10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 12

10. The Origin Of The Blue Rose

Albert, before formally drafting Tammie into the secret elite ranks of the FBI, discloses what we already inferred of the Blue Rose cases; they are proto X-Files before X-Files were X-Files - investigations into "troubling abstractions", so named after the dying words of a woman uttered before she met her mysterious end. In their quest for elusive answers, Albert, Phillip Jeffries, Cooper and Chet Desmond have travelled an "alternative path."

From Part 12 onwards, the sole remaining agent will be joined in the task force by Agent Preston.

Also: Chrysta Bell can act. She sells her acceptance of the offer with excitement and, given the fates of her predecessors, apprehension. The expression is so ambiguous that the audience has no idea how to receive this news, nor any idea if she is courageous enough to walk this path. In another incredible use of sound, the music cue gives us no clues, either; Badalamenti's swelling string arrangement is at once hopeful and foreboding.

Whether it's Bell's professed on-set nervousness or evidence that she is far better in the role than conventional wisdom has it is immaterial, really: Bell makes you care about Preston's fate. If she was as bad as an unforgiving pocket of the fandom has it, the scene would not resonate.