10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 6
2. The Episode Description Probably Doesn't Refer To Deputy Chad...
...which is a shame.
It's ghoulish to wish death even on a fictional character - but what an (intentionally) despicable man he is.
Chad epitomises the changes experienced by the titular town in the intervenin quarter century. Whereas, in 1989, all arms of local law enforcement were respectful of the Log Lady, Chad is both skeptical and dismissive, laughing off her intuition by comparing her log to a pine cone. He is a sneering, awful avatar for the cynicism of the modern world. His presence is a reminder that Twin Peaks is no longer the "heaven" once described by Agent Cooper.
"I sure wouldn't take that kind of sh*t off her," he snorted, as Doris tore Frank another new one. Her henpecking was then explained. Her son committed suicide after the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder grew too much. This failed to move him. "He couldn't take being a soldier!" he mock-cried.
In a new world of villains - supernatural, psychotic, unfathomably wealthy - the worst might be Chad, for his unrelenting awfulness of an all-too human stripe. In Part 5, Cooper mimicked the outstretched gun of the bronze statue erected in his office complex. Again, it probably isn't foreshadowing Chad's demise.
Which is a shame.