Pilot

Feature Movie

A major disappointment to casual fans, or people who never watched the show, this film does not have the trademark Twin Peaks humor, nor does it unravel the cliffhanger ending of the TV show (Note: Fire Walk with Me had several scenes that took place after the tv series but it was cut out of the movie). For hardcore Twin Peaks fans it is an incredible, disturbing, revealing & shocking experience.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me focuses on the one week before Laura Palmer's death, so in essence, it is a prequel.

It starts off with the murder of Teresa Banks -- who is floating in a river bank, wrapped in plastic. Special Agent Chester Desmond and F.B.I. Agent Sam Stanley are brought in to investigate the murder in the small town of Twin Peaks by Gordon Cole (played by David Lynch!).

After roughing it up with some of the cocky local enforcements, Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley get their way and slowly uncover bits and pieces of clues that seem to go nowhere of the dead girl. While examining the body, they notice she's missing a ring.

Agent Desmond wants to bring the body back to the lab where it could be examined properly and tells Agent Stanley to do it. Agent Desmond has a hunch about the trailer park and tells Agent Stanley to go on ahead. Agent Desmond is drawn to a trailer near the end and notices a small green ring on the bottom of the trailer. He grabs it and appears to disappear...

Gordon Cole then assigns Special Agent Dale Cooper to the case to assist Agent Stanley. Agent Stanley tells him what he knew about Agent Desmond's led in the trailer park, and Special Agent Dale Cooper is too drawn to the end of the trailer park. When he reaches there, a trailer has droven off and has a hunch that the killer will strike again.

Fast forward to a year. We see Laura Palmer and most of her friends in their daily lives, family, and etc. It shows how Laura came into contact with "BOB", how agent Cooper got the assignment, and several other little back stories.

It is overall, an incredibly confusing, yet disturbing fun movie when you sit down and figure it all out.