Twin Peaks (TV Series)

May the Giant Be with You (1990)

Kyle MacLachlan: Special Agent Dale Cooper

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• Sheriff Truman : Lucy, you better bring Agent Cooper up to date.

  Lucy Moran : Leo Johnson was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Shelly and Pete got smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing, Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills.

  Dale Cooper : How long have I been out?

• Dale Cooper : Diane... my recorder is on the table. I'm unable to reach it at this time. I can only hope that I inadvertently pressed the voice activation button. I'm lying on the floor of my room. I've been shot. There's a great deal of pain and a fair amount of blood. Fortunately I was wearing my bulletproof vest last night per bureau regulations when working undercover. I remember folding the vest up, trying to chase down a wood tick. If you can imagine the impact on your chest of three bowling balls dropped from a height of about nine feet, you might begin to approximate the sensation. All things considered, being shot is not as bad as I thought it might be, as long as you can keep the fear from your mind. But I guess you could say that about most anything in life. Its not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind.

• Dale Cooper : Laura Palmer is dead. Jacques Renault is dead. Ronette Pulaski and Leo Johnson are in comas. Waldo the bird is dead. This leaves only the third man.

• Dale Cooper : At a time like this, curiously, you begin to think of the things regret or the things you might miss. I would like, in general, to treat people with much more care and respect. I would like to climb a tall hill - not too tall - sit in the cool grass - not too cool - and feel the sun on my face. I wish I could have cracked the Lindbergh kidnapping case. I would very much like to make love to a beautiful woman who I had genuine affection for. And, of course, it goes without saying that I would like to visit Tibet. I wish they could get their country back and the Dalai Lama could return. Oh, I would like that very much. All in all, a very interesting experience.

• [the Giant appears before Cooper again who's asleep] 

  The Giant : Sorry to wake you.

  Dale Cooper : I wasn't dreaming.

  The Giant : I forgot to tell you something.

  Dale Cooper : You were right about the smiling bag.

  The Giant : The things I tell you will not be wrong.

  Dale Cooper : But, I...

  The Giant : Better to listen, than to talk.

  Dale Cooper : I believe you.

  The Giant : Don't search for all the answers at once. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time. One person saw the third man that night. Three have seen him, yes, but not his body. Only one, known to you, ready now to talk. One more thing, you forgot something.

  Dale Cooper : What?

  [the Giant disappears as we see Audrey Horne's "help me" note under Cooper's bed] 

• Dale Cooper : Albert, where does this attitude of general unpleasantness come from?

  Albert Rosenfield : I'll have to get back on you on that.

  Dale Cooper : Well if you don't want two black eyes on a regular basis I would suggest you make some kind of peace with rural life.

  Albert Rosenfield : Great. After the square dance, maybe we can all take a hayride.

• Dale Cooper : Doc, when the will is invoked, the recuperative powers of the physical body are simply extraordinary.

  Dale Cooper : [struggles to get off the bed]  Just give me a couple hours to get dressed.

• FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield : What was your vest doing riding up like that?

  FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper : Wood tick.

• Dale Cooper : A man can only go so long without submitting to a period of rest, for as we know from experiments conducted on American GIs during the Korean War, sleep deprivation is a one-way ticket to temporary psychosis.

• Sheriff Truman : Lucy, you better bring Agent Cooper up to date.

  Lucy Moran : Leo Johnson was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Shelly and Pete got smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing, Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills.

  Dale Cooper : How long have I been out?

  Dr. Will Hayward : It's 7:45 in the morning. We haven't had this much action in one night since the Elks Club fire of '59.

• Dale Cooper : Diane, it's 11:55pm, approximately nineteen hours since the shooting incident which nearly caused me to make a premature purchase of the proverbial farm.

• Deputy Andy Brennan : [Dale and Harry are investigating a cabin in the woods as Andy covers them from the outside. He observes a car pulling up and several FBI agents, including Albert Rosenfield, emerge]  Harry! You know who it is?

  Dale Cooper : [Inside]  What's that?

  Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill : It's Andy, seems pretty upset about something.

  Deputy Andy Brennan : Harry! It's Agent Rosenflower!

  Deputy Andy Brennan : [He runs toward the cabin, stepping on a loose board on the landing, which flies up and strikes him in the face. Dale and Harry emerge from the cabin] 

  Sheriff Truman : Andy, are you all right?

  Deputy Andy Brennan : [Andy stumbles around on bowed legs, trying to regain his balance] 

  Albert Rosenfield : And it's another great moment in law enforcement history!

• Dale Cooper : At a time like this, curiously, you begin to think of the things regret or the things you might miss. I would like, in general, to treat people with much more care and respect. I would like to climb a tall hill--not too tall--sit in the cool grass--not too cool--and feel the sun on my face. I wish I could have cracked the Lindbergh kidnapping case. I would very much like to make love to a beautiful woman who I had genuine affection for. And, of course, it goes without saying that I would like to visit Tibet. I wish they could get their country back and the Dalai Lama could return. Oh, I would like that very much. All in all, a very interesting experience.