Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks (1990)

26 mistakes in season 2 - chronological order

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Episode Eight (2) - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: At One Eyed Jack's, when Agent Cooper and Jacques are sitting and talking there are 2 glasses of beer on the table. In one shot Jacques finishes a glass. When he gets up, both glasses are full. (00:10:20 - 00:11:40)

Episode Eight (2) - S2-E1

Other mistake: When Cooper is on the floor after being shot, as he's signing the check, he is doing so with the pen closed, and proceeds to click it open as he hands it back to the room service.

Episode Eight (2) - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: When Cooper is at the police station describing the events of the night of the murder, he is seen taking a doughnut and placing it on the napkin next to him. A few shots later his napkin is empty and the doughnut is back on the stack.

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Episode Nine - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: The necklace James took from the coconut in Dr. Jacobi's office in the previous episode had a gold chain. When he gives it to Agent Cooper in this episode, it's on leather.

Episode Fourteen - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: Ben Horne's glasses are knocked off during his arrest at the Great Northern. No one picks them up, but when he is brought around the corner of his desk, he's wearing them again. (00:28:50 - 00:30:30)

Episode Fifteen - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: After Leland is pulled over by the police, he goes to open the boot of his car, and he is wearing dark gloves. When he rummages in his golf bag containing the body for a golf club, he is wearing no gloves. Then he holds the club in the air to show Cooper and the gloves are back again.

Episode Fifteen - S2-E8

Plot hole: More than 24 hours after Ben is arrested his daughter Audrey comes and asks Cooper if her father was arrested. How has she not noticed that he is absent and in jail?

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Episode Sixteen - S2-E9

Revealing mistake: When Leland Palmer is locked in the cell he starts screaming and runs headlong into one wall, then the other. The first wall wobbles noticeably on impact, indicating it is being shot on a set.

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Episode Sixteen - S2-E9

Plot hole: In the bait and switch section, why does anyone involved agree to Leland being Ben's attorney when both victims are relatives of Leland? Neither Ben nor any of the police are in on Cooper's plan, and it seems implausible at best that they would agree to this.

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Episode Sixteen - S2-E9

Character mistake: At the Roadhouse Cooper states that the second victim (Maddy) was found dead two days ago. It has been less than 24 hours since the body was found: he likely means she was murdered two days ago.

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Episode Sixteen - S2-E9

Plot hole: Harry states that Ben was not arrested until after midnight. However in episode 2.7, the arrest takes place earlier in the evening, shown in establishing shots and the other events which occur afterwards.

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Man from Another Place: Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song... and there's always music in the air.

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Trivia: Hank Jennings has the same prison number that Jean Valjean does in Les Misérables.

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Chosen answer: Killer BOB is a demonic entity that emanates from a realm of pure evil known as the Black Lodge, a place that exists on an alternate plane of reality. BOB feeds on human pain and suffering and can travel on earth by possessing human beings and also as an owl. While possessing humans, he commits horrible acts to elicit pain, fear, and suffering from those who are around him, using that as nourishment. BOB possesses Leland Palmer, later forcing him to abuse, rape, and eventually murder his own daughter, Laura, and later to commit suicide.

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