'Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me' 'Teresa Banks and the Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer' by Mark Frost David Lynch, and Robert Engels

"This is the last seven days of Laura Palmer"

"In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent."

1988, Wind River, Deer Meadow, Washington: Special Agents Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley investigate the murder of a young woman named Theresa Banks, whose body was found floating in the river, wrapped in plastic. In FBI Headquarters, Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole, Agent Dale Cooper and Agent Albert Rosenfield receive a visit from Phillip Jefferies, an agent who has been missing for a year, and who has witnessed a strange meeting above a convenience store. After Agent Desmond mysteriously vanishes, Agent Cooper is sent to investigate, but the trail is a dead end…

1989, the northwest American town of Twin Peaks: High School girl Laura Palmer lives out her last seven days. Boyfriend troubles are the least of her problems, as she discovers the real identity of Bob, a frightening, long-haired man who haunts her nightmares and molests her when she sleeps. As events spiral out of control, Laura begins a path of self-destruction, setting in motion a chain of events that will prove fateful to Agent Cooper…

Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer), Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Mädchen Amick (Shelly Johnson), Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Briggs), Phoebe Augustine (Ronette Pulaski), David Bowie (Phillip Jeffries), Eric DaRe (Leo Johnson), Miguel Ferrer (FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield), Pamela Gidley (Teresa Banks), Heather Graham (Annie Blackburn), Chris Isaak (FBI Special Agent Chester Desmond), Moira Kelly (Donna Hayward), Peggy Lipton (Norma Jennings), David Lynch (FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole), James Marshall (James Hurley), Jürgen Prochnow (Woodsman), Harry Dean Stanton (Carl Rodd, Fat Trout Trailer Park Owner), Kiefer Sutherland (FBI Agent Sam Stanley), Lenny von Dohlen (Harold Smith), Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer), Kyle MacLachlan (FBI Agent Dale Cooper), Frances Bay (Mrs. Tremond [Chalfont]), Catherine E. Coulson (Margaret Lanterman [The Log Lady]), Michael J. Anderson (Man from Another Place [The Dream Dwarf]), Frank Silva (Killer Bob), Walter Olkewicz (Jacques Renault), Al Strobel (Philip Gerard [The One-Armed Man]), Gary Hershberger (Mike Nelson), Sandra Kinder (Irene at Hap's), Chris Pedersen (Tommy), Victor Rivers (Buck), Rick Aiello (Deputy Cliff Howard, Deer Meadow), Gary Bullock (Sheriff Cable, Deer Meadow), Jon Huck (FBI Agent), Mike Malone (FBI Agent), Joe Berman (Bus Driver), Yvonne Roberts (First Prostitute), Audra L. Cooper (Second Prostitute), John Hoobler (Pilot), Kimberly Ann Cole (Lil the Dancer), Elizabeth McCarthy (Giggling Secretary), C.H. Evans (Jack at Hap's), Paige Bennett (French Girl at Hap's), G. Kenneth Davidson (Old Guy at Hap's), Ingrid Brucato (Curious Woman), Chuck McQuary (Medic), Margaret Adams (Fat Trout Neighbor), Carlton Lee Russell (Jumping Man), Calvin Lockhart (The Electrician), Jonathan J. Leppell (Mrs. Tremond's Grandson), David Brisbin (Second Woodsman), Andrea Hays (Heidi), Julee Cruise (‘Roadhouse’ Singer), Steven Hodges, William Ungerman, Joseph 'Simon' Szeibert, Gregory 'Smokey' Hormel, Joseph L. Altruda (Band Members at ‘Roadhouse’), James Parks ( Service Station Mechanic), Jane Jones (School Teacher), Karin Robison (Angel in Train Car), Lorna MacMillan (Angel in Red Room), Robert Bauer(Johnny Horne)*, Joan Chen (Jocelyn ‘Josie’ Packard)*, Jan D'Arcy (Sylvia Horne)*, Don S. Davis (Major Garland Briggs)*, Mary Jo Deschanel ( Eileen Hayward), Warren Frost (Doctor William Hayward)*, Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan)*, Michael Horse (Deputy Tommy ‘Hawk’ Hill)*, David Patrick Kelly (Jerry Horne)*, Everett McGill (Ed Hurley)*, Jack Nance (Pete Martell)*, Michael Ontkean (Sheriff Harry S. Truman)*, Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran)*, Wendy Robie (Nadine Hurley)*, Charlotte Stewart (Betty Briggs)*, Russ Tamblyn (Doctor Lawrence Jacoby)*, Philip Anagnos (Student)**, Anne Gaybis (Dancer on Stage in 'Pink Room')**
*(Scene Deleted)
**(Uncredited)

Directed by David Lynch
Produced by Francis Bouygues and Gregg Fienberg
Executive Producers David Lynch and Mark Frost

Released:
1992

Certificate:
UK: 18
USA: R

Running Time:
135 minutes

Notes:
*Featuring FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole, FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield, FBI Agent Dale Cooper and the townsfolk of Twin Peaks


*The original shooting script for 'Fire Walk With Me' contains many scenes that were shot, but which ended up on the cutting room floor. These included:

- A fight between F.B.I. Agent Chet Desmond and Sheriff Cable
- A conversation between Sam Stanley and Agent Dale Cooper in Stanley's apartment
- Phillip Jeffries in a hotel in Buenos Aires
- Docv Hayward's attempts at a magic trick
- A conversation between Ed and Norma inside a truck
- An extra dinner at the Palmer house, when Leland sings happily
- Sheriff Harry Truman singing to Josie Packard in the woods
- A phone conversation between Doctor Jacoby and Laura Palmer
- Johnny Horne's birthday party
- Lucy Moran discussing racoons in the sheriff station with Sheriff Truman
- Bobby Briggs' parents reading from the Bible
- Sheriff Truman and Doc Hayward finding the 'evil doppelganger' Agent Cooper in the bathroom