10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 7

10. Jerry Horne Is Hilarious (IS Jerry Horne Hilarious?)

Part 7 of The Return saw this new age(d) reefer merchant Jerry Horne sat, beleaguered, in the woods.

He surveyed the shimmering trees with apprehension, born either from the inherent forces within them, the THC coursing through his system, or a heady mixture of both. "Someone stole my car!" he told brother Ben via mobile phone, the connotations of a certain 2000 stoner flick as brilliant as they were, surely, unintended. "What?" Ben responded. In a priceless line, conveying the short term memory loss of cannabis use perfectly, Jerry asked "Didn't I tell you?"

"I think I'm high!" he then screamed.

The scene is played for laughs - the specificity of the word "think" is hilariously and incongruously understated - but it's also ambiguous. As Sheriff Harry Truman disclosed, ominously, in the original series: "There's a sort of evil out there. Something very, very strange in those old woods." Was Jerry fried, or touched by a - call it what you will - a presence?

At this juncture, speculating is, if not pointless (few if any shows have the ability to conjure doubt and intrigue within even the broadest comic set pieces) then hopeless. Few saw the reveal of Dr. Amp coming.

Irrespective of whether or not Jerry Horne is merely high as a kite in a one-and-done scene, David Patrick Kelly played the role brilliantly, with Richard Beymer's weary straight man a sublime contrast.