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"Part 16", also known as "The Return, Part 16", is the sixteenth episode of Twin Peaks revival series. It was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch and directed by Lynch. "Part 16" was broadcast on Showtime on August 27, 2017, and seen by an audience of 267,000 viewers in the United States. The episode received widespread acclaim.

Plot
"No knock, no doorbell."

- Diane Evans (used as a promotional tagline for the episode)

Background
The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine). FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has been sent to the town to investigate and has come to the realization that the killer was the father of Laura, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), who acted while possessed by a demonic entity—Killer BOB (Frank Silva). At the end of the original series, Cooper was trapped into the Black Lodge, an extra-dimensional place, by BOB, who let out Cooper's doppelgänger to use him as his physical access to the world.

Twenty-five years after the events, Cooper manages to escape the Lodge by traveling through a portal between worlds; during this process, Cooper was supposed to replace the doppelgänger, but instead he takes the place of a second doppelgänger (known as Douglas "Dougie" Jones), fabricated by the first as a patsy for the exchange. Cooper's doppelgänger, exhausted from the process, crashes his car and passes out, allowing the police to capture him. The doppelganger subsequently manages to escape, dividing his time between his search for an access to "the Zone" and organizing his minions' attempts to eliminate the now catatonic Dale Cooper, who is mistaken by Douglas Jones' family and colleagues as the original Dougie; after surviving all of the attempts, Cooper willingly sticks a fork in an electric socket, having heard the name of his former boss Gordon Cole (David Lynch) in the movie Sunset Boulevard. In Buckhorn, Deputy Chief Cole and Special Agent Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) attempt to track the doppelganger, helped by the newcomer Tammy Preston (Chrysta Bell) and Cooper's embittered former secretary Diane Evans (Laura Dern). In the meantime, Audrey Horne (Sherylin Fenn), Cooper's former love interest, is trying to convince her husband Charlie (Clark Middleton) to go with her to the Roadhouse, where she thinks that Billy, her new lover, may be; her son Richard Horne (Eamon Farren), running for the law after a hit-and-run accident, crosses paths with Cooper's doppelgänger, whom he believes to be his father, while her uncle, Jerry Horne (David Patrick Kelly), got lost in the woods after assuming particularly high doses of cannabis.

Events
Cooper's doppelgänger and Richard Horne drive through dirt roads at night until they reach the location marked by the coordinates. Jerry Horne, who is running through a nearby field, stops to observe them with his binoculars upside down. The doppelgänger instructs Richard to inspect the top of a boulder. Richard climbs the rock and is immediately thunderstruck and incinerated. The doppelgänger says "goodbye, my son," then texts "ALL. : - )" to an unknown receiver and walks back in his truck. Jerry, who has witnessed the scene, blames the vision on his binoculars and smashes them repeatedly into the ground.

In Las Vegas, in front of Dougie's house, Chantal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Gary Hutchens (Tim Roth) wait in their van. Two FBI cars pass by; seeing that nobody is home, they head to Dougie Jones' workplace, Lucky 7 Insurance. Dale Cooper is laying comatose in a hospital bed. Dougie's wife Janey-E (Naomi Watts) and son Sonny Jim (Pierce Gagnon) are informed by a doctor (Bellina Logan) that though the vitals are good, the coma could last for years. Dougie's boss Bushnell Mullins (Don Murray) arrives, followed by Bradley (Jim Belushi) and Rodney Mitchum (Robert Knepper), two mobsters befriended by Cooper.

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Production
"Part 16", like the rest of the limited series, was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch and directed by Lynch himself. Frost had already written ten episodes of the original series — the "Pilot" and Episodes 1, 2 and 8 with Lynch, plus Episodes 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 26 and the original series finale, Episode 29. Lynch also directed six episodes of the original series — the "Pilot", "Episode 2", "Episode 8", "Episode 9", "Episode 14" and "Episode 29".

Music
Almost every episode of the 2017 Twin Peaks series featured a live performance by various bands at the Roadhouse. In this episode, American Alternative Rock singer Eddie Vedder performs (under his his song "Running Out of Sand"; after his exhibition, the Roadhouse orchestra performs Audrey's Dance, Audrey Horne's theme from the original series.

Reception
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