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Twin Peaks has a few storylines spinning off in different directions, and yet the only one I feel invested in is Griggs’ disappearance and any subsequent ties it may share with Agent Cooper’s latest piece of mysterious real estate: Dead Dog Farm.

Per Irene, who’s helping Cooper navigate through a couple of the listings, Dead Dog Farm is a thing of old legend. The best people in the world and the worst people in the world are drawn to it, but only those with pure hearts can feel its pain. The rest struggle and, I presume, are turned away.

She didn’t say it outright, but Irene’s description of Dead Dog sounded a lot like the White Lodge, a crazy place Hawk mentioned the other week and, which, people like Griggs’ wife know about but are keeping mum about. The same is true of Colonel Riley, in town investigating Griggs’ disappearance, who said anything to do with the White Lodge is classified.

But here, and rather quickly, we have what appears to be a tangible White Lodge in Dead Dog Farm, a space we only know about because Cooper’s real estate trek led him there. (Well, a flipped coin which happened to land on a photo of the farm).

Before we step inside and learn Dead Dog may have implications to another ongoing investigation in town, Cooper has a spot meet and greet with Riley, who intends on picking Cooper’s brain about what he remembers the night Griggs disappeared. Cooper was the only guy with Griggs the night he went away, so Cooper would be the natural person to ask.

Riley, actually, only really wanted to know one thing: Had Cooper seen any wildlife in the woods? In particular, owls? Cooper’s face lights up the moment he remembers: Yes, he’d heard an owl right before the disappearance.

Again with the owls! As we saw the night Griggs went *swoosh*, it seems Bob travels from vessel to vessel through the owls. Somehow. That the government knows about this is interesting.

With the owls out of the way, Riley also lets slip that the strange messages Griggs received about Cooper around the time he encountered the giant weren’t from deep space, as Griggs led us to believe, but in Twin Peaks’ back woods. This fits in with something Sheriff Truman said around the time we were introduced to the Bookhouse Boys: that Twin Peaks’ woods are filled with secrets and the rest of it.

Perhaps the development will provide ample opportunity for a return of (and purpose for) the Bookhouse Boys. The club has been strangely silent since we first learned of ‘em. They helped with the Renault case an episode after we learned what they even were, and then that was it. And that was awhile ago - either at the end of season one or the beginning of season two.

I honestly don’t know why I care about the Bookhouse Boys so much. It’s a strange little club that Truman takes seriously. I guess the name intrigues me.

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