10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8

10. In An Utter Surrealist Mindf*ck...

...there was room for a traditional soap opera twist.

Part 8 begins with the doppelgänger split half of Dale Cooper, referred to by associate Ray as "Mr. Cooper" - like his demon-in-collaboration, BOB, it seems he delights in skirting the line of infamy - in the passenger seat of the prison breakout car. This staging might be important, suggesting that Cooper is but a vessel for BOB, not acting "with" him as Part 5's CGI face-bleed indicated.

Ray seemed doomed, his goofy smile during the prison breakout sequence acting as a portent of his unwitting end. Here, in a gut-punching sequence, it is revealed that he has somehow removed the bullets from Mr. Cooper's gun, thereby tricking him into apparent death. He shoots him in the stomach, a la the season one cliffhanger - again, echoing the original Dale Cooper.

The two split halves have been linked via appearance (obviously), dialogue, and now action, creating the unsettling (and dramatically satisfying) notion that the doppelgänger is not some black and white sci-fi construct, but an ugly manifestation of Dale's dark side.