Episode 2: 'Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer' (Story Code '1002') by Mark Frost and David Lynch

F.B.I. Special Agent Cooper demonstrates an unusual deductive technique to Twin Peaks’ Sheriff's Department. Benjamin Horne and his newly-arrived brother, Jerry, head for One-Eyed Jack’s and a meeting with its madam, Blackie O'Rielly. Donna Hayward and James Hurley pledge their love for each other. Special Agent Albert Rosenfield arrives to examine Laura Palmer’s corpse. Josie Packard discovers that Catherine Martell has been altering the sawmill’s accounts. Leo Johnson confronts Bobby Briggs at gunpoint over his affair with his wife, Shelly. Agent Cooper dreams of a backwards-speaking midget in a strange Red Room…

Kyle MacLachlan (Special Agent Dale Cooper), Michael Ontkean (Sheriff Harry S. Truman), Madchen Amick (Shelly Johnson), Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Briggs), Richard Beymer (Benjamin Horne), Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna Marie Hayward), Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey Horne), Warren Frost (Doctor William Hayward), Peggy Lipton (Norma Jennings), James Marshall (James Hurley), Everett McGill (Ed Hurley), Jack Nance (Pete Martell), Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Joan Chen (Jocelyn ‘Josie’ Packard), Piper Laurie (Catherine Martell), Eric Da Re (Leo Johnson), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan), Michael Horse (Deputy ‘Hawk’ Hill), Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer), Russ Tamblyn (Doctor Lawrence Jacoby), Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer), David Patrick Kelly (Jerry Horne), Miguel Ferrer (Agent Albert Rosenfield), Victoria Catlin (Blackie O'Reilly), Wendy Robie (Nadine Hurley), Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran), Jan D'Arcy (Sylvia Horne), Mary Jo Deschanel (Eileen Hayward), Gary Hershberger (Mike Nelson), Michael J. Anderson (Little Man From Another Place), Robert Bauer (Johnny Horne), Kim Lentz (Bartender), Frank Silva (Killer Bob), Charlie Spradling (Swabbie), Al Strobel (One-Armed Man)

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

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US TX - 19th April 1990

Notes:
*Featuring FBI Agent Dale Cooper, Sheriff Harry S. Truman and the townsfolk of Twin Peaks