Twin Peaks (TV Series)

Masked Ball (1990)

Kyle MacLachlan: Special Agent Dale Cooper

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• Special Agent Dale Cooper : Have any of you fellows heard of a place called the White Lodge?

  Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill : Where did you hear that?

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : Well, it was the last thing Major Briggs said to me before he disappeared. He asked me if I ever heard of a place called the White Lodge and I told him I hadn't. He wouldn't tell me why.

  Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill : Cooper, you may be fearless in this world. But there are other worlds. Worlds beyond life and death. Worlds beyond scientific reality.

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : Tell me more.

  Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill : My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : Dweller on the Threshold.

  Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill : But it is said that if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.

• FBI Agent Roger Hardy : Agent Cooper, it's showtime. You've heard the charges. What do you wish to present as your defense?

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : I have no defense. I am completely confident that in the rightness of my actions. Some of it occurred outside of Bureau guidelines, and I will pay the price for that. But I am innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. If they wish to charge me, I will defend myself in a court of law.

  FBI Agent Roger Hardy : Dale. There's a right way and a wrong way to do this. And the first thing we expect is for a Bureau man to stand up for himself. A man who can't, who doesn't even try, well, he may be packing feathers where his spine is supposed to be.

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : Roger. I know the moves I'm supposed to make. And I know the board.

  FBI Agent Roger Hardy : So?

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. And I've started to focus out beyond the edge of the board. On a bigger game.

  FBI Agent Roger Hardy : What game?

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : The sound the wind makes through the vines. The sentience of animals. What we fear in the dark and what lies beyond the darkness.

  FBI Agent Roger Hardy : What the hell are you talking about?

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : I'm talking about seeing beyond fear, Roger. About looking at the world with love.

  FBI Agent Roger Hardy : They're liable to extradite you for murder and drug trafficking.

  Special Agent Dale Cooper : These are things I cannot control.