Twin Peaks Struck Again by the Realization

7th episode of the first flavour of Twin Peaks

"Episode six"
Twin Peaks episode
Episode no.	Season i Episode seven
Directed by	Caleb Deschanel
Written by	Harley Peyton
Original air appointment	May 17, 1990 (1990-05-17)
Running time	47 minutes[1]
Guest appearances
Chris Mulkey every bit Hank Jennings David Patrick Kelly equally Jerry Horne Walter Olkewicz every bit Jacques Renault Kimmy Robertson every bit Lucy Moran Wendy Robie as Nadine Hurley Don Amendolia as Emory Battis Victoria Catlin every bit Blackie O'Reilly Mark Lowenthal as Herbert Neff
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"Episode vi", likewise known every bit "Realization Time",^{[nb 1]} is the 7th episode of the first season of the American mystery tv set series Twin Peaks. The episode was written by Harley Peyton, and directed past Caleb Deschanel. "Episode 6" features series regulars Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn and Eric Da Re, with guest appearances past Chris Mulkey and David Patrick Kelly.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan) and Twin Peaks sheriff Harry Truman (Ontkean) continue to investigate a murder in the small mountain town of Twin Peaks; while local man of affairs Benjamin Horne (Beymer) schemes to burn the town's sawmill to farther his property empire.

Deschanel has noted that the episode, like most in the series, was filmed from a relatively brusk teleplay; he feels that this has contributed to its power to develop characterization and subtextual inferences in addition to advancing its narrative. Peyton has described writing dialogue for MacLachlan's grapheme Dale Cooper equally being particularly tricky, though he found Fenn's character Audrey Horne to be enjoyable to write for. First airing on May 17, 1990, "Episode 6" was viewed by approximately 17 percent of the available audience during its broadcast. The episode has received positive reviews from critics.

Plot [edit]

Background [edit]

The small boondocks of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked past the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine). FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has come to the town to investigate, and initial suspicion has fallen upon Palmer'southward boyfriend Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and the man with whom she was adulterous on Briggs, James Hurley (James Marshall). However, other inhabitants of the boondocks take their ain suspicions: the trigger-happy, drug-dealing truck driver Leo Johnson (Eric Da Re) is seen as a possible doubtable; peculiarly to his wife Shelly (Mädchen Amick), who has found a bloodstained shirt among his property.^{[three] [4]} Meanwhile, Cooper finds the possible scene of the murder, at the home of drug smuggler Jacques Renault (Walter Olkewicz); Renault's myna bird is taken in as testify.^[5]

Events [edit]

Cooper returns to his hotel room to find Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) waiting in his bed; he cautions her about being unable to become involved with her due to his position and goes to the hotel restaurant to get malts and chips for them both. The next morning time he and Sheriff Truman (Michael Ontkean) programme to pay an undercover visit to One Eyed Jacks, a casino and brothel over the Canada–Us edge, to which Renault is continued. They bring forth Ed Hurley (Everett McGill), with Cooper having requisitioned $10,000 from the FBI to pass as high-stakes gamblers.

Johnson, alive just injured, is spying on his own dwelling house, watching Briggs visit Shelly. Shelly is terrified that Johnson volition render and kill her; simply Briggs reassures her he will take care of things. Johnson is also listening to a police force radio in his truck, and hears that Renault'south myna bird is being considered a witness as its ability to mimic speech might provide a clue; he drives off immediately. That night, he shoots the bird dead through the sheriff station'southward window. However, a voice-activated tape recorder had been left by the bird's muzzle; Cooper is able to discover the words "Leo, no!" among the phrases it had repeated that evening.

James Hurley, Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Madeline Ferguson (Lee) mind to cassette tapes found in Laura's sleeping accommodation; they are all monologues addressed to psychiatrist Laurence Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn). One dated to the nighttime of her death is missing; the group plan to use Ferguson'southward resemblance to Laura to distract Jacoby long plenty to steal it from his role. Jacoby falls for the ruse long plenty; however, Hurley and Hayward are watched from distant by Briggs, who is in plow being spied on by an unseen political party. Briggs hides a bag of cocaine in the gas tank of Hurley's motorcycle.

