A new season begins with much more challenges and excitement that follows the daily activity and struggle of Dale Cooper, a young intelligent FBI agent, who investigates on the murder of a young girl, the thing that challenges him, as he reveals more horrible secrets. This season begins with a similar murder that reopens the old case of Palmer.
Despite covering a lot of...ground and interacting with several smaller subplots as well as the Laura storyline, the episode is well-paced and crackles with kineticism and instills a feeling almost like gravity pulling us towards some kind of climax.
MacLachlan is in particularly fine form this time out, whether lamenting past mistakes or helping to conduct the weird, episode-ending chemically induced séance.
Almost every scene is great, from Harold Smith violently feeding his plants and screaming in pain at his betrayal, to the introduction of Gordon Cole, to Maddy's farewell to James.
Just as season one starts to intensify and build narrative momentum in its penultimate episode, so the chapter before the big reveal of Laura's murderer is a busy one.