Episode 1 (Traces to Nowhere)

By Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks
FADE IN: 1. EXT. GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL - DAY
Dawn breaks over the Great Northern.
CUT TO: 2. INT. GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL ROOM - DAY
We hear him before we see him, but DALE COOPER is perched six inches above the floor in a one-handed yoga "frog" position, wearing boxer shorts and a pair of socks, talking into the tape recorder which is sitting on the carpet near his head.
CUT TO: 3. EXT. SHERIFF TRUMAN'S HOUSE - MORNING
A rustic log house, with the Sheriffs cruiser parked in front. A rooster crows. SHERIFF TRUMAN exits the house, carrying a soiled paper bag. He walks around the side yard to a chicken coop and scatters the feed he has in the bag into the coop. They start clucking and pecking.
He empties the bag and starts towards the cruiser.
CUT TO: 4. EXT. DOUGHNUT SHOP - DAY
A sign reads: WAGON-WHEEL DO-NUTS.
CUT TO: 5. INT. DOUGHNUT SHOP - MORNING
A banner reads: GO AHEAD; MAKE MY DONUT. Another banner reads: SQUARE DEALS ON ROUND DONUTS.
DEPUTY ANDY BRENNAN and LUCY MORAN are at the counter, in the middle of ordering.
CUT TO: 6. INT. SHERIFF'S CRUISER - MORNING
Truman drives past Wagon-Wheel Do-Nuts just in time to see Lucy and Andy leaving the shop, with Andy carrying a stack of donut boxes up to his neck. Truman pulls into the parking lot next to them and leans out the window.
Truman and Andy look at each other.
CUT TO: 7. INT. GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL DINING ROOM - DAY
Dale Cooper sits at a choice corner table, holding a fresh, hot cup of coffee, as a WAITRESS stands by, holding the coffee pot.
CUT TO: 8. AUDREY HORNE
Across the room, watching Cooper order. She slips into her beguiling, rip-your-heart-out routine and sashays across the dining room to Cooper's table.
The Waitress departs. Audrey smiles.
Audrey sits, a little confused, runs a hand over her forehead.
Cooper studies her benignly.
CUT TO: 9. BENJAMIN HORNE
Crossing the hallway outside the dining room, he glances in and sees his daughter sitting with Dale Cooper. He stops, takes this in, then moves on.
CUT TO: 10. EXT. LEO JOHNSON'S HOUSE MORNING
The trucker, LEO JOHNSON, is obsessively cleaning the cab of his semi rig with a dustbuster. A bucket of hot water, some sponges and a hose are at the ready nearby. We see that Leo's name is stenciled on the rig's door, along with the name, "BIG PUSSYCAT." SHELLY JOHNSON, in her waitress uniform, comes up to the truck.
Leo turns off the dustbuster and turns to her.
He grabs a used grocery bag full of dirty clothes from the cab and flings it at her.
Shelly starts back towards the house.
CUT TO: 11. INT. JOHNSON KITCHEN - MORNING
Shelly dumps the clothes out of the grocery bag onto a laundry basket in front of the washer. She shakes out the clothes before putting them in. She stops short when she sees a large, dark red bloodstain on a faded blue cowboy work shirt.
She starts to tremble. She hears a car horn beep outside. She looks out the window, sees Norma's car pull in near the truck but she doesn't see Leo.
She hears the screen door open and bang shut in the other roorn.
Shelly makes a brave decision: quickly folds the bloodstained shirt and stashes it behind the washer, dumps the rest of the clothes in the washer, loads the detergent, closes the door and starts it just as Leo comes in the room.
She starts out. He catches her by the arm.
He pinches her cheek softly and holds it.
He works her cheek for a moment, squeezing a bit harder. Shelly hides her fear.
CUT TO: 12. EXT. JOHNSON HOUSE/INT. NORMA'S CAR - MORNING
Norma sits behind the wheel of a maroon '64 Falcon station wagon. Shelly gets in beside her and they drive off.
They look at each other, each knowing the other's secret but not saying so.
(revised pink 3-18-89)
CUT TO: 13. EXT. SHERIFF'S STATION ENTRANCE - MORNING
Re-establish.
CUT TO: 14. INT. SHERIFFS STATION RECEPTION AREA - MORNING
Deputy Andy takes a big bite of his plum frappe turnover, just as Dale Cooper breezes through the front door and waves brightly as he passes.
Lucy, at the coffee station holding a pot and a cup, turns to face Cooper, with a doughnut stuck in her mouth.
He moves down the hall.
CUT TO: 15. INT. INTERROGATION ROOM A - MORNING
Cooper whisks in just as Truman, coffee mug in hand, takes an enormous bite of a humongous bearclaw.
(Revised pink 8-18-89)
Truman tries to chew, holds up his hand to be patient. Cooper sits.
He exits, just as Truman finally swallows his mouthful of bearclaw.
CUT TO: 16. INT. INTERROGATION ROOM A - DAY
JAMES HURLEY is seated, next to his LAWYER, across from Truman, as Cooper enters and sits beside the Sheriff.
Cooper turns on the VCR and we see the same videotape of Laura and Donna at the picnic that we saw earlier. James watches the video.
(Revised pink 8-18-89)
Cooper fast forwards to the freeze frame of the motorcycle reflected in Laura's eye.
Cooper looks at Laura's diary, open in front of him, at the page for February 5th; the page marked "DAY ONE." He takes the half-heart necklace from his pocket.
Tears form in his eyes. He fights them back.
WHITE OUT TO: 17. EXT. PARK - DAY
Laura Palmer, lying on a picnic blanket, playfully turns to face James.
(Revised pink 8-18-89)
She takes the necklace from her pocket, "breaks" the heart in two, gives half to James and puts the other half around her neck.
WHITE OUT TO: 18. JAMES
Sitting in interrogation. Looks up at Cooper.
Cooper looks at him
CUT TO: 19. EXT. JOHNSON HOUSE - DAY
Leo is putting the last touches on polishing his truck, when he's struck by a troubling thought. He throws open the door of the cab and frantically searches behind and under the driver's seat. He can't find what he's looking for.
He jumps down from the cab and runs towards the house.
CUT TO: 20. INT. JOHNSON HOUSE LAUNDRY ROOM - DAY
Leo hurries in, throws open the top of the washer, pulls out the full load of soggy laundry and searches through them, looking for the bloody shirt that he does not find.
Leo kicks the washer hard. The washer goes "tilt" and makes a loud, rhythmic honking sound.
FADE OUT: END ACT ONE

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