Audrey, meanwhile, has begun working at her begetter's department store, in a position both Laura and Pulaski occupied earlier their abduction. Audrey spies on another coworker being showered with gifts and offered a job in "hospitality" by the store's manager, and afterwards finds both Laura's and Pulaski'south names in the director's private ledger. Having plant an accost for One Eyed Jacks, Audrey visits and applies nether a imitation name. The brothel'due south madam, Blackie O'Reilly (Victoria Catlin) is hesitant to hire her but is convinced when Audrey ties a cherry stem in a knot with her natural language.

Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie) learns that a new life insurance policy has been taken out in her proper noun, by Josie Packard (Joan Chen) and Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer). Martell had been planning with Horne to burn downwardly Packard's sawmill in society to cheaply purchase the land it occupies. Packard speaks to Horne over the phone, cooperating with the sawmill arson, merely arranging to burn down information technology down with Martell inside. As Packard hangs up, it is seen that the recently paroled killer Hank Jennings (Chris Mulkey) has been beside her.

Production [edit]

"Episode 6" was the first of three episodes directed by Caleb Deschanel (pictured 2009).

"Episode vi" was the 2d of the series to be written past Harley Peyton, who had previously scripted "Episode 3"; Peyton returned to pen a number of other episodes across both seasons.^[six] The episode was directed by noted cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, who afterward helmed two episodes in the second season.^[7]

Each episode of Twin Peaks was written sequentially; this allowed the overall plot to gather momentum as information technology progressed but allowed for the organic procedure of adding new elements every bit the writers thought of them; a process favored by series co-creator David Lynch. It also allowed Mark Frost, Lynch's partner in creating the serial, to plan ahead to ensure plot details and threads would be revisited equally necessary.^[eight] Deschanel recalls the teleplay for the episode being approximately 40–45 pages long, which he felt offered the show a "leisurely" pace compared to modern television episode, which are filmed from teleplays of upwardly to 120 pages. This allowed the series to dwell on its subtext and unexpressed desires of its characters, rather than focusing solely on narrative activity.^[9] Deschanel and Peyton have described the episode equally exemplifying the need to "exist a fan" of the series to fully enjoy information technology, as the progression and development of the characters occurs over multiple episodes and rewards the attending of a regular viewer.^[10]

Peyton has noted that the distinct personalities of the series' characters meant that he considered some of them much more difficult to assuredly write for than others. He constitute Cooper to be particularly tricky to write for, as the character had an idiosyncratic view of the world which needed to exist maintained;^[eleven] but found Audrey Horne to be his favourite to piece of work on as he considered the character—and actress Sherilyn Fenn—to be both sexy and smart, and to take adult essentially as the serial progressed.^[12] The character of Madeline Ferguson was named for characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo—Kim Novak's Madeleine Elster and James Stewart's Scottie Ferguson.^[thirteen] Ferguson'south cousin, the murdered schoolgirl Laura Palmer, was similarly named after the titular character in Otto Preminger's 1944 film Laura;^[14] while other characters in the series would too be named for film noir characters.^[fifteen]

The popular "cherry stem" scene was inspired by an incident in Peyton's life; he had been dining with friends during the time he was writing the script when a female friend demonstrated to the group that she could knot a ruby stem with her natural language. Peyton immediately added this to the script, finding it fascinating that he could witness something on one mean solar day, write it the next, and two weeks after see newspapers discussing his version of it. Fenn has admitted that she was unable to really perform the trick, simply switching the stem for a tied one already hidden in her mouth; however, co-star Mädchen Amick has since demonstrated it during television interviews.^[xvi]

Scenes filmed in the One Eyed Jacks casino and brothel were shot on location at a house on the shore of California'southward Malibou Lake; footage for several episodes were shot on the same day by different directors so every bit to scatter the scenes throughout the episodes that required them.^[17] Deschanel has expressed regret over the employ of a "house fashion" in the series' management and cinematography, feeling that he lit sure scenes in this episode in a fashion he would not usually accept done; preferring to have employed a chiaroscuro use of shadow every bit opposed to the reddish tints used throughout.^[18]

Broadcast and reception [edit]

Maddie [is] oblivious to what her resemblance to Laura does to people but she'southward not above letting that resemblance be used in the search for Laura's killer. [...] Nosotros're deep into Vertigo territory, only it seems like half the town could be bandage in the Jimmy Stewart role.

