Cooper tempts Jacques Renault back across the border where he can be arrested. He explains the events in the cabin, clearly fingering Leo as the probably killer. Leo is not having a good day. He's no sooner tied up his wife inside the mill he is about to torch, but has been shot a second time, this time by the much more professional Hank Jennings. Big Ed's wife Nadine has taken pills, Leland has killed Jacques who he thinks killed Laura, James has been framed for drugs, Audrey's found out that the man she is about to 'entertain' is her father and Agent Cooper just got shot three times in the chest at point blank range.
Wow, what a last episode! With all the situations in place, it's action all the way as cliffhanger after cliffhanger explodes in our face and leaves us desperate that we're going to have to wait however long for a second series to tie up all the loose ends. Are Catherine and Shelly dead in the mill, and is Pete for that matter? Can Josie get out of the deal she now has with the man she paid to kill her husband? How will Audrey get out of the world's most embarrassing situation? Will Jacoby survive? Will Nadine survive? Will Cooper survive? Will we ever learn who killed Laura Palmer?
It's a breathtaking crescendo to everything that the show has been building up to, but never a breathless one. So well has everything been set up that it all comes together like a jigsaw suddenly revealed when all you've seen so far are the pieces. But it is the ending that leaves you gasping with shock and screaming at the prospect of a the long wait till next year.
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