Part 17 (Twin Peaks)

"Part 17"
Twin Peaks episode
Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and Diane Evans (Laura Dern) stand in the Sheriff's station. Some reviewers pointed the superimposition of Cooper's face as indicative that the series was his dream.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 17
Directed by	David Lynch
Written by	David Lynch Mark Frost
Featured music	Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography by	Peter Deming
Editing by	Duwayne Dunham
Original air date	September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03)
Running time	59 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Jay Aaseng as Drunk Dana Ashbrook as Deputy Bobby Briggs Phoebe Augustine as Ronette Pulaski Chrysta Bell as FBI Agent Tammy Preston Jim Belushi as Bradley Mitchum Richard Beymer as Ben Horne Joan Chen as Josie Packard Julee Cruise as herself Giselle DaMier as Sandie Eric DaRe as Leo Johnson Don S. Davis as Major Garland Briggs Laura Dern as Diane Evans Jay R. Ferguson as Special Agent Randall Headley Miguel Ferrer as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield Robert Forster as Sheriff Frank Truman Nathan Frizzell as Voice of Phillip Jeffires Harry Goaz as Deputy Andy Brennan Michael Horse as Deputy Chief Tommy "Hawk" Hill Robert Knepper as Rodney Mitchum Piper Laurie as Catherine Martell Andrea Leal as Mandie Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer David Lynch as FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole James Marshall as James Hurley Don Murray as Bushnell Mullins Jack Nance as Pete Martell Walter Olkewicz as Jacques Renault John Pirruccello as Deputy Chad Broxford Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Brennan Carlton Lee Russell as Jumping Man Amy Shiels as Candie Frank Silva as BOB Al Strobel as Phillip Gerard Carel Struycken as The Fireman Jake Wardle as Freddie Sykes Ray Wise as Leland Palmer Nae Yuuki as Naido Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer
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"Part 17", also known as "The Return, Part 17", is the seventeenth episode of Twin Peaks revival series. It was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch and directed by Lynch. "Part 17" was broadcast on Showtime along with Part 18 on September 3, 2017, and seen by an audience of 254,000 viewers in the United States. Although it was initially met with mixed to negative reception among the fanbase, the episode achieved instantaneous critical acclaim.

The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by 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 been sent to the town to investigate and has come to the realization that the killer was the father of Laura, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), who acted while possessed by a demonic entity—Killer BOB (Frank Silva). At the end of the original series, Cooper was trapped into the Black Lodge, an extra-dimensional place, by BOB, who let out Cooper's doppelgänger to use him as his physical access to the world.

Twenty-five years after the events, Cooper manages to escape the Lodge by traveling through a portal between worlds; during this process, Cooper was supposed to replace the doppelgänger (now known as Mr. C), but instead he takes the place of a second doppelgänger (known as Douglas "Dougie" Jones), fabricated by the first as a patsy for the exchange. Mr. C, exhausted from the process, crashes his car and passes out, allowing the police to capture him; he subsequently manages to escape, dividing his time between his search for an access to "the Zone" and organizing his minions' attempts to eliminate the now catatonic Dale Cooper, who is mistaken by Douglas Jones' family and colleagues as the original Dougie. After numerous attempts, Mr. C is given the coordinates from Diane Evans (Laura Dern), whom he raped in the past and substituted with a "Tulpa" (lodge manufactured copy of a human being) at his service; after confessing all of this to FBI and redirecting them to the Twin Peaks Sheriff Station, Diane is shot by Agent Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) and disposed in the Lodge by MIKE (Al Strobel). In the meantime, Cooper awakens from a self-induced coma in full possession of his mental capacity, and after having said goodbye to Dougie's wife Janey-E (Naomi Watts) and son (Pierce Gagnon), leaves for Twin Peaks.