Jamie get back to King’s Landing so fast? How do we know it didn’t take a week? How do we know it didn’t take two weeks for Jon to get to Eastwatch? Just assume it took the appropriate amount of time to get around and go with it. It’s not a documentary.

BRAN

Bran wargs into a raven and sees the Night’s King and his army of wights marching. He orders ravens be sent to warn the realm. There is no way that this army can be stopped without dragons!

THE AFTERMATH

Of course Bronn drags Jamie out of the river a ways down from where the survivors of the Loot Train Attack are assembling in front of Dany and Drogon. I love Bronn! He tells Jamie “You’re fucked!” This is where their partnership ends! He draws the lines at Dragons! They’re both lucky to be alive!

Dany tells the survivors to ‘bend the knee’ die, her usual schpiel. Tyrion is clearly not okay with all of this. He is very disturbed by the devastation of the attack. Lord Tarly and his son, Dickon refuse. Tyrion tries to convince Dany to lock them in a dungeon for awhile and they’ll come around but Dany sticks to her guns.

They hold hands while Drogon reduces them to ash. Then Drogon turned to the others and roars. The went to their knees alright

DRAGONSTONE

“He is my friend.” Dany

Dany and Drogon land on the beach right in front of a pondering Jon. Drogon roars but Jon stands his ground. Then Jon reached out his hand and Drogon lowered his head and allowed Jon to pet him. Wow! The special effects have been amazing this season. That dragon looks real to me! Dany of course was clearly surprised to see this. But Drogon just said, “Look, mom! It’s Uncle Jon!”

Dany asked Jon again about being stabbed in the heart but Jon won’t tell her. He’s a humble guy! Then we get another great reunion! “This man says he is your friend”. Ser Jorah appears from behind a group of Dothrakis. Dany’s face light up! “He is my friend”
They embrace. But their time together will be short lived.

Varys and Tyrion have a little chat. They’re concerned about Dany. Tyrion sees that Varys is holding some Raven mail.
“Have you read it?” Tyrion asks.
“It’s a private message for the King of the North!” Varys says.
“What does it say” Tyrion presses.
“Nothing good”

So Jon tells the group that he’s learned that his brother Bran and sister Arya are alive! Also that Bran has seen The Night King and the Dead approaching Eastwatch. No one seems to question how Bran saw this, not even Jon. We just go with it. He tells Dany that he has to go. Dany won’t help because as soon as she leaves Cersei would swoop in and take control. Tyrion comes up with the crazy idea to capture a wight and bring it to Kings landing to convince Cersei that the Dead are real and a threat that they all have to unite and confront. Ser Jorah volunteers to go and bring one back. But you just got here! But the free folk won’t follow Ser Jorah. Jon will have to go. Davos doesn’t like it. Jorah doesn’t like the look of concern on Dany’s face. She doesn’t want Jon to go. “I haven’t given you permission to leave” But Jon tells her he doesn’t need it. He’s a king. He trusted her by coming to meet her and she needs to trust him by letting him leave.

KINGS LANDING

“I thought you’d still be rowing” Ser Davos

Ser Davos smuggles Tyrion into King’s landing so he can meet with Jamie and tell them their plan. They’ll need Jamie’s help to convince Cersei to meet with them in good faith once they have the wight. Ser Davos finds Gendry still working as a blacksmith.

“I thought you’d still be rowing”

Gendry immediately agrees to go with him. He’s not good with a sword but he has made one helluva big hammer! The hammer, after all is the Baratheon family weapon of choice.

Bronn leads Jamie into the dragon fossil museum to meet with Tyrion. Too bad we couldn’t see Tyrion and Bronn’s reunion. Jamie seemed pretty pissed but he listened and when he goes to see Cersei with it she seems to agree that making a deal with Dany may be strategically smart. She also lets Jamie know that she knew that Bronn set up the meeting with Tyrion.

“Dead men, dragons and dragon queens. Whatever stands in our way we will defeat it.” she tells Jamie.

Plus Qyburn has just told her that she is pregnant and they won’t hide the fact that Jamie is the father. But as they embrace she tells him “never betray me again”. Chills.

Back at the beach Tyrion, Davos and Gendry run into some trouble with a couple of sentries. Seeing as Davos is not much of a fighter it was left to Gendry to wield his giant hammer! Hope that thing works as well on the dead as it did on the living.

THE CITADEL

“What does annulment mean?” Gilly

The maesters get the raven mail warning about the army of the dead but they don’t take it seriously and Sam can’t convince them.

But Gilly makes a huge discovery and Sam doesn’t even hear it! Did you? She discovers that Prince Rhaegar had his marriage annulled and was secretly married in Dorne! If this is true then Jon Snow is not a bastard and actually the rightful heir to the throne!

Sam has had it with the Citadel and steals some books and scrolls and takes off with Gilly and Little Sam. My guess is they’re headed to Winterfell.

