10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 11

All across the world, Twin Peaks fans - a fervent cult enamoured with the iconography of the show, as much as the storylines, the characters, the visuals and that haunting, gorgeous soundtrack - settled into the premiere with cherry pie.

There were precisely zero scenes set in the RR diner. Instead, fans spent less than ten minutes in Twin Peaks itself, greeted by the disturbing sight of their hero's double rabbit punching women in the face and blowing their brains out in seedy motel double beds. Not great for the appetite.

Even as Dougie Jones, Dale Cooper has retained a love of coffee - hilariously, Lucky 7 colleague Phil Bisby has taken to using it as bait to navigate the man he has evidently taken pity on from one room to the next - but cherry pie, Cooper's very first love, has been absent from the revival thus far. Until now. The Mitchum brothers engineer a plan to assassinate Douglas Jones in the Nevada desert. Meanwhile, it emerges that the intuitive scribbles penned by Cooper have revealed Anthony Sinclair's plan to defraud the Mitchums. The tense desert showdown is interrupted by a certain gift Cooper brings to the meeting, prodded by Philip Gerard, a sort of peace offering by way of dream symbology.

It's funny; when Robert Knepper's Rodney Mitchum says the words, for the first time in The Return: "OK. What the f*ck. In that box there. Is that a cherry pie?" it almost feels like fan service - but this literal slice of nostalgia has been baked over the course of eleven hours, and is served here in a gloriously, ridiculously, damn different fresh context.