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So back to the farm… Cooper approaches the door with Irene and notices fresh tire tracks in the mud. He’s so good he knows one patch belongs to a Jeep, the other a four-wheeler and the last a sedan of some kind. The dude is nuts. He asks Irene whether anyone has been around to see the place lately, and she says not in the last year, at least. Hmm.

They step inside - the door’s ajar, apparently - and Cooper supposes a meeting was held there no more than a few hours ago. On a chair along the side of a table in the kitchen, Cooper finds cocaine. He looks up at Irene gleefully and says they’ll have to notify the sheriff.

I think this turned into a moment for Cooper because he might realize what I think I realized: That Dead Dog shares a connection white the White Lodge. Or, maybe, it is the White Lodge. And now that the sheriff’s office is involved, he’ll be allowed to poke around a little without stirring up trouble with our cross-dressing friend, Denise.

Speaking of, David Duchovny makes another appearance as Denise. She comes in only at the end, though, to mostly talk shop with Cooper at the Great Northern. He does come into contact with Audrey, however, and proceeds to ask Cooper about her. It catches Cooper off guard - he’d supposed that because Dennis dresses as a woman he’d be into men - but lo, it’s just the opposite. I don’t really know where any of this is going with Denise but I’m loving every second of it.

In addition to Duchovny, Molly Shannon makes a brief appearance as the case manager for a young boy named Nick, Dick’s nephew. Airing in 1991, “Episode 19” was broadcast four years before Shannon began regular appearances on Saturday Night Live.

Anyway, Nick’s an orphan - both of his parents were killed - so Dick becomes his custodian. Back home, they share a strange moment with each other when Dick is working on one of his automobile’s tires and demands that Nick vacate the car upon proving that he couldn’t sit inside without honking the horn. Nick does as he’s told, and not too much later the car slips off the jack and nearly kills Dick. They embrace.

From that episode, Nick supposes his nephew’s the devil and may have killed his parents, too.

I don’t know why they’d introduce such a bizarre story without actually going through with it, so I’ll go ahead and assume that, yeah, Nick is the devil. But why? And why does Dick suppose such a thing after one freak encounter? I’d hope we as people would collect a little more evidence on each other before accusing one another of being Lucifer.

“Episode 19” finishes with the, yep, return of Griggs. While his wife and son, Bobby, are reminiscing about him in the living room, he just appears in the room and asks how long he’s been gone. When his wife tells him two days, he says that’s strange because it seems shorter than that. She then asks him if everything’s alright, and he replies no, not exactly.

Their embrace was interesting. It actually looked a lot in the way that Bob embraces his victims before making the kill. Mrs. Griggs’ face is firmly suffocated by Griggs’ body. It’s just an odd way to say hello to someone.

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