WINTERFELL

“You always liked nice things. It made you feel better than everyone.” Arya

The lords get word that Jon is headed to Eastwatch and starting to regret giving allegiance to him instead of Sansa. Sansa stands by Jon and says that he’s their king and he’s doing what he thinks is right. But Arya did not like them bad mouthing Jon and is miffed at Sansa for allowing it. She also doesn’t like that Sansa has made their parents bedroom her own.
“And if Jon doesn’t get back you’ll need their support so you can work together to get what you want”
“How can you even think such a horrible thing?
“You’re thinking it right now”

They had a sibling rivalry when they were kids and those feelings are still there. Only they’re not kids anymore. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Little Finger is doing what he does best: Scheming. He saw Sansa’s reaction when they watched Arya fight Brienne. He sees an opening. Arya does some spying on Little Finger and sees that he receives some raven mail, overhears him saying that lady Sansa is most grateful for it. She sneaks into his room and finds it. It is the message that Cersei forced Sansa to write back in season one, saying that her father had committed treason and asking Robb to come to Kings Landing and pledge allegiance to Joffrey. As she leaves his room we see that he sees her leave and planned for her to see that message, hoping to divide sister against sister. But I have to believe that Arya is aware of this. She has to be! She must have had discussions with Bran about what he knows about Little Finger.

DRAGONSTONE

“I wish you good fortune in the wars to come” John Snow

Ser Davos brings Gendry to meet Jon. He tells him to not say who he really is and the plan was that he would go to Winterfell to work the forges. Davos seems to look at Gendry as an adopted son. So when Gendry immediately tells Jon that he’s Robert Baratheon’s bastard son Davos is stunned. But Jon takes an immediate liking to him.
“I grew up on stories about them” Jon tells him.
“All I know is that they fought together and won” Gendry says.
Gendry convinces Jon to take him to Eastwatch to help.

On the beach Tyrion and Jorah share a nice moment. Tyrion gives him the coin that the salvers gave him when he talked him out of killing them. “Bring it back. Our queen needs you” he tells Jorah.

Then we get a touching moment between Jorah and Dany. He starts to speak but she takes his hands. He leans down and kisses them.

Then we get the farewell between Dany and Jon. Jorah sees it. Tyrion sees it. We see it. The look on her face. She’s smitten. Jon not so much. At least he’s now showing it. He’s only got one thing on his mind: White Walkers.

“I wish you good fortune in the wars to come, your grace” Jon tells her. We’ve heard this line before. Mance Rayder, Ser Arthur Dayne and Benjen Stark have all said the same thing. They’re all dead. Well, Benjen is one of the good ‘dead’ ones.

EASTWATCH

“Here we all are, at the edge of the world, at the same moment, all headed in the same direction for the same reason” Berrick Donderrion

Tormund cannot believe that Jon wants to go back out beyond the Wall. He hoped that Jon has brought ‘the big woman’ to help. Wishful thinking, Tormund. He takes them to the cells where some other crazy men are being held. They also wish to go beyond the Wall. It’s The Hound, Berrick Donderrion and Thoros.

This is a motley group! And they all hate each other for various reasons. Berrick and Thoros sold Gendry to Melisandre. Jorah’s father hunted Tormund and his people. And of course, The Hound was hated by all of them. But they have to unite. They have a common enemy.

“We’re all on the same side. We’re all breathing.” Jon says.

What a great moment when the gate is raised and we see The Hateful 7! The Suicide Squad! The Dirty Seven! Classic! They all march out into the blizzard to bring back a wight. Not all of them will be coming back though. Who will die? Who will return?

SIDE THRONES

Jorah sees that Dany likes Jon. Poor Jorah! What does he have to do to win her love? Die?

Cersei is pregnant? What if Qyburn did something to help this happen? What will that baby look like when it’s born? We all saw what happened to The Mountain! I’m a little nervous about this.

So Jon has a claim to be the rightful heir to the throne now that we know that Rhaegar married Lyanna. How will Dany feel about that. And don’t forget, Gendry is a Baratheon and may also claim to be the rightful heir. Things are getting complicated.

Jon went straight to Eastwatch so we have to wait to see his reunion with Arya and Bran. But why was he so quick to believe that Bran saw the Night King? When did he find out that Bran was a ‘warg’? Why didn’t anyone else question this piece of information?

Of the 7 men that ventured North of the Wall who will not be coming back? I can’t believe that Jon, Jorah or Gendry will die. I think The Hound will make it. I’m betting the other three will not. How will Brienne take the news if Tormund doesn’t make it back? I bet she’ll grieve.

Can’t wait to see the biggest reunion of all! Jon and The Night’s King

GREAT QUOTES

“Nothing fucks you harder than time” Ser Davos (My personal favorite)

“It’s better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life”
Ser Davos.

“You need to convince the one with the dragons or the one who fucks her brother?” Tormund

“For fucks, sake! Will you shut your hole! Are we coming with you or not?”
The Hound

5 THINGS I THINK I KNOW

1 Arya will out fox Little Finger
2 Little Finger is on her list
3 I think we will see Jaqen H’ghar again
4 Bran will warg into ‘someone’ to save Jon
5 We will see Ghost in the season finale! (We Better!)