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"Beyond Life and Death" is the 29th and final episode of the mystery television series Twin Peaks. It was originally aired on television on June 10, 1991.

Plot synopsis
Andy and Lucy console each other after the chaotic Miss Twin Peaks contest where Annie was kidnapped by Windom Earle. Cooper, Harry, and Hawk stare at the map, as Cooper mumbles "Fire, walk with me." Pete enters the police station and says the Log Lady stole his truck and drove off toward the woods. Cooper informs Pete that was Windom Earle in disguise. The Log Lady arrives, and says her husband gave her a bottle of oil from a gateway in the woods. The jar smells like scorched engine oil. Hawk brings in Ronnette Pulaski, who recognizes the smell from the night of Laura Palmer's murder.

Windom Earle arrives in a dark, wooded grove with Annie, who says a prayer. They reach a circle of trees and vanish behind a red curtain. Ed, Norma, and Doc Hayward bandage Nadine Hurley and Mike Nelson. Nadine suddenly regains her memory, and is horrified to see Ed with Norma. She hollers about the missing drape runners and bursts into tears. Donna is distraught, having learned Ben is her blood father. Ben and Donna's mother try to console her. Doc Hayward orders Ben out of his house. Ben's wife arrives. Angered, Doc Hayward punches Ben. Ben slams his head on the fireplace. Andrew grabs the safe deposit box key and sneaks off. Cooper and Harry find Pete's truck in the woods. They walk partly into the forest when Cooper says he must continue alone, leaving Harry behind. Cooper hears an owl and sees the pool of oil ringed by rocks. Harry watches Cooper disappear behind a red curtain.

Cooper walks into the mysterious room from his dream. There are couches, a zig-zag pattern on the floor, and some statues. The Man from Another Place dances into the room and sits in an old chair. A black man sings a sad jazz tune as a strobe light flickers. Andy arrives in the forest to join Harry. They wait all night, and Cooper doesn't emerge. Audrey walks into a bank and chains herself to the bank vault, in protest of the Ghostwood project and its environmental effect on the forest weasel. An old, slow-moving bank worker fetches Audrey a glass of water. Andrew and Pete arrive with the safe deposit key, intending to open the box left by Thomas Eckhart. Andrew asks the bank worker clerk for help in identifying the proper box. The clerk walks away as Andrew opens the box to find a bomb, which is triggered by the safe deposit box opening. It explodes, blowing out the bank windows. The clerks glasses and some money fall on a nearby pine branch. At the RR diner, Bobby and Shelly smile at each other. Sarah Palmer delivers a message to Major Briggs, recanting in a garbled voice, "I'm in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper."

In the Black Lodge, The Man from Another Place tells Cooper they are in a waiting room and offers Cooper some coffee. Laura Palmer appears, saying she'll see Cooper again in 25 years. The elderly bellhop brings coffee to Cooper. He is replaced by the giant who sits down, saying one and the same. The Man from Another Place rubs his hands. Cooper starts to drink the coffee only to find it frozen solid. He tips the cup, and some of it pours out. The last time it is like syrup. The Man from Another Place says "Wow, BOB, wow. Fire walk with me." Cooper leaves the room, entering another one that looks exactly the same. He returns to the first room, where The Man from Another Place says "wrong way." Cooper goes back to the second room. He sees The Man from Another Place laughing saying, another friend. Maddy appears, says watch out for my cousin, then disappears.

Cooper returns to the first room to find it completely empty. An evil-looking Man from Another Place appears, says "doppelganger" and twitches. Laura says "meanwhile" and screams. Scared, Cooper runs out of the room, returning to the other one. He is bleeding from the chest and has trailed blood on the floor. He stumbles back to the first room, and sees a woman lying on the floor with his own body. The woman is Annie with her throat cut. Cooper walks into a room to see Annie. She says she saw the face of the man who killed her: it was her husband. She doesn't respond to the name Annie, it is actually Caroline: Cooper is confusing the two.

Caroline is replaced by Laura, and then Windom Earle. Annie watches as Windom and Cooper face off. Windom laughs, and says if Cooper gives him his soul, he'll let Annie live. Cooper says yes, and Windom Earl stabs Cooper. There is a burst of flame and the stabbing rewinds. BOB takes control of Windom Earle, saying he can't ask for Cooper's soul, and will take Windom's soul instead. Cooper leaves the room and an evil doppelganger of Cooper appears from behind the curtain.

Leland Palmer, with brown hair, appears in the hall between the two rooms and says "I did not kill anybody." The doppelganger Cooper comes into the hall and laughs with Leland. The good Cooper runs back and forth between rooms it seems he can't get out. The doppelganger Cooper catches up to Cooper, and BOB's face briefly appears. Harry finds Cooper and Annie's bodies lying in the forest.

Cooper wakes up in his bed at the Great Northern Hotel. He tells Harry and Doc Hayward that he needs to brush his teeth. Once in the bathroom, he begins to put toothpaste on a brush, but then squeezes the tube's contents into the sink. He slowly raises his head, looks into the mirror and smashes his head into it, bloodying the glass. BOB's face appears in the mirror. As Harry and Doc knock on the door in concern, Cooper maniacally repeats, "How's Annie?" and laughs uncontrollably.