10 Most Disturbing Twin Peaks Moments

10. Sarah Palmer Removes Her Face

Sarah Palmer has a more integral and sinister part to play in The Return and episode eight introduces Sarah as a teenager in 1956. As she sleeps, Sarah is blissfully unaware as a ‘frog-moth,’ the seed of events yet to pass, enters her mouth – events that become increasingly more disturbing.

Grace Zabriskie plays Laura’s grieving mother - a broken, abused woman - and The Return finds her alone, deserted by the world with no role left to play in the drama of her own life, or so she thinks.

In the fourteenth episode, as she sips a Bloody Mary, alone at a bar, a trucker decides to assail her with misogynistic, homophobic insults as she warns him to mind his own business. Some guys just can’t take a hint – Sarah calmly asks him “Do you really wanna f*ck with this?” and literally removes her face. Underneath, a sharp, spiked tongue and rows of shiny teeth remove half of the man’s neck, leaving him dying on the bar floor in a pool of his own blood.

Unusually gory and loaded with mystery, this is one of the most interesting sequences of The Return. Through ending the investigation prematurely in season two, the creature behind the face represents closure; Lynch, in his own abstract way, is telling us to be careful what we wish for - it might just come true.