The wallpaper, but I can't remember where Cooper and Truman noticed it.

It's the "theme music" for Lorraine, the woman whom he kills…who for whatever Lynchian reason has that music playing whenever she's onscreen and alive — even when it's a photo that's symbolically killed.

We saw her in the previous episode attempting to arrange some kind of criminal act by means of Blackberry codes, one of which seemed to reach some kind of strange squawk-box device in Buenos Ares (or wherever Phillip Jeffries/David Bowie disappeared), making the box crumple up. (Nobody understands any of this; you can…

We can agree that 1) Laura followed Annie's advice (from her dream in Fire Walk With Me) and wrote in her diary that "The good Dale is trapped in the Black Lodge" and 2) Hawk found those diary pages in the bathroom stall door, right?

All I'll say is, How do you know?

So much good stuff in this episode…but the one thing that’s sticking with me, and totally cracking me up (in that appalled, sickened, fascinated way that’s only possible with Lynch) is this totally crazy idea that

I vividly remember the moment during the initial run of the series when I made a firm decision to ignore the numbers (which were as prevalent then as now) since it didn't seem possible to evince any sense or logic from them…and, over the decades, nobody's ever produced any kind of satisfying "The Numbers of Twin Peaks"…

You need to change the verb to "staggers"…."a man wrapped in bandages that staggers around choking people." Otherwise I agree completely.

I'm not sure. I think Kim got to him — I think he reacted defensively to her critique, because some part of him is just so fucking sick of dealing with Chuck and Chuck's ego and the contortions they all have to go through to deal with Chuck. She's right; Howard has been enabling the whole thing more and more, over the…

What I don't understand is, when a law firm gets a huge rainmaker client like that, there's a big retainer, right? Wouldn't it pay for, like, a staff of lawyers (or a few interns at the very least)?

(And he just gives a contemptuous thumbs-up without looking)

Welcome to another episode of "What the Fuck is Mike Doing?" (this time centered on his purposefully detecting and then reporting the corpse in the desert).

I never thought of that, but it's great.

One improvement over the original series: it's such a relief not to be trapped in that rotisserie of pinch-hitter writers and directors!

But he's not a "mirror image" — he's a regular left/right version of Kyle MacLachlan.

YOU EXPECTING THOSE DRAPES TO HANG THEMSELVES?

But I was never accusing you of not understanding those things. I was agreeing with Jordo in his objection to folkinghippy's complaint that "scenes like the one at the Roadhouse this episode are making [him] more and more uncomfortable" (because they spoke to an endorsement of "violence against women"), which we all…

That's an excellent point. It's a satire in the best sense.

In Fight Club, as the airline baggage clerk, insinuating to Edward Norton that when they pull a bag it's because the noise it's making is "a dildo" (early in the movie).

See The Ring.