10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 13

7. An Hilarious Red Herring (?)

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D Fusco - essentially every character David Koechner has ever played, not that that isn't an utterly brilliant thing - enters a room of his Vegas precinct having narrowly avoided an altercation with a screaming, murderous banshee.

He announces that he pulled up Dougie's prints and, according to the database, he broke free from a South Dakota prison two days ago - and is a missing FBI agent. This sent his brothers into fits of their infectious laughter - so infectious that it's almost a shame Lynch hasn't indulged his trademark protracted vignettes with ten minutes of Edelstein's gormless braying.

D Fusco, baffled at this "huge f*cking mistake," simply disposed of the prints in the bin.

This scene was a literal throwaway, on smirking face value - but we must be careful not to dust it for prints of its own. There is so much to parse in even the most unassuming of asides. This one may be no different, if the words of brother Smiley act as foreshadowing. "Mom wants us to come to Sunday dinner. Hope there's no murders this weekend! Haha! Fat chance that's gonna happen!"

Given that the Vegas threads have converged - and that the arrival of the Hutchens is imminent - there is a prescience to his chortled words.

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