10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 14

6. The Mystery Of Jack Rabbit's Palace

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Part 14's centrepiece sequence saw us finally arrive, in tandem with the Sheriff and his Deputies, 257 yards due east of Jack Rabbit's Palace (itself eerily similar to the exterior of the White Lodge in Part 8 - post-production Lynchian improv or beautiful predestined doubling, it hardly matters).

It was gorgeous. Lynch's camera lingered on and crawled through the deep, mystical Washington woods, somehow evoking the mystery within with expert sound design depicting them as both menacing and beautiful. It played almost as a vision of how Twin Peaks is remembered more than what it actually was; many exterior woodland shots were filmed under the incongruous tropical sun of California. Living inside of a dream, indeed.

The destination was heralded by plumes of smoke and strobe light, with which Lynch has always been fascinated. We saw Naido, the Lodge spirit with her eyes sewn shut, naked and trembling by what can only at this point be inferred as the doppelgänger portal to the White Lodge. Where the Black Lodge was marked by a circular pool of scorched black engine oil, the entrance to the White Lodge was signposted by a pool of glowing golden liquid - mirroring the colour of the orb in which the essence of Laura Palmer was sent to Earth by who we previously knew only as ???????.

"It's 2:53, fellas," Frank Truman announced - at which point a vortex appeared in the Twin Peaks skies.

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