You find your girlfriend shooting her ex-husband and pimp, figure out that she has a criminal sheet a mile long with a trail of dead bodies, and then watch her die after you held a gun at her before she could shoot your best friend and fellow law enforcement officer.

He holed himself up in The Bookhouse where he has crawled into a bottle and died for a while. It’s barely been 12 hours since Josie’s mysterious death and subsequent transformation into a piece of furniture, but Harry is hitting rock bottom. A lot of time has passed since Josie was shot, and yet there’s been no time at all. It’s been 5 weeks since the last Twin Peaks episode, even if only one day has passed. Everybody in town is having to live up or down to their past or trying not to recreate the conditions that caused unfortunate events to occur earlier in their life. Karma permeates this episode like cherry pie and coffee permeated the first season. I put this commentary here, a little after the midpoint of the back half of the season, because no other episode so embodies how the past always catches up with us. In addition to Laura’s past, it deals with Leland’s past in murdering Teresa Banks, and David Bowie’s cameo deals with the bad events he has witnessed. Fire Walk With Me is all about Laura being haunted by her past, and trying to come to terms with the trauma that came before the show. It’s this narrow focus that made Fire Walk With Me such a potent episode following Leland’s Death. Even Super Nadine is trying to go back to her past and change her life for the perfect. Little Nicky was haunted by the death of his step-parents and his mother. Audrey’s romance with John Justice Wheeler is based on an old friendship he had, where he carried her photo in his wallet. Josie is haunted by her dealings with Catherine and Thomas Eckhardt and Hank Jennings. Cooper is first haunted by his immediate past of going to One Eyed Jacks, then by Jean Renault, and finally by Windom Earle and Catherine. James is trying to run away from his past and ends up being a victim to it.

America’s past comes back to haunt Ben in the form of the civil war.

Where the front half was about the connected town and “Getting Away With It,” the back half is about “The Past Catches Up To You.” Leland’s molestation as a child comes back to haunt him in the form of BOB raping and killing Laura. Jacoby get away with hiding evidence? Will Jean Renault and Blackie get away with blackmail? Will Leland get away with killing Maddy? The first 16 episodes, marked by Laura’s killer, have the general theme of “Getting Away With It.” Will Laura’s killer get away with murder? Will Ben and Catherine get away with burning the mill down? Will Leo get away with burning the mill down and selling drugs? Will Dr. One of the reasons the back half of Season 2 grinds so many gears is that, since Leland’s death, the themes have completely changed on us. We’re not through with the past, and the past is not through with us

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