—The A.V. Club 's Keith Phipps on the episode's influences^[19]

"Episode 6" was first broadcast on the ABC Network on May 17, 1990. In its initial airing, it was viewed by 10.6 percentage of US households, representing 17 pct of the available audition. This marked a slight subtract from the previous episode, which had attracted xi.5 pct of the population and eighteen pct of the available audition.^[20] "Episode 6" was the fortieth most-viewed broadcast that week, tying with Family Matters, which aired on the same network.^[21]

Writing for The A.V. Club, Keith Phipps rated the episode an "A−", finding that the death of Waldo the myna bird acted equally a summation of the tone of the serial—noting that information technology "should be goofy but it's completely chilling".^[19] Phipps also compared the episode to Hitchcock's Vertigo, describing it as he could "imagine Brian DePalma watching and wishing he'd thought of offset".^[nineteen] AllRovi 's Andrea LeVasseur awarded the episode four stars out of 5.^[22] Daniel J. Blau of Tv Without Compassion constitute the scene featuring Waldo being shot to accept been directed well; Blau felt the minimal and straightforward approach taken was in stark contrast to the over-the-top direction taken by newer crew members in the series' 2nd season.^[23]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Although the serial originally did not have episode titles, when it was broadcast in Germany the episodes were given titles that are now used by some fans and critics.^[ii]

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ "Twin Peaks, Flavor 1". iTunes Store. Apple tree. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
2. ^ Riches 2011, p. 40.
3. ^ David Lynch (writer and director); Mark Frost (writer) (April 8, 1990). "Pilot". Twin Peaks. Season 1. Episode 1. American Broadcasting Company. {{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. ^ Duwayne Dunham (director); David Lynch and Mark Frost (writers) (April 12, 1990). "Episode 1". Twin Peaks. Season 1. Episode 2. American Broadcasting Company. {{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
5. ^ Lesli Linka Glatter (director); Mark Frost (author) (May 10, 1990). "Episode v". Twin Peaks. Flavor 1. Episode half dozen. American Dissemination Company. {{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. ^ "Harley Peyton – Movie and Picture show Biography, Credits and Filmography". AllMovie. AllRovi. Retrieved September viii, 2012.
7. ^ "Caleb Deschanel – Picture and Film Biography, Credits and Filmography". AllMovie. AllRovi. Retrieved September viii, 2012.
8. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 00:30–02:x
9. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 04:08–04:59
10. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 33:01–34:05
11. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 06:59–08:08
12. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 13:16–14:17
13. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 33:35–33:44
14. ^ Hunter & Engels, 28:03–29:thirty
15. ^ Feeney, Marker (May 19, 1990). "Double Peaks? Twin Idemnity?". The Boston Globe. The New York Times Visitor. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved September ten, 2012. (subscription required)
16. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 37:59–38:55
17. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 32:01–32:53
18. ^ Deschanel & Peyton, 36:25–37:19
19. ^ ^{a b c} Phipps, Keith (December 26, 2007). "'Episode 5'/'Episode 6' |Twin Peaks | TV Lodge". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
20. ^ Carmody, John (May 21, 1990). "The Television receiver Cavalcade". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved September eight, 2012. (subscription required)
21. ^ "NBC No. 1 Again in May Sweeps". The Washington Mail service. May 23, 1990. Archived from the original on Nov 20, 2018. Retrieved September viii, 2012. (subscription required)
22. ^ LeVasseur, Andrea. "Twin Peaks: Episode 06 – Cast, Reviews, Summary, and Awards". AllMovie. AllRovi. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
23. ^ Blau, Daniel J. (July 18, 2000). "Episode Six – Twin Peaks Television Show – Recaps, Reviews, Episodes". Goggle box Without Pity. NBC Universal. Archived from the original on Baronial 29, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.

References [edit]

• Deschanel, Caleb; Peyton, Harley (2001), Episode 6: Commentary (DVD), Twin Peaks: The Consummate First Flavour: Artisan Amusement
• Hunter, Tim; Engels, Robert (2001), Episode 4: Commentary (DVD), Twin Peaks: The Complete First Season: Artisan Amusement
• Riches, Simon (2011). "Intuition and Investigation into Another Place: The Epistemological Role of Dreaming in Twin Peaks and Beyond". In Devlin, William J.; Biderman, Shai (eds.). The Philosophy of David Lynch. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN978-0-8131-3396-6.

External links [edit]

• "Realization Time" at First
• "Episode 6" at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode_6_(Twin_Peaks)

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