[Twin Peaks] Chapter 19 - Hour Eleven "There's A Fire Where You're Going"
A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition
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TPTR = Twin Peaks The Return (2017)
FWWM = Fire Walk With Me (1992)
RRL = The Red Room Dream Layer
TVL = The Version Layer
MPL = Missing Page Layer
TFM = The Fireman’s Mansion
Twin Peaks = The entire franchise
Chapters 1-9 are free to read.
INTRO1
Part 11: Scene 1
(0:00:00-0:01:41) Local (9:34:53-9:36:34) Global Time
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D20
Part 11: Scene 2
The Version Layer: Twin Peaks, WA
(0:01:41-0:08:50) Local (9:36:34-9:43:43) Global Time
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PN: Something Is Wrong In Twin Peaks
Three boys throw a baseball outside of a rural home. One boy overthrows the ball across the road. Another boy runs to retrieve the ball and hears moaning from across the street. The boy hunches down looks closer, and says, “There’s someone there. Go tell Mom!”
It’s Miriam. She has managed to crawl from her trailer to the side of the road. But, unfortunately, she needs medical attention if she’s going to make it.
Becky has learned something outrageous about Steven at the New Fat Trout Trailer Park. She screams and calls her mother, telling her she needs her car.
At the RR, Shelly runs out, telling Norma she has to go.
Becky pulls a gun from under the couch. She runs out to meet her mother, repeating how she hates him.
Becky gets in Shelly’s car and reverses quickly, throwing Shelly from the hood. She speeds off.
Carl Rodd comes to Shelly’s aid and hails a car with a metal whistle. She tells him Becky and Steven are fighting again. Shelly wants them to go faster. Carl says he wants to get them there in one piece. He tells her of the trouble in the trailer and how he feels for her and her girl.
Shelly calls Norma to report Becky took off in her car. Norma tells her to call Bobby.
Carl picks up a CB and calls the Sheriff’s Dispatcher. She gets connected to Bobby and tells him she’s taken off with her car and has a gun.
Carl Rodd says, “Oh God.”
A car screeches to a halt outside an apartment complex. Becky runs upstairs with the gun and starts banging on a door, calling Steven a “Fucking coward.”
A neighbor opens her door and tells her they just left, sees the gun, and says there is no one there. Becky considers her options, stands back, yells, “Fuck you, Steven,” and shoots five bullets into the door.
Brooding music accompanies a fast-moving camera traveling the hallways of this apartment building.
Here, we find Steven hunched down with an older Gersten Hayward. They both look up, listening to the terror unfolding on the floor above them. Gersten puts her hand on his shoulder in a familiar way. Steven holds something blue in his hand, perhaps a lighter?
In the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department, the Dispatcher takes call after inbound call, assuring people that someone is on the way.
There is a lot of trouble in Twin Peaks today.
What is the value of Miriam living versus dying in this story?
She will convey the killer and attempted killer to Twin Peaks Law Enforcement if she lives.
Remember, Chad blocked her letter.
Miriam is now the only hope of connecting Richard Horne’s crimes with Hawk’s investigation. She survives to name the killer. This conveyed truth allows the transfer of the key, the only symbol that unites these storylines.
It doesn’t matter what the key opens; it could be any wild wisp of imagination. The hero must lose the key in the beginning but still hold it by the end to conclude the Hero’s Journey portion of TPTR.